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Leaded solder for professional repair in EU/US
mzzj:
--- Quote from: magic on October 04, 2022, 01:35:27 pm ---There is an exemption for sulphuric acid inside batteries, and you are not allowed to pour the acid out of them :-DD
(Last time I checked, I could even get a bottle of 40% at a battery store and they weren't aware of the ban or didn't care).
The homeland of George Orwell was half the reason for all this idiocy, so I am glad too that they are gone. Now, if France and Germany could go next... ;D
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Poland seem to have less strict implementation of "bomb chemical" bans than some other EU countries.(at least so far)
Some friends that are into chemistry have been ordering chemicals from Poland as you can still get interesting chemicals reasonably easily.
Leaded solder and sulphuric acid are gone from stores here in Finland. Nitric acid, nitromethane (rc car fuel) and lots of other "bomb chemicals" were outlawed even earlier.
IIRC Breivik (Norwegian mass murderer) also sourced his bomb materials from...Poland ::)
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: robert.rozee on October 04, 2022, 01:19:57 pm ---i'm now starting to understand why the British were so keen to part company with the EU! it is sounding like a most horribly controlled society.
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Only because you choose to interpret it as such with no effort to research or understand the reality.
magic:
--- Quote from: mzzj on October 04, 2022, 03:06:51 pm ---Poland seem to have less strict implementation of "bomb chemical" bans than some other EU countries.(at least so far)
Some friends that are into chemistry have been ordering chemicals from Poland as you can still get interesting chemicals reasonably easily.
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The political order in Poland has always been anarchism, regardless of any external facade at any time ;D
Plus, the idea of blowing up dozens of random strangers is pretty alien here, so nobody considers terrorism a serious problem.
--- Quote from: mzzj on October 04, 2022, 03:06:51 pm ---IIRC Breivik (Norwegian mass murderer) also sourced his bomb materials from...Poland ::)
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Sorry about that :P
Norwegians are sometimes weird like that.
--- Quote ---I gaze into the Moon which makes my mind pure as crystal lakes
My eyes cold as the darkest winter nights, but yet there is a flame inside
It guides me into the dark shadows beyond this world
Into the infinity of thoughts... thoughts of upcoming reality
In the name of the almighty Emperor I will ride the Lands in pride
Carrying the Blacksword at hand, in warfare
I will grind my hatred upon the loved ones
Despair will be brought upon
The hoping child of happiness
Wherever there is joy the hordes of the eclipse
Will pollute sadness
Sadness and hate
Under the reign of fear
The lands will grow black
There is no Sunrise to come
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coppercone2:
I think Poland understands the need for like interested chemists, easy industry, etc. It might actually stay a sizable industrial power rather then being pidgonholed into some esoteric market like some other EU nations. If you have a good chemical industry thats a high degree of autonomy that means that your kinda self sufficient. You have plenty of implemented experts (not people who have the knowledge and no way to use it, aka will leave at first sign of trouble). It's harder for other people to 'pull your strings.' Of course its all interconnected but it must mean something during international negotiations.
But also I think its important to remember the gun killed 63 people, the bomb killed 8 and wasted his time and money. I guess it did injure alot though. Not saying which one is worse, but the gun is certainly easier. He had to make a cover story, front companies, business plan, etc (not to mention construction and transport), I think he had to develop quite a criminal mastermind scheme to implement that bomb plan. While with the gun its just 'hi, i like to shoot things, here is $500'. If he put that bomb money into training others, he could have done even more damage. :'(
For those interested in a (sad) song about the event, search for
Röyksopp & Susanne Sundfør ► Running To The Sea (Studio Version)
I don't think its appropriate to link the video in a discussion this serious directly because its still kind of a fun song, if you don't know why it was written.
I imagine there is alot of opportunities in Poland for industrial chemists, since there is alot of heating plants (which themselves benefit from things like air pollution filter research, corrosion research) and there is bound to be a increase for self made advanced goods due to the Europe situation, with the amount of strife the Ukraine war put into the eastern European states. It seems like anything can happen there politically (maybe not in Poland, but the other post-soviet states)...
magic:
Nobody understand anything and certainly not politicians, it's only chaos that saves us. You see, the EU bans various things that nobody here cares about, but it doesn't send money to enforce the bans, so they remain poorly enforced. It's that simple.
If there were special handouts for that, politicians would immediately jump on the opportunity to steal half of the money for themselves and the remaining half would then go towards knocking on the doors of the remaining vendors of leaded solder, battery electrolyte and so on. That's how it worked when we were friends with the USSR and that's how it works as friends of the EUSSR ;)
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