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5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up SF Bay Area
Joe Kaz wrote in (along with a number of other concerned folks): "There was a 5.2 Earthquake in Gilroy, CA, 70 miles south of San Francisco. The epicenter was 4.7 miles below surface. It lasted for about 10 seconds, and it did seem like a long time. Everything shook for a while, and it was a little scary. No reports of damage yet. Hope everyone is ok." I've got a report from my sisters father-in-law in gilroy (the epicenter) and he barely noticed it. Nate Oostendorp noted that "My stereo shook a little" in Walnut Creek. The SF Gate story on the quake notes that there are some phones out in some small parts of San Jose. The usgs has an event monitoring page if you are interested.
Okay, forget karma or what not for a second. Honestly, why is this on slashdot? I'm not sure I approve of reporting minor earthquakes in San Francisco when I know hundreds of people die every day or so in huge catastrophes across the world. I'm an American, but I'm a little sick of this American-centric view of what's important. Either all minor disasters get reported, or none of them.
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Yeah, those blizzards and hurricanes must be great fun.
How on earth do all you Californians deal with it?
How? Because they almost never happen. The last major one in the Bay Area was in 1989. Before that? Probably the one by Eureka in 1922. The last to do a major amount of damage? 1906. Every one since the 1989 quake has been just a tiny little rumbling.
Trivial. Folks who don't live here sometimes seem under the impression that we're constantly shutting down due to earthquakes. Fact is, in northern California, you're probably only going to be in a major quake once in your life.
On the other hand, I was a little nervous when I worked on the second floor of a building in San Francisco that was made of 50-year old unreinforced brick.
Fun fact: California gets a bad earthquake rap, but 10 of the 15 largest earthquakes recorded in the US (including the top 8) were in Alaska. The greatest recorded earthquake in the contiguous United States was located in Missouri, not a place that usually comes to mind when one thinks "earthquake."
East Coast: Hurricanes, Blizzards, Nor'easters EVERY FUCKING YEAR. Hundreds killed EVERY FUCKING YEAR.
Still prefer the East Coast?
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
I am Greek and english is not my native language. We do OSNews for fun (however, OSNews takes most of my time every day), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question. Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
Ahem, Eugenia. You've been living in English language countries for AT LEAST A DECADE from what I gather. You've spent the last year and a half giggling moronically and getting your bologna tits caught in a wringer after you've been trolled. Here's an idea you smelly twat: Get some advanced ESL text books and read those. Fuck, you've probably spent more time eating the dried phlegm from your nasal cavity than studying English. You are living in an English language nation, and are therefore a burden on society without sufficient language skills. You're not fit to be my house maid, as far as your language skills are concerned. Furthermore, you are a lazy cunt since you've not been motivated to do this relatively simple task as of yet. Please stop polluting the technology/operating system scene with your garbage writing, you seek out the spotlight like a fucking tomahawk missile seeks heat. It's PATHETIC! Get English text books and get a fucking life you stupid little olive-smuggling whore!
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's gridning the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, asscrack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgement approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherant broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
You fat fucking smelly Greek whore! Do you even wash on the rare occasions when your husband wants to fuck you? I bet your arse smells like a pig farm after eating all of the fucking pork and potatoes you cook-- you do nothing but sit all day, sweating and farting. It must smell like a swamp where criminals dump bodies in the sweltering heat.
Do you even shave? You sound like a lazy fucking wart of a housewife who wouldn't even bother. I bet the place is a mess too: dishes needing done, a layer of dust over everything, and stains and spills here and there. What a fucking pig-- a hairy fucking Greek bitch-pig.
Oh yeah, and your "skills" are laughable. You can't code for shit-- there's more holes in your PHP site than in a Greek brothel. Your English is terrible, which is pathetic for an editor-in-chief of a news site that reports in the language. Your obvious biases and slants make you look even more silly and unprofessional, as well as your multi-paragraph rants and fits of rage you write in your own forums. It's no wonder no one takes you seriously.
In short, ELQ, FUCK YOU. You are a loser, a no-lifer, a wanna-be, and a fecal smear in the world of technology. You are a detriment to the community you claim you serve. I challenge you to refute one thing I have said. You can't; it's all true.
And you know it.
Eugenia--
Have you ever taken a step back and looked at your life? Taken a calming deep breath, cleared your head, and
assessed the situation? Looked around at what you have made for yourself, what you've done and how it's affected
you? If you had, it wouldn't be hard to see that things aren't as rosy as most people would be comfortable with;
furthermore, it seems as if you're not comfortable with you or your situation either. It's no large feat to
realize that things in your life are falling apart, and have been for quite a while. In fact, you don't really
seem to have a life now and all that you own or have is going to go away eventually because it's not yours. Yes,
Eugenia, here's the simple, terrible truth: your life is in shambles and it's only getting worse.
Let's take a look at the swill and depravity that you live in.
