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Of course you're not. Some of the words are of more than two syllables. Go to the casino.

Could do nothing about it? OrCouldn't be bothered doing anything about it? Looks like tha latter to me.

To fail to take into account what is being replied to is what is ignorant. Watercrystal said she just felt sad and sorry for the dead bodies there. Those are her words, there to be seen if you care to read properly. Unfair of me to single her out, I must admit, but my sarcasm is directed at...

For you to get on radio or TV may be hard, but how hard is it for your governments? How far do you imagine people “going about their business” are from a radio or TV? Do you think towns are without police to take charge in emergency? If you were in Indonesia and the military (they have...

If the letter I quoted is accurate, a system IS in place: i.e, the earthquake was detected an hour or so before disaster struck. And world-wide communication systems are well known. Easier said than done? Well, yes, I guess it is easier for some people to sit on their backsides and do nothing...

Maybe the world needs more people to sit around feeling sorry for dead bodies, or maybe it needs more people to notice what is wrong with it, or rather with the way it is run.

I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the letter I quoted, or the knowledge of its author, but the newspaper it appeared in is a conservative daily, too timid to publish such provocative views without deeming them to have some validity. Seismologists detect and measure earthquakes and pinpoint...

Nelson Muntz: Shoplifting is a victimless crime—like punching someone in the dark!

Oh, I see. Sorry. Looking at the title above your quote I though you were saying you enjoyed the discussion. That's what I read in one sitting, getting more and more pissed off as I went from page to page…

Yes, disease. A man has the job of going around cutting a finger from each corpse before it's buried, so they'll have something to identify by DNA, when they get around to it. It's 12:34 where I am, so I'm going to bed now. Cheers, hay82 — nice talking to you.

My point from the start, but let's not hold our breath — no one will be held to account. I don't think there are too many places in the world today with no access to radio and TV. (I, too, can be wrong.) Many of the places devastated were tourist resort towns. Many of the dead and missing...

The point is, they (those in authority in Indonesia and elsewhere) didn't get the chance to warn anyone, because they weren't warned themselves, by those who knew. How they would have got the information out to those who needed it, well, the same way as would happen in your country, or mine, I...

By reading it. Your reasoning is specious. I communicate with SE Asia all the time, as easily as I am communicating with you, and as quickly. If I had reason to believe catastrophe was bearing down on their region I would let them know.

How can the fact that the countries affected are not rich have anything to do with it? You see a bus bearing down on a poor person, you don't warn him because he's poor, and you're not? This is the way your world works? Getting angry may not be the best way to go about such a thing, but lucky...

I'm sure you have a point here, Jenem, but I fail to see what it is. [What] is easier said than done, and [what] is what it takes? The articles you quote say little to me. The first sounds suspiciously like weasel words. My opinion of "experts and authorities" is outlined elsewhere on forum...

Homer Simpson: Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Except the weasels…

Letter in local newspaper US seismologists knew more than an hour in advance that a tsunami would follow the earthquake off the coast of Sumatra but the appropriate communication tools were not in place to warn southern Asian authorities of the impending life-threatening danger. Why not...

Vote without registering, so vote as many times as you like? Looks like you should win your bet.

What? A whole THREE?

It's good to know there's someone else out there.