But there are many ways to write a negative web log that still tries to be completely fair and see things from the other person's point of view
Usually , at least in my experience, the best way to know how another person see things or situation is the following: ASK THEM. Trying to figure out one person point of view is extremely difficult as to do it perfectly would require actually being the other person, which is not possible. Therefore it follows that we must be very cautious and remember that we just can't assume to know exactly how the other person feels about something or sees something.
Well of course we could, but the result wouldn't be as good as just asking them.
He is, after all, the only common link between all of these problematic things.
Well let me stress the fact that he is necessarily a common link, it's actually obvious. He is the one who is feeling ALL his own problems because...well because he obviously feels all of them because he's part of all of them, but he isn't necessarily the spark who started the fire, so to say. My guess is that you were trying to say that he somehow realized (or think he realized) that he is _the source_ of all his problems..is that what you meant ? Because if it is so, it sometimes happens with some people that (after realizing that there was something in their behavior acting as an obstacle or con-cause of a number of problems) try to first look at self to find a source for a problem, when the problem is quite evidently under not them (to an external impartial observer)....yet they feel reassured and re-empowered when they find that somehow the problem was in them, because that gives them the power to try to change themselves and solve the problem.
In other words, some people like to think they just need to change themselves to achieve something, including solving a problem.
This tirade was sparked by the sensation that you were attacking anonymity because you fear anonymous attacks, as opposed to attacks coming from a person you can identify and strike back at, maybe for instance by questioning their moral standing or maybe by just sucker punch them...or by firing them.
I suggest you concentrare on the message rather then on the messenger...and watch out for divisive strategies like that of inciting dissent between employees to better control them.
I don't really know, but I don't think WTO is pushing the concept of private ownership of water: rather I guess they're trying to privatize the distribution and treatement of water (pipes, potabilization) using the excuse that this will offload the costs from governments to private companies.
What of course private companies don't want people to know is that they'll charge people MORE then what it costs them to run the aqueducts ; why , for profit of course ! A LOT OF PROFIT ! Literally RAINS of profit and and handful of people will get it.
And of course you'll pay water more then now , even if not immediately : this is done to remove attention from problem and give the sensation that privatizion is offering benefits. In the very long term the cost will remain more or less the same or raise slowly..because it will be probably anchored to wages.
Remember that one of the way to obtain a constant stream of profit is leaving workforce at living wage condition ; this way they can be constantly blackmail or threathened...see how much fuel/oil is enslaving populations around the world.
Maybe if we STOP doing a Country X vs Country Y pseudodebate we'll reach some interesting conclusion ?
That OR let's keep focusing the outrage on the evil filesharers or how RIAA calls them "pirates"...that's perfectly fine because that allows me to call RIAA "an handful of legalized thieves, profiteers and parasites who collect more money and steal more resources then any petty thiefs will EVER in 1000 thousand lifetimes" which pretty much describes them.
Just claim teh cam will take naked pictures of Paris infrared nakedness and you'll sell the mod not only to geeks, but also to freaks. Watch as they mate and take control of the world !
It would be wrong to rear-end cars to prove that they have a serious defect, but there's no guarantee that any car or computer will be rear-ended because of the publication of the exploition ; it doesn't become neither more likely nor more probable, just relatively easier if you get to know about the exploit, decide to use the exploit.
For instace, when I evidently publish on a spray bottle that it contains flammable gases I do that for safety purposes, to let the users be aware.
Yet at the same time.. am I'm telling the wannabe delinquent that a spray bottle is a flamethrower or just making it easier for him to understand ?
Here it is, if you will..without the not necessary yak yak about who's to blame:
Imagine you make a shoe in India and the very same shoe in U.S. Don't worry about the numbers (I didn't care to check) worry about the proportions
Shoe cost of production USA = USD 10 per pair Shoe cost of production Ind = USD 3 per pair
1. Assume the 7 dollar difference is due to less laws, less rights for people, less costs
Store sale price in USA: a) of made in USA shoe = USD 40 per pair b) of made in India shoe = USD 35 per pair
2. Obviously if you like to pay less (and you like to, if your wage is going down) you're going to run like a mad to Schwalmart and pay USD 35..the more people get less wage, the more people will go to Schwalmart willy nilly.
