A truly HORRIFIC tsunami picture

Donate me the money so I can buy another camera to bring up to date news.

I dont trust others .


"Marli" wrote in message ...
Thanks for posting the image/link.

Sitting here in my safe air-conditioned room listening to reports on my
TV,
I thought "OH how terrible". This image has just brought the magnitude of
the disaster to me..

I have been going to donate when things open up after the new year. I have
just doubled that donation.

Thanks for bring the reality to cosy room. The media do shelter us from
the
reality of this sort of thing..

Donate me the money so I can buy another camera to bring up to date news.

I dont trust others .


"Marli" wrote in message ...
Thanks for posting the image/link.

Sitting here in my safe air-conditioned room listening to reports on my
TV,
I thought "OH how terrible". This image has just brought the magnitude of
the disaster to me..

I have been going to donate when things open up after the new year. I have
just doubled that donation.

Thanks for bring the reality to cosy room. The media do shelter us from
the
reality of this sort of thing..

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.

Mxsmanic wrote:

Aguyathome writes:


It's the worst single human tragedy that I know of
that has taken place in my 41 years on the planet ...


That's the same thing the radio announcer said about the Hindenburg
crash.


Yup, and the Lakehurst pictures of it's aftermath, death strewn around,
still sneaks into my psyche at times.

http://www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg.htm
http://www.nlhs.com/tragedy.htm


Incidentally, there was a small part of a Seinfield episode that
referenced that disaster - and caught flack for it. Newman was driving
his mail truck on Kramer's newly painted road, ran over a sewing machine
from Elain's gig in Jerry's car, dragging it's spark trail into Kramer's
fuel spill. Inside the truck cab flames erupt and Newman is heard
screaming, "Oh, the humanity".

--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'

Mxsmanic wrote:

Aguyathome writes:


It's the worst single human tragedy that I know of
that has taken place in my 41 years on the planet ...


That's the same thing the radio announcer said about the Hindenburg
crash.


Yup, and the Lakehurst pictures of it's aftermath, death strewn around,
still sneaks into my psyche at times.

http://www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg.htm
http://www.nlhs.com/tragedy.htm


Incidentally, there was a small part of a Seinfield episode that
referenced that disaster - and caught flack for it. Newman was driving
his mail truck on Kramer's newly painted road, ran over a sewing machine
from Elain's gig in Jerry's car, dragging it's spark trail into Kramer's
fuel spill. Inside the truck cab flames erupt and Newman is heard
screaming, "Oh, the humanity".

--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'

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...