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Forums - General - Bushfires in Victoria Australia, over 84 dead

156

 

actually 166

 

now 171



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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Wow, it keeps escalating. Scary stuff.



Pretty goddamn awful if you ask me...



I hope my 360 doesn't RRoD
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Galaki said:
Tyrannical said:
The funny thing about brush fires and forest fires is the longer the area has gone without a significant fire, the more fuel is available and the worse the fire.

After years of not having a fire, there is so much dead brunable matter that's built up over time that when it does burn, it burn hot. That makes it difficult to put out, and the high winds generated by that heat carries burining embers that can rapidly spread.

 

Are you suggesting regular arsons?


No, regular controlled burns. Brush fires can't be prevented, they can only be delayed.

Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

I believe people already back-burn to a certain extent. But when it gets as hot as it does in an australian summer and couple that with how dry it gets fires are really an inevitability unfortunately.



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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_australia_fires
Australia declares bushfire disaster a crime scene

Police said convicted arsonists could face a murder charge and appealed to survivors of the bushfires to come forward with any evidence of suspicious activity.



Well they caused far more damage then any one murderer ever could.



They reckon final count could be 300



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Moongoddess256 said:
here at vgchartz we love body counts as much as we love any other statistics.

 

Statwhores, we are.