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| MyHeadHz:
New plan for rules in the UK aim to spell the end of "throwaway culture." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51825089 |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: MyHeadHz on March 11, 2020, 03:44:40 am ---New plan for rules in the UK aim to spell the end of "throwaway culture." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51825089 --- End quote --- Are you sure about that ? It seems to be talking about, possible new EU rules, NOT the UK, who have left the EU. It is true, that to some extent, we will still end up with goods, manufactured, to EU standards. But, technically speaking, we will be free (as Brexit becomes increasingly implemented). To buy anything we like, regardless of any future EU rules and regulations. tl;dr The UK is NOT making these new rules, as we left the EU. Also, we DON'T need to listen to them (old rules, will remain in our law books, unless/until officially removed, if we want), either. |
| MyHeadHz:
--- Quote from: MK14 on March 11, 2020, 04:12:37 am --- --- Quote from: MyHeadHz on March 11, 2020, 03:44:40 am ---New plan for rules in the UK aim to spell the end of "throwaway culture." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51825089 --- End quote --- Are you sure about that ? It seems to be talking about, possible new EU rules, NOT the UK, who have left the EU. It is true, that to some extent, we will still end up with goods, manufactured, to EU standards. But, technically speaking, we will be free (as Brexit becomes increasingly implemented). To buy anything we like, regardless of any future EU rules and regulations. tl;dr The UK is NOT making these new rules, as we left the EU. Also, we DON'T need to listen to them (old rules, will remain in our law books, unless/until officially removed, if we want), either. --- End quote --- From the article (their justification for the quotes): "The plan is being presented by the European Commission. It's likely to create standards for the UK, too - even after Brexit. That's because it probably won't be worthwhile for manufacturers to make lower-grade models that can only be sold in Britain." Whether that will necessarily be true is debatable, but it does look likely. But the specifics of that aside, these laws tend to make big waves everywhere (maybe even the US). It's analogous to how California state emissions standards affect vehicles in other states simply because it doesn't make financial sense to design and support two different models. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: MyHeadHz on March 11, 2020, 04:27:16 am ---But the specifics of that aside, these laws tend to make big waves everywhere (maybe even the US). It's analogous to how California state emissions standards affect vehicles in other states simply because it doesn't make financial sense to design and support two different models. --- End quote --- Absolutely. Yes, I agree, it would tend to have a big, worldwide influence. Louis Rossmann will be pleased :) Along with a whole pile of other people. The extent (in practice) to which the UK follows future EU rules and regulations, is not certain. In theory we don't need to follow them, but practice (governments and their politics) and theory, can easily differ, here. |
| station240:
Hopefully this will put an end to companies 'bricking' IoT devices because they cannot be bothered running the server, or because the newer firmware doesn't fit as they nickel and dimed the amount of flash in the micro to the bare minimum. |
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