Because the power of the contract is so large, it is restricted, both entering and dissolving. The restrictions have usually been bigoted. Enforcing social norms through law. Banning blacks from marrying whites, gays, peasants, and other groups have been targeted as well.

It'll never happen. How does the ICU at the hospital keep mere acquaintances out of sensitive areas, while balancing the "right" of family to visit. If the government wasn't in marriage in any way, you could marry everyone in your town, so anyone you know would have the right to visit you in the ER, and any of the thousands of other rights and powers coded in law or policy to married people. It's not just taxes.

There is a Gay Agenda. Those Gays want to be able to walk the streets without being tied to the back of a pickup and dragged until dead, or left for dead, just because someone is offended by their manerisms. That's an agenda. I think that rather than "hide" the agenda, the gays should own it. "Yes we have an agenda, we want to e treated like humans."

So long as the government is expected to arbitrate the terms of contracts, there is no such thing as a private contract. I can't privately contract myself into slavery, of for sex for hire, or a large number of things, for various reasons. Private contracts don't exist, until such time as the government abolishes all human rights, so they aren't expected to step in for unfair, coerced, or otherwise illegal contracts.

Also, in this case, the public contract has been around so long that many laws have been written assuming it. "Family" law assumes and is built around government-approved marriages. To change marriage would change thousands of laws, with unknown and untested consequences.

So "toilet to tap" is the same thing we've been doing for a very long time. It's just a new word for the same thing, to make people hate their tap water, and adds no useful dinstinction or information to the conversation.

Got it. Thanks for confirming it's a useless buzzword used by pedants and markeing departments, with no technical meaning.

It means "wastewater into a shared waterway that's used for municipal water supply", the same as we've had for a very long time. Nothing new or useful.

Though it makes me wonder why some idiots are so passionate about a word with no meaning.

And yes, there's no functional difference when I'm drinking the water from a toilet in Gainsville, vs from a toilet in Dallas when I'm in Dallas. Both are drinking toilet water. Both are from a toilet to the tap.

So, there is no such device?

The windows ones were less successful, which is why it has a functional, as well as form-factor meaning. A Windows 8 device with 16 GB or ram, quad-core i7, and big SSD isn't a "netbook" no matter what the form factor. "netbook" means small, cheap, and with only the power to surf the web. So the powerful small devices are called tablets, convertables, or ultrabooks, depending on the form factor, but never netbooks.

You look to be clinging to the "original" definition of them, that was form-factor driven, not the actual use of the word, which has evolved as devices evolved.

Then give a definition, rather than telling me mine is wrong. 99% of the jackasses who do that would argue with any definition I give, so there's no point in me wasting my time.

I get it, you are the self-appointed guardian of "toilet to tap" and argue with anyone who uses that phrase.

The UK is anti-immigration, and has been for a long time. I was surprised when I saw them join, knowing it opened their borders to all EU citizens. I've since seen many complaints in the UK media and elsewhere about the level, numbers and types of people entering the UK for work.

It pulls primarily from reservoirs that are man-made dammings of the Trinity River.

Where does Gainsville put its waste? Where does Dallas draw most of its water (previously nearly all)?

Yes, I'm over-simplifying slightly when I consider a wide, slow section of the Trinity River to be the Trinity River, but Louisville Lake is the Trinity River, just dammed and slowed. And waste is thrown in that river, and drinking water is take from it.

You've not contradicted me, just argued with me. Why are you being contentious over something you didn't even really disagree on?

He would have been better off helping himself to free coffee until the wankers fixed their system.

So what you're saying is that those who designed the SR-71 were mediocre and those who sponsored it were a mix of geniuses, idiots and anything in-between?

If you're on the top end of a bell curve, your possible deviation is as low as it can be. You are mediocre, belonging to the largest segment of the population.

If you're at the bottom end of a bell curve, your possible deviation is as high as it can be. There's no telling. You may be a genius or you might be an idiot.

Anyhow, what's pretty clear is that most of those who designed and sponsored the SR-71 are dead.

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Wikipedia disagrees with you. Feel free to correct Wikipedia, but for now, I'll take their word over yours.

Maybe because when they ask, all the luddites are jackasses about it and can't articulate a single problem with them. So far the only complaint I've seen is that they help concentrate other pollution. If there was no other pollution, they'd be harmless is the implication. So why focus on a catalyst, and not the problem? IF they have a negative, why can't the luddites share it, rather than insulting anyone who asks about them?

Then how do cities like New Orleans do it? The get at least some of their water from the Mississippi, and there's a lot of waste added to that along the way.

Dallas pulls from the Trinity River (less now than when it was founded, at least percentage-wise). It does pump the water into some city resevoirs, which are then used as settling tanks. The only problem with that is White Rock Lake needed millions of dollars of dredging, as the lake became more and more shallow. Though that wasn't the Trinity. They dammed that and used Lake Dallas as the settling tank (now known as Lewisville Lake, though the naming isn't always consistent). And Lake Ray Roberts is upstream of that. Not sure what the percentages of drinking water from each, but it's well filtered after. White Rock Lake is less filtered than Lake Dallas. Maybe that's because Gainsville dumps waste into the river, which needs more filtering, or maybe it's related to the rules that allow motor vehicles on Lake Dallas, but not White Rock Lake.

Toilet to tap is common. Most of the water I've drunk was toilet to tap. Only when I moved to Alaska were the main sources of water pure mountain streams that are more pure at the start of the purification process than the ideal tap water in most places. The main treatment is to clean the natural organisms out of the water.