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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Making suasage
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Anonymous said...
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home of the brave land of the free (some exclusions apply see SCOTUS for details)
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3/4/10, 8:20 PM
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Billll said...
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You forgot to mention, her husband is a licensed union electrician, the only sort legally allowed to install the newly mandatory stuff.
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3/4/10, 8:23 PM
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An ignorant dickweed. said...
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and the code inspectors have no freaking clue what any of the codes are.
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3/4/10, 8:34 PM
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root@localhost.localdomain said...
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My next house will have walls like this:
http://www.ironicsans.com/images/outletwall.jpg -
3/4/10, 8:40 PM
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Anonymous said...
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We recently renovated an old Victorian house that was to be torn down. It is now commercial office space. ADA compliance, state, county, and city regulations and clueless inspectors made it the most frustraiting thing I have ever done. And I spent 20 years in the Navy. I'd rather catch myself in my zipper REPEATEDLY than deal with those assholes on a daily basis.
Tim -
3/4/10, 9:11 PM
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Walt said...
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It's not even the local busybodies who do it. Codes are written by volunteer associations who have annual assemblies to drink beer and congratulate themselves on having come so very far after only nearly graduating from high school, and to write code amendments. It isn't unusual for a manufacturer to put an engineer or two into the organization to find a safety glitch that just happens to require a bimetal nubbing to fix it -- which nubbing can be provided by the manufacturer. Then the city/county elected officials see that there are updates to the donated code that they adopted years ago so as to avoid the work of figuring one out for themselves, and there's a motion to enact an ordinance adopting the code updates cheerfully provided by Northeastwestern Fire-admirals Association, which passes unanimously. And forever after desklamps have to be equipped with knitted Nomex headcovers. With tassels.
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3/4/10, 9:32 PM
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clem said...
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But whenever someone wants to run on a less-government platform, the usual suspects raise the same old arguments: "soft on crime", "wants to cut school budgets", "would leave seniors out in the cold", etc. etc...
The result is that we always wind up with big-government nanny-staters. I'm sick of it. We need a libertarian revolution now. No, we needed it decades ago. -
3/4/10, 9:37 PM
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Anonymous said...
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That 36" spacing will work real good with most common stud spacing. So typical of a bureaucrat. She voted for Uhbama, of course, and is the one who put so much shit on the walls and along the walls that even with 36" spacing, the poor guy won't be able to get an outlet without moving something.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
3/4/10, 9:41 PM
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LargeBill said...
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Shakespeare wisely said "First, kill all the lawyers." I can't argue with lawyers for first place, but the scum who write building code have to be second.
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3/5/10, 12:06 AM
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Anonymous said...
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This Walt fellow is rather brilliant. For my two cents: If I can live in peace I will. But if I must, then blood I'll spill.
Casca -
3/5/10, 1:02 AM
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badfrog said...
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You guys don't understand how to deal with code inspectors. When I built my wife's tattoo parlor in an old industrial mill, I was over at his office four days in the first week, and three days the second week. Earnest and not too bright, that was me. After he got sick of my wasting his otherwise useful time, he let me do pretty much whatever I wanted, and was actually helpful in letting me know what was really important to him.
Although I still had to spend 7k getting the damn bathroom up to wheelchair code. Wanna know how many people in wheelchairs have used it. Yeah. On the other hand, it's a big spacious comfortable bathroom where we would otherwise have had another cube with an artist making himself and us more money.
But you can sure spread out and read the morning paper in there. -
3/5/10, 5:31 AM
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BruHa said...
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Badfrog,
Just a thought. Funny that you can't park in their parking spaces but can take a dump all day long in spacious luxury and have the sports section live on the custom stainless steel magazine rack. (I mean the ADA compliant safety handle)
:-D
I remember reading about a wheelchair ramp having to be installed at on stage of a strip club along with an ADA compliant shower that was used on stage.(An example of code enforcement used to hurt a business with no intention of following the original intent of the code.) -
3/5/10, 1:02 PM
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MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...
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I know NEC (NFPA 70) pretty well and I must say that it is reasonable for the most part. Local munis however ARE insane with controll.
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3/5/10, 1:39 PM
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