Littering Laws in Belgium
Seriously? This is the kind of verbiage that makes people go “WTF?”
In Belgium this week, 3 professional cyclists are facing criminal littering charges for throwing water-bottles on the ground during the Fleche-Wallone race in southern Belgium. The law reads:
“Any person who holds waste is required to provide or make the management conditions to limit the negative effects on water, air, soil, flora, fauna, to avoid inconvenience in general, without adversely affecting the environment or to human health.”
See, the problem with these laws is they get written to be both too specific and too vague all at the same time. First we understand that it is against the law to harm water, air, soil, flora, or fauna…but what exactly constitutes a “negative effect”? And how much are you supposed to “limit” that effect? Is 20% enough? How about limiting it to a little less than a bunch of negative effect. Is a smidgen of negative effect acceptable?
This is obviously the work of a committee of politicians that could easily agree that littering is bad, but actually being able to force people to not litter would make the politicians seem draconian. Politicians understand that firmly taking a stance usually leads to someone feeling oppressed, and oppressed people tend to be the ones that vote, cause they are pissed off.
Of course, in Arizona we have a handful of politicians that have no problem taking a stand and are proud of their draconian ways. And if you oppress people properly they don’t have the right to vote, which makes it easier to take a stand when you realize that the people you are oppressing can’t do shit about it.
I need sponsorship…
I will send (possibly even hand deliver) a random bottle of wine from my wine collection every month for one full year, to the person or family that sponsors me to go to the 2011 Chicago Baconfest. I need only airfare, hotel, and entry fee covered. I of course will strive to return with the greatest in bacon wares to share with my friends. I would also be willing to take a video camera to record the awesomeness that is Baconfest.
As a bonus, if I receive full sponsorship from one person/family I would wear a shirt/hat/other representing their favorite sports team/college while at Baconfest.
Iranian cleric: Promiscuous women cause quakes
BEIRUT – A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.
Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric’s unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.
On a related note: Iranian clerics are known to cause millions of religious zealots to continue living in the dark ages.
I have a small beef….
STFU!!! That’s not what I meant you a-holes!
So…I love ALMOST everything about the new webhost. But what kind of hosting management tool doesn’t have directory re-direction? Seriously! How lame is it that I had to add a meta refresh tag to the index.html page at my web root in order to re-direct to the blog?
We’ve changed hosts!
After nearly 10 years with the same hosting company, and without ever being offered a cheaper rate (even when their packages all got cheaper…thanks for grandfathering me in!) I have finally found a hosting plan that takes payment in decent wine. THAT is the sorta payment plan that make complete sense to me…
So, we have switched hosts and this one is the knees of the bee.
Now that Jasoneley.net is at a new home, it is high time a give a little thought to what the content might be going forward. Rest assured, there will still be plenty of bacon related posts. Probably some posts where we have dubbed english subtitles over bad 70’s Bollywood clips. And perhaps ever a return of pictures of stickfigures with boobies. I’m just sayin’ <– wtf does that mean?
Oh, and this means all you followers of jasoneley.net will have to create new accounts if you want to comment, cause I am just too lazy to be concerned with the whole porting of databases and crap like that…I do THAT shit all day, for a fuck-ton more money than when I’m sittin around the house getting loaded on wine and ranting about god knows what…
