Tuesday, June 29, 2010
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
In Britain: EU rules which are soon to come into force will require certain changes in product packaging.
The new rules will mean that instead of packaging telling shoppers a box contains six eggs, it will show the weight in grams of the eggs inside, for example 372g. Or that a bag of white rolls has 322g inside instead of half a dozen. The rules will not allow both the weight and the quantity to be displayed.
Hens being stubbornly unwilling to lay eggs of absolutely consistent weights, this regulation also implies that packagers or retailers must spend money on equipment to weigh and stamp each individual package...costs which must, of course, be passed through to consumers and which will represent a burden on the entire economy.
In California: Amid all of the state's increasingly-disastrous problems, the Assembly has found time to draft and pass legislation banning plastic grocery bags. The law will also specify the price (5 cents) that the store must charge for paper bags and the mix of materials content allowed for those bags.
Throughout the Western world, the all-emcompassing arrogance of the political classes seems to grow in tandem with their incompetence at fulfilling their proper functions.
See previous regulating absolutely everything posts
5:20 AM
Friday, March 06, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
A state legislator in West Virginia (a Democratic legislator, of course) wants to ban Barbie dolls.
Previous Regulating Absolutely Everything
4:52 AM
Sunday, May 31, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
Here's a Washington DC councilman who wants to ban single-slice pizza sales...he thinks such a ban will help reduce violent crime.
via Bitter
See other posts in the regulating absolutely everything thread.
7:56 PM
Friday, October 16, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) just passed a new regulation that requires glazed glass in automobiles that is supposed to reduce the need to use air conditioning. The catch is that the same properties that block electromagnetic sunlight radiation also blocks lower frequency electromagnetic radio waves. That means radios, satellite radios, GPS, garage door openers, and cell phones will be severely degraded. Even more surprising is that it requires this glass even for jeeps that have soft covers, plastic windows, and no air conditioning. Furthermore, the rules are so stringent that they effectively make sunroofs black, even though many consumers use the covers.
(emphasis added)
More here
See previous Regulating Absolutely Everything posts
8:26 AM
Friday, February 20, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
From a National Review (2/23) article on anorexia:
Nonetheless, some lawmakers are calling for bans on skinny models. Madrid and Milan have prohibited those with a body-mass index lower than 18 from their fashion shows...Similar bans have been proposed in Quebec, London, New York City, New York State, and France's national assembly.
I'll let Alexis de Tocqueville respond to these proposals:
Subjection in minor affairs breaks out every day and is felt by the whole community indiscriminately. It does not drive men to resistance, but it crosses them at every turn, till they are led to surrender the exercise of their own will. Thus their spirit is gradually broken and their character enervated...It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd...That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.
The Tocqueville excerpt is from Michael Ledeen, who points out that:
The metaphor of a parent maintaining perpetual control over his child is the language of contemporary American politics.
6:01 AM
Monday, April 13, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
The state of Pennsylvania shuts down the sale of home-baked pies at churches.
5:22 AM
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
California is looking at banning black cars; also, a whole range of dark shades.
After reading this news, The Anchoress says she is feeling a little bit like King Arthur in the last scene of Camelot, "someday you will tell your children about the mythical land of America, where people were basically free to do whatever they liked, express themselves freely, dare to dream…"
11:54 AM
Monday, September 28, 2009
REGULATING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
Two British policewomen are in trouble because they watch each other's kids on a regular basis. The charge is "operating an illegal childminding business."
Lest you think that this is only a British form of insantiy and such things could never happen in the United States...
continued at Chicago Boyz
6:31 PM
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