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[Isgrimnur]

It’s his land. It’s not his water.

[Unagi]

I was talking to my friend about him getting some rain barrels and collecting rainwater for his garden. Come to find out its illegal in his county to collect rainwater. How nuts is that?? He said he should charge the county a fee for all the rainwater they get from his land.

Can't he just delay its return to the ground?

[Daehawk]

Id do it anyways. Im that way.

[KDH]

... Come to find out its illegal in his county to collect rainwater.

From .. Rain water harvesting and ...

As of March 22, 2014; after hours of ongoing research for the past year, I have checked all 50 state government websites and found that, with the exception of Colorado and Nevada, there is currently no state government law in the U.S. that considers rainwater harvesting by individuals (home owners) in a direct manor and bluntly, “against the law” for anyone and everyone and furthermore, “government” is not becoming “more restrictive with rain water harvesting”

note: 2 years later, he mentions Colorado being legal

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And ... Tennessee

Update August 8, 2013 Regarding Tennessee: ... I have found absolutely nothing on the Tennessee gov’t website to indicate that rain barrels or rain water harvesting by individuals is against the law. Above 50,000 gallons per day is mentioned as the lower limit at which any amount above requires a permit. This is in regards to ground water. Surface water is covered in another regulation but, the regulation does not mention rain water, or rain barrels. 50,000 gallons a day is wwwwaaaaaaayyyyyy more than anyone will ever collect in a rain barrel or even 100 rain barrels in 1 day. Read the info at the links provided above, and search the Tennessee gov’t website. If anyone finds “regulations” or “Tennessee water laws” making rain barrels or rain water harvesting below 50,000 gallons per day illegal, please post the link here. Rainwater harvesting and rain barrels are, in fact, encouraged in the city of Knoxville in conjunction with the University of Tennessee.

Outlaw rain barrels and only outlaws will collect rainwater .... wait .. that sounded better in my head


Tell your buddy, that when they show up and shoot him, not to come running to me

[dbt1949]

My D-I-L made steak fries last night for her and her husband.
I could not believe how much ketchup she put on her plate. Somewhere between 1/4 and a 1/2 cup!

[LordMortis]

My D-I-L made steak fries last night for her and her husband.
I could not believe how much ketchup she put on her plate. Somewhere between 1/4 and a 1/2 cup!

1/4 cup for what volume of steak fries? A 1/4 cup is like monkey dish sized and I had a basket of steak fries, a monkey dish of fri flavoring lubricant is nothing. Be that ranch, ketchup, mustard, mayo, au jous, gravy, cheese and sour cream, you name it. Nothing! NOTHING!!!!

[dbt1949]

I'm talking 4 1/2 fries here. This is a woman we're talking about.

[KDH]

I could not believe how much ketchup she put on her plate. Somewhere between 1/4 and a 1/2 cup!

Ketchup is 25% Sugar



Washington Post

* ... A tablespoon-size serving has four grams of sugar, which is more sugar than a typical chocolate chip cookie.

* ... Back in the ’80s, the Reagan administration proposed counting ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches. This idea didn’t survive long because critics rightly claimed that ketchup is not a vegetable. Vegetables don’t come in a container in which 25 percent of the product is sugar.

[Isgrimnur]

Grapes come in at 16.7% sugar.

[wonderpug]

Grapes come in at 16.7% sugar.

A sugarcane has about 12-16% sugar!

[KDH]

the human head weighs ten pounds

[LordMortis]

Grapes come in at 16.7% sugar.

Grapes aren't veggies either. So then you broke me and I had to check. The best page one google search on corn I could find in 20 seconds or less:

http://qa.answers.com/Q/What_percent_of_corn_is_sugar

Site I can't verify says corn (sweetcorn) is 9=14% sugar.
But also states that supersweet corn is up to 44% and I can only assume supersweet is grown for ethanol and HFCS.

Corn is still a veggie, right?

[stessier]

Corn is still a veggie, right?

