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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Loki520
"I always amazed of japanese waiting a line for a few days just for some new product"
I got news for you. I was in Hawaii when the Iphone was released, and it was worse there. Lines started the day PRIOR, and stores had a limited amount. They would only have 100 phones, and there would be 200 in line.
PS3 was the exact same way in Hawaii. It is not the "Japanese" that do this, but the techno-geeks that just have to have the "new" toy, regardless of the fact that they don't really provide any extra benefit. I mean, come on... a phone is a phone. If you wanna surf the net that bad, get a darn computer. and a life.
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Loki520
"The Japanese are a lot better at recycling than a number of other developed nations I can think of."
Yea, but how many of them have a primary concern that getting the olympics is gonna "destroy the environment".
You wanna destroy the environment? Put a million trucks on crowded and congested roads each and every day. Have recycling efforts that include "nama gomi" only TWICE a week and certainly not on a Monday. Or plastics that actually are recycled, but the bails of finished plastic are stacked on roofs with no idea of how to move forward. Have nimrod trash collectors who leave a pretty yellow note on a bag that says "one of your 45 bottles has a tiny itty bit of juice in it... not allowed" and leave the entire bag for SOMEONE to correct, hopefully the person who took it out. Or, wrap plastic containers in another sheet of printed plastic instead of just ONE. How about refusing to sell "non wrapped" items and make sure that your item is wrapped in cellophane, with a plastic wrapper and then in a box on top of that.
There are a million ways to recycle. Japan may do better than some, but they are not so good that the concerned citizen's can proudly stand on their "eco" bags and complain about someone destroying the environment.
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Loki520
"and they destroy the environment"
This from someone that lives in Japan? Has anybody paid ANY attention to the failure of a recycling program this country has? I've never been any place so on the "ECO" bandwagon that actually did so little to try and make it work.
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Loki520
Net... I don't need to know Farsi... Translations are are provided by the Iran State Owned media... and THEY are the one's that initially stated "map".
And very NICE avoidance of the ballistic missles with the direct translation that includes UPROOTED and ERASED from history. So.. to paraphrase you... "If you knew English..." you would know that things such as the slogans on those missiles as well as other things PROVE that the "map" comment, mistranslated or not, was NOT false.
"Criminal apartheid regime" in Jerusalem? Please inform me of which legitimate court they've been convicted for you to call them CRIMINAL.
Be careful... your hate is showing.
Irrelevant twisting of words in 3....2.....1.....
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Loki520
So your rebuttal is that he didn't use the word "map"? Your free to feel that way, but you need to take it up with the butthats in Iran, that work for the OFFICIAL Iranian government, that did the translation.
Now, tell me the official Iranian line on how military parades in Iran feature ballistic missiles adorned with the slogan 'Israel must be uprooted and erased from history'. That is a DIRECT translation, and please please PLEASE let poor ole ignorant me know how that means the "regime" in Isreal.
But let's assume your right, and that the brainwashing your espousing is the official party line. How stupid do you have to be to say things that are easily translated incorrectly as this? Politics, and diplomacy, demand CAREFUL words and actions, each of which have an intent. If Ahmadwhatshisname isn't savvy enough to understand, and play on the world level, you may want to replace him before Isreal does. After all, THEY feel threatened by his words, and THEY actually DO have the ability to wipe someone off the map. And because of this nutcases words, they have absolutely no problem doing so if they feel threatened in the slightest.
Spin it how you want. He said what he said, and there are dozens of other examples (parades with said slogans) that clearly show his desire was that which you insist was incorrectly translated.
The problem is you guys fail to fully understand the resolve of the Israeli state. You better learn quick.
Posted in: Iran says U.S., Israel would be crazy to attack
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Loki520
Pipe dreams all.
Dream on Iran... dream on... You picked the wrong nationality to desire "wiping" off the map. The ONE group of people that have had someone try that to them already. I can promise you that you won't even get close to achieving your dream.
And we will ALL pay a nasty the price for that.
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Loki520
Here's the most telling statement... "...in the manner in which they are accustomed"
Hey bub... The ENTIRE world is changing the manner in which they live due to prices, etc... What makes your pork-pushing tush any different from anyone else? What, EXACTLY, do you bring to the economic table of the "everyman" except entertainment? Which, I feel the need to tell you, is usually one of the FIRST things to ger reduced/eliminated by those making adjustments to their finances.
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Loki520
It's a good think Rizvi and Nethanyahu are here to keep us straight. Without them, we might fall prey to those little things called "facts" and "reality".
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Loki520
Sez, I don't think he was referring to anything clark said. Rather, the habit of the democrats applying hero-level worship to anything on a democrat ticket with a military background while they disparage anything a republican has done.
Clark is the very LAST military member who should ever talk smack about other military members and their experiences.
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Loki520
Who?
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Loki520
"The things Bush proposes would take many years, probably decades, to have any real impact on the problems Americans face with high energy costs."
Remember when Clinton veto'd the bill to allow drilling in ANWR? The reason that he gave, as well as the congress, was that it would take almost 10 years to realize any benefit from the drilling and we need something "now".
Yea.. that was 11 years ago. If 10 years was the time until benefit, that would have been a year, or so, ago.
The thought of NOW is great, but there are suitable things that can be done for FUTURE benefit. They need to be done.
And now, we hear the same thing, but it is 5 to 7 years from now until benefit.
