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Away from me! I've already had two this season.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I find it pretty ironic that millions of communists are running and hiding from something called "Ivan".So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!Comment
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millions of communists are running and hiding from something called "Ivan".
what millions?Comment
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Cuba“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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I have this feeling it's gonna hit Texas.
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I feel bad for anyone in the path of that thing. It keeps waffling between Cat 4 and 5, which means it's nastier than anything I've seen (Glory, 1985, IIRC, was a 2 when it finally hit Connecticut).
It's amazing to me how much better off a country like the U.S. is vis-a-vis a 3rd world country when hit by one of these. A neighbor of mine who works as a building instructor just got back from Equador. He and several others in that profession went down there (on the U.S. government's tab, I believe) to help instruct the Equadorians on some basics in building inspection, since they are trying to put together some real earthquake building codes. They're effectively starting from scratch on that, and need all the help they can get.
This is why big natural disasters kill hundreds or thousands in poor countries, and in rich ones it's a handfull.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Even having building codes doesn't necessarily mean anything. Remember the Istabul earthquake a few years ago? All those buildings that fell were supposed to be code, but weren't. But of course, regulations are bad for business, and those killed in the falling buildings have the right to sue.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I think the most striking case was the last big earthquake in Taiwan. Some buildings separated from their foundations and literally fell over. This revealed lots of empty oil drums embedded into the foundation instead of concrete reinforced with rebar.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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I have the same eerie feeling......Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I have this feeling it's gonna hit Texas.
ACK!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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Which was the whole point of sending these guys down to Equador. The codes are there, but the enforcement (proper inspection) isn't. They went down to teach the inspectors how to do their jobs.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Even having building codes doesn't necessarily mean anything. Remember the Istabul earthquake a few years ago? All those buildings that fell were supposed to be code, but weren't. But of course, regulations are bad for business, and those killed in the falling buildings have the right to sue.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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In Taiwan, the inspectors were bribed.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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Yeah, and that's something the Taiwanese need to deal with. Corruption we can't do much (or anything) about. But we can help in other ways (aid money, expertise).
And we do, although I imagine it's a fairly small contribution.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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nm"post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
"I don't like laws all over the world. Doesn't mean I am going to do anything but post about it."Jon Miller
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