3. Given that the other shoe, made in U.S. , will suffer due to less sales, they could choose
a) to lower price, but they can't compete in the short term (couple years) with indian made shoes as they're substantially cheaper b) to keep selling less and ___maintaining their profit margin___ while they reduce the cost both by firing people and by reducing lost sales
4. As a matter of fact, even if you accepted to receive half your salary (which would probably bankrupt you) it still wouldn't suffice
Root of problem: poor can become more poor, but rich don't want to become poor again EVER and will do anything to stop the process ; that includes keeping their profit margin high even if that means kicking population ass into victorian age by destroying social security.
I see what you're going toward, but I guess you forgot that God also gave freedom of choice as He didn't stop Adam or Eve from eating the famous apple, they were fairly warned about eating the apple. At worst you may condemn the snake=devil who tempted Eve, but even so you should sue the Church of the Devil and not the Church of God.
You're shit out of luck dude, because it was tought carefully : if you do good the merit is of yours and primarily of God, if you do bad it's your fault primarily and of the devils, but he has got lawyers on his side.
Indeed opinion can change..and they can also conveniently change according to which opinion is more profiteable to hold at a certain moment in time. Indeed I'm not racist by nature, by I can hate them friggin whiggers if paid enough.
And I'm not really holier then anybody, as BIll only needs to pay me some hundred thousand bucks to silence my dissent....but to do that I must have a right to dissent to begin with...oh wait I need freedom of speech (which is all about dissent unlike rightwing would like you to believe)
For instance, take U.S.A. You want to speak about sex in a prurient way on radio and tv ? You can't unless you can pay $500000 (yeah 500K) each time FCC finds you're indecent according to "contemporary standards".
Yeah, formally it's NOT censorship, but it is in practice because hundred of million of citizens can't afford to pay the fines.
Today it's about sex, tomorrow who knows ? Badtalking big companies who gracefully donate work ?
If people that quit / are kicked the hell out of (some armed force) are not that bright , how comes they don't go to die in wars ? Really, who's brighter ?
It's the same device used during Cold War...the fear of the big old baby eating communist held many people in a manageable state for DECADES, even if the actual menace was, in retrospect, very limited.
Unfortunately there is no end to the fear of terrorism is, evidently, fear of being awe-struck by unexpected events..it can be evoked at any time, for instance with some other sniper killing bypassers or everything else unusual and violent.
What is missing, imho, from the picture is that people aren't afraid of terrorism...a very vocal minority, as usual, screams in terror..but it's a minority that is (probably) already terrorized by abstract concepts as "sin" and "dirty word".
I've got hot news for you: competition is good as long as the cost AND the price of it isn't paid by the competitors.
Say you and Joe Schmuck are two big guys, would you kill and slain yourselves for an apple ? No, you'd steal two apples from some peasant and peasant better be happy he gave two apples.
Dude, there are rights like freedom of speech that are far far more important to many (including) and others that are far far more important to very few (copyright sale exploitation holders.. big corps usually).I'll never accept the idea that protecting the "right" of somebody to make a profit (the point of making a copy) is the same as protecting freedom of speech right.
Get a clue, quickly before industry brainwashes you into fascism.
Thank you dude, you just proved 3C is price fixing at $20..they can do that because they don't have any competition.
Maybe part of the reason the 3C is charging a flat fee is to prevent Chinese companies from severely undercutting their own offerings.
Cry me a river, unfair competition ? It's curious how association of workers for workers rights is an unfair competition in a "free labor" (read cheap) market BUT chineses actually offering real competition (= sale price competition, competition to seize profit and market) to industries is unfair ! *Cry Cry*
See what happenes when market is really out-of control-free AND pure unrestricted profit logic rules and human rights almost succumb to "laws" of market ? That chineses start to kick ass, because they're so bottom of barrel anything is better that their complete misery. That's a perfect environment for a profit fest.
In other words, he should scrap what he knows or find a new intriguing way to convert it in management abilities ? And eventually get paid some dimes because "you're not good at management ? "...mmhhh... my spidey sense are tingling, there's another huge marker theory scam incoming.
Would somebody think of the poor company ! The poor little harmless company !
It's not a KID you tool get your analogies real !
some companies rely upon invention for their growth and income.
Whoa what a shocker ! Got news for you pal, -people- flesh and bone people millions of them rely on income from their work to live...guess what ? Greedy companies and financial sector don't think TWICE about robbing them of their saving and I don't see any company uprising for the welfare of human beings.
And if they do it's a feel good operation.
