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    Everyone knows that black people being racist about white people is fine; but white people saying anything even slightly racist against black people means they are members of the KKK.

    Jamie Fox is one of the worst. His "black people are the most creative people in the world" (can't remember the exact wording) comment would have been plastered all over the news f it had been a white person saying it about whites.

    Racism is fine if its black people being racist.

    Posted in: Can a person say something racist but not BE a racist?

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    "Do you think your comments in the past few weeks will have a negative effect on the Japanese Olympic bid?"

    Just to stir things up about that.

    Posted in: If you could ask one question at Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's press conference Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, what would it be?

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    It's only a matter of time before someone carrying one of these is shot by police who believe it to be real.

    If they are dumb enough to do that, being shot is a good thing for society.

    You need all sorts of paperwork to buy one of their airguns. But they are realistic. And it stings when you are shot by one.

    My friend has a lot of them, and he's never had to deal with any paperwork.

    Posted in: Tokyo Marui comes to play with replica sniper rifles, pistols and grenade launchers

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    Either "When are you going to do the right thing and resign?"; or "Why are you such a narcissistic fascist?".

    Posted in: If you could ask one question at Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's press conference Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, what would it be?

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    Yes, I basically agree, but communicating would be a lot more potentially useful than nothing at all. It doesn't matter if anyone gives them aid or not, they'll get supplies somehow from somewhere and feed their army and claim whatever they do to ordinary citizens,

    They'd find it very difficult to get supplies if they're isolated and given ZERO air from other countries.

    but at least if there was political communication more and more channels could be opened for subversion.

    I'll say it again, the only people you communicate with are those at the top, and they aren't going to spread dissent. Why should they plot subversion if they're living a good life? I get what you're saying, but you're not going to do that in NK, a country who raves on about how amazing the Kim family are. You convince some dude to stage a coup, but next to nobody will listen to them because the army is made up of thousands of guys who have been brainwashed since birth. I doubt it would work. I'm sure it's been tried, and the people who tried it are dead now, along with their whole family, as a warning to others.

    The more and more communication there is the harder it is to keep things out, e.g having more westerners working in the country would show ordinary people that westerners are not the infidel and if that message spread and spread it would be harder for the regime to keep lying.

    That isn't going to happen. Any westerners who are in there, are monitored 24/7. That won't change. They (those in power) don't want westerners there, and no amount of dialogue is going to change that.

    Like we've said, If the US is really serious about NK being such a threat I don't see why they don't just invade now.

    They won't invade now, because China doesn't want them to. They don't want a unified Korea because that would threaten their own regime. If the US can persuade China not to back NK in event of a war, and promise to leave after x amount of months after the war (the Chinese wouldn't want US troops on the peninsula if it was unified), and that trade between the US, and the new Korea, would be vastly better with NK gone, then maybe we'll see an invasion.

    Posted in: Japan considers talks with N Korea, surprising allies

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    Why does that disturb you? What's bad about that?

    Because NK are basically laughing at everyone who gives them aid. They give the food aid to their army. When they do give some to citizens, there is no mention of it coming from another country. They should be feeding their own people, instead of making missiles.

    Isolation clearly hasn't worked, and was never going to with an insular regime that cares not a job about it's people.

    Because we haven't isolated them! There is always some dumb country that gives them aid.

    The only way forward is communication,

    No. We should invade and topple the regime.

    the spread of which could much more easily be used to spread dissent from within North Korea than by isolating them and giving them an easy out to use in propaganda against the west.

    How will communicating with NK spread dissent? The only people you communicate with are those at the top, and they aren't going to spread dissent.

    If that doesn't work and NK is really such a threat by having nuclear missiles then there is no option but to go in like in Iraq.

    Yes. In Iraq there were no WMD, while NK literally parade theirs in the street and nothing is done despite NK being a lot more dangerous than Iraq.

    Posted in: Japan considers talks with N Korea, surprising allies

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    So ... like...what? Has NOT talking to them done all that much good? I don't notice any change in North Korean, except maybe for more cool adjectives and nouns on their website - thrice cursed, military provocateurs, etc.

    If Japan try to bargain with them to get back the people who were kidnapped, NK are going to ask for something in return. Which is what always happens. If you always do what you always do, you'll always get what you always get.

    This is a perfect example of Japan, and Abe in particular, being selfish. Abe has said he want's to solve the kidnapping problem while he is in office. He want's results so he looks good. He's not concerned about the big picture.

    Posted in: Japan considers talks with N Korea, surprising allies

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    Footage emerged showing one of the men carrying a blood-covered knife and meat cleaver and saying to the camera: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.” The black man, dressed in a hooded jacket and black woolly hat, made a number of political statements. “We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” he says, speaking in a London accent. He adds: “I apologize that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don’t care about you.”

    If you hate the country so much, why don't you go live in Pakistan or some other Muslim country? Go fight British soldiers and marines there if you think you're so righteous.

    “Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion of peace. “It’s not. It never has been. What you saw today is Islam,” he added. “Everyone’s had enough.”

    Comments like this don't help. I've served in both Afghanistan and Iraq in the Royal Marines. While I was there, most of the people were great people. The extremists spoil the image of Islam.

    I'm sure there are other people on here who served and saw that not every Muslim is an animal.

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    Who needs an app to bully anyway? There is always the good old fist-in-the-face, and making fun of the poor-kids shoes.

    Posted in: Phone app ‘Line’ under fire from school after incidents of bullying

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    I think they're absolutely horrible.

