UPDATED: Huawei R&D Lab On Fire And Possible Explosion With Three Lives Lost

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Title has "three lives lost" 

but comments are "/s, china, espionage, spy, trump"

Damn... I thought the forums were trying to be tame...

 

RIP

[pythonmegapixel]

8 minutes ago, Kinda Bottleneck said:

Title has "three lives lost" 

but comments are "/s, china, espionage, spy, trump"

Damn... I thought the forums were trying to be tame...

 

RIP

Indeed, Chinese lives are as valuable as American, British, or indeed any other lives.

[Lurick]

2 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Indeed, Chinese lives are as valuable as American, British, or indeed any other lives.

A lot of the early comments were made before we knew that any lives were lost.

[nick name]

17 minutes ago, Kinda Bottleneck said:

Title has "three lives lost" 

but comments are "/s, china, espionage, spy, trump"

Damn... I thought the forums were trying to be tame...

 

RIP

I updated the title and OP after it was learned there were casualties.  

[spartaman64]

10 hours ago, Lord Bloobus said:

Because it's a Chinese state run firm that's trying to infiltrate other countries with built in spyware, they also doubt that this was an accident since due to the first point it's lost a hefty amount of business quite recently.

The loss of human life is regrettable, but there's no sympathy for a company that supports government level espionage and the authoritarian regime which routinely screws its neighbors and own citizens.

idk nobody has ever offered any evidence that has been the case and with so many eyes looking at huawei if they are actually installing spyware i would expect it to be exposed immediately.

also the US hasn't had the best track record with this kind of stuff see the yinhe incident where they were 100000001% sure that a chinese container ship is bringing chemical weapons to iran so they blocked them off from its destination oman and ironically made it so the only port the ship can dock at is iran. but the captain smartly decided not to do that and after a few days they let them dock at saudi arabia for inspection and surprise surprise no chemical weapons only paint. then of course america refused to compensate the company for the heap of late fees they incurred 

[Nanook]

CIA attack?

[gloop]

3 hours ago, Kinda Bottleneck said:

Title has "three lives lost" 

but comments are "/s, china, espionage, spy, trump"

Damn... I thought the forums were trying to be tame...

 

RIP

Those comments were made a few hours before the reports of lives being lost reached the forums. 

[thechinchinsong]

Any other company has a fire: "Hope it doesn't affect their company and/or products. Hopefully nobody got hurt. Wish them the best. "

 

Huawei has a fire: "haha, china company go boom"

[pythonmegapixel]

15 minutes ago, thechinchinsong said:

Any other company has a fire: "Hope it doesn't affect their company and/or products. Hopefully nobody got hurt. Wish them the best. "

 

Huawei has a fire: "haha, china company go boom"

Honestly I wouldn't feel sorry for any company of Huawei's size.

It's just incredibly hard to feel any kind of empathy for an organisation who spends several orders of magnitude more money than I've ever had in my life on a single project or campaign.

 

Obviously I'm sorry for the staff, and I seriously hope there are no further deaths or injuries reported... but the company itself, I really don't care about.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Honestly I wouldn't feel sorry for any company of Huawei's size.

It's just incredibly hard to feel any kind of empathy for an organisation who spends several orders of magnitude more money than I've ever had in my life on a single project or campaign.

 

Obviously I'm sorry for the staff, and I seriously hope there are no further deaths or injuries reported... but the company itself, I really don't care about.

What about LMG then? 

[pythonmegapixel]

5 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

What about LMG then? 

Same opinion,

 

If a fire bankrupted the company, then I would feel sorry for the employees who would be out of a job, or Linus for the fact that his livelihood is gone. But I wouldn't be that upset, in the grand scheme of things, about LMG no longer existing.

[thechinchinsong]

1 hour ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Honestly I wouldn't feel sorry for any company of Huawei's size.

It's just incredibly hard to feel any kind of empathy for an organisation who spends several orders of magnitude more money than I've ever had in my life on a single project or campaign.

 

Obviously I'm sorry for the staff, and I seriously hope there are no further deaths or injuries reported... but the company itself, I really don't care about.

Yeah, I'm just trying to point out that the first thing in people's minds weren't if anybody was hurt, it was "haha, nice"

[Sauron]

On 9/25/2020 at 6:51 PM, CTR640 said:

Trump must be behind it, I'm sure of it!

Considering he ordered an air strike on his allies with no warning I wouldn't put it beyond the realm of possibilities

[FakeNSA]

1 minute ago, thechinchinsong said:

Yeah, I'm just trying to point out that the first thing in people's minds weren't if anybody was hurt, it was "haha, nice"

The same thing happened when there was the fire at a Samsung dram fab a couple of years ago: people tend to cheese around with the tech news, and don’t always shift gears for more serious news. 
I don’t think that’s just an anti-huawei reaction: just hard for any of us to quantify damage like that in comparison to such a massive entity.