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Anything by Adam Curtis is good, like: The Power of Nightmares The Trap The Century of Self Pandora's Box And maybe a few others like: Guns, Germs and Steel, great insight into our past. Crude, about the effects of oil. Through the Wormhole series 1&2, with the sexy voice over of Morgan Freeman Read about The Seasteading Institute for a positive eye opener

And Lukas, talking to new girls is very exciting and one of life's pleasures. But like anything it requires lots of practise to feel like you are being completely yourself on first encounters, everyone's in the same boat bud this is all supposed to be fun!

Lukas mate, stop textin her, go round to see her and f*ck her like she's a cheap nasty hoar. Then go and chill with your mates and forget about her for a while. Over a long time you will naturally become closer, time is what you have bags of my young friend.

Yea tell her you're both still young and you are a free spirit etc.. this is why you're so cool. She will use all sorts of funny tricks to get you to change your mind. You just gotta keep knocking her back in a nice way every now and again. I'm off for a go on my piece right now

Standards of living in our current system is based on GDP. GDP does not take into account whether peoples basic human needs are met. When human needs are not met, all of our bad traits come to the surface. All our resources will be consumed in the name of growth, which is not resourcefully economic! Everything gets consumed, then what? Edit. Who shall clean the streets and take out trash? We could build super efficient cities that clean themselves, where every product is designed to be fully recyclable when a better one is produced. Our capacity for innovation is huge and with people from 3rd world countries educated, innovation would increase beyond your wildest imagination. This change would require a lot of work of course, but what a great thing to work on! I'd personally die happier knowing I had spent all my life working towards something positive than destructive.

Ok, so the situation with sweatshops are improving. What's not improving is the gap between the super rich and the poor. The way things are going it's only going to get worse. Are rich people better than everybody else? I personally don't think so. The US plan to increase the GDP of China by creating a mass consumer market of Chinese 'Americans'. This will help the US out of recession as it will generate a huge demand in which will stimulate production in America. The Chinese government are happy to do this but only in their own time, development is going well for the Chinese at the moment and they don't want to make any drastic changes where as America feel they need to do this asap. So 3 billion more people are going to become avid consumers like the US, this greed thing is taking over and our planet is basically screwed. I'm being a bit harsh on the US here. European governments are just as crazy too.

It's easy to reel off facts about how the economy works today, we've all grown up with it and are familiar with it. They are forced to work because they live in poverty, our system doesn't allow them anything. They'd benefit from a decent education a bit more than legal slavery. We've got it so easy, don't you feel like taking on a proper challenge? If 3Dfx and Nvidia (and IBM ect..) all worked together imagine the sick stuff we'd have now. You'll find that nearly all crime is a consequence of poverty, greed for money or lack of education. You have grown up subjected to the belief you have to earn money to pay for pleasure when there is a clear, (intentional) lack of emphasis on you're own mortality and moral values to drive you to work hard and do good things for others. I believe we could evolve into a great civilisation in harmony with nature again, pursuing arts, music and generally being creative with no man made economic restrictions. It's just that the problems created by our current way of life, like chav's, corporate billionaires and the grip they have over peoples minds, are getting in the way of progress. These aren't my ideas by the way, there are about 10 million other people that share similar views who are contributing to The Venus Project.

You don't? Do we really need to be in their country getting them to make us stuff? This is another thing, the way companies have the technology to make a really good item straight away, but they are forced to release many crapper versions first in the name of maximising profit. It's not communism and communism is not a brilliant idea at all way to much government/political intervention. It's just applying a scientific/technological solution to today's problems. You wouldn't have to work if you didn't want to you could enjoy yourself every day if you wanted, people wouldn't want more because everything could be free. It's a case of embracing the technology that has already replaced most of the mundane jobs people used do do.

