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  badsey3May. 21, 2013 - 01:10AM JST

  An investigation of the Justice Department’s witness protection program uncovered glaring security problems that allowed terrorists who had been given new identities after cooperating with U.S. prosecutors to board commercial flights in the United States.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/terrorists-given-new-identities-allowed-to-board-commercial-flights-ig-report-finds/2013/05/16/89b709de-be52-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?tid

  No wonder why the TSA and DHS has not been able to find 1 terrorist yet. Where are all these terrorists? (does not include the ones the State Department openly puts on planes (1) )

  Posted in: Obama to go public with his counterterrorism strategy

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  badsey3May. 19, 2013 - 11:56PM JST

  But the pair deemed the food unsatisfactory and failed to settlle the £16.91 bill. Nozawa later cornered the suspects at a nearby lapdancing club and their argument escalated into a full-blown brawl and the chef was beaten unconscious. German newspaper Bild reported that Nozawa sustained ‘big purple bruises’ on the left side of his body.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lud3kmIDmDo (German)

  Fight happened later at a "table dance" club --> shown in video.

  Posted in: German resort island shaken over Japanese chef's murder

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  badsey3May. 19, 2013 - 11:41PM JST

  I really like the Nissan Leaf (all electric) and especially the NV200 (e-NV200 all electric). Very forward thinking and alot of nay-sayers were against these vehicles. => It is really hard to change the way people think and going all electric is a challenge for most. But Nissan is determined to stick with it.

  When the Toyota Prius (hybrid) came out I had my doubts also. The Toyota Yaris (all-gas) was similar and about 1/2 the price of the Prius. Now the Prius has quite a few models and you see many aftermarket add-on to get fuel economy way up there and even go all electric. Sort of like the Apple iPhone/iPad people have run with the concept and the product has become way more interesting and flexible to people's needs.

  Your name is everything and internet feedback and energy is important.

  Bridgestone had the big Ford Explorer recall issue about 10yrs ago. Tires blowing out on the flexy independent rear suspension or just people not putting air in tires. Not sure if it was even a tire or car design issue, but you could get nice tires for free back then.

  Posted in: Companies Japanese people are most proud of

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  badsey3May. 19, 2013 - 11:15PM JST

  The final and most ambitious phase envisages breaking the monopolies into separate generation and transmission companies by 2020 and** abolishing all price controls.**

  While the ultimate aim is to reduce electricity prices for Japanese business and voters, one of those who helped draft the scheme questions whether the reforms will drive down costs.

  “Consumers in Europe and in the U.S. often found there was a rise in electricity bills after power sector deregulation,” said Hiroshi Takahashi, a research fellow at Fujitsu Research Institute and a member of panel that advised on the reforms.

  When you do not have healthy competition the prices are usually higher. If anything the Gov should own a central grid and power companies should sell power into it. Wind, solar, biodigesters etc should be used in the countryside where people are far away from the grid (electricity costs higher). It makes no sense to abolish all price controls since electricity is a needed by most commodity ==> need some control there.

  If possible, people should lower their electricity costs as much as they can and try to get off the grid and away from this monopoly.

  Posted in: Gov't takes aim at electricity monopolies

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  badsey3May. 19, 2013 - 03:59AM JST

  Virtuoso, its not humor. Assad does have the support of about half the country.

  I would say Assad has 95->99% support of the populace in Syria now. ==> Pretty much a unified country.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9IRn5b0aik (Syrian Rebel eating the heart of the opposition)

  Even the most hardened of Libs (Like SuperLib) should have difficulty supporting these Rebels (paid assassins). I hope this does not turn into a walled-in Bosnia type of situation (walled-in civil war) and hopefully the people of Syria can fight off these criminals and Israeli air attacks.

  Posted in: Obama, Turkish PM demand Syria's Assad step down

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 11:44PM JST

  Kids will do the weirdest things, but even I am careful and attentive (that last step off) around escalators and you always see stories of people young and old losing their shoe or worse around these things. Maybe those ski-lifts are almost as worse.

