TPOJ said...

TPOJ at 11:41 AM JST - 7th April

The only people with any spine whatsoever in this country are bullies.

Seriously. How bad does it have to get?

Posted in Pregnant junior high school teacher harassed by students’ 'Miscarriage Club' at 11:41 AM JST - 7th April
TPOJ at 01:08 PM JST - 3rd April

He should have been rather more specific - the system here crucifies those rich and famous who refuse to play by the "rules" of 'normal' corporate malfeasance in Japan. He didn't buy off the right politicians and civil servants.

Exactly. The guy's a criminal, and I don't feel bad for…

Posted in Horie says legal system unfairly crucifies rich and famous at 01:08 PM JST - 3rd April
TPOJ at 11:34 AM JST - 28th March

rental shouldn't involve copying so its a different issue.

Well, I guess I'm thinking of what actually happens instead of what is technically supposed to happen. My thought is that if they were concerned about secondary use in copyrighted work, they would have stopped the rental scheme years ago.

I…

Posted in Japan may adopt so-called 'fair use' in secondary use of copyrighted work at 11:34 AM JST - 28th March
TPOJ at 11:14 AM JST - 26th March

Isn't "fair use" the whole basis of the CD rental industry here? Or am I reading this wrong?

Posted in Japan may adopt so-called 'fair use' in secondary use of copyrighted work at 11:14 AM JST - 26th March
TPOJ at 12:01 PM JST - 24th March

There are many people who started lower in life than most Japanese and still rise to the top.

Not in Japan, they didn't.

Not defending this nutjob, but failure works a bit differently over here. The whole "bootstrapping" thing is a good idea (if occasionally questionable) in cultures that embrace…

Posted in Man arrested for attempted murder after pushing woman off platform at Tokyo station at 12:01 PM JST - 24th March
TPOJ at 11:42 AM JST - 19th March

My God, he said something logical.

Posted in Reading, writing, math and English conversation are important. Note I said English conversation, not English. at 11:42 AM JST - 19th March
TPOJ at 10:47 AM JST - 14th March

Change!

Yes! Yes, Sarge! Every single molecule must be different, or else the word "change" is ironic!

There's a reason you're not taken seriously, and it had very little to do with the left.

We already had rules to deal with this situation, and they were openly perverted. Removing the…

Posted in Obama abandons term 'enemy combatant' at 10:47 AM JST - 14th March
TPOJ at 12:00 PM JST - 13th March

The mind boggles as to what they would have come up with. I'm trying not to imagine what was considered 'extreme'.

Uh, in Japan? More specifically, the Japanese school system?

My first thought doesn't run to "they went crazy with the details" so much as it runs to "the authorities…

Posted in Tokyo gov't ordered to compensate teachers for intervening in sex education class at 12:00 PM JST - 13th March
TPOJ at 11:04 AM JST - 12th March

Seems like you and I aren't gonna agree on what the definition of 'free' is either.

As in, costing no money.

Yes, I know, taxes etc. Nothing is "free." We get it. Those free tissues you get on the street? They cost money somewhere.

I get your "point," but it…

Posted in While education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, children who have lost parents have given up hopes of advancing to higher education, including college at 11:04 AM JST - 12th March
TPOJ at 10:42 PM JST - 10th March

And the swooning media spins this as some kind of a great liberation from a prohibition, which wasnt there in the first place.

Not real big on reading the thread, are you?

Posted in Obama reverses Bush stem cell restrictions at 10:42 PM JST - 10th March