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OssanAmerica How YOUR country Australia has handled the end of whaling is irrelevant. Australia never had…
Posted in: Confrontation
They sure go tough on the gaijins with double standards... If RD was Japanese and committed…
Posted in: Hey Jude
So - pretty much what it is saying is that - like the rest of the…
Posted in: From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
JeffLee - It wasn't the kotatsu that started the fire, it was the kids' playing with…
Why the sudden change in attitude? Conscience? Haruki Madarame, or Detarame as he is nicknamed by…
Posted in: Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Yelnats
They used younger and older because both sisters have the same family name and first name according to what I read in the paper.
Posted in: Younger twin stabs older sister after argument
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Yelnats
I like 63 and 25
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Yelnats
Altria, there are programs for pumping videos. YT tries to stop people from pumping past 550 viewings I believe, but forget. However, there are programs out there that do it. Look up SMOSH on You TUbe or on Live Video and you will see some very unfunny people with millions of viewings. It is all fake.
Posted in: Auschwitz memorial launches Facebook page
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Yelnats
BlackOut
I read it on a PC support page, because I was interested in reading about the new system. It was a PC support specialist trying to help those with XP upgrade to 7 The guy wrote nothing about Macs at all.
Posted in: Windows 7 strong, but don't pay to upgrade
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Yelnats
Cracked me up.
He could have gone to a love hotel and rented one. Actually you can rent all sorts of uniforms cheaply at love hotels. I have, and the lady looked great in them.
Posted in: Agriculture ministry employee with uniform fetish caught making harassing phone calls
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Yelnats
Sounds ridiculous.
Posted in: The Manga Cookbook
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Yelnats
There is something under this article that is not kosher. She is having some sort of other battle and some higher up dude that might have been snuffed by her decided to let the photo distortions get published knowing it would cause an out cry. Corporation and male bullying in my opinion. She should start her own modeling company if she was savvy enough to have invested well with her OWN company or parents helping.
Posted in: Model in altered Ralph Lauren ad for Japan speaks out
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Yelnats
Japan needs to stop taxing consumer goods such as food. Junk food ok, but real food should not be taxed at all. I am appalled by this when i go to a store to buy. At least they made a law a number of years back to post the price of goods with the tax included,,,,but food and necessary items should not be taxed.
Posted in: Central bank keeps interest rate unchanged
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Yelnats
Folks, you are all wrong about USA citizenship. Unless you formally renounce your USA citizenship at an American embassy AND the renunciation is accepted, you are still an American citizen. America's policy on dual-citizenship has changed substantially since the 70s and it is now very difficult to lose your citizenship, even if you naturalize in another country and even if that country does not recognize dual citizenship and requires some other form of renunciation.
Hence, Savoie is still an American citizen, whether or not he still has a passport in his possession.
The above is all due to the IRS. They try to make it impossible for anyone to lose their American citizenship so they can be charged with tax evasion or other matters related to laundering money. It all has to do with money and since IRS people are not rich, their bitterness sends them on the hunt. I am going to apply to be a JP citizen next month.
Posted in: American man accused of grabbing own kids released
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Yelnats
I know spudman. exactly. people holding both just have to make sure they update them before they expire.
Posted in: American man accused of grabbing own kids released
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Yelnats
According to Wikipedia, "Japanese nationality law", Article 5 of the Nationality Act states that an applicant for Japanese citizenship must be "stateless or willing to renounce foreign citizenship." JT's own article states that the man is a naturalized Japanese citizen.
Wiki is wrong.Willing might be the term used but it is not enforced nor is there a law to support it. I know lots of people holding both passports as both countries do not question the coming and going of its citizens. Too much of a hassle.
Posted in: American man accused of grabbing own kids released
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Yelnats
So, then dual nationality is ok now? Meaning I can get my JP Passport and not have to worry about suddenly laying out 20% off the top to the IRS on my US investments? IRS will still hound you no matter even if you tear up the passport and mail it back.
Posted in: American man accused of grabbing own kids released
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Yelnats
LoveUSA at 05:42 PM JST - 15th October
I wonder if the sardines are female or male.
They are chasing each other like junior high kids in the hallway between classes, and the Principal is the shark trying to nail all that break the rules.
Posted in: Sardines
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Yelnats
Hakujinseisensei knows his stuff!
Now isn't that a waste of time. I never have to do that when upgrading on a Mac....and I heard that the upgrade to 7 from XP is a huge painful experience and most lose badly. Back up your entire ..things you need! Because the upgrade is going to clean you out.
Mac cross language platform is fantastic. I use it with multiple at home and especially on the job. So nice to be able to use different languages at a click of a key.
Only hassle I find with my Macs and it is not a Mac problem, but a photoshop tutorial problem. I do not want to jump up to CS4. No need but so many tutorials are doing just that. They should not leave us behind.
Hope all you Windows people have fun trying to get your printers and drawing pads and scanners and cards and cameras working.
Fixing a Dell to run like a Mac, does cost the same as the initial purchase of a Mac, that already has what you need in it. Not that stupid IME language download and other silly things like...virus scan.
Posted in: Windows 7 strong, but don't pay to upgrade
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Yelnats
How do you slim the handles of forks and spoons. And drink trolleys are aluminum....make them thinner and they break down more. Porcelain? Where...certainly not in the plastic toilet compartments.
Next we will be hearing that they are forcing the hiring of petite, slim, not so tall sexy girls as stewardesses...hmmm sound ok to me. I vote on that.
Posted in: ANA asks passengers to go to toilet before boarding
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Yelnats
It ain't gonna get you anywhere China. Will you be the next group to enter Afghanistan to stop the source of this hate after the Americans get pushed out?
Posted in: China sentences 6 more to death for Xinjiang riots
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Yelnats
Good luck, make a great come back, and make a lot of money for your kids, and build a torture chamber for that animal that took away a third of your life.
Posted in: Kidnap victim emerging from obscurity after 18 years in captivity
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Yelnats
What about a poll of non gay or bi guys and gals that have gotten aids or do not use protection. At least most love hotels provide you with two free condoms...but it should be at least four if you get service time.
Posted in: HIV/AIDS continues steep increase in Japan
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Yelnats
If there are no kids around let them have fun, but she could have tripled her money easily, and then even sold him the underwear to put on Yahoo Japan.
There are more than enough HS and other girls showing their underwear on stairs and escalators here, and I am sure you can ask for permission and go some place private and shoot shoot shoot. Maybe you can even rent an escalator for after hours shooting. Gods Speed. and good luck. Silly country but I love it.
Posted in: Taxi driver, woman arrested for making up-skirt videos in Osaka park
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Yelnats
Thanks Fox!
Posted in: Microsoft patches 34 security holes, many critical