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I kinda like the idea of living in an underground bunker in Antartica. Fuck Mars. We should do that! Imagine, you could keep a penguin as a pet.

I think it would take quite awhile to aclimatise to the physical assault that the bass frequencies amass. Of course, if you're playing it on your iSpeakers whilst enjoying canapes and sauvignon blanc, i doubt that would be much of a problem.

Well quite...hence my use of the phrase 'technological developments and their adoption'.

Well yes, therein lies the rub. I think it's pretty clear that economic growth is not the best measure of the success of society. And for other, even more sinister reasons that you cite. Fundamental to the frameworks and models that classical economics relies on, is the assumption that the...

Well, I suppose this takes us some way back to gek's opening gambit. The answer to which, for my money anyway, really comes down to whether technological developments and their adoption can occur fast enough. If they can't, then it's pretty obvious that some kind of resource crisis is bound to...

Gutta's retiring from dubstep! :( I just hope all those bastards at dubstepforum who hounded him are happy now. Cunts. Tis a sad day indeed. Enjoy the rest, gutta, you've earned it.

Of course! It was a fantastic experience, which as i said, was quite exhausting. But then, they did make it deliberately so, making us do quite a lot stuff, to make it a bit more realistic i suppose. But if you wanted to just go away to a forest somewhere and live off the land for a bit, it...

Let's try and get this thread back on track, shall we, and ignore the troll. So, why 'growth'? The orthodoxy in economic theory puts growth front and centre because it is pretty evident that economic growth does give us clear benefits. This occurs almost by definition. Underpinning that...

Yeah, otm. Which is why dubstep makes so much more sense in a club than at home, and why people's first proper experience has an inevitable "Ah! This is how you dance to it! epiphany. Love the fact that at times, people are mainly dancing to a bass sine-wave.

Really enjoyed it - probably the best one I've been to (my 4th), and waaay better then FWD@ The End, which i found a bit disappointing (but then, i didn't hang around til mystikz and kode9). Thought the system was good, altho perhaps i'm not as much as an authority as mr. gabba. Sounded pretty...

Think this is a bit much. There's no denying that Ferdinand, Terry, Ashley Cole, Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney (and Becks back when he was any cop) can all be described as world class players, that would get in to pretty much any top European club team. Player for player, there aren't many...

Well, actually, if you use the Gini coefficient (standard measure of income inequality), it's only really South America that has greater inequality that the US and UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient But anyway, there's not really much of a consensus as to how trade...

Could you elaborate on this, I'm not quite sure what you mean?

Er hang on, he did rush over to the ref completely needlessly, so what else would he have been saying other that trying get Rooney booked/sent off? His smug wink shortly after can't have helped relations either. I don't think Rooney will get any flak. It would never have happened if we'd have...

This seems to make sense. Presumably the mechanism is that the struggle of daily life in difficult climates meant people were accustomed to working hard, and developing tools (and a coordinated economic structure) to make things easier, and then the process just continues. As opposed to just...

Re: Primitive Society: As Gek is aware, I recently went on a slightly bizarre holiday to Dorset, which was an introductory training course to Bushcraft and Survival skills. Some have mocked this as some tree-hugging, 'finding myself' exercise, but nothing could be further from the reality of...

That's probably because you're trying to download something over their limit of xMB, whatever that is. If you're downloading smaller stuff, it's only a few seconds wait. You'll need a premium account to get anything big, i think.

Yeah, the sums of money involved in this NHS IT fiasco are quite staggering. I mean - £20bn! To put that it context, that's just over 1.5% of GDP (if my sums are right). Was talking to a mate about this today and he reckoned that the reason why it's gone so horribly worng (and why it usually...

Loved this event. As gek says, it brilliantly avoided the whole boring bloke with laptop problem, by integrating the whole experience with visuals, and using a fantastic space. I enjoyed how the 3 different performances showed different strategies for presenting audio-visual experiences. In...

Yeah, the FTSE could take a good kicking, but then it did after the dotcom bubble too, and that was fairly painless to your average man on the street. What's really going to fuck america is massive inflation. Whether we get that too is the real issue, to my mind.