    Especially anything Toda Natsuko touches should be burned.

    Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese subtitles on English movies shown in Japan?

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    1. nagare dama/drifting bullet

    Translation fail. "Stray Bullet".

    Posted in: The secret slang of Japanese cabbies

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    This will be good for people who only use PS irregularly but bad for frequent users. They really should allow a permanent license for frequent users.

    No. It will be bad for both.

    Don't you have to agree to a yearly subscription for the first year or something?

    Posted in: Adobe changing its products to cloud services with monthly fees

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    Probie: Good for you! Would you care to elaborate on why you feel he should shut up and to whom he is a disgrace to? Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I am simply curious to know what upsets people so much.

    Because he's someone in public office, openly lying and causing international problems. He also has a history of saying things that are dictatorlike, and making bullying policies for his jurisdiction. The stupid tattoo policy he had; the "civil servants have no human rights" thing (however when he, who is a civil servant, wants to keep his privacy, he's whining about it and threatening people)

    He has broken no laws.

    If Japan had laws like Germany has regarding holocaust denial, which Japan should have regarding their conduct in the 1930's to 1945, he would have broken a law.

    What nerve of yours has he irritated so much?

    He's a nationalist, who basically gives China and South Korea more ammunition to blast Japan with not owning up to her past aggression. China and South Korea love to play the victim and pull out the wartime aggression card at the slightest chance. He's an idiot.

    He can't control his selfish urge to be talked about.

    Posted in: Hashimoto hits back at polls showing majority disagree with his comments

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    @Onsen

    Everyone who has not read the whole comments made by Hashimoto, not only to the press, but also in his Twitter and is able to fully understand Japanese is unfortunatley basing their comments/judgements purely on second hand information.

    Well, I have read the whole of his comments, including his laughable twitter account, and can fully understand Japanese, and I think he's a narcissistic, nationalistic, loudmouth who needs a shutting up. He's a disgrace.

    Posted in: Hashimoto hits back at polls showing majority disagree with his comments

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    What do you consider a first world country?

    Google "first world country"

    You mean Anglo Saxon countries?

    No. I mean first world countries.

    Sex slavery and prostitution were both initiated by first world countries,

    Really? I'd love to see your proof of that.

    this is why they also have laws condemning them.

    And tell me why Japan doesn't seem to have.

    A Japanese politician who is outspoken, as long as his comments are not racist and sexist, and that they don't incite violence should be heard, listened to, and accepted as good discourse and healthy debate

    Can someone translate that into English for me?

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    There's a big difference between using prostitutes during a war, and an organized system of sex slavery.

    Hashimoto is a nationalistic idiot who should be removed from power straight away. Comments such as he has been making only cause problems. His constant whining about his comments being misunderstood are obviously BS because he just keeps on making them.

    In any other first world country, he would have been removed from office or made to resign.

    He is making Japan look bad, and feeding the rabid nationalists in China and South Korea.

    Get rid of him.

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    @ThonTaddeo

    車椅子 are not classed as a vehicle, whereas bicycles are. I thought that was obvious.

    Posted in: Road traffic laws in Europe and the United States are simple, whereas in Japan pedestrians are always exposed to the risks of bicycles bumping into them from all directions...It is time for us to go back to the original point of the road traffic law, where bicycles and cars share the road.

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    I had one tell me that my bag was overweight and that I had to pay more for it to be allowed on the plane. I didn't mind that. But, they then said "yeah, sorry, it's for safety reasons". So I said "it's for safety reasons, but me paying extra money suddenly makes it safe? How does that work?". The reply was, "Sorry, that's what I've been told to say".

    Err that's kind of an easy one. If everyone could take as much luggage as they wanted, people would start taking 30kg, then 40, then 50... you would have normal passenger flights being used for international freight.

    Yes, I know that. I'm not dumb. I wasn't complaining about that.

    These limits are there to keep a lid on people going crazy (not to mention that lifting more weight requires more fuel)

    Then why lie and say it's for "safety reasons", if those "safety reasons" can be circumvented by paying more money? They could just say "we have to limit luggage to 30kg as much as we can so we charge for extra", or just, I don't know, say NOTHING unless someone asks them why? Anyone who has any common sense knows why they do it, what I don't like is when they lie about it.

    Ever notice that if you are a FIRST CLASS customer, you can add an extra luggage for FREE, never saw anything about weight, just the word FREE.

    I'm not going to pay the stupid costs for first class. Anyway, you're missing the point of what I said. Re-read and try again.

    Besides, the whole first class= free extra luggage is stupid. What if all the first class people brought 300kg of luggage each?

    Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fuel surcharges, fees for extra baggage and other charges for various services?

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    Colour Matching is also possible in GIMP. There are scripts doing it automatically (it takes curves averages), and there are tutorials on how to do it manually.

    I don't like GIMP. I've been using PS for too long and I'm used to it and stuck in my ways. Same with Inkscape. I might give it a try again though if Adobe is going to be CCing everything from now on.

    Posted in: Adobe changing its products to cloud services with monthly fees

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    Yes, they are.

    I had one tell me that my bag was overweight and that I had to pay more for it to be allowed on the plane. I didn't mind that. But, they then said "yeah, sorry, it's for safety reasons". So I said "it's for safety reasons, but me paying extra money suddenly makes it safe? How does that work?". The reply was, "Sorry, that's what I've been told to say".

    So yeah, it's mostly a big scam to get money.

    Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fuel surcharges, fees for extra baggage and other charges for various services?

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