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"He aprendido que todo el mundo quiere vivir en la cima de la montaña, sin saber que la verdadera felicidad está en la forma de subir la escarpada. He aprendido que cuando un recién nacido aprieta con su pequeño puño, por vez primera, el dedo de su padre, lo tiene atrapado para siempre. He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo, cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse..."

~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez


earthquake and the internet

This is odd... instead of reporting on the devastating earthquake in Taiwan, The Straits Times chose to put the news about Internet disruption as the front page with lots of lengthy articles....

The inconvenience of modern living is deemed more important than the lives lost during the earthquake???

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

internet connection affects everyone in the country. my company couldn't function almost totally with the disruption. whereas loss of lives is not affecting us in a direct manner.

Anonymous said...

Sad but true. Where there is a chance of losing money that's where all the attention goes to. Here is one prime example. All the casinos have mega backup power to make sure all their slot machines do not stop. Their emergency backup systems are probably tested more often than the ones used in the hospitals.

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