I recently played a few hours of Mario Kart 64 (yep, dusted of the old N64) on a couch with some friends and by the end of it, my lower back was killing me. I never get this when I spend 4 hours playing Civ IV.

Absolutely. If you look at the posture of someone playing a console game, you will see an arched back, pressure on the lumbar, neck pulled back, often feet not flat on the floor.

As you can see from this photo of me playing WoW, PC gaming provides a much more healthy posture:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xAf6...

So where do proper adult gamers sit when they spend quality time playing a game with their own children or with the children they're babysitting?

Playing on a console with a child who is your own or entrusted to your care is borderline child abuse.

My daughter preferred singing songs, hearing me read a book or playing one of the many musical instruments in the house. Or, as she got older, playing with her microscope set or walking through the woods or older still, practicing martial arts and riding her skateboard.

At some point, she liked games, but preferred playing on her PC to consoles, because consoles are for nincompoops. She is now working on a PhD in Mathematics and can kick your ass. At Battlefield 4 or a with a 2-meter staff. Or the puzzle of your choice.

I don't like using the term, "master race", and I don't like to say that it was the choice of PC over consoles that made her grow so straight and true, but the result speaks for itself.

Now for some reality. High capital cost, high maintenance. Problems, urine, diarrhoea, dust storms, clouds, high humidity etc. Number of users versus numbers of toilets. Sewerage also includes washing water, showers, bath, hand basin and, kitchen sink.

Question would it be simpler to bring in normal toilet blocks and a mobile sewerage treatment plant, something along the lines of a methane powered digester that could actually deal with all sewerage requirements not just dried out poop. Answer, well duh. Fucking stupid is thinking sewerage is just faeces and not all of the rest. The biggest problem with sewerage is not smell, it is human disease, especially water borne diseases and those can come not only from faeces but urine and wash water as well as nasal mucus discharges, open sores and not to forget medical wastes.

Designing a better toilet to be blunt is really, really stupid. Designing better sewerage treatment systems incorporating portability, rapidity of set-up, ease of maintenance and energy requirements is the only sensible way to go because their is a lot more to human waste than just faeces.

What will go wrong, the worst imaginable consequences. Basically the only science research to be conducted will be that which produces a profit. Why is this such a great failure? Basically because all science which saves costs will not only not be carried out but it will actually blocked. The best science is always that which saves, everyone has access to it and everyone gains benefit. That which produces is pretty much uniformly only accessible to those that can afford it. As for junk science, well, just like the snake oil of yore, it eventually proves to be a failure and those behind it end up getting strung up for the pain and suffering they have caused.

For example fracking, they know it is very bad, there is factual proof, they sought and gained an exemption from pollution requirements from Darth Cheney and it was provided, if it was not bad, they wouldn't have bothered. Proof of how bad fracking is, is quite simply being proven by the results currently being generated and it will only get worse. They simply want to generate as much profit as possible, for as long as possible, until it all collapses under massive failure then they declare bankrupt and the bulk profits will have long since disappeared.

Failure to prosecute junk scientists and their backers for the harm they have caused is a real problem, especially when the harm is human suffering and death. Seriously confiscation of assets and life imprisonment should be the norm for both the scientists and their backers.

Reality;
Is a college degree of value?
Is society willing to pay for it?
NO
Then that society does not value a college degree.

Now that pretty much sums it up. Of course that society also deserves to die off mass infection and thus help to rid the world of stupidity. Greed is not a measure of intelligence, it is a measure of greed nothing more and nothing less. Thank the makers that so many people preferred to come up with life saving cures, inventions and ideas and were not pursued by the demons of greed and selfishness. How much money an individual has in not the proof of the measure of their human value, it is simply the proof of the measure of their selfishness and greed, parasitical values in human societies of negative rather than positive value.

The slope of course they are heading for, user pays. Want to put up a web site, why should the public have to pay to ensure it is 'safe' and acceptable. A simple preview fee to ensure that it meets government requirements, say around $10,000 (fully tax deductible of course) should be enough to push most people off the internet and if fees are to difficult due to continual changes perhaps $1,000,000 permanent licence fee to guarantee all troublesome sites are blocked (not porn sites of course they can afford it). The goal to force the internet back to the preferred main stream media model where only the few can afford to publish content and the majority are silenced. The majority need to be told what to think and they are the only ones with those evil anti-government thoughts, not to tell each other what they are actually thinking. Poms actually voted for this government, what the fuck were they thinking.

Book burning, hmm, it actually comes in two categories. The first one is evil when you burn other peoples books or publicly owned books. The second one is humorous, when you burn books you have bought. When you burn books you have bought, obviously the purchase of that book drives sales and hence more will be printed, also the book you have bought by burning is removed from the second hand market. So burning a religious book you have purchased makes absolutely no difference other than making a categorical statement that it is truly evil to try to kill someone for burning a book that they owned.

As for an extremely right wing UK government wanting to erase unsavory web sites, we all know what that means, first on the list wikileaks, next peace sites, unions sites, any anti-government sites and the list goes on and on and on.

I think a lot of people are changing aspects of their behavior.

I encrypt most communications with friends and family now, just to be a dick to whoever's doing surveillance. It's not that I care so much about protecting what's in those communications as I just don't want their lives to be one bit easier than they need to be.

Sometimes I run Tor for the most mundane things, like looking for a recipe for chocolate flan cake, or the lyrics to songs by Bombay Bicycle Club. It really doesn't add more than a few seconds to what I'm doing and it gives me a tiny bit of satisfaction.

For all I know, they have a back door to GPG and other crypto, but I can't do anything about that.

they are mostly technophiles who wandered
over from collecting energy crystals and want to tell you what a genius tesla was

Except for the "energy crystals" part, it sounds like you're describing the average Slashdot reader.

You think someone is trying to impose death on you?

Do you really believe in the possibility that 1) there will be a transhumanist "solution" in your lifetime and 2) that you are going to be able to afford it?

Good luck trying to transfer your consciousness to your Dell laptop.

meh, "trans-humanism" takes many flavors, strictly speaking both cybernetic prostheses and gene-therapy etc. falls under "trans-humanism"

And they are both mechanisms of control by the elite.

Face it: when it comes to cybernetic prostheses and gene-therapy, it is very unlikely that you are going to be, as they say, "riding in the car".

As opposed to the "non-breakaway" US culture, where a small portion of very rich people - coincidentally "the very same people who benefit from the suffering of others" - can afford medical procedures that the rest of the population can't?

You're arguing for my position. Yes, of course they are one in the same.

You make it sound as if every transhumanist wished for immortality. I have strong transhumanist inclinations but I believe that immortality is a logical contradiction. How does that compute to you?

It sounds like you're not really a transhumanist. Which is OK, because it's just another mechanism of control by the elites. You're better off without it.

I was merely pointing out the actions of a rather notable atheist, much like you were pointing out the antics of some rather notorious religious figures.

Actually, none of the people shown in the pictures I posted were "notorious religious figures". They were just ordinary miserable wretches in the throes of a murderous superstition.

And I'd rather have a chapter of Westboro Baptist Church in my town than one such as he.

Funny you bring that up. It appears from today's news that God hates homophobes.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I'm surprised that you believe that the millions who died under Stalin were killed due to Stalin's lack of religious belief rather than his being a cruel and despotic tyrant. Do you believe that religious belief is some sort of inoculation against becoming a tyrant?
 

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