California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes

Re:California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes by ajross on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:16PM (#17034159)

Likewise the perfect is the enemy of the good. Having an idea of what a perfect regulation would be means that you end up arguing against helpful regulations because they don't meet your standards for "good idea".

Your point isn't incorrect, but it's at best misplaced and mistimed. You should have been yelling about this when the law was being written, not now that it's passed. To those of us who care about the subject, your pedantry is harmful, not helpful.

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Re:California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes by donatj on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:41PM (#17034414)

Laws that are merely "good" hurt innocent people and ruin lives. Never settle for "good" when it comes to law.

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Re:California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes by rileymat2 on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:17PM (#17034693)

I have trouble thinking of many perfect laws.

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Re:California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes by donatj on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:35PM (#17035230)

Precisely.

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Re:California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes by stale2002 on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:29PM (#17034296)

Most people only hear about terrible laws until after they have passed.

If a bad law is bad, we should definitely continue to criticize it, if only for the purpose of influencing FUTURE laws.

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Re:California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes by ajross on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:40PM (#17034404)

Fine, but the argument above didn't seem to paint this as a "terrible" law, just a suboptimal one. If you want to argue that it's terrible, feel free. My view is that it achieves a valuable goal with relatively low cost (but not free) and few (but non-zero) inconvenient side effects.

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