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Subject: Re: Re: Palo Alto, employers, showers. - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 18:40:47 EDT
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inmet!wisen    Aug 24 12:01:00 1983

   Don:
  Governments require sprinkler systems in new buildings, and sometimes
old buildings, because there might be fires.   Governments require all sorts
of things that might not be neccessary.  And where government does not require
something, and things go awry, people (or newspapers) frequently cry out
"Why doesn't the government do something!?"  [ I'm thinking of AIDS hysteria
right now].   Whether or not the government has the right to require anything
is a subject for net.politics.   I'm only concerned with whether or not Palo 
Alto has done something pragmatically good for itself.
   I also dislike expensive regulations which force companies out of business.
   Does anybody out there have the facts on the Palo Alto case, before we clog
up the network with half the hearsay?
--------Bruce Wisentaner