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California Measure Would Align Building Rules With Feng Shui
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Posted on 01/30/2004 2:43:36 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Sir Gawain
More silliness from the California State Legislature. See what happens when you leave liberals in charge?
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:44:34 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Sir Gawain
We might feel better about this if if we didn't know that fung schwey and water witches are the same.
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:45:42 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Sir Gawain
I looked on the internet trying to find exactly what feng shui was but could not find out. Is it common sense things like not having big west facing windows in hot climates or just what?
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:49:41 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Sir Gawain
The California Building Code is already a joke today! I'm re-doing my kitchen, and the Cal Bldg Code requires that the overhead lighting be flourescent. When I asked the building inspector if this was because of fire safety, he said "No, it's a state electricity conservation measure - and their trying to change it so that ALL overhead lighting in your house has to be flourescent".
To: goldstategop
Liberals, God bless 'em.
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:50:17 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(I don't belong to no organized political party. I'm a Republycan.)
To: Sir Gawain
ATTENTION ACLU!!! SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE AOOOOOGAAAAA!!!!
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:50:49 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Ditter
It's crazy stuff like: don't have your front door facing a church, don't paint your front door a certain color, arrange the trees in your front yard in a certain geometric shape, etc...
To: So Cal Rocket
Liberals are obssessed with making sure every one is in harmony... so they come with a hare brained idea like this.
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:52:22 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: So Cal Rocket
Buy super duper cheap POS surface mount flo fixtures. Hang them for inspection, and then swap them out after final.
In addition to kitchens, you must use flo lights in bathroom, closets and laundry rooms as primary light source.
The trick is to have your sparky run the feeds such that it routes for any future layouts for conventional or halogen fixtures. Do loop coils over each future location and go to the next location. Terminate this looping run at your flo fixture. Fire that up for the goon on inspection.
Its a snap then after final to ditch the flo, cut in the cans, warm 'em up and shazam...your bathing in the finest 4ow halogen gas light known to man...
Screw the inpsector.
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:55:41 PM PST
by
antaresequity
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/)
To: Ditter
Fung schwey is related to whether buildings and machinery are of a form so that people can use them without getting caught in the gears. That is, do you have to step over piles of old WSJs every time you enter or leave the room?
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:57:36 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: So Cal Rocket
Do they give a practical reason for these things? Or is just someones preference from 1000 years ago that has become a rule?
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:59:16 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: antaresequity
I'm doing something very similar to what you suggested... and guess where the idea came from - the inspector himself!! He said just hook up the flo to pass inspection - he doesn't care what I do after he leaves!
I think he feels the same way about the "Green" laws built into the Building Code - he's just interested in the Safety items.
To: antaresequity
"Buy super duper cheap POS surface mount flo fixtures. Hang them for inspection, and then swap them out after final." Lots of ways to screw the Codes guy. This is one of the best. You don't need a Codes inspection when you replace a fixture with another fixture, so they'll never know.
When I used to install phone systems on-site, we frequently had to deal with Mr. Codes. Lots of stuff got done after he'd greened us.
Nowadays, I don't have to mess with them. I sell the Avaya phone systems via the 'Net and the customers get to install them and --- mess with Mr. Codes.
Michael
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:01:27 PM PST
by
Wright is right!
(Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
To: Sir Gawain
Since Feng Shui has close ties to Daoism, can't this be forbidden under "separation of church and state" doctrine? Or does that only apply to Christianity?
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:01:49 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: RightWhale
Like door ways that even fat people can get thru? Stairs that have the right size steps, not like at the movies where thay are too deep for one step but not deep enough for two?
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:04:01 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
Yeah! Movie theater steps are terribly deficient in fung schwey.
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:05:42 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Ditter
Is it common sense things like not having big west facing windows in hot climates or just whatI'm no expert but my opinion is tht it's common sense mixed with superstition.
.Things like not having your house at the end of a dead end road. For us, that's obvious in order to avoid someone driving into your house. For feng sui, it's because the evil spirits are a bit dumb, uncoordinated and can't turn well so they will tend to miss sharp turns and continue in a generally straight line. You don't want that line to lead into your house. It turns out, that dumb spirits and inattentive drivers have much in common.
If you do happen to live at the end of a dead end street, your house would have bad feng sui, there are things you could do to improve the feng sui such as planting a barrier of trees and dense shrubs. That green barrier would tend to deflect the evil spirits from traveling off the road and into your house. Naturally, that green barrier also prevents car lights and inatentive drivers from running off the road and into your house.
A house that otherwise has good feng sui could have bad feng sui if it had a large tree up close and blocking the view into and out of the front door. To improve the houses feng sui, you would remove that tree. Interestingly enough, most houses tend to have trees and greenery to the sides so as to obscure the view of the side walls when seen from the front. The effect is to make the house look larger and more asthetically pleasing. In feng sui, this is done to channel good spirits into the front door of the home.
It goes on and one. Some of it is plain common sense, some of it is superstition.
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:12:13 PM PST
by
fso301
To: goldstategop
Yep, you can require compliance with Easter Mysticism, yet ban anything Christian....
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:15:02 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com)
To: Sir Gawain
Ommmmmmmm.......Ommmmmmm.....Ommmmmmm
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:17:34 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Some days you're the windshield; some days you're the bug)
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