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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GJDailleult
LFRAgain - admire the fact that you are taking the time to fight the fight, but you are trying to argue science against True Believers. People who claim to know something that is unknowable and unprovable, that is religion not science.
So let them spent their time in the Church of Denial, and enjoy the time they have left. And when the sheiks say they have no more oil to sell them for bling and Benz's, and the insurance companies say "We ain't selling insurance no more", watch them all cry about how the government didn't protect them.
Hope I am wrong. but afraid I am not.
Posted in: Prince Charles blasts climate-change skeptics
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GJDailleult
Sorry there, it was "we all had to learn to deal with", not "we all survive". Should have checked before writing. But the same thing, and same bias.
Posted in: Boy, 14, killed by train in Nikko following school disciplinary warning
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GJDailleult
He was 14 years old. He was a child. Personal decisions are what adults make, not 14-year-olds.
As for the earlier poster who said "we all survive", actually "we" don't. Only survivors do. Take the time to learn what "survivor bias" is before you post again, and that is meant as friendly advice.
Otherwise I agree with Sarge and the posters who followed him.
Posted in: Boy, 14, killed by train in Nikko following school disciplinary warning
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GJDailleult
Reality doesn't care about agendas, ideology, or propaganda, but as Goebbels once said, it can be ignored until it can't be ignored anymore. Not exactly what he said, but close enough. Then one day you wake up and the Russian army is outside your bunker.
An economically illiterate president making pandering speeches to economically illiterate businessmen is just more ignoring reality. Message board posters, sincere and well-meaning or not, who spend their time typing out nonsensical solutions to problems whose causes, for ideological reasons, they REFUSE to take the time to understand is the same thing.
Can't help people who won't help themselves.
Posted in: Obama to CEOs: Ask what you can do for America
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GJDailleult
No it isn't. The book is not leaking any information because nothing was withheld in the first place. Writing a book and leaking withheld information have nothing to do with each other.
Posted in: Assange portrayed as 'emperor' in WikiLeaks insider book
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GJDailleult
Couldn't have said it better myself. Unfortunately the poster seems unaware that that is what HAS happened, not what might happen in the future. And, continuing to invest in a failed ideology is exactly what the Chamber of Commerce wants to happen.
A system of privatized profits and socialized losses is NOT capitalism and it is NOT a free market. That, along with some other minor problems like, uh, collapse of the monetary and credit systems, third-worldization (aka globalization), and income inequality (because in a credit money system it leads to collapse). Those are the things that are driving the show, both Obama and the Chamber of Commerce are completely irrelevant and have their heads in the sand.
Posted in: Obama to CEOs: Ask what you can do for America
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GJDailleult
More left-right kabuki theater. Fiddling while Rome burns as usual.
First off, the USA does not have an economic mess on its hands because business is sitting on $2 trillion and not investing, American business is sitting on $2 trillion and not investing because the economy is a mess. It is a result of the situation, not a possible solution.
Second, Obama is not being criticized by "liberals", he is being criticized by people who understand the situation and its causes. "Liberal" and "conservative" have nothing to do with anything, they are just used to confuse the situation. Those people also know that Obama and the fundamentalists at the Chamber of Commerce either don't understand the situation or are pretending not to.
Third, anybody who thinks that banks should not be regulated is either 1) a naive fool who doesn't understand what banks are and how they function, or 2) they are a criminal. There is no number 3.
Posted in: Obama to CEOs: Ask what you can do for America
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GJDailleult
bicultural seems to not know Einstein's first rule of sports physics. If you don't want to know the result of a sports event because you have recorded it to watch later, you will always somehow hear the result before you can watch. Internet has just made that exponentially more true.
Result of the game was as I predicted. I was confident the Packers would win because I predicted the win but had no bet on the game. If I had bet on it I am sure it would have been a different story, and the Steelers would have marched down the field at the end to victory. Negative karma is always gonna get you, and when it comes to gambling I have it!
Posted in: Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl 31-25
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GJDailleult
So far the only website I can find saying he choked on his vomit is The Sun. Everywhere else seems to be waiting for the autopsy. The Sun though has taken info from sources that he had been drinking and that there was alcohol in the room and run with it. Maybe, but drunk guys have heart attacks all the time. If the Sun is right though, another reason to stay away from champagne. A fair number of people, including me, have an intolerance to the stuff. Most people don't know it though, they just think "I drank too much" (ie. they were drinking champagne along with other alcohol) and that is why they are sick.
Posted in: Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dead at 58
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GJDailleult
Sad news. Had a few Thin Lizzy albums way back when, think I will get on YouTube today and revisit his work. Don't have any of his solo work, but know he was always a respected and talented musician. RIP.
Posted in: Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dead at 58
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GJDailleult
Yep, Mubarak is in the driver's seat. He has control of the army, unlike the guy in Tunisia. Now he is just waiting the protesters out. Then after the world's attention moves on to the next crisis spot, he will put the boot in.
