Quake and Tsunami hit northern Japan

[Trev]

Baddy,
Fong's jokes may be in poor taste but they aren't unusual. We as Aussies have seen humour in diasters and human suffering for as long as we've been around.
And TBH these are very mild compared to the nastiness Dino was posting during the SE Qld floods.

[oldman]

I think that Popper's work is very important.

Maybe, I just can't get interested in it.

Philosophy just went off on so many tangents, many of them just dead ends and verbal dexterity masquerading as profound thinking.

I've tried reading Nietzsche, but I just found it repetitive, boring, prolix and predominantly using verbal density to embellish what I found to be fairly routine ideas.

Which may just mean that I didn't get it, but I think I got enough to work it out, and that great swathes of humanity were impressed by the verbosity.

Ethics is the great area of philosophical exploration for the future.

Yes Damage. verisimilitude is a great word.

[boogaloo]

Shallow feeble minded miserable sort of person aren't you mate .
only the lowest arsehole would attempt humor in the face of such a catastrophe.

how about that poor nip who opened his cafe day the quake

got off too a shakey start

but the customers started floodin

got "glowing" reviews from workers at the nuke factory

Thank you Fong. That has to be one of the best jokes of all time. And it has a certain haiku-esque quality that makes it perfect for the occasion.

[Roy_Stewart]

Philosophy just went off on so many tangents, many of them just dead ends and verbal dexterity masquerading as profound thinking.

Agreed

I've tried reading Nietzsche, but I just found it repetitive, boring, prolix and predominantly using verbal density to embellish what I found to be fairly routine ideas.

Agreed squared.

Nietzsche's for people who can't think.

Which may just mean that I didn't get it, but I think I got enough to work it out, and that great swathes of humanity were impressed by the verbosity.

Agreed

Ethics is the great area of philosophical exploration for the future.

Yes, once they get over utilitarianism. I took 'Ethical intuitionism' full of hope but they'd eliminated all references to the original intuition idea so it was just utilitarianism in drag


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[boogaloo]

I'm more comfortable with philosophy and the search for truth than I am with engineering principles

If you're looking for the truth you're far more likely to find it in engineering than in philospophy.

[Skipper]

ah, yes. truth in engineering

[boogaloo]

If you're interested in the truth about the threat posed by the damaged nuclear powerplants in F*k*shima, read this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/
f*k*shima_panic_breaks_completely_free_of_facts/

[The naughty word filter on this site is moronic. To get the URL to the article, append the second line above to the first and replace * with u.]

It's a somewhat more honest and objective assessment of the situation than the fearmongering rubbish being put out by most news media and spread over the internet by ignorant greentards.

[Trev]

^^^ an interesting read boogs.

The whole problem with media is you never know who to believe or who's "exaggerating for effect".

This story certainly reads as genuine but I'm sure olds will have some input if he sees your post.

[jimmy]

Baddy,
Fong's jokes may be in poor taste but they aren't unusual. We as Aussies have seen humour in diasters and human suffering for as long as we've been around.
And TBH these are very mild compared to the nastiness Dino was posting during the SE Qld floods.

And there's my point Trev.. Nothing was deleted until Marcus decided to play tough guy.....
Yes dinos comments were a bit rich but they were not deleted..

Why are you deleting comments now..

[Trev]

Baddy,
Fong's jokes may be in poor taste but they aren't unusual. We as Aussies have seen humour in diasters and human suffering for as long as we've been around.
And TBH these are very mild compared to the nastiness Dino was posting during the SE Qld floods.

And there's my point Trev.. Nothing was deleted until Marcus decided to play tough guy.....
Yes dinos comments were a bit rich but they were not deleted..

Why are you deleting comments now..

