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It also looks like it doesn't apply to all-terrain vehicles, or to machinery, equipment, implements, or attachments used for or in connection with: 1. Lawn, ga
by tzs 3y ago
It also looks like it doesn't apply to all-terrain vehicles, or to machinery, equipment, implements, or attachments used for or in connection with:
1. Lawn, garden, golf course, landscaping, or grounds maintenance,
2. Planting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting, and producing agricultural or forestry products,
3. Raising, feeding, or tending to, or harvesting products from, livestock and any other activity in connection with those activities,
4. Industrial, construction, maintenance, mining, or utility activities or applications, including, but not limited to, material handling equipment,
although that exclusion does not apply to "self-propelled vehicles designed primarily for the transportation of persons or property on a street or highway" even if they are used for one of the above things.
There is also an exclusion for alarm systems, which are "an assembly of equipment and devices arranged to detect a hazard or signal the presence of an off-normal situation".
- Sindisil 3y agoAKA the John Deere exception. FFS, Deere's egregious behavior is a large part of the push for RTR legislation. Disappointing, if not unsurprising.
- deelowe 3y agoAnd as planned, were sitting here blaming Deere and not the politicians who allow this to happen. Deere is simply looking out for its best interests. The real scum are these so called "representatives" who place corporate interests over small businesses and citizens. Walk through your local Lowe's and home Depot and take a close look at their lawn equipment. It's all junk that will be thrown away in a decade. Plastic bushings, plastic spindles, flimsy exhaust mounts, etc. If you seriously take the time to look closely, you can see where you they are engineered to fail. Even contractor brands like Stihl are starting to do this stuff. Most of their trimmers now do not have a grease fill port on the head. To make matters worse, replacing a head costs almost as much as an entire trimmer...
- maerF0x0 3y agoAnd every time the citizenry tries to use regulation to reign in a megacorp it ends up creating more burden for that company's competition. megacorps legal team can easily squeeze into the loop holes, but mom and pops (and entrepreneurs) get ground up like cheap meat.
- pc86 3y agoThen exceptions (if any exist) should be based on company revenue (to include any and all holding companies), not what the tool or device does. Require Deere to make RTR easily available, let small upstarts focus on the product
- maerF0x0 3y agoSo I definitely prefer this, and this is used to be a sort of unspoken rule in Canadian law. The law just had this bias built into for the "little guy" in the fight. Seems to have changed under the current Führer, at least from a non-resident's perspective. IMO that's the right bias to have to counter the matthew effect in Capitalism.
- Sindisil 3y ago[flagged]
- p_j_w 3y ago>The real scum are these so called "representatives" who place corporate interests over small businesses and citizens. I don't see why we can't find both to be scum.
- robertlagrant 3y agoBecause only one is being paid for by public funds to be impartial.
- AYBABTME 3y ago
- MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago> Lawn, garden, golf course, landscaping, or grounds maintenance Tim Cook: And one more thing... iPhone 16 can control your lawn mower!
- lesuorac 3y agoI mean iPhones (and other phones) have apps that help you identify weeds and the like. Don't iPhones have that earthquake detection as well so they might as well be an alarm device.
- salawat 3y agoSo, it applies to basically nothing at all important that wasn't already covered in one way shape or form? Hell, the last paragraph on the alarm bits basically opens the door so damn wide, this moght as well have not even been drafted.
- mdgrech23 3y agoThis country has become such an effing joke. This story of exceptions for big companies and the rich repeats itself over and over.
- derefr 3y agoTo me, it'd make sense in theory to carve out these exceptions even without a lobbyist asking for them: it'd make for a bill that gets immediately passed rather than endlessly argued about and shot down, because a bill with these exceptions has nobody on the other side of it pushing back. And that could just be the first step; you could then do a series of smaller bills (or better yet, riders to must-pass bills) that each try to knock out one of these exceptions. In practice, though, I feel like the exemptions here will be interpreted as part of the "spirit of the bill" rather than examples of realpolitik expediency...