Call me a troll I don't give a rat ass, but you get a clue dammit get a clue !
A big part of engineering is figuring out what the user wants.
The customer wants something perfect, that works perfectly, with zero maintenance costs and that he can have for free. There you go, that's all you need to know on what any customer really really wants.
Engineers are not supposed to be work on the discovery phase "ask customer what he realistically wants" neither on the update phase "tell customer he can't have but that" neither concern himself with the very fine legal and psycological details involving a transaction.
The fact the an engineer is at the same time the most suited to do the job (assuming you can find one good at all of them) has seduced somebody into thinking "hey ! I can hire one engineer and make him do the work of 3 person !! The salesman, the manager and the technician ! "
Indeed that can be done, but with LIMITS ! One can't have the output of 3 people from one person without paying COSTS somewhere else.
Many pseudo-MBAs think (yeah, pseudo MBA, some serious MBA is more like an engineer then a sociologist) they can milk and milk and milk people indefinitely, as long as such people don't recognize they're being milked to death.
Guess what, the bucket doesn't END at one point in reality its weight must be divided or at somepoint it will CRASH.
Guess what again, by the time the bucket crash the organizer will be in bahamas counting money.
Let me point out that I don't see a black and white separation between "us" (where us is "mankind") and the "grand scheme of things".
Indeed events happen before we're born and events will happen also when we'll inevitably die..but those events happen for me, you, us because we're alive..otherwise they would still happen, but we would have no concept or perception of them, therefore they would be absolutely not relevant as if they didn't happen.
Therefore while events happen (with our without our help or presence) the ones who are relevant are the ones in which we take part (either actively or passively) and that's everything we get to know when we're alive ; we literally shape these events by taking part in it, therefore we're not absolutely insignificant in the grand scheme of things, only relatively insignificant.
To make an example: none of us (mankind) could have stopped the quake, but by preparing for disastrous events we could have saved a lot of lifes. Therefore, while the even quake itself is unstoppable (and maybe must NOT be stopped) the event "death because of quake" can be stopped...that doesn't make me feel any insignificant, if I can reduce the effects of the unstoppable event.
I'm sick and tired of hearing marketing, human resources, finance and 99% of the world of "business" come cry me a river when they complain system doesn't work as expected because they didn't know what the customer really wanted. Not even the customer knew what he wanted, they all came to me saying " it must be cheap and basically print me money "
Yeah sure and If I had the method I'd be working for you fools would I ?
Maybe the researcher is confusing socialization with inprinting.
Communication medieval ages (before radio)
1. Hoardes watch church/political leader (talking head) say NI and they like it ! Hell yeah ! 2. Hoardes start saying NI by imitative imprinting 3. NI NI NI NI NI NI !
Communication renaissance (after telephone) 1. Hoardes still do the above 2. But now they also use telephone and keep on saying NI NI NI NI !
Communication pre golden age (TV and radio ) 1. Rich ones become talking heads (initial private and government TV) 2. NI NI NI (BUY) NI NI NI (VOTE ME)
Communication golden age (internet) 1. Much more people become talking heads ! 2. NI NI NI (BUY) NO NO NO NO DON'T ! 3 ???? 4. Profit.
Massive jailarity chaos ensues, welcome to meme era. All your internet belongs to us.
Curiously enough, in my first book on Sri Lanka, I had written about another tidal wave reaching the Galle harbour (see Chapter 8 in The Reefs of Taprobane, 1957). That happened in August 1883, following the eruption of Krakatoa in roughly the same part of the Indian Ocean.
Maybe some people should have remembered Krakatoa cataclism or just simply should have seen Clarke book. Damn, some people should just read to help prevent disasters.
I know it's dark humor, but what can I say..the tide was predictable, nothing or very little was done. Ok not everybody could have been saved , but even one life was worth it, in my humble opinion.
Well guess what ? It happened and now more or less 50K people are dead. Maybe a lot more, maybe we'll never know as sea will not give back all the bodies.
But hey if that happened in Europe or America, you'd be hearing outcries, heads would "roll" and many politicians would be tiptapping on burning coal.
Or maybe not and that's why things like that can still happen in year 2000.
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But there are many ways to write a negative web log that still tries to be completely fair and see things from the other person's point of view
Usually , at least in my experience, the best way to know how another person see things or situation is the following: ASK THEM. Trying to figure out one person point of view is extremely difficult as to do it perfectly would require actually being the other person, which is not possible. Therefore it follows that we must be very cautious and remember that we just can't assume to know exactly how the other person feels about something or sees something.
