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« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2010, 09:54:23 AM »
Yeah, in retrospect, I'd dial it back too but...

Well, since it was already quoted, the concept is moot.

My apologies for the melodrama, Caps, if not quite the point.

So I'll change the subject.

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« Reply #31 on: January 16, 2010, 01:30:26 PM »
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« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2010, 02:55:43 AM »
FYI  I found this page that has kind of a high-level overview of the situation in Haiti every day:

http://ochaonline.un.org/OCHAHome/WhereWeWork/Haiti/tabid/6412/language/en-US/Default.aspx

(via the situation reports on the right side of the page)

these reports use a lot of proprietary lingo.  Still, it's a good source of info, especially compared to say the mass media.

It would be cool to integrate the data into a 3D google earth map.

With inexpensive data gathering devices, such as cameras with geo-tagging, one could make a map that was very very rich in data, and it could be updated in quasi real-time, with data streams from thousands of different on-site sources.  Of course, as the scandal involving the doctors from Puerto Rico shows, privacy and ethics considerations would have to be taken into account.  If news media type standards could be enforced, then it could be a very valuable tool for communicating a true and interactive account of the situation to the lay public.
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« Reply #33 on: January 31, 2010, 07:24:34 AM »
My cousin is a doctor in the Air Force (owes a few years to them for footing the med school bill) and was recently deployed to Haiti. We've received a few updates and a couple of photos (nothing graphic, of course). Pretty sobering stuff.
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« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2010, 07:38:30 AM »
yeah, right.  Like, you see pictures of some of the few people they managed to pull out of the rubble alive, and a lot of them were emaciated.

Meanwhile, over here in the U.S., we "struggle" with things like nicotine addiction and obesity.  Although to be fair, it's a lot harder to eat healthy in the U.S. when you're poor.  But man, poverty in the U.S. and poverty in Haiti are two different things.  Sure you will die a lot sooner in the U.S. if you are poor than if you are middle class or rich, but you still have a good chance of outliving people in Haiti. 

But I guess it's all the same thing no matter where you go - poverty and corruption and crime pretty much is the same social problem with the same root causes no matter where you go.

It's amazing really that there hasn't been more of a cohesive public backlash here in the U.S. against helping the people in Haiti than there has been.  Pretty much all I saw was Pat Robertson's idiocy which no one was really to eager to get behind.  Although, I don't watch TV and I don't listen to the mainstream idiots like Rush Limbaugh either, so who knows how they been spinnin' this, with their sous-entendues and so ons...   
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« Reply #35 on: February 01, 2010, 12:14:35 AM »
there are lots of people on this planet who give up what little they have to be poor or homeless in this country.
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« Reply #36 on: February 05, 2010, 06:50:56 PM »
I'd give up what I have in the U.S. to be poor and homeless in Norway.  They have some kick-ass health care over there.
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« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2010, 06:56:49 PM »
On a Haiti side note...delivered a truck load of clothing to be sent over on a slow boat and distributed to the displaced this morning on my way to work.
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« Reply #38 on: February 06, 2010, 12:00:39 AM »
Quote from: Asherdan on February 05, 2010, 06:56:49 PM
On a Haiti side note...delivered a truck load of clothing to be sent over on a slow boat and distributed to the displaced this morning on my way to work.

more white guilt you needed to assuage, eh?

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« Reply #39 on: February 06, 2010, 12:52:43 AM »
More of a paternalistic 'help the poor brown people' thing.

I'ma go sit on the veranda, sip a minted drink and wipe my feet on the backside of the maid, now.
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« Reply #40 on: February 06, 2010, 01:30:42 AM »
Quote from: Asherdan on February 06, 2010, 12:52:43 AM
More of a paternalistic 'help the poor brown people' thing.

I'ma go sit on the veranda, sip a minted drink and wipe my feet on the backside of the maid, now.

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« Reply #41 on: February 06, 2010, 03:17:25 PM »
I'm feeling peppy, so I think I'll go make a bastard on the cook house darkie after pancakes and side meat this morning.
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« Reply #42 on: February 06, 2010, 04:21:02 PM »
no such luck for po' white trash like me.  i should be shoveling about 2 feet of snow at this very moment.
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« Reply #43 on: February 06, 2010, 04:46:24 PM »
Quote from: greenkoolayd on February 06, 2010, 04:21:02 PM
no such luck for po' white trash like me.  i should be shoveling about 2 feet of snow at this very moment.
Snow melts, dude! Nature will shovel for you if you weren't so impatient!

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« Reply #44 on: February 07, 2010, 03:33:51 AM »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on February 06, 2010, 04:46:24 PM
Snow melts, dude! Nature will shovel for you if you weren't so impatient!

(I had a neighbor who seriously thinks this way)

My whole fuck*ng STATE thinks this way.
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