Monday May 28, 2012

SCAP65's past comments

  • -2

    SCAP65

    I got knifed in the states. Cops got there first, then the ambulance. They code whatevered me top speed to the hospital for poor people, cutting my down coat off with scissors in the ambulance, feathers flying everywhere.

    It doesn't really hurt, kind of like getting punched. Luckily it was viscous bleeding and not arterial bleeding. I wonder why this guy died? If it was like me, viscous bleeding from being stabbed in the back (literally), it would have taken a long time to bleed to death.

    Posted in: Man dying of stab wounds asks taxi driver to take him to hospital

  • 0

    SCAP65

    I think that the real issue here, much as it is in the States is a need for more and more ordinary people to take an active interest in politics and vote. The Japanese ordinary people must have their voices heard.

    Posted in: Kamei looking to form new political party to counter DPJ

  • -1

    SCAP65

    Japan is protectionist, pure and simple. They don't play fair, at all, with trade. Japanese cars are BORING! They may be reliable as all hell, and in a practical sense this is great, but they have about as much personality as the salarymen that design them.

    There is no car as exciting as say a Ford Mustang or Chevrolet Camaro. If you stuck a Mustang, a Camaro and pick any Japanese car in the same price range, I bet at least 70% of a random sample in this country would pick the pony car or the Chevy.

    Hell, I know which one I would rather drive. It was the same in the states. If I wanted a predictable, reliable, economic car, I would buy Japanese. But if I wanted a car I enjoyed driving it would have been American, or maybe German, but the parts would be a killer with the German car.

    Well, I guess the same would apply with the US cars here. Why can't Ford or Chevrolet set up a factory over here to build them? It would be a supercar. It would have the freedom and excitement of an American car and the tight engineering of a Japanese car. It would be unbeatable.

    Posted in: Last year, Japan exported 1.5 million vehicles to the United States, while U.S. automakers exported just 8,000. Why aren't U.S. makers selling more in Japan?

  • 2

    SCAP65

    Netninja. He crossed the Atlantic in 1998. It can be done.

    Posted in: Frenchman to swim from Tokyo to San Francisco

  • 0

    SCAP65

    What's with the Nippon Uber Alles sun rays?

    Posted in: Asahi Beer reproduces its first labels

  • 1

    SCAP65

    Mike, Iran and Iraq..two completely different animals. Iraq (91) required round the clock bombing sorties for about a month by the air forces of many different countries, before ground forces were sent in. And then, you were talking about a small country ruled by a dictator, with little loyalty to him.

    Iran, a massive, mountainous country, the size of Alaska, with an indigenous arms industry, a huge, young and very patriotic population, as well as the capacity to permanently block the shipment of a third of the world's ocean transported petroleum, at the drop of the hat.

    The US is tied down with two wars, and depleted reserves of money, arms you name it, and no ally except Israel willing to join a fight against Iran.

    Do the math.

    Posted in: Iran's top leader warns U.S., Israel against strike

  • 0

    SCAP65

    What a plasticky ugly looking piece of junk. In any case, if anyone wants to get an Ipad 2 on the cheap they are basically free-18,000 yen from Bic Camera if you sign up for a home internet plan. You have to ask for the discount and keep asking until you find the right salesperson. I got mine so cheap I let my daughter use it watch anpanman.

    Softbank's data plan is as much as you want to use and is much better priced than this thing.

    Posted in: Docomo unveils first tablets for LTE service

  • 0

    SCAP65

    I'll tell you what is a far more serious threat to Japanese national security than China. It's your mediocre leaders. They are strangling any potential Japan has, while it is still in the cradle. You might want to direct your frustration at your miserable useless leaders, who are Jama big time to this country, which is capable of so much, but hindered by foolish leaders.

    Posted in: Defense chief questions why China needs aircraft carrier

  • 2

    SCAP65

    Dara and Kentaro, a few questions:

    1. Where will this money come from to build Japanese aircraft carriers? Japan's debt is twice its GNP. It is trying to rebuild following the largest natural disaster to strike any nation, in history, and it also needs to retool itself as a country switching over from nuclear power. I would be very curious how you plan to pay for Japan to head off on the road to World War III, which is what would happen if Japan ever dared to try a repeat performance of its 1930s invasions of China and Asia.

    2. You seem to forget how vulnerable Japan is to nuclear weapons and/or radioactive contamination. You need a lesson in geography my nationalistic friends. What is the land area of China? What is the land area of Japan?

    Think about it. Then consider, if Japan launches one nuclear weapon, because nukes are what it is about when you talk about real firepower today. TNT may be fine for bombing poor defenseless brown people living in villages in the middle east, but it counts for nought when it comes to total war, such as we saw in the 1940s between fully industrialised countries, and which we would see today, if Japan was foolish enough to start a real fight with China.

    You think if America got into a war with a real country and not some third world backwater like Vietnam or Afghanistan it would be using conventional weapons? Nope. Nukes.

