Big guberment infringing on my right to mutilate my cattl... i mean, my workers

I've seen a guy not lose half of his hand thanks to a sawstop. The tech is good. Most of SawStop's patents have also expired, and SawStop has agreed to make the key aspects that are technically still patented open to the public by the effective date of the law.

This shit is a no-brainer and even a 5 second Google search blows up her whole narrative on this instantly. Loser shit.

sawstop is a lawsuit happy patent troll that is pushing this regulation so that every saw maker operating in the US has to pay them a licensing fee.
- If this is true, and I'll just take your word for the moment, then simple solution is simultaneously strip the patent and all variants of it going forward

Finger safety devices are fucking awesome. The one I was working with a few years ago, if the blade encounters something conductive like your finger, an electro-magnet throws a block of aluminum in to the saw blade and stops it. Near instantly. Finger saved. It costs, idk, 100$ to reset, but that's a damn sight less than losing a finger. Like you might be nicked but you're probably not even going to need a bandaid. Just so damn cool, and one of the biggest dangers in a wood shop becomes vastly, vastly safer to work with.

I don't know; I've always felt this kind of tech, while it has its upsides, tends to come with some severe downsides.
How are you ever going to justify the use of a table saw in a horror movie ever again?
- Kids these days just don't get that Emo Philips scene in UHF (1989) because of SawStop™️ working in cahoots with BIG WOKE!
- If this isn't already a bit in a Scream-like horror comedy it should be. Or maybe the killer comes at someone with a chainsaw, but they're wearing one of those pairs of anti-chainsaw pants.
- Just have a character mention in the first act they can't do a project because they're having issues with the table saw.
  It's how the strangers justified killing somebody by putting their head in an open microwave and turning it on, which would require multiple safety devices to fail.
- How are you ever going to justify the use of a table saw in a horror movie ever again?
  the saw is owned by a guy who really hates the government patent trolls
- The victim seems totally calm until.they notice it's a tablesaw from prior to the regulatory date. Cause you fucking know you won't have to update your saws as an employer let alone a private owner. Which will probably also be a thing that if it becomes necessary then it will only apply to new saws and anyone thst already had an industrial saw, which is generally built to last or be serviced like a ship.of theseus where as far as regulations are concerned it's the same saw they bought in the 70s, you won't see it unless some saws get sabbed
- You get the funny scene of killer dragging someone into the blade, the blade stopping, there's a comedic beat, then they hit them with an axe or something.

well if patents are a problems then lets abolish all patents

Yea I was going to say I'm positive she doesn't actually care about it and it's just her excuse to oppose it but it is bullshit to require something that's protected intellectual property. That's just government establishing a monopoly.
I'm for small government but it means not recognizing or defending intellectual property or LLCs.

raise costs by hundreds of dollars

maybe I'm misunderstanding but this person is introducing legislation to save producers money on the scale of hundreds of dollars?

- Nvm, it turns out SawStop has agreed to open their patent up to the rest of the industry royalty free should such a law ever be passed.
  https://www.sawstop.com/news/sawstop-to-dedicate-key-u-s-patent-to-the-public-upon-the-effective-date-of-a-rule-requiring-safety-technology-on-all-table-saws/
  The real issue with the law is SawStop holds an exclusive patent on the concept of power tools detecting fingers and automatically stopping. They have enforced their IP right ruthlessly and as such hold a monopoly that allows them to charge a $900 premium.
  So I guess the problem is the US government mandating the technology without first seizing the patent and opening it up to competitors. It would be like the US government mandating airbags or seatbelts without the patent holders opening the IP up to the entire industry. Iirc Volvo holds most of the patents for a lot of automotive safety technologies but has always allowed the rest of the industry to use the tech royalty free in order to promote industry wide adoption.
- More than this, the tech will become an open standard on the effective date of the mandate, meaning anyone can manufacture them for free. The current cost vector is just licensing, your new saw will be safe and still like $500.
Sorry, correction. HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS!

Did she also introduced a bipartisan bill to make those patents public?

I would support that unironically. Patents should be illegal anyway they exist solely to stifle innovation, patents for safety or health things should be double illegal.
So make the patent public, and then make it the law that everyone has to do it.
- I don't fully agree, but this should be the starting position

"Consumer choice"

Fuuuuuck off

Hey now, as a consumer I have the right to choose that the people who made my product have their fingers sliced off; I'll never meet them, I'll never personally see it happen, but it's important to me to know it happened.

The customers likes finger meat in their food. Workers like losing fingers to table saws. It's a win-win for all.

consumer

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF

i fucking second this
i cannot stand that fucking word any longer

the word "consumer" is doing world record breaking amounts of lifting here

Death to America

The Texas Tablesaw Massacre

Actually this is kinda based.....

Consumers choice should be protected; personally I won't buy any wooden stuff unless I know the work to make it severed fingers.

I also support protection for child labor rights; I won't be happy unless I know my wooden stuff was anointed with the blood of the innocent.

Another Berniecrat embarrassment

she should have all her fingers cut off one by one

If you do it all at the same time, you're not operating the saw correctly

Marie Glue

MGP actually stands for Marie Glued Pinky, due to a consumer choice related saw accident.

until the patents for this tech are made public

That'd be OK with me if you forced the patents to be public sooner. I'd say just eminent domain the patent and pay the owners a fuckton for making digitsaving tech real but thats probably illegal in two dozen different ways.

sawstop company rn: - hey, boeing, could you recommend a couple of operators? yeah, just one job for now

News in near future: "Sawstop whistleblower found dead, cut to multiple pieces with a saw, clearly an accident, case closed."
- 🙏if only she bought sawstopper before the accident 🙏

She's showing an awful lot of fingers in that picture to start mandating anything. Goddamn elitist fingertrapper. Prove it lady!

Didn't Volvo release the patent for the modern 3 point seatbelt specifically so everyone could start installing them? I mean, ideally that shouldn't even be a call a company should be able to make, but it is an example of some people not being complete ratfuckers when public safety is a concern.
I'm pretty sure there's no legal means to do that, so what she's asking for isn't a serious demand.

Consumer choice? Fucking bushit, most people using this stuff are at work when they're doing so. I work kitchens and I'm.thinking about the same application for meat slicers cause I've seen some horrors there and of course any running saw would benefit immensely and it wouldn't even be remotely difficult to implement, you stick a thermometer gun to the thing and if an alive temperature enters that zone it shuts down. It could even serve a dual purpose of seeing the temp of what you're cutting which can be useful for quite a few things that are best cut from frozen but the blade can warm up fast. I could literally build this for like $40 and that's to safely mod industrial equipment, building it in wouldn't cost much at all on what's already a very expensive piece of hardware. A hand detector would realistically make it like $20 more max.

How would you build it?
- I'd have to look into.the finer points of how the thermo gun is hooked up but you could place it somewhere out of the way of what you're cutting but still near the blade and add a shield to keep the radius of where the thermometer is detecting near the blade, have a general range for human hand temp which will pretty much always be higher thsn anything else in range by a good amount, wire that to a kill switch that you wire to the power supply. Temp guns being a whole digital thing is probably beyond my immediate knowledge, don't know my way around a circuit board too good, but I do know a guy who builds my amps and pedals who for sure does.