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Reply #220 on: January 07, 2005, 08:02:37 am
he'd never make it past the SS
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Reply #221 on: January 07, 2005, 08:54:19 am
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Reply #222 on: January 07, 2005, 10:58:00 am
Interesting critical article on the financial aid.
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Reply #223 on: January 07, 2005, 11:28:12 am
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Interesting critical article on the financial aid.

Well duh that not all the money gets there in actual goods. What do you think it costs to transport the stuff from all over the world to a place with virtually no effective infrastructure left?

And some people seem to underestimate the cost of rebuilding infrastructure as a whole. It costs containers full of money to clear all the debris, you don't just need to rebuild houses you also need to rebuild powerplants, factories, transport facilities.

People are complaining that most of the money doesn't go 'to the people'. Bull**** if you ask me. People don't pay attention when money gets poured into anything besides food and the immediate concerns. That's like the very tip of the iceberg.

Not to mention that in the current chaos money IS going to be wasted. there is no fighting it. it's a fact that not all moey will be spent with 100% effictivity. Such a thing is impossible to begin with.

Sorry, but that article seems a little bit (read: very) presumptious.
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Reply #224 on: January 08, 2005, 09:12:40 am
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That might be true, but now people have opened their eyes. There were millions and millions of people who hadn't thought of donating to anything before this disaster. Maybe after the dust settles down a bit, they see that this isn't the only place that needs help.

I for one certainly hope so. :)


or, more realistically, people will remember that this other place which needs help is still one ****ed up continent after all the billions poured into it in various ways and go on to ignore it more or less since no amount of money is going to solve anything there unless the people living there change their ways...

What this shows is that people are still willing to donate to sudden disasters, not that they arenecessarily going to care more about places that have been a mess since most were born.


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Reply #225 on: January 09, 2005, 07:51:18 pm
Well, I heard this weekend that the Brazilian government may be sending the carrier São Paulo there with choppers to help on the rescue/aid delivery efforts. It's a lot more practical than just sending money, and will do a lot more to save the lives that need saving now than sending just money would.

I hope they actually send it.
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Reply #226 on: January 09, 2005, 08:20:05 pm
Actually, I hear that diaster crews aren't really in such demand anymore. The Canadian government sent their diaster crew to the area, and basically what they were told is "thanks for showing up guys, we really could have used you two weeks ago. Now, uh, go clean up that rubble over there".
 

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Reply #227 on: January 11, 2005, 09:56:53 am
Last night on the news; a man has survived a whole week drifting at sea and ended up in a pool of mud with only his head sticking out. He was barely conciouss and could only say his own name as they found him.

A small miracle I'd say. :) A whole week...

And also, Holland just announced a 200 million Euro donation for the rebuilding of the disaster areas on top of the 40 million for immediate aid. All-in-all 355 million Euro has been raised here (~466 million USD).

Now, let's hope all the money can make difference. :)
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Reply #228 on: January 11, 2005, 10:35:40 am
At least he'll have good skin. Heavy price mind - worse than the body shop dare I say.

Anyway, I wonder what everyone thinks of Indonesia banning aid workers from going outside the two main areas.
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Reply #229 on: January 11, 2005, 10:42:20 am
Stupid, stupid people.

Finnish Minister of Culture decides to spend her vacation - one she propably booked long, long time ago - in Thailand, playinggolf.

This is obviously bad, according to several suckass newspapers and some of the idiotic masses.
"OH NOES SHE MUST NOT TRAVEL THERE AND SPEND HER MONEY BECAUSE THE THAILAND NEEDS MONEY AND NOT HER MONEY SHE WOULD SPEND THERE oh wait"

Hey let's stop buing Thai products as well because it would be tasteless! And let's put their country on embargo! AND DECLARE WAR ON THEM



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Reply #230 on: January 11, 2005, 11:20:12 am
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Anyway, I wonder what everyone thinks of Indonesia banning aid workers from going outside the two main areas.


Did they actually ban them? I thought they were just strongly reccomending people stick to the main streets and stuff because of all the rebel groups and suchlike. It kind of makes sense when you take into account the fact that all the military people from other nations are there unarmed.
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Reply #231 on: January 11, 2005, 11:34:28 am
They banned 'em.
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Reply #232 on: January 20, 2005, 12:04:15 am
 

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Reply #233 on: January 20, 2005, 12:23:33 am
Yep, considering the time that has passed since the event, if a missing person hasn't been found, the odds are heavily in favor of them being dead, so they just declared everyone on the list(70,000?) dead.

Sad, but not the worse natural disaster to strike the region.  There was something about a century ago that killed 900,000.
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Reply #234 on: January 20, 2005, 12:40:47 am
Oh man.... :(

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