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Earthquake In China
Several readers sent in links on the earthquake that hit 10 hours ago near the Sichuan city of Chengdu in China. The Telegraph focuses on the citizen journalism that got word on the quake out on the Net instantly (the first report was via Twitter). Science magazine speculates that deaths from this event could exceed the 240,000 killed in the Tangshan quake in 1976, though the estimated death toll is below 10,000 at this writing. Hundreds of videos are up on YouTube, including this footage from a security camera — keep your eye on the goldfish.
Tell me about it.
Not only that, with all the cigarettes they smoke over there, you'd think they wouldn't get the shakes so bad.
Part of the problem has to be that a large part of their economy is built on triads, which aren't the most stable of structures.
Sorry, you fail at not sounding like a dick. In fact, you sound like a small-minded boot-licking xenophobic turd, to tell the truth.
850, that's about as many that died in chinese prisons on the same day
Free TIBET !!
Free TIBET !!
Free BEER !!
You just failed to deliver after a *perfect* setup for a rickroll.
did chinese have a heart when beating down tibet protesters just 2-3 weeks ago, and locking them in to prisons for life ?
Read radical news here
That's [n] less goldfarmers, [n] less people to take your job, and [n] less people who are indoctrinated.
Morbid, yes. In bad taste, perhaps. But that's how they are with their own people, and that is the respect they deserve. They've only revealed what they really are - a nation still in development wrt human rights and product quality.
Consider it a part of karmic justice on that nation, even if it did happen in Tibet.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Dude... Chill.. We have enough people on the planet. If a few die then think of it as mother nature shedding some skin cells like when you wash your hands. It is okay for you to be sorry and unhappy but to be so aggressive in your desire to make other people feel as you do is just not going to cut it.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
well, if you consider how much china has tried to under mind other country's over last 1-2 years. counterfeit cisco hardware putting lead in to toy's on purpose for export attempted to hack gov computers of other country (and gettin busted for it)
because believe it or not, this is quite the international crowd here, and it's equally possible that the insensitive comments that you are finding were posted by non-Americans like yourself. Or wait do "you guys" only get to post self-indulgent, self-important tripe like the above?
I'm not impressed by your silly self-righteousness or your pretentious angst, and I'm sure now that you've spit all that out you won't need to give this little quake in China another passing thought. How nice for you.
There is a slight difference between the events of September 11, 2001 and an earthquake in China, no matter how many people were killed in either event. Just in case you can't recognize what the difference might be, here it is:
SEPTEMBER 11 WAS DELIBERATELY CAUSED BY EVIL PEOPLE WHO PLANNED AND EXECUTED AN EVIL PLAN WHICH KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE, DELIBERATELY. An earthquake, on the other hand, is a natural disaster that humans have no control over. Nobody decided to have an earthquake. But a bunch of really evil pieces of garbage like the 19 cockroaches from Saudi Arabia and the other cockroaches that supported them like that archcockroach Osama Bin Laden DID decide to have September 11. That's the tiny difference. Even if September 11 killed less people than an earthquake, the events of that day alone do completely justify the total and utter destruction of all terrorist organizations around the world, even if no terrorist organization ever participated in any other terrorist attack, and we all know that these organizations DID participate in hundreds of such attacks around the world.
They decided to bomb the WTC, twice. They decided to blow up the aircraft carriers. They decided to hijack and/or blow up airliners on several occasions in the past few decades. They decided to blow up embassies around the world. They decided to burn hundreds of cars in France. They decided to blow up the hotels in Egypt. They decided to blow up the trains in Spain. They decided to blow up the theater in Russia. They decided to blow up the subways in London. They decided to hijack Air France flight 139. They decided to fire thousands upon thousands of rockets into communities throughout Israel, and to blow up nightclubs, pizza parlors, and hotels in the same country. They decided to open fire into a crowd at Los Angeles International Airport. They decided to blow up bombs at marketplaces throughout Iraq. They decided to blow up a playground in Thailand. And since I'm getting tired of typing, let's just sum it up by saying that they decided to perform all kinds of terrorist attacks in Dagestan, India, Lebanon, Somalia, Pakistan, Jordan, Chechnya, Sudan, Yemen, Indonesia, Philippines, Algeria, Mauritania, Turkey, Egypt, and who the heck knows how many other countries.
BUT NOBODY EVER DECIDED TO HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE, TORNADO, ETC.
McCain/Palin '08. Now THAT's hope and change!
You know, not every discussion is a troll. Sometimes a troll even makes me interested in a topic. If I read about FreeBSD dying and netcraft confirming it, I make my own thoughts on the subject and reply in a witty manner.
/.. To me, these measly "over 240.000" people don't really matter. Many of them probably didn't deserve to live anyway, others might just have contributed to the solution for the over-population of our earth. Yeah, it sounds cold, yeah, people might get offended, but you know what?
Did I get "trolled"? Did the troll steal my time? No, because I know it's a troll, and I replied anyway. In fact, I felt entertained for the whole period of time I spent making up a response and typing it.
On an other note, I really appreciated GP's post, because I feel the same, although a little different. I'm really wondering what the fuck this news story is doing on the front page of
I'm not trolling. I'm expressing an opinion.
This should make the Chinese government rethink building safety regulations and add tougher inspection rules before approving any high rises.
I used to live in India where quakes are very commonplace in the northern part of the country. Rampant corruption in the decades past allowed builders to get away with cheap materials and building more floors than their alloted quota. After a lot of collapsed buildings in quakes, the government had to throw in stricter regulations and even knocked down a few illegal high-rises.
It's very sad that China had to go through the same to learn their lesson.
SEPTEMBER 11 WAS DELIBERATELY CAUSED BY EVIL PEOPLE WHO PLANNED AND EXECUTED AN EVIL PLAN WHICH KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE, DELIBERATELY.
Ahhh, but did the Chinese do nothing to incite the earthquake? Of course not, so your nonsense comparison is meaningless. If you don't think the US richly *earned* 9/11 then you are a deeply delusional ignorant fool.
Quit throwing around meaningless words like "evil" when you're too dishonest and cowardly to look at your own actions and that of your country. The actions of the US leave people few other options to get some sort of justice since you're too much of a weak willed cowardly piece of shit to hold your own fucking government accountable. That is your job and you're a complete fucking failure at it. So other people have been forced by the torture and murder of their families by the US and their brutal thug buddies to take matters into their own hands.
Quit whining like a little bitch. You had your opportunity to do the right thing and you blew it. You chose not to act like a decent human being and you're getting exactly what you deserve.
Now grow up, quit crying and eat your just deserts, you fucking no personal responsibility taking little pussy.