JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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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
Is it too much to ask for proof of the favoritism? Must we concentrate on the affair which is neither here nor there nor anyone's business really? --Cirroc
Posted in: French leaders welcome decision to clear IMF chief
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CavemanLawyer
Would Pakistan be justified in bombing a house in America if they thought an al-Quaida operative were there?
The U.S. gov seems to have lost all respect for the rule of law, and even America's own allies. Its like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Are the Republicans just trying to make a mess to give to Obama as an inauguration gift? --Cirroc
Posted in: Suspected U.S. strike kills up to 20 in Pakistan
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CavemanLawyer
If they had only asked permission it would have been quickly granted.
Yeahright! --Cirroc
Posted in: Three men arrested for unauthorized demonstration near Aso's house
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CavemanLawyer
No he didn't. McCain suggested doing it on the sly while Obama insisted on warning the government of the nation involved if not getting their permission first. McCain's response was more like strike first and ask permission later. -- Cirroc
Posted in: Eight reported killed in U.S. attack inside Syria
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CavemanLawyer
Both of them!
I wants me a dazzle gun! --Cirroc
Posted in: Blackwater, other security firms join Somali piracy fight
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CavemanLawyer
But not one word on why this building was attacked. This is not the first time I have read a completely inadequate general explanation for a very specific attack.
Shooting at people crossing borders is one thing, but attacking a building in a border village is quite another.
What is this about? Were the troops following orders or acting at random? Are we ever going to get an explanation for this? --Cirroc
Posted in: Eight reported killed in U.S. attack inside Syria
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CavemanLawyer
There are basically two kinds of Republicans: 1) The masterminds who lie their behinds off to get rich and enjoy power and 2) the zombies who follow them, mindlessly parroting the mantras of the lying mastermind while thirsting for blood and violence to please themselves and master. I hope that answers your question. --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain warns Obama is big taxer
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CavemanLawyer
No, we do know. The concept is called innocent before proven guilty. Without any sort of proof whatsoever by you or anyone else, there can be no remotely fair trial, not even the paltry trial of the realm of public opinion. --Cirroc
Posted in: U.S. spy drones kill 11 in Pakistan
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CavemanLawyer
skipthesong, I think you must not know what the idea of the Boston tea party was.
No it hasn't. But what the government does not need to do is tax the poor and middle class with the income tax system that started to fund WWI and strangely, has not ended yet. I guess we have not finished paying for WWI yet? --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain warns Obama is big taxer
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CavemanLawyer
The Taliban are not terrorists, and not all Taliban schools are training facilities for terrorism or even military. Nobody but you is insisting it was a terrorist training facility. If it were attacked for being so, I could support the attack. But the article does not say that. Do you have a link that does?
No, I am not supporting attacking and killing based on guesses based on prejudice and blind hatred of certain groups in certain parts of the world. That is precisely what brought us the Iraq debacle. How many more lessons do you need? How many more terrorist attacks must you generate?
Like the brothers of those who died, the people who might know perfectly well that their brother was no terrorist.
Like all the people of Pakistan who are already starting to view the United States as a country that does not respect them or their borders.
Like a whole lot of people in the Middle East who are view the U.S. as a meddler that is prejudiced against Muslims that something must be done about. --Cirroc
Posted in: U.S. spy drones kill 11 in Pakistan
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CavemanLawyer
It is completely amazing how anyone here could come out batting for the top 5 percent income earners. The overwhelming majority of them get their money from simple ownership and/or inheritence. Any skills or work they do is special, uncommon, and at the high levels, therefore they receive greater compensation when they do it. I don't have a problem with that basically, but lets not be ridiculous. What they do can rarely be called "hard work". They pay a higher tax rate because they have so much fat to tax. We are talking people with not one mansion on the beach, but a couple, that in addition to a few estates elsewhere. We are talking ridiculous amounts of wealth here. Meanwhile poor and middle class families are being foreclosed upon.
Nobody is asking you to storm the mansions or burn them down. All you have to do is support raising their taxes a mere three percent.
If you think you are somehow going to benefit by pampering their little hinnies a little more, I think you need to wake the heck up. They are not suffering and they are not going to bail us out of our enormous debt (which they also helped us rack up) out of the goodness of their hearts or any brown-nosing. --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain warns Obama is big taxer
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CavemanLawyer
Interesting. So everything was fine until we come to the end of a two-term president who had Congress in his pocket for six years? That is quite the delayed reaction!
It seems to me that the Republicans also favored the policies. So if the policies were wrong, then the Republicans are guilty of not seeing the problems coming while being much closer to the problem.
But I don't think their was anything wrong with the policies. It was how the policies were handled by both lenders and borrowers that was the problem. For example, when lending to low income borrowers, it is necessary to keep interests rates low. My understanding is that interest rates were often raised, summarily and without notice. I have experienced lenders doing this to me myself, and not at all strangely, my payment record began to slip. Add to that the unpredictable drop in housing value. That made it difficult for people to refinance.
