Joatmon

Sounds like you advocate a revolution? "Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better." Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My apologies - missed it somehow.

One detail doesn't seem to have been stated. Any politician who stood up and told the truth would never be voted into office.

IMO although you probably wouldn't agree I think you realise the strength of my argument. When you have a problem then before you can solve that problem you have to understand and analyse the situation. What is needed is affordable housing and income at the ordinary level that makes it possible for people to honestly acquire a home. If that means taxing the very rich more then that is where the law should be applied. The fact that the very rich avoid even paying their share under today's rules should strengthen resolve to ensure they do. Let's all live in law abiding dignity!

I would go further than this. There are some extremely rich people who could bail this country out and hardly feel the pinch! I own one home and spent a large part of my life paying for it - keeping money very tight for several of the first years. That home, its contents and a car are about all I have of value.

So it seems there is a problem - homeless people. There is a solution - empty property. It is possible to solve the problem legally. It only takes money. Who's money? The governments money - your money and mine. The answer - we must pay more in taxes because there is no such thing as a free lunch. Part of the solution could be similar to that which provided lots of homes after WWII - cheap prefabricated housing known as Prefabs. I know people, still living, who found them very suitable. It certainly is a problem - and needs addressing wholemeal, not piecemeal.

So let us put into the general case what you are saying. Some person or organisation has something you need that they are not using. You should be free to use it. Is that what you are saying? For example, being retired I only get my car out about once a week. Do you think I should not complain if you used it for the other 6 days? If you think that's how it should work would you think it OK for you to refuse to give it back unless I took you to court? A building is an object owned by someone and I feel that ownership should be respected.

Firstly, as I understand it, squatting up to now has not been a criminal offence but a civil matter. Which means (or has meant) calling the police won't help you. You have had to go through the civil courts with the delays and expense that entails. I'm all for increasing social housing, it was probably a mistake selling council houses.

Here is one example of someone who was away from their home for a weekend:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14564949 It does happen and so I feel there is a need to make this a criminal offence. If you see this as a government issue then surely what you are saying is that there is a need for more social housing. If properties are unoccupied for an extended period I would not be against officialdom being able to warn the owners that if they don't find tenants the properties could be properly and legally taken over and let by (say) the local council. The proceeds being given to the owner.

There must be a better way of helping the homeless - or helping them help themselves perhaps! As a house owner I know how I would feel if I came back from holiday and was shut out of the home I have spent such a large part of my life working and paying for! To put it mildly, I would not feel very charitable!

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This is homework, but I think I can say your aren't considering the load that the transmission lines are feeding. Think of the effect of keeping the power developed in the load the same for the different voltages. Then calculate voltage and current for both cases. Then calculate power loss in the transmission lines. You should find the higher voltage (with it's smaller current) should give less power loss in the transmission lines. If you still have a problem then show some working.

It won't accelerate at all unless it is experiencing a force. I think you mean continue with unchanged velocity.

I am a father, grandfather and great-grandfather, but you ask about existence per se. IMO the only purpose of existence is the continuation of existence. Most of life doesn't even know it has children - plants, insects, some animal life such as frogs etc.. I love my family and have devoted my life to their well-being but that is what we do as our share of ensuring the continuation of existence.

Some time ago I chose a few words of a song for my "signature". I did this because I feel it holds truth. I'll copy it here in case you change my mind and force me to change my signature. "Trying to make some sense of it all, But I can see that it makes no sense at all"

Well, a good start would be to change our lives in terms of food and exercise. Today's youngsters can expect to have a lower life expectancy than there fathers! http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/health/17obese.html

I did, but try as I might I just couldn't make that presenter understand how the game is played. They should replace him.

And the moral of the story is - never go out without a Bible because you never know when you are going to need it.

I'm still trying to work out why I didn't get the prize.

Looks to me like the one eyed spitting bed snake.

If God exists then He surely has a sense of humour. I think it would take some kind of joker to produce the likes of us.

There is evidence to suggest that at one time the Mediterranean Sea was much lower than the Atlantic Ocean with a natural dam across the Straits of Gibraltar. This "dam" apparently gave way and the level of the Mediterranean rose quite quickly. This seems to have been well before humans developed the ability to record events, but perhaps a fear of floods was passed from generation to generation? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8404363.stm

Building on Swansont's comments and thinking of making something to think about you could do something like this:- Use a bicycle frame and pedals to generate electricity to run the computer. If you wanted to make one compact assembly you could use a hand operated generator to charge the battery - not novel, but it would work.