No, it is a grain.

Edit: Google says it is not so clear because the definition of a vegetable is pretty loose.

[LordMortis]

No, it is a grain.

Dammit!

Which leads to the question

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... +vegetable

[Blackhawk]

And there is a distinct difference between natural sugar content (like grapes) and refined sugar (like ketchup.)

[Isgrimnur]

Of course.

[Kasey Chang]

USPS tracking info website died sometime this afternoon. Getting an AK-1213 error.

Coincidentally, a USPS shipment that was promised YESTERDAY to arrive did NOT arrive, nor did it arrive today. And I can't track it either.

[Gateguard]

Did you see the banner at the top of the USPS website? :

Alert: As of April 30, USPS.com no longer supports outdated browsers. To continue access, you may need to upgrade your browser. Read more on checking your browser version›

Also Googled the error you received; check this out: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1200480

[Daehawk]

Sent a birthday package to a different state Monday USPS and it arrived Tuesday.

[Kasey Chang]

I am using the latest chrome, and Antivirus AND firewall disabled (for 10 minutes only)

AND it worked yesterday with no changes.

EDIT: Firefox didn't work either.

EDIT: Nor did mobile browser on my phone.

[LordMortis]

EDIT: Firefox didn't work either.

EDIT: Nor did mobile browser on my phone.

Same connection? It's your routing equipment, routing, or the USPS

googling the error you posted this was my first hit and it looks like it's them.

http://downdetector.com/status/usps

[Kasey Chang]

Now the tracking is working again, so it was their problem.

It also says that it took 4 days to go from San Jose (1 hour away) and it's STILL not delivered. It was "shipped" (accepted at USPS facility) at May 21 8:33PM. It arrived in USPS San Francisco at May 22 8:11AM, but it didn't arrive in "local post office" until May 24th 3:06AM, then again at 10AM (!?) and apparently it's still out there. *sigh*

[Kraken]

USPS tracking info website died sometime this afternoon. Getting an AK-1213 error.

Coincidentally, a USPS shipment that was promised YESTERDAY to arrive did NOT arrive, nor did it arrive today. And I can't track it either.

Unless you paid for Priority Express, it was not "promised." Priority Mail delivery dates are estimates. They're accurate about 75% of the time, in my experience as someone who's shipped about 14,000 packages. Of course nobody knows that so the shipper gets the grief when USPS is "late." I've heard "I paid for 2-day shipping" thousands of times. No you didn't. You paid for priority mail shipping. And by "priority", USPS means "ordinary."

[Z-Corn]

the human head weighs ten pounds

If that was veal how much would it be worth?

https://youtu.be/0Jkm6aYYdB8?t=2m55s

[Blackhawk]

More and more often I see companies (including Amazon) using the USPS intermediary services. I despise them. The usual timeline is:

Day 1: Package is marked as shipped. Tracking number is given. USPS says, "Waiting for package."
Day 2: USPS still waiting for package. I dig deeper and find they used an intermediary.
Day 7 through Day 11 - somewhere in there, a week or more after it was shipped, the intermediary hands the package to the USPS.
Two days later the package is delivered.

These services turn two day shipping into two week shipping with no tracking. Every time.

[pr0ner]

I don't think Amazon uses USPS for last mile delivery for Prime deliveries, at least in my area.

[Vorret]

I need to vent.

I'm not often angry but this is pissing me off. A co-worker who's always late (like between 15-45 minutes daily) asked to have his lunch hour cut by 30 minutes so he can recoup the hours since he's late in the morning.

It was approved for some unknown reasons.

He never works on his lunch break, takes the fullll hour to either talk about games or watch video about games. What pisses me off the most is that he works less hours than me overall but is paid MORE since he gets a "free" 2 hours and 30 minutes added every week.

I'm seriously fucking pissed and I'm not sure if I should snitch (I don't like stitches). I already disliked that person but now I'm verging on hate and it's seriously making me hate my job right now.

