JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Fadamor
To all the people (including the article's author) bemoaning that he couldn't catch the Porsche, who said he was TRYING to catch him? Odds are he was just trying to pace him. At the speeds they were going, the Ferarri could have caught him easily. Neither car was driving full speed.
That said, it scares me that a doctor (who presumably spent at least SOME time working in the Emergency Room) would go out and put so many people besides himself at risk like this. He IS all over the road in the video and at one point I thought he was going to over-steer and hit the wall when the pedestrian appeared on the RIGHT. If you're supposed to be driving on the left, pedestrians on the right should not be a concern that causes you to adjust course.
Posted in: Speeding Ferrari driver caught after YouTube post
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Fadamor
Japan's best bet for continuous power is geothermal but the problem they will face is if they take heat out of the earth faster than it can be replaced by the earth's core. The problem is two-fold: too many geothermal plants in a relatively small area extract the heat too fast, and if you cool the bedrock down, it contracts, making slippage (i.e. earthquakes) more likely.
Posted in: Only 2 nuclear plants have seawalls - Fukushima Daiichi, Daini
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Fadamor
Mass Destruction, that is.
Posted in: Taliban vow revenge for U.S. soldier's rampage
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Fadamor
Timeline: 2001: Al Qaeda attacks World Trade Centers. Their leader and financier - Bin Laden, is last known to be residing in Afghanistan. The U.S. demands that Afghanistan - being run by the Taliban - turn him over to U.S. authorities. The Taliban says "F-You". The U.S. says, "If you don't hand him over, we'll come in and get him on our own." The Taliban says, "You don't have the huevos to challenge the Taliban!" The U.S. goes in and looks for Bin Laden, but wouldn't you know it, he's already moved and didn't leave a forwarding address. (Incidentally, once it's become apparent that "Bin Laden has LEFT THE BUILDING", Bush suddenly becomes interested in Iraq's infamous "Weapons of Mass Production". Pay no attention to the failure to apprehend Bin Laden in Afghanistan because, OMG! IRAQ HAS WMD!) In the process of looking for that waskally Bin Laden, the U.S. kicks the Taliban in what was left of the huevos the Taliban thought they had.
Problem: Now there's a power vaccuum in Afghanistan. The U.S. stupidly decides that they can't leave the country in more chaos than when they entered, and tries to be "Joe Policeman" while Afghanistan tries to prop up a cardboard government. Problem 2: People in Afghanistan have no concept of being a united nation. They still mainly think in terms of tribes. So Karzai in Kabul plays the pseudo leader of a bunch of tribes that will only listen to him if they get something from him. Government Corruption 101. At some point the U.S. is going to have to cut its losses and get out of the "nation building business". Nations won't be built until the people living in them WANT it to be built and then they usually can manage without military help from the U.S.
By the way, I'm American.
Regarding this mass murderer. The military should hold him until Kabul formally indicts him, then hand him over, just like they would with any other country. This was NOT a military operation, and he was NOT operating under any orders. This was mass murder of non-combatants. I have no delusions as to the fate of the murderer once he's handed over. If he makes it to trial while still breathing, I would be surprised. A mass murderer gets no sympathy from me - even if you try to play the "PTSD Card".
Posted in: Taliban vow revenge for U.S. soldier's rampage
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Fadamor
Google Earth Street View has this location from last Summer: Go to 38°40'42.98" N 141°26'47.46" E , zoom in to street view (grab the yellow human-looking thing in the navigation tools and drop it on the intersection) and then swing around to look at 185° - 190°. I found myself touring the virtual streets. Even with all the greenery covering up much of the land, the devastation was still overpowering.
Posted in: Long road ahead
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Fadamor
Well giri chocolate is not SUPPOSED to be romantically motivated. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I imagine the majority of OL's out there get a box of store-bought choko and repackage a few pieces for each co-worker. Hmmm, but the article says 66% of these same OL's would prefer hand-made giri choko from their male co-workers. You get what you give, ladies. You give store-bought, you get store-bought.
Posted in: What are you giving the ladies for White Day?
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Fadamor
Everybody appears to know that the tax increase has to happen, it just seems that nobody wants to be the one to actually implement it.
Posted in: Noda rules out snap election
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Fadamor
*three
Posted in: Android Market becomes Google Play
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Fadamor
Putting all thre in one spot makes it easier for Google to collect your personal data. Which apps/music/books you search for will get added to Google's data file on you.