Well of course we could, but the result wouldn't be as good as just asking them.
He is, after all, the only common link between all of these problematic things.
Well let me stress the fact that he is necessarily a common link, it's actually obvious. He is the one who is feeling ALL his own problems because...well because he obviously feels all of them because he's part of all of them, but he isn't necessarily the spark who started the fire, so to say. My guess is that you were trying to say that he somehow realized (or think he realized) that he is _the source_ of all his problems..is that what you meant ? Because if it is so, it sometimes happens with some people that (after realizing that there was something in their behavior acting as an obstacle or con-cause of a number of problems) try to first look at self to find a source for a problem, when the problem is quite evidently under not them (to an external impartial observer)....yet they feel reassured and re-empowered when they find that somehow the problem was in them, because that gives them the power to try to change themselves and solve the problem.
In other words, some people like to think they just need to change themselves to achieve something, including solving a problem.
This tirade was sparked by the sensation that you were attacking anonymity because you fear anonymous attacks, as opposed to
attacks coming from a person you can identify and strike back at, maybe for instance by questioning their moral standing or maybe
by just sucker punch them...or by firing them.
I suggest you concentrare on the message rather then on the messenger...and watch out for divisive strategies like that of inciting
dissent between employees to better control them.
I don't really know, but I don't think WTO is pushing the concept of private ownership of water: rather I guess they're trying to privatize the distribution and treatement of water (pipes, potabilization) using the excuse that this will offload the costs from governments to private companies.
What of course private companies don't want people to know is that they'll charge people MORE then what it costs them to run the aqueducts ; why , for profit of course ! A LOT OF PROFIT ! Literally RAINS of profit and and handful of people will get it.
And of course you'll pay water more then now , even if not immediately : this is done to remove attention from problem and give the sensation that privatizion is offering benefits. In the very long term the cost will remain more or less the same or raise slowly..because it will be probably anchored to wages.
Remember that one of the way to obtain a constant stream of profit is leaving workforce at living wage condition ; this way they can be constantly blackmail or threathened...see how much fuel/oil is enslaving populations around the world.
Maybe if we STOP doing a Country X vs Country Y pseudodebate we'll reach some interesting conclusion ?
...that's perfectly fine because that allows me to call RIAA "an handful of legalized thieves, profiteers and parasites who collect more money and steal more resources then any petty thiefs will EVER in 1000 thousand lifetimes" which pretty much describes them.
That OR let's keep focusing the outrage on the evil filesharers or how RIAA calls them "pirates"
Just claim teh cam will take naked pictures of Paris infrared nakedness and you'll sell the mod not only to geeks, but also to freaks. Watch as they mate and take control of the world !
It would be wrong to rear-end cars to prove that they have a serious defect, but there's no guarantee that any car or computer will be rear-ended because of the publication of the exploition ; it doesn't become neither more likely nor more probable, just relatively easier if you get to know about the exploit, decide to use the exploit.
For instace, when I evidently publish on a spray bottle that it contains flammable gases I do that for safety purposes, to let the users be aware.
Yet at the same time.. am I'm telling the wannabe delinquent that a spray bottle is a flamethrower or just making it easier for him to understand ?
Here it is, if you will..without the not necessary yak yak about who's to blame :
Imagine you make a shoe in India and the very same
shoe in U.S. Don't worry about the numbers (I didn't care to check) worry about the proportions
Shoe cost of production USA = USD 10 per pair
Shoe cost of production Ind = USD 3 per pair
1. Assume the 7 dollar difference is due to less
laws, less rights for people, less costs
Store sale price in USA:
a) of made in USA shoe = USD 40 per pair
b) of made in India shoe = USD 35 per pair
2. Obviously if you like to pay less (and you like to, if your wage is going down) you're going to run like a mad to Schwalmart and pay USD 35..the more people get less wage, the more people will go to Schwalmart willy nilly.
3. Given that the other shoe, made in U.S. , will suffer due to less sales, they could choose
a) to lower price, but they can't compete in the short term (couple years) with indian made shoes as they're substantially cheaper
b) to keep selling less and ___maintaining their profit margin___ while they reduce the cost both by firing people and by reducing lost sales
4. As a matter of fact, even if you accepted to receive half your salary (which would probably bankrupt you) it still wouldn't suffice
Root of problem: poor can become more poor, but rich don't want to become poor again EVER and will do anything to stop the process ; that includes keeping their profit margin high even if that means kicking population ass into victorian age by destroying social security.
