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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.
This is a noble cause, kudos to Mr. Gates! The peoples of the world needs a safe, clean way to dispose of their waste.
Over 1 million children die every year from diarrhea. Imagine a world where all people can use a toilet then have their cholera and other disease-ridden waste flushed safely away. In poorer countries there are few, if any, health practitioners outside of major centers. So a child with chronic diarrhea would not be able to get in to have their subluxations treated. That's truly sad, but if they can't treat the subluxation at least they can treat some of the diseases that take advantage of a sublux-weakened immune system.
Also, this project is a much more noble cause than Gates' misguided drive to immunize the world's population. The world's health care systems would collapse unded the weight of all the new cases of Autism if successful.
Take care,
Bob.
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The real question is... will those toilets run Crysis?
but I think we can all agree it's a damn good one.
It still will be a BSOD, the Brown Screen Of Death.
It is called humor dammit, even though it may be shitty humor.
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Blue Screen of Death will be replaced by Blue Splash of Death, probably chemical.
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Hi my name is TeePee, think of me as your potty assistant! It looks like you're trying to go #2...
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No, the real question is...how the hell will the three sea shells work?