I've been to the pool, apart from scaring everyone off I have to say the filtration system does work pretty well... *ahem*

I'm not gonna lie... they're well worth the money if you don't have time to make one for yourself (wich you can do at less than 10% of the sales cost). They still need a stem filtration system, though. The water in those doesn't work efficiently enough as a filter, but like I said... still worth it in many ways.

Uggh.

Anyone ever hear of Brita? It filters tap water. Simple. No bottles required. Keep one in your fridge.

On the go? Use a Sigg bottle. Keep one in my bag, cart it to work, where we got rid of our water-coolers and replaced them all with filtration systems. Saves way more cash, plus not cartin around tons of containers on exhaust spewing trucks.


Why would anyone confuse personal, normal water consumption with emergency disaster relief? That's just weird.

I get drinking water from a local water store, where it is sold for 25 cents per gallon. Not exactly the same realm as gas prices. Water stores like the one near me have all their filtration equipment on display behind the counter, and since their livelihood depends on keeping the filters clean, you can usually trust them. There are also some good filtered water dispensers in front of supermarkets that use a more compact filtration system. These places start with municipal water, then filter for the crap that gets dumped in "for our health", like chlorine and fluoride, or whatever leftover hazardous chemicals can get pushed through congress this week.

But in the end, it really comes down to what tastes better. And believe me, I wouldn't have bothered finding out all this information in the first place if LA water didn't taste like concrete.

My issue with this is that even with the rise of smaller localized communities of news gatherers you enter a very large problem of filtration. What is the most important news to be read? Furthermore localization means you start to rely on citizen reporting more, which is often biased to begin with creating problems of balkanization.

The current system of reporting actually is links as they mentioned, how much of it is actual original reporting and how much is it simply a form of echo effect from one source? I saw alot of this during the Iraq war, where one news source would be magnified through blogs some ten times.

Eventually turns out the source was wrong, that source was the US government when it claimed Saddam was getting yellow cake, given out as a press release based on the interrogation of one informant code named Curve ball.

*british


Found this

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/07/29/vortex-fountain-is-perfect-for-those-whove-always-wanted-a-giant-toilet-in-their-front-yard/

Now don’t get me wrong. This vortex fountain known as ‘Charybdis’ which is located in Seaham Hall, Sunderland (UK) definitely catches the eye, but it’s oddly reminiscent of a giant see-through toilet that’s just been flushed. (Not that I’ve encountered a giant see-through toilet before mind you.) Designed by William Pye, the Charybdis fountain is his largest vortex water sculpture to date, and it was created using a large acrylic polymer cylinder which allows an air-core vortex to form as water is pumped in a circular motion. Not surprisingly the fountain also relies on a heavy-duty water filtration system which is necessary to keep the vortex clean and spinning properly.

Well I can say those things because I was born and raised a Muslim, I have lost my faith personally but can vouch that Islam doesn't preach what you believe it does.

"Islam changed the structure of Arab society and to a large degree unified the people, reforming and standardizing gender roles throughout the region. According to Islamic scholar William Montgomery Watt, Islam improved the status of women by "instituting rights of property ownership, inheritance, education and divorce."

Islam learnt from the Qu'ran is not the same religion as peddled by those in fundamentalist and extremist societies. One criticism I will level personally at Islam is that its followers don't often look at their faith through the Qu'Ran, instead choosing to follow the fundamentalist or not slant offered by their Mullahs in the Mosque. This is especially true in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Taliban ruled Afghanistan, and is seen by the difference of sermons offered between say Indonesian mosques, Turkish Mosques and those in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. With regards to Religious filtration, the same can be said of those who follow the Jewish and Christian faith.

I don't know what you are trying to get at, I mean I know you personally have an atheist slant on religion on general, I agree with that view, I believe religion muddles the argument in the spheres of politics, economics and society in general. But I hardly agree that beating drums and attacking another religion and it's followers is going to bring about the change you seek especially when it comes to monotheistic Abrahamic religions.

Like most tomes of information, most religious texts do contain some pretty solid truth. The biggest beef lies from this vantage point, with people's apparatus being an amalgam of imprint and poor habits, which render them incapable of deriving meaning from datum. (Duuuhhhh, some folks kin read a book and derive no real meaning from it, save the reality of subjective/selective conclusions via filtration through their corrupted hard-drives.....)

