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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Fingerprints and faces can be used for identifying criminals. If a person covers up their face it's difficult to generate a positive identification. If I were to walk into a store with a full face mask on I'd be asked to leave or have security called on me, simple as that.
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I just view it as a security risk. Same way I'd view it if a bunch of men decided that as part of their religion they should wear ski-masks and gloves everywhere.
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Thats what I was thinking.
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Compared to pepper spray maybe...
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I dunno, in the words of Rick James, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug!"
I have no issue with victimless crimes, however, as cocaine is still illegal than there is no reason why she should not be suffer the same penalties as anybody else in possession of illicit substances.
It's America friend, all people have a place in this society even if we don't like them.
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This is anything but a common war. A conflict in which an outside force enters, defeats established power, sets up a government made up of locals, protects said government, and fights against a group of ununiformed insurgents that blow themselves up in crowds of civilians is a rarity known only to the modern world.
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Capitalism has never existed in the U.S so...
Revolution with a twist...I like it.
Not really, I've owned firearms for the majority of my life, and so have my friends and family and not one gun crime in the bunch. The only time I've ever experience a gun crime was in an attempted mugging in Detroit and that turned out badly for the mugger. I did, however, get a neat scar from a hunting knife in Chicago.
Yet it really doesn't. Nobody starves to death (barring an eating disorder or getting locked in a closet), nobody puts you under arrest for not agreeing with a majority, U.S. prisoners enjoy more comforts than most law abiding citizens in the rest of the world, and you have virtually unlimited potential you just have to tap into it. There is absolutly no other place on the face of the earth I would rather live.
Not really, most of my jobs have been working for jerks and most of them involved forced overtime, less than minimum wage, and verbal abuse. A hard worker will always find a place to work even if he hates it.
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"The U.S. government has been largest donor to the flood relief effort, allocating $200 million to date." So I guess even if the U.S. is the largest donor in the world it's still not quite generous enough.
Considering conservative voters donate more blood, time, and money (proportionate relative to income and in volume) than liberal voters I'd say you're blaming the wrong people. Considering one cannot dictate how the Red Cross and other charities dish out the money they receive I think it's fair to say that conservatives have probably contributed more to the Pakistan flood relief effort than non-conservatives as well, although whether or not they agree with this practice is subject to debate.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservativesmoreliberal_giv.html
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In what way? You support embryotic stem cell reasearch for medical purposes, an admirable reason. Others oppose it because they equate the destruction of an embryo to the destruction of human life, and on a very basic level it is. I don't have a problem with people electing to participate in potentially lethal studies or the donation of one's body to science. However an embryo has little option in the matter. The possible benefits of embryotic stem cell research could be substantial, I simply don't feel the ends justify the means based on current research.
They would have never forgiven me.
Faith is fact to those who attest to it. A person can only act in accordance with their own codes of moral conduct. I can't ask any more of anyone.
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I've never claimed to be a comedian.
Proof would be a little counter productive to the whole faith thing. I like my faith, it feels right so I go with it. I've got nothing to prove and no reason to try.
Others have already stated that it's not adult and amniotic stem cells people have a problem with, just embryotic.
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It was a joke. Albeit not a particularly good one.
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There's a lot of things I'd do if the UN intervened (first and foremost would be to die of shock) but the last thing on my mind would be complaining.
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There’s a story behind that and it ends with a neat scar on my part and a neat hospital ride on theirs. The only acceptable response to a threat is immediate action. I can't speak for others but whenever I've been threatened the only emotion I can well up is rage, the very idea of somebody violating my person or my family is enough to illicit a response.
So yes, it is easy to say 'defend your wife' because you're a man for God's sake and if you're not willing to stand up for something sacred you're very existence is futile. PC be damned it's a man's duty to defend no matter the cost.
What use is a man who can't, or won't, protect his family? What kind of example is it to his children that when faced with death it's best to let those around him suffer? You don't need to be a trained fighter to fight, winning is a whole other story.
Sure it is, people do it all the time. Most people just don't do it for the right reason.
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Simply stating the advantage of the alternative.
Don't make me go all existential on you, there will be angst.
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Embryonic stem cell research has a lot of potential, but so do other abhorrent practices. As it stands Adult and Amniotic stem cells can be collected and used with far less fuss.
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Utterly pointless waste of life, if the man couldn't understand why the police let him go he should have looked at his own actions.
Actually the M16 rifle the shooter used is illegal for citizens to own in the Philippines. The following is a passage from Philippines Center on Transnational Crime in regards to the number and power of firearms a person may possess, I lifted the section on retired officers as this would be the most likely to apply even though he was technically fired.
Officers and non-commissioned police officers enlisted personnel in the active service and in the retired list of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) may hold under license a maximum of only one (1) low powered rifle caliber .22 or shotgun not heavier than 12 gauge and one (1) sidearm of any type or caliber.
http://www.pctc.gov.ph/laws/basicFA.htm
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It's cases like this when I truly believe that a PMC would be the professional’s scalpel to the UN's moron wielded sledgehammer. Before its dissolution Executive Outcomes did a fantastic job in Angola and Sierra Leone and they did it with fewer men, less money, and they were still more effective than a large UN presence. The best course for dealing with these rebels is to surgically eliminate them; total war is the only way to win.
Human cruelty is timeless; it permeates our history and will continue on so long as a single human draws breath.
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Then find a scientist or a skilled mortician, breaking things is easy enough with the proper motivation. Come to think of it a butcher may very well suffice, although using an unskilled person in lieu of a professional may equate to using a sledgehammer where a scalpel is needed and would significantly reduce the chance of survival.
I'm sure a wrench to the torso or extremities would be sufficient to remind one of their carelessness.
14 months for a lifetime of misery? I'd be angry at the prospect as well. Equal reciprocity is so much more fulfilling than modern justice, better results as well.
Good, in my honest opinion a prison should be a deplorable place with limited human contact, nutritious but near vomit inducing food, and only enough sunlight to remind a prisoner of what they have lost. The very idea of having television, books, exercise time, and conjugal visits are entirely counter to the soul breaking task a prison exists for. Utterly confounding.
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True. We like to lie to ourselves, tell ourselves that we're above such punishments, we're not. Compassion, forgiveness, and modern justices are fundamentally flawed in that they are utterly self-serving to the self righteous people that embrace them. Those that fear to do the grim work necessary to perpetuate society should step out of the way or buckle down. It is not the duty of government to forgive or show compassion, it's to preserve the society they represent.
For asking for such a punishment the victim is indeed vindictive, barbaric, and possessed of incredible bloodlust that does not, however, make it wrong. The victim, paralyzed and unable to exact justice for himself, is probably filled with seething and completely understandable rage. Especially considering the meager term of imprisonment and the fact the perpetrator was allowed to live his life and even become a school teacher. Prison teaches criminals nothing save that next time the commit a crime they should work harder to not get caught. Punishments like these give the victims some reciprocity and set an example for others, I approve absolutely.
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I'm almost overhwelmed with how much I don't care.
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