JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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Noliving
ROFL really how? I mean considering already the federal law states that public funds can't be used to pay for an abortion unless it is incest, rape, and or the mother's life is in danger. Stop spreading lies and hyperbole.
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Noliving
You do realize that the debate is over whether or not a government funded program should pay for an abortion. Abortion is already legal across the board, the issue that remains is who should pay for it, either she pays for out of her own pocket, has private insurance pay for it and or also have a government program pay for it. The issue here is that people don't want a government program/tax payer money paying for an abortion. If she wants an abortion that is fine but she will have to use her own money and or use a private insurance to pay for it.
I honestly don't understand why people think that this debate about abortion right now in this bill is about legality of it.
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Noliving
It's not really hacking is it when it is unencrypted.
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Noliving
really where? You said that in order to get the vicious cycle of murder under control you have to get weapons under control, more specifically guns. You really think that if you can get weapons under control you will be able to control murder also once you get something under control you can end something. Give me a break.
What vicious cycle numbskull? Unless your black person in the USA, the murder rate is less 3 per 100k, the only reason why the murder rate is "so high" is because of the black murder rate which is 20 per 100k and over 80% of those crimes on blacks are from fellow blacks, back in the early 90's it was around 50 per 100k. Over 85% of the nations counties report 0 annual murders each year. I'm so sick and tired of people acting like the USA is such a violent place and that murder rates are out of control even though the USA is one of the few nations in the developed world to actually be reducing their violent crime including murder. So what vicious murder spiral is there numbskull when the USA has been reducing their murder rate. I have never heard anyone say that if you reduce a crime its becoming a vicious spiral, your the first.
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Noliving
Show me a single thing in psychology that says you will be able to get rid of human's ability and in some cases need to kill featherhead. You can't even get rid of lying or stealing.
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Noliving
That is one of the most ignorant and naive statements ever, the belief that if you get guns under control you get murder under control and can end it. You will never be able to get murder under control when you factor in that it is part of human nature and always will be and that a human can kill another with nothing more then just their own bare hands.
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Noliving
ok numbskull if it isn't just murder then why do all the gun critics of the US only focus on the people killed by guns? Can you give me the ladies name numbskull? The truth of the matter is that the US has been able to reduce it's gun incidence by 80% over the past two decades. We are one of the few western developed nations who's violent crime is going down. More people are hit and injured and killed by cars in the US then by guns even though there are more legally owned firearms then cars in the US.
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Noliving
Really? 8-9 years of two wars combined in costs only equals one year of combined costs of social security and medicare.
No the current deficit is due to this congress and administration. It is their choice to spend the money. They don't have to, remember that the stimulus bill that was passed didn't really stimulate and it cost nearly $770k per job created. Although bush left with a recession, he did try and stop it. I mean he did warn congress 17 times in 2008 that frannie mae and freddie mac were basically about to implode, although he didn't really do much about the sub prime mortgage crisis.
He may have been a bad president but in terms of financially well you give him way to much credit for screwing it up.
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Noliving
seijichuudo9sha, the reason why you have had such a hard time trying convince them is because their entire life experience has shown them the opposite of what you are trying to say.
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Noliving
And here is the best part molenir, according to the US department of justice only 15% of all counties in the US experience at least one murder every year. That means 85% of counties in the US don't experience a murder annually. It is hilarious talking to people who think the that in the US you have a high chance of getting killed because our murder rate is like what 5 per 100k.
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Noliving
Ya absolutely but I wouldn't over do it though of course.
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Noliving
Yes that is true but so can be the opposite. The USA for example has more guns and more ammunition on the streets today then it did back in the 90's and yet gun crime has fallen more then 80% since 1992.
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Noliving
I agree with that but you were basically suggesting that primary reason why the culture was like that is because of the government's restriction. I think your overstating it. Especially when you consider the fact that the primary reason why non violent crime and just crime in generally is lower in Japan has to do more with honor and losing face and the family name honor. These are values that are not really held as strongly by people in the US. Gun's really are not as easily available as people think.
