Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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[Caskhades]

I thought Japan was all about Robots. Have they turned out to be sunny weather friends useless in disaster, or just more TEPCO incompetence?

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Rather than spend the evening crushing vicodin, dissolving it to get Hydrocodone, and then mixing it in scotch in order to better enjoy the prospect of plutonium and cesium bioaccumulating in the food supply of one of most progressive, populous, and culturally gifted countries on earth like some fin-de-siecle buzzard, I wonder if some of the crowd here with better economic and business educations could speculate, as it were, on some of the longer term 'fallout' of this earthquake/tsunami/etc from a business/economic perspective?

Even I've noticed the emphasis on horizontal integration in the past few decades, with worldwide JIT supply chains supported by ultra specialists and heavily reliant on sole-supplier arrangements. Now, I read of looming or present shortages of things like aluminum oxide for auto paint (much made in Fukushima Prefecture), a 20% loss of worldwide 300mm silicon wafer production (Miyagi Prefecture), Renesas has not restarted MicroController Unit production due to power outages, etc. "For want of a nail...."

Has the world's manufacturing and supply become so finely tuned and Demmingized that it's become brittle? Are we to the point where we're so interdependent that Arthur Jensen's corporate cosmology finally came to pass (or vice versa)?

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Yeah, half a billion bananas/hour will knock your dick in the dirt...


I hear Tepco is recruiting welders certified in stainless pressure vessels. They put together this little recruiting film...

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My son made a lot of money buying BP shares straight after the Gulf of Mexico disaster, they were way oversold. Have now gone against all my cautious instincts and on the same logic bought into a Japanese equity fund, which is currently at a reassuringly low value. Warren Buffett agrees. Hope Mr. P would approve.

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10 things to learn from Japan


1. THE CALM

Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief.


2. THE DIGNITY

Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.


3. THE ABILITY

The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall.


4. THE GRACE

People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.


5. THE ORDER

No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.


6. THE SACRIFICE

Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?


7. THE TENDERNESS

Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.


8. THE TRAINING

The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.


9. THE MEDIA

They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.


10. THE CONSCIENCE

When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly.



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