Like I have always maintained with the atheist's baby-out-with-the-bathwater tunnel realities.
The Bible, The Koran,Zoroastrian-Gnostic-Hindu-Jainist-Sufi-texts, Urantia, Crowleyan, Sikh, Shinto,Tibetan and Zen.....take yer pick, it's up to the discerning reader, to find the gold-Oh, what?? You think that universal truths are simply handed out like a fucking wine and wafer???!! Think again, monkey boy!!!

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This is not an invention looking for buyers, its an invention looking for investors, manufacturers and distributors. I'd also be interested in what sort of replaceable filtration technology they currently employ. Would be ingenious if they could be manufactured and replaced onsite ( http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/waterfilter.html ).

I remember an interesting movement kinetics study from a few years ago, analyzing the efficiency of movement for different animals. Humans walking were remarkably inefficient compared to many animals, the most lopsided comparisons being against large birds, like condors. HOWEVER, human's on bikes were exceedingly efficient movers, demonstrating how ingenuity is the 'bread and butter' of our species.

It looks like they're trying to market the bike to people in third world countries who don't have sufficient water filtration. It's a cool idea, but probably a little flawed.

The people that this would most benefit probably work for less than a dollar a day. A bike like this is definitely not an option for them. It would be at least a couple hundred dollars. That's a year of saving every penny you earned. Probably not worth it. Not only that, but families in developing countries are generally larger than the average American family. A family of four needs at least 20 gallons of water a day. That tank of purified water looks like it holds about two gallons. That's 10 trips back and forth to your water source, just for clean water. 10 trips would consume most of your day.... and you'd require more water from all that exercise. You'd have to force your children into employment at an early age, since you spent the family's savings on a strange looking bike, and now you're so busy riding around on it that you can't work.

So yes, cool concept. But i'm really, really surprised that it won the "Innovate or Die" competition this year.

Sweet! Send me a sample. And some pocket change. Pounds sterling, please. The American dollar ain't worth a shit these days.

In reply to this comment by choggie:
funny young goodman john, that you should for me to happen upon your vodka-filterin' post-I am drinkin' some now.....it is quite smoother, when passssed through carbon filtration multiple times

funny young goodman john, that you should for me to happen upon your vodka-filterin' post-I am drinkin' some now.....it is quite smoother, when passssed through carbon filtration multiple times

tried it, in fact, drinking 5 filtered McCormick's right now(used a Britta pitcher)...it really works, but unlike an Absolut, the proof of the McCormicks does not change, just the smoothness......and with Absolut, well, you are paying for the filtration......

Oh, I am. I just don't know where to start. I think I needed a bit to cool down.
::Ahem::

And to think I almost took a job with those fucking assholes!
Let me start off by telling the sift where my water came from. Take a look at this map. You see that little creek under the arrow? Well, we had one of those running through our base. next to it were pumps and a filtration system. The water dogs (Marines who ran the pump/filter station) would pump it out, filter/"purify" it, and pump it into holding tanks. From there, a water truck would fill up, and drive around the base filling up all the tanks that provided the shower trailers with the water we needed for the showers and sinks. Now, I can't tell you exactly how clean it was, but you could drink it if you had to. It was periodically tested by the battalion doctor to make sure it was clean.
Let me reiterate that: someone who's profession is to care for injured troops was responsible for the water's purity.
Meanwhile, there are KBR and Halliburton employees making at minimum $80,000 a year who's sole purpose is the purity of water, and the water in their charge is full of malaria? What the fuck is that all about? How does that fucking company even have it's contract still?

As far as the chow halls are concerned: Yes, ideally they would be open 24/7 so as to reduce the amount of troops near it at any given time, but the fact of the matter is that the troops operate on your standard 16-hour day, so their meals would be at the regular times. However, proper measures should be taken to fortify the chow halls against mortar attacks. Texas barriers, sand bags on the roof and an enclosed space for the line should be there.

At the base that I was at, our chow hall was very well protected against mortars with said precautions.

Laundry: I can't offer much on that subject because the service we has was superb. I could turn in a set of cammies that was crispy and literally stiff from dried up sweat from two week's use, and in three days I would have them back as soft as new.