Comments on: Fire http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 00:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kenny Easwaran http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183378 Kenny Easwaran Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:47:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183378 For a more entertaining look at the same events, look <a HREF="http://tar.weatherson.org/2007/01/05/apa-hotel-fire/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. For a more entertaining look at the same events, look here.

]]> By: e http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183356 e Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:09:57 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183356 That's "I" before "E" except after "C" and except after neighbor and weight? Okay, I got it. You academics make me nervous. I feel the need to be linguistically perfect ha! That’s “I” before “E” except after “C” and except after neighbor and weight? Okay, I got it.

You academics make me nervous. I feel the need to be linguistically perfect ha!

]]> By: e http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183348 e Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:09:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183348 I don't like the term "dead wieght building cost" sprinklers save lives and property as in the aforementioned case. In financial terms sprinklers are not that expensive $1.30 to $2.00 per square foot for a system. If a fire does break out in a sprinklered building your looking at substantially less in property loss in financial terms. I don’t like the term “dead wieght building cost” sprinklers save lives and property as in the aforementioned case.

In financial terms sprinklers are not that expensive $1.30 to $2.00 per square foot for a system. If a fire does break out in a sprinklered building your looking at substantially less in property loss in financial terms.

]]> By: Michael Mouse http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183343 Michael Mouse Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:50:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183343 Should've known it was later corruption. I stand corrected! (Unless there's a fire, in which case I walk corrected, briskly but without panic, in the direction of the nearest designated fire exit.) Should’ve known it was later corruption. I stand corrected!

(Unless there’s a fire, in which case I walk corrected, briskly but without panic, in the direction of the nearest designated fire exit.)

]]> By: Matt http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183332 Matt Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:21:00 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183332 MM- the actual ine from Holmes's opinion says that one should not be able to _falsely_ shout fire in a croweded theatre. People often forget that part, but it's they who are dumb, not (in this case, anyway) the original. MM- the actual ine from Holmes’s opinion says that one should not be able to falsely shout fire in a croweded theatre. People often forget that part, but it’s they who are dumb, not (in this case, anyway) the original.

]]> By: Michael Mouse http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183304 Michael Mouse Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:25:38 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183304 On a slight tangent, there's all that debate about free speech (an obvious CT topic) that seizes on the example of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. I've always thought that the moral analysis often fails to address the key question: whether the theatre is, in fact, on fire. On a slight tangent, there’s all that debate about free speech (an obvious CT topic) that seizes on the example of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre.

I’ve always thought that the moral analysis often fails to address the key question: whether the theatre is, in fact, on fire.

]]> By: Kelly http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183291 Kelly Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:06:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183291 Ack - I popped over via the RSS feed to make a tongue in cheek comment about Cohen, without knowing who'd authored this post. Definitely hooraying fire codes! Ack – I popped over via the RSS feed to make a tongue in cheek comment about Cohen, without knowing who’d authored this post. Definitely hooraying fire codes!

]]> By: JRoth http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/comment-page-1/#comment-183281 JRoth Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:06:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/04/fire/#comment-183281 Fire marshals and the like often claim that no lives have ever been lost to fire in a sprinklered building (WTC now representing a rather exceptional exception). I don't know if it's true, but I've never heard it debunked, either. Sprinklers are expensive and rather a dead weight building cost, but they're also effective as all hell. Fire marshals and the like often claim that no lives have ever been lost to fire in a sprinklered building (WTC now representing a rather exceptional exception). I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve never heard it debunked, either. Sprinklers are expensive and rather a dead weight building cost, but they’re also effective as all hell.

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