  Posted in: 5-year-old boy's hand gets caught in shopping mall escalator

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 11:34PM JST

  Most likely amateurs at this => cans not crushed etc. Those carts are iffy at best and a shopping cart (or plastic dump cart) would be more practical. Aluminum is low at .817 a pound - so they are looking at about 1/3-1/2 of that.

  Took apart an old Yamaha DT-1 once and scored over $100 at the recycling center. They guy running it was a newbie and some of the aluminum had steel with it (you get usually 1/3 less for that). Aluminum at that time was very high and i was paid ~$1.25 a pound. Had some other aluminum scraps and engine part throw aways also, but it was a real score for a bunch of kids => more like $200 now.

  With Abenomics and the prices going up I am sure other people will look to recycling for that little extra money.

  Posted in: Small businessmen

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 11:07PM JST

  22 million times 6 bytes = only 132 million bytess.

  More than that by at least 2-3, plus all the coding/formatting around the characters.

  http://lfw.org/text/jp.html#sjis http://charset.7jp.net/jis0208.html

  each 0-F is 4 bits "a nibble", 2 nibbles to a byte "8 bits" 0000 = 0 1111 = F 1110 = E 0001 = 1

  16 characters in Hexadecimal 0-F

  Posted in: Yahoo! Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 10:48PM JST

  I would get those 3 an apartment that all 3 would live together in. It would be up to them to make it be successful. I would strategically have the apartment a few miles from their house to make it just enough of an inconvenience for the 3 to walk there and not be close to a bus route (no cheating).

  Posted in: Parents advised to give the boot to their sponging adult kids

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 11:29AM JST

  The Internal Revenue Service acknowledged last week that in 2010 employees subjected conservative groups, including those with “Tea Party” and “Patriots” in their names, to increased scrutiny when they applied for non-profit status.

  http://static.infowars.com/2013/05/i/general/IRSform.pdf

  Posted in: Outgoing IRS chief insists abuses were not political

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 10:18AM JST

  lots of misinformation here:

  Bitcoins were launched in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis by an anonymous programmer

  satoshi nakamoto (some say it is Max Keiser)

  The warrant said the account based on the electronic payments platform Dwolla and held at Veridian Credit Union “was used to move money” as “part of an unlicensed money service” in violation of U.S. law.

  BitCoin has nothing to do with "money" aka private Federal Reserve Debt Notes. The transaction is a BitCoin to Bitcoin transaction.

  Posted in: U.S. seizes Bitcoin operator accounts

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 07:13AM JST

  But their physical conditions declined, and they increasingly found it difficult to get along with co-workers.

  You really need to eat healthy and take care of yourselves. Without your health life is difficult. Historically the mother is the nutritionist in the family. The whole family should go to an organic doctor and see what is wrong and start planning some family meals. Whatever it is I am sure it can be worked out.

  Posted in: Parents advised to give the boot to their sponging adult kids

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  badsey3May. 18, 2013 - 04:06AM JST

  Obama and many others should step down. I have no idea why people are supporting these wars and overthrows (Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan/Pakistan drone killings etc). In the meantime the financial chaos goes on and there is no responsibility.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5XidBPobCo (Eric Holder (attorney general) ==> "I don't know")

  Posted in: Obama, Turkish PM demand Syria's Assad step down

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  badsey3May. 15, 2013 - 01:20AM JST

  "Taxi of Tomorrow"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mWrILw-w4

  Posted in: Nissan starts field testing 100% electric compact van

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  badsey3May. 14, 2013 - 10:05AM JST

  You should stay away from this stuff. Does not look healthy at all. There are plenty of natural herbs and mushrooms in Japan that are far better and safer than this "synthetic" who knows what it could be? stuff.

  Posted in: Japan gets tough on law-evading hallucinogenic herbs

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  badsey3May. 13, 2013 - 12:47AM JST

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNYll9G2Yw (58:24) Tokyo

  Posted in: Graffiti - art or vandalism?

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  badsey3May. 12, 2013 - 11:11PM JST

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqFtEtpy9G8 American CrossRoads (Carl Rove) hit piece.

