JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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SuperLib
I actually understand all of that. What I don't get is that you can only see that information if you have the file in your hands. If the AP has the presentation in their hands, which they would need in order to see the tags, they obviously aren't releasing details about the presentation or referencing it in any specific way in the article. It seems that if they had details about the organization given by someone high up (as referenced by tags) then they would just publish that and let everyone see everything about what the organization is about from the people actually running it. But they didn't.
And the tags on something like a PowerPoint presentation would should things like creation date, who created it, and last access, but in reality it's not a complete history of the document, and I've never seen it being used as actual proof of anything.
Posted in: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed
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SuperLib
Getting closer to 9/11.....time for foreign media outlets to play up the US security angle again.
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SuperLib
Just odd.
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SuperLib
Here's my guess at what the real situation is. The squad has 16 people. It said they speak at least 5 languages. My guess is that they aren't sending Italian-Americans to Pakistani neighborhoods to "chat up" local business owners. And the white, Irish-American cop probably isn't being sent to clubs to "eavesdrop" on local Muslims after he plays a game of cricket with them. What you probably have are mostly Arab/Muslim cops from the local community being told to report suspicious information to a centralized place. They are the ones going to the clubs, coffee shops, and seeing mosque information boards.
The AP probably has some good research on it, but in the end it probably isn't all that sexy or alarming. So they decided to take the information, drop bits and pieces here and there, withhold other parts, then let your imaginations run wild. They know people will fill in the blanks with "Gestapo" comments.
One example (out of about a dozen in the article): "The AP independently authenticated the NYPD presentation through an interview with an official who sat through it and by reviewing electronic data embedded in the file. A former official who had not seen the presentation said the content of the presentation was correct."
I don't understand how they can say there was a presentation that someone sat through and not just give us the exact details of the presentation from beginning to end. Either they know the information and it's not that sexy so they say nothing, or there was no presentation. Probably the former. Then they bring up some kind of "electronic data embedded in the file" but I can guarantee that not a single person here can tell me exactly what that means. If I'm wrong, please speak up and let us all know what that collection of buzzwords amounts to. And finally they tell us that someone else who was not there verified that it happened. It's almost as if the writer needed to add more sentences to the paragraph without actually telling us specifics about the presentation so he just made some stuff up. I used to do that in high school sometimes on my papers when I needed a few extra filler sentences.
The beginning of the article says the AP has documents detailing the work by the department. Great. Then give us the information. It seems that everything they were able to verify were from "former officials" who don't seem to have any problem saying there is a department but never seem to get around to giving any specifics about it. It makes you wonder what "documents" the AP really has since they obviously don't reference them in any way other than the opening of the article.
Posted in: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed
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SuperLib
Wow, I don't think I've read an article this poorly written in quite some time.
Posted in: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed
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SuperLib
So let's open them all up so we can take a look. All of them, because we all know that all of them can't always be legit. No more classified documents anymore. How does that sound?
Posted in: WikiLeaks site crashes in apparent cyberattack
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SuperLib
Oracle: Find a mirror. If you see a tin foil hat, it was me and Jimmy Hoffa, definitely. If no tin foil hat, rest assured, if I had that sort of power, I would not be posting here. I would pay someone else to post in my stead.
But that's *exactly *what you'd be expected to say. Machinations and plans....
Posted in: WikiLeaks site crashes in apparent cyberattack
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SuperLib
How do I know you or forces you support are not involved?
Posted in: WikiLeaks site crashes in apparent cyberattack
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SuperLib
Sorry, it's hard to tell what's happening now. Wikileaks is releasing unvettted documents and their site is being hacked and the relationship they had with some media outlets who were helping them sanitize the documents is falling apart? So are the unsanitized documents being released a result of Wikileaks' actions or the actions of the news organizations who were working with Wikileaks?
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SuperLib
I think you tend to target radicals who use hyperbole because it makes yours sound less intense, but you're really in the same boat as they are. Obviously it's not right to target one group for different treatment because then you are hurting the innocent ones. But on the other hand it's just absurd to mention a handful of non-Muslim terrorists over the past 20 years and pretend that everything is equal. You're trying to be so politically correct that you've intentionally become blind to something as basic as raw data.
And once again I'll remind you of how you consistently try to define all members of the US military based off of the worst stories you can find in the media without hesitation.