The economy is a joke at the moment. It's just that the current competition between a lot of companies drives them to do such selfish and heartless things, such as sourcing cheap labour in sweatshops, making cheap disposable products out of the cheapest materials which break and are just shit, lying to their customers saying their product is healthy or environmentally friendly when most of the time it really isn't, messing children's head's up with mindbending advertising techniques (you know the type I mean) making them feel like they need this crap to be happy. We're quite a few generations into this now so to us it seems normal and 'the done thing'. There are a few genuinely sound companies of course I'm just regurgitating stuff we all hear about. There's so many things to consider about how the future could turn out it's a fascinating subject! So what if instead of competing with each other, companies worked together to produce the highest quality version of that good or service as well as work to mechanise 100% of the production process. The only people remaining will be the highest skilled scientist and engineers who generally just love what they do. Everyone else can do what they please with full access to use the best stuff we can possibly make, (that would include travelling and trackdays you know) the possibilities of this to me is more exciting than 'we need to use more and more and more....AND MOAR! We've discovered all the land now, lets just enjoy our technology, like bicycles and stuff If we were put in this fortunate position of wealth and opportunity by God, that must make it ok to use our (corporations) intelligence to lie to people? We're only human, we make mistakes and we're gonna die a bunch of mugs.

This event was a consequence of globalisation, the truth is in the history of US business, government and war. In the words of Roy Walker on the drive to make billions of dollars:

Ok that poor lady must have been lucky, as well as the people that managed to escape through a few of the shafts still intact, many others weren't. Thinking about it I couldn't begin to comment on the dynamics of the fire, I'm pushing it with what I've said already

That's not even a person in that red square of yours. I think you're underestimating the fires in the middle of the building, look at the smoke! Lots of heat would be dissipated along the columns until the whole supporting structure began to heat up. I won't mention how ruthless US foreign policy and republican corporations have been in perpetuating capitalism throughout the world. All our diverse cultures and environments are becoming impacted in some way. Humanity is not in their best interest, making the rich richer sadly is.

Well, the tower first buckled exactly where the plane hit. It looks real enough to me. And building 7 had a giant skyscraper collapse right next to it, there is hardly any footage of the damaged side so people think this structurally sound building was demolished when actually it was pretty screwed after fire had been raging for 8 hrs.

Lets consider the south tower, it was hit off centre like this: and it fell like this: You've just got to look at it really.

I think a lot of strange conspiracies come from the fact that nobody knew what happened when a plane flies into a skyscraper. edited to past tense, they know now obviously.

This award winning documentary gives a great insight into how corporations and politicians (mainly in the US) control the population, i.e you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM It is then easier to see how ingrained into us this stuff is and how we got into this situation.

Well we all know the US got a nice little war out of it, at a time when no one wanted a war. What's a few thousand dead consumers compared to the huge profits the entire US is set to make by having this war? As if someone is ever going to stand up and admit this was their decision

Geo came out at 1070 +40, 377.5, 72.7* with brake mounts at 95mm and hub spacing at 128mm. I would have liked the top tube a little lower but I didn't actually ask for a frame size Anyhow, the frame should be stiffer like this I hope.

I'm not preaching 'go electric' or anything like that, it's just we don't need millions of cars, they sit around most of the day doing jack. Yes everything will slow down, this would be a good thing I think. And yes we could start growing our own fresh food like civilised animals again. Basically, who the hell do we think we are?!?

We could, ban any uninformative advertising. Get rid of unnecessary roads, like the ones going to the front door of every house in the western world, maybe make the areas children grow up in a little nicer. We can't do anything about the people behind oil companies without protesting in MASSIVE numbers and in a completely unified and peaceful way.

Oh bugger! Poor Luke I never knew. Will get some asap cheers.

Complacency will never end without consequence

Cheers guys!! Not sure of the weight, it has pretty standard trial bike spec apart from a slimmer back rim and tyre. These dropouts are a bit simpler than the Leeson ones, I have to pry the rear triangles apart to get the wheel out, which was tricky at the start. They could still get ruined though I have no idea yet

Rides pretty sweet so far. Still getting used to the back end being this light! Geo is similar to the Cannibal V3, also it runs very smooth