JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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CavemanLawyer
So what you are saying is that it is just as easy to get water in a desert as it is in an ocean?
Japanese criminals have more trouble getting guns simply because they are so hard to find here. Some yaks have them, but not a drug addled idiot like the guy we have here. America is swimming in guns, therefore even those who should not have them are getting them.
But there is another reason why criminals and idiots here generally do not have guns: they simply do not need them. Since nobody else has a gun, they don't see the need to get one themselves. --Cirroc
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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CavemanLawyer
Oh! That is just brilliant! A shoot out on the front porch is somehow the same as no one drawing a gun at all!
Maybe math is not your strong suit, but more bullets tends to equal more death. But I think its pretty obvious the kid never would have gotten his gun out in time. Maybe his dad would have gotten a gun out after his son was dead, but that too just equals more dead people. How can you possibly not see these things?
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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CavemanLawyer
You never heard of swords? Knives? Clubs? Fists? Dogs? Bars on the windows? There are lots of ways to defend oneself in a country without guns.
Heck, a simple "No trespassing" would have prevented this tragedy. Instead, this moron also seems to have thought his only option for self-defense was a gun.
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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CavemanLawyer
And you accuse me of just trying to get a rise out of others??? I did not say trick or treating should gone on totally unsupervised nor saying anything remotely suggesting that.
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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CavemanLawyer
I am not sure if I feel sorry for him yet or not. Sounds to me like he was jaywalking since there is no mention of a crosswalk or a light. And you know, it is really easy to see a car coming if people just open their eyes. On the other hand, even a sober driver's view has obstructions.
Yeah, he admitted to being drunk. But nowhere does it say he swerved onto to the sidewalk. It says the old man was crossing the street, and I would put my money on the idea that the old man put himself in danger without a second thought. I bet he could have saved himself really easily, but instead decided to play chicken with a minivan.
It sounds me like the overwhelming majority of fault for the accident lies with the pedestrian. But of course, everyone is going to blame the alcohol. It is possible that had the driver been sober, the accident might not have happened. But I can guarantee the accident would not have happened if the pedestrian had not placed himself in front a moving vehicle.
Posted in: Man held over fatal hit-and-run in Chiba
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CavemanLawyer
Well, anyway you look at it she was forced to commit suicide. She never should have faced jail for merely facilitating a business transaction between consenting adults.
Posted in: Police release report on suicide of 'DC Madam'
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CavemanLawyer
I read that as sexually repressed, but otherwise normal man, is left alone with choir boys for years on end and starts to develop sexual affections for his charges that he never would have had if not for being plunged into some totally unnatural situations.
But heaven forbid that the church blame itself for setting the stage.
Posted in: Vatican issues screening guidelines for priests
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CavemanLawyer
While its wonderful news that our soldier's deaths are down, I am a lot more concerned about the sum violence in Iraq. Glad to see that is also down. While I am hopeful that this is the end of the ride, I predict this roller coaster will continue to rise and plummet as it has for the last 5 years.
Posted in: U.S. deaths in Iraq plunge to wartime low in October
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CavemanLawyer
Tragic. Unfortunately, people will use this as an excuse to crack down or cut down on trick or treating, yet drive their kids all over town all year long despite how many kids die in traffic accidents.
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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CavemanLawyer
This just in: 75 percent of McCain supporters prefer to judge a man by those standing near him than the man himself. Only 15 percent of Obama supporters agree. /fake poll
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CavemanLawyer
How much more?
Posted in: U.S. deaths in Iraq plunge to wartime low in October
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CavemanLawyer
This is one of the very few discussions where such a narrow, simplistic and totally unrealistic view could be commonly accepted or not commented on. I do not think this is subject much to the laws of supply and demand. I believe most of the producers would make the child porn anyway, or still act but just not film it. I doubt the viewers have much effect on the producers. Its not like there is a free market out there.
If you are finished with your emotional outburst, you might think on what stringing him will accomplish and what side effects it will produce.
I know a woman who told me a story of how she was pulled aside by a man who got her to pull her pants down for him. That was it, and off she went home, creeped out, but that was it. Sure the man should be punished, but if you make that and taking pictures executable offenses or high crimes, do you imagine the odds that my friend would have walked home alive went up or down? For all the accusations of Japan being soft on such crime, what I see is the the west has gone overboard since the 1970s and the children have suffered more for it.
Posted in: Prep school owner arrested for selling child pornography through online auction
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CavemanLawyer
Is it actually possible to take that out of context? Was he referring to an electric bill?
As always, you are long on accusation and very very short on explanation.
Posted in: Across the globe, Americans gear up to vote
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CavemanLawyer
The Founding Fathers and Obama were/are smart enough to realize that times change. I suspect that the Founding Fathers were not so attached to the Constitution as to think it was perfect for all time. In fact, the Founding Fathers clearly recognized the need for change, and so does Obama.
Anyway, I link would really help us know what we are talking about, rather than this vague accusation of Obama being against the constitution.
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CavemanLawyer
What a crazy opinion!
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CavemanLawyer
Five years now that nation building did not work, and it isn't going to work, not in eight years, ten, or a hundred. I consider it a blessing that we can depart from Iraq with the Iraqis in full support of that withdrawal. Then we can all blame their failure on them, and stop this bickering amongst ourselves.
Posted in: Iraq wants all U.S. troops gone by end of 2011
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CavemanLawyer
I wonder if anyone here has considered that our boys are viewed as an occupying imperialist force and are therefore a magnet for violence? Our very presence is a core reason for the lack of security in the first place! Caught between a rock and a hard place.
But the past tells us who is inconsistent. It also shows us who was just plain wrong, who was lying, and is therefore more likely to be wrong or lying again.
The Iraqis want us out by 2011. There is no need to drag neither Obama nor McCain into this unless one of them are going against the Iraqis. One of those men might want to do things differently, but I don't think he has a choice, so I find it moot.
Anyway, amazing how many here, no doubt, said it would be all over in weeks or months, but are now thinking that 8 freaking years in Iraq just won't be enough! (remember what I said about consistency and knowing who was wrong?).
Posted in: Iraq wants all U.S. troops gone by end of 2011
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CavemanLawyer
It is people who refuse to talk we need to be wary of, such as the United States before the Iraq invasion. In that situation, war is all but guaranteed.
Posted in: Across the globe, Americans gear up to vote
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CavemanLawyer
But their absentee ballots won't be counted this time either.
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CavemanLawyer
I was being facetious. Cars cannot exactly stop on a dime either, and while cars may not be on rails, they cannot just swerve any old direction either. Cars are almost as locked into hitting pedestrians as train drivers, but people blame the drivers of cars easily yet always let the train drivers off easy. I find that odd.
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