Posted in: Egypt VP meets opposition, offers new concessions
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GJDailleult
Simple solutions for complicated problems, just what the USA and the world need more of. From what I have heard, the oil reserves in question are the equivalent to 4 months of US oil consumption. I am doing that from memory, apologies if I have it wrong. But if it is correct then what we have here is some good politics, a chance for some people to make big money, but nothing that anybody takes seriously as a long term solution.
As for the debt under Reagan, I'm a believer in the nightmare scenario, that the USA (and other rich countries too) has intentionally increased the debt and the money supply to cover up the decline in its real economy since the oil price rises of the 70's. It has nothing to do with any fake left-right politics. This is how Reagan created "prosperity" and avoided ending up the same as Carter. This continued on to 2007/08 when the system started to collapse under its own weight.
By the way, anybody wanting to really understand the Reagan phenomenon should check out the documentary "Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The Republicans starting with the Reagan era, along with the Conservatives and Thatcher in the UK, were the first parties to use the marketing and advertising techniques described in the movie in politics. The "left-wing" playing catch-up is what later brought Clinton and Blair to power. Amazing stuff in the movie, and don't waste my time trying to label it "left-wing" or "liberal" either.
Posted in: Palin: America out of step with Reagan's values
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GJDailleult
The irony of that comment from a guy who seems to spend a very large part of his time banging out comments on the US-government-created internet is beyond awesome!!!
I see also that RomeoRamen is continuing on the heroin vs. cocaine argument. And poor people, of course!!! Them is what is ruining America, and they is just so damn successful at it, that is why they are still poor! The poor may indeed be generational moochers and leeches, but they ain't the only ones, and some of the others are VERY, VERY successful moochers and leeches.
Posted in: House Republicans move to slash domestic programs
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GJDailleult
Badsey- Tariffs are a non-starter because according to neo-classical economic theology and its partner the neo-liberal agenda, tariffs are bad. Very, very BAD. And defending that theology and agenda are far more important that actually try to fix anything.
Not up to speed on the FEMA camp stuff, but agree with your other points.
Posted in: House Republicans move to slash domestic programs
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GJDailleult
I know this is a pointless exercise, but the problem is NOT the government debt and deficit. The problem is the TOTAL debt in the system. Arguing over which party is more irresponsible is like arguing about whether you should use heroin or cocaine. "Insane spending policies" has been the USA's (unstated) only economic policy since Nixon ditched the gold standard, the oil price shock happened (USA hit peak domestic oil in 1970 also), and Carter got his head handed to him. The Ponzi scheme worked for close to 30 years, but the American economy can't support the debt levels no more and so the revenue has dried up.
Cut this, cut that, don't tax me etc. Where exactly do you guys think money comes from and what exactly do you think it is? Well in the present system, money is the government debt which is then multiplied many times over in the banking system through fractional reserve lending to create the total money supply. If there was no debt there would be no money. So if you cut government spending and debt you will create a huge shrinking of the money supply as the multiplier goes into reverse.
Why else do you think governments all over the world spend like crazy, and FED keeps the pumps on full. Anybody who thinks the problems can be solved by smaller government has no clue how far up the creek they really are. They could have been avoided by not spending in the first place, but they can't be fixed now by not spending.
Posted in: House Republicans move to slash domestic programs
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GJDailleult
SuperLib- I didn't say he pocketed the aid money, I said Egypt got aid money, and on top of that he has "all that money" in Swiss accounts. I have seen estimates of his net worth from between $20 billion to $70 billion, whether he was directly skimming off the aid money who knows, but it looks like a lot of it eventually found its way back to him one way or other.
As for US diplomacy, as said above by another poster, they are just placing bets on both sides of the table. They can't show support without getting the Egyptian people even more angry than they already are (bad if Mubarak stays) or risking backing the wrong horse if he goes. If he stays they can say "don't blame us, we said he should go". The US is just trying to be on the right side of whatever happens. And I never said anything about democracy, I said they want Mubarak to stay and so are using the worries about the Muslim brotherhood to justify him staying on.
Posted in: Anti-Mubarak activists pour into Cairo's main square
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GJDailleult
Amazing how everybody can make a profit by bond "trading". Game is not rigged in any way.
Posted in: Japan's top 5 banking groups see profit rise
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GJDailleult
Lead singer? I thought he was producer / dancer.
Posted in: Aya Ueto shows off new line of wedding dresses
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GJDailleult
$100 billion compared to the trillions of US dollars Bernanke is pumping out is a drop in the bucket, and the trillions he is pumping out is a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the credit losses in the US economy. The endless arguing over trivial budget amounts is just a show to make it look like the politicians are doing something. So you don't spend $100 billion dollars, whoopee!!! Even if they go through with it it won't matter one bit.
Posted in: House Republicans move to slash domestic programs
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GJDailleult
I really hope you dreamed that one up on your own.
The US and British governments want him IN, they just don't want to be too obvious about it in case he does end up out. But the USA has handed over billions to Mubarak, and they want to continue getting a return on their investment.
By the way Mubarak says thank you US taxpayer. You may not be able to pay for your schools and police and fire departments etc., but he is doing very nicely indeed.
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