Because I'm applying the same principles I would have used if I was a mod earlier. I can't answer for the mods who have been in place for years. But, the forums have changed a bit. As far as I'm concerned, once there was a link to recent forum posts on the front page of Realsurf, there should have been a re-assessment of values.
As I've said all along, it's not JUST the language used but the tone in which it is presented. And you can play with words and suggest there's no "tone" in the printed word but you know what I mean.
So, there are two standards, one which is applied to the Open section and another somewhat more lenient for Tangents.
Now i would be the first to admit that there may be some variation in my interpretations from time to time but ATM I'm the only guy doing the job. I'm human and if I get pissed off because someone keeps pushing the envelope I'm going to react.

[offshore1]

And there's my point Trev.. Nothing was deleted until Marcus decided to play tough guy.....
Yes dinos comments were a bit rich but they were not deleted..

Why are you deleting comments now..

I think it's some Lord of the Rings shit going on.


if the mods aren't careful, they let the power get the best of 'em..

Trev, please don't follow gollum/marcus down that road..

[Trev]

my precciousssss................

[marcus]

Trev, please don't follow gollum/marcus down that road..

don't worry i have an eye on the rear-view mirror making sure bra boys don't follow me to more bodyboard spots to discover.
i cant see TrevG back there

[Nick Carroll]

Hi gang, please read the letter below and donate as you see fit.

I think the impact of this earthquake and tsunami may still not have got through to a lot of us. We know very little about the Japanese surf community but it's been savaged by this (and the nuclear reactor issues) in ways that are hard to imagine.

Just picture 100 ks of your favourite Australian coastline smashed by a 10 metre tsunami then irradiated to the point where you can't go surfing there, certainly for years, maybe never.

Help out!

xxnc


Dear friend.



Earthquake and Tsunami were the biggest natural disaster never ever before in JAPAN. And next is man-made disaster called radiation.

The earthquake of magnitude 9 overcame the wide coastline at 2:26PM March 11 and the tsunami attacked from Tohoku to North Kanto in the 30 minutes by being generated in the Tohoku coast.

The Tsunami waves were 14 meters front of nuclear power plant. The Tsunami were recorded 20 meters at the maximum. The Tsunami was made momentarily, attacked the long coastline, destroyed up to ten kilometers or more in the inland, and done to attach.

A lot of surf points are scattered in these area. A lot of fatal blow was received. Moreover, The local surf shops near the beach disappeared too. Several thousand corpses went up to the coastline in the afternoon though it was uncertain whether there was a person who was surfing there. The above-mentioned life of 30,000 people was made a moment at this moment, it was deprived, and several hundred thousand victims were generated. In addition, damage reached the nuclear plant, the radiation began to leak, and the evacuation order went out to the resident of 30 kilometers in the radius. On the other side US government announced 50 miles (80 kilometers).

I have to say Japanese government had definite mistake about this. This is man-made disaster by Democratic Party. They refused radioactivity specialist team from USA on 11th night it was a few hours after Earthquake and Tsunami attack. The season to refuse rescue team is that Democratic Party wants to keep their political power. They still hide the most important things but we Japanese truth from overseas by internet.

We have to watch TV or internet to know today’s radiation quantity in air and tap water. The fire fighting of the nuclear plant continues still April 1st with help from special team from USA and France. We would see end of long tunnel. We really appreciate great helps from you.

This became the worst disaster since the history of the Japan having.

The surf point from the Tohoku region to North Kanto received large damage, and the surf point of Fukushima received a fatal blow especially. When being becomes it from restoration to the revival in the future, damage will become serious though the rescue operation continues as of now. I would like you to lend power for the revival of Japan. Please hold out help to Japan that fights against the earthquake, the tsunami, the radiation and the harmful rumor. The people who lost the family, the friends, the house, the pet, and everything need your help.


Tadashi Yaguchi

”Japanese surfer who has lived at Newport Beach on Sydney's Northern beaches since 1998. He is presently back in Japan doing what he can, and trying to raise funds for Japan” by John Brasen (Pacific Longboard Magazine Editor)





The contribution ahead :

http://civic-force.org/english/index.html

( Civic Force does the rescue operation to the velocity in the front in Japan. )

AUS www.redcross.org.au/japan2011.htm

USA www.redcross.org