JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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buddha4brains
I wonder if his over-reaction is latent guilt. Perhaps he doth protest a bit too much.
Posted in: 18 people to be prosecuted over insulting messages on comedian's blog
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buddha4brains
... and the joker's name is?
Posted in: 18 people to be prosecuted over insulting messages on comedian's blog
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buddha4brains
Microsoft streamlines Windows 7 options by encouraging users to switch to Macs and Linux.
Posted in: Microsoft streamlines Windows 7 options
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buddha4brains
Was not that big of a story anywhere. The first I heard about it is this JT story talking about the Chinese not reporting it, but no one else is getting too excited by it either.
"Man bites dog" is a story. "Another man bites dog" is starting to get old.
Posted in: What shoe? Chinese media silent on shoe toss
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buddha4brains
Wow, 100s of thousands dead, millions in refuge in other countries, infrastructure blown to bits, economy sunk, society fractured ... basically Iraq is at or near rock bottom. This election is hardly a feather in Bush's cap, there really are not that many options left. Eventually wars end.
Also, what American leader would not want democracy in Iraq now that the country has been destroyed? Bush got away with a war based on lies. He and his supporters should be happy with that and give up on legacy talk.
Posted in: Iraqi elections avoid violence but complaints loom
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buddha4brains
Now you are saying that there is no universal standard even though you claimed that most parents do not exercise good childrearing.
Huh? You just said that "good childrearing" wasn't a technical term that could be used in any meaningful way and now you are using it to help define abuse. Anyway, your statement is nonsense. Children do not grow up in a moral vacuum. If there is no abuse, then by most definitions of childrearing that would be a good living environment.
Of course, what constitutes abuse is also vague. Like good childrearing, it is easy to identify out in the extremes but much more difficult in around the middle. Is corporal punishment always wrong? Is a spank on the bottom different than a smack on the head? Are indulgent parents practising good childrearing? Does that answer change when that child becomes spoilt adult?
Again with the Mormons the authorities did not know the scope of the potential problems they were facing. After investigation the children were reunited with their families. How would have you proceeded given the unknowns they had and the scale of potential abuse involving so many people?
Posted in: Dad who named kids after Nazis decries removal
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buddha4brains
Did not hear you complain about Bush appointing political allies to positions they were not qualified for. I am not particularly impressed with Geithner and I hope the tax thing was just an oversight, but he is qualified for the position. So there is a better chance that this Obama appointee will fulfill his duties to the people of America better than any 10 of Bush's appointees.
Posted in: Obama prepares new economic rescue plan
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buddha4brains
First likeitis says that he doesn't know what good childrearing is but thinks most parents do not "exercise it". Then he proceeds to give a list of abusive behaviours that, I would imagine, constitute poor childrearing. But how would he know what is bad if he claims he does not know what is good? And how can he judge others whose responsibility (rightly or wrongly) is to make those decisions?
In the Mormon case what would likeitis recommend? Wait for the bruises, welts, broken bones etc. before acting on a tip? And how would anyone know the tip was bogus if they do not investigate? Does he support polygamy and under age brides?
For someone who claims not to know, he certainly is willing to spread his ignorance on issues he does not understand.
Posted in: Dad who named kids after Nazis decries removal
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buddha4brains
Reminds me of that Johnny Cash song "Boy Named Sue".
Posted in: Dad who named kids after Nazis decries removal
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buddha4brains
And so who builds the roads, bridges, dams, buildings, power stations ... ?
Posted in: America's abortion debate reaches into African slums
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buddha4brains
They can call it what they want if it avoids the butchering of women in backroom abortions. Personally I do not like the idea of abortions but since I am a believer in democracy and freedom I have to accept that people will make decisions I do not agree with. Ultimately, it is the woman's right to decide.
Sensei258 What a sexist and immature thing to say. Would be referring to your mother when you say that?
Posted in: America's abortion debate reaches into African slums
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buddha4brains
This looks like a case of parents being reckless (with the names) and pretty much calling for intervention. I do not agree in principle with the state taking kids away from parents - and certainly not in this case if the kids names are at issue - but some parent do the equivalent of putting a "Kick me" sign on their family by naming their kid after A.N., Hitler and Himmler. Most people do not want to be victims, this family makes it a career.
Posted in: Dad who named kids after Nazis decries removal
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buddha4brains
Bruce sings about ideals because that is what he can sell. It is a bit precious of him to do this faux mea culpa when all it is designed to do is to increase sales.
Posted in: Springsteen calls Wal-Mart deal a mistake
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buddha4brains
No one said Palin cannot be a mom, it was the idea of her being the VP that turned people's stomachs. She and McCain lost, get over it.
Posted in: Make that 14: Octuplet mom already had 6 kids
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buddha4brains
Do you want a hanky? Anyway, who is going to pay for the military that backstops American capitalism if corporate America does not pay? After all they benefit the most.
Posted in: Obama calls executive bonuses 'shameful'
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buddha4brains
Apparently shameful is not part of Bush's moral calculus which may explain why there were no instructions on how this money was to be spent.
Posted in: Obama calls executive bonuses 'shameful'
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buddha4brains
WOW a $275 B tax cut and the GOP are unhappy? I can understand differences over this item or that, but a wholesale rejection? I guess the GOP think that infrastructure is built by elves while they sleep.
Posted in: House approves Obama's $819 bil stimulus package
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buddha4brains
I guess the JSA feel that the number of sumo fans haven't dwindled low enough yet.
Posted in: Asashoryu in trouble again for pumping his fist after victory
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buddha4brains
Yeah, look at the compassionate conservatives who just say "Kill the bastards, they're all terrorists anyway." No guilt, just blue skies all the way.
Posted in: U.S. pays $40,000 to relatives of Afghan civilians killed in raid
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buddha4brains
Nice boss to fire two wage earners from the same family knowing they had 5 kids to support. And then to suggest the guy to shoot himself.
Posted in: LA man, upset over being fired, kills wife, 5 kids, himself