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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Fadamor
Reactors initially are given 40 year licenses, then get those licenses extended on a case by case basis. This rule would disallow any extensions.
Posted in: Gov't to introduce regulations limiting life of nuclear reactors to 40 years
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Fadamor
For all those who think that not giving your name out is protecting your identity, perhaps you should read up on what information is transmitted in EVERY TCP or UDP packet (the packets used for the internet). Spoof your IP address? Sure. Use an anonymous proxy server? Knock yourself out. In order for the traffic to get back to YOUR computer/phone, however, there HAS to be some way to identify your computer/phone in the packets destined for you. That's your MAC address. Each machine has a unique MAC address. Even if you use that "anonymous" proxy server and the server changes the MAC address in the packets, the server has to keep records of what your ACTUAL MAC address is in order to get the packets back to your computer. If the authorities want to, they WILL pressure the people running the "anonymous" proxy server into coughing up your MAC address. That's, of course, assuming it's not the authorities who are the ones running the "anonymous" proxy server. What's an easier way to monitor illegal activity than to "provide" a way for people to do things when they don't want to be identified?
I'm just sayin'.
Posted in: 35-year-old man arrested for paying 15-year-old girl for sex
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Fadamor
Horse. Deceased. Beating. Stop it.
Posted in: Campbell urges progress on moving Futenma base
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Fadamor
Companies relying on emulsion film for a majority of their business are doomed to go the way of the buggy whip. Even cinema has made the switch to digital cameras, editing, and (for the newer theaters) projecting. The days of movie clips "ending up on the cutting room floor" are pretty much over.
I'm not surprised that Kodak did not aggressively pursue digital photography. It would have meant diving into an unknown product base that would have directly competed with the products they already DID make a good profit on. It was a "roll of the dice" on their part and in this case luck was not with them.
Posted in: Kodak edges toward bankruptcy
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Fadamor
Sony ruled the electronics world when the Walkman was ubiquitous. They tripped up with the "Discman" and absolutely tumbled with the "Watchman". Their Playstation console helped some, but stiff competition from Microsoft's X-Box minimized any boost to Sony's sales.
Adding to that, Sony lost a good portion of their music consumer base with the following DRM scandal (from Wiki):
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Fadamor
Laughably false and I can prove it by pointing out ANY civil WAR that's ever happened. So much for your fanciful "rules of war". I suppose your "rules of war" state that both sides must line up in long rows facing each other, then charge upon an agreed signal? Or maybe it's just that these "rules of war" are a figment of your imagination?
I'll say it again. Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaieda group he financed declared war on the United States of America when they detonated the bomb under the World Trade Center, then followed that up with the attacks on 9/11/2001.
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Fadamor
From what I understand, it really IS only visible to Tokyo on very clear days. Any sort of haze and the volcano is obscured.
Posted in: On a clear day...
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Fadamor
If Iran wants to prosecute them, the U.S. will be glad to drop them off. The biggest problem with these Somali pirates is nobody wants to go to the expense to prosecute them. In between jurisdiction issues and the difficulty in assembling witnesses where the court will be held, often times nobody wants to do it.
@FARS
No. It's the standard procedure whenever a piracy is suspected.
With the number of sailors who own digital video cameras, this would have been caught on video even if the NY Times crew hadn't been on-board.
Well DUH! Americans do humanitarian stuff all the time without fanfare. But when the humanitarian stuff that's done involves an erstwhile "hostile" nationality, it's going to get publicized. Any more glaringly obvious comments to make?
Posted in: Iran welcomes U.S. rescue of nationals from pirates
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Fadamor
Personally I don't have an issue with the profession as long as the prostitutes entered into that sort of job on their own and had the maturity to realize what was going to happen in the future. The problem is those who force the girls into the profession in order to pay off some bogus and inflated "debt", or get the girls hooked on an addiction and "pay" the girl with more of the addicting drug. 15 is the wrong age to be deciding this is what you want to do with your life, and once you travel down that path, it's next to impossible to recover respectability.
Posted in: 35-year-old man arrested for paying 15-year-old girl for sex
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Fadamor
Yeah. As we all know, it's the Republican voters who determine the unemployment rate. Wait a minute! Doesn't that mean it's been the Republican voters who've been FIRING all these people over the last few years?!
Posted in: Good news for Obama as U.S. adds 200,000 jobs in December
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Fadamor
Once again, real life goes where fiction writers would be reluctant to tread.
Posted in: U.S. Navy rescues Iranian fishing boat from pirates
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Fadamor
Sad. Sounds like the fuel line for the burner was compromised in some way. That's about the only way the SIDE of the basket could be on fire.
Posted in: 11 dead after hot air balloon crashes in New Zealand
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Fadamor
I've got to assume they knew the girl was underage while they were trolling the prostitution site. They should have paid a visit to her as well as the "John". At the very least they needed to be visiting the website operator (if he was in Japan.)
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Fadamor
Interesting. Given the time it takes to build them, fuel them, and test them before they go "live" then the time and expense of decommissioning the reactors after they're "retired", limiting their "live" time to 40 years is a back-door way of making the plants too expensive for the amount of power they would produce. A nice way to "ban" new reactors without actually banning them.
Posted in: Gov't to introduce regulations limiting life of nuclear reactors to 40 years
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Fadamor
Heck, just draw blood from the mascot. (kenketsu?) Looks like he/she could give up four or five pints and not break a sweat!
Posted in: Blood donation campaign
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Fadamor
An interesting (though very inaccurate) use of the term "domestic pencil-pusher". From Wiki:
Also from Wiki:
She was working as a covert officer at the time she was outed. Anybody who had dealings with her in early 2003 was in danger.
Posted in: U.S. probes claims filmmaker given classified bin Laden mission info
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Fadamor
Osama Bin Laden was at war with the United States. If we're going to speak technically, he's a war casualty.
Posted in: U.S. probes claims filmmaker given classified bin Laden mission info
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Fadamor
I think the first thing that has to happen is someone needs to determine if these "leaks" to the filmmaker ever happened at all. THEN you can start in with the flaming. As of right now this is just a rumor that was apparently started by Republican Congressman Peter King back in August. He brought the rumor up then and all this article is saying is that the CIA and the Pentagon are investigating whether there's any truth to the rumor. Witholding further comment until we: a.) find out if a leak occurred and b.) find out who's responsible if it did occur.
Posted in: U.S. probes claims filmmaker given classified bin Laden mission info
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Fadamor
Most places require that, in the case of deadly force, you have to show that you felt you or your family's life was in danger. Some stranger in your house walking towards your front door with your widescreen TV in his arms is normally not grounds for deadly force. A stranger in your house and walking towards you is a much easier situation to defend the use of deadly force - even if his hands were empty.
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Fadamor
So a Nintendo 3DS with 3D switched off becomes a... Nintendo DS? I could probably get a Nintendo DS MUCH cheaper now. Why pay extra for a feature I'm just turning off?
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