JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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BeaverCleaver
ComplexPoet-"You're going to ding him for taking his family into the OUTDOORS?"
No, I think she is dinging him for going too far off into Shoshone National Forest with two toddlers in tow. I cannot say for sure, but it does not sound like an established camp site that a mountain lion would avoid, but rather a remote location where mountain lions range. And he and his wife brought toddlers?
Posted in: Wyoming man fends off lion attack with chainsaw
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BeaverCleaver
Now is not the time to be talking about national health care. Having a super majority makes it tempting, because we don't when that will happen again, but we don't have money to play with. We need to tax the rich a bit more. We also need to reduce federal spending even more than that. The budget surpluses of the Clinton era were great, the trouble is, the budgets were not reduced and a budget surplus is not more money. Its just means we borrowed less than we planned to borrow, and believe me, we borrowed plenty under Clinton before we started paying back. Clinton ended with a debt about the same as he started with, which is cool. But it was a high debt then and junior made it far worse. We are in debt up to our gills, and something has to be done about it.
Posted in: U.S. House plan boosts taxes on rich to 20-year high
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BeaverCleaver
katsu78-" I've never in my life met anyone who would give up on having more money because it would be taxed at a higher rate."
Kwaabish-"I knew several, when the their 4% salary raise would have resulted in a 5% income tax raise (31% to 36%). Eventually, they figured on a percentage raise that did not result in going up a tax bracket."
Nope. katsu 78 specifically mentioned having more money. If going into a higher tax bracket means you get less money, of course you don't do that. If it means you still get more money, you do it.
But we are not talking about petty pay rises among the middle and lower classes here. We are talking about people who have more money than a small county in the U.S. Believe me, they will be fine and don't need our concern for their well-being. They may really believe they will die without a new BMW, but we know better, or should anyway.
Posted in: U.S. House plan boosts taxes on rich to 20-year high
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BeaverCleaver
AeJaLove-" 2. why on earth did the ladies NOT lock their windows???"
Hello 20/20 hindsight!
Posted in: Rape suspect says he scaled walls to reach victims' residences on 10 occasions
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BeaverCleaver
Spider, glad to see you asking for a source, that is always sensible. But the assertion of the other poster is not even related to the original statement. Even if it were true that abortion were the number one method of BC (which is not even unprovable since you cannot accurately measure condom use) that simple statement would not prove that the number of teenage pregnancies are higher or lower than anywhere else.
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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BeaverCleaver
sfjp330-"Why don't they install a hi-resolution security camera on the train to deter groping and false accusation? Camera will act as a third party witness."
If they are going to invest that much money, 24 hour trains would probably do more to reduce groping incidents being as that last train is always jam packed just for being the last train.
What is more is that people get so packed on the trains, that there is no angle you could put the camera to collect that sort of evidence.
Posted in: Man sentenced to prison for groping insists on his innocence
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BeaverCleaver
"War: Is it getting more hellish, or less? "
This is the kind of question I ask myself while sitting on the toilet. By the time I have flushed I have an answer. The answer to this one is: it is unanswerable, because every war is different. Even the sides in a war have a different experience. Some ancient wars were just as mild, controlled and short of hell as some modern ones. And some modern ones were as hellish as some ancient ones. Wipe, wipe. SWOOSH! gurgle, gurgle, gurgle. All done! I cannot believe anyone wrote a whole article on this.
Posted in: War: Is it getting more hellish, or less?
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BeaverCleaver
According to the experts, he went to all that trouble for power, and not for sex.
So my question is, does sitting around thinking of power make you pitch a tent?
Posted in: Rape suspect says he scaled walls to reach victims' residences on 10 occasions
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BeaverCleaver
Sarge-"Gosh, the least Britton coud have done was bring some snacks for the poor starving mountain lion. How inconsiderate."
He did bring them. The problem was that he did not give them.
Taka313- "Seriously, BZ to the Marine for having the stones to protect his family like that."
I was under the distinct impression that he was protecting himself. Do you think we could inflate this to "protecting his country" too and give him a medal? I loves my hero stories!
