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2005-01-01 Southeast Asia

Bad Equipment Hurt Tsunami Warning Efforts

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Posted by Zenster 2005-01-01 2:56:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A tragic consequence of human errors and stupidity.
Humans are like that.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-01-01 6:40:32 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-01-01 6:40:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 With perfect hindsight far from the event, and any responsibility, 'tis easy to whip 'em like the curs they are, eh?

Massive Classic Hypocrisy.

Posted by .com 2005-01-01 6:52:03 AM|| 2005-01-01 6:52:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 in India, bureaucrats faxed a warning...

So when someone breaks into my house I should fax the former fire chief's home? Right?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-01 8:03:55 AM|| 2005-01-01 8:03:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Being a Desert rat,I haven't been around the ocean.But I know if I was sitting on the beach,looked and the water was quickly disappering it's tie to get the hell out of Dodge.

Posted by Raptor 2005-01-01 8:24:55 AM|| 2005-01-01 8:24:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 With perfect hindsight far from the event, and any responsibility, 'tis easy to whip 'em like the curs they are, eh?

Not sure who you're referring to, .com. But out of the entire lot, only Kathawudhi Marlairojanasiri comes across like someone who was supposed to be doing their job. Marlairojanasiri should be promoted to disaster warning chief ahead of all other applicants.

While hindsight may always be 20/20, hearing "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" gets a little tiresom after hearing it for the N^th time.

"In such disasters, we require rapid and specific responses. The Indian bureaucracy by its training and conditioning canât do it," said Balbir Arora, a New Delhi-based professor of public administration.

The top-heavy and bureaucracy fettered Indian government is essentially incapable of providing adequate emergency warning. Yet, India is rejecting all outside help in dealing with this crisis. I don't hear the least shred of change in the wind for that disastrous equation.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-01 4:47:06 PM|| 2005-01-01 4:47:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Often, the nym chosen by a poster serves as excellent troll-sign. For instance, people calling themselves Peace, Patriot, Love Our Soldiers, Truth, etc are among the most egregious shrieking moonbats and disingenuous trolls. Here in RB we get them. Some of my favorites are Slumming, Gentle, and my current favorite Dodo, Winged Avenger.

So, if I may ask, how did you come to choose Zenster? Was it as vicious parody? Or because it sounds spiffy to you? Or is it something else - such as incredible irony?

Methinks your understanding of Zen maxes out at the cute little wai of the waiter when he delivers room service - or have you ever actually been "over there" amongst the pagans? You know, outside the hotel and everything, rubbing shoulders with the little brown people. Just asking. Of course, your answer to that may or may not be honest, but your in-line commentary in this article leaves no doubt.

Posted by .com 2005-01-01 10:20:17 PM|| 2005-01-01 10:20:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 So, if I may ask, how did you come to choose Zenster? Was it as vicious parody? Or because it sounds spiffy to you? Or is it something else - such as incredible irony?

I'm amazed that it took this long for someone to ask.

My handle is Zenster because Zen is the name of the wolf-hybrid that I own. I also enjoy studying Zen because it is one of the few philosophies that doesn't demand blind faith or much of anything else except sharpness of wit and depth of character. Unlike most major religions, Zen actually prizes the "charismatic imperfection" of mankind, instead of reviling it.

As to being out amongst the great unwashed, my travel destinations have included Mexico, Taiwan and Armenia. Going to Mexico, I drove round-trip the entire length of the Baja Peninsula myself and never stayed in a single hotel. Nor did I stay in a hotel in Armenia, during mid-Winter. While in Taiwan, I routinely walked the streets instead of always taking a cab, unlike my colleagues. I made a point of talking to the natives at every opportunity. I also traveled into Tai Pei almost every weekend so that I could learn more about the Taiwanese culture. I've hitch-hiked through Canada in the dead of winter and gone on lots of other uncomfortable treks as well, like a 100 mile canoe trip.

Nice try, .com, but you're not talking to an armchair traveler.

