pokjhnboi

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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
Thanks - I was trying to get across that this is a block of water the mass of a small mountain dropping on you. You can earthquake proof a building but you can't do much against this. Even a regular storm surge in the north sea needs some
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
Sorry - I thought you meant "thousands of people were killed - but one person survived, therefore a miracle, therefore praise god"
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
I live in a city of 2M people directly opposite the pacific from this. Our 50 person earthquake response team was disbanded last year after an investigation into police funding. Of course since we are mostly on reclaimed land which will liq
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
They didn't forget - a Tsunami is a block of water a meter high and several km deep moving at 800km/h. That's a few BILLION tons of water moving at the speed of a jet aircraft - try designing against that.
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
They are nothing to do with tides. Tsunami means harbor wave which is a good description - at sea they are almost unnoticeable - it'sonly when the water is concentrated on a shore - or in a harbor that they have such an effect
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
No thank Fucking engineers. God did the deed - engineers countered it. Given the few 1000s casualties against a Mag8.9 earthquake I think God lost this one
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
In the UK 'Regulatory Investigative Powers' RIP was introduced to catch terrorists and international drug dealers. It allows government to get pretty much unlimited snooping ability on phones, web visits, cell phone location etc. Within a y
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
My point is that once local politics - remember it isn't cops that seize property it's DAs - kicks in then laws which are only for use against terrorists/makejor drugs dealers/organised crime can be used against ordinary people. And given t
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
Seizing 80 year olds houses because they grandson was caught with weed or seizing the home of a pair of doctors who were giving weed to cancer patients. Then strangely not applying the same law when the mayor/governer's kids are caught with
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
Basically the same system in the UK - except they then leave a copy of the data they found in a bar (if it's top secret) or in a cab (if it's financial) They then show the evidence that they found child porn in court - and on appeal discove
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by pokjhnboi 16y ago
I assume the same thing is going to happen to the other social drug of choice? All those enticing pictures of Chateaus are going to be replaced by a plain white bottle and a picture of a car crash caused by drunk driver?