JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Christopher Blackwell
Ah I understand now, better to save face and die irradiated, then accept help and save the nation.
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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Christopher Blackwell
I assume that accidental misleading the public is okay. Why does accidental misleading the public sound so strange from a government official, especially knowing the well documented cosy relationship between government and the nuclear industry.
By the way there is this nice little bridge in Brooklyn going very cheap. Want to buy into it?
Posted in: Edano says he didn't deliberately mislead public about extent of nuclear crisis
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Christopher Blackwell
Looks like the West Coast beaches maybe come rather interesting places. I think a lot of people may decide to wait a few years before their next trip to the beach. I would not want to own a tourist related business in a beach town either. Has anyone figured what the cost of all this is going to be to clean up millions of tons of debris likely to be coming in for months or years?
Posted in: Oceanographer says beachcombers on West Coast may find bones in tsunami debris
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Christopher Blackwell
Let see, we just need some controls over which colors are use,at this station it will only be black and gold, at that station only green with blue and perhaps a dash of yelow and over there...[Grin] and perhaps by topic,body functions at this station particularly near schools and universities, politicial protest at that station, perhaps only in Haku poetry.
Or perhaps allow the property owner to brand any graffitee artist with whatever brand he feels like to permanently mark the artist for life. The brand should be a sybols objectionable to the artist it is used on.
Posted in: JR East to remove graffiti from walls, pillars next to train lines
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Christopher Blackwell
WilliB,
I suggested sterilization in another article and my reply was pulled as being obscene and objectionable. But I agree some people shouldn't be allowed to ever be parents again. How many dead or damaged children do we want created in our society. This goes on for generations.
Posted in: Couple go on trial over starvation death of son
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Christopher Blackwell
A thousand years is a very long time. So don't panic, yet. Find ways to lower the cost of living enough to give people the possiblity of having a family. Find ways to shorten the work week so that they have enough time to themselves to actually have kids and to raise them. That takes some time and quality time at that and you can't do it if both are working long work weeks, or if even only one is working the typical long work week. People need time to live, including to be awake enough to enjoy sex, as well asmoney enough to take care of children. In an economy and a work week that is not family friendly, how can you expect anything else?
Posted in: Japan faces 'extinction' in 1,000 years, researchers say
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Christopher Blackwell
Gee a major volcano exists on an active earthquake fault. Who woud have thought that? Why is that a surprised? Don't volcanos and earthquake faults sort of go together? Somehow I think that it could happen and change the shape of Mt. Fuji is sort of a given. Volcanic periods come and go. As I remember we have been seeing some active volcanos in Japan in the last year or so. So indeed it might be time to consider what to do if Mt Fuj and other volcanos wake up. Ask some Questions. How much warning is likely and how many people can move once the warning is given? What kind of erruption is possible? If an explosive one, than the people can just do theri prayers and prepare to die. A slower one would give them time to evacuate. Now the next big questions, where do you put the millions of people in the Tokyo area while you wait for things to quiet down? How do you feed them, provide them with water, and how do you handle the sanitation. Anyone have any plans for how to do that? How are the communication between the government and local governments? We saw a problem with that in the last diaster. How has it changed? After Mt. Fuji errupts will be a bit late to figure out what to do. How about creating a new city or several new cities in less disaster prone areas, say within the next 75 years? That might be doable.
Posted in: Active fault may run beneath Mount Fuji, say researchers
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Christopher Blackwell
Gee I missed out on Football barbecues never cared much for sports and wasn't all that social. So I waited until I was in the Marine Corps. Never ended up in the hospital,not really certain why. After all there were times of walking unconcious. Still I always got back in one piece,undamaged, not even the uniform or the shoes, beyond nearly heaving and back to living the next morning. But the that was only weekend drinking. The rest of the week I would rather read a book. I know I was weird.
But young people drinking, not exactly shocking. I don't drink anything stronger than Lipton tea now. So I guess I could preach about the evils of Alcohol, but I am not just quite so mean. Just another way to weed out the gene pool. Either they will survive it, or they will not, living is alsways a risky business. Some of the risk we cause ourselves.
Posted in: 9 Hokkaido students hospitalized with alcohol poisoning
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Christopher Blackwell
I have heard the Chinese have an interesting curse, "May you live in interesting times!" I feel sorry for those that went through this tornado for there is nothing much you can do but try to stay out of the way of flying debris. We have seen quite an increase in them here in the United States and in places that we don't normally worry about.
Posted in: 14-yr-old boy killed, dozens injured after tornado hits Tsukuba
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Christopher Blackwell
Nice to know that when you air controller is otherwise occupied, or panicking, that the polots are still on duty, if they are not napping.
Posted in: FAA probes near collision between JAL, UPS planes over Hawaii
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Christopher Blackwell
Obvious it is time for end of the world parties.[Grin] When you wake up the next day, you will have wished it had end. Oh that hang over!
