Gandhi's dead, I don't think he can do anything.

Economic Left/Right: -1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74

The pure irony...

Dragging this damn thing back on topic...
Update~
40,075 officially, and over 247 thousand injured for the earthquake...
4.8 million homeless
Grand total, there's been 77 aftershocks, from very weak to Aftershocks of 5 and 6, Earthquakes in their own right...
Anywhere from 77,738 to 124,000 with the Burma... An aid worker warned of possible 300,000...
On May 18th, in Lagos, Nigeria, a pipeline exploded when a bulldozer working on a nearby project crashed into it.
Emergency Services claim ten lives claimed, while the Nigerian Red Cross is claiming one hundred.
It appears to be an accident, and regardless, is the eleventh pipeline explosion since October of 1998, and the sixth to occur in Lagos...

Nathaniel wrote: we are the only countries allowed to call it Burma :D

Those who made the mistake have to live with it. Isn't "Burma" is just the anglicized form of "Myanmar".

Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.00

Ugh I think I have school to blame for the first part.

Sentynel wrote: Burma is the original name; the ruling junta calls it Myanmar, but various places, mostly English-speaking nations, refuse to recognise the name change and still call it Burma.

=)

What the hell's with the Eco Left/right n all that...

So horribly confused...


Burma: 77,738 dead, possibly 120k or more, with a quote of 300 thousand.
Ten Billion in damage.

Earthquake: 51,151 dead, 288,431 injured. something like thirty thousand missing.
So far, easily 120 billion in damage.

The left/right stuff is from the Political Compass thing someone posted.

What currency are those costs in (though it still wouldn't be cheap either way).

Dansariki wrote: What the hell's with the Eco Left/right n all that...

So horribly confused...

www.politicalcompass.org

Test to determine your political alignment

Economic Left/Right: -0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46

There was a good Ayn Rand question there too.

Sentynel wrote:

Sentynel wrote: Burma is the original name; the ruling junta calls it Myanmar, but various places, mostly English-speaking nations, refuse to recognise the name change and still call it Burma.

=)

Um, the British colonialists derived "burma" from the name the locals had for it, myanmar is closer to the local language. Small wonder why the Brits are clinging on to Burma?

WinterTabby wrote:

Sentynel wrote:

Sentynel wrote: Burma is the original name; the ruling junta calls it Myanmar, but various places, mostly English-speaking nations, refuse to recognise the name change and still call it Burma.

=)

Um, the British colonialists derived "burma" from the name the locals had for it, myanmar is closer to the local language. Small wonder why the Brits are clinging on to Burma?

And where did you find that "fact"? :P

Regardless, Burma is the oldest, Myanmar is simply an english translation; those of Burma used to (and still) called themselves based upon the area in which the lived...
'Myanmar' is what the current regime has adopted...
Official death toll at 77k and change, but CNN called it at least 130,000...
>60,000 dead, ~293,000 injured, ~25,000 missing...
China's stated the quake to be 8.0 and 8.3, while the USGS puts it at 7.9...