Vent over.

[LordMortis]

I need to vent.

I'm not often angry but this is pissing me off. A co-worker who's always late (like between 15-45 minutes daily) asked to have his lunch hour cut by 30 minutes so he can recoup the hours since he's late in the morning.

It was approved for some unknown reasons.

He never works on his lunch break, takes the fullll hour to either talk about games or watch video about games. What pisses me off the most is that he works less hours than me overall but is paid MORE since he gets a "free" 2 hours and 30 minutes added every week.

I'm seriously fucking pissed and I'm not sure if I should snitch (I don't like stitches). I already disliked that person but now I'm verging on hate and it's seriously making me hate my job right now.

Vent over.

I feel your pain. It took me years to internalize that every employee has their own relationship with their employer and their relationship is none of my business unless deceptions causes a problem with my ability properly be the cog I was hired to be. There are tons and tons and tons of inequality around my office. I get the same paycheck. Whether person A spends 20 hours a week dealing with family problems or not. If her dealing with family problems causes me to not fulfill a promise, details to the best of my official capacity go into the email. If she puts in nearly a 1000 hours a year less to do worse work for more money. Well, that's here arrangement. Her arrangement is not on my check. It probably took me five years of tempest in teapot to really internalize that apathy.

So I both feel for you and hope you find a way to make it all work out.


I will also note that my internalizing that apathy was pretty much deciding factor between who stayed and who went when layoffs happened. I'm not sure who the winner was all these stressful years later.

[Vorret]

Great insight, thanks, time will help for sure!

[Blackhawk]

I don't think Amazon uses USPS for last mile delivery for Prime deliveries, at least in my area.

Not Prime, and not Amazon themselves. It's all the third party through Amazon vendors that have been doing it lately.

[pr0ner]

I don't think Amazon uses USPS for last mile delivery for Prime deliveries, at least in my area.

Not Prime, and not Amazon themselves. It's all the third party through Amazon vendors that have been doing it lately.

Oh, yeah, this is why I will only order from 3rd party vendors that utilize Prime shipping.

[Kraken]

I need to vent.

I'm not often angry but this is pissing me off. A co-worker who's always late (like between 15-45 minutes daily) asked to have his lunch hour cut by 30 minutes so he can recoup the hours since he's late in the morning.

It was approved for some unknown reasons.

He never works on his lunch break, takes the fullll hour to either talk about games or watch video about games. What pisses me off the most is that he works less hours than me overall but is paid MORE since he gets a "free" 2 hours and 30 minutes added every week.

I'm seriously fucking pissed and I'm not sure if I should snitch (I don't like stitches). I already disliked that person but now I'm verging on hate and it's seriously making me hate my job right now.

Vent over.

I would make sure that I, too, took a full hour for lunch every day. It's not so much that he's getting away with something as that you're working through lunch and then resenting him for not doing the same.

Chronic lateness is a separate issue between him and his boss, and it sounds like they worked that out.

[LordMortis]

I would make sure that I, too, took a full hour for lunch every day. It's not so much that he's getting away with something as that you're working through lunch and then resenting him for not doing the same.

Chronic lateness is a separate issue between him and his boss, and it sounds like they worked that out.

I used to be this way. It just fed the anger at things I have no control over. In that sort of instance I would feel the spite in the extra time took off instead of enjoying it, essentially just punishing myself and then I'd feel angry at rushing myself for the time I lost taking the extra lunch time...

I got issues...

[Vorret]

I need to vent.

I'm not often angry but this is pissing me off. A co-worker who's always late (like between 15-45 minutes daily) asked to have his lunch hour cut by 30 minutes so he can recoup the hours since he's late in the morning.

It was approved for some unknown reasons.

He never works on his lunch break, takes the fullll hour to either talk about games or watch video about games. What pisses me off the most is that he works less hours than me overall but is paid MORE since he gets a "free" 2 hours and 30 minutes added every week.

