TravelingSales said...

TravelingSales at 10:03 AM JST - 15th October

Usually they want the money they get from doing it. Which is fine. I don't particularly want to go to work every day, but I enjoy the paycheck.

If they're being coerced, that is illegal whether they're coerced into prostitution or coerced into window washing. It's the coercion, not the…

Posted in Let’s talk about you-know-what at 10:03 AM JST - 15th October
TravelingSales at 09:42 AM JST - 15th October

If a consenting adult wants to sell him/herself and another adult wants to buy and the transaction is consummated in private, it's nobody else's business.

Posted in Let’s talk about you-know-what at 09:42 AM JST - 15th October
TravelingSales at 09:40 AM JST - 15th October

Finally the government comes up with a sensible policy and then it folds after about 15 minutes.

Why is the government involved in this anyhow? Let the airports auction the gate slots and let the airlines fly wherever they want.

Posted in Maehara backtracks on Haneda, Narita roles at 09:40 AM JST - 15th October
TravelingSales at 04:04 PM JST - 9th October

A good indicator of the link between smoking and criminalityis the fact that:

Nationwide, the proportion of smokers in prisons is 90 percent.

As cited in a Ninth Circuit Federal Appeals Court case http://openjurist.org/924/f2d/1500/mckinney-v-anderson

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 04:04 PM JST - 9th October
TravelingSales at 03:52 PM JST - 9th October

Ramzel said: "Smokers do not smoke so that they can annoy others or give them cancer. That is absurd."

I agree. They smoke because they do not care if they annoy others or give them cancer. It is a case of reckless disregard rather than malicious intent.

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 03:52 PM JST - 9th October
TravelingSales at 02:51 PM JST - 9th October

Ramzel said: In all of history there has never been a violent non-smoker. It is a known fact."

I think that this may not be precisely correct.

However, there is no doubt that a willingness to smoke in public places demonstrates a propensity to disregard the health and safety of…

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 02:51 PM JST - 9th October
TravelingSales at 02:25 PM JST - 9th October

Typical smoker. Once you're reckless about other people's health in your day-to-day habits, direct harm is a small step away. As can be seen from the high proportion of domestic abusers and other violent criminals who smoke.

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 02:25 PM JST - 9th October
TravelingSales at 04:31 PM JST - 5th October

Of course every country has a right to tell any other country which weapons they think that country should or should not possess. In fact, if their leaders feel that the weapons would be a severe threat to national security, they have a duty to do so.

The real questions…

Posted in Should some countries have the right to tell other countries whether they can or cannot have nuclear weapons? at 04:31 PM JST - 5th October
TravelingSales at 04:37 PM JST - 11th September

More flights from Haneda is definitely a good thing.

It would be better to drop the outdated domestic/international thing and use Haneda for business/premium flights and Narita as a low cost/charter terminal.

Posted in ANA's int'l flight passengers up in August at 04:37 PM JST - 11th September
TravelingSales at 02:11 PM JST - 8th September

does it have airconditioning?

Posted in Old Yamanote Line train replica marks line's centennial at 02:11 PM JST - 8th September