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Man fined for criticizing govt using science, without a license

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Vtile:
Outcome seems to be good at the moment. Luckily I do not have to be "licensed" engineer to use term engineer, which I do have permission by education, though I do need to be "licensed engineer" to assign approval of some legal documents, but then the term is usually something else.

6PTsocket:

--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on April 26, 2017, 09:53:09 am ---It's clear that he broke the law and continued to do so after it was pointed out to him. It didn't help that he tried to sue the authorities (he lost), all so he could get his wife off of a traffic ticket.

When people buy electronics, they must be assured it is made by a licensed electronics engineer, and not just someone who happened to learn electronics at home and now calls themselves an electronics engineer. This sort of wanton lawlessness should be clamped down upon hard, in any free and open society. You simply cannot have people challenging unelected government officials, that is not democratic!

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There is no such law. Anybody can manufacture and sell electronic equipment. There is a ton of questionable junk on the market. Companies that sell electronic equipment that want to protect themselves from liability only sell products that are certified by UL or a similar testing organization. Manufacturers pay to have their products tested. It is voluntary. It gets the seller off the hook because he sold tested product so he buys UL approved to cover himself but the manufacturer is still liable if the defective product causes injury.  Europe is worse. Any company can claim a product meets CE safety standards and it is taken on faith, without verification.

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EEVblog:
Well done Mats Järlström!  :clap:  :-+

What a bunch of dickheads in Oregon.

Inverted18650:
Another key phrase in the ruling is that, "he may continue to talk about traffic light timing publicly." We all hope you do and stick it those fools, brotha! Well done.

Howardlong:

--- Quote from: 6PTsocket on January 05, 2019, 12:25:29 am ---
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on April 26, 2017, 09:53:09 am ---It's clear that he broke the law and continued to do so after it was pointed out to him. It didn't help that he tried to sue the authorities (he lost), all so he could get his wife off of a traffic ticket.

When people buy electronics, they must be assured it is made by a licensed electronics engineer, and not just someone who happened to learn electronics at home and now calls themselves an electronics engineer. This sort of wanton lawlessness should be clamped down upon hard, in any free and open society. You simply cannot have people challenging unelected government officials, that is not democratic!

--- End quote ---
There is no such law. Anybody can manufacture and sell electronic equipment. There is a ton of questionable junk on the market. Companies that sell electronic equipment that want to protect themselves from liability only sell products that are certified by UL or a similar testing organization. Manufacturers pay to have their products tested. It is voluntary. It gets the seller off the hook because he sold tested product so he buys UL approved to cover himself but the manufacturer is still liable if the defective product causes injury.  Europe is worse. Any company can claim a product meets CE safety standards and it is taken on faith, without verification.

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Furthermore, I’d have hoped that, retired or not, having an engineering degree would be enough for any court to be persuaded that your are, indeed, an engineer.

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