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Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the German government are working on a $10 million project to provide innovative sanitation facilities to 800,000 Kenyans over the next five years. From the article: "The goal is to find 'innovative solutions' for sanitation in poor urban areas. Gates says it's time to move on from the era of the classic toilet. He points out that, despite all the recent achievements, 40% of the world's population, or some 2.5 billion people, still lives without proper means of flushing away excrement. But just giving them Western-style toilets isn't possible because of the world's limited water resources." I wonder what the toilet version of The Blue Screen of Death is.
You have one twisted, disgruntled view of religion. Creating schools is a bad thing? Do you criticize all bumper stickers, or just the religious ones? Who cares about selling bibles?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Some people use charity as a means of self-promotion.
No kidding. Down here, we call them "republicans." They do meaningless or less-than-helpful things in the name of "charity" and spend 10x as much money advertising their "charity" as ever gets round to helping anyone.
Case in point: the Joplin tornado. The Red Cross was doing donation drives, very carefully being sure to accept what was actually needed by the people who were trying to live day-to-day in the region, organizing trucks to ship it all, sending trained workers to help families rebuild and help clean up.
Meanwhile, the Pee Tardy crowd started blasting the airwaves with advertising for the "TEA PARTY DONATION DRIVE FOR JOPLIN, SHOW YOUR CONSERVATIVE SPIRIT BY HELPING THESE POOR PEOPLE." Most of the crap that was "donated" is still sitting in a warehouse 10 miles from my house, because nobody in Joplin needed it and even fewer had any place to put it. A number of high-profile donated items "mysteriously vanished" and we've tracked them down to one of the local Pee Tardier leaders' house; after pictures of the items were taken over his fence, he built a bigger fence but has NEVER produced any purchase receipts.
Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
I'll take either of them over (c): the bigoted, homophobic Pee Tardier who engages in illegal, unethical medical malpractice known to push people towards suicide.
But remember, it's not about the church, it's about taking care of other people because it's the right thing to do.
Indeed. If your "god" insists that I hate something/someone, your god can go fuck himself.