Your Slashdot journal entry from Saturday, March 02, 2002 encapsulates your attitude toward hygiene (or lack
thereof) in one sordid little pill:
there is only ONE thing I can't stand: The upstairs people. They do things with the water at 6:30 in the
morning, every morning
Eugenia, this is known as bathing. The concept may be foreign to your rancid Greek arse but it's a fact of life to millions of Americans everyday. Oops! I forgot you're not an American citizen. Well, we'll touch on that
later...
Here are a few quotes out of your Slashdot journal, taken from Sunday, March 03 through Thursday, March 14, 2002 that do well to exemplify your lack of will-power and discipline.
Today, I started a "real" diet. And yes, this time, the diet IS HERE TO STAY [...] my diet goes well
[...] Diet goes ok, I suppose. I mean, I feel that I do a more balanced diet now, as opposing of losing
weight right here, right now. I hope it continues well [...] I feel a bit weak, but it is not too bad
[...] Argh, I got a terrible headache now [...] I am roasting some pork and oven potatoes
Within just a short eleven-day period we see a rapid downward spiral into fleshly indulgence and lack of self-
control, hastened by physical sickness and ailments resulting from simply eating properly. Your body has attuned
itself so finely to your horrid eating habits that it actually grows ill over these eleven days to the point
that finally, in desperation over a migraine, you cook up a grease-laden meal to satiate your thirst for all
things fat.
Have you no self control? Look at yourself! You have a gut that just won't go away-- you look like an ugly,
stinky, fat little troll even on your wedding day for Christ's sake! Have you no pride or respect for yourself?
Not even just enough to make you stave off those pork and potatoes? Gluttony will destroy your life, Eugenia.
It's already destroyed your body.
Eugenia, it's clear to me (and everyone else) that you're mentally unbalanced and delusional. Please, seek help
immediately. You are in dire need of counseling and/or therapy for a myriad of issues, among which are hygeine,
self-discipline, and proper English grammar. We're behind you all the way, Eugenia, you can do it.
A ridiculous broken-English reply, showing Eugenia's uncontrollable temper. I would pity any offspring she might bear, if she doesn't eat them with the afterbirth shortly after bearing it.
LOOK, I do not have to keep up with you fucking trolls.
I AM SO FUCKING PISSED with some of you guys.
WHAT THAT FUCK do you EXPECT from a review of such an application? HUH? WHAT?
What else?
>"advertisements thinly disguised as reviews"
Can you please justify your claim?
What the fuck are you implying? That I got money from the company? Is that you are implying, you prick?
Because let me tell you something. I haven't got a single dime for **ANY** of my work on OSNews. I do not even
control the money of the ads. I do not own OSNews. I do OSNews reporting and work for fun. But it ain't fun anymore.
I am out of here. You are so fucking clueless and so critical of eveything Windows is posted here. WHY a Windows
System utility is an ad, and a review of a free open source utility would not be one?
HUH? WHY?
Let me tell you why.
Because you fucking hate Windows and because you are NOT USED to see Windows reviews over here. Well, let me tell
you something you trolls: Windows has the 93% of the desktop market and that means that we will be JUST stupid if we
do not have MORE Windows articles on OSNews. We like it or not, that is the market and if I fucking stay over here, I
swear you are going to see more Windows articles. Windows is what I use most of my time anyway. If you do not like
it, or if you want it to be a Slashdot or like the usual places where you can come in and troll about Windows and its
applications, GO THE HELL OUT OF HERE.
So, what do you imply? HAH? WHAT?
I have nothing to do with LIUtilities other than sending me their latest version as their default one had problems on my
machine, neither they paid me, neither this is a FUCKING advertising. This was a HONEST review. If you do not believe
me, get the FUCK OUT OF HERE, or I will and that would be the end of OSNews as neither Jon or David have time or the
drive to run OSNews everyday. I spent a whole week with the app, and I wrote my experiences with it. The good
experiences and the BAD experiences. This is a system-level utility, so I thought I should make a review after LIUtilities
submitted a news story about their release a few weeks back. I decided that instead of just making a dry news item for
their release, to try the app myself and write a review.
Why is this an "advertising" and my eCS OS/2, QNX reviews were not? WHY? In fact, in many other reviews or
previews I wrote for OSNews, I had to sign FUCKING NDAs. For this application, it is just a review with no such
restrictions by anyone. And yet, you critisize this "unusual" review-article, you did not critisize the (always 100% honest
IMNSHO) NDA articles I did in the past. Because you are freaking single minded Windows haters. That's why.
And if I stay here, you will see more of these, "filthy Windows applications" reviewed here.
Going to see the OSNews owner. I am probably going to resign. Depends on my mood later.
Sorry people, I don't think that a local 'weather' report is worthy of a
I'm as about concerned about minor quakes in the US as I sure most
This is not
trellick
"umm... cuntpaste, do you even know what industry is "just south of san francisco"? 5.2 is a tiny quake but still a concern to datacenters and their caretakers. "
If all they're datacenters are not backed up at a nother location, then the morons deserve what they get! This is not a story!