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Nice Planet 6: Get Me Off This Planet.

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FlagDUDE08 said:
You want zero tolerance? You got it, and everything that goes with it. http://www.newschannel5.com/story/24811452/clarksville-student-suspended-for-knife-in-fathers-car
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A fishing knife is a tool. I really don't understand how these policies can be legal. When I was in high school, I had a Leatherman tool in my backpack at all times, and a knockoff Swiss Army knife on my keychain. Nobody thought a thing of it. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of others in class had knives with them and nobody felt endangered in the least. A knife never found its way to any of the fights let alone any other dangerous tool.

When does these crummy policies start expanding to tire irons and baseball bats?
 
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St. Clown said:
A fishing knife is a tool. I really don't understand how these policies can be legal. When I was in high school, I had a Leatherman tool in my backpack at all times, and a knockoff Swiss Army knife on my keychain. Nobody thought a thing of it. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of others in class had knives with them and nobody felt endangered in the least. A knife never found its way to any of the fights let alone any other dangerous tool.

When does these crummy policies start expanding to tire irons and baseball bats?
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They've extended to steak knives in the cafeteria as well, and have since the 90's. Basically, it's the government protecting itself against a lawsuit.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
They've extended to steak knives in the cafeteria as well, and have since the 90's. Basically, it's the government protecting itself against a lawsuit.
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Correct. Because if you have people making decisions then someone's going to get mad about the decision and hire a lawyer. That's what we do in a plutocracy. With zero tolerance there is no discretion and no subjectivity involved. So, no decision, no lawyers.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Correct. Because if you have people making decisions then someone's going to get mad about the decision and hire a lawyer. That's what we do in a plutocracy. With zero tolerance there is no discretion and no subjectivity involved. So, no decision, no lawyers.
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Any policy which can't or won't differentiate between nail clippers and an RPG is, at best, a total cop out.
 
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Than God this never happened to me! ;)

http://www.mediaite.com/online/woman-arrested-after-calling-911-to-get-cop-to-fck-me/

A woman was arrested last Friday night after she called 911 attempting to get a police officer to her house because, as she told the officer when he arrived, “I haven’t been penetrated in years” and “I am so horny.” Now, would you like to take a guess as to which state this occurred in? Go ahead, just guess. It’s not that hard to imagine where this came from.

Did you guess Florida? Congratulations, we have a winner!!!
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Earth homes: Now illegal in Florida. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/...er-and-rain-water-ordered-use-city-utilities/
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I must've missed the part of the article where she was told that she had to hook up to the city power grid (hint: she wasn't, her solar panels aren't an issue). And you must've missed the part where the city admitted that they cannot force her to actually use the water system.

It's pretty simple - use of the city sewer is part of the city water system bill, therefore she's mooching use of the public sewer service off her neighbors' water payments. Unless she can shoehorn a septic tank and tile field onto her property, it looks like she's bagging her raw sewage - until they tell her it's a public health hazard (which I'm sure you'll also be screaming bloody fascism about when that story is written).

Or, you know, she could always move to a part of the world that fits her ecological views better. I always thought that was a pillar of anarchist thought, in fact.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I must've missed the part of the article where she was told that she had to hook up to the city power grid (hint: she wasn't, her solar panels aren't an issue). And you must've missed the part where the city admitted that they cannot force her to actually use the water system.

It's pretty simple - use of the city sewer is part of the city water system bill, therefore she's mooching use of the public sewer service off her neighbors' water payments. Unless she can shoehorn a septic tank and tile field onto her property, it looks like she's bagging her raw sewage - until they tell her it's a public health hazard (which I'm sure you'll also be screaming bloody fascism about when that story is written).

Or, you know, she could always move to a part of the world that fits her ecological views better. I always thought that was a pillar of anarchist thought, in fact.
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Things other than septic tanks exist?
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I must've missed the part of the article where she was told that she had to hook up to the city power grid (hint: she wasn't, her solar panels aren't an issue). And you must've missed the part where the city admitted that they cannot force her to actually use the water system.

It's pretty simple - use of the city sewer is part of the city water system bill, therefore she's mooching use of the public sewer service off her neighbors' water payments. Unless she can shoehorn a septic tank and tile field onto her property, it looks like she's bagging her raw sewage - until they tell her it's a public health hazard (which I'm sure you'll also be screaming bloody fascism about when that story is written).

Or, you know, she could always move to a part of the world that fits her ecological views better. I always thought that was a pillar of anarchist thought, in fact.
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Just about every city I know will require you to hook up to their public utility structure, whether it's sewer, water, or even sometimes gas and electricity.

There are many reasons for this, most them relating to public safety. They don't want people draining their sewage into their backyard. If there is a fire, flood or other emergency that requires public safety officials like police or firemen to respond, they want to know how to shut off the power/gas, etc..., to be able to safely address the emergency.

It's just a condition of owning property in a city. No one forces you to do it. If you want to live like the unabomber, feel free to buy yourself a shack in the woods and do it.
 
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Someone needs to give Rep. Halverson a lesson in logic.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/247405381.html

In a crowded hearing room at the Capitol, some legislators said Wednesday that consumers can’t wait decades for proof, the way they did with tobacco.

“This is the Wild West,” Rep. Laurie Halverson, DFL-Eagan, told a panel of lawmakers looking at restricting e-cigarettes. “We just don’t know and the consumer doesn’t know. The consumer is being told they’re harmless, but the fact is the consumer doesn’t know because we haven’t regulated it.”
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So let me get this straight. Science isn't what proves whether or not something is safe for human use, it's government edict? That quote I set in bold explains a lot about her.
 
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