Just...wow.

[jingoro]

Very very scary, and not from an environmental standpoint, if you read the whole article.

"Which brings me to you, or rather to all of your soldered devices that are two years old or less. Most of these are now assembled using solder joints that have no lead in an effort to save our groundwater and our health. The fact that the lead has been

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[actionjbone]

Yeah, people are so scared of lead that they're trying to remove 100% of it from everything, even though it's impossible. Nevermind that people have lived for thousands of years with minute quantities of lead in their environments, and it didn't destroy all of humanity or anything drastic like that. :P

Did you know California passed a law stating that absurdly low amounts of lead can be present in bathroom fixtures, effective (I think) 2010, but at the time of the bill's passing there were no known alloys that could be used in place of the common ones? One type of incredibly expensive European stainless steel fixture would've been acceptable under the new law, but we're talking thousands of percent increase in cost.

Many lawmakers seem to be of the opinion, "We know more than Science. If we make laws saying Science must bend to our will, people will find ways to do it!"

Why not make a law banning cancer by 2015? *rolleyes*