Posted in: Android Market becomes Google Play
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Fadamor
All reactors are designed to "fail-safe" without any power. All that means is the fuel rods get lowered back down into the control rods to terminate the chain reaction. The rods still need to be cooled and if there is no emergency power to run pumps, having a tank of water above the reactor isn't going to help much because the water will not be flowing around the fuel rods. It will just sit there. Your only "flow" will be convection-based as the water gets heated and rises, then sinks as more heated water takes it's place. In short order you have hot water sinking as even hotter water rises - a gradual thermal runaway situation. You can SAY that CANDU reactors have the cooling issue covered, but Japan felt the same about their reactors. The idea that all the pumps would be rendered inoperational was considered impossible. NOTHING is impossible except for the value of my house returning to what it was when I bought it.
Posted in: Future of nuclear power brighter than ever, despite Fukushima
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Fadamor
Not sure about Japan's reactors, but the reactors in the U.S. are supposed to have containment vessels that can resist an impact from an airliner. There is nothing on the face of the earth that can be protected from a direct strike by a meteorite a couple of meters in diameter.
Posted in: Future of nuclear power brighter than ever, despite Fukushima
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Fadamor
Wait. Could this be the ultimate goal of Dubstep? WUB WUB WUB
Posted in: Zoo tries to drum up alligators' interest in sex
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Fadamor
@DoLittleBeLate,
Given the age of the daughter and the mental state of the mother, I'd say that probably the daughter had a stroke/heart attack and the mother succumbed when no one was able to feed her. People with dementia often don't KNOW to ask for help.
Posted in: Two women found dead in Tachikawa apartment
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Fadamor
Legalize drugs: No, because all that does is increase the OD rate worldwide.
Legalize prostitution: No argument there as long as there are mandatory weekly/monthly (whatever makes the most sense) health check-ups included. The "world's oldest profession" provides enough income that government-subsidized health checks wouldn't be necessary. Make the pros pay for their own health checks.
Legalize gambling: It already IS legal in many places - even in the overly Puritanical United States.
Legalize loan sharking: No. The interest rates involved in loan shark loans virtually guarantees you can never finish paying back the loan. This perpetual debt drives people to doing ANYTHING to get out of the debt - including crime.
Posted in: U.S. tags Vatican, Japan as money laundering concerns
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Fadamor
OK, I'm probably more pro-nuclear power than anti-nuclear, but even I can't swallow the premise of the headline. Fission-based nuclear power plants ARE dangerous to operate and as soon as we find a safer alternative that can provide power as cheaply and as consistently as nuclear power, I'll be jumping bandwagons faster than you can blink. Nuke power plants may get tighter safety sstandards after 3/11, but Mother Nature still trumps ANYTHING man can do. Just because our earthquake scales stop at 7.0 (for damage) and 9.0 (for raw power) doesn't mean Mama Nature doesn't have a 10.0 earthquake up her sleeve.
Posted in: Future of nuclear power brighter than ever, despite Fukushima
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Fadamor
Is this like Festivus Day?
It looks like Whitney didn't want her daughter to mimic MC Hammer in his Nationwide Insurance commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xxZZIj38Y
Staggering the inheritence helps make that "15 minutes later" event more difficult to actually happen.
Posted in: Whitney Houston left everything to daughter
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Fadamor
Take all this excess moisture in the air and start rejuvinating some of the desert areas of the world.
Posted in: Chaos as Sydney lashed by heaviest rainfall in five years
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Fadamor
A candlelight dinner by the pond, a little wine to go with the carcass for two, Bolero playing on the stereo. Before you know it, the gators will be doing the horizontal bop. Piece of cake!
Posted in: Zoo tries to drum up alligators' interest in sex
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Fadamor
In all likelihood, the father is off working two jobs to pay for keeping a family of five in a house.
Posted in: Kagoshima woman arrested for abusing 11-month-old baby boy
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Fadamor
Oooohhhh no! There goes Tokyo. Oh no a PENGUIN! # ;-)
But seriously, the little guy/gal may have his/her freedom, but at the cost of being forever lonely. Never again to meet up with another one of his/her kind. It's kind of sad, in a way.
Posted in: Sightings reported as penguin hunt continues