PowerSwitch

I wasn't really thinking about globalization and leaving the peasant economy. More about home cooking instead of buying ready meals and dining out, doing your own washing by hand instead of buying a washing machine, making and mending your clothes instead of buying new, carrying the shopping home i...

On the topic of work, I've never quite understood why 'full employment' is such an ideological ideal; why, indeed, having a job is held to be such a great thing. Because without a job you have to live on baked beans. That's true - but it doesn't explain why it's true, why it has to be that way. I'l...

To take just one example, on the labour bed, if your name began "Miss" you got no painkillers. Nice, no? That doesn't sound very nice, no. But thinking about it a little deeper, just why is it that we need painkillers to give birth? Aside from domesticated animals of one sort or another, ...

I like the idea of cheap, low powered laptops. I've got a ThinkPad X61s myself, it draws about 15W of power and runs for something like 5 and a half hours off the battery. I guess it really depends on what you will use one for - less 'standard' computers tend to be a bit of a pain, if not now, possi...

Nope. It's really just a scam that keeps farmers in debt, enslaved to giant companies for their basic needs, all the while depleting their soil and producing nutritionally impoverished food.

I'm just not convinced it's possible to really thrive without some animal products as part of your diet. Oh. That's told me, hasn't it? I've got nothing at all against vegetarianism/veganism, after all we're all trying to solve the same problem of what human beings really do well on. It just happen...

Anybody heard the theory that unfermented soya, although it has protein in, has it in a form that's almost completely useless to people? Yes, and I can well believe it too. It's just the tip of the iceberg really. Soy is a very nasty substance that screws with digestion, mineral absorption, endocri...

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I won't be using it either. Then again, I don't use any of these online services like Google Docs, Facebook, and so on. I'll keep my own data on my own system running Free Software thanks

I can believe that. When it comes down to it, very few products are worthwhile. I'm thinking of the mobile phones and playstations here. I think some of the problem could be that many people actually behave like children. There's good evidence to suggest that the rubbish food people are eating is le...

That sounds very similar to adopting a diet that is closer to the Paleolithic one. Or am I slightly misreading you? Well, close but not quite. I read (and tried) that about 18 months back. The difference is where milk and grains were (apparently) not part of peoples diet 10000 years ago, and so peo...

Food is a bit like oil really. Just like people don't seem to be asking the obvious questions about oil, the more we hear about increases in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, no one seems to be asking the obvious question - "well what's changed?" If heart disease, diabetes, and...

Sheep and goats. It works for the Mongolians

Where abouts are you Jimmy?

I agree with the sentiment that nature will solve the problem one way or another. But right now our problem is that we are cheating nature. All number of benefits, credits, and aid are helping people have children who otherwise would find it hard to shoulder the cost. Population control can act posi...

Yes I wonder how they'll respond? Put up the price if you buy more than 10 of anything?

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