h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah I know but one more thing just occurred to me.

Since America gained her territory mostly through fraud or deception, the title to the land is clouded to say the least. Therefore, anyone living on or utilizing that land other than native people are squatters.

They don't live in cardboard shacks of course which probably makes them appear to be some of the most successful squatters in history but they're still squatters even if they think they bought the land from the original thieves and had the titles cleared by the original liars.

And the way they're squandering resources they'll probably end up in cardboard shacks pretty soon anyways, which means there won't be no Third World anymore because everywhere will be the Third World, except for the gated compounds reserved for the rich and powerful.

So congratulations, Squatters. I hope you're as proud of yourselves as I am.

Maybe you should drop by the flea market and buy some more stolen property huh? Just somebody else's misfortune ain't it? Nothing you need to be concerned about, assuming of course you even have the capacity to be concerned about anything other than your own precious asses, donkeyherders through and through and more jacks than jennys I bet in keeping with the theory of the inherent superiority of old white guys.

Now, I'm not preaching okay? I'm just trying to be as sarcastic and offensive as you, only it's harder than I thought so I definitely need the practice. Bear with me okay? Maybe even spot me a few points until I get the hang of it.

Squatters. Hmm sounds right!
That IS how a lot of it started.
So certainly points given for the concept
Wise WMI -
It's easier communicated when explaining the other guys problem to them(offending ones), using their terms.

I didn't mean you, Abbi. Why is it you're the only one who reads this stuff and you don't need to?

I'm just pissed off, which I'm told is better than being pissed on but I've been there done that already too.

Those that need to hear this stuff don't listen anyways. Why oh why oh why?

If you want to read something interesting, makes me wonder about using your WMI name I have for you.
Read the last post -just made in the "How come" thread under introduction. It's about an article a guy was reading in a bookstore not the main story I quoted from but another.

Maybe people will follow me here occasionally you never know who is lurking quietly. Or tripping and falling into your lair.
Besides, I do learn things from you! And I am always grateful for a story.

I've always had a problem with that, too.
They talk about animal populations having to be culled or harvested because they outgrow their food supply and their boundaries...
Why is it that humans are allowed to reproduce to the point of actually threatening their own health?

Animals protect their territory from others of their own species, because other species often function in an entirely different niche.
Maybe humans have something to learn from Darwin's finches?

I think the ultimate blasphemy is apartments. They cover vast stretches of ground and pack hundreds of strangers into tiny cells.

A certain number of people should consitute a community. A community should look out for it's members.
A bunch of strangers crammed in together by adversity or stupidity is just an accident waiting to happen.
We've had three destructive apartment complex fires within the last 34 days here in Temple.
The Red Cross is almost bankrupt.
At least one of the fires was caused by a grease fire on a stove.
One fire is bad.
Two is a trend.
Three is simply a symptom of madness.

This is, of course, what comes from cooking indoors.

Yeah, you got it, Mr. Revenge. Of course the real problem with cooking indoors is that people try to do it without a smokehole.

The other problem they have is with indoor plumbing which frequently gets torn out and sold to support a habit or it leaks, not a sanitary situation.

I agree wholeheartedly with everything said in this thread.

Take the new housing situation in Britain. Millions of houses and apratment blocks are built every year in insular suburban locations with no shops nearby, no places for kids to play because the countryside is covered with these horrible houses. The houses' value is only based upon the housing market prices and not the materials and work actually done and used in the contruction - they are built mostly from cheap bricks and plasterboard, you can put your hand straight through the walls with little effort, you can hear everything going on in the house - there's no privacy to speak of. The same huge construction companies build them all and have their customers by the legal short and curlies if anything goes wrong because they contract out a lot of the work thus ridding themselves of any legal comeback. They are built in the wrong materials for the British climate and suffer dampness, rot and need repairing every few years. It is a f*cking racket!!!! And the government supports them!!!!!