I am with cleo. My sympathy is primarily for the mountain lion.
Posted in: Wyoming man fends off lion attack with chainsaw
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BeaverCleaver
YuriOtani:"BeaverCleaver, in Japan drivers are suppose to be "professional drivers"."
Putting a Dom Perignon label on a bottle of Kool-Aid does not make it Dom Perignon.
"It is the responsibility of the driver to avoid pedestrians, motor scooters and motor bikes."
I do not mind that they have that responsibility. I mind that they have more responsibility even though it is far, far easier for pedestrians and bicyclists to avoid accidents with cars. You got to be blind to not see how much easier it is for them to avoid accidents with cars than vice-versa.
"Thus a driver should drive perhaps 20km or less when the possibility of and accident exist. "
Where doesn't the possibility for an accident exist? I am all for slowing down in extreme cases, such as when a local parade is using the other lane, but it sounds to me like you want traffic to slow to a crawl in a host of situations.
"While the "fact of steel" is around it is the responsibility of the driver to drive at a safe speed where that rule will not be a factor."
The only way the law of steel ceases to become a factor is if the car is traveling 0 kph. Even then a bike careening into it will still lose. Even so, yes, a driver should drive a safe speed, and I have no trouble with fining the driver if speed was truly a factor in an accident with a bicycle or pedestrian. But usually, it isn't the main factor. The main factor is that the pedestrian or bicyclist simply was not paying attention. How do you miss a speeding car heading your way? A car is easier to avoid than a bull if you are playing matador, and its still stupid to play matador with a car.
Posted in: 17-year-old Ibaraki boy dies after being found bleeding with tire marks on his head
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BeaverCleaver
rei307-"I live in Japan for 10 years... It seems like motorists hate to stop for pedestrians. At a crosswalk! It really makes#%$&%&%&"
True, cars hate to go from 40k plus to a dead stop just so you can cross the road. But I prefer to think of it this way: It seems like pedestrians hate to stop for motorists, despite the fact that its much easier and less hassle and energy and time lost for a pedestrian to stop and start again. Also, the do this despite the law of steel, which states: Whoever has the most steel should be given the right of way. Failure to obey the law of steel can result in tire tracks on your head.
And its just a fact of steel, and even the kindest motorists may not be able to bend the law of steel for you before its too late. Ignore the law of steel at your peril.
Posted in: 17-year-old Ibaraki boy dies after being found bleeding with tire marks on his head
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BeaverCleaver
grafton-"Demjanjuk failed to do that because to do so proved he was someone almost as bad as Ivan the terrible. "
Just being a guard at a death camp does not make one "almost" as bad as Ivan the Terrible.
Again I ask, what exactly did he do? As a Russian held by the Germans as a POW, what choice did he have?
It seems many people want to hang him just for being a guard. Its not nearly enough.
Posted in: Demjanjuk faces 27,900 accessory to murder counts
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BeaverCleaver
Okay, I am breaking my word. This deserves a reply. Yes, yes, I know that kinniku is jotting this down on the back page of his copy of "How to conduct a primary school playground argument" for posterity. "Scribble, scribble...BC broke his word on..."
kinniku-"Sigh, First of all, the five years has nothing to do with the terms overturned or aquitted."
Not sure what that is supposed to mean. But after reading the snippets from the articles you provided and checking a dictionary, it does turn out that the word acquitted just means the charges were dismissed, and the timing is irrelevant. Not being in the legal profession I thought it was only during the trial and was incompatible with a conviction. So I was wrong about something, and I admit it. And yes, I know kinniku is writing that down too, and I am bound to hear about it in 8 months time in a thread about poison cookies or something. Since kinniku never admits he is wrong, he never is. (Sure.)
However, it still does not change the fact that Sabi explained very accurately when he said "conviction was over-turned" and you glossed it over with the more general term acquitted to make it sound like he was never convicted in the first place. He was convicted. He sat on death row for 5 years. It is a relevant fact. Yeah, they decided he was not Ivan in the end, but only after they DECIDED HE WAS IVAN, and that stood for five years. That is what Sabi pointed out, and what you glossed over.
