Politicians like this scheme because there's graft involved. They can get contributions from the companies that participate in this.
The so-called environmental politicians would prefer to see something scrapped than for someone to get some use out of used electronics.

I'm typing this right now on a HP laptop that was thrown out. It had HP's infamous lead free solder ball grid array problem. Taking the motherboard out, putting it in a toaster over at 350 for 10 minutes, and then blowing a heat gun on the graphics chip until it reached 200 deg C. got it reattached. I had the same problem with a HP printer.
Every LCD TV in my house has been something that I repaired. I don't strip out the boards from TVs I can't use the make a buck on eBay. I give the extra TVs I fix to friends and to non-profit organizations. But that's really against the law here.

The best thing I got was a Jura coffee maker. It just needed a valve replaced at $28 shipped from Germany. New ones sell for $1400, and used ones are at least $300. (Not that I would pay that much for a coffee maker.)

For every arctic, there's an antarctic.
It was just two years ago that there was record ice in the antarctic area.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/an...
That certainly justifies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on bird-frying solar reflectors, or bird chopping windmills for a guestimated 0.2 degree reduction in the planet's temperature

Then who's left here in the US to spy on us?

I'm looking forward to serving on jury duty now.
If the defendant committed a crime due to gross negligence, or they didn't intend to commit the crime, then they're not guilty.
Of course that would only come into play if there was an "unreasonable prosecutor" handling the case.

She forgot to mention that government is in cahoots with big business to stifle competition. Licensing requirements raise the requirements to start a business, or to be hired. The NY Times reports that occupational therapists, manicurists and barbers, fortune tellers, massage therapists, shampoo assistants, librarians, beekeepers, electrologists and movie projector operators all need to be licensed in various states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03...

Existing business can provide campaign donations, otherwise known as graft, to politicians to make rules to keep out the competition.

I don't want twice the range. I miss enough calls now when I get out of my car and forget to turn off the BT speakerphone.

I use eight asterisks as my password so I can see it when I'm typing it in.

I've heard sonic booms from things moving at supersonic speed. I don't think I want that in my bathroom

Just another regulation that is designed to increase the cost of housing in order to keep poor minority people out.

What do solar cells to to your fire insurance rates? I would think the fire department wouldn't go near them since they're almost always generating electricity at the panels.

I can remember when there was a bunch of complaints about the Chicklet keyboards on the Texas Instruments 99/4 computer, so they put a real keyboard on it, and called it the 99/4A.
Now every laptop has keys that are worse and no one complains. HP made better keys on a folding keyboard I had for my Compaq iPaq. I could put that in a pocket.

A problem with using a large television as a computer monitor is that when viewing a standard size computer screen, say under 24", your eyes are moving around to see the various locations on the screen. If you start using 32" or larger screens, your eyes have reached the limit of movement, and you have to move your head to see what you want on the screen. This can start to cause some fatigue or dizziness when using the computer for a while.

I got a 32" 1080p TV for someone I do some work for, who has a tough time seeing, and he reported those problems. He also uses one of those kids keyboards with the big yellow keys. He still uses the built-in magnifier function in Windows 7, but I'll take a look at some of the suggestions in these comments for another option for him.

This should incapacitate someone pretty quickly. It worked on South Park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I wish the USA's government economic policies encouraged small business and a growing culture around innovation in the country.
Instead we get more licensing and regulation requirements.

This is why I do my grocery shopping at Aldi. They don't have background music, and they pass the savings on to me.
There the only sound is the beeping of the UPC scanner at the register. It's much less stressful.

Does it have any security software so the Chinese can't control things?