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BillyVance

When the Chinese fucks up, it's usually a collosal fuck up

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Holy fucking shit landslide batman! :o

Apparently this landslide was the result of unregulated landfill dumping of dirt and construction waste.

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ETA: Amazing story of a survivor pulled out after 67 hours. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/door-panel-saves-man-buried-67-hours-in-china-landslide/ar-BBnODHh?li=BBnbcA1
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Fark: "Man found alive after being buried for 67 hours by landslide in China, said to have enjoyed how easy it was to breathe under there."

:D

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Amazon

******And some people still argue that industry is capable of self-regulating...



Way different culture.

Yeah.... It's not like it is Texas City Texas in 1947... or West Texas a couple years ago... Different culture indeed.

Or nearly all or North and South Dakota in the current oil boom/bust.
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turtlespeed

***And some people still argue that industry is capable of self-regulating...



Way different culture.

A culture that values profit over people? You're right, couldn't possibly apply in our hemisphere of the world. And we all know that western companies build and operate facilities that are all equally safe regardless of whether the country it's located in has effective oversight or not.
Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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JohnMitchell

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Or if regulation and morality becomes too pesky we just offshore it to countries like China and...oh yeah, that's what we're talking about.

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