Yes, I'll start worrying about pleasure boat waste when I start seeing fish wearing diapers.
On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:00:26PM -0400, Ed Kelly wrote: >> Phil has a good question... but what's the alternative? >> Self reporting when you are in violation of the law? >> Let's be real. > > OK, let's be real, then. The reality is that human waste dumped by > pleasure boats is an incalculably small fraction of that dumped by any > large city (anyone thinking that cities don't do this should look up > the > meaning - and the frequency of occurrence - of the bland term > "Combined > Sewer Overflow".) The "alternative" would be for the politicians to > stop > using the specter of us "rich boaters" "destroying the environment". > If > they got off that hobby horse, it wouldn't be an issue - for us, for > the > Coast Guard, or for anyone else. > > Now, if you're saying "let's buy into the idea that politicians have > to > be appeased, and the police should have the right to do anything they > want to you", then asking for alternatives is a joke. There wouldn't > be > any. I don't believe things have quite reached that point yet. > > > > -- > OKOPNIK CONSULTING > Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business > Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming > 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
