Manslaughter For Failing To Warn Of Earthquake

Well I appreciate the support!

Good! Because despite what a some forum regulars here are trying to say, you're correct.

Anecdotal evidence is the most salient to the uninformed.

The adversarial system provides numerous checks to filter the plethora of garbage cases. If you believe otherwise, look to attorneys! It could be argued that they're committing malpractice by violating the ethos their profession.

Finally, if the issue is complex enough to make it to trial, what makes any ffxiah reader qualified to offer up judgement based on a single news article?

On another note, I find it frightening that people require absolutes in the application of science when the best the scientific method can give is an ever expanding understanding of the probable.

Another question more in line with preemptive measures, Sheelay...I know funding is set aside mostly by state as far as construction projects that are specifically for natural disasters here. (There is some done on the national level.) State generator projects near the coast here after Katrina, Rita, and Ike were finally finished at the end of 2010. Would projects along the same lines of this be funded state-to-state in Italy or would it be a national level funding of some preemptive measures? I could see something like what Baconwrap suggested shooting into billions very quickly.

By this logic wouldn't every weather man in the world have be jailed now?

@Zahrah: want an example of how much Italy cares? Just 1 year ago or so, some heavy rain made an entire part of the excavation site of Pompeii collapse. Another house crumbled cause of bad maintenance of a beam supporting the roof.

They make very little maintenance and many years apart...of course stuff centuries old falls down at the first strike of nature...

[+] for the response. Not the debacle itself.

I was wondering about that too! How many years has the Colosseum been under restoration? It's almost been a decade since I've been to Rome, but the guide had said that the project had been going on for four years prior. We were told that the project was on temporary hiatus because of lack of funding.

Just really perplexed by some people's idea of who is at fault, and, realistically, how could the situation be made better?

You're in Northern Italy, right? I know Southern Italy is significantly poorer.

The Pope could do with a bit of restoration by the looks of him these days.

I'm in the south, in one of those towns under the volcano, yay!

The pope could buy the whole country if he felt like it.

RUN AWAY!!!

Doesn't really add much that isn't known already but relevant.

Hmm, I'm sorry but I don't know of any grants such as those you mentioned, but it's not really my area of expertise.

Personally, I doubt there are.

I have seen many buildings that I'd consider deserving of such treatment yet are left in a decaying state.
The fact corruption and mafia are so deeply involved in the political and regulatory aspects of the country don't help either (fyi many of Italy's major politicians and/or institutions are currently under trial for laundering, theft, power abuse and yadda yadda. All we are missing at this point is the Benny Hill Show theme playing in the background.. )

Dude, I was in Naples just a few months back. Boo you!

This year Emilia Romagna, one of Italy's most economically active and productive region's in italy, was struck by an earthquake.

The fact the region technically isn't a major "high risk" area caused most of the commercial infrastructures that were built in the past decade or two to collapse because they were not built to withstand a sneeze.

Aside from the additional lawsuits that came out of it, a support fund was started with the participation and sponsoring from several political and social figures. I am not quite sure how that is turning out, but I think i recall some article quoting the EU starting an investigation on this and the Aquila earthquake (the one from 3 years ago) for fund misplacement (into someone's pockets).

Sorry about the triple post. I'm half asleep -_-

It doesn't take a lawyer to see that there's an overwhelming amount of *** lawsuits that should have never made it to trial.

If the precedent is indeed set, then new laws need to be made as obviously there was some error in judgement to make said precedent.

Also: it's not all about "a single news article." but some people have their heads too far up certain places to realize that.

yeah, dropping it now Eugene, tired of beating this dead horse.

haha you saw. me too. i thought better of it.

no, just you posted, I don't really mind, as I can see your pov, just don't agree with it.

Rather end this now as it really serves no purpose.



It also distracts from the point of that Italy is in trouble, so is the world, and we need to get off this volcanic rock :P

They shoulda sued the Earth. Like, who the *** does it think it is moving its crust around like it's all that?! Sheeeeee-it...

I know, right?

Outside of funding, politics needs to stay as *** far away as it can from Science.

Better a politician than a priest.