Now, I have two uncles who are both architects and they know just what a racdket it is. I've talked with them about how houses should really be built and I've got plans for when I can afford to build my own place which will be cheap, create its own power and not spoil the land it's built on. The only thing keeping me from doing it is the ridiculous price of land whcih means that most of the people who CAN afford to build their own house and buy the land to do it on are the people who have been raping the capitalist system all of their lives and don't DESERVE to live under their own means.

I don't believe in land ownership, but what can I do? I'd love to squat but in the UK I'd be squatting in prison quicker than you could say 'knock-knock'. I'd lose my house, which I have no right to protect anyway in the UK, and it would all be for nothing.

I don't know what the answer is...unless you agree with the communal land thing I was talking about in the other thread. If enough people took over a tract of land and refused to move, would we get away with it I wonder? I doubt it but it might be worth trying. I've often had the thought having a group take over a building site just when the foundations are finished and then finishing the houses the way they should be done but I guess we're talking prison again.

The sad fact is that the government and giant businesses these days 'allow' us to live in our respective countries - we have no RIGHT to do so. Call this freedom? We're just as trapped as the north Koreans by their governments and the populace here is just as brainwashed by capitalism as the Koreans are by Communism.

Hmm... good old fashioned American tract house stick construction. Works practically anywheres doesn't it? By works we mean it makes somebody huge profits which is the point of the exercise. But then it's affordable isn't it? Which means you can actually mortgage your future for 20 or 30 years and not have the banker laugh you out of the lobby.

When people pull the squatting stunt around Rio or wherever, they get bulldozed mostly although after awhile the government decides the lease on the bulldozers might be a little too high and they let them keep the shacks and sometimes even electrify them. You never know who might constitute a new market for something. Depends on how desperate the entrepreneurs get and how marginal the land was in the first place.

Then there's the Gypsy way. Keep everything mobile until you can steal enough to afford a really tacky mansion.

Or you can continue to rent, which is the traditional way right? Without the responsibilities of home ownership, you also get a little extra spare time to get drunk or riot in the streets.

Gosh, a lot of this stuff sounds sort of like a reservation system doesn't it? Wonder why that is?

There are a lot of nomadic people in the US. I would like to know how many. All the carnies and circus and roadshow folks. Many on the antique and flea market circuits. Lots of elderly out and about doing the later. Many do not have homes or they rent their homes out while gone. Some buy "that tacky mansion" when they are done on the road.

Then there are great numbers of retired folks putting all into large homes late in life, living in a small portion having their savings close at hand and insured.

Then there's that RV bunch, the double-dippers, with a house and a summer house and boat and that rolling monstrosity.

And let's also not forget the CEOs with the 17 executive estates from coast to to coast and Hawaii and the Bahamas. Some of those things come in handy for posting bail bonds after they get spanked for cooking the books and ripping off everybody else who then need to live under bridges because their 401Ks went south when their jobs got outsourced to Malaysia.

I wonder if there's anything illegal about squatting in a tree-house? After all, you wouldn't be living on the land as such?

Of course it's illegal. In the words of Kevin Costner doing his best imitation of Lord Locksley aka Robin of the Hood, "This is my tree therefore whatever's in it belongs to me as well," or words to that effect. What was in it was a small boy running from the Sheriff's men aka Guy of Gisbon and doltish hired thug crew.

Now I fully realize this is not an academically acceptable authoritative source but it still pretty well articulates the relevant theory of tenure or something remotely resembling the same.

The two top Enron Executives have not been charged! ....waiting..........

The two top Enron Executives have not been charged yet! ....waiting..........

Ken Lay just sold the last of his four Aspen, Colorado properties for over six million I think. Poor thing! Actually had to sell it for less than he allegedly paid for it, but of course he made plenty of profit on the other three properties including a vacant lot that went for over two million.

TWO MILLION FOR A VACANT LOT!!!!

What's wrong with this picture??!!!!

Now this is the same Ken Lay who is the former and apparently blameless CEO of Enron. Big talking Okie flimflammer with friends in high places, very high places as in Bush and Company. One of the jerks jerking over people with fuel price fixing among other things.

Now, does anybody not know why I call the United States La Cosa Nostra on steroids?