A truly HORRIFIC tsunami picture

Well...In fact this got 10 out of 10 from me cos it portrayed the full
import of the disaster. As I studied the photo in grate detail, I just
thought about all those poor folk who maybe that morning were alive and
well, doing their daily stuff like Hotel work, Playing on the beach, running
their business, teaching kids etc and now are all piled up with the
driftwood, waiting to be buried or cremated en-mass with out the benifit of
a decent funeral (by western standards anyhow). Where do you plan to end up
by tomorrow night eh??? Perhaps you too may be reduced to this! Count your
blessings that you can still breath the breath of life like these folk did
last week.

"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in message
...
"Rate this image! 3697 people have rated this image, and the average
rating is 3.88."...

Makes you wonder what people were rating it for, and what it would
have taken to get a higher rating.

Are you blaming the site, or the OP?

Definitely not blaming the OP. The photo needs to be seen. It's a tragedy
of epic proportions, and there's no reason to hide from it. Viewing the
photos helps us to understand the magnitude of human suffering, the need
to provide aid and work on how such things might be mitigated (you can't
prevent a Tsunami, but you can certainly minimize the loss of life).

And I'll admit, I over-reacted. Ideally, there should be a site where such
photos can be viewed without advertising or something asking for a rating.
Maybe I should have been offended only by the fact that many *had* taken
the opportunity to rate the photo?

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Well...In fact this got 10 out of 10 from me cos it portrayed the full
import of the disaster. As I studied the photo in grate detail, I just
thought about all those poor folk who maybe that morning were alive and
well, doing their daily stuff like Hotel work, Playing on the beach, running
their business, teaching kids etc and now are all piled up with the
driftwood, waiting to be buried or cremated en-mass with out the benifit of
a decent funeral (by western standards anyhow). Where do you plan to end up
by tomorrow night eh??? Perhaps you too may be reduced to this! Count your
blessings that you can still breath the breath of life like these folk did
last week.

"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in message
...
"Rate this image! 3697 people have rated this image, and the average
rating is 3.88."...

Makes you wonder what people were rating it for, and what it would
have taken to get a higher rating.

Are you blaming the site, or the OP?

Definitely not blaming the OP. The photo needs to be seen. It's a tragedy
of epic proportions, and there's no reason to hide from it. Viewing the
photos helps us to understand the magnitude of human suffering, the need
to provide aid and work on how such things might be mitigated (you can't
prevent a Tsunami, but you can certainly minimize the loss of life).

And I'll admit, I over-reacted. Ideally, there should be a site where such
photos can be viewed without advertising or something asking for a rating.
Maybe I should have been offended only by the fact that many *had* taken
the opportunity to rate the photo?

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Fletis Humplebacker writes:

I agree with that but unless someone lives in a cage they've
seen the video clips of the tsunami. I see the lesson
about man's inhumanity to man a bit different than the
unfortunant outcome of a natural disaster. The only thing
learned here is that the world needs to get together with a
warning system of some type.

Tsunami are so rare in the Indian Ocean that it is difficult to justify
a warning system. It wasn't until 1965 that someone thought of setting
one up for the Pacific, and the Pacific has several tsunami a year.
It's important not to overreact.

--
Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.

Fletis Humplebacker writes:

I agree with that but unless someone lives in a cage they've
seen the video clips of the tsunami. I see the lesson
about man's inhumanity to man a bit different than the
unfortunant outcome of a natural disaster. The only thing
learned here is that the world needs to get together with a
warning system of some type.

Tsunami are so rare in the Indian Ocean that it is difficult to justify
a warning system. It wasn't until 1965 that someone thought of setting
one up for the Pacific, and the Pacific has several tsunami a year.
It's important not to overreact.

--
Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

Hi. I didn't post it on that site. I saw the link on some news forum
and it shocked me, so i shared it here. In fact, it shocked me enough
that i didn't notice the rating thing you mention.

EXACTLY!!!!!!
He was so busy looking for ways to get offended, that he completely
ignored
the horror of that image, and instead focussed his supposed
"sensitivities"
on total irrelevant BS.
I'm so sick of his kind of "sensitivity" that he now resides in my
kill-file.
Thank you for posting this image.


You fail to understand my point. I will try again (but now that I'm
kill-filed...).

My point wasn't that the photo shouldn't be shown. I think the opposite in
fact. But it detracts greatly from the tragedy to put it in the context of
being "rated" as a good-or-bad photo. You're trying way too hard to to find
offending examples of censorship & political correctness that you're missing
my point. Context *is* relevant.