Posted in: 52% of U.S. Muslims feel targeted by terror policies
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SuperLib
I don't really see how people think Muslims as a whole can "speak out" against terrorism unless they have some kind of rallies or something...? I'm not sure what people are expecting from them.
On the other hand, this is a bit surprising:
I pretty much assume that about 10% of the people in any survey are probably insane, so seeing a 20% number above concerns me. I thought it would be lower than that.
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SuperLib
Why not use that as the headline? Oh, I see....
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SuperLib
The drone attacks, like the ones in this article, are taking place in Pakistan. I'm guessing your reference to soldiers is talking more about Afghanistan.
Posted in: Al-Qaida No. 2 killed in Pakistan: U.S.
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SuperLib
SpidaPig24....what....you don't like me blaming the Russians? I actually kind of like the idea. I just used your logic and went back one step. I don't see why you'd have a problem with it. No invasion, no resistance, no OBL, etc. Thanks for that.
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SuperLib
Then you have no position.
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SuperLib
You feel they need to be gotten rid of? Why is that?
There's no denial, just wondering what your point is. I suppose you have some way in which the Russians wouldn't take over the area while at the same time taking out OBL because he might turn against us decades later in response to freeing Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion? I'd like to hear your perfect path that the US should have taken that would have produced zero blowback while at the same time produced a workable result for the situations at hand when they happened.
You're looking back with hindsight and pretending these things should have been known at the time which just isn't possible. If you want to keep going back in time and playing the blame game then you'd be going around telling everyone the Russians created Al Queda since they triggered the invasion that triggered X which triggered Y which triggered Z....
Posted in: Al-Qaida No. 2 killed in Pakistan: U.S.
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SuperLib
Can you elaborate? Is that the total number of people killed by drone strikes? That's close to the total numbers that I've seen. Or is that the total number of civilians killed by US forces in Pakistan? Or the total number of people killed, including militants? And what is the time frame?
Obviously they're angry. You seem to think that I'm denying that. But bigger picture issues dictate that being there is better than not being there and I have my own civilian data to back it up. I saw the video of a cop in Oakland shooting an unarmed man in the back but my first thought wasn't that we need to fire all police officers and I didn't go around telling people who disagreed with me that they obviously don't care about what that man's family is going through. The militants kill far, far more civilians than the US does so why don't you think about their families? Why are the larger numbers completely ignored in your posts?
Last I checked the militants put planes into buildings because we sat on our asses and did nothing while they had free reign of an entire nation, which is the policy you're advocating but just can't seem to see that. And last I checked the militants are attacking just about everyone, including Pakistanis, Europeans, Asians, etc., so I guess they went around attacking people but we just haven't heard about it yet. I'm guessing when the Taliban behead schoolgirls you ignore the families and shake your fingers at the girls for bringing it on themselves.
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SuperLib
Why don't you just come out and say you have absolutely no idea how many civilians are killed, and you may in fact be expressing outrage over numbers so small your entire position would look silly when compared to the damage terrorists are doing overall in numerous neighboring countries as well as Pakistan itself?
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SuperLib
You can want the US to withdraw, but using fantasy evidence and positions isn't going to bring that about. It's just going to make you frustrated that no one is buying your bullshit. Do you have the numbers yourself? Why not tell us what you think the number is off the top of your head, then do some research and find out how close you are to the reported numbers from a variety of sources.
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SuperLib
No, I was being serious. I'm curious as if you know how many civilians the US has killed in Pakistan. I'm betting if you chose a number it would be wildly inaccurate.
Overall the drone program has been extremely successful. Civilian casualties are extremely low, especially when compared to the civilians the terrorists have killed. And not only in Pakistan, but in Afghanistan and India as well. That's why a moderate like Obama has increased the number of drone strikes greatly. They're effective, and the strikes are done with the support of the Pakistani government who often share intelligence on where to strike. Obviously they have to pretend to be outraged to placated their uneducated masses and as a side effect liberals and anti-Americans use that silly position as some kind of evidence of wrongdoing, but the fact is that drone strikes basically kick ass, they don't create nearly the amount of damage that the enemy does on civilians, and they will continue and hopefully increase. And the increase in anger that you feel about the situation is mostly icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
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