Massive earthquake hits Japan

[Arumdaum]

So much for Anarcho-Hippies being peaceminded people. Celebrating the death and destruction of a technological society puts them in the same peanut gallery as the WBC.

Wait what?

[Imsogone]

I'm not really understanding the people who made the comments about this being revenge for Pearl Harbor. I thought Pearl Harbor was avenged, and then some, by 1. the attacks on Tokyo in Aprilof '42, 2. the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Summer of '45. 3 the unconditional surrender of Japan to the US shortly after the dropping of the said bombs. 4. their complete economic destruction due to the war. 5. the humiliation of having to rely on the US to help rebuild their economy and their nation after the war. This was all humiliating and degrading in Japanese eyes - much worse than having to endure a natural disaster - something we all face at one time or another. Much worse than having to get help from the international community - something we've all had to do and will have to do at one time or another. Perhaps these people need to acquire a better understanding of history. Perhaps these people need to stop holding idiotic grudges for events that are substantially more than a half century in the past. Good gods and goddesses, people, learn from history, don't cling to it like a useless, deflated liferaft. Get a grip.

[Alien Space Bats]

The bad part wasn't the tremors, its the nuclear powerstations. The Japanese currently have two options, their industry potentially throwing the world into a true depression, or evacuate Japan, the better part of South Korea, the Kamchatka Peninsula, potentially even Vladivostok, and Beijing. A true meltdown would spell displacement of millions.

Yeah, like Chernobyl caused the evacuation of all of Eastern Europe and European Russia. Why, it's spooky walking through Kiev or Moscow today in your lead-lined rad suit. They're just complete ghost towns...



Or not.

[Jari Head]

Apparently Japan(like, all of it) has moved 2.4m. Time to throw out our maps.

Unless those maps are used for navigation you can still keep them since their not entirely precice anyway

[Sibirsky]

Apparently Japan(like, all of it) has moved 2.4m. Time to throw out our maps.

Unless those maps are used for navigation you can still keep them since their not entirely precice anyway

I used the 8 foot distance, to estimate how much cheaper my ticket would be, if it was priced solely on distance. The result? $0.0003 on a $1,154.30 ticket.

That's Dulles to Tokyo, one way.

[Sibirsky]

The bad part wasn't the tremors, its the nuclear powerstations. The Japanese currently have two options, their industry potentially throwing the world into a true depression, or evacuate Japan, the better part of South Korea, the Kamchatka Peninsula, potentially even Vladivostok, and Beijing. A true meltdown would spell displacement of millions.

Yeah, like Chernobyl caused the evacuation of all of Eastern Europe and European Russia. Why, it's spooky walking through Kiev or Moscow today in your lead-lined rad suit. They're just complete ghost towns...

Or not.

Kiev has gotten so expensive...

[Daistallia 2104]

I know, I used to have relatives that used to live in Osaka.

I don't really get the school uniform thing though, doesn't every school have a different kind of skirt?

Not really. There're pretty much two patterns for uniforms - "sailor suits" and blazer/skirt.

I'm not really understanding the people who made the comments about this being revenge for Pearl Harbor. I thought Pearl Harbor was avenged, and then some, by 1. the attacks on Tokyo in Aprilof '42, 2. the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Summer of '45. 3 the unconditional surrender of Japan to the US shortly after the dropping of the said bombs. 4. their complete economic destruction due to the war. 5. the humiliation of having to rely on the US to help rebuild their economy and their nation after the war. This was all humiliating and degrading in Japanese eyes - much worse than having to endure a natural disaster - something we all face at one time or another. Much worse than having to get help from the international community - something we've all had to do and will have to do at one time or another. Perhaps these people need to acquire a better understanding of history. Perhaps these people need to stop holding idiotic grudges for events that are substantially more than a half century in the past. Good gods and goddesses, people, learn from history, don't cling to it like a useless, deflated liferaft. Get a grip.

Amen.

And not as many will know who I'm talking about, but according to one blog (Sankakucomplex - no linky due to their porn content) Shintaro Ishihara is also blaiming the quake on divine retribution for Japan's "greed".

[Sibirsky]

Amen.

And not as many will know who I'm talking about, but according to one blog (Sankakucomplex - no linky due to their porn content) Shintaro Ishihara is also blaiming the quake on divine retribution for Japan's "greed".

