In Tokyo, the cupboards are bare.

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A near empty shelf in Tokyo today. REUTERS/Kyodo

[MindPilot]

1. No CPU on the board?

And no fucking food either? Shit!

Sorry, but your typo struck me a litle funny this morning :hi:

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2. Me too, because I regularly use the term CPU at my job daily.

[AsahinaKimi]

3. This is another good reason to

donate to www.globalgiving.org

頑張れ日本 !!

[hifiguy]

4. I am somewhat perplexed

There are certainly Japanese ports in operation - they are all over the country, not just in the area of the quake/tsunami. I've seen messages from Japanese acquaintances on other messageboards around the intertubes who say that Tokyo is functioning more or less normally save for slightly worse traffic than usual. So why are the stores in other parts of Japan empty. That there would be significant problems in the affected area only makes sense, but why so hundreds of miles away?

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5. There have been runs on food, water and emergency equipment

in Tokyo particularly, because the radiation could devastate Tokyo should the winds change and the radioactive fallout becomes more intense.