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[Paul Allen Newell]

On 12/22/2011 11:30 PM, 夜神　岩男 wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 01:35 PM, jdow wrote:
>> On 2011/12/22 19:29, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>>>
>>> Let´s all give a round of applause to the brainiacs who in the name of
>>> cost cutting, selected a flood-prone area to place their investment
>>> (factories), all due to the low wages.
>>>
>>> Must have been the same guys who built Fukushima on a seismic area
>>> prone to tsunamis.
>>>
>>> Oh, the joys of shortsighted capitalism... ;-)
>>>
>>> FC
>>
>> You think Mao or Stalin did any better? I submit they did far worse. The
>> Fukushima plant did a fairly thorough investigation and missed something
>> most others had missed, too. There were some really old geological 
>> records
>> that suggested events such as that huge earthquake did indeed create
>> tsunamis as big as we saw. But basically they were caught flatfooted
>> despite what should have been adequate research. It was after the event
>> that the geological record came to the awareness of the authorities.
>>
>> I know honesty and fairness about criticism are foreign to this list. 
>> But
>> it's ever so much more effective if you criticize with genuine facts 
>> rather
>> than things "everyone knows" that they learned from media which is prone
>> to selling their product not truth.
>>
>> {O.O}
>
> C'mon, everyone knows that well over 9,000 died at Fukushima because 
> of radiation and over 9,000 neighboring countries have been evacuated 
> permanently due to the incident and now look just like Mars. Damned 
> capitalists! That's what caused the Thai floods in the first place. 
> Capitalists would *never* be caught doing something that is 
> incidentally beneficial to initial low-wage earners like setting up a 
> factory in their country so they can get a job doing something other 
> than hoeing people-poo in rice paddies or protecting their investments 
> in the future by helping to rework the canal and earthworks systems 
> around Bangkok. Those are such terrible ideas that Hitachi and others 
> aren't looking into them right now, thank goodness.
>
> On the other hand, everyone knows that not a single person died at or 
> near Chernobyl (ever), there was no coverup, everything was perfectly 
> contained and not a single long-term effect has been had in Belarus, 
> Ukraine or Russia proper, because of the genuinely far-sightedness 
> inherent in socialist doctrine as manifested in communism. Why, in 
> 2012 the Soviet Union is going to send a nuclear safety re-education 
> crew to Japan to set them straight. I sure am relieved, being from 
> here and all.

And what does all this have to do with Fedora?

OT is okay, but you are all getting into dribble. I strongly suggest 
that the biggest political argument you bring up in this list is whether 
Gnome 3.x is the end of Western Civilization as we know it.

For those who are not in the physical domain of "Western Civilization", 
be assured that it is a literary metaphor and nothing more than that ... 
you can typecast it to Eastern, Northern, or Southern to make a match.

And, for what it is worth, if you really want to walk into the Japan 
issue, all I can do is ask if you have given any money to help ...

Paul