December 25, 2003, 07:58
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PRC: lots of people dead, but who cares?
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December 25, 2003, 08:54
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No one, apparently.
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December 25, 2003, 08:59
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Any western citizens or property harmed?
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December 25, 2003, 09:44
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No one, apparently.
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Yeah, I thought it was ironic noone responded.
Daniel: no.
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December 25, 2003, 10:46
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What sort of responses were you expecting?
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December 25, 2003, 10:49
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Well, at least someone else posting. I dunno. It saddens me that noone cares.
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December 25, 2003, 10:58
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Christmas Day today, many people are doing something else.
It's a tragic event for sure. These people are dead from hydrogen sulphur poisoning according to the news.
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December 25, 2003, 11:36
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You know that when 200 people die and it is the 4-5th item in the news it will be in either India or China, or possibly Nigeria.
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December 25, 2003, 14:28
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Hydrogen Sulfide is a very dangerous gas. Alot of the oil wells along the coast of southern California contain HS. The stuff smells horrible; I remember when I was living in Santa Barbara the local facility that processed the oil produced by the off shore platforms had a small release of HS gas. It was a huge deal and people were warned to stay inside.
The really dangerous part is that your sense of smell goes away quickly with HS so people stop smelling the gas and think everything is ok. They die shortly there after.
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December 25, 2003, 16:06
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People die, the world suck. I have lost interest.
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December 25, 2003, 18:27
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Of course it's a really terrible accident. Unfortunately, given the combination of rapid industrialization with a population the scale of China's, it will be far from the last. 
If you live here (or perhaps anywhere outside of the developed west) you have to adjust your "care threshold", or you will rapidly be drained of all sympathy. In the US, 15 dead in a mine accident would be a major story, here it's a routine.
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December 25, 2003, 19:44
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There are several of these stories every single day. People, like die alot and sometimes a bunch of them at a time even. Whoah who would've thought?
Why don't you care about the plane crash in Benin Mr. Bleeding Heart?
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December 25, 2003, 20:27
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H2S is the bad part of a fart. And like Oerdin said, when you can't smell it, you are as good as dead.
On the "Who cares" topic - 3 million dead in Congo in just a few years, and what is the World doing? EU sends a few 1000 troops, US almost none.
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December 25, 2003, 21:57
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That's because Congo is where the Ebola virus comes from. If you asked me to go there, I'd request to be executed instead.
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December 25, 2003, 21:58
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And Ebola is just the first of Congo's problems.
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December 25, 2003, 22:09
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Originally posted by Crimson Sunrise
That's because Congo is where the Ebola virus comes from. If you asked me to go there, I'd request to be executed instead.
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December 25, 2003, 22:13
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too many of them anyhow.
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December 25, 2003, 23:37
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Of course it's a really terrible accident. Unfortunately, given the combination of rapid industrialization with a population the scale of China's, it will be far from the last.
If you live here (or perhaps anywhere outside of the developed west) you have to adjust your "care threshold", or you will rapidly be drained of all sympathy. In the US, 15 dead in a mine accident would be a major story, here it's a routine.
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Still, 191 dead is not your average daily mining accident.
Speaking of which, the media in PRC is start doing some stuff. Like I saw a few days ago they exposed the terrible conditions and lack of safety enforcements in some of the mines. Some of the wooden columns are rotting away, and some nitwit was smoking inside a coal mine   If I were working with him, I'd kill him right off the bat. That seems to be a case of justifiable homocide.
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December 26, 2003, 01:42
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You mean the media in Hong Kong.
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December 26, 2003, 03:13
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Deity
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Any western citizens or property harmed?
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December 26, 2003, 12:30
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Deity
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You mean the media in Hong Kong.
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I thought English is your first language?
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December 26, 2003, 12:53
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King
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10,000 Iranians dead in quake today, will anyone care?
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December 26, 2003, 13:17
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no, probably not.
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December 26, 2003, 16:20
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Ted does
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December 26, 2003, 17:13
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Jimmy doesn't 
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December 26, 2003, 18:33
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King
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sucks sure, but who were they to me?
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December 26, 2003, 22:28
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I thought English is your first language?
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Please try to be polite.
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December 27, 2003, 01:50
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1,000 threads killed on Apolyton over 5 years
Anyone care?
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Thought not.
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December 28, 2003, 15:20
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Dead
The amazing thing to me is that those dead are only part of 120,000 killed in industrial accidents this year. This seems really high. Obviously worker safety is not a high priority in the PRC.
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December 28, 2003, 16:00
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That is really high.
Union Carbide was 30,000, right?
That's four times that every year.
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