Reply to: Rain tax

[ThomasSoerensen]

500 dollars.

poor you, I am sorry to hear you have fallen on hard times.
If you give me your bank details I will send you my pocket change.

[Sysman]

I was reading a comment on an El Reg article about rain ownership today

Brian Miller Posted Monday 28th September 2009 14:44 GMT

There is a lot of rain water coming down that is simply let go. In Seattle, the government "owns" all the rain. Seriously, it is the law here. (could be a county ordinance, not sure) Anyways, if you catch rain water, doing so is illegal, and all due punishment will apply.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09...gear/comments/

Sounds crazy if true.

Many years ago and before water boards were privatised, a schoolmate's father tried generating electricity from a stream running through his land. The water board concerned wanted to charge him for using "their" water. They wanted so much that he ripped the equipment out.

[Scary]

I was reading a comment on an El Reg article about rain ownership today

Brian Miller Posted Monday 28th September 2009 14:44 GMT

There is a lot of rain water coming down that is simply let go. In Seattle, the government "owns" all the rain. Seriously, it is the law here. (could be a county ordinance, not sure) Anyways, if you catch rain water, doing so is illegal, and all due punishment will apply.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09...gear/comments/

Sounds crazy if true.

[DS23]

So, despite my performing apparently conscious acts..

it is that you are consciously acting in an uncharitable way that inclines people to believe that you are trying to provoke a reaction and thus are in fact the imaginary friend of a fiend.

[NotAllThere]

1. You don't seem to know what a sockpuppet is.
2. You don't recognise that the use of "fairness", implies irony
3. You don't recognise irony.

Therefore, you are either a septic, or a sockpuppet.

But if you're really not a sock puppet, don't take it to heart - just remember not take everything at face value.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

That would presume a real person - not one that's been made up.

So, despite my performing apparently conscious acts, you assert that I do not exist? What does that mean? Cogito, ergo sum.

"Does BIG BROTHER exist?" (asked Winston Smith)

"Of course he exists." (said O'Brien)

"Does he exist in the same way as I exist?"

"You do not exist," said O'Brien.

I admit that I am not using my real name. Is that a problem, Mr (or Ms) NotAllThere?

[NotAllThere]

Another argumentum ad hominem.

That would presume a real person - not one that's been made up.

[sweetandsour]

But the water company is not the local community, it's a business;

Back in the day, the provision of clean water was pursued for the public good.

The lack of it had previously been the cause of quite a high number of deaths as people moved from the countryside to the cities during the Industrial Revolution .....

[Tarquin Farquhar]

are these charities using the water that falls on their roofs?

No. That's why they have to pay for the drainage that takes it away.

[NickFitz]

So DP is outraged at the way the privatised water companies have been charging excessively for drainage, and therefore presumably is in favour of the Government's intention to force those companies to charge more fairly?

DP praise for NL - wonders will never cease

[original PM]

but is it not being found that a lot of surface drainage does not actually hit the drains - and although many people have been charged by their water companies for it over the past 20 years you will only be offered a refund on the past year?

but yes it is not a tax but a charge for a service so not really the numpty labores fault.

[DS23]

Another argumentum ad hominem.

are these charities using the water that falls on their roofs?

[Sysman]

Another end of month.

Kerching!

[Moscow Mule]

another dollar

500 dollars.

[BlackenedBiker]

another dollar