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Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia
pfb writes "From reuters, 'The world's fifth-largest quake in a century has hit southern Asia, triggering a speeding tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India, drowning hundreds, and swamping tourist islands in Thailand and the Maldives.'"
Couldn't you think of anything else to say about this disaster?
And anway, Colombo is exactly on the wrong side of the island to be badly hit (assuming the quake was centered somewhere to the east of Sri Lanka (well the Maldives were hit).
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Cigarettes don't kill, people kill. It's your own fault if you treat your body like a sewer.
A few. We call them Protestants.
Jakarta runs on Windows or Linux.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
The difference is that those people chose to smoke.
Wow, that post is full of so much BS that I could almost see it as parody. ...and now for the *real* reason...
It's not about work ethic or skills. The reason westerners are so expensive is because of our on-going materialistic lifestyles. Simple as that really. Other developing nations live on a minimalist-survival level. And if those said countries have the skills, they will practically work for free compared to a westerners counter part. Yet ironically, those programmers in India are still making a kings ransom worth in relation to the rest of the citizens in India.
As a side note, the influx of work provided by western investment is causing a huge boom in the local India economy. Already India is seeing a demand for motorcycles and luxury cars. It wont be long (culture wise) before the citizens of India too start demanding the same materialistic lifestyles we enjoy just like in Europe, America, Japan, and China (in the process).
Basically, think of this as global economic equilibrium in its purist form.
Life is not for the lazy.
That's right: God is punishing Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand for a crime committed by a dozen Arabs in the north-eastern US, because he has no better grasp on geography, morality, or rationality than the red-necks who have such immediate insight into his intentions and workings.