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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Taro who wrote (469841)4/8/2009 5:42:05 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1575761
 
You are a shallow man, Ted. Use your brains: why do you believe very old buildings in earth quake areas like Mexico City and Italian places still stand there after 400 years or more? Because they were built well and because with time as per your Darwin hero - they survived as the fittest!

Well that's brilliant. They had a quake two days ago and officials are estimating that 60% of the old structures are damaged or destroyed. What happened? They all decided to give out in 2009. Use your brain, Taro.

'Old' buildings collapsing in Italy have been 'restored' using much later construction 'techniques'. The very new commercial structures in l'Aquila collapse due to corruptive and sneaky ways of circumventing the rulse now in power in all of Italy with regard to how anti earthquake rules must be applied to.

Well apparently, Abruzzo has been circumventing the rules about construction for more than a thousand years. An Italian architect said yesterday on the news that buildings built in Abruzzo from the 11 century going forward are not as well built as those that were built in Rome or during the Renaissance in the rest of Italy. He said that's why so many have collapsed in recent days.

So ready to attack.....not getting enough sleep?
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