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Massive quake hits Japan 9.0 Magnitude

Another real class act, suprised Limbaugh kept his addict mouth shut as long as he did:

http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/17/rush-limbaugh-mocks-japanese-earthquake-survivors/

Making fun of people for having the class and respect to continue recycling despite being in shelters?

Really grasping for straws there, Limbaugh. Sorry this country maintains civility and order in the midst of disaster, guess not all countries can aspire to being like the New Orleans Looter, wading waist deep with a bucket of stolen Heineken with an ear-to-ear-grin and people running around like chickens with their head cut off in a panic.

Looting is virtually non-existent, people have self-organized single file lines outside of convenience stores with no complaining, arguing, pushing, or shoving, and wait patiently for hours. People in shelters still take their shoes off when stepping on the cardboard/tarps they have laid out. People are limited to certain amounts of items at stores, and they respect that, no cheating, no arguing.

Everybody is respectful, everyone is dignified.

And here's an obese drug addict making fun of them for it? That's really the best he's got?

A lot could be learned from the Japanese, a LOT.
 
puma1552 said:
Another real class act, suprised Limbaugh kept his addict mouth shut as long as he did:

http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/17/rush-limbaugh-mocks-japanese-earthquake-survivors/

Making fun of people for having the class and respect to continue recycling despite being in shelters?

Really grasping for straws there, Limbaugh. Sorry this country maintains civility and order in the midst of disaster, guess not all countries can aspire to being like the New Orleans Looter, wading waist deep with a bucket of stolen Heineken with an ear-to-ear-grin and people running around like chickens with their head cut off in a panic.

Looting is virtually non-existent, people have self-organized single file lines outside of convenience stores with no complaining, arguing, pushing, or shoving, and wait patiently for hours. People in shelters still take their shoes off when stepping on the cardboard/tarps they have laid out. People are limited to certain amounts of items at stores, and they respect that, no cheating, no arguing.

Everybody is respectful, everyone is dignified.

And here's an obese drug addict making fun of them for it? That's really the best he's got?

A lot could be learned from the Japanese, a LOT.
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It's also because the Japanese people are relatively rich on average. People aren't as despirate for a good part of their lives and didn't always live in an environment that regularly displayed "everyone for themselves" attitudes.

It's true that America is "rich" too, but... America not only consists of a lot of poor imigrants who bring their 3rd world habits with them and spread it, but has a really big gap between the haves and have nots.

It boils down to economics. Even when you talk to just shopowners, they are the most cautious regarding shoplifting when certain "minorities" come into the store. Mainly blacks and hispanics. Why? look at the statistic and you will see they are at the FAR bottom of the income distribution. And it's not because of the "color of their skin". Indians are pretty "black" too. But no one is really more alarmed when they come into the store. Guess what? Asians are the top income earners in the US...WAY above Whites even! ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_States
 
rasmasyean said:
It's true that America is "rich" too, but... America not only consists of a lot of poor imigrants who bring their 3rd world habits with them and spread it, but has a really big gap between the haves and have nots.
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Has little or even nothing to do with the thread's topic, but I would like to know what you meant by this, because I really didn't get it.
 
1. Thank you to the Mod who changed the title to a 9.0. Been bothering me for days. ;)

2. I believe it was yours truly who first broached the subject of Chernobyl, by saying "I pray that this will not turn into another Chernobyl situation." Nothing more.
 
derstandard.at has reposted their photos from the, never activated, austrian nuclear plant (design from the early 70ties)

http://derstandard.at/1297820691845/Cremers-Photoblog-Inside-Zwentendorf

some cool pictures there
it is now used for spare parts for the still active nuclear plants of the same design, for training future staff for those plants(nothing is radioactive) and as a museum, they also installed solar panels on some of the roofs
also on the perimeter: a facility to treat injured, starving hedgehogs ...(sadly not pictured)

edit: it is also popular as a location for making movies
 
Thanks Puma1552 for your comments to me.

takao said:
derstandard.at has reposted their photos from the, never activated, austrian nuclear plant (design from the early 70ties)

http://derstandard.at/1297820691845/Cremers-Photoblog-Inside-Zwentendorf
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Amazing photos of the inside of the reactor itself, the water torus, and the control rod mechanisms, and of where the fuel rods actually go.

Photo description:
Austria: nuclear reactor Zwentendorf, construction started 1972, finished 1978, never activated following a no-vote in a national referendum on November 5th, 1978.
It is a boiling water reactor like the one in Fukushima and about the same age.
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Really helps to visualise what Fukushima might look like on the inside.

Sample photo showing where the control rods and fuel rods go:

1297915064900.jpg


The bottom of the reactor vessel. White rods are the control rods, the stainless steel holes are where the fuel rods would be inserted:

1297915064744.jpg
 
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puma, regarding the purported effectiveness of the four initial water drops, it was plant officials on the japanese TV (in english, on line). they were showing graphs in which there was a decline in radiation measured somewhere at/near the plant from around 290s to 270/280s (or numbers around there, i don't remember exactly).

in any case, hopefully the situation is stabilizing and will be defused in the near-future without dire consequences, and everyone will be able to focus on helping out the people in the disaster areas.

unfortunately the recent numbers of predicted casualties are more in line with what seemed reasonable, and not the incredibly optimistic low numbers suggested at the beginning.
 
Hisdem said:
Has little or even nothing to do with the thread's topic, but I would like to know what you meant by this, because I really didn't get it.
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All I’m saying is (regarding to the looting) it revolves around the state of the economy. “Japanese Culture” (or “honor”), doesn’t necessarily deserve the primary credit for this. If you look at Japanese history, the farmers (later warped into American ninja legends) always had to defend them from the ruling Samurai who would oppress them. I mean, why else would wheat flails (nunchukus) , sickles (kama), planters (sia), etc. be adapted as a whole assortment of makeshift weapons?

I mean, do you think Afghanistan (the poorest nation on earth practically) really consists of “good Muslims with the fear of Allah”? When the Taliban ruled and exacted harsh medieval penalties: chopping off hands and head, stoning to death, slitting throat…in a stadium for all to witness justice, they had stability. In come the Americans and they are wiped out in days and what you have? Murder, rape, uninhibited revenge killings, poppy economy, and a whole slew of other corruptions. Like those stories of little kids would sell you bogus anything and even fake information for a dollar and disappear after another kid lifts your wallet, right?

Not that Japan doesn’t have “poor people”, but as a whole, their capitalist state of economy has advanced way past USA’s. That is something USA has yet to reach, and of course, every 3rd worlder who immigrates widens that economic gap. Because, of course, the capitalist likes to hire where applicable, the same worker for $3 vs. $5.
 
All I have to say is that my cousin is over there right now helping with the situation. His wife and son were evacuated last week, and I can't help but worry for him.
 
Cruising along at 200 mph on a bullet train bound for Tokyo as we speak...immigration appointment for the wife at the embassy tomorrow...things are back to normal with the embassy.
 
I donated a weeks worth of sales of our games to Japan. It's all we (as a small developer) could do.
 
Dagless said:
I donated a weeks worth of sales of our games to Japan. It's all we (as a small developer) could do.
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I misread that and thought you had donated some sum of video games to Japan. I thought, "just what they need :rolleyes:"

But that's awesome! I think the way the Japanese people (no looting, very organized, quick to respond) and the way other people have supported Japan in this crisis is really heart warming and reignites my faith in humanity. :)
 
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