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Florida woman forced to connect to city water

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the This-sounds-like-a-job-for-Florida-Man dept.

Xerxes writes:

"A Florida woman who has been living off the grid has had her home declared 'Unsanitary' and has until March to connect her off-the-grid home to the city water system, or face eviction."

[ED Note: Ordinances such as this are not uncommon. My own father once had a property condemned on this basis while he was in the midst of a billing dispute with a utility.]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by weilawei on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:53AM

    by weilawei (109) on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:53AM (#7710)

    Agreed, this sort of stuff belongs IN A COMMENT.

    Talk WITH us, not AT us. It's atrocious to see an editor use their position to elevate the exposure of what amounts to a personal comment, in a manner not available to the rest of the community.

    Starting Score:    1  point
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tirefire on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:49AM

    by tirefire (3414) on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:49AM (#7730)
    Easy, big fella. This is a new site, and while it's modeled after Slashdot, we're all still in the phase where we're mingling around and deciding how things work. I just signed up for an account five minutes ago, myself (whee! I have a four-digit userid).

    That said, I agree that a comment would have been more appropriate. Hopefully that will become the norm in a little while.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:01AM (#7761)
      Registered just to say that, eh? GCHQ disinformation operative spotted!

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by regift_of_the_gods on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:24AM

    by regift_of_the_gods (138) on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:24AM (#7777)

    Come on, these guys do all the work and we shouldn't begrudge them a small perk like that. Besides, I usually don't mind reading them, even the ones on the other site. Then we have a byte-sized confluence of three perspectives: TFA, the submitter, and the editor.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:44AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:44AM (#7786)

      these guys do all the work

      That's what Dice thought, too. Look how that turned out. The community does the work. The editors are there to facilitate that. Moreover, there's a well-known problem with bias related to speaking order and authority. The first person to speak, or the person speaking from a higher up position in a hierarchy, acts with undue influence on the remainder of any discussion. The Mission Management Team for Columbia thought that was a great strategy.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:22AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:22AM (#7823)

        Mod parent up. I already moderated, but ran out of points (hence AC), then saw this one.

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:41PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:41PM (#7940) Journal
      The editor can already get first post quite easily. Why not put the comment in the comments. Soylent is currently suffering from a lot of articles with few comments. Having the editors drop some comments in initially would help a lot to promote discussion.
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      sudo mod me up