Here we go. When all else fails, you whip out your Jimmy Carter voodoo doll. What does he have to do with this besides your silly partisan rancor? --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain warns Obama is big taxer
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CavemanLawyer
DrBombay, thanks for that unscientific (very unscientific) blog excerpt.
Some things you should realize is that representing the top 5 percent of the wealthy or any wealthy person with a waiter is completely, absolutely, and totally stupid beyond words. The writer obviously has no clue how a waiter scrimps every dollar while the wealthy "go without" a new limo for the fleet this year. Also ridiculous is taking 100 percent of the tip and giving it all, every penny, to one person. Taxes do not work that way. Not remotely. Nor do they fall out the blue sky as surprise, this is now taxed, right this minute.
The most interesting thing about the blog was how totally misleading it was at the most basic of levels. I sincerely hope you come to realize just how thoroughly ridiculous that was. It is in no way representative of anything either candidate proposes. If you still think is, I recommend doing high school and college over again. Seriously. --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain warns Obama is big taxer
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CavemanLawyer
If you have some proof they were not, please speak up. Or does the act of firing at a drone likely invading a sovereign nation's airspace make one not innocent, because that seems to be the only reason I can find for this attack, or counter-attack as it were.
Anyway, I guess those spy drones can also be called attack drones. Not happy to know that our robots will kill people to defend themselves, not happy at all. Robots should be expendable, not tribesman that a robot cannot identify as innocent or not. This kind of thing is just more fodder for those have something against America. --Cirroc
Posted in: U.S. spy drones kill 11 in Pakistan
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CavemanLawyer
Sounds great right up until you start to think about security. Not surprisingly, it is more likely someone might take a shot at those people. You might argue that armored cars would be better than limosines, but then that would also be like painting a target on their chest. Limosines provide privacy and a degree of anonymity. If they started putting smoked bullet proof glass on Yugos that would also be like painting a target on their shirt.
And I don't think they make limosines that are Spartan on the inside.
So, I do not begrudge them the limosines. However, I do take issue with the four star hotels and use of the facilities at our expense. That is totally uncalled for.
And, of course, I think they could buy cheaper clothes, but its not high on my list of priorities. --Cirroc
Posted in: Palin denies accepting $150,000 in designer clothes
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CavemanLawyer
Nobody who is sane or managed to pass jr. high school has their priorities so out of whack that just because they did not pay attention to their clothing bill means they would not pay attention to an order to bomb they are about to sign.
Plenty of things to smack Palin "around with terrorists" for without grasping at this straw. And I stand by that statement and I approve of this message. --Cirroc
Posted in: Palin denies accepting $150,000 in designer clothes
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CavemanLawyer
Hmmm...while I agree with Cleo for the most part, I find this sentence to be subject to a lot of interpretation I would disagree with. Even for 5 year olds, I think some small range of experimentation is in order. I did it, and I am glad I was not put off by anyone to do it. Those little experiments did NOT encourage me in the least. In fact, they completely doused my curiousity toward that part of girl's bodies until I was about 7. Then more experiments satisfied me until I was about 10 and puberty started. And since 10 I have only rarely ever been satisfied, which is normal for any male who has passed puberty if you ask me.
Respect means different things to different people. Boys should be discouraged from peeping in the girl's changing room, but if they have curiousity, how are you going to teach them to satisfy it? It conjures up all sorts of uncomfortable scenarios, but its not something I want to leave to chance. They need to learn that there is a time and there is a place, and they need to make sure their playmates also want to play. Most of us did this, and denial is not all useful.
As Cleo says, we are talking about starting small here. And its a good idea. Most parents have no idea how to do that and try to pack it all into one conversation in the early teens. That won't work. Neither will one sex ed class for a semester in high school. This needs to be taught more regularly and with small steps and proper guidance while chopping out the fear mongering. --Cirroc
Posted in: Sex education becoming mandatory in England
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CavemanLawyer
Great post SezWho2. The only thing I would add is that the suggestion to buy the clothes probably did not come from Palin herself. I think there is a good chance it was somebody else's "bad" idea, and being busy, Palin did not consider all the ins and outs and just went ahead with the idea. In fact, she may have never seen a price tag nor even knew the general prices of the places she was being taken. --Cirroc
Posted in: Palin denies accepting $150,000 in designer clothes
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CavemanLawyer
I wonder how it was done online? Would it be considered a case of forced suicide cause by spirits from the real world? --Cirroc
Posted in: Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband
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CavemanLawyer
DOH! She will probably get off because the dude in question gave her the login info of his own free will and with total informed consent and then foolishly failed to change the password after the virtual divorce. Unless he clearly told her not to access his account anymore, I am afraid he does not have even one legal leg to stand on. Plus, he is as much a dufus as she is a vindictive "you know what".
And the woman should not be in jail. She should be out on bail. The arrest was appropriate, but not keeping her in jail.
What the woman did was obviously morally wrong, but I am sure the company that runs the game can resurrect the character. --Cirroc
Posted in: Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband