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What does this expression mean to you?
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Generating one's own power or residing in an area off the electrical transmission system
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Out of context, it might mean several things:
1. as Dale said above,
2. living without Internet, and
3. living in such a way as not to minimize the awareness of one's identity to government/industry.
The last definition is probably the most common. It's staggering the amount of information that is known about us as individuals - especially if you have a credit card, but even if you've ever bought a house or car or had an involvement with the law "somebody" has a record of it.
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Thanks, both of you. I know the meaning Daleh cites, and live that way to a small degree. I had never heard it before in its extended, metaphorical sense as per FF's 3. I'm interested in what the expression means to y'all, as individuals, not what the definition is.
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Can one live "off the grid " to a small degree or is it rather an uncompromising way of life?
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"no lines in, no lines out" The Road Washes Out in Spring used ironically, it might mean "outside of reality" - joe (griddled) friday
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I'm with Dale/FF #1, and with Anna in that I never heard no. 3.
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#3 should read?
3. living in such a way as not to minimize the awareness of one's identity to government/industry.
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Bran: Can one live "off the grid " to a small degree or is it rather an uncompromising way of life? Depends on your definition. That's one reason why I'm asking. We have a wood stove and a well. We can survive the winter. tsuwm: #3 should read?
3. living in such a way as not to minimize the awareness of one's identity to government/industry.I didn't even notice that. Getting feisty in your dotage, then? 
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just trying to help anyone(?) who might have been addlepated.
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