On 12.05.16 11:54, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
Do you own a house if banks can destroy your neighborhood by robo-signing forclosure documents that the residents can't afford to legally oppose?
Do you own a house if corporations own the roads, water, and electricity supplies and can cut off your entire neighborhood if it's not profitable or if there are mostly non-white people living there (IE Flint)?
Do you own a house if a corporation can pollute the air and give you a high probability of cancer if you choose to keep living there?
It is difficult to gain FOSS-type freedom for our residences, but utility independence is possible. I'm in the last throes of design of my tree-change strawbale solar-powered off-grid tank-water home. As no utilities are provided at the site, there are no related charges¹. OK, there's still rates, but four down (electricity, water, gas², telephone) is a good start. Admittedly, I'm quietly praying to Odin, Thor, Freja, and Sif, that the wireless internet out there will improve from basically adequate to good. The biggest freedom, though, is no-one else on my 3 sq. km. - just kangas, wombats, and possums. The kangas stop and hang about if you talk to them right. Erik ¹ Haven't been for the last 52 years, anyway. ² No service/supply charges, but there is bottle rental and a higher gas price for the little that is used for cooking when on-site firewood supplies provide all imaginable heating needs.