JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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bobobolinski
"25 years of performing ..." er, more like 35, I think. Quote from A League of Their Own: Mae Mordabito: [During the league's publicity drive] What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops., my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right? Doris Murphy: You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?
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bobobolinski
I enjoyed the Freakonomics book and have listened to quite a few of the podcasts he and his colleagues make. One of my favorites was the research that showed how "experts" outside of the very narrow fields in which they are really expert do not have any better insight than an averagely informed person. Unfortunately, this means that Levitt, whose research area is not macroeconomics, has no more idea about the prospects for the global economy than you or I.
Posted in: Global crisis just a blip, says 'Freakonomics' author
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bobobolinski
It really is extraordinary how denialists leap on the smallest and most tangential issues to promote their cause. This episode of the program had nothing to do with climate change, didn't make any false claims, and had full and open details on its website (which is how the anti-BBC media picked up on it in the first case).
Posted in: BBC denies misleading 'Frozen Planet' viewers
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bobobolinski
If he's not eating anything growing in the area, it is at least as likely that his smoking will do for him. As Carcharodon says, there are quite a few people living inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Personally, I wouldn't want to take the risk, but then I don't smoke cigarettes either.
Posted in: Hermit of Fukushima says he's staying put despite risks
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bobobolinski
I saw them down in Daiba outside Fuji TV a few months back. They aren't protesting about the quality of television programs; these blokes are looking for trouble.
Posted in: Korean drama backlash
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bobobolinski
Was it Alexander Graham Bell who said that if someone invented a bigger phone then the world would beat a path to their door?
Posted in: Samsung targets 2 mil sales of new Galaxy device
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bobobolinski
Soylent Green
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bobobolinski
Best live band: The Clash Best band over a period of time: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Best contemporary band: dunno; ask the kids; Radiohead?
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bobobolinski
Interesting that the FBI seems to have wanted to have nothing to do with this case. Still, I suppose the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg need a bit of good publicity these days.
Posted in: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot
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bobobolinski
The police sprayed the students with pepper spray, then they arrested them. They could have just arrested them, neh?
Posted in: Calif college suspends police chief in pepper spray row
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bobobolinski
In the third paragraph of this report there is reference to "the chemical usually used for dispersing crowds". Really? How long has that been going on? I thought pepper spray was only used on violent individuals who were presenting a clear threat.
Posted in: Calif college suspends police chief in pepper spray row
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bobobolinski
I remember the days when people being questioned by the South African police had a habit of jumping out of high windows. I'm sure that isn't the case here, but the story brought the memory up.
Posted in: Sex assault twist in cricket writer Roebuck's suicide
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bobobolinski
But where would you go? The only possible point to sitting in a metal tube for ten to fourteen hours is to get to somewhere nice at the other end. You would have to be certifiable to spend that kind of money just to go up in a rocket and then come down again. It's a dft of course if like Gagarin, Glenn, Armstrong you can get your name in the history books.
Posted in: Commercial space travel only a matter of time
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bobobolinski
Noggin the Nog.
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bobobolinski
Sounds interesting. The links don't work.
Posted in: NASA, Japan release improved topographic map of Earth
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bobobolinski
@DS you are absolutely right there. Every dollar/euro that goes to supporting investment banks and financial institutions that completely ignored common sense comes out of the pockets of the rest of us. And every dollar/euro that goes into misguided and pointless military adventures comes from us. Time to put a stop to all of that, I would agree.
Posted in: Drowning in debt, EU hits moment of truth
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bobobolinski
Tuten-Alan sounds like a good bloke; it would be nice if they could make him a little pyramid to complete the job.
Posted in: UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years
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bobobolinski
As with many yes/no votes, the answer is a bit of both. Steve Jobs wasn't a technical innovator himself, but he definitely knew how to bring innovators together, develop products, and create a market for new technologies that did, to an extent, change the world. He had vision, and so did Edison. A lot of Edison's work similarly took ideas that several other people were working on, and put them out into the world. While Edison could lay claim to some innovations, a lot of his work was either slightly off track (DC, phonograph), or taken from others, eg. the lightbulb. What really marked both men out was their ability to take on major competitors in new fields and achieve near-total dominance, for a while at least.
Posted in: Can the achievements of Steve Jobs be compared to those of Thomas Edison?
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bobobolinski
@kurisupisu 7.40 pm Which site? The JTA? I'm looking at this right now and I cannot see it at all.
Posted in: Japan to offer 10,000 free trips to foreigners to boost tourism industry
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bobobolinski
Smith
I don't think there has been any new legislation enacted. Indeed, it isn't necessary as all appropriate laws are already on the statute book. Rather, Cameron (no stranger to youthful idiocy himself) has been telling magistrates and judges to use particularly harsh sentencing. As LucaBrasi said, all these excessive sentences will be reduced on appeal in a few months time; for example, I would think the two facebook morons will have an appeal, have their sentence reduced to 9 months, and be released as they have already served the tariff. Of course, it won't be front page news, and that is what this is about; it's theatrics. Rather than addressing the concerns of the police for more resources and manpower, or of community organizations who want more attention to alienated youth, the government, or the Tory wing of it, is just shouting about punishment and "zero tolerance" - whatever that means.
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