Dumbest Laws for the New Year...

[Roberto333]

....(or) PC nazis prevail.

I'm looking this up, but I've heard that New York State spent MILLIONS to outlaw calling blind people anything but "visually impaired".

I digress...

In the 80's the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Some of this act made sense but explain this lameness:

I work in a 50 story building. All thermostats in the building (thousands) had to be changed from 5' high to 3'6"...you would think for people in wheelchairs. That would be fine but no tenant is allowed to change thermostat settings; there is not even a thermometer on them...you have to call the engineering staff, who then come and unlock the thermostat and changed the setting.

So why were all the thermostats moved? For the Engineer in a wheelchair? More likely for fear of P.C. law-ya thugs!

[RGBVideo]

...DL dance!

[Roberto333]

Originally posted by VJ
DL dance!


...has TCO been banned?

What are you afraid of?

[RGBVideo]

I'm just wondering who created you, that's all.

[Roberto333]

Why? Are you opposed to what I wrote or do you just troll for no reason? I wrote this so people could discuss. If you don't want to discuss this, move on.

[Skanky Burns]

[RGBVideo]

[PLATO]

[Theben]

I danced in another thread. My feet are tired.

[el freako]

Re: Dumbest Laws for the New Year...

Originally posted by Roberto333
....(or) PC nazis prevail.

I'm looking this up, but I've heard that New York State spent MILLIONS to outlaw calling blind people anything but "visually impaired".

I digress...

In the 80's the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Some of this act made sense but explain this lameness:

I work in a 50 story building. All thermostats in the building (thousands) had to be changed from 5' high to 3'6"...you would think for people in wheelchairs. That would be fine but no tenant is allowed to change thermostat settings; there is not even a thermometer on them...you have to call the engineering staff, who then come and unlock the thermostat and changed the setting.

So why were all the thermostats moved? For the Engineer in a wheelchair? More likely for fear of P.C. law-ya thugs!

The truth is probably far more mundane.

For example:

A law is passed which is meant to make those sort of things more accessable to disabled people.
Like most laws this is employed citywide even if is results in daft arrangements like the one you mentioned - this is the case with most laws.
The way of avoid it is to employ a tranche of buearacrats to check every single building in the city and determine if it need this modification.
Whilst the second solution would probably have ended up costing the residents of this particular building less it would certainly have cost the city as a whole a lot more (and slowed down the implementation of the law significantly).

[Ecthy]

From 1/1 on, social reforms in Germany are enforced. We'll be the 2nd USA in 2 weeks.

[Kuciwalker]

[Stefu]

The thermostat things is, indeed, probably meant to give the disabled the same equality. I mean, the disabled have the same right as the non-disabled to rise up in a pique of mad rage and smash all the thermostats to pieces using baseball bats, bricks and various other assortments. It's only fair for the government to give them this possibility for mindless anarchy.

[gamenaught]

...you have to call the engineering staff, who then come and unlock the thermostat and changed the setting.

It was a particularly hot summer day and the employees were sweltering. So finally a manager calls up the engineering guy and says “Hey, can you lower the thermostats!?!” So the engineers, with their wacky sense of humor, dutifully lowered the thermostats. Literally.

[St Leo]

A wheelchair-bound engineer is within the realm of possibility.