They, as a group, need to quit using the length of time until benefit as an excuse to do nothing. Focus on NOW is great, but a bit of focus on now AND future would be even better.
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Loki520
thepro
"Shes hot"
You mean in that Ditzy-empty-stare-I-wish-I-was-more-that-just-a-pair-of-boobs way?
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Loki520
Hey... 15 taliban killed a few klicks away. Were still up by 4.
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Loki520
The first time I heard anything about "whitey" was the original denial. If this was the Clintons, I'd swear that made that rumor up just so they could refute it, giving them the moral high-ground. But, I don't think Obama is that sneaky/smart policitally.
But, I starting to question his judgement more and more. He seems to surround himself with a lot of questionable people, some in real positions of influence (VP vetter for instance).
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Loki520
Sez,
I think what he means by "unique" is the opponent. This is the first time that the enemy is not a member of a nations uniformed services. The opponents are religious zealot's who have more loyalty to their religion than any country. And that is certainly "unique".
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Loki520
You know what is worse than the ketai. Those cell phones that have the "walky talky" capability in the states. They are extremly annoying. With that possible exception, I would have to say that the majority of rude people I encounter SEEM to be the oyaji running around. But, that might just be my recollection of it.
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Loki520
This is news?
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Loki520
That last part should read Iraq is NOW producing at pre-war levels...
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Loki520
You keep confusing those two specific fields, which you mentioned, with the reserves, which is MANY more fields than those two. There is a huge difference between those fields and the reserves, of which those fields are only part of.
The predictions of how much oil was available within those areas was made 30 years ago, and was based on the capacity of oil usage AT THAT TIME. There has been tremendous spikes in the amount of oil used, as well as a severe reduction in refinery's, of which we've built diddly over the past several years. 30 as a matter of fact.
Your statements all seem to be based on: 1) The numbers tossed out by those same conspiracy nuts who think everyone is out to get them ("it's not faaaaiiiiirrrr") whose numbers don't jive with the leading GEOLOGIST's figures (not the oil industry), 2) A mistaken belief that the oil we currently have, regardless of how much, is the ONLY oil there is. Your statement of "80% of our petroleum reserves the geore..." is predicated on ZERO additional production.
However the oil industry, and your right on this, should not be trusted to manage OUR future. But it is the CONGRESS that is allowing them to do so.
-- Though we have more oil in the shale of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming than there is in the Middle East (800 billion barrels), liberals and environmentalists have made it illegal to touch it.
-- It's illegal to drill in northern Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or off the coasts of Florida or California. The main reasoning is that the enviro's are worried the footprint will damage local wildlife. But in the areas around the other fields, wildlife numbers have INCREASED. Probably because the animals are, in fact, less hunted in these areas now.
-- It's illegal to explore the Atlantic Ocean for oil.
-- It's illegal to explore the Pacific Ocean for oil.
-- We're not receiving leases anymore to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, while China, Venezuela and Cuba are.
-- We haven't built an oil refinery in more than 30 years and have reduced in half those we have operating.
-- American airlines are in danger of going out of business.
-- There's enough natural gas beneath America (406 trillion cubic feet) to heat every home in America for the next 150 years, but we can't tap it all.
-- We have the largest supply of coal in the world, but it's Germany who is planning to build 27 coal-fired power plants by 2020.
There is simply no reason or justification for us to be dependent on foreign fuels that we can produce in our country. Do you realize that $2 of every gallon you buy goes straight to FORIEGN companies.
Yes, the oil industry is full of bastages that want to get rich. Let them get rich, I don't care. But they can do it at .50 per gallon instead of the $2 that we currently pay to the foriegn companies. We can be self-sustaining in oil production, REGARDLESS of how much is left in our current oil reserves.
And... Iraq is not producing at pre-war levels, and have seen a 28.5 Billion $ profit in just the first 5 months of this year. Those levels, produced by US companies, etc.. WOULD result in lower prices for US citizens, create jobs, and wean us off the dependency we currently have.
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Loki520
adaydream,
"Please answer me this. Why is ANMR the answer when there are oilfields that are capped and not producing? Why is there oil at Gulls Island that isn't being pumped at all? Why were Prudhoe Bay pipelines reduced from 36 inch pipes to 18 inches? < :-)"
Oh horse puckey. You actually believe that Williams, the "authoritative" source on this "find" @ Gulls was invited to attend the "we're gonna rule the entire world" meeting where this was discussed when he is not part of the "conspiracy" group to begin with? This "Geologist" uses terms such as the "structure of oil", when the rest of the world's ENTIRE geology community will tell you that a LIQUID has no structure, but rather a "chempical composition".
Prudhoe Bay - You mean besides the leaks and the dsstructive corrosion throughout the entire pipeline? Reducing the output capability lengthens the lifespan of the equipment currently in place, including the pipeline, all of which is deteriorated pretty much beyond repair and needs replacement. Past output amounts are not an option with the amount of corrosion, and shutting it down completely to repair makes no sense when there is only 2bil, or so, of the original 16bil barrels remaining (by best estimates).
Not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy to make "them" rich. Sometimes, companies like BP, have stockholders they account to. While they don't need to make them rich, they DO need to maintain profit at a certain level for operating expenses as well as profit. A 36" pipe costs a lot more to operate than a smaller one, and that is one way to maintain profitiblity, ESPECIALLY when the resource is 80% tapped out.
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