The Japanese government, perhaps. Of course the government is not hurt by this, only the people are. And the Japanese people are decidedly not greedy.

We can actually be honest and blame this thing on nature and Japan's location.

[Sdaeriji]

The bad part wasn't the tremors, its the nuclear powerstations. The Japanese currently have two options, their industry potentially throwing the world into a true depression, or evacuate Japan, the better part of South Korea, the Kamchatka Peninsula, potentially even Vladivostok, and Beijing. A true meltdown would spell displacement of millions.

The best part of this post is the random inclusion of Beijing but not any of the hundreds of miles of China between Beijing and Japan.

[The Blaatschapen]

[Alien Space Bats]

Yeah, like Chernobyl caused the evacuation of all of Eastern Europe and European Russia. Why, it's spooky walking through Kiev or Moscow today in your lead-lined rad suit. They're just complete ghost towns...

(Image)

Or not.

Kiev has gotten so expensive...

It's having to wear that bunny suit around all day, no doubt.



No, wait... Not that kind of bunny suit...

Then again, if they started wearing those everywhere in Japan, it could bring about economic reconstruction in no time.

[Daistallia 2104]

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

[Gauthier]

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

In before this is Yu-Gi-Owed into "Liberals celebrate Japan death toll."

[Fartsniffage]

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

I don't know the guys background but I can see myself saying something like that while meaning that at least not everything is fucked.

Foot in mouth syndrome and all that.

[Sibirsky]

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

What an idiot.

[DaWoad]

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

What an idiot.

aye that

[Sdaeriji]

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

What an idiot.

The stupidest part is that the Nikkei is getting smashed; down almost 1000 points since the earthquake. I'm sure the Japanese are just thrilled that the Dow is doing alright.

[Daistallia 2104]

And someone on FB just pointed out that if this is karma for Pearl Harbor, the payback for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be a bitch.

[Sibirsky]

What an idiot.

The stupidest part is that the Nikkei is getting smashed; down almost 1000 points since the earthquake. I'm sure the Japanese are just thrilled that the Dow is doing alright.

That's exactly what they're doing. With family members missing (or worse), homes swept away into the ocean, no electricity, they are checking on the Dow.

The Nikkei acted just as expected.

[Sibirsky]

And someone on FB just pointed out that if this is karma for Pearl Harbor, the payback for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be a bitch.

Karma sure is fucking slow.

Payback for Hiroshima and Nagasaki being "a bitch" is a massive understatement in this case.

[Fartsniffage]

And someone on FB just pointed out that if this is karma for Pearl Harbor, the payback for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be a bitch.

I've avoided all these silly arguments on the web however I'd hazard a guess that 9/11 would feature heavily in the response of the type of person who'd make such a comment if confronted with that point.

[Aeternus Audentia]

Apparently Japan(like, all of it) has moved 2.4m. Time to throw out our maps.

That's not even a whole pixel on a computer screen.

CNBC's Larry Kudlow joins the growing ranks of dickheads: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _than.html

I don't know the guys background but I can see myself saying something like that while meaning that at least not everything is fucked.

Foot in mouth syndrome and all that.

Can you explain that idiom? I know what it means, but I don't know why it means what it does.

For example, if you said, "Prepare to meet your maker," and I said, "I don't know what that means," I don't want you to say, "It means to die," I want you to say, "It means to die because when you go to heaven, you meet God, i.e. your maker."

[Fartsniffage]

Apparently Japan(like, all of it) has moved 2.4m. Time to throw out our maps.

That's not even a whole pixel on a computer screen.

Urgh, I can't stand messy outcomes.

Only one solution, more earthquakes until a full pixel has been reach. It's the only way.

[DaWoad]

And someone on FB just pointed out that if this is karma for Pearl Harbor, the payback for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be a bitch.

Karma sure is fucking slow.

Payback for Hiroshima and Nagasaki being "a bitch" is a massive understatement in this case.

prepare to repel borders?

[Aeternus Audentia]

That's not even a whole pixel on a computer screen.

Urgh, I can't stand messy outcomes.

Only one solution, more earthquakes until a full pixel has been reach. It's the only way.

*writes an essay called "God: Loving father or web designer with OCD?"*