Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
by drcross on Sunday December 25, 2016 @05:30PM
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Stop being overly dramatic. People need to realise that there is a happy gray area wherein regulation is most efficient. When I get into a neighbors shower I want to be nearly certain I won't be electrocuted but also the flip side of heavy regulation is the money wasted on inefficiencies when adhering to the numerous European pillow manufacturing standards, for example.
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Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
by colanderman on Sunday December 25, 2016 @05:44PM
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While I agree with your point, the "numerous Eurpoean pillow manufacturing standards" meme is based on a fabricated claim: https://youtu.be/iAgKHSNqxa8?t=273
Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
by ivanhoe on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:06PM
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Many of those rules are important, but lots of them are really insignificant from the safety viewpoint, just a pure bureaucracy. Is it really important that fire extinguishers in the hallways of buildings have to be mounted on the wall at exact prescribed height? If you just let them sit on the floor you can get yourself fined, although they will function exactly the same regardless of the position.
Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
by ocdtrekkie on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:23PM
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I can think of a lot of reasons it'd be unsafe to place fire extinguishers on the floor. Floods could corrode the casing, children could reach the trigger components of a device that emits a suffocating chemical foam, etc.
It's often easy to suggest the number of regulations are unnecessary, but most came from some sort of logic or reason... In many cases in response to a tragedy that occurred before.