Posted in: One in seven thinks end of world is coming, with Dec 21, 2012, likely date - poll
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Christopher Blackwell
'I had a friend who did the same thing when he was fourteen back in 1950. He made all kinds of explosives rockets mortar, even created an early version of a dirty bomb by pour radioactive isotopes over one of his bomb so he could tell one of his enemies that he had created an atomic bomb. It was enough to make on of the early Geiger counters click and impressed the other kid. Well even a dirty bomb was something different for a kid back then. He used to swipe radioactive stuff out of the chem. labs at the University of California at Berkeley.One of his neighbors got a bit pissed when he discovered 17 spent rockets on his roof. A navy recruiter was curious about his gasoline powered rocket motor he designed as a teenager. Ended up becoming a miner with very good knowledge of a variety of explosives, never got in trouble.
Now this kid the main thing I guess is they don't want kids swiping chemicals. That was wrong, but there is nothing in the article to suggest he was doing anything deadly as far as the explosions. So get him on the stealing and get him a scholarship in chemistry and put the kid's talents to work for the good of society. We can always use another scientist. Some company could put up the money an gain a very useful employee.
Posted in: Boy steals from high school chemistry lab to make explosives
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Christopher Blackwell
Personal demons, like what? Perhaps he has relationship problems, which explains why he never got married and raised a family? Perhaps he is suffering from sex addiction? Or secretly he liked the enemies better than his bosses? How about being a closet gay guy? So he is actually miserable while bedding all the beauties and really wanted their boy friends? Perhaps he has a moral problem with killing people and is haunted by his dead? Perhaps really a frustrated painter or poet and is secretly planning to get all the great artists and poets together and kill them off? Or actually was an incredible successful double agent and he has finally won it for the bad guys? Actually he wanted to take over the world for himself, and that was the real reason he killed the bad guys?
Come on any combination of these possiblities and you could run the series another hundred years.[Grin]
Posted in: New 007 film to depict spy's inner demons
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Christopher Blackwell
Strange I find nothing unusual about young men who like to show off their bodies. The actual period of time that most men's bodies are worth looking it is very sort. Look around an you will see that most men by their mid twenties are going to seed As far as men showing off their sexuality and pushing it, I certainly see plenty of that in the alleged straight community and quite often inappropriately in demeanor and in talk.
Posted in: 2,500 march in gay pride parade in Tokyo
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Christopher Blackwell
Maybe the photographer has a thing for men in Uniforms.[Grin]
Posted in: Rainbow Pride
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Christopher Blackwell
Gay people can be anything any other group of people are. I have met some that were interesting people that I have enjoyed and others that I might not want to be near, but that was based on personality not their sexual preference. Human sexuality is a lot more complex than most of us want to consider.There are few absolute anyting but instead we may be at various points on the scale of possiblities
What interests me is how many people that are so interested in what other do in bed. That rarely ever interested me, I was only interested in my own sex life. Even that looks funny to me as all sex really is when you are no longer playing the game. What anyone does in private is really not anyones business unless they are doing it on the table in front of you in McDonalds. One of the missing eliments in porn is the humor of the things humans do just to get laid. We are funnier than any other animal how we approach getting laid.
As for teenagers and twenty somethings, they all seem to think that they invented sex. [Grin] Gross them out and let them know that parents and grand parents still do it.[Horrors]
Posted in: 2,500 march in gay pride parade in Tokyo
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Christopher Blackwell
My Goddess, I cannot imagine something less imprtant to get angry over. If you don't like her manners than do not invite her to your next party. Surely one can find something more important to get enraged over. I really ever understand why people try to make the internet worse then real life. Of course then I am odd enough t use my real name on everything that I say. Fortunately you will never see me eat on the internet, so you will never know my table manners. [Grin]
Posted in: Korean idol enrages Japanese netizens by eating instant noodles from the pot
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Christopher Blackwell
Gee I think it is more a case of how much are they willing to pay the Yakuza to stay away. Call it insurance money.
Posted in: Talks held to keep crime gangs away from Tokyo Sky tree businesses
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Christopher Blackwell
You mean the bean counters can be wrong? Horrors! Same is true for a lot of other things that we used to stock pile, such as food. Most cities have only a three day supply of food, if transportation system breaks down, panic all to soon. With a already shaky world economy, more and dangers come from just in time thinking.
Posted in: Crises make automakers rethink lean parts supplies
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Christopher Blackwell
Have to wonder how much money could have been made scrapping it? That is a lot of freaking mental. One could have attached a few radio beacons to it so ships would have known where it was while towing it. We have known about this vessel for over a month now.
Posted in: U.S. Coast Guard cannons sink tsunami ship after 4 hours