I'm seriously fucking pissed and I'm not sure if I should snitch (I don't like stitches). I already disliked that person but now I'm verging on hate and it's seriously making me hate my job right now.

Vent over.

I would make sure that I, too, took a full hour for lunch every day. It's not so much that he's getting away with something as that you're working through lunch and then resenting him for not doing the same.

Chronic lateness is a separate issue between him and his boss, and it sounds like they worked that out.

wow I hit quote instead of edit, good thing it's Friday

[Vorret]

I need to vent.

I'm not often angry but this is pissing me off. A co-worker who's always late (like between 15-45 minutes daily) asked to have his lunch hour cut by 30 minutes so he can recoup the hours since he's late in the morning.

It was approved for some unknown reasons.

He never works on his lunch break, takes the fullll hour to either talk about games or watch video about games. What pisses me off the most is that he works less hours than me overall but is paid MORE since he gets a "free" 2 hours and 30 minutes added every week.

I'm seriously fucking pissed and I'm not sure if I should snitch (I don't like stitches). I already disliked that person but now I'm verging on hate and it's seriously making me hate my job right now.

Vent over.

I would make sure that I, too, took a full hour for lunch every day. It's not so much that he's getting away with something as that you're working through lunch and then resenting him for not doing the same.

Chronic lateness is a separate issue between him and his boss, and it sounds like they worked that out.

oops double post

[Vorret]

I need to vent.

I'm not often angry but this is pissing me off. A co-worker who's always late (like between 15-45 minutes daily) asked to have his lunch hour cut by 30 minutes so he can recoup the hours since he's late in the morning.

It was approved for some unknown reasons.

He never works on his lunch break, takes the fullll hour to either talk about games or watch video about games. What pisses me off the most is that he works less hours than me overall but is paid MORE since he gets a "free" 2 hours and 30 minutes added every week.

I'm seriously fucking pissed and I'm not sure if I should snitch (I don't like stitches). I already disliked that person but now I'm verging on hate and it's seriously making me hate my job right now.

Vent over.

I would make sure that I, too, took a full hour for lunch every day. It's not so much that he's getting away with something as that you're working through lunch and then resenting him for not doing the same.

Chronic lateness is a separate issue between him and his boss, and it sounds like they worked that out.

Oh I'm not working on my lunch break.
But I'm not paid for the full hour either.
He's paid for 30 minutes out of the hour but he doesn't work the 30 minutes.

[Anonymous Bosch]

I was talking to my friend about him getting some rain barrels and collecting rainwater for his garden. Come to find out its illegal in his county to collect rainwater. How nuts is that?? He said he should charge the county a fee for all the rainwater they get from his land.

Sadly, that's what government does best; confiscates your rights, only to sell them back to you.

[LordMortis]

This one goes out to hepcat

[Default]

More and more often I see companies (including Amazon) using the USPS intermediary services. I despise them. The usual timeline is:

Day 1: Package is marked as shipped. Tracking number is given. USPS says, "Waiting for package."
Day 2: USPS still waiting for package. I dig deeper and find they used an intermediary.
Day 7 through Day 11 - somewhere in there, a week or more after it was shipped, the intermediary hands the package to the USPS.
Two days later the package is delivered.

These services turn two day shipping into two week shipping with no tracking. Every time.

Really depends on when Amazon drops them off at the station. If they get them there early enough for the clerks to sort them out to the routes (say, by 9am, or 930, depending on station management), they go out that day. If Amazon shows up, say 10, we are already out on the street. As I have mentioned before, none of our shipping partners want usps to look good.

[Kasey Chang]

Yeah, my pens FINALLY showed up (it was just dropped into my mailbox) probably by my regular mailguy at about 3:30PM.

And the shirt I "lost" back on Monday? it was stuffed between two other packages. I have a feeling I'll return this 40 dollar shirt. I ordered the wrong size (19 neck, I found out I actually wear 20 neck now). AND I'll probably have to take it in to be altered any way.