  The two ex-Navy Seal optionally went to help rescue the Ambassador and held off gallantly until they themselves were killed. With at least one call pleading for reinforcements and their lives!

  For 5 hours+ they waited and American help was one hour away with British help in Libya closer.

  Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R) directly blamed President Obama for ordering the stand down which facilitated the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

  Wagner was asked by talk show host Dana Loesch, “Because you have been an ambassador, you have been overseas with similar responsibilities and similar missions - who gives such an order to stand down? Where does that come from?”

  “The President of the United States,” responded Wagner.

  The White House has been scrambling to avoid the question of who gave the stand down order ever since whistleblower Greg Hicks, who was number two to Ambassador Chris Stevens, testified that U.S. special forces were ready to board a plane in Tripoli but were prevented from coming to the aid of those under assault inside the consulate.

  Hicks revealed that after Stevens had been killed but while the attack was still ongoing, “The Libyan military agreed to fly their C-130 to Benghazi and carry additional personnel to Benghazi as reinforcements,” including U.S. Special Forces, but that a call came through from Special Operations Command Africa saying, “you can’t go now; you don’t have authority to go now.”

  http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/05/09/the-damning-dozen-twelve-revelations-from-the-benghazi-hearings-n1591336

  Posted in: New info on Benghazi attack fuels Republican case

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  badsey3May. 12, 2013 - 10:43PM JST

  When you have a corrupt Gov the rich will pay little to no taxes and the poor will pay every tax. It is the Americans own fault that they let the openly fraudulent IRS operate (to pay for WWI and should have ended after that) in the first place. -A good reason to just have a flat tax on income ==> you would be looking at 8-12% for everyone. Some think that will not work but many states do not have state income tax or a state sales tax and seem to work just fine.

  Before the IRS and Federal Taxes the US Fed Gov got their money from tariffs (tax on imports). If Japan accepts globalism and allows little to no tariffs then I would assume the same type of tax corruption will also occur in Japan with a Gov even more corrupt and out of control.

  Posted in: Business, taxes and responsibility

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  badsey3May. 12, 2013 - 09:09AM JST

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOiB3xEkzM

  Banksy (the stenciler) vs Robbo.

  Posted in: Graffiti - art or vandalism?

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  badsey3May. 12, 2013 - 06:30AM JST

  Appending this remark, I believe there should be a process/protocol whereby ordinary citizens can file an affidavit expressing "no confidence" of members of a community towards individuals whom they have reasonable doubts about with regards to keeping guns on their property. The process would be very much like seeing a restraining order against someone. There would then be some requirement on the individual to demonstrate -- with supporting witnesses -- why they should not be considered a risk.

  The US Government has already been targeting ex-military and ex-law enforcement and has been very effective in stealing these Americans 2nd amendment rights.

  50-year-old David A Schmecker is an honorably discharged disabled US Navy veteran from Connecticut with no criminal record and no psychiatric history. On February 5, Schmecker’s hospital primary care doctor called and heard a message on Schmecker’s answer machine that “sounded peculiar,” prompting him to contact the local police and urge them to visit Schmecker to perform a “wellness check”. “The police came to my home, and, without any justification whatsoever, hauled me away for a psychiatric evaluation at a local hospital. I submitted to their forceful insistence under duress and fear of arrest or worse. I wasn’t arrested, no crime was committed nor any threats were made to myself or others,” Schmecker told Survive and Thrive’s George Hemminger (G4T). “They confiscated my guns and pistol permit. I was released two days later from the evaluation on my on recognizance. I have since attempted to use the courts and attorneys to fight the revocation of my pistol permit. Then on top of everything else, the bills from the short stay at the hospital and EMS bills that they billed me, along with what I had to pay the attorney adds up to a large amount of money,” he adds. Schmecker warns that the harassment he suffered is part of “a campaign orchestrated to disarm law abiding citizens,” adding that he is “concerned about where this country is headed.” As with all contemporary authoritarian governments, the psychiatric system is being used to circumvent courts and bypass normal legal due process.

  Posted in: NRA kicks off annual convention, saying it is fighting 'culture war'