More Words That Don't Mean What Someone Thinks They Mean

[walkitout]

I'm thinking "self-sufficient" here, doesn't exactly mean what someone thinks it means.

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/article_1d24dc7c-843b-11e0-a4a7-001cc4c03286.html

Parasitic freeloaders, more like. Destroying public roads is Not Cool.

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[volkhvoi.livejournal.com]

Possessing heavy machinery and using heavy commercial trucks to import construction material and water doesn't strike me as "self-sufficient" either.

And how does importing water make a well (as opposed to, say, a cistern)? Or is the reporter just not paying attention to the difference?

here's the bit about the water

[walkitout]

"a tank truck that hauled water around the clock, seven days a week for more than a year before the compound had its own well"

I get from that that it took them a _freaking year_ to put a well in, and until the well was put in, they were trucking water in via a tanker truck. I'm more than a little mystified as to why it would take a year to put a well in, and why anyone would move into a place _before_ the well was in.

And while I'm at it, they're delinquent on 2008 and 2009 taxes according to the article.