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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by noonespecial on Monday May 11, 2009 @12:57AM (#603002)
Except that apparently, forgiveness costs $500/day.
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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by jrockway on Monday May 11, 2009 @01:08AM (#603011)
And if she doesn't pay?

(The answer is: she gets in legal trouble, and the issue goes to a real court, with the possibility of appeals. Will three judges really think she can't use the water that lands on her roof?)

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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by noonespecial on Monday May 11, 2009 @01:30AM (#603030)
Will it cost her $350,000 to get that far?
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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by anamax on Monday May 11, 2009 @02:17PM (#603936)
> Will three judges really think she can't use the water that lands on her roof?

Odds are, yes.

What other laws do you want judges to ignore? On what basis? What are the odds that they'll only ignore the laws that you think that they should?

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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by jrockway on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:06PM (#604325)
It's a matter of correcting the faulty science that led to the current decision. If using water from your roof really deprived the "rights holders" of their water, then that's one thing. But it seems that that's not the case, even though that's what officials are telling her.

(Courts decide facts, not laws.)

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