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I was thinking about clean water for Haiti. One could airdrop iodine tablets for water treatments. However, I worry someone would eat them, unable to read the label. In a disaster-stricken country with a high illiteracy rate, how can one remotely instruct recipients on how to use a product?
I gather
that small chips with the ability to speak must be cheap, given their prevalence in giveaway kids toys. I propose that these speaking chips could be incorporated into the supply of relief products. For example the iodine tablet bottle would have a button on the cap. On pressing, a Haitian voice would say: "Do not eat these pills. Put one pill in a full bottle of dirty water. Let it sit for an hour. Then the water will be safe to drink."
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I am pretty sure that a pictogram would convey the message. |
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Morgan Freeman to voice, people will do anything he says. |
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In that case, maybe Morgan Freeman should play Barack Obama in his second term ? |
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I don't think they're making the roadblocks in protest. From what's been reported they've been trying to stop aid getting through... so they can have it themselves. That may be irresponsible, and they shouldn't be doing it, but it's the actions of desperate people. |
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// they don't deserve the help that's meant for them // |
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This begs the question, should aid be provided to the inhabitants of known tectonically active zones ? |
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"My house has been destroyed by an earthquake/volcano/tsunami." |
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"Hard luck. You were warned". |
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These areas are clearly and unambiguously identified. Irrespective of the degree of development of the nation state, providing aid to the victims of predictable and inevitable natural disasters merely perpetuates the problem. |
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Vesuvius erupts at stochastically deterministic intervals. San Francisco is built on an unstable fault system. Japan is notorious for earthquakes and volcanoes. Major population centres are damaged or destroyed. And then rebuilt ...... |
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What's wrong with this picture ? |
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If, instead of rebuilding devastated urban areas, the funds were diverted to systematic relocation of the survivors, it would work out more cheaply in the long term. |
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The areas involved are relatively small and could be re-employed for low intensity agricultural use, with a relatively small number of specially designed disaster-resistant buildings for the farmers, thus minimising the risk and potential casualties. |
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Volcanic area are attractive to you humans because of the high fertility of volcanic soils, but this is not a valid reason for situating large population centres in the vicinity of active vulcanicity. |
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// the planners who designed those cities // |
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New Orleans was not "planned". It grew up because of its location and convenience for trade and commerce. The original inhabitants had no understanding of geology and hydrology, but despite your species progression in these areas you persist in perpetuating these well-meant mistakes. |
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I think it makes sense to pile up bodies on roads. The have to get piled somewhere. On the road they will be easier to load into a truck. |
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what logic, that dead bodies are a health hazard ? |
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with [bung] on this one - assign scout trucks to pick up corpses: tag 'em, bag'em and get them out of the way until the crisis has passed. |
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Your fishbone is no longer alone, 21 Quest. |
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About having a superpower take over - I'm in favour
of reconstructing the British Empire by systematic
conquering of the worlds hell holes. |
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People bitch and moan and complain, not because they are bad but because they have difficulty achieving a more restfull state of being. |
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It is very difficult, even under the best of circumstances, to be at peace with yourself, to know yourself and to love yourself. Yet these are the steps that lead to a greater moral awareness. |
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So you see, it is the bitchers and moaners who need and deserve help the most, simply because they still bitch and moan. |
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Now, bitching and moaning about bitchers and moaners, there's just no excuse for that. |
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//About having a superpower take over//
Well, the superpower of the time "created" the problem, so let Spain clear it up. |
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//reconstructing the British Empire by systematic conquering
of the worlds hell holes.// Whoa there - we finally manage
to get Australia and North America to run themselves, and
now this?? |
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[zeno], how very well said. The only difference
between Haitians and us is their need. If you take
away our ability to give, we become just the same.
Needy. |
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We are all the same, 21. Even you. |
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With the exception that we change our government
via elections, rather than Coup's, which is a much
more orderly way of doing it. Haiti, on the other
hand... |
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//we finally manage to get Australia...to run themselves //
Woah! Steady on there. |
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Take off your skin, [selky] and what do you see? |
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Sounds good, let's do it ... |
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Were you talking to me, or were you talking to an actual Selky? If it's an actual Selky, they'll see either a seal or a human. |
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Both you and 21 surely dance around when faced with
a truth you have no clear defense to, don't cha. (Gosh
it's early in the day, and I really don't wanna do this,
do I ?) |
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We are all human beings under our skin. You can not
disassociate yourself from any group, just because
you don't like what they do, or stand for. You still are
made up of the same atoms, particles, ect., that
everyone else is, you toad, you. |
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bliss, you're made up of the same atoms/particles that a slug is... |
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Are there any different ones? |
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