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  • Starviking at 04:48 PM JST - 31st October

    @nisegaijin

    Rich people become rich because they work hard and do important things. Why should they be giving away what is rightfully theirs. Rich people do the world a favor by employing others and giving them opportunity to get rich. under free market, there would be no need for labor…

    Posted in Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor at 04:48 PM JST - 31st October

  • Starviking at 04:36 PM JST - 31st October

    Here's the sad fact - in order to start on the road to getting a decent education in Japan (which means attending a good University) you have to have parents who can afford juku. Japanese schools are all about teaching kids to be Japanese. 'Wa' is the most important thing…

    Posted in Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor at 04:36 PM JST - 31st October

  • Starviking at 06:16 PM JST - 30th October

    @weedkilla

    You're right about their being no 1997 picture. The Telegraph has taken the 2007 photo and used it for the 1997 pic. (after doctoring it, of course.) To say it's exaggerated image is an exaggeration. It's a straight out lie.

    Look at the top of the page of the…

    Posted in Prince Charles says global warming more important than financial crisis at 06:16 PM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 05:20 PM JST - 30th October

    Now, if anyone wants to compare the difference between actual Arctic ice coverage in September 1979 and September 2007 you can check it out at http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ (There's a link at the bottom of the page).

    Now the images returned have a different orientation than the Telegraph images - but they…

    Posted in Prince Charles says global warming more important than financial crisis at 05:20 PM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 05:09 PM JST - 30th October

    @Weedkilla

    Also, the Telegraph is comparing 1979 ice coverage to 2007 - there is no 1997 picture.

    Posted in Prince Charles says global warming more important than financial crisis at 05:09 PM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 05:05 PM JST - 30th October

    @Weedkilla

    You're seeing what you want to see in the Telegraph report. If you bothered to look at the actual WWF Report you'd see that there's no pictures comparing Arctic ice coverage therein - the exaggerated images are courtesy of the Telegraph...

    Posted in Prince Charles says global warming more important than financial crisis at 05:05 PM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 04:51 PM JST - 30th October

    True, but if the police had not made the call on the guy having already suffered a hit-and-run...gulp!

    Posted in Woman runs over man who was apparently victim of earlier hit-and-run at 04:51 PM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 04:49 PM JST - 30th October

    He shouldn't be punished any more than someone who did the same stuff on the mainland - location of the offence should have no bearing.

    Posted in Drunk, injured MSDF officer airlifted on P-3C from Iwojima at 04:49 PM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 07:39 AM JST - 30th October

    @Mark_McCracken

    Yup - just journos spinning. That said - they did make an awful lot of noise about it in the 70's. I was a kid way back then and I remember it.

    Posted in Prince Charles says global warming more important than financial crisis at 07:39 AM JST - 30th October

  • Starviking at 07:34 AM JST - 30th October

    “Among other things, Israel was described there as the perpetrator of terrorism rather than the victim,” Palin said at a rally in Ohio. “What we don’t know is how Barack Obama responded to these slurs on a country that he professes to support.”

    So if McCain wins we'll have that…

    Posted in McCain criticizes LA Times for protecting Obama by not releasing tape at 07:34 AM JST - 30th October

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