On 2011/12/23 00:11, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
On 12/23/2011 04:45 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
And, for what it is worth, if you really want to walk into the Japan
issue, all I can do is ask if you have given any money to help ...
Paul
Since you have to be a spoilsport/clown and ask...
I didn't give money, because that is meaningless here. We've got plenty of money
and gobs of prepared supplies. I went up north to assist my cousins and in-laws
directly because that actually meant something. Rebuilding the collapsed side of
the barn and replacing the house windows with my cousin, and tending to
livestock while half the family was away made a much larger difference than
money could -- because for all the money in the world you couldn't find people
just then to do those things in that particular spot, and transportation aside
from boats/bike was initially extremely difficuly anyway. I'm sure that my
participation in town cleanup didn't mean as much, though, because there were
plenty of people on hand for that, with most offices closed.
If you're really in a donating mood, I hear Joe is in need of new hardware and
is living on a pension. I'm sure he would actually use it for hardware instead
of simply standing up a self-beureaucratic organization he can be in charge of
and grant himself a job of arbitrary tax-free salary through by telling people
on the internet that his aim is to "help people" by donating money to a country
already experiencing overwhelming deflationary pressures...
Hear hear. I've known Joe for a couple decades now. He's a very nice
excruciatingly honest, very helpful, and remarkably humorous fellow. (I
almost said young fellow. He is, after all, a couple years younger.) Did
I mention he was a seeing eye people for one of JPL's resident orbital
mechanics geniuses blinded by diabetes? Oh, I just did. If anyone can give
him a break it'd be a really good thing. The karmic increase you receive
would be quite welcome. If you're in the Southern California area don't
junk that old dual core pentium 2 GHz computer. Give it to a loving home
as an upgrade for Joe. (My spares are all older than his. <sigh>)
{^_^}
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