ThonTaddeo said...

ThonTaddeo at 09:48 PM JST - 6th November

1.18 million-kilowatt No. 3 reactor

Wouldn't it be easier to call it a 1180-megawatt reactor?

Posted in Japan's 1st pluthermal power generation begins 10 years behind schedule at 09:48 PM JST - 6th November
ThonTaddeo at 06:12 AM JST - 6th November

If that was the policy, then half of this board would be shot everytime the police tried to stop them for their daily bicycle check.

But with Ichihashi, they were questioning someone in direct connection with a crime (which is why there were 9 people there). With the bicycle…

Posted in Ichihashi also tried to get cosmetic surgery in Fukuoka at 06:12 AM JST - 6th November
ThonTaddeo at 09:23 PM JST - 4th November

All foreign troops should be asked to leave the Japanese soil with immediate effect

In that case, the Japanese should be kicked out of Okinawa first. Their occupation of the island from the 1600s to the pre-WWII period was hardly friendly.

Posted in U.S. warns Japan against reneging on Okinawa base relocation deal at 09:23 PM JST - 4th November
ThonTaddeo at 06:39 AM JST - 30th October

The state abandoned them the moment the pink draft notices came in the mail -- the least the government could do, after heartlessly ordering ordinary people to go off to die in war at the emperor's command, is to compensate the survivors well in this more enlightened age.

Posted in Damages suit filed by ex-Siberia detainees rejected at 06:39 AM JST - 30th October
ThonTaddeo at 06:24 AM JST - 30th October

I'm sorry but I think you guys are being rather narrow-minded. Surveys and research have proven that there are still huge inequalities between the genders in Japan, in terms of pay, promotion prospects and other issues.

There's a huge inequality in the number of people worked to death, too.…

Posted in More women in business community turn to networking at 06:24 AM JST - 30th October
ThonTaddeo at 10:17 PM JST - 21st October

Where is the other parent?

Desperately trying to find his beloved children who've been abducted from him for the mother-only subsidy, presumably.

Well, OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but one of the 'left-behind' fathers in the news these days has claimed that when his wife died,…

Posted in Subsidies to single-parent families on welfare may be revived at 10:17 PM JST - 21st October
ThonTaddeo at 06:51 PM JST - 18th October

Make is backwards compatible!

There's no excuse for them not to do this. Even the old 40 GB PS3 had software-based backwards compatibility.

Hopefully they'll allow it again when the PS2 goes out of production. The're still making money selling those at $99 (Y14800 here!) and are banking on…

Posted in Sony to launch PlayStation with bigger hard drive at 06:51 PM JST - 18th October
ThonTaddeo at 01:26 AM JST - 16th October

I side with Noriko and her children on this one.

Aerocaster, what's with the sneaky wording? They're not "her" children; they're "their" children. What's more, the children are not necessarily on the same "side".

Maybe they should be in Japan (I think they probably should, too), but what "should"…

Posted in American man accused of grabbing own kids released at 01:26 AM JST - 16th October
ThonTaddeo at 12:44 AM JST - 16th October

Cleo, I see that you got your correction in as I was posting; ignore my first paragraph if you like!

Posted in American man accused of grabbing own kids released at 12:44 AM JST - 16th October
ThonTaddeo at 12:19 AM JST - 16th October

Cleo, I had thought that as well, but there's a post on Debito.org suggesting that Isaac, the first child, may have been born in the US.

http://www.debito.org/?p=4751

Noriko is also "having her cake and eating it"; she went to the US for the divorce and received massive amounts of money…

Posted in American man accused of grabbing own kids released at 12:19 AM JST - 16th October