Standardization

A Boston jury has awarded $1.5 million to a man whose fingers were injured by a tablesaw on the theory that it was defective for the saw to lack “flesh-detection” technology. According to the lawsuit, the inventor of the technology offered to sell it to tool companies a decade ago, but negotiations broke down... by overlawyered.com | related posts

stakeholders towards the development and application of industry pre-standards until standards have been set by the official standards bodies ISO/IEC and call upon policymakers to support the drive towards a climate-friendly transport sector. The electricity CEOs... by greencarcongress.com | related posts

I’ll keep pointing out these double standards as they come up, because we all know the left can throw out racial slurs all day long, the minority leadership will look the other way (like the paid traitors they are), and the slurs will keep on coming. While talking about politicians with little or no... by black-and-right.com | related posts

Victor Davis Hanson admires the liberal double-standards by which Sarah Palin is a bumptious uneducated rube and John Edwards is poor boy who made good, the war in Iraq was formerly a catastrophe and a failure and is now an major Obama Administration achievement, and locking up illegal combatants... by neveryetmelted.com | related posts

Now that the London Evening Standard has become a freebie I find it more difficult than ever to come by unless I am in the centre of town taking the tube; which is a rarity given that I live and work in outer London suburbia. An ostensibly democratising move by a Russian oligarch seems to have... by rupahuq.co.uk | related posts

I confess I do not really understand  the debate on national standards for education . This is a sad admission for an opinionated bloke like myself, but I really just don’t understand the teacher’s unions objections to them. I have tried to follow the debate but the union’s response makes... by macdoctor.co.nz | related posts