tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post782156657810275701..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Tales From the Over Regulated State # 24 - Respect Our AuthoritahSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-75006796330415213742017-05-07T03:48:17.926-04:002017-05-07T03:48:17.926-04:00There are reasons for some of the regulations arou...There are reasons for some of the regulations around being a PE. In every state and nationally, there are ramifications to calling yourself an Engineer in certain legal situations.<br />I've heard this situation mentioned several times, but without enough detail to know whether he met the standard threshold for requiring a PE (I am a PE, but am not familiar with Oregon's rules). <br />Did they go overboard? Probably. Did they have reason to investigate the situation? Probably. <br />From what I have read elsewhere, he used specific words like 'as an engineer' and 'in my experience as a software engineer'. If he did so in a discussion of traffic light timing, in any state he would get in trouble for practicing outside of his area of expertise, and they probably tacked on being unlicensed to that as well. I suspect that if he had not referenced being and engineer in his communications to the state, the whole issue would never have come up.Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-25086339843805445942017-05-04T18:07:31.119-04:002017-05-04T18:07:31.119-04:00I think that the 'deep state' is slowly ha...<i>I think that the 'deep state' is slowly having its fangs painfully pulled by the Trump Administration.</i><br /><br />Based on what observed evidence? Here is some evidence I observe: Federal layoffs: zero. Federal departments disbanded: zero. Budget reductions: zero. Medical monopolies broken up: zero. Central planning of trade across borders removed: zero. Presidential admission of the national bankruptcy points Denninger makes: zero.<br /><br />The Democrats in the press are whining more loudly now because half the voters are primed to respond to the whining. The increased whining doesn't have to be caused by a reduction in liberal power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45052606576858765992017-05-04T13:29:15.301-04:002017-05-04T13:29:15.301-04:00I think that the 'deep state' is slowly ha...I think that the 'deep state' is slowly having its fangs painfully pulled by the Trump Administration. However in places (I'm thinking of California, where I live for the time being), the push back is very strong. As the other comments state, government monopolies are wrong at every possible level. Standards are good (Regulations make things regular), but everything seems to be taken to an absurd degree now.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-2318660109296595512017-05-04T13:05:07.811-04:002017-05-04T13:05:07.811-04:00Many states have laws that say if you are not a Pr...Many states have laws that say if you are not a Professional Engineer by their standards you may not even do the math involved with those calculations except if you are a teacher (yet another "licensed" profession). Only the Elite my rule! NOT!BillBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593147581583316765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-32507217166691852352017-05-04T01:41:54.522-04:002017-05-04T01:41:54.522-04:00I've seen news reports where towns are removin...I've seen news reports where towns are removing the cameras, because having successfully reduced the red light running safety problem they were justified with, the revenue stream decreased and they didn't want to maintain them anymore.<br /><br />Government itself is the problem. The very concept of allowing any group, to declare themselves to have a monopoly on anything, is the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-84066360664298188432017-05-03T23:30:48.333-04:002017-05-03T23:30:48.333-04:00How dare he question the "state?" Who d...How dare he question the "state?" Who does this deplorable think he is? You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile!<br /><br />These Oregon clowns don't know the difference between a sovereign individual using his God given noodle and common sense to ferret out the mistakes of the "state" and deliver justice, which the clowns have no interest in whatsoever.<br /><br />And then there is the issue of lack of respect for anyone not bearing the certification of PE. Only 20% of engineers are licensed and about 70% of those are CE's. Out of some 2 million plus engineers in the US, how many live and work in Oregon? I don't know but I wonder how many of the people on this esteemed (/sarc) Board of Examiners is actually a PE. Ref: https://www.nspe.org/resources/press-room/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-engineeringAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-40708115128329155502017-05-03T22:26:41.666-04:002017-05-03T22:26:41.666-04:00Remember the terrorist (lone wolf) attack at Umpqu...Remember the terrorist (lone wolf) attack at Umpqua Community College a few years back? I got my Registered Nurse degree there, graduating in 2000 and getting my RN license from the Oregon State Board of Nursing shortly after graduation. (BTW, I carried my G30 every day in classes, sitting right up in front. Completely legal [if you had your CCW permit], but I would have been expelled if they had known.)<br /><br />The OR Board of Nursing was just about as ridiculous in the lengths they went to control your every move and every job you took in that state. They could (and would) pull your license for any little infraction of regulations most of us had never even heard about, let alone been taught or trained on. When I went to work for the VA medical center in Roseburg, federal law and regulations superseded OR state law on practice, but there were still some areas where the state would fine and/or yank your license if you went counter to their directives.<br /><br />Oregon was governed by a bunch of old hippies left over from Haight-Ashbury and communes in CA and OR, and now they are ruled by the children of those old hippies - sortr of like Bernie's grandchildren. We left in 2008, and as beautiful as that state is, we don't miss living there.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.com