Some opinions on Tsunami

The death toll at Southeast Asia caused by the deadly tsunami are still soaring. I saw some posts regarding to the tragedy while I was navigating yahoo news. I will post more as I see them. They don't reflect my opinion, it's a record of people (minority) who reacted to this disaster.

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Let's study last 3 big "disasters"
by: tom_world1 (69/M/US CENTRAL COMMAND) 12/31/04 05:06 am
Msg: 21419 of 22223

1) French heat wave kills about 20,000.

2) Iran earthquake kills about 60,000.

3) Tsunami kills about 120,000.

Looks to me like God has been busy punishing the biggest anti-American crapheads on the planet.

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Death tolls are fake
by: tom_world1 (69/M/US CENTRAL COMMAND) 12/31/04 02:13 am
Msg: 21006 of 22244

The beggars have seen the flash of a dollar and now all of a sudden are raising their death tolls to grab the larger slice of the hysterical idiot donor pie.

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Re: AMERICA? ARE YOU LISTENING?
by: hookmans (99/Niger) 12/31/04 02:38 am
Msg: 21075 of 22304

We Americans believe in having fun. A Party for Bush, death to muslims and a few scraps to the starving. Makes sense to me. Hell most will die anyway. why waist good devalued greenbacks on dying people.


Posted as a reply to: Msg 21067 by tell_no_lies05

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60,000 Muslims dead. I'm glad
by: collidaescope (24/M/Beverly Hills, CA) 12/30/04 12:08 am
Msg: 3389 of 22658
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I'm so happy that the tsunami killed at least 50,000 Muslims in Indonesia alone.

A lot of white hats in the water. HA HA HA

Indonesia is 88% Muslims:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/id.html

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These two were both appeared in my assessment. I found them on internet.

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What a foolish comment

I have just read reports about the join bid of MTR Hong Kong and GNER for serving all Kent and Southeast London. It’s a 71%(GNER)/29%(MTR) investment, both companies could benefit from the expertise of their partner. MTR brings punctuality of 99% while GNER has been here for a while, and no doubt this is certainly good news for people at Kent. However, Roger Ford, who is a technical editor of Modern Railways magazine, when asked the implication of such foreign participation by Guardian, he said:

Roger Ford, technical editor of Modern Railways magazine, said it was foolish to expect overseas operators to work magic: "MTR is a very good operation in Hong Kong. But they have a brand new system which was built by the Brits. They have brand new trains and a brand new track which has been steadily upgraded and improved. Compare that with Kent and what do they know?"

I think he has missed something. First of all, nobody expects magic here, according to Guardian, MTR has 80km of railway track and carries 2.24 million passengers a day which is 10% of Kent’s track length but 5 times the passengers number. There are simply too many problems causing the delays, such as track conditions and carriage age. Refurbishment of the whole network is costly and must be done in years, I think 10 years would be a reasonable figure.

Second, MTR started running its service since 1979, about 25 years of age. Do you think they stopped since then? Improvement was done from time to time, day in day out. If you consider the world 25 years ago, when people were not depending on transport the way like now, they improved a “hell” lot. The brand new system didn’t help them, the maintenance and improvement did.

Finally, vandalism has always been a problem within Britain, they cost millions to get rid of them. Phil Gaffney, a former British Rail engineer and MTR’s director of operations, could only recall 3-4 incidents of vandalism in 25 years. Some stupid people here in Britain pointed out MTR couldn’t cope with the culture difference, have you forgotten it’s a join bid? Where is GNER? They will deal with it, and please blame the English for vandalism, not a rail operator.

Guardian Report
Times Report