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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Good_Jorb
In asia or at least South Korea gamers can "win big". Apparently if you are really good at games like Starcraft, you can get huge sponsership agreements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraftprofessionalcompetition
Hopefully this is something that doesn't catch on in the rest of the world, sedentary lifestyles pushed to the extreme.
Posted in: Compulsive Internet gaming addiction on the rise
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Good_Jorb
Again like the "scientific" research thing, I think Japan should just drop the silly propaganda, the should just say, like the rest of the world that fishes international, they are fishing international. As long as it done in a sustainable fashion, there shouldn't be a problem.
I see, so killing some animals inhumanely is different then killing other animals inhumanely. I don't believe in legal or ethical relativism, the only legal issue I could Australia suing Japan for internationally is the inhumane treatment of animals.
The Spanish and the French send fishing fleets to fish the international waters just outside of the Canadian EEZ area of the Artic(which is almost a longer trip, considering they go around greenland), the Spanish crossed over into Canadian waters once and got arrested. Other then that one incident, Canada nor the rest of the world has never said it would take legal action or really even seems to cares because they know they can't, it's international waters and they do it to.
Posted in: Australian PM threatens legal action against Japan over whaling
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Good_Jorb
I was speaking to fashion in which they are killed, inhumanely.
I personally think the should drop the scientific bit and just say they are commercially catching dolphins/whales. If by railing against the world, you mean arguing against hypocrisy, then sure that's what I'm doing. Killing/harvesting/culling one type of animal is no more illegal then killing any type of animal, as long as it's done in a sustainable fashion. Me being alone is extremely assumptive and hyperbole, of course there are others who think that Japan should be able catch whales or there wouldn't even be this new item in the frist.
Posted in: Australian PM threatens legal action against Japan over whaling
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Good_Jorb
Whales, dingos and Kangaroos are all animals that inhumananly harvested/culled/killed. The only viable agrument Australia has is that Japanese are killing the whales in an inhumane fashion and they really don't have a leg to stand in that case.
This is contradictory, swaggers arrogantly down and then they sneak them back to Japan. Hard to sneak away from a place you swaggered arrogantly down to.
Not unlike the Alaskan/Artic sanctuaries, where oil and resources mining has been banned, yet fishing fleets still catch crabs and salmon in and around the area. Grab, grab, grab I guess.
Posted in: Australian PM threatens legal action against Japan over whaling
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Good_Jorb
It seems it's always groups that armed by the government that end up as terrorists, when will governments learn don't arm regional fanatics, nothing good came of it in the long run.
Posted in: Abductors free 9 more hostages, hold 48 in Philippines
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Good_Jorb
Just becuase Australia says it's an Australian whale sanctuary does it make it so. It's not recognized international as being Australia territory or Australia could have arrested the whalers and charged them in Australian court. Why would the effect on the Australian tourist industry be of any concern to Japan they're fishing in International waters. Perhaps Japan could counter Australia for thier inhumane kangaroo and dingo culling makes about as much sense.
Posted in: Australian PM threatens legal action against Japan over whaling
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Good_Jorb
Unless your an undercover cop, by the nature of their work they have to lie.
Q) Are you a cop?
A) Yes
Fail
Posted in: Which professions, other than politics, do you think have the biggest liars?
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Good_Jorb
Easy statement to prove wrong;
Both are one year after the highest point of popularity
Bush 9/20/2001 Approval Rating 89%~ 9/20/2002 Approval Rating 63%~ = 26%
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
Obama 12/20/08 Approval Rating 69%~ 12/01/2009 Approval Rating 49% = 20%
http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php
They're called facts, perhaps you can incorporate them.
Posted in: Obama, receiving Nobel Peace Prize, says war sometimes justified
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Good_Jorb
That wasn't quite the conclusion the study came up with. The study concluded that children, in particular from single mothers, who born in poverty had a much higher statistical chance of becoming a criminal. The fact that most kids aborted were of a minority race is only incidental because minorities are more likely to live in a state proverty.
A child brought up in an abusive hell of life because s/he was unwanted vs. abortion. Sadly either one is not the best of choices.
For someone who asked other's to provide facts to back their statements, you throw out this, the Catholic church according to Forbes is the ninth biggest charity in the US, the biggest charity is the United Way.
