Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

WilliB's past comments

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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 09:34PM JST

tmarie:

" Glad you;re not deciding who is guilty and who is innocent based on your stereotypes. You could bet - you could be wrong, you could be right but why the need to even bet? "

You only bet on things where the odds are in your favour, i.e. those that are likely. And from my pov, it is extremely likely that this was a woman. Of course I am not certain; nobody is. Theoretically, it could have been an alien from Outer Nebula.

Meanwhile, I am still waiting for your statistics about males doing this sort of mutilation. I assume I should not hold my breath...

Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 07:56PM JST

tmarie:

" Might want to look at stats for murder rates... "

I thought you would say that. But this is not just a random "murder". This is a very specific type of mutilation, and while I have not statistics in front of me, I would bet that for this particular type of crime the perp is typically female, and typically a scorned one.

Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 05:23PM JST

tmarie:

" Why not? Statistics play in favor that isn't wasn't. "

Do they? Are there even statistics of cuffing off male genitalia? Can you point us to some?

Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 04:05PM JST

Alphaabe:

" I have seen that movie and it does indeed sound like the same situation. "

Um... no. In that case, one important piece would be missing and being carried around by the perp. But they found all the parts under the bed.

Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 03:08PM JST

If I was a betting man, I´d put my money on "cheating on Chinese girlfriend".

Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 10:39AM JST

Scared penguins!

Posted in: Strong quakes rattle remote Antarctica
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WilliBJan. 16, 2012 - 09:38AM JST

And here I thought airplane seats are made of non-burnable material. Appears not, sigh...

Posted in: Sydney-bound JAL flight turns back after seat fire
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WilliBJan. 15, 2012 - 10:01PM JST

Edojn,

so you are trapped underground in locked crowded steel box that is shaking wildly, and you know it is a massive earthquake, and you know somewhere above your head is a river, and you feel like cracking jokes about it? I admire your nerves. I would have had to change my pants...

Posted in: Raising your chances of surviving the next big one
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WilliBJan. 15, 2012 - 09:59PM JST

The thought about being trapped in a cabin in slowly sinking ship is just creepy. I hope they find them.

Posted in: 3 dead, dozens missing; captain arrested after Italian cruise disaster
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 02:19PM JST

JapanGal:

" However, it appears that Europe will break up faster than China will eventually. "

Not Europe, the Euro. Not the same thing. A EU makes sense, as long as it is a community of free nation states (the model that the British always suggested). The EU as a European empire ruled by an unelected elite from Brussels (the French model) is what brought us this disaster, and this has to end.

Posted in: Euro crisis deepens as France, Spain, Italy, 6 other nations downgraded
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 02:17PM JST

kwatt:

" Euro common currency system seems to be at a big failure. "

Not "seem", it IS. All the current problems were predicted by the Euro sceptics already before the scheme started. No better proof of who is right than reality.

The Euro was a political scheme from the start, and it is high time the politicians admitted defeat and gave up. Returning fiscal souvereignity to countries by returning to national currencies will of course of be painful in the short term, but it is the ONLY solution.

Posted in: Euro crisis deepens as France, Spain, Italy, 6 other nations downgraded
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 02:12PM JST

ElbudoMexicano:

" Aum, or now Aleph is more than a religion, better call it a CULT and it is a very DANGEROUS cult, "

You will find it hard to explain your imagined difference between a "cult" and a "religion". If (lets hope it never happens) Aleph ever reaches a billion members, we would all be calling it a "religion", although nothing changed except the size.

Posted in: Woman arrested for harboring cultist had 8 million yen in her possession
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 01:29AM JST

"Easing Euro worries"?? Is it April 1st yet?

Posted in: Tokyo stocks close 1.36% higher on easing euro worries
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 01:28AM JST

I am waiting for the full-body virtual reality suits. Then I am going to buy stocks in the company that makes them.

Posted in: CES gadget fair 'geeks' get peek at sex tech
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 01:24AM JST

Tom DeMicke:

" What about the Camel brand of cigarettes? I'm surprised Muslim countries didn't raise a stink over that since many Muslim countries use Camels like we in the west use horses. "

No. That is only the Arab countries. In most muslim countries you won´t find camels. You do find Camels in Australia though, so you might pass your idea to the Australian government.

Posted in: Australia fumes over smoking kangaroos
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 01:22AM JST

The Australian government is making a fool of itself.

Posted in: Australia fumes over smoking kangaroos
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WilliBJan. 14, 2012 - 01:19AM JST

nandakamanda:

" A small knife and a 10 yen coin? "

A 10 cm fruit knife is not to be laughed at. It is not Crocodile Dundee, but you don´t want to be poked or slashed with it. And you can safely assume that he did not take with him to peel fruit.

Posted in: Police capture Chinese inmate who escaped from Hiroshima prison
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WilliBJan. 13, 2012 - 05:59PM JST

sfjp330:

" I respect Ali for his stance on Vietnam war. Ali brought awareness to the problems of Vietnam war. He was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs "

That was the biggest crock of all. His adopted religion has no objection to war, to the contrary, it has actually holy war as a central concept.

A pacifist argument religious argument could conceivably made by a convert to Jainism or Buddhism, but not by Mohammed Ali. It is a testimony to ignorance that he got away with that.

Posted in: Ali at 70: Legacy endures for new generation
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WilliBJan. 13, 2012 - 01:55AM JST

shanabelle:

" Nothin' unusual about stuffing this much in my bra.... "

That would have be one heck of a bra!

Posted in: Ozawa: Nothing unusual about keeping Y400 mil in cash at home
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WilliBJan. 13, 2012 - 01:21AM JST

MomoNekko:

" What a pedophile. =_= He should just be fired. Flat out. "

Oh come one. Yes, he is a creep and should be fire (as should be a large part of the J-police force apparently), but grabbing the behind of a 16-year old miniskirted high schooler does not make him a "pedophile".

That term describes something much more vile that this. Why do people always mis-use the word.

Posted in: 20-year-old cop arrested for allegedly molesting girl in Yokohama