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California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws

posted by martyb on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the That's-the-last-straw! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, a person who violates any provision of the code to be guilty of a misdemeanor with each offense punishable by a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 6 months, or by both.

This bill would prohibit a food facility, as specified, where food may be consumed on the premises from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the consumer. By creating a new crime and imposing additional enforcement duties on local health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @02:16AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @02:16AM (#629286)

    By comparison, the Ten Commandments run just under 300 words -- and the Ten Commandments, there are still ten.

    There may be ten, as you say, but they're not always the same ten. The list varies depending on where in the source book you look and on which edition of the book you're using as reference.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 28 2018, @02:24AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday January 28 2018, @02:24AM (#629287) Journal

    Modded up...but as a general rule, the kind of person who thinks the ten commandments ought to be the law of the land is not well-read in his own scriptures enough to know what you pointed out :)

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @10:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @10:29AM (#629391)

      the kind of person who thinks the ten commandments ought to be the law of the land

      should move to saudi fucking arabia to experience first hand a theocrazy

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday January 28 2018, @08:59PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Sunday January 28 2018, @08:59PM (#629570) Homepage
    > There may be ten, as you say, but they're not always the same ten.

    Sometimes they aren't even ten, it all depends on how you count ambiguously punctuated lists. Some renderings could be 8, others could be 13. And is "I am the Lord your God" a commandment or merely a pronouncement?

    And they're a lousy set of rules anyway - everyone misinterprets them! "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" definitely doesn't mean "I must be your only god" and doesn't even mean "I must be your most important god". The word translated as "before" literally means "in front", physically placed in front - so the commandment means "don't bring any references - visual, spoken, or thought - into other gods into temples built for me".

    They're lousy for other reasons too - it's a bit wishy washy on rape for instance - looks like that's allowed, as I don't see it being forbidden (this is clarified later in the book fortunately, rape's not just OK, it's an order!). Ditto slavery, that looks fine. Maiming not being banned helps in maintaining the slavery. Fraud, defamation, and shitting on your neighbour doorstep - they're all cool too.
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