"What exactly have you found so offensive about my comments?"
One is explained above. But understand it was primarily your question "Don't you even read what you wrote?" that bothered me. Sabi was accurate. And you attitude there and elsewhere left much to be desired. See you around kinniku and don't forget to remind me when next we meet of all the mistakes I have made, as if I never admitted one before I met you.
Posted in: Demjanjuk faces 27,900 accessory to murder counts
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BeaverCleaver
Hard to believe this one skated by without a comment.
Naturally the nay sayers have a host of strawman fears, and go on like the other side isn't even talking. But, but, but! Yeah, they already answered your stupid question moron.
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BeaverCleaver
Yet another person hit by a car. Those things are stealthy you know, and sneak up on people and then WHAM, like a leopard, they rise out of the underbrush and drag you down.
steen-"Yesterday my 16-year-old son was knocked off his bike on his way to school. "
And another! They really ought to make them big so people can see them coming. Perhaps they could also make them noisier by fitting them with a internal combustion engine or something like that. They should also make a clear path for the things to go on so it will be easier to judge their path. We could call it a "road", and encourage people to be open their ears and eyes when they approach it. It will be no mystery that people get hit until my ideas are implemented.
Posted in: 17-year-old Ibaraki boy dies after being found bleeding with tire marks on his head
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BeaverCleaver
Klein2, excellent posts. You are leaving us who agree with you very little to say.
Posted in: Bush surveillance program was massive, report says
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BeaverCleaver
yuudair -"As with any country, the laws of my country are decided by majority vote, as in Japan, as in America, whether I like them or not."
I know of no country where this is true. I have never been invited to vote at my Congress, not even by absentee ballot. Sometimes a few local things come up and we get to vote, but nothing like this.
Anyway, thanks for your words showing us just how much Christians and Muslims view eachother with the exact same suspicions and mistrust. This is lets us all know how you religious types harbor most of the suspicious and mistrustful people of the world.
Also, thanks for coming here and trying to defend the indefensible by claiming suspicion and mistrust. Its just like a lot of people who post here and you would get along famously with them except your are from Malaysia and a Muslim, and that makes your similarities null and void in their book as well as yours I expect.
Posted in: Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims
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BeaverCleaver
Her statement was fine, even though I do not agree with its implication. What would have been a problem is if she said any idiot of a Latina woman could trump any white man any Sunday. That is not what she said, try as hard as some do to see it that way. Those who are I also suspect of feeling a great deal of pain since November.
Her points were wisdom, which anyone can have, and experience, of which a Latino woman is bound to have certain experiences concerning racism and sexism that a white man is not. Thus far, I have to agree. The problem is the belief that such a woman, experienced in those things is bound to make better decisions on such issues. I suppose it is true for the most part, but sometimes it can lead to a vindictive reverse discrimination. Perhaps that is why she threw the word "wise" in there, because a wise person would not be so affected?
But anyway, no one is free from racial bias. It just isn't possible. The question is whether one lets it affect their decisions or not. Parsing statements subject to interpretation is as productive as farting in the wind in trying to determine that. But I guess if you lost in November, farting in the wind is a full time occupation.
Posted in: Sotomayor denies bias in 'wise Latina' remark
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BeaverCleaver
pawatan-"Geez, BeaverCleaver, you should learn a little more about Malaysia before you post. They don't have 'a few silly laws', they have an entirely parallel justice system for Muslims"
Point taken. I revise my statement to "Every country has to have AT LEAST a few silly laws....". I hope we can now agree and shake hands as brothers. I also hope that before you take me to task over something like that again, you add the words "at least" by yourself, because it is not such a leap.
Posted in: Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims
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BeaverCleaver
Stanley50-"Its not well known, but in some states in the US, you can be prosecuted for converting out of Christianity."
Not true. But other countries have silly, inconsistent, whacky laws they go crazy trying to enforce. They just are not the same laws.
Posted in: Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims