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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LFRAgain
Hackers who hack "for fun" then take their ill-gotten gains, otherwise known as private information (names, addresses, credit cards, passwords) and disseminate it across the Internet are juvenile asshats in desperate need of a prolonged ass-beating.
Anyone who truly believes these purile children who make up Lulz Security were doing what they did as some sort of noble "rage against the machine," political, corporate, or otherwise, is woefully naive, a point illustrated clearly at any number of "hacker" sites reporting on the internal meltdown of this little band of jerks.
I hope the authorities in every jurisdiction these kids screwed around in pursue them relentlessly until they've put every last one of them in jail for the damage they've caused.
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I can understand the need shake things up a bit, but I remember the last time they tried to change Superman's look, putting him into a blue lightening bolt suit and giving him glowing white eyes.
Didn't go over too well with the rank and file fans.
This change doesn't seem to "shareholder" influenced, so I can get behind it.
Personally, I'd like to see the "grim and gritty" trend slow up a bit, along with a firm and decisive slapdown of anything and everything "Xtreme". Sick of it.
Comic books used to be about escapism. Now they're more about the daily headlines than anything else. If I wanted to read about heroes dying while trying to prevent injustice, I'd check the Internet for the latest story on a mugging or robbery ending in murder. I don't need it in my comics.
ihavegreatlegs,
"Sans" means "without."
Who are you agreeing with? No one said this.
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LFRAgain
Leave it to Abrams to not screw this homage up. It'll be a far cry from the pap Transformers has been. I can't wait to see it!
Amen to that. I'm sick, sick, SICK of everything being produced in 3-D. It has effectively ruined my movie-going experience and caused me to forgo seeing a number of films in the actual theaters. I'll wait for DVD now, than you very much.
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Miamum,
Without getting into the absurdity of your face not being known to any of the school staff whatsoever at a school your own child attends, thus allowing you to pass unmolested, I'm going to have to agree with Zeeny11 on his point.
I'm not comfortable with turning the public schools into armed camps either. I don't think conditioning the children to live in a constant state of fear is particularly productive -- or healthy, when one considers the attack in Osaka happened, as you said, a long 10 years ago. Point being, lunatics rushing into schools to kill and maim just aren’t common enough to warrant more than what's present, IMO. Japan isn’t that far gone, quite honestly.
Yes, I know what you're thinking: "Let's see how you feel when it's your child who's attacked by a lunatic in school." However, the odds of that very thing happening are so remote -- less so even than the probability of a fire breaking out at the school, or a child drowning in the pool, or falling down a flight of stairs -- that creating a climate of heightened fear a la guards at every gate, doesn't seem like a reasonable trade-off for the number of children who are scarred by adult fears of the uncontrollable. So I choose to allow a little bit of reason to rule over that primate that's always screaming at the back of our brains.
As you said, if a lunatic decided to visit a school, he or she would be able to get in and do whatever he or she came to do, regardless of whether there are high gates or armed guards. Looking at your anecdote, I don't see how more guards, better locks, or higher walls, would have deterred just such a determined person. What we likely would have seen were more injured or dead guards, before the attacker moved on to the children.
But then again, the best way to combat that is to put the guards in booths, away from the attacker. Ah, but then they can't get at the would-be attacker quickly enough. Okay, let's just have the guards in constant state of readiness for an attack that might come once every decade. Hmm... That donesn't seem practical. Guards are people too, and boredom is universal. Ah! Arm them with guns! That way, they can take down the would-be attacker immediately. And body armour. Gotta' have body armour.
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It's a ridiculously slippery slope.
The policy that was put in place in Japanese schools after the Osaka rampage has proved itself successful time and time again, with this Aichi story being added to the list. Why change it to something more extreme when such extremity isn't warranted?
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This is actually a little disturbing. The "new member" was featured in almost every single major news network broadcast across Japan, leading many to believe that a new member had indeed been discovered.
But the "news conference" in which she was unveiled was obviously not real. Neither were the mass media who supposedly stood in front of her to get her first comments as a member of the group. And the CG was so convincingly done, including full body shots of the "singer" along with fellow group members milling about in the background as to allow the debate regarding her real-ness to linger for nearly two weeks,
Which sort of makes one wonder how easy it would be to dupe the public with the right investment into CG and a well-placed "news story."
Posted in: AKB48's 'newest member' turns out to be computer-generated image
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LFRAgain
She's damned lucky, but also damned stupid.