GET a Goddamed clue.
What about you and me , you losing time answering at nitpicking and me at a lame get-a-life posts ?
I see what you're going toward, but I guess you forgot that God also gave freedom of choice as He didn't stop Adam or Eve from eating the famous apple, they were fairly warned about eating the apple. At worst you may condemn the snake=devil who tempted Eve, but even so you should sue the Church of the Devil and not the Church of God.
You're shit out of luck dude, because it was tought carefully : if you do good the merit is of yours and primarily of God, if you do bad it's your fault primarily and of the devils, but he has got lawyers on his side.
Gotta find some other way around.
Indeed opinion can change ..and they can also conveniently change according to which opinion is more profiteable to hold at a certain moment in time. Indeed I'm not racist by nature, by I can hate them friggin whiggers if paid enough.
And I'm not really holier then anybody, as BIll only needs to pay me some hundred thousand bucks to silence my dissent....but to do that I must have a right to dissent to begin with...oh wait I need freedom of speech (which is all about dissent unlike rightwing would like you to believe)
In some other countries, freedom is only formal.
For instance, take U.S.A. You want to speak about sex in a prurient way on radio and tv ? You can't unless you can pay $500000 (yeah 500K) each time FCC finds you're indecent according to "contemporary standards".
Yeah, formally it's NOT censorship, but it is in practice because hundred of million of citizens can't afford to pay the fines.
Today it's about sex, tomorrow who knows ? Badtalking big companies who gracefully donate work ?
If people that quit / are kicked the hell out of (some armed force) are not that bright , how comes they don't go to die in wars ? Really, who's brighter ?
It's the same device used during Cold War...the fear of the big old baby eating communist held many people in a manageable state for DECADES, even if the actual menace was, in retrospect, very limited.
Unfortunately there is no end to the fear of terrorism is, evidently, fear of being awe-struck by unexpected events..it can be evoked at any time, for instance with some other sniper killing bypassers or everything else unusual and violent.
What is missing, imho, from the picture is that people aren't afraid of terrorism...a very vocal minority, as usual, screams in terror..but it's a minority that is (probably) already terrorized by abstract concepts as "sin" and "dirty word".
I've got hot news for you: competition is good as long as the cost AND the price of it isn't paid by the competitors.
Say you and Joe Schmuck are two big guys, would you kill and slain yourselves for an apple ? No, you'd steal two apples from some peasant and peasant better be happy he gave two apples.
Dude, there are rights like freedom of speech that are far far more important to many (including) and others that are far far more important to very few (copyright sale exploitation holders.. big corps usually).I'll never accept the idea that protecting the "right" of somebody to make a profit (the point of making a copy) is the same as protecting freedom of speech right.
Get a clue, quickly before industry brainwashes you into fascism.
Thank you dude, you just proved 3C is price fixing at $20..they can do that because they don't have any competition.
Maybe part of the reason the 3C is charging a flat fee is to prevent Chinese companies from severely undercutting their own offerings.
Cry me a river, unfair competition ? It's curious how association of workers for workers rights is an unfair competition in a "free labor" (read cheap) market BUT chineses actually offering real competition (= sale price competition, competition to seize profit and market) to industries is unfair ! *Cry Cry*
See what happenes when market is really out-of control-free AND pure unrestricted profit logic rules and human rights almost succumb to "laws" of market ? That chineses start to kick ass, because they're so bottom of barrel anything is better that their complete misery. That's a perfect environment for a profit fest.
In other words, he should scrap what he knows or find a new intriguing way to convert it in management abilities ? And eventually get paid some dimes because "you're not good at management ? " ...mmhhh... my spidey sense are tingling, there's another huge marker theory scam incoming.
Would somebody think of the poor company ! The poor little harmless company !
It's not a KID you tool get your analogies real !
some companies rely upon invention for their growth and income.
Whoa what a shocker ! Got news for you pal, -people- flesh and bone people millions of them rely on income from their work to live...guess what ? Greedy companies and financial sector don't think TWICE about robbing them of their saving and I don't see any company uprising for the welfare of human beings.
And if they do it's a feel good operation.
