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T-Mobile Offers Relief for Hurricane Victims
lilrowdy18 writes "Eweek reports that T-Mobile is offering free Wi-Fi to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. This relief will be free until Sept 2 and an evaluation will be done to see if it will continue after that. The hot spots are only available to residents of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and does not include phone service. The article also includes a link to a map of T-Mobile hotspots. At least we can use some form of communication to get in touch with loved ones."
It is great that Germany is chipping in to help out the disaster victims. I hear Hugo Chavez is helping out with oil from Venezuela.
I remember hearing that the citizens of the USA (not the govt.) are extremely generous, and help out when others have problems. Our government doesn't help out much (it allows the citizens to decide how the money gets spent, if it gets spent at all) -- but the citizens of the USA are insanely generous. At the drop of a hat, they send teddy bears and other useless feelgood items to disaster sites. I'm fixing to send a big stuffed dinosaur to Alabama, Missispi and Lousiana any minute now.
Anyway, I'm happy to see it isn't only a one way street, and that other coutries can be generous too. E.g. India, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Thailand will be sending us something -- e.g. maybe some of those made-in-China teddy bears we sent them.
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Hope they brought power to charge stuff with.
The long term help for the entire country would be to fix the energy supply.
Need more oil wells. Yea, if there are more places actually producing oil, then each amount of downtime would impact all of us less. We'd be able to live better, not having to spend more and more of our income on fuel costs to drive to work, heat our homes, run our computers (power plants have to run on something, even if it's nuclear), and keep reasearchers powered working on other fuel methods.
Really, we need more refineries. They're not pretty, but having 6-12 more of them would really help smooth things out. Think of the extra effort that can go into maintenance now that they don't HAVE to run 24x7x365 days a year. Again, downtime at one refinery won't hurt prices of energy keeping those researchers looking for alternative energy sources. They can even work in the winter, because they'll be able to afford the heating bills.
Reduce the number of gasoline types in the country. Have one federal standard. That's all. Make everyone use it. Right now there are so many gasoline blends, that the fuel companies are struggling to produce them all. Find a compromise between all of them that is a mix of quality, and cost. Generally change the fuel in the long term to make it burn cleaner, and for our children's sake, put and end to MTBE.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Maybe because they are all in Iraq. Bush now has a chance to pull out and he has an excuse to do it.
But the lake was breached because Herr Bushenführer diverted funds from necessary levee and dyke work in those states to the war in Iraq. Well, that is what several news sources are stating, and it seems to be correct.
... $80 a barrel.
Oh, did Bush, knowing he would be required because of the scale of this hurricane, leave his umpteenth holiday as President of the United States of Abused-citizens BEFORE this happened? No. It's like 9/11 all over again, isn't it, although we may give him the benefit of the doubt as to knowing it will happen beforehand there, it's not as if the FBI and NSA weren't all over it beforehand?
In the meantime, Bush's friends celebrate as oil hits $70
Disclaimer: I think that Bush is a retarded grabber of monkey's butts, so my viewpoint is liable to a slight slant, but you might not detect it because I am fair and even handed with a person's record.