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King of Men "I'm not sure whether you're joking or genuinely misread 'Poisson'."
PSI Teleport "I genuinely misread it; guess that's what I get for reading Hatrack on a phone. Off to research Poisson."
Don't bother. It's French fish. Sure fish tend to cluster. But why blame French fish for earthquakes? It coulda just as easily been a buncha Norwegian fish going to school to learn French.
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It's a world where credit and commercial paper transactions can occur on command, but you still have to physically move food across destroyed roads or by air to get it to people who need it.
Seriously, they aren't being neglectful. They're doing everything they can.
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quote:They ain't so quick getting their starving people food.
Ain't it a funny world we live in?
It's a world where incoherent armchair quarterbacks with, almost as a rule, no better plans to put forward and no better methods of those plans even if they had them, will continually sneer at people who are largely agreed to be models for disaster relief (both in terms of contributing to the aid of said worldwide, and in handling their own domestically).
And still expect to be taken seriously when they rant. Ain't it a funny world?
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Stop printing and then pumping trillions of Dollars into the Markets to keep them "Healthy".
If a market or a currency is going to Fail. Let them FAIL.
Is that really that hard a concept? LET THEM FAIL
I don't think the Japanese people are being neglected, but I don't think they're being treated 'fairly' overall.
Having a spokesman for the Nuclear Reactor announce that the radiation won't hurt people, only to then break down in tears a few days later and admit he lied was a pretty huge mistake.
Governments have a bad habit of being honest with their people.
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Actually, I was referring to the 'getting food to starving people' plan. Method for that. Japan is pretty well respected when it comes to disaster relief, but THOR says they 'ain't so good' at getting food to starving people. From his font of experience in that field, of course.
Anyway, I don't see much point talking about this with you, THOR. There's not much productive dialogue to be found. (Edited some remarks I shouldn't have made-sorry about that.)
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quote:Originally posted by Danlo the Wild: ... Stop printing and then pumping trillions of Dollars into the Markets to keep them "Healthy".
If a market or a currency is going to Fail. Let them FAIL.
For the record, the Japanese "printed" money in order to *weaken* their currency because it was getting too strong. Not because it was about to fail.
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If the Japanese Yen got too strong, their exports would plummet, causing more economic trouble.
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Weather...also grounded helicopters needed to deliver supplies to remote areas, according to a United Nations report on the relief effort. In Miyagi, the prefecture worst hit by the temblor and tsunami, a break in the clouds this morning is expected to turn to rain this afternoon, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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Vulture capitalists believed that Japan and companies insuring Japanese lives&property would have to sell off overseas assets in order to raise money to buy yen at a price inflated by currency speculators to pay for relief&rebuilding and to pay off claims. Japan and then (especially) the rest of the G7 said "Nuh-uh, ain't gonna happen." to that blatant attempt to manipulate the exchange rates in order to extort blood money by threatening to flood the open market with their yen reserves.
In terms of poker, the speculators raised...and the G7 raised back with "Let's see if you can afford to buy the House."
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Hang on. If the insurance companies had been paying off claims in more-valuable yen, wouldn't that have been a good thing for the payees, who could have used the foreign currency to import stuff? So I'm not so sure just who is manipulating the currency in a bad way, here.
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There are two brilliant pieces from Charlie Brooker (of generic news report fame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 ) on the media reaction to the Japanese tsunami coverage.
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