And you wonder why the Brits told the EU to "Fuck Off"

[Ishmael]

Well, here's as good a reason as any.

Robot Rights

Ishmael

 

[Lancecastor]

Delvaux also proposes a charter for designers that robots “should not be made to look emotionally dependent. You must never think that a robot is a human, that he loves you or he is sad.”

But I LIKE my robots emotionally dependent!

 

[oggbashan]

Another reason is that the EU wants all mechanically propelled vehicles to have compulsory insurance even if used wholly on private land.

That covers pavement buggies, powered wheelchairs, Walmart electric carts, electric bicycles, tractors, quad bikes, segways, children's electrical cars etc,

The insurance companies are rubbing their hands with glee.

Brexit will probably come before that law is implemented.

 

[Ishmael]

But I LIKE my robots emotionally dependent!

And the logical extension of these 'findings' is that you will be found guilty of sexually enslaving your robot, probably rape as well. Think this might be a first step in keeping the Japanese out of the EU market?

Another reason is that the EU wants all mechanically propelled vehicles to have compulsory insurance even if used wholly on private land.

That covers pavement buggies, powered wheelchairs, Walmart electric carts, electric bicycles, tractors, quad bikes, segways, children's electrical cars etc,

The insurance companies are rubbing their hands with glee.

Brexit will probably come before that law is implemented.

I hope so for your sake.

Ishmael

 

[oggbashan]

...

I hope so for your sake.

Ishmael

So do we. Some of the EU regulations are sensible; some are unnecessary and some are just plain stupid.

The UK's problem with EU regulations is that we have a tradition of being lawabiding. If it is illegal to do something we won't do it.

The Germans are similar. The French just shrug their shoulders and carry on ignoring the new rules. The Greeks, Spanish and Italians just don't bother to publicise them so their people don't know they're breaking the new regulations.

Some of the 'Health and Safety' regulations that are blamed on the EU are actually UK government only but many are not. For example I had some left-over water based paint. I took it to our local council rubbish recycling/disposal site. They couldn't take it. It's against EU regulations. If I filled the tin with earth so that the paint wasn't liquid then I could throw it away with the general rubbish. But I can't dispose of liquid paint legally anywhere.

I put it, and some unused and unwanted full paint tins into our local auction. The auction lot sold. Now my part used tin is someone else's problem.

No wonder some painters tip their surplus paint down a road drain!

 

[EternalFantasy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE

 

[about_average]

So do we. Some of the EU regulations are sensible; some are unnecessary and some are just plain stupid.

The UK's problem with EU regulations is that we have a tradition of being lawabiding. If it is illegal to do something we won't do it.

The Germans are similar. The French just shrug their shoulders and carry on ignoring the new rules. The Greeks, Spanish and Italians just don't bother to publicise them so their people don't know they're breaking the new regulations.

Some of the 'Health and Safety' regulations that are blamed on the EU are actually UK government only but many are not. For example I had some left-over water based paint. I took it to our local council rubbish recycling/disposal site. They couldn't take it. It's against EU regulations. If I filled the tin with earth so that the paint wasn't liquid then I could throw it away with the general rubbish. But I can't dispose of liquid paint legally anywhere.

I put it, and some unused and unwanted full paint tins into our local auction. The auction lot sold. Now my part used tin is someone else's problem.

No wonder some painters tip their surplus paint down a road drain!

Quite a few places in the US have similar rules. You have to put cat litter in the tin to solidify the paint.
Doesn't bother me, cat litter is cheap, 4-5 dollars for 50lbs.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Where I live(d), all the time you see trucks with no tags because they are farm vehicles...



Made in the USA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaAF_3WMJGM

 

[Ishmael]

Where I live(d), all the time you see trucks with no tags because they are farm vehicles...



Made in the USA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaAF_3WMJGM

No license, no tags required. In most states you do have to put the triangle 'slow' sign on though.

Ishmael

 

[DawnODay]

Well, here's as good a reason as any.

Robot Rights

Ishmael

Another reason is that the EU wants all mechanically propelled vehicles to have compulsory insurance even if used wholly on private land.

That covers pavement buggies, powered wheelchairs, Walmart electric carts, electric bicycles, tractors, quad bikes, segways, children's electrical cars etc,

If Hilliary and the Democrats had won last November, you would have been seeing more of this kind of thing and worse in the USA over the next four years.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We had Mennonites and Quakers in KANSAS...



... but not in the Boot Heel.

 

[DawnODay]

No license, no tags required. In most states you do have to put the triangle 'slow' sign on though.

Ishmael

We had Mennonites and Quakers in KANSAS...



... but not in the Boot Heel.

My understanding is Mennonites do NOT have to use the orange triangle as it is an adornment offensive to God.

 

[Saint Peter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My understanding is Mennonites do NOT have to use the orange triangle as it is an adornment offensive to God.

lol...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

 

[Ishmael]

My understanding is Mennonites do NOT have to use the orange triangle as it is an adornment offensive to God.

In most states they do. And it's the Amish, not the Mennonites. The Mennonites own and drive cars, etc. (Albeit they bought black cars and painted the chrome black as well.)

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sorry bro, but where I come from, they still drive buggies...



I was raised Quaker and Grandpa had indoor plumbing, A/C, and an Olds 442.


With Chrome.

 

[Ishmael]

Sorry bro, but where I come from, they still drive buggies...



I was raised Quaker and Grandpa had indoor plumbing, A/C, and an Olds 442.


With Chrome.

All of the Amish do, but only some of the Mennonites. I spent enough time driving back roads at night in Eastern PA. and learning to slow WAY down when going around bends, etc. I never understood why they had to be out driving at night anyway, they should have been in bed.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/media/web1_AmishBuggy_1.jpg?itok=6k98W1Bx

Ishmael

 

[ishtat]

Bonfires

My nephew in the UK is a Farmer. Every year he trims his hedges. In the past he would get rid of the trimmings with a series of small bonfires -best done on a still slightly damp winters day with only light breezes.

However an EU directive now requires that he must ring a clerk at the Ag ministry and ask for permission to light a bonfire - any bonfire. It is an EU requirement.

So when the regulation came in he thought "I'll make one big bonfire, (it was 12 metres high) then only one application for a permit will be required."

So he did that but then found no permit at all was required! The local youth like a bonfire, and were completely disinclined to ask for permission. A solution of sorts, which now seems to happen every year. Flames 30 to 40 metres in the air have a certain attraction.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lol


Nighttime is when the devil is about...

There are places in KANSAS where you have to yield to the Mennonites.

The unpainted houses are to die for.

 

[oggbashan]

More on EU vehicle insurance

Another new EU regulation is proposed.

If your vehicle is hit by an uninsured driver, the motor insurance companies will pay for your repairs from a common pool of money. In practice most UK motor insurance policies cover you anyway because payments from the 'common pool' take forever.

The EU now wants insured drivers to pay for damages to an uninsured driver's vehicle, and if two uninsured drivers hit each other - the 'common pool' must pay.

The 'common pool' is funded by a percentage added to all motor insurance policies. If the EU regulation goes ahead all insured drivers will have to pay more.

Catch 22. There are about 1 million uninsured drivers on the UK's roads. If the cost of vehicle insurance goes up? There will be more uninsured drivers who can't/won't pay for insurance. There will be more claims on the 'common pool' as a result of the EU regulation so vehicle insurance will go higher forcing more people to be uninsured which means more claims... and so on.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Welcome to Obamacare...

 

[Jamiegeo]

I Love the smell of bureaucracy in the......Never.