No, it's not the conductor's fault. When s/he blows the whistle and gives the all-clear, that's when the driver closes the doors and and the train departs. Obviously, this woman ran up to the train after that signal, with doors closing, and tried to hold the doors open with her hand, as if it were an elevator door. Conductors cannot be held accountable for every act of stupidity out there.
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Klein2,
Bravo to every single one of your posts on the subject.
It’s appalling how readily so many here seem determined to seized upon this disaster as an opportunity to trumpet to the world not only their stupefying ignorance, but also their penchant to latch onto rumors and hearsay in a manner but one step removed from believing in the boogeyman and woodland faeries.
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LFRAgain
The profound emotional insecurity it requires to make some of the more outrageous blanket black and white statements on this thread suggest far greater problems with some people's personal relationships than just online flirting.
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LFRAgain
Sure. Whatever you say, man.
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LFRAgain
"Wasn't" might be more accurate.
Welcome back to the Blogosphere, Kaori. I have no idea who you are, but good luck to you!
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LFRAgain
Congratulations. You just defined "advertising."
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LFRAgain
Interesting...
Tempered by:
Uhh, yes, you are.
It doesn't matter if the kid was knocking the ball into this guy's yard a hundred times. That does not justify assault. Nor does it justify attacking and rendering unconcious a father coming to the defense of his child because another so-called adult couldn't keep his anger in check.
That you think it there's some sort of line that can be crossed, allowing a 36-year-old man to slap around a 14-year-old for kicking a ball -- A BALL -- into his yard speaks to far deeper problems within our society than just thoughtless neighbors.
Posted in: Man held for assaulting neighbor over bouncing soccer ball dispute
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LFRAgain
Kazutaka Kawashima has some serious anger management issues. If I were the cops, I'd definitely put him at the top of the list for "Most Likely to Go on a Killing Spree."
Creepy.
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LFRAgain
Heh! A little late to the party, eh? Japanese cell phones have been doing this for years.
Reminds me of when the first iPhone debuted here. No one could figure out what was so darned "smart" about it. They had crappy cameras, no infrared data transfer, couldn't be used to make electronic payments, and (this is the best part) couldn’t even copy and paste data.
So far, the only thing they’ve fixed is the cut and pasting problem.
Good luck to Google with this. Like another poster said, maybe they should just take a look at how Japanese phone companies do it with Eddy and ID payment services.
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Wha-wha-what?!? How in the world could anyone have possibly drawn such a conclusion from the above story, particularly with the part clearly explaining that they broke up after this loon moved to a different prefecture for a job?
Odds are infinitely greater that they broke up because he was, well, creepy.
These stories always manage to shock me for two reasons - One, the sheer insanity it must take to try to kill someone you profess to love.
And two, the number of armchair Rambos here who seem to have all the answers when they pipe in with, "Shoot the bastard!!" when they've likely never experienced a shot fired at them in anger, much less possessed the courage to put on a police uniform and go toe-to-toe with someone intent on stabbing someone.
In so many ways that make the mind swim with shattered fantasies, it just plain ain't like the movies, folks.
Kudos to these officers who risked their lives to try and make a difference when other self-professed experts won't.
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LFRAgain
Given how the Republican Party is burning bridges left and right with their take-no-prisoners assault on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as Social Security, they're going to have a more trouble with finding actual support among their core constituency, the elderly, than finding a potent candidate to field.
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LFRAgain
I think the sheer horror of stories like these puts many people edge. I'd venture to guess we're all on the same page in saying we want these people to face justice for their crimes.
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LFRAgain
Plenty. "Infanticide has been found in many species, including humans and other primates, cats, dogs, whales, rodents, insects and fish," according to one site on the web.
That's not exactly true either. The Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University did a study that indicates there is a connection between a mother and child that appears hardwired into the brain.
I'm not trying to lessen or downplay the heinous nature of this alleged abuse, but it doesn't help to muddy the situation with suggestions that all women, and humans for that matter, are ticking bombs waiting to kill their own children, as it it were something only we were capable of.
The reasons these two did what they allegedly did is not rooted in them being human, but rather them being them.
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LFRAgain
There is. If there wasn't, this film would likely have never been made.
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Ooooh, a warning.
Fine. The US will now quail in the face of admonition.
Or not.
Instead, the US may simply wait for Pakistan to calm down while it waits for its next aid check -- money, incidentally, that didn't seem to go towards discovering bin Laden living a scant 40 miles from the Pakistan capital, while avoiding anwering uncomfortable questions about that lapse.
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