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• Not as simple as you think (Score:1)

  by VSarkiss (704)

  Are you mad at the people of New Orleans for staying in the path of disaster? Then you should also be mad at the people of San Francisco for living on top of a fault line, and the people of New York for living so close to an obvious terrorist target.

  Are you considering that the people who could have afforded to get out had already done so? That some of the people who were caught in the disaster may have done so by choice (some who decided to stick around for whatever odd reason), but that a great number
  • Re:Not as simple as you think (Score:2)

    by belg4mit (967)

    No, because I don't care about the immediate relief aspect of it per se. I realize the poor may not have all been able to flee on the spur of the moment. OTOH my point is they do not in fact have to be there. I knew someone would make bogus comparisons to earthquakes (and the NYC comparison is even further off the mark). Yes, earthquakes are a known risk. OTOH you can build for them. You can build for them indvidually and are not reliant about municipal or federal public works (of course having code require

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    • Re:Not as simple as you think (Score:1)

      by rjbs (4671) on 2005.09.03 9:23 (#43040) Homepage Journal

      
      Scifi authors have written all sorts of stories about this fer cryin' out loud.
      

      
      You lose.

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      • Re:Not as simple as you think (Score:1)

        by belg4mit (967)

        That's insightful.

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