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Let's leave it to the private sector to innovate and reinvigorate Japan. Nice one.
Posted in: Firms plan to build floating wind farm off Fukushima coast
And how about the cost? I bet it is quite huge...hence, the price is not published,…
Posted in: Firms plan to build floating wind farm off Fukushima coast
Still the government is weak. It should nationalise TEPCO and set the share price to zero.…
Posted in: Gov't OKs further Y690 bil for TEPCO, but wants say in running utility
google is getting to be evil little by little as if the past microsoft, apple isnt…
Posted in: Apple dethrones Google as company with most respected image in eyes of consumers
Its about time someone had come to their senses to create a safer way to create…
Posted in: Firms plan to build floating wind farm off Fukushima coast
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JoiceRojo
What does it have to do with the Quake in Chile.
122 Reported dead from the recent-eleted president (Sebastian Piñera) and 5 regions were declared as zone of catastrophe in the central and south areas of Chile.
The tsunami was reported as a 16 feet wave which were building up (one wave after another each time higher) and the people were able to escape to higher areas of the island. It seems thta it have receeded now.
My prayers to my countrymen in the South of Chile, and I thank all the posters here that are praying too.
Posted in: Death toll in Chile earthquake tops 300
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JoiceRojo
Yeah I think so... These girls going to a camp, I don´t know why it reminded me of "Rock of Love-Charm School" reality show with Sharon Osbourne... If these girls are going with Legron... Japan doesn't stand a chance!
Her sense of fashion is great for parties, but not for this kind of contest...
Posted in: Final 11 Miss Universe Japan contestants begin beauty camp
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JoiceRojo
You are generalizing too much. "Most people from lower economic social background ..." "Not only in Japan, most parts of the world..."
what you said about people with these upbringings (lower economic social background) can result in sexless life might be true for Japan, but it is not for "most parts of the world" and neither is most of the poor people, in fact, sometimes it tends to be the opposite, that people with lower backgrounds have much more sex than people with steady jobs or are richer (they tend to be stressed out frigid bitches or way to busy entrepreneurs with no time for sex). This is more common in LatinAmerican countries where I am from, in fact, we have a say here "Nobody lacks of God" meaning that you can be ugly or fat or poor and you can still have a partner and various quantities of sex.
Posted in: Sexless in Japan
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JoiceRojo
we do, i live in a desert with almost no clouds nor rain
Posted in: World's 1st solar-powered phone goes on display
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JoiceRojo
Why all of you MUST conclude it was HIV?... If you have depression and tried to kill yourself catching a pneumonia in winter is fatal...
If she had the guts that most people say, she would have told the world that she was HIV, especially when you participate in events like that. I don´t thin she had it though, because it seems that she was very incisive and wrote things as they were...
Kidney diseases are complicated, you must take lots of medicine that will weaken your inmune system too, I had calculus renalis once and the meds were so strong, the anti-biotic was awful that I couldn't eat and in winter when you are weak you can catch anything...
Posted in: Ai Iijima died of pneumonia; no foul play, say police
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JoiceRojo
Two things: Japanese people are boring, just thinking that there are only four types of person, at least in the zodiac and the chinese zodiac there are 12!
A couple of Japanese friends once asked me "what is yout blood type?" they where astonished when I told them that I didn't know, and it didn't matter because I'm unable to donate blood (Viral hep when I was little) I asked my mother because when I was sick with the hep, the doctors typed my blood and my mother told me "it's universal" so I guess it is type O...
Posted in: In Japan, you are what your blood type is
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JoiceRojo
Bush Did the same 4 and 8 years ago... and yet he started a war that killed thousand and thousands... How can a conservative person with "high morals" declare himself as a "war president".
Please!!!
I have mixed feelings about this issue, I would support the "Right to choice" idea if the issue is very well informed, people with higher education and really think of this decision are less likely to have an abortion. Whereas in third world countries (such as mine) they stand for other morals, the religious sense about pregnancy is still strong, but also it is irresponsible for people to have unplanned sex and babies, they receive the idea of having an abortion as an easy way out of unwanted children, that is not the solution.
I do support the measure taken by Obama, as long it is not seen as an "easy-way-out", but in the sense that providing information about abortions will eventually lead to a balance in this issue, and in the future, to reduce significantly the number of abortions.
