"Don Bruder" wrote in message
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"Arfa Daily" wrote:

Unfortunately, if you are professionally involved in the repair of
electronic equipment in Europe, continuing to use leaded solder, unless
the
equipment was placed on the market prior to June 2006 or is manufactured
in
leaded solder now due to an exemption, is no longer a legal option. I am
required under threat of law, to use only solder and components, which
preserve the RoHS approval of the equipment in question. I don't suppose
realistically, that any 'solder police' are going to come knocking on my
door to enforce this, but with some of the jobsworths that there are in
local government departments now, it's just not worth the risk of a
whopping
fine and even the potential for prison, for disobeying the directive.

Arfa

Y'know, normally I'm not of a political bent, but this one just screams
for it...

Didn't you fools in Europe learn *ANYTHING* from the examples of the
USA, USSR, and similar "one government over all" schemes? Take a hint:
Big Central Government equals Big Central Screwing to all persons
unfortunate enough to be subject to its whims.

sigh

Look, mommy! See how much better life is under the nuturing wing of the
EU?

(So says an American victim...)


We 'fools' learnt plenty Don. Which is why most people in the UK don't
consider themselves part of Europe, and never will. If you know anything at
all about the UK, you will know that we are a free democracy. Free, that is,
to be controlled by a government that has now been in too long, and thinks
that it is a dictatorship. You may have seen on your news - because from
what I've seen on your TV when I've been there, just occasionally, the TV
companies do look up on a map wherabouts the UK is, and carry the odd
interest piece - that our wonderful leader Brown (are you aware it's not
Blair any more ?) has just signed up to a new European Treaty that we had
already rejected, along with a couple of other countries. They said it was
different, but all they had actually done, was rename it. Despite promising
the country a referendum on the original treaty, Brown then reneged on that,
contending that it was not the same treaty that they had promised to ask us
whether we wanted ...

You just cannot fight that sort of thing, so whilst we learnt, and
understand all about it, we have little option now but to be swept along in
Euro-hysteria, and comply with all the nonsense self justifying crap that
comes across to us from Brussels :-\

So speaks a British victim ...

Arfa