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eugene:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2023, 06:51:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: eugene on June 19, 2023, 07:39:19 pm ---I'm not familiar with all of the devices that tszaboo mentions with odd connectors for charging. Everything handheld that I've purchased in the past decade or so has had micro-B, and then increasingly C type USB connectors for charging. It took me a long time to realize that the EU mandating USB C was in reality all about forcing Apple to toe the line. Is there a similarly unspoken motivation behind the replaceable battery mandate?

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Loads of early mobile phones had proprietary charging connectors, flip phones and feature phones up through 2010 or so, but this hasn't been an issue for a long time.

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Exactly. Reminds me of an old saying... something about closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out.

Next there will be mandates about indoor gas lighting having approved chimneys and plow horses receiving proper nourishment.

eugene:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2023, 07:16:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: sokoloff on June 20, 2023, 07:06:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2023, 07:00:27 pm ---California is a nutty place, Prop 65 that results in cancer warnings on absolutely everything is the poster child of this craziness. They even banned ordinary screw base light sockets which now has the effect of forcing people to use obsolete compact fluorescent bulbs instead of modern high efficiency LED bulbs, or to use sketchy adapters from China or bring in proper light fixtures from other states.
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California is a nutty place, but I see restrictions on unapproved screw base light bulbs being sold in California, I don't see restrictions on screw base light sockets. (And I see that this plain socket is for sale in Home Depots in California, which suggests they aren't actually banned.)

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Maybe something has changed? I know for a while houses all had to have light fixtures with those GU-something or other bipin sockets for CFLs, they never really caught on anywhere else. Maybe it specifically applied to built in fixtures in new houses, I don't know the specifics of the law but it's possible they had the sense to get rid of it eventually.

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California is a nutty place. Actually, with the deep bifurcation splitting the country neatly in half, I'd say all of America is nutty.

But, most laws like this apply only to new construction. When there was talk about outlawing gas stoves it raised hysteria in some of the population that the government was going to come and take their gas stove away. In reality, the proposal would have applied only to new home construction. Under the proposal, people that already had a gas stove would be able to continue using it, and could even replace it with another gas stove when the time came. Some people are stupid. I know that to be the case in America and assume it to be true everywhere else.

SiliconWizard:
To quote Dijkstra:

--- Quote ---Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
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Monkeh:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2023, 07:00:27 pm ---Stop signs on intersections too, how could you drive safely without those? Uncontrolled intersections are fine in residential neighborhoods where traffic is very light but it would be very dangerous to have a street like this intersecting a busy arterial without a stop sign.

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Er, well, there's the whole 'yield' concept, which is what you all do anyway because coming to a complete stop over and over again for nothing when you have enough visibility to see the curvature of the earth is totally pointless.

John B:
I see the California-cancer warning label on lots of products that are exported from the US.

I keep thinking to myself "Wow, California is a dangerous place for getting cancer. Who would ever want to go there??"

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