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Tsunami Satellite Images

Posted by samzenpus on from the wow dept.

JakeisBland writes "Here is a collection of before/after satellite pictures of the devastation in Asia due to the tsunami/earthquake."

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  1. Re:Cisco by gkuz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What moron modded this as Flamebait? An American company with a global market donates $2.5 million to disaster relief, and you call that flamebait?

  2. Re:Are you stingy? by Presidential · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Bush could have scored some real points if say he'd cancelled his $40 million "I got elected again" party and given the money to the cause.


    Well, it'd be a farce anyways since he wasn't ELECTED the first time, but AWARDED with the win by the Supreme Court.
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  3. Re:wow by starnix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Were you born a moron or did you take classes to get like this?

  4. Re:wow by Oliver+Defacszio · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Dear Dr. Touchy-Feely,

    Who says that I am responsible for anyone else? Seriously. "When will [I] realize" this? How about when it is sourced from anything more reputable than your left-wing ideals. Maybe it's from the Bible -- I hope so, because we can discuss that ALL day.

    Not everyone experiences the same blind kinship that you do, and I encourage you to take your weepy, patronizing "humanism" and jam it.

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  5. Re:wow by budgenator · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does no one teach social responsability anymore?
    Doesn't your version of moral responsibility include taking heed of warnings designed to reduce damage and suffering due to nature disasters? There is a tsunami warning system in place and the effected countries did not opt in to the system. As a result the death toll is going to be about 10 times what it would have been if people had simply evacuated low-lying costal areas.

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  6. Re:wow by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The developed world doesn't owe them anything; calling us stingy is unlikely to help loosen our pursestrings.

    On the contrary, the word "stingy" changed a $15m US donation into $35m one overnight. It most certainly did loosen purse strings. In situations like this, criticism of those that are not doing enough is very valuable.

    Don't like your country being called stingy? Boo-hoo, I feel really sorry for you.

  7. Re:wow by aminorex · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm still waiting for satellite photos of Fallujah to become available again. The last time the USDoD allowed private sales of IKONOS images was November 15th. I guess Fallujah is gone now. A city of 250,000 people, wiped from the face of the earth. It's pretty awesome.

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  8. Re:wow by cmallinson · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The US and its citizens are the most generous in the world. I heard someone on the radio complain that most of it is being used here, and only 6% was being sent overseas. Well, when you are donating TRILLIONS, I'd say 6% is okay. The US government (just the government - I don't have figures on private donations yet) already sent $35 million to help the tsunami victims. Maybe that's stingy, but it's a lot more than the $116 THOUSAND the French sent. As long as you're helping your neighbor, that's honorable.

    Here's the basis for my morality.

    John 15:19

    Deut 15:11

    Matt 26:11

    First of all, if you need a book to tell you that you should help people in need, then don't call it morals. Secondly, almost everything you have said is wrong. The US does not come close to donating "Trillions" of dollars to anything. In 2003 The US donated 0.14% of it's GDP (about 15 billion), where France donated 0.41% (ref). Give up on the France bashing. They have given close to $30M so far, as well as provided military assistance.