Call me a troll I don't give a rat ass, but you get a clue dammit get a clue !
A big part of engineering is figuring out what the user wants.
The customer wants something perfect, that works perfectly, with zero maintenance costs and that he can have for free. There you go, that's all you need to know on what any customer really really wants.
Engineers are not supposed to be work on the discovery phase "ask customer what he realistically wants" neither on the update phase "tell customer he can't have but that" neither concern himself with the very fine legal and psycological details involving a transaction.
The fact the an engineer is at the same time the most suited to do the job (assuming you can find one good at all of them) has seduced somebody into thinking "hey ! I can hire one engineer and make him do the work of 3 person !! The salesman, the manager and the technician ! "
Indeed that can be done, but with LIMITS ! One can't have the output of 3 people from one person without paying COSTS somewhere else.
Many pseudo-MBAs think (yeah, pseudo MBA, some serious MBA is more like an engineer then a sociologist) they can milk and milk and milk people indefinitely, as long as such people don't recognize they're being milked to death.
Guess what, the bucket doesn't END at one point in reality its weight must be divided or at somepoint it will CRASH.
Guess what again, by the time the bucket crash the organizer will be in bahamas counting money.
Let me point out that I don't see a black and white separation between "us" (where us is "mankind") and the "grand scheme of things".
Indeed events happen before we're born and events will happen also when we'll inevitably die..but those events happen for me, you, us because we're alive..otherwise they would still happen, but we would have no concept or perception of them, therefore they would be absolutely not relevant as if they didn't happen.
Therefore while events happen (with our without our help or presence) the ones who are relevant are the ones in which we take part (either actively or passively) and that's everything we get to know when we're alive ; we literally shape these events by taking part in it, therefore we're not absolutely insignificant in the grand scheme of things, only relatively insignificant.
To make an example: none of us (mankind) could have stopped the quake, but by preparing for disastrous events we could have saved a lot of lifes. Therefore, while the even quake itself is unstoppable (and maybe must NOT be stopped) the event "death because of quake" can be stopped...that doesn't make me feel any insignificant, if I can reduce the effects of the unstoppable event.
It's not the job of engineers goddamit !
I'm sick and tired of hearing marketing, human resources, finance and 99% of the world of "business" come cry me a river when they complain system doesn't work as expected because they didn't know what the customer really wanted. Not even the customer knew what he wanted, they all came to me saying " it must be cheap and basically print me money "
Yeah sure and If I had the method I'd be working for you fools would I ?
Go ask Alan Greenspan you yahoos !
Imagine the day she asks for tyres matching shoes.
Maybe the researcher is confusing socialization with inprinting.
Communication medieval ages (before radio)
1. Hoardes watch church/political leader (talking head) say NI and they like it ! Hell yeah !
2. Hoardes start saying NI by imitative imprinting
3. NI NI NI NI NI NI !
Communication renaissance (after telephone)
1. Hoardes still do the above
2. But now they also use telephone and keep on saying NI NI NI NI !
Communication pre golden age (TV and radio )
1. Rich ones become talking heads (initial private and government TV)
2. NI NI NI (BUY) NI NI NI (VOTE ME)
Communication golden age (internet)
1. Much more people become talking heads !
2. NI NI NI (BUY) NO NO NO NO DON'T !
3 ????
4. Profit.
Massive jailarity chaos ensues, welcome to meme era. All your internet belongs to us.
Therefore I guess it will not be a problem to promise in a written contract that the data will not be used against the truck driver.
Curiously enough, in my first book on Sri Lanka, I had written about another tidal wave reaching the Galle harbour (see Chapter 8 in The Reefs of Taprobane, 1957). That happened in August 1883, following the eruption of Krakatoa in roughly the same part of the Indian Ocean.
..the tide was predictable, nothing or very little was done. Ok not everybody could have been saved , but even one life was worth it, in my humble opinion.
Maybe some people should have remembered Krakatoa cataclism or just simply should have seen Clarke book. Damn, some people should just read to help prevent disasters.
I know it's dark humor, but what can I say
Well guess what ? It happened and now more or less 50K people are dead. Maybe a lot more, maybe we'll never know as sea will not give back all the bodies.
But hey if that happened in Europe or America, you'd be hearing outcries, heads would "roll" and many politicians would be tiptapping on burning coal.
Or maybe not and that's why things like that can still happen in year 2000.