You can't evacuate every city that's affected by Harvey. Evacuating Houston would have caused more deaths than riding it out.
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Apple Accepting Donations for Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
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I have mentioned this before and it backlashed on me than more than two weeks ago, about charity theft, the best way is find out what they need buy it and try to get it to them. The threat of major scams on this issue worry me, it seems that some could care less. That elderly home photo was sickening, they were rescued.
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Look at the damage. watch
what are you telling me to watch?
I've seen this. i am NOT (again i say NOT) one of the people saying this is "fake"
infact, if you actually read what i wrote and used reading comprehension, you would see my argument for the very opposite.
unless you mean to tell me that what I'm watching IS "fake" then, i have nothing to say to you as i dont think my Family members are "faking" their house being under almost 4 feet of water.......
I agree with you 100% on this. That pic is faker than a $3 bill...
This faking stuff has been going on since the Japan Tsunami.
Mixing a real photo with a fake composite is child's play these days...
In fact, Japan admitted last year they can easily CGI this stuff - here is the proof:
You picked the wrong topic to start an argument when people are suffering from this, It as just a post! Their are many that think this is fake but from what i've heard they where rescued, as I did mentioned that and sadly you didn't read and comprehend.
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Some think it from Hurricane Katrina from several years ago. I'll have to look more.
Whats with "Prayers for Texas" rubbish Tim Cook. Go and spend some real money.
I don't trust Red Cross after seeing the way they worked in Fiji.
I don't trust Red Cross after seeing the way they worked in Fiji.
I would could call it "salvage army." I tried to donate a t.v but they asked if it was 4k working t.v.
If you have a little bit of time to open your eyes about the REAL Salvation Army, read this:
https://anaconda15.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/fw-salvation-army-slave-nation-army/
Great. An almost billion dollar company working with a company that has bilked many out of their donations and did little to nothing but pay their CEO?
No thanks.
No thanks.
I admire your homework on this, but where are you getting your rankings? The 2017 Fortune 500 has none of the rankings that you have.
- 34 Philips 66 (I will assume you meant to type 34 and hit 4 on this one)
- 115 ConocoPhillips
- 122 Enterprise Products Partners
- 57 Sysco
- 141 Plains GP Holdings
- 173 Halliburton
- 285 Baker Hughes
- 375 National Oilwell Varco
- 488 Apache
- 536 Marathon Oil
With the exception of Sysco, all the companies you list are much lower on the list than you said. Perhaps you looked at old data?
OMG I'm so tired of people who aren't here dealing with this stuff, making crazy comments like this. I went through Hurricane Rita and saw a how much of a pain in the ass it was trying to get out of Houston. Thank God Houston didn't really get that much of Rita b/c had it hit the way Allison did, me and my family and others stuck on the highway trying to escape probably would've been killed or at least seriously injured.
This is Houston aka the 4th largest city in the US....not some rinky dink mom and pop town from up the way that nobody knows about. You had thousands....possibly millions of folks stranded on the highway. Now imagine that scenario happening plus several feet of water coming in. The death toll would've been insane. The mayor made the right call. That storm went from "damn" to "hold the hell up now" real quick and it's gonna only get worse before it gets better. I don't even mean to come at you this way but I really wish folks would stop throwing out this bs
I agree but also found out that when companies express how much they donated to a cause/disaster, it encourages their customers/followers to donate as well. (Lead by example.) I think I would be ok with a company stating that they donated but not specifying how much $$$. On another note, the internet would attach that company for only donating $10,000 vs donating $1 million like other companies. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Lol I donated $120 to Haiti via the Red Cross, the Haitian people saw 0 of that money. The Red Cross is a scam!
What were they supposed to do? Houston tried evacuating for Hurricane Rita and over 100 people died in their cars during the massive traffic jam. It took over 30 hours to get to Dallas and that is a 3 hour drive from Houston. It is safer for Houston to wait it out and people in low areas be rescued than for 5 million or so people to try and leave.
Indeed, look at me, I'm so generous, you can give ME money, I get free advertising, and my name linked to charity, I'll just pass on the money, looking even more amazing as I'm seen as the one doing thing.
Thank god I don't have to give anyone, any on my money.
So nice of billionaires to encourage us little people to donate to each other.
Thanks everyone in the thread for informing us the the Red Cross is useless, the Sally Army is evil, it's Apple's responsibility anyway, and who cares because it's all a CGI fake. It makes not doing a damn thing so much easier.
That's the worst and most useless thing you can do. The relief organisations are drowning in "stuff". The people in the crisis areas do not need any more blankets, cloths, or food that is heaping up somewhere in some warehouses.
They need logistics. They need doctors. They need helpers. They need spiritual care. None of which your "stuff" can provide.
Thanks for the correction. I somewhat lazily used the first dataset I could find - and that was from 2013.
Quite a difference in four years.
For years I have been asking people to name that law. It is doesn't exist, although apparently some state courts believe the is a 'common understanding'. If stockholders don't like how a company is being run, they can sell their stocks at no further risk. Workers, on the other hand, have much more of an investment in a company, for changing jobs is harder than selling a stock. We have to start thinking rationally about whose interests a company should serve, and I believe that the true stakeholders are include far more than shareholders. But the shareholders are the top 1%, so....
Getting back to the thread, I was gutted to see the damage done to Texas by this storm. It's tragically ironic given that the wealth in the area is based largely on fossil fuels, but I suspect that the people who will be hit the worst by this disaster will be the poor. We need everybody pulling together to help the people affected by this, and the Red Cross is effective when it comes to a calamity of this magnitude.
Yep, plus you get the tax benefit while the ones actually spending the money don't get one. Nice racket Apple..
Agreed. The fastest way to get anything done in America is with cash.
Yes, there will be waste, but no system devised by man is 100% efficient. If you wait for that level of perfection, you'll never get anything done.