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ThonTaddeo
Well said, Jean.
Posted in: As Japan shutdowns drag on, auto crisis worsens
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ThonTaddeo
Simple solution that drivers won't ilke: ban automobile traffic during the blackouts.
Or, more realistically, lower the speed limit to the 30 kph used by 50cc motorbikes. A speed less than that should be reasonable enough for many collisions to be avoided.
Posted in: Traffic accidents on the rise due to rolling blackouts
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ThonTaddeo
Agreed entirely. Nuclear power is a lot safer and more sustainable than oil. I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that the US gets 20% of its power from nuclear. Hopefully in the future that number will go higher.
Posted in: Obama defends nuclear power amid Japan crisis
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ThonTaddeo
Don't let this freak even stand in the way of nuclear power, which is generally clean, safe, and efficient. Europe has no earthquakes!
Posted in: European countries rethink plans for nuclear reactors
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ThonTaddeo
If the cabbie can accuse Daniel of a crime be use he didn't pay the overcharge, can he accuse the cabbie of "kidnapping" in that he took him through an unasked-for location, and for longer than the normal rode would have warranted?
My experience as a cab rider has been fine, but I sure do hate sharing the streets with them as a pedestrian or cyclist. Hey cabbies, a red light means "stop", not "you have two more seconds to get through; feel free to disregard any people in your path". OK?
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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ThonTaddeo
At fast food places, more often than not it's the girls at the cash registers while the guys are in the hit, sweaty kitchens in the back. I hope the guys are getting paid more!
I'm starting to appreciate Japan's traditional culture of full employment, even if it means paying a premium so that those now-disappearing superfluous elevator and gas station attendants can have jobs. (Noriyosan, this creates high prices, but not inflation; subtle difference.) That system means that almost no one has to suffer the indignity of having no job -- getting paid a pittance to do light work is better than not having any work! I'd even support abolishing the minimum wage if it meant getting these people jobs.
Posted in: Japan's jobless rate stays at 4.9% in January
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ThonTaddeo
Such a service is very helpful if you go there in person and discover that you want to buy more stuff than you could carry home with you.
As great as Costco's selection and prices are, I'm disappointed to see US-style car-centered shopping getting bigger in Japan. If they offer free parking for drivers, the least they could do is offer free delivery for people without cars. (Or charge people to park just as you'd charge them for delivery. Delivery costs might even be cheaper -- you'd be amazed at the total costs of a parking space.)
Posted in: Costco reshapes wholesale industry
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ThonTaddeo
Monkeyz, I'm right there with you. I can't understand the near-abusive level of sleep deprivation that some people put themselves through.
I'm lucky to have an odd-hour job that lets me sleep during the mornings, and I always get eight hours unless I choose to do otherwise.
As a company employee I had to endure it; a typical working day was 8 AM to 10 PM, plus an hour-long commute each way, plus time to cook and bathe. Not enough time to sleep if all hobbies and personal time was eliminated.
They'd go further -- once we were at the office until 10 PM on a Friday night preparing for an event on Saturday morning. We had to be at the event at 7 AM, meaning that I had to be awake at 6 at the latest. So on Friday morning I set out all my clothes for Saturday and everything I'm going to need, so that I can sleep until the last possible minute, then jump into action. (Even then, I won't have enough sleep!)
And what do you think happens?
A co-worker takes it upon himself to call everyone and wake them up at ten minutes to five in the morning, before the event. "Just to make sure you're up and ready," he says.
And when the actual event finally finishes, everyone's nodding and bowing and thanking him for his diligence. I wanted to punch him in the face!
Now what I can't reconcile at all with this culture is that yawning is some kind of sin. There are two things that make you yawn: not enough sleep, and too much heat. Anyone working in a Japanese ofice is going to be enduring both of those, yet if you yawn, people get angry, citing boredom as the only possible reason to yawn. Hello? I can't gen enough sleep! (I mentioned this to a co-worker once, and his "solution" was: sleep on the train!)
Posted in: Tokyo's catnap culture
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ThonTaddeo
This is a good start, but they need to cut ten times this much.
Posted in: Republicans promise $100 billion in spending cuts
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ThonTaddeo
That probably makes a majority of Japanese salaryman husbands victims of abuse.
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ThonTaddeo
Good going, House.
Now work on getting the rest of it to expire.
Posted in: House rejects extensions of Patriot Act provisions in U.S.
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ThonTaddeo
The tone of the article is ridiculous, but the product looks like it could really be useful. There are many speedometer, distance-tracking, and location-tracking applications for the iPhone.
I think the myriad of regulations regarding what you can hold or look at while driving or cycling can be distilled to one basic one: in any collision, whoever is looking at a mobile phone is guilty. Doesn't matter if it's a one-ton automobile and a little child. If you're focusing on something other than your surroundings, you're at fault.
Posted in: Navigation system for bikes
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ThonTaddeo
Shame on most of you for supporting this.
Sex offenders have done bad things but the article also says that they want these monitors on "perpetrators of domestic violence" -- one of the easiest crimes to falsely accuse someone of. Large numbers of men are falsely accused of being "chikan" on the trains too.
And have we forgotten that the 99% conviction rate that virtually assures that there will be many people falsely convicted?
Woundedsamurai1 sees what's going on. Start with the criminals that it's least socially acceptable to defend in polite conversation, and move on from there to other criminals. Next thing you know there are National Police Agency-branded monitors on everyone. "First they came for the sex offenders..." How does the rest of that poem go?
Posted in: Miyagi's mandatory monitoring of sex offenders raises potential problems
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ThonTaddeo
Elementary school for me too, and I had read books like Cosmos and was really interested; a teacher came in the room and told us what had happened.
I think Feynman's second book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is the one that has the discussion of his role in the Challenger investigation. He died just a few yars after this accident, too; 1988.
Posted in: Challenger: 25 years later, a still painful wound
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ThonTaddeo
Sakurala and Colby, if you know this girl, please show her that you're on her side!
I wish I could help in some way; Hikone was my very first Japanese hometown about a decade ago. I can probably guess which supermarkets and libraries are being talked about.
The school needs to discipline these bullies and get the parents of the bullies involved and get them to understand that their precious children can't go running wild in the schools and making other people's lives hell. Female bullies can be amazingly good actors when called to account for their actions.
Posted in: 8 graffiti messages pleading for help against bullying found in Shiga
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ThonTaddeo
Same here. As someone whose vision can't handle 3D, I have no desire for this discriminatory technology. Keep it in the niche market where it belongs.
Posted in: 3D means headaches to many, yet companies push on
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ThonTaddeo
Ouch.
Posted in: More than 120 busted in northeast U.S. mafia crackdown
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ThonTaddeo
Just for the record, 35 was the age at which she thought life was over. So we'll see how she stands on that in seven years.
Posted in: Kumi Koda to release compilation album in March
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ThonTaddeo
Possibly, but the chart of men vs. women suicides -- the subject of this article -- is sadder still. And the article is silent on this very important imbalance.
Posted in: Suicide in Japan
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ThonTaddeo
If that Janos guy from Ghostbusters 2 is it it, I'm watching it. Oh, and Vigo (the Scoureg of Carpathis; remember him?) was pretty hilarious too.
Posted in: Ivan Reitman says 'Ghostbusters 3' script ready