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How can you take the rain like that? Colorado's water rights laws are fucked up, totally deranged. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

this is a bigger than water rights. How can some people change the world when other people are working the system by playing stupid. This is a common trend today in many communities. Remember how AP is trying to figure out a way to charge for news that they get from the web. - Tweet Feeds

Another instance of government bureaucracy and regulation run amok! - Chuck Adams

+1 Chuck! You'd think that governments would be happy that people would take it on themselves to improve usage of an already scarce resource. Obviously that's not the case in Colorado. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Uggh, utter ridiculousness. While the case can be made that rain is a tributary to a stream, locking in rain on one person/entity? This is effectively a patent on nature - huge fail. - jcunwired

Oh the irony of environmentalists bemoaning the government telling them how they can & can't use their property. I guess the shoe is on the other foot now. - You.

This is as asnine as the city of Tampa fining a homeowner $100 for having an outside water fountain that kept recycling one gallon of water - BOTTLED WATER. http://u.nu/6365 - Sharon McPherson

She can't capture her water to water her plants because someone else at the end of the river wants to buy the water to water their plants. Go figure. - Andrew Leyden

*sigh* what will the next one be? Breathing too much oxygen? - Charlotte M

As a european i can only say, this is a joke, right? - Björn Fritz

As a Canadian I can only say it must be a joke ... - johnny

As a southern californian I can only say "what's rain?" - Steve C

Shockingly frustratingly stupid. Some municipalities like Toronto have even encouraged people to disconnect their downspouts from the storm sewers to cut down on the amount of rainwater that is unnecessarily contaminated by traveling through the sewers. Naturally filtered is the way to go. - Doug Slater

As an American I can only say this doesn't really surprise me. - mark

Our country is full of idiots. We survive in spite of them. - Dane Deasy

Haha, many would say the exact opposite, Beth ;-) I'm with you, though - feels like FF lost track initially and is playing catch up with trying to be a mix of other services. We'll see - but looks even noisier than Twitter as it stands. - Danny Brown

I see that now...threaded convos!! Wooohooo! Like I said, I am testing. ;-) - Beth Harte

I like the pic & vid preview integration vs. twitter. different animal, for sure. - Seth Gray

It's better than Twitter because of the like and share function. Twitter has fave but no one uses it. Also it allows you to post longer messages and add in lots of feed from your other services. Try adding the Friendfeed bookmarklet to your browser. You can find it at the bottom of the page in Tools & Widgets - Chris Johnston

I don't really see the point of using Friendfeed, but after getting dozens of requests, I thought I would try it out again too. - Tawny Press

The threaded comments are the thing. Plus, being able to 'Like' items and have them spread to Twitter automatically to share the love. There is significant potential using FriendFeed. However, I would suggest more personal research before trying to explain in it to a client since it would probably cause their head to explode. Cheers Beth. Looking forward to seeing you next week. - Richie Escovedo

I'm like you. I signed up months ago and didn't do much with it. However, ppl are starting to ask if I'm on FF more so I'm tipping my foot in again from time to time. I like the threaded convo piece. - Jeff Hurt

I tried it out last fall and didn't get a lot out of it, but I think more and more people are coming here now, and that is what it's all about. I'll follow the interesting conversation! Since they added "Find your Twitter Friends" a few months back it is much easier to transfer your contacts. - Sara

It's a refreshing break from twitter message stream flying by without too many folks listening. Here you can jump right in to a conversation and expect interaction which is wonderful - Mark Essel

the plurk-like threaded comments + the ability to post other media intrigue me. takes getting used to after twitter but I like it more and more each day - Jeremy Wiles

you don't have to follow thousands of people, follow a few super users that like often and you can see a lot of great information, you can follow anyone in this conversation by hovering over their name - Mark Essel

ACTUALLY it's a great way to pay attention to all the things in the people lives you care about, to participate in real-time longform discussions and find really interesting things in an expanded format that you would never have seen on Twitter. It's a different flavor of social network. Use it as so. If you want to use it as twitter, then create a Twitter section different from your home screen. - Damien Basile

an like twitter, click on the time tag to pop this conversation out into a new window - Mark Essel

I'm still trying to figure out why there's been such an uptick... what we NEED is a way to port group info. - Ike Pigott

I couldn't agree more, I'm still trying to find the big advantage of FriendFeed myself. - Todd Beane

I guess you don't want us to subscribe to your feed then? :-) - Achim Muellers

FriendFeed as Twitter lite? Never heard that. It's certainly not true. - Louis Gray

friendfeed takes a bit to get, kind of like how I sat on Twitter for over a year before I "got it." - Jason Nunnelley

I get the feeling FF is due for a big spike in popularity, there seems to a significant amount of people coming here to see what's going on... - Iain Baker

Twitter is straw, friendfeed is water main. - Alex Scoble

Beth.. Leave us a link to your group. I'd like to see what you're up to ;-) - Brad Williamson

Yeah, I'm with you, Beth. FriendFeed excited me at first, but the excitement wore off pretty quickly, when it didn't gain as much traction with other users as I thought. - Chris

If people pay attention here, then it is valuable. Otherwise, it is just another place to check. - Howard Yermish

I am crying UNCLE!! ;-) Okay, so FriendFeed is Twitter Max. I see that now after adding more folks and throwing out a question like the one above. See that, testing/playing helps... - Beth Harte

i took twitter out of FF, twitter updates weighted the same as blog posts doesn't jive - Paul Rj Muller