Reinaert Albrecht's past comments

• 

  4

  Reinaert AlbrechtMay. 14, 2013 - 04:54PM JST

  You can say the most profound thing ever in Japanese, make the funniest joke, talk about the earth being taken over by space robots, whatever — and all you’ll get back is “Heeeeey.” But say any stupid thing off the top of your head in English and everybody will bust up laughing. English is a pretty upbeat language; Japanese, eh, not so much.

  Strange, over the 10 years that I've been visiting Japan this never happened to me (apart from drunk men in izakaya's). Maybe you talk to the wrong people in Japan?

  Posted in: Why you shouldn’t learn Japanese

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtJan. 04, 2013 - 09:17AM JST

  I repeat: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." M$ is apparently in the one but last stage.

  Posted in: Microsoft slams Google on 'proper' YouTube app

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtDec. 02, 2012 - 01:14AM JST

  "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

  Posted in: Microsoft ads deride Google as bad place to shop

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtNov. 17, 2012 - 04:08PM JST

  I'd like to see a similar survey of what makes the perfect air steward. Bottom of the list would be the snotty woman on Air Italia who when I dared, 5 hours into a flight from Narita to Rome, asked could she bring me a beer, snapped back "No, it's not drinking time". It was 5.00 PM Japan time.

  You shouldn't fly Alitalia if you want service.

  Posted in: Who do cabin crew think is the perfect passenger?

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtOct. 02, 2012 - 04:53PM JST

  The sky has been falling since humanity has existed and there's always a subset of the population that believes it and runs around like chickens with their heads cut off.

  Except in this case nobody is running around... Everybody seems to carry on business as usual. I think it will probably only weigh in when some western countries start to be affected. By then it'll be way too late.

  Posted in: 100 mil will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate

• 

  -3

  Reinaert AlbrechtSep. 28, 2012 - 07:52AM JST

  What kind of junk is this? "supreme espresso experience" and Starbucks in the same sentence smells like ***t. Never drunk a coffee at Starbucks that's worth it's name.

  Posted in: Espresso journey provides unique coffee experience at world’s first Starbucks pop-up store

• 

  1

  Reinaert AlbrechtSep. 10, 2012 - 06:55AM JST

  Funny how the nuclear industry always talks about "progress" without detailing what it constitutes. For an industry known to hide facts most of the time, this doesn't sound very encouraging.

  Posted in: Nuclear safety boosted to help avert another Fukushima

• 

  2

  Reinaert AlbrechtAug. 21, 2012 - 10:31AM JST

  Can't wait for it to happen so I can spend all that lost time behind the wheel on reading some books.

  Posted in: Who needs a license? Self-driving cars coming our way

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtAug. 17, 2012 - 07:18AM JST

  You will probably be expected to make your own bed. Halfway through the night your going to fall through your bed. It's all part of the Ikea experience.

  Posted in: Ikea to launch budget hotel chain

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtAug. 03, 2012 - 07:19PM JST

  Punishment seldomly brakes this cycle.

  Then expel him/her. The problem is that they are together within a closed system.

  Thus making him/her feel even worse and in the other school everything is simply going to start over. Chances are that the bullied pupil is simply going to be bullied by others.

  Posted in: Bullying – the problem that won’t go away

• 

  1

  Reinaert AlbrechtAug. 03, 2012 - 05:50PM JST

  MasterBapeAug. 03, 2012 - 09:05AM JST

  sillygirl and movieguy, couldn't agree more.

  That's where the problem lies.

  Bullying exists in every country, but it's usually because of problems kids/adults have in their own lives and then make someones life a misery by taking it out on them, which is bullying.

  As one who has been bullied myself I can tell you you are spot on. This problem is usually not solved by the teacher trying to intervene too much publicly. It usually makes the problem worse. The person bullying then sees that what he is doing actually has effect and in effect encourages him to bully more. Punishing won't help either. They will take their battle "underground".

  The problem is seldomly looked upon from both sides. The person bullying is, for some reason feeling bad himself because he/she doesn't have control of his own life (I've seen no exceptions in my life) and tries to feel better by wielding power over somebody else. The person bullied is usually a quite sensitive person. When being bullied he/she is going to immediately show that he doesn't like so the person bullying immediately sees that he is having power over that person and is encouraged to go on.

  Punishment seldomly brakes this cycle.

  Posted in: Bullying – the problem that won’t go away

• 

  1

  Reinaert AlbrechtJul. 19, 2012 - 11:29PM JST

  And you know what they did in exchange for starting these reactors? They shut down their thermal power stations because of oversuplly...

  http://osaka.yomiuri.co.jp/e-news/20120707-OYO1T00340.htm

  Article Unavailable

• 

  -1

  Reinaert AlbrechtJul. 17, 2012 - 11:48AM JST

  and to add to our woes, a typhoon is going to pass by in the next few days.

  Actually the typhoon wont hit Japan, but Korea and N. Korea. But we should get a little rain and wind, especially Kyushu. Ugh poor people over there.

  That should read "the typhoon probably won't hit Japan." Certainties are an illusion with typhoons. It might still veer off to Japan.

  Posted in: More heavy rain hampers flood clean-up in Kyushu

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtJul. 10, 2012 - 10:12AM JST

  Let me guess: the system was "developped" by Accenture?

  Posted in: New resident's cards run into technical glitch on first day

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtJun. 27, 2012 - 02:46PM JST

  1. The fruit is really delicious (There’s a lot of cross breeding)

  Why this one got the second spot is beyond me. Where I live, fruit is a lot more delicious than it is in Japan. All fruit that you can get in other countries seems to have the same bland taste in Japan. Apart from tropic fruit, there's imho not much fruit to be cherished in Japan.

  Posted in: 46 things that surprise foreigners in Japan

• 

  6

  Reinaert AlbrechtJun. 16, 2012 - 02:23PM JST

  By the end of the year there will be 48 plants online.

  That will not be possible. There are 4 sites that can't be brought online because they are too damaged (I'm not even talking about fukushima daiichi) but you never read that in the news.

  BTW there were about 11,000 people outside Noda's office not 500. Please correct that.

  Article Unavailable

• 

  -3

  Reinaert AlbrechtJun. 09, 2012 - 12:58PM JST

  “If this result at CERN is proved to be right, and particles are found to travel faster than the speed of light, then I am prepared to eat my shorts, live on TV,” Jim Al-Khalili, a professor of theoretical physics at Britain’s University of Surrey, declared at the time.

  What a pity we couldn't find fault in the theory then ;)

  Posted in: Einstein was right, neutrino researchers admit

• 

  2

  Reinaert AlbrechtJun. 08, 2012 - 04:17PM JST

  He most probably didn't watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hLYrZsCQsko

  Posted in: Noda says Oi reactors must be restarted to protect economy, people's livelihoods

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtJun. 03, 2012 - 06:13AM JST

  As long as they stick to using Linux-servers for running Skype it will probably survive. If they somehow get the idea in their head to move everything over to Windows I can see Skype go the way Hotmail went after the acquisition by M$. It'll be braindead in a few years.

  Posted in: Under Microsoft, Skype aims for one billion users

• 

  0

  Reinaert AlbrechtMay. 30, 2012 - 03:08PM JST

  The major problem with such an agency is that practically all people in Japan who are experts on Nuclear energy are tied to the nuclear industry. The same holds for most of the nuclear experts in the world.

  Posted in: Diet begins debate on new nuclear regulatory agency