JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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I actually liked the foreign policy lunches Bush had. If nothing's going to get done anyway I don't see any point in blowing all that money and wasting time with a state dinner. Additionally it's more condusive to the culture that the U.S working population has taken on and how we conduct business. We don't have time for you, we barely have time for us, we certainly don't have time to wine and dine over the course of two days. If you have something to say then spit it out and be done with it because we have a lot of work to do. When I go to China or anywhere else I follow their customs, but when they're in my house I expect them to follow mine.
Posted in: Obama holding first White House dinner for China in 13 years
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Whatever my reaction is or whatever I say should not and does not effect how others percieve the organ donation. Donations are alright, I'm mostly apathetic towards them. When I donate blood I'm not particularly happy about it, it's just fact that someone else can get better use out of it at this particular moment, same goes for organs. I'm not saying its monsterous or disgusting or immoral, merely that I have a less than enthusiastic reaction to the article. I'd say its thats a reasonable position.
Posted in: Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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It's not ment to. It's just my reaction to the article.
My choice in language is accurate. I have no illusions about what the process entails and I simply pointed out that this particular instance creeps me out.
Posted in: Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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Well that's exactly what organ donation often entails and while this piece only mentions the cornea but I'm sure they attempted to recover whatever parts, and thats exactly what they are, they could. I realize the benefits of the process and I'm an organ donor myself.
It's not negative, the concept of the procedure being done on a child creeps me out but I don't disapprove. I can say the same thing about a whole lot of practices, especially in the medical field.
If current excecution methods didn't damage so many useful parts than he could...once he's executed. The gallows would be a fine tool for preserving organ vitality, shame those chemicals ruin everything.
Posted in: Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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Like I said, nice for the kids who get to keep seeing. So sue me if the idea of a child being cut open for usable parts is a little offputting for me. When I was in high school I occasionally cleaned equipment for the mortuary near my home, I got used to dead adults pretty quick, but children are another matter entierly. I maintain my position as being kinda creeped out.
Posted in: Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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It's nice that those kids were able to retain their vision but the idea of a 9 year old being stripped for parts still kinda creeps me out. Especially with her picture right next to the headline.
Posted in: Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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In your country, good, I'm happy for you. People should live where the laws suit them best, I like guns, I like hunting on my family's property in northern Michigan, I like trap shooting, I like cleaning and collecting, and sometimes I like buying fruit from Wal-Mart just for the heck of shooting it in my backyard. That's one of the reason's I've elected to stay in the U.S despite several and ongoing attempts to get me into my company's foreign offices in Asia and Europe. They’re all nice countries but I'd be too limited as to how I’d be able to conduct my personal life.
That’s one of the best points about the Second Amendment one can make. It doesn't exist for school shooters or criminals; it exists so that if things become as unacceptable as they did at the time of the revolution people would be able to react. And it is a right that many, myself included from time to time, take for granted.
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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Any firearm can be used for hunting or sport.
Odd, I feel the same i just about evey country I visit. Whether they allow the people to own firearms or not. If a person wants to hurt me they will, I just like being able to do something about it.
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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There are still militias. Fragment groups of the old Michigan Militia still do hunter and gun safety programs and I've seen them use airboats to rescue stranded ice-fishermen on Lake Huron as recently as last year.
If you want to apply militia more liberally to a group of armed individuals who train in the use of firearms and have experience in national security then one could argue that most gun clubs could also fit the bill. The majority of members in clubs I've observed have been police officers and ex-military men who enjoy sport shooting. If something were to happen it's no stretch of the imagination that some of these organization could turn into true militias with relative ease.
Posted in: Silence greets calls for changes in U.S. gun laws
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Congrats on proposing a virtually unenforceable law. There aren't enough police in most towns to search every person that attends a rally, a protest, or a public speaking. Plus in some instances there may be people with conceal carry just passing by within the range. I go to the same bakery as my representative and my handgun is in my car, I can't predict where these people are at all times.
You might want to rethink that. My boar gun is a black powder rifle and it's a hullofalot meaner than most bolt actions. Muzzleloaders are cheap, its just the ammunition that's expensive.
Posted in: Silence greets calls for changes in U.S. gun laws
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Or we can just keep going and adapt as the changes happen. People assume that changes are rapid, they're not, and personally I'd rather live in a future underwater home than pay a single cent to counter global warming. Bring on the melted ice caps, I see an investment in underwater real estate.
Posted in: Would you support an environment tax as part of measures to counter global warming?
