tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post418114480063639296..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Thailand: 220 deaths and 2,658 injuredStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-82671577948376708432010-03-09T23:31:28.662-09:002010-03-09T23:31:28.662-09:00DOes anyone knows any website that contains data o...DOes anyone knows any website that contains data on Songkran deaths on the 7 days of Songkran for the past 10 years. I have to do a group presentation on Songkran. THen I also have to make 10 interesting questions about Songkran. Like does most of the deaths occur during the day or at night etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-31258307046810859892009-04-17T14:35:00.000-08:002009-04-17T14:35:00.000-08:00From afar, the number of dead, seems to have no me...From afar, the number of dead, seems to have no meaning, to some who use some metric of comparison in some cold lab or room, of number runs.<br />Would that be liking counting up all the dead in Russia, in WW-II, and comparing, and then discounting.<br />To each person who died, there is some relative, some daughter, some son, some somebody, who the death of a human has great meaning/ impact.<br />All that comparative data churning, obscures so much.<br />It is like the auto maker, who sees that it would cost more for a fix, so he puts the cost of some dead bodies in some spread sheet calculus, to cheapen life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-6135837534757249182009-04-15T15:08:00.000-08:002009-04-15T15:08:00.000-08:00Oh Oh, a can of worms, Vets returning from Iraq, A...Oh Oh, a can of worms, Vets returning from Iraq, Afghan, and what is indeed in their pshyches. Tim McVeigh, his response on killing kids at at a day care center, OKC, just "collaterial damage".<br />However, the highest suicide rate in America is Vets returning from Iraq, and Afghan.<br />Of course, in any data base it is hard to compare numbers, & in the car death rate, it is spread over so many areas of a large nation.<br />Teenagers drinking has been put in the insurance premium rates, which are very high to insure teen drivers--of cars.<br />I don't think some( e. g lower 48) realize there are limited roads in Alaska, and how isolated so many areas are.<br />Not to digress, but the Governor(Sarha) has pointed out, she can see Russia, from her Vally House, which became part of a Saturday Night Live Skit.(foreign policy experience---stretch).<br />Which brings us, to the paper by Nick Marsh on the Russian Mafia....<br />So, how does the USA compare to other places in safety, health, living conditions ?<br />The USA consumption of oil/ hydrocabons is much higher than T -land,as it is visa via most other places(all in fact on the earth).<br />I think some can really tell a lot about a Nation by how they treat their most powerful, like Ted Stevens, and the double standard in the justice system.<br />Yet, many in Alaska don't see it as being in the USA(its whole) as being part of, except some money flows for select groups, making Alaksa the biggest per capita drain on the U S treasury. That dividend check all get, think what it could have done on public works projects. But instead, there is a different mindset in AK.<br />Like it is Ak v the USA, Joe Volker mentality, at large, still. <br />This Stevens thing is going to have some blow-back, in some unintended consquences, as citizen are fed up, with the sense that Ted Stevens clique is just a feeding farm for the rest of America, to suck out large wads of money, and cavort with the Allen's of the world, and then be totally unaccountable.<br />But, then the only constant is change, and it is accelerating, indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-34809516584465895172009-04-15T10:31:00.000-08:002009-04-15T10:31:00.000-08:00Well, in Hungary Budapest is fat the greatest city...Well, in Hungary Budapest is fat the greatest city and there are some cities which are above 10 000 but most of them are under 10 000 so from that view these are serious numbers.Ropihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17214991557644729165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-86403777514527668242009-04-15T09:52:00.000-08:002009-04-15T09:52:00.000-08:00Anon- The US Peace Corps and other agencies sponso...Anon- The US Peace Corps and other agencies sponsoring volunteers, including mine, prohibit volunteers riding motorcycles. The <A HREF="http://www.vso.org.uk/" REL="nofollow">VSO</A> (a non-governmental British volunteer organization on whose site I couldn't find the acronym spelled out), according to a volunteer I spoke to last year, gives their volunteers motorcycle training and requires they wear a particular helmet. A Canadian volunteer also got a particular helmet, but I don't think any training.<br /><br />We rode bicycles, walked, and took songthaews - covered pickups that have benches in the back and work like jitneys. Traffic in town was really quite civilized once we figured out the norms. On the narrow back streets I rode to get to work, cars waited patiently behind me without ever honking until they could pass safely. <br /><br />On the highways it's another story where people are driving fast and passing in questionable places. <br /><br />Kellie, It's always hard to calculate what didn't happen. Without the efforts of Homeland Security would there have been more attacks? I'm sure some where deflected, but given that we have so many vulnerable targets - particularly utilities or any large gathering of people - that were not attacked, I question how much of a threat there really was. Yes, there was a threat, but the only airports I had to remove my shoes at were US. I think the administration used the terror fear to do a lot of other things on their agenda. And how many Iraqi and Afghan civilians died to save American civilians from terorists? And what costs will America bear over the years with all the military returning with buried traumas lurking in their psyches? I'm hoping to do a post soon on the Israeli movie Dancing with Bashir which is about Israeli veterans dealing with dreams and suppression of memories of war.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-63654809207815923132009-04-15T07:48:00.000-08:002009-04-15T07:48:00.000-08:00"Don't forget 340,000 in traffic deaths v. 3000 in..."Don't forget 340,000 in traffic deaths v. 3000 in terrorist attack in the US since 9/11. But we didn't spend 100 times as much to prevent traffic deaths. What if we did? or just 100 times more than we spend now to prevent traffic deaths?"<br /><br />I am wondering how many more they had expected in terrorist deaths. Were they expecting more? Did our efforts reduce terrorist deaths? <br /><br />There is the provisional drivers license now that kids need to get in Alaska and I wonder if it has cut traffic deaths back. Other than DUI commercials and putting more police out on the roads, I am not sure how traffic deaths are attempted to be reduced.<br /><br />Thank you for showing us these statistics and what we look at and how we spend our money. There is less industry in preventing traffic deaths than in the military.Kellie Davishttp://www.examiner.com/x-7080-Anchorage-Family-Examinernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-65396231120697713352009-04-15T07:09:00.000-08:002009-04-15T07:09:00.000-08:00I am curious, so how did u navigate around T- land...I am curious, so how did u navigate around T- land,<br />and decrease the odds of not being a stastistic, in some data base,<br />any precautions you took ?<br />Sounds like a lots of booze flowing as to people on <br />Motor- bikes. Can u imagine the data in<br />the U S if most traveled on motor-bikes,<br />as main means of transportation ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com