Posted in: Senate blocks tough abortion limits in health bill
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Good_Jorb
Less CO2 release means less carbon burning which means less oil consumption which means that net oil importers(like the US) have less wealth migration to oil producing contries. It would be in the best interest of net importing countries to fully embrace carbon cutting technologies, so thier economies will not be so greatly effected by oil prices. A $130~ a barrel for crude oil was part of what started the current recession.
Posted in: Climate summit opens with boost from U.S.
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Good_Jorb
The most recognizable image is the sun represented as a circle with beams of light radiating from it, closely followed by the crescent moon. Possibly the skull and bones for poison might be one the more recognizable images as well.
Posted in: What do you think is the most recognizable image in the world?
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Good_Jorb
I'm guessing that Osama being in a leadership role would qualify as a war criminal and could be tried in Hague but then he still gets lawyers, due process and such, which apparently is not to be extended to all.
Posted in: White House still lacks solid intel on bin Laden
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Good_Jorb
The financial burden for which rests on the private-sector healthcare providers. There cannot be healthcare reform without tort reform. It's simply not possible.
If private-secotr healthcare is suppose to operate in a free market system, then medical malpractice suits shouldn't be interfered with either. If one party breachs thier contractual obligations then the courts should be free to decide what damages it believes should be awarded. It doesn't work to say that one side gets to operate freely, while the otherside should be restricted. It's a design flaw in both tort reform and Obamacare.
Posted in: Less for Moore
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Good_Jorb
Then imagine that after four seasons of air time only one 17 year old was possibly influenced enough by the show to act on those influences, quite a correlation.
When the parents had to removed him school and he started cutting himself, a red flag should have been raised, his lack of remorse shows he is a psychopath and he probably had latent psychopathic tendencys. This kid needed to be assessed by mental health partitioner and placed in a psychiatric unit until he was no longer a danger to himself or anyone else, if that happened to be his life then so be it. To say he is just evil and evil child, instead of a kid with serious mental issues that might have been able to be helped, leaves the door open for others to be just be evil, instead of seeking proper treatment or confinement for them.
Posted in: Indiana teen charged with strangling brother, 10
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Good_Jorb
As opposed to Republican times which equate to buy now, pay later.
Iraq and Afganistan were poorly planned invasions from the onset and any future plan is doomed to fail because of it.
And the inability of biggest/richest army in world to defeat impoverished insurgents/terrorist over eight years has nothing to do with that.
Obama should have pulled out Afghanistan, it's clear that by the way elections are run, the laws passed into the Afghanistan constitution(including Sharia law) and apathy towards the continued Taliban presence in Afghanistan, that the average Afghanistan citizen could careless about the sacrifices that soldiers are making for them.
Posted in: Skeptical Democrats resign themselves to Obama war plan
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Good_Jorb
Yikes, she only makes around 550yen an hour after taxes.
It's more then just sad, it's distrubing.
When it comes to having dignity or eating, I'm would choose posing nude on a webcam(though I don't think I would get paid much).
Posted in: What it's like for department store staff in a recession
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Good_Jorb
Tiger Woods just gave a speech were he essentially said "My fellow Americans: I have not been entirely truthful with you. I did ga-googity that girl. I ga-shmoygadeed her ga-flavity with my googis, and I am sorry."
Ironically with a girl who's boyfriend was on tool academy (a show where d-bag boyfriends get a make over and turned into a nice guy).
Posted in: Tiger Woods to be cited for careless driving
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Good_Jorb
I think it's the could do it if they did the following;
Unless each website has thier own journalism staff, those sites would have compensate media companies by either making more money through advertising or passing on the cost to the readers.
Apparently they're already changing google;
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/02/googel-free-news-limit.html
Posted in: Murdoch: Media must get readers to pay for online news
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Good_Jorb
A shoe for a shoe leaves the world with bare feet. I wonder if the next James Bond villian will have a henchman who can throw a shoe so hard it can break statues.
Posted in: Iraqi shoe-thrower finds out what it was like
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Good_Jorb
Work welled when Bush announced there would be a surge in Iraq before there was a surge.
Their work destroyed? Afghanistan has been a failure almost since the beginning of the war because they has never been the adquate troop levels to get the job done. So why would McChrystal and Petraeous leave when nothing has really changed, that would be very unusual.
Posted in: Obama orders 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan