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[夜神 岩男]

On 12/23/2011 01:35 PM, jdow wrote:
> On 2011/12/22 19:29, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 15:19, Dave Ihnat<dihnat at dminet.com> wrote:
>>> That situation will ease--the industry is saying by second
>>> quarter, but my bet is for at least a year, maybe 16-18 months (since
>>> they
>>> have to either dry out and refurbish flooded facilities, build new
>>> facilities, or expand existing facilities--all real-world
>>> bricks'n'sticks
>>> infrastructure development)-
>>
>> 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.