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Noliving
It is an interest point but again that statistic deals with suicides. There are 25k gun deaths half of those are suicides that means there are only 12,500 suicides by guns spread out over all age groups unfortunately. I don't know the exact number of suicides by teenagers that commit suicide but over half of them are from guns. However though I do know that according to teendepression.org website that 90% of teens who commit suicide had a mental illness such as depression, bipolar, Schizophrenia, alcoholism. In fact according to them 20-50% of teen suicides in the US have to do with drug problems/use. ** **Based upon teen suicide statistics in the US it most likely that when it comes to young people it has nothing to do with a immature fascination or even a fascination of any kind when it comes to firearms.
teendepression.org/articles1.html
As you said this more about guns than suicide, and I'm successfully proving that you are wrong and that it is culture not guns when it comes to why japans violent crime rate as well as non violent crime rate is lower than the USA, just like how it is culture when it comes to suicides.
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Noliving
Well since it clearly states I'm talking about the swizz and not about America, I don't really see how your getting it that I'm talking about america when it comes to forced military duty.
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Noliving
Absolutely, I mean if I'm not mistaken the swiss have a higher gun ownership rate then the US when it comes to high power assault rifles, (because of forced military duty?) in their homes and yet their deaths by guns are lower then the US.
Crime has more to do with culture then with the presence or absence of a weapon.
To be fair though I'm talking about the overall suicide rates between the countries, not a certain demographic of the statistic. For example according to the world health organization the Japanese male suicide rate per 100k is around 35-36 while in the USA is around 10-11 per 100k. For females, in Japan it is around 13 and around 3 in the USA per 100k. Which country do you think has a higher overall suicide rate?
who.int/mentalhealth/prevention/suiciderates/en/index.html
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Noliving
Again, research has shown that the primary reason why violence along with non violent crime is less in Japan then in the USA has more to do with culture then with absence of a weapon. Again if the presence of a weapon is the cause of crime, then non violent crime in Japan should be the same level as that of the USA but it isn't. You can easily see culture at work when it comes to suicides between the culture, by your argument, the USA should have a higher rate of suicide then Japan considering the wider availability of weapons and tolerance of violence. I mean after all half the gun deaths in the USA are suicides. The problem here is that my position is supported by years of research. Your argument doesn't really, believe me I've looked. One of key questions has always been how is it possible that Japan, which has a significantly higher population density then the USA, is able to maintain lower violent crime but more amazingly non violent crime, crime committed without weapons. The conclusions have always primarily been culture.
Really just how restricted are they? Will they be able to stop me from taking a knife outside of my house and stabbing people? Do they prevent me from buying matches to light things on fire? Do they prevent/restrict me from buying knives at a store? Do they restrict me from buying a hammer? How about nails? How about screw drivers? How about an ax or a drill? Ya they have laws that prevent you from carrying blades out in public but what real means do they have of enforcing it? Do they have police officers that pat your body down as soon as you step outside? Seriously what do they have in place that is effective that prevents me from taking a knife and walking to my neighbor's and killing them. Nothing! No country in the world has an effective policy to prevent someone from stabbing another, from taking a blade out into the public. Japan has easy access to lethal weapons, especially the ones I just listed.
Yea there is no denying that just like how UK and Australian violence thrives on the fact of alcohol. Did you know that on a per capita basis the UK has 2.5 times more violent crimes per 100k of people then USA. In the UK the per capita of violent crime is 1500 per 100k, in the US it is 600 per 100k. Pretty amazing too considering that the US much looser rules when it comes to firearms.
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Noliving
Should be .000083
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Noliving
Half of those are suicides plus that statistic also includes killed by law enforcement and law enforcement are obviously going to be carrying guns.
So lets see here, 25,000 divided by 300 million+ (Total number of legally owned firearms in the US) equates to a fatal death rate of around .0000083. Wow that is really a threat isn't it.
Actually no, it has actually been successfully proven that the primary reason why is culture not the absence of a weapon. In order for your example to work you would have to also explain why non violent crime that involves no weapons are also lower in the Japan then in the US. If it was indeed because of gun control then Japan's non violent crime rate should be a lot higher then what it currently is. Also when you factor in that nearly half of all gun deaths in the US are suicides shouldn't the US then have a higher suicide rate then Japan when considering how much easier access to a gun? So why doesn't the US have a higher rate of suicide? Cultural views regarding suicide are the culprit, again suicide is seen as a cowardly way in the US, it does not necessarily have the same stigma in Japan as it does in the US as a result suicide is not as widely frowned upon in Japan as in the US.
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Noliving
When you consider that the stimulus bills that were suppose to help create jobs costed around 770K per job to be created and those jobs that were created were not making over six figures in salary it really wasn't that great of a plan. When you look at how big of a failure the job creation part of the stimulus package was, you really expect this one to be any better?
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