Posted in: Obama reverses Bush's abortion-funds policy
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JoiceRojo
Ah sorry! I got mixed up with exchange rates.. let's see
Basic: 1,366,623.17 Yen
Grade R : 1,745,588.56 Yen
So... I was making the conversion from my currency to dollar to yen... I got it wrong... Actually it is pretty convenient hehe..
Still, I got a mazda Demio... at a bargain price of 1,047,020.75 Yen... that was before the dollar rose and the effects of the financial crisis started to show up... now the same mazda demio cost 1,236,355.77 Yen
Posted in: Mazda launches special edition Axela Sport
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JoiceRojo
Mine too
Posted in: Mazda launches special edition Axela Sport
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JoiceRojo
No, you don't understand. It is not that simple, with that many workers that lose their job, they spend less, starting for those articles that are not absolutely necessary, like cars, (hey you can use public transportation, ride a bike, etc) If the car sales are going down, then it has an effect to every car dealer not just the big 3. That's called the inmediate effect. The second effect goes to the industries that are supplies for the auto industry, the car parts industry suffers too, causing more job losses. That's called the Direct Effect. An the third effect is that with so many job losses, no access to credit, the others industries are affected, from cars we could jump to some "superfluous" entertainment, some fancy appliances, some top of the notch electronic devices and so on and so forth, people start looking for cheaper stuff. That's called the induced effect.
Posted in: Japanese automakers not celebrating over Big 3 problems
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JoiceRojo
You know, that's a scary one
Posted in: How not to get fired in a bad economy
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JoiceRojo
Uh-Uh Isn't Mazda a Japanese Brand? I know that Ford owns shares from mazda but that doesn't make mazda american.
Idiotic, this guy is so old fashioned.. and the people that bought the 15 cars are more idiotic too...
“All you people that buy all your Toyotas and send that money to Japan, you know, when you don’t have a job to make your Toyota car payment, don’t come crying to me,”
If they don't have a job to make a Toyota car payment they certainly won't have a job to pay for ANY car payment...
Please!
Posted in: Angry Ford dealer in South Carolina blasts Japanese imports in ads
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JoiceRojo
Interesting, it is the first time that I read he can speak Spanish... I will have to watch the movie, let's see how good his Spanish is...
Posted in: Viggo Mortensen takes on Spanish challenge
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JoiceRojo
Beautiful Car... although I've always liked the RX-7 Series (more than Rx-8)
Posted in: Mazda launches revamped Roadster
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JoiceRojo
I like to read, all my life I've read different books, magazines, newspapers, comics, manga and technical books, if you find a way to get young generations that prefer TV and videogames and don't read anything, interested in reading something, even though it's only manga, we would see better vocabularies. It is thanks to my liking of reading that I was able to learn English (though I know that still I have a long way to go...) and although the very few mangas that I've read are translated into English cannot tell me if they are well written, it is worth a try to connect people. Good to Aso!!!
Posted in: Is reading manga really so bad?
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JoiceRojo
I never like Sarah Palin... but I think that all these invitations is to make fun of her... she proved before in debates and other speeches that she did have dumb answers.
Few days before nov 4, I watched Letterman, he really took many phrases said by Palin, and she was ridiculized.
For her own sake, she shouldn't appear in these shows. She will lose more credibility (if she had one)
And for those that say that Palin doesn't practice socialism, taking taxes from rich companies and re-distributing wealth is socialism...or at least it is perceived as socialism by many right-wing U.S. people
Posted in: Palin is inundated with A-list offers, from world travel to movie deals
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JoiceRojo
three things:
Posted in: Animator Hayao Miyazaki worries about children's future
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JoiceRojo
Of course with products with so low quality that his corporate image tainted the image of U.S. products.
I give credit Obama to being smart in choosing people for his economic team, let's see how they will cope up to the challenge
Posted in: Obama says there is no time to lose as he unveils economic team
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JoiceRojo
Why do Japanese start putting Xmas decorations and lights in november? isn't a little early? or it is because the winter already causes the days to be shorter (i.e. less daylight?)
It is difficult for me to understand since we in South America Xmas time is in summer, so we have long hours of daylight...
Posted in: Mika Nakashima sings beneath Tokyo's biggest Christmas tree
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JoiceRojo
that means that the terrorist are in Afghanistan aren't they?
Posted in: Al-Qaida warns 'house negro' Obama