Re: USA Disaster - Mailing list pgsql-general
From | Norbert Zoltan Toth |
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Subject | Re: USA Disaster |
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Msg-id | 00f801c13af1$6c46e780$11278a89@cern.ch Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: USA Disaster (Carlos Felipe Zirbes <carlosz@dbserver.com.br>) |
List | pgsql-general |
Sorry guys, but there are many of us on this list which has been dedicated to postgres type of Q/A. I know that this is a frontpage news at many places, but as far as this list is concerned, it's a spam. Could you please find another forum to discuss these issues? Thanx > > Most of New York is in shock and so is the rest of the world, I might add. > > Information is pretty confuse at this time. I had heard before that there > were at least 40,000 people at the WTC at the moments of the crashes, not > 20,000. It's been reported that there were at least 300 people on the > planes. Ant it seems that at the moment of the collapse of the first tower > there were hundres of firemen and paramedics inside the building. The losses > are almost countless. > > USA will certainly fire a retaliation act somewhere in the world againt the > terrorists, once it finds out who are them. That scares me because it really > can start a war. But I don't think any country will be brave enough to claim > responsability for the act. If the one to blame is really Osama Bin Laden I > don't know what USA can do, since it has been after Osama for years now and > never got even near him. > > I have also heard that maybe the army will take over the control of the > country, putting Bush aside. Just don't know if that can really happen... > > > Carlos Felipe Zirbes > DBServer Assessoria em Sistemas de Informação > E-mail: carlosz@dbserver.com.br > Fone: (51) 3342-8055 > Fax: (51) 3342-4838 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Mahoney [mailto:ryan@paymentalliance.net] > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:04 PM > To: Manuel Cabido > Cc: Carlos Felipe Zirbes; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] USA Disaster > > > I recommend checking out cnn.com, bbc, or even slashdot. I don't know > anything more than you can read online. > > > Can you give us a brief of what really happened out there? > Two hi-jacked (sp?) planes were crashed into each of the two 110 story > World Trade Center buildings in downtown Manhattan. Both building have > completely collapsed into themselves. About 20,000 people where in the > buildings at the times of the two crashes. > > > How many people have died? > I don't think anyone knows for certain just yet. It must have been very > difficult to evacuate those buildings, and there was no warning before the > first crash happened. The number of casualties will be very high. > > > What is now the prevailing condition of the place? > They have been erased from the skyline. It is surreal to look towards > Manhattan and not see them. > > > Had there been leads as to the motive of the attacks? > I don't think there is any consensus here. There is some suspicion of > Palestinian terrorists. I believe there was supposed to be a rally in > downtown Manhattan near city hall (today? or next week?), which would have > possibly been the largest group (150,000) of North American Jews gathered > in the US. > > Personally I am not knowledgeable re: issues and tension that exists > between these groups. Everything seems quiet now (there have been sirens > and airplanes through most of the day) - I think most of New York is in > complete shock. > > -r > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >
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