I just happen to be sick and tired of hearing so many third world countries that we dump all these billions into keep telling us that they just don't have the money for minor expenses like a functioning civil alert system or disaster preparedness. The "for want of a nail" excuse wears thin after sending over several truckloads of nail kegs.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-01 11:21:30 PM|| 2005-01-01 11:21:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 No response? Well then, I'll expound to clarify any confusion...

I had suspicions, but you've floored me with the true depth, the wicked acidity, and the boiling temperature of the bile in which you stew. Had you only been in charge or been a consultant everyone kow-towed to for the corrupt governments of these peasants... I had no idea you were prescient and would have known - somehow - of the impending disaster and - somehow - would have staved it off by - somehow - getting the broken parts of the warning system in place and - somehow - used the crude but crucial information provided to - somehow - alert those stupid superstitious phoneless remote villagers all across the region. How dare they be less visionary, less savvy, less sanctimonious! It does occur, to me at least, that these aren't murderous barbaric sycophants of a brutal backward 7th century ideology - where you customarily vent your excess internal pressure - and receive little negative feedback, of course. No - these are, reflecting upon your limitless scorn and derision, merely children of a lesser God.

For it's become more than clear you have a religion. It is the Perfect Light of Secular Wisdom. Hubris is its God. Contempt and Scorn are its Archangels. Zenster is its Prophet. Apparently there are no seats left, so all of the remaining aspects of the great good dumb fucking luck of being born where and when you were, charity and compassion among them, must wait outside. Besides, God's busy: the blasphemers of paganistic superstitious backward lesser Gods are getting their due from the One True God, at the moment. It's take a number time at God's Customer Service Counter.

Oracle, thy name is Zenster. Same goes for arrogance, churlish, miserly, parsimonious, and ego maniacal.

Zenless is more accurate.

Lol! I just had a vision of you being born in a poor Thai (or Sri Lankan) fishing village... now you're the "head waiter" at a resort restaurant taking orders and derision and scorn and contempt from some dumb fat German tourist, wealthy beyond your wildest dreams, who thinks his bubbly is below par... now that is zen. Bon apetit!

Posted by .com 2005-01-01 11:22:52 PM|| 2005-01-01 11:22:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Overlapped. But I see nothing that substantiates or justifies the hateful and compassionless attitude.

Posted by .com 2005-01-01 11:24:32 PM|| 2005-01-01 11:24:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I have plenty of compassion for the suffering masses. It's just that at some point, the corrupt governments that are killing off these suffering masses must be brought into line or we will end up facilitating the slaughter of those suffering people. Much like Iraq.

With the advent of 9-11, I've reached my limit for these nations and how they breed up terrorism. The governments that assist or benignly neglect terrorist activity need to be brought down. Their own people will benefit as a result and so will America's security.

Your aspersions are way off target, .com. In light of your own well-known "fry 'em up" attitude, your accusations of me being "compassionless" are nothing short of hilarious.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-01 11:45:06 PM|| 2005-01-01 11:45:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 You think people aren't sick and tired of your self-proclaimed, yet imaginary, perfection - on every topic? Think again.

You think yourself clever, but you're a gutless turd with serious internal issues, as I and others have noticed. Some have even begun to call you out, in spite of agreeing with the anti-Caliphatist spew. It's that "anti-everyone who doesn't acknowledge you're important" thingy that's causing notice. You're not. Must hurt an ego of such grand dimensions and appetite. Nah, you're just a pressure cooker of conflict and bullshit and moonbattery. A faux expert.

Your need for therapy is pathetic and cowardly. Face your fucked up mental issues and demons on your own time, junior. Had you the balls to ever admit you've gone over the top here and there, I'd cut you some slack. But that's not in your makeup, apparently. You are not the worldly or wise connoiseur and expert you pretend to be - ivory-tower hypocritical asshole wannabee cuts far closer to the bone.

Posted by .com 2005-01-02 12:00:39 AM|| 2005-01-02 12:00:39 AM|| Front Page Top

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