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Post by Doctor Fishcake on Mar 12, 2011 6:14:45 GMT -5
And the numerologists are having a field day with the nuclear plant explosion, because apparently 9/11/01 + 12/03/11 = 21/12/12
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Mar 12, 2011 6:18:31 GMT -5
Ah, I see, you're just living in your alternate reality again. Where simple things like blankets and food that were destroyed by the earthquake and flooding are "lavish aid". I guarantee you that multi-millions of dollars will go in aid to Japan. Because they need it. It's not lavish if it's necessary.
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Post by ltfred on Mar 12, 2011 6:20:59 GMT -5
I guarantee you that multi-millions of dollars will go in aid to Japan. Because they need it. It's not lavish if it's necessary. Define necessary.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Mar 12, 2011 6:22:33 GMT -5
Because they need it. It's not lavish if it's necessary. Define necessary. Necessary as in they'll die without it. Food, Warmth, Shelter, and Drinking Water. These don't come cheap when you're dealing with basically an entire country.
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Post by ltfred on Mar 12, 2011 6:28:21 GMT -5
Necessary as in they'll die without it. Food, Warmth, Shelter, and Drinking Water. These don't come cheap when you're dealing with basically an entire country. And Japan can provide all of them without enormous difficulty. Bangladesh cannot. How are you going to ship over shelter, anyway?
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Mar 12, 2011 6:35:08 GMT -5
Necessary as in they'll die without it. Food, Warmth, Shelter, and Drinking Water. These don't come cheap when you're dealing with basically an entire country. And Japan can provide all of them without enormous difficulty. Bangladesh cannot. How are you going to ship over shelter, anyway? I forgot to mention: Medical supplies. Also, ever heard of tents? These are things Japan may not be able to acquire easily, due to location. Not to mention it's just darn good human nature to chip in and help out, which has been proven to lead to more successful societies. Which is, by the way, what we are currently doing with those starving orphans you tried to guilt trip me about. So you can't say we're being selective about it, because we aren't. Not to mention that there will be starving orphans in Japan, too, but it seems you don't actually care about them.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Mar 12, 2011 6:45:30 GMT -5
And the numerologists are having a field day with the nuclear plant explosion, because apparently 9/11/01 + 12/03/11 = 21/12/12
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Post by ltfred on Mar 12, 2011 6:52:15 GMT -5
And Japan can provide all of them without enormous difficulty. Bangladesh cannot. How are you going to ship over shelter, anyway? I forgot to mention: Medical supplies. Also, ever heard of tents? Japan will not run out of tents. Japan will probably be able to find alternative housing for nearly all of the victims anyway. Japan will certainly not run out of medicine, just as the Third World will certainly never recieve enough. It is good nature to help out the needy, but it is immoral not to apply a cost-benefit analysis. How can you do the most good? Probably by helping the most needy. Efficiency is a good thing, even in charity. That's why I think charity organisations like cancer research charities are stupid; the money should be spent lobbying the government to do more, since the government can afford money in an order of magnitude more than any group of private indivduals- but won't spend it without a reasonable amount of poking. Unless the United States spends roughly 100,000 times as much on starving children alone this year (let alone starving adults, underdevelopment and other problems), it is being selective. Compare the amounts of aid given to Japan and Haiti (which is yet to recover). I would guess that the amount will be roughly 1:1. It should be about 24,000:1, at least. If they choose not to feed their orphans, that is their decision. The Japanese government certainly has the power to feed them, even assuming zero foreign assistance.
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Post by CtraK on Mar 12, 2011 7:18:12 GMT -5
Sorry Fred, but I'll have to confiscate that shovel for the Japanese aid effort (yoink, utterance of "ta").
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Post by shykid on Mar 12, 2011 7:20:34 GMT -5
And the numerologists are having a field day with the nuclear plant explosion, because apparently 9/11/01 + 12/03/11 = 21/12/12 ....h'ooookay.
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Post by Doctor Fishcake on Mar 12, 2011 7:43:33 GMT -5
Cookie for anyone who noticed that the aforementioned numerology relies on being inconsistent with day-before-month (British style) and month-before-day (American style), by the way.
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Post by shykid on Mar 12, 2011 7:55:40 GMT -5
Yay, I get a cookie! *noms*
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Post by mice34 on Mar 12, 2011 8:05:40 GMT -5
Gaaaah, poor Japan. I hope they don't go into nuclear meltdown. That is not a sentence I expected to be typing last week.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 8:56:58 GMT -5
Fuck people who can't let go of the past, especially when they hadn't even been born then. They give the rest of us who are interested in history a bad name. This goes double for anything at all to do with World War II.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Mar 12, 2011 8:58:40 GMT -5
Ah, I see, you're just living in your alternate reality again. Where simple things like blankets and food that were destroyed by the earthquake and flooding are "lavish aid". I guarantee you that multi-millions of dollars will go in aid to Japan. Just like what was given to Haiti and the like. mhm. And to help those little orphans you mentioned.
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