Meh, there are more annoying voices, architecurally…
Wait, no, there really aren’t.
You realize he is a slap stick style comedian right? LoL
Japan hasn’t partied this hard since 1945!
Nuclear officials say they may seek U.S. and Japanese military help to spray water from helicopters into an overheating spent fuel storage pool at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Tokyo Electric Power says it may use helicopters because of the risk of radiation contamination from approaching the pool directly. Air drops may also be more effective.
Seriously? You’re JAPAN for crying out loud. You have robot toilets that clean your ass. You have a car company that invented a walking robot just for the fuck of it. You can’t figure out some way to have robot carry a hose over there?
LOL.
I got it…
Just don’t agree with it being a worthwhile observation…
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You guys to do know that Aflac although US based does more business in Japan then here right?
They are also pioneering new products and styles of insurance in Japan that cater to an elderly population that is going to help us greatly with our baby boomer situation shortly.
And?
It’s not worthwhile to reinforce how unprecedented this is?
Radiator released and travelling towards tokyo causing people to flee the capital and signalling long-term economic challenges…
thailand, haiti etc… yes they were devastating but they were not Japan. This is a singular, ‘act of god’ event that precipitated a sequence of catastrophic events that may very well cripple one of the most developed nations in the world for the rest of our generation… i think it’s worth pointing our how significant it is 
i really can’t believe how crazy this is getting.
moreover, it’s going to be a boon for the Canadian natural resource economy and Japan rebuilds given that they purchase so much timber and other raw materials from Canada. I guess i’m mixing up the tradegy / opportunity aspect a little bit now though.
but yes, very interested to see how some of you guys pull a tidy profit off this.
EDIT:
ORLY!!!
I’m down a little right now. About 90 bucks. I did it by buying out of the money puts so they didn’t move too much. Basically they will go to 0 and I’ll lose a couple hundred bucks if it stays the same or goes up, or make a lot more if it crashes further. US markets bought the shit out of Japan today trying to get value, we’ll see what the locals think.
EDIT: I’ll post up my trade for the hell of it. Bought 10 EWJ 4/16/2011 9 puts @ $.30. For those of you that don’t know, that means I have the option to sell 1000 shares for $9 each. Total invested was $300. If EWJ cracks 9 within the next month, which would be about another 10% drop, these guys should soar and I will make $1000 or more. Right now you could get into the same trade for $210.
I can not help but laugh at how people react to this stuff.
I had a professor of International Economics today tell me that the world is coming to an end.
I told him that professor Cookfair teaches a wonderful class on the study of Natural Disasters that he should take. Why do so many people insist on forming ignorant opinions on things they do not understand? That is the real question.
LOL Bing yes when disaster strikes your nation the market is deff going down. This certainly has economic impact, my point is that it will play out as a pump in the graph…not a slope. I would trade it but I only really trade oil these days. Going to but my future children through college on that shit.
Looks like a pool used to store spent fuel rods has lost it’s water supply and there is a real threat of the water boiling out and radiation being sent into the atmosphere. This time it appears to be a real emergency with people’s lives in serious danger. Hopefully they can find a way to get water in the spent fuel rod pool.
i cant believe that guy has 65,000 followers.
incredible scroll-bar pictures from NYTimes: LINK
lets you scroll over before and after satellite images of Sendai
People buying iodine tablets in the US = :ham:
But THIS (link) = :ham: x 10000000
who here is surprised?
/stirs pot
I’m going to pull your net-wide access, lol.
no please dont 
red states… i meant from red states…
some people will believe the most ridiculous things
Not to be a smart ass but I got a dose of mass media this morning and they were talking about how cold people are because there is no fuel. Ummmmmmm I am pretty sure I saw huge piles of stuff that would burn. Don’t the Japanese know about camping?
Oh and the mass media was also talking about how bad the nuke situation is getting. Should I believe them? Who knows, right?
i’ve noticed cnn take a very US-centric position witih reuters being much less so. BBC / CBC more of an international flavour and less dramatic about the nuclear situation.