    Now, let's suppose your Japan of the future with its submarines brimming with Japanese nuclear ICBMs was to launch an attack on China. Even if it sent say 20 nukes into China, China would simply absorb the attack, like a whale being hit with so many small harpoons. Now, if China makes even three or four of its nukes connect with Japan, sayonara Nippon! These small islands, if hit with todays nuclear weapons with yields in the megatons, that is a million tons of TNT, would die as a country. Look at Fukushima. It does not take much to turn Japan upside down.

    You might want to rethink your silly dreams of war.

    Posted in: Defense chief questions why China needs aircraft carrier

  • 0

    SCAP65

    Techall, that is exactly what my impression was. Can you elaborate?

    Posted in: A resigned Horiemon prepares for life in prison

  • 0

    SCAP65

    Is this larger than a C5?

    Posted in: Heavy help

  • 0

    SCAP65

    Maybe it's time for the Japanese to stand up for themselves, like the people of Egypt and take matters into their own hands. This country desperately needs to regain its independence. This is just pathetic.

    The problem is that the last time you had an independent determined Japan they ended up bombing Pearl Harbor and slaughtering 20 million people throughout Asia. So I can understand their reluctance to want to be assertive. They can't trust themselves with real power so it's easier to just let big mommy America look after things.

    Posted in: Hatoyama blames bureaucrats for his failure on Futenma issue

  • 0

    SCAP65

    Sounds like fun. I don't know why but I am really in the mood for some westerns. I even want to write my own. It's something to do with how soft and safe and fearful we have become. I yearn for that frontier spirit, where you just take your chances and live or die by your wits. I am very curious to see how Blood Meridian turns out.

    As for the Japanese distributors, what a bunch of total tossers they are. Silly twats waiting for some Oscar wind to push this release. Keep playing it safe Japan, and remember to never ever take any risks. Twats.

    Posted in: Coens part ways with Wayne in their 'True Grit'

  • 0

    SCAP65

    They have a name. They are called EVIL, for Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens Camera

    They are EVIL cameras and I have one. They are excellent for video. I can't make up my mind about the still shots. Mine don't look nearly as good as they do from my SLR which has the same size sensor a 4/3 sensor which is exactly half the size of a 35mm film frame.

    However, I can totally recommend the GF1 and GF2 cameras.

    Posted in: Lumix SLR digital camera

  • 0

    SCAP65

    First off, there should be no secrets from the people, period. Government should be open and transparent.

    After all, it should be pretty clear to everyone by now that the people running most governments are incompetent asinine morons. Which would you rather have, incompetent asinine morons doing all kinds of things in secret, with your multi trillion dollar budgets, or out in the open?

    Come on.

    The more these guys get the magnifying glass shined on em the better, I say.

    Posted in: WikiLeaks operating from fortified bunker in Sweden after being booted from Amazon

  • 0

    SCAP65

    I could not agree more with all the commenters. The writer must think that the whole world should be populated by disempowered untermensch waiting to be kicked out of their homes to make way for people more worthy of occupying them.

    Posted in: Eminent Domain laws in Japan notoriously weak

  • 0

    SCAP65

    The IDF is pretty capable. Capable against unarmed women and children, and civilians. They did a great job against Lebanon, which has no military at all. They were really courageous in Gaza, some of the soldiers even found time to steal some Gazan credit cards, when they were taking a break from putting bullets through the heads of kids and grandmothers.

    They turned tail when a few Hezbollah light irregulars managed to knock out a couple of their Merkavas.

    This is not your father's IDF. They won't last long in a real fight.

    I have a feeling America is slowly joining the rest of the world in growing weary of the Israelis and their antics. We have much more serious things, like reversing the destruction of the environment, to worry about, rather than wasting time with these infantile spoiled brats.

    Here is what Israel really thinks: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LatmaTV#p/u/26/RBRwU3y5ZD4 and http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LatmaTV#p/u/1/2KUcv452KbU

    Posted in: Can Iran deter an Israeli attack?

  • 0

    SCAP65

    You guys that are saying that the Japanese do not need to know english missed one important point. The Chinese are all mastering English. They realise in a global world that English is essential. The Japanese will fall behind if they cut themselves off from the outside world. At some point they will need to join the global community or perish.

    Posted in: Back to the 'eikaiwa' drawing board

  • 0

    SCAP65

    They will cook your brain. My advice, and my own policy is to switch to PHS which has a much weaker signal. I have an iPhone, but just use it for netsurfing. I feel nauseous and get throbbing headaches whenever I talk on it. The PHS is no problem though.

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  • 0

    SCAP65

    This is really nonsense blaming the quality of the teachers. We all know what the issue is. I worked at Nova for 2 months, before quitting. Even at Nova which was the equivalent of a sweatshop for teachers, the students that wanted to learn could. The fact that they were paying hard earned money also meant that they took the classes seriously.

    I think any teacher that is motivated enough will do. Who cares if they like to drink and party on their time off. That's their business. The trick is to get those who want to learn connected with those who want to teach, whatever their motivation.

    Someone at some point will get this formula right and make a fortune. We will see an Apple or a Google come along and just soak up all those students and their cash. It could be one of us reading or writing on this forum.

    It's a goldmine waiting to be mined.

    Posted in: Back to the 'eikaiwa' drawing board

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