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Well, they've regulated beer glasses.

When I was in the USSR (it still was the USSR) cars were not allowed to use headlights in Moscow at night. Only out on the highway.

Some cars drive with sidelights on, some don't. It is not an age-related distinction.

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Brussels doesn't have any kind of unlimited appetite for regulating things

- much though the Daily Telegraph likes telling us that it does.

If the civil servants get too enthusiastic, their politcal masters - effect ively the national governments - rein them in.

So what. They don't need to put on a different mark for each differnt count ry in the EU. Makes life easier for the sales stuff, and keeps the producti on machinery running steadily, rather than switching between batches of gla sses for different countries. This is what the EU is all about - it started off as a customs union, and that's still one of it's major advantages.

The UK regulated beer glasses before the EU existed.

I'm sure the US must have 'weights and measures' standards too.

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I recall wine and beer glasses in Germany having a line marking the proper fill level... some 20+ years ago... before EU. ...Jim Thompson

Sounds like the EU will not be selling many kettles or toasters to the rest of the world....

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Not for beer in a glass. When we get a beer at a bar, it's not usually quantitative. Sometimes we can order a pint, or a 22 oz glass, but usually we just order a beer.

Zeitgeist will make me a small beer if I need to stay awake that afternoon.

Higher delta-T makes them less efficient, no?

You mean that there might be something more important than efficiency?

Got out just in time!

Yeah, like the 5 CHP[*] shop vacs with NEMA-15 plugs and 16ga power cords?

But they do. Low-flush toilets. Water restrictors. Banned light bulbs.

My Audi has front running lights, and sometimes I forget to turn on the headlights as it gets dark, because it looks like they are already on.

Yup.

Banger packaging crossed the line, too.

There is no US standard on beer glasses. I've seen them in bars from five to 23oz.

I don't know about another layer, but it won't change the way the Brits make cars if they want to sell into the EU. I suppose they can make a different version for the UK market, but is it worth it?

You aren't in Brittan either. The UK has has marked beer glasses for many years. I think it comes with a Royal seal.

But Wikipedia says in the Republic of Ireland they are switching to the CE marked glasses.

Um, SR implied that the US must have a similar sort of law. Of course, we don't. Indeed, very few such laws on the federal level (but I'm sure that will change).