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Xena
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« on: February 11, 2008, 07:16:52 AM » |
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Eventually I'm going to run out of web space. If I need to upgrade my account will I be paying the current rate for space at Amishhosting? I know I'm grandfathered in for my current account but what about people that need more space or new accounts?
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Paul Ding
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Re: pricing
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2008, 06:20:14 PM » |
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The term "grandfather clause" generally means an exemption that allows persons or entities to continue with an activity they were engaging in before it became illegal through a change in regulation.
These days, it's pretty innocuous. There is a law in Ohio that says you can't sell raw milk, but it has a grandfather clause that says anyone selling raw milk doesn't have to quit. I was buying raw milk from Young's Dairy in Yellow Springs, one of two licensed raw milk dairies in Ohio, in the early 1990s. Since that time, the state has strong-armed Young's and the other dairy into quitting.
You'll also find grandfather clauses on zoning ordinances. You can continue a nonconforming use, but you can't begin a nonconforming use.
According to a story in Reader's Digest I read back in the 1960s, there was a state health inspector that stopped at a gas station somewhere in the south - I can't remember where. When he visited the john, he found that there was a continuous-loop cloth towel machine, and it was positively filthy. He gave them a ticket, because those machines had been outlawed ten years earlier, but when they went to court, the judge let the gas station off because the towel hadn't been removed for laundering since the machine was installed 15 years earlier.
Grandfather clauses got a bad reputation because a clause in the constitutions of several southern states before the year 1915, intended to disfranchise African Americans by exempting from stringent voting requirements all lineal descendants of persons who were registered voters before 1867. The Supreme Court struck down those laws about the same time that they decided poll taxes were illegal - sometime in the LBJ administration.
Just another case of grandfathers getting no respect - and on top of that, they're usually married to grandmothers. Boy, what a raw deal! If it wasn't for getting to play with the grandkids, then send them home with their parents, it would hardly be worth being a grandfather....
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dlilahl
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Re: pricing
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2008, 06:41:02 PM » |
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LOVE THOSE PAUL DING expressions "playing with the grandchildren then sending them home"...comes with expert knowledge from a loveable father.
lila
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