Whereas you seem to just be trying too hard to be easily offended.

Personally, the first thing I thought when I saw the "rating" thing and
the advertising is that it was just something inherant to the site that
the photographer (or whoever posted the image) used, and that he
probably uses that site on a regular basis, if not exclusively, and so
naturally placed that photo there as well.

Some people just seem to have to FIND things to complain about, I guess...

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

Hi. I didn't post it on that site. I saw the link on some news forum
and it shocked me, so i shared it here. In fact, it shocked me enough
that i didn't notice the rating thing you mention.

EXACTLY!!!!!!
He was so busy looking for ways to get offended, that he completely
ignored
the horror of that image, and instead focussed his supposed
"sensitivities"
on total irrelevant BS.
I'm so sick of his kind of "sensitivity" that he now resides in my
kill-file.
Thank you for posting this image.


You fail to understand my point. I will try again (but now that I'm
kill-filed...).

My point wasn't that the photo shouldn't be shown. I think the opposite in
fact. But it detracts greatly from the tragedy to put it in the context of
being "rated" as a good-or-bad photo. You're trying way too hard to to find
offending examples of censorship & political correctness that you're missing
my point. Context *is* relevant.

Whereas you seem to just be trying too hard to be easily offended.

Personally, the first thing I thought when I saw the "rating" thing and
the advertising is that it was just something inherant to the site that
the photographer (or whoever posted the image) used, and that he
probably uses that site on a regular basis, if not exclusively, and so
naturally placed that photo there as well.

Some people just seem to have to FIND things to complain about, I guess...

In article ,
Roland Karlsson wrote:

A thought though - if you cannot withdraw now - when can you do so?

That's a very good question.

I expect that, to a certain degree, we'll be there permanently.

We're still "occupying" Germany and Japan.

JR

"Nick Beard" wrote in message
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Well...In fact this got 10 out of 10 from me cos it portrayed the full
import of the disaster. As I studied the photo in grate detail, I just
thought about all those poor folk who maybe that morning were alive and
well, doing their daily stuff like Hotel work, Playing on the beach,
running their business, teaching kids etc and now are all piled up with
the driftwood, waiting to be buried or cremated en-mass with out the
benifit of a decent funeral (by western standards anyhow). Where do you
plan to end up by tomorrow night eh??? Perhaps you too may be reduced to
this! Count your blessings that you can still breath the breath of life
like these folk did last week.

And tsunami's aren't the only possible disaster that we don't bother to
prepare for. Somewhere out there among the stars there is a member of our
sun's family that is bigger than the New York Island that is on a collision
course with Earth. When we finally see it, it will be too late to do
anything about it. We don't even have any amateur astronomers looking for
it, much less plans for NASA or someone else to deflect it from its ultimate
target. We are much too busy worrying about whether or not gays should
marry..........

"Nick Beard" wrote in message
...
Well...In fact this got 10 out of 10 from me cos it portrayed the full
import of the disaster. As I studied the photo in grate detail, I just
thought about all those poor folk who maybe that morning were alive and
well, doing their daily stuff like Hotel work, Playing on the beach,
running their business, teaching kids etc and now are all piled up with
the driftwood, waiting to be buried or cremated en-mass with out the
benifit of a decent funeral (by western standards anyhow). Where do you
plan to end up by tomorrow night eh??? Perhaps you too may be reduced to
this! Count your blessings that you can still breath the breath of life
like these folk did last week.

And tsunami's aren't the only possible disaster that we don't bother to
prepare for. Somewhere out there among the stars there is a member of our
sun's family that is bigger than the New York Island that is on a collision
course with Earth. When we finally see it, it will be too late to do
anything about it. We don't even have any amateur astronomers looking for
it, much less plans for NASA or someone else to deflect it from its ultimate
target. We are much too busy worrying about whether or not gays should
marry..........

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Fletis Humplebacker writes:

I agree with that but unless someone lives in a cage they've
seen the video clips of the tsunami. I see the lesson
about man's inhumanity to man a bit different than the
unfortunant outcome of a natural disaster. The only thing
learned here is that the world needs to get together with a
warning system of some type.

Tsunami are so rare in the Indian Ocean that it is difficult to justify
a warning system. It wasn't until 1965 that someone thought of setting
one up for the Pacific, and the Pacific has several tsunami a year.
It's important not to overreact.

Yes, but it would be nice if there was warning enough so all the tourists
could go to the high ground, and all the dumb rubberneckers could rush down
to the beach and get drowned.....There is no law that says we can't help
Darwin out a little bit.......