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The language Tawin used put on display the ever present figure of active and passive bigotry that was rampant in the south when the book was written. Censoring the language of the book is an insult to the writer, to the civil rights movement that fought that bigotry, and to the students that the publishers and teachers believe to be incapable of putting the book's language into context.
Posted in: Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored
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Who isn't happy when they get to play the villain?
Posted in: Maki Horikita happy to play villain for first time
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It's a lot like a diner for angry old people. They've been going there for years, they all hate each other, but they keep comming back out of habit.
Posted in: Man due in court over Tucson shooting rampage
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Thats about spot on. All they talked about on the news this morning was Palin's website and political rhetoric, not one word about the shooter and only a brief update on Giffords condition. Our priorities are terribly out of whack.
Don't know about the rest of SolidariTea's post but the bit about the unions is pretty much on the money.
Posted in: Man due in court over Tucson shooting rampage
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Your comparison lacks substance. Palestinians can leave and many have left. International aid continues to come into Palestine and it has its own governing authority.
Maybe with a few countries that they don't interact with anyway. All the politicians in the world can talk as much as they want about how much they despise it's actions but the fact remains that Israel is a bastion of economic stability in the Middle East and one of the only markets that western nations can deal with on equal terms. I can think of no reason in the short or long term that Israel would want to return to old borders. Their population is increasing and they are attracting more investers every year and its neighbors lack the strength to force them even if they had incentive, which they don't.
Posted in: Chile says it recognizes a Palestinian state
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So the thousands of Palestinians in the U.S and abroad snuck out in the dead of night, some with enough money to open four bakeries and a coffee shop within spitting distance of of the Renaissance Center. All the Palestinian immigrants I know left because they kept getting robbed so they sold their businesses and moved, apparently it wasn't that difficult.
Then it's time to lower their standards and negotiate more. No matter how you spin it Israel has the upper hand and the Palestinian authority is not willing to compromise, small economies don't get to talk to big economies on an even playing field. The level of corruption and embezzlement cases on the governing level there are in Palestine doesn't exactly help their case.
Posted in: Chile says it recognizes a Palestinian state
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It's not a jail if they can leave and judging by all the Palestinians living in my neighborhood they most certainly can. Additionally food and money has been sent to Palestine for years and it's been squandered to fund their pointless attacks on Israel.
They can go the china route, cheap labor. Start letting foreign companies build factores and start investing with the money they get in donations instead of buying piss poor weapons from the Iranians. If they've got a problem with Israel building their settlements how about they pool their money and build the settlements first and then lease the property to Israeliis. But that would be siding with profit over pinciple.
To be perfectly honest this whole problem could be resolved if the Palestinians started thinking with their pocket books.
Then why side with either of them? Neither side is a shining example of humanity, both are corrupt, but Palestine offers nothing while Israel has made itself into one of the most stable and successful economies in the region.
Posted in: Chile says it recognizes a Palestinian state
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Hay, I approve of the appointment. I'm pretty sure Daley was picked for the position largely because that is the kind of reaction his presence would illicit.
I like NAFTA and I like open trade agreements so I’m pretty happy about Daley.
Hopefully that's not the case. I like a more dynamic business environment where profit and failure are left to the consumer to deal out and where the variety of products is only limited by what people will and won't buy. I’ve never actually seen such a thing but maybe in a few decades the parties will finally die out and we can actually get things done.
Posted in: Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff
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No problem, although 'pompous' is a bit much. Most of those countries are just protecting their own interests. There's more to gain siding with Israel than with Palestine.
That comparison is largely invalid. While past blockades have kept aid out its those within Palestine that squander food and money donations from around the world (a whole lot of it from organizations within the U.S) on a fruitless war with Israel. For it's part Israel response attacks, while hugely disproportionate, are just that, a reaction to Palestinian aggression.
If we're going to talk about bullies though I'd say it looks more like a scrawny kid with something to prove who, week after week, keeps picking fights with the larger boy in the class that the teacher likes more. The larger boy, for his part, reacts by roundhouse kicking the scrawny kid in the chest for the discourtesy every single time. Now his grades are in the toilet, he's spent all his money on second rate instructional videos he bought from the Iranian kid at the back of the class, but he keeps on going at it. The first few times I felt sorry for the scrawny kid because he did get a pretty raw deal, but after the 9th or 10th time I can't help but wonder why he won't sit down, shut up, and get some work done?
Posted in: Chile says it recognizes a Palestinian state