I am reminded of my 20s when I took in lodgers. One day I came back from the Printer's with boxes of documentation for some software I'd written, and explained what it was.
"Are you allowed to do that?" she asked, in bewidlerment.
I wasn't sure how to answer. The concept that somebody really truely thought you needed PERMISSION from somebody.... to just *write* something...
The latest nonsense (which is afflicting the UK too as collateral damage) is the EU requirement for plastic bottle tops to be 'tethered', a typically silly solution to a non-problem, of the sort beloved by Eurocrats. It makes drinking or pouring very inconvenient, while there are virtually zero European bottle tops in the 'famous' North Pacific Gyre (which largely consists of lost fishing gear).
If we were really concerned about pollution from plastic bottles, the UK could now revert to the simple, cheap and effective landfill - banned (or, more precisely, taxed heavily) by the EU, because it's not possible for the low countries (just creates a lake) and there must be a 'level playing field'.
I am reminded of my 20s when I took in lodgers. One day I came back from the Printer's with boxes of documentation for some software I'd written, and explained what it was.
"Are you allowed to do that?" she asked, in bewidlerment.
I wasn't sure how to answer. The concept that somebody really truely thought you needed PERMISSION from somebody.... to just *write* something...
The latest nonsense (which is afflicting the UK too as collateral damage) is the EU requirement for plastic bottle tops to be 'tethered', a typically silly solution to a non-problem, of the sort beloved by Eurocrats. It makes drinking or pouring very inconvenient, while there are virtually zero European bottle tops in the 'famous' North Pacific Gyre (which largely consists of lost fishing gear).
If we were really concerned about pollution from plastic bottles, the UK could now revert to the simple, cheap and effective landfill - banned (or, more precisely, taxed heavily) by the EU, because it's not possible for the low countries (just creates a lake) and there must be a 'level playing field'.
Oh I hate the tethered bottle tops so much.