JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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buddha4brains
Ok, so how does a "fair" crucifixion work.
Posted in: Horie says legal system unfairly crucifies rich and famous
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buddha4brains
Wasn't that what they were playing these past 30 years?
Posted in: U.S., Iranian diplomats break the ice at Afghan conference
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buddha4brains
Wrongful death is legalese for identifying responsibility without the moral taint. Murder is what you call putting a bullet in the back of the heads of prisoners (in any language). It is also called an execution, which can be legal if rigourous protocols are followed - they weren't in this case.
It does not matter if we can understand the stress the soldier was under. He committed murder when he executed prisoners. You cannot put lipstick on it and call it wrongful death. It was wrong, period.
If we take your logic, then we would excuse all Iraqi combatants fighting coalition forces as being justified because the horrors of war drove them to do what they normally wouldn't do. While this may be true, it does not justify the wrongs they committed.
There is morality in war. That's why moral relativists like Cheney and Rumsfeld were (and are) not trusted by most people.
Posted in: U.S. sergeant jailed for murdering prisoners in Iraq
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buddha4brains
I can understand the rationalization he made, but killing prisoners - even enemy combatants - is a universal wrong. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen as it had in this case. The damnable shame is that the frontline soldiers are the ones who pay. The leadership (particularly Cheney & Rumsfeld) showed a moral relativism that gave a tacit OK to such executions as well as torture. The higher ups will not have to pay for their lack of moral "leadership".
Posted in: U.S. sergeant jailed for murdering prisoners in Iraq
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buddha4brains
Huh? I thought America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. But now you're saying that a nutter shooting 8 people is the fault of liberals? What about the NRA and the gun culture/paranoia it promotes? No? Only the liberals? Sure. As if non-liberals are the 2nd Coming. Get your head on straight.
Posted in: 7 residents, 1 nurse die in N Carolina nursing home shooting
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buddha4brains
hit, whack, smack ... all seem to point toward abuse. Spank, on the other hand, is not necessarily about administering pain, but about control. This is effective for children under five to imprint on children that certain behaviour is not tolerated (i.e. not a substitute for inattentive/lazy parenting in bamboohat's example), in most cases other forms of control should be used.
Posted in: What are your views on parents hitting their children as a means of discipline?
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buddha4brains
While the world economy craters the GOP focus on a prop. Reminds me of their last "absolute best fight" against Clinton: a blue dress. Yes smithinjapan it is very sad.
Posted in: Obama unveils agenda for first overseas trip
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buddha4brains
It never ceases to amaze me how easily some forget what started this mess and why there we are in Afghanistan in the first place. Just because Bush forgot does not mean the mission in Afghanistan disappeared in his head. OBL is still at large, for starters.
Posted in: Afghan, Pakistani leaders praise new U.S. strategy
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buddha4brains
Agreed. David Brooks wrote and interesting opinion piece in the NY Times which points to some optimism. But, still Afghanistan is no Granada or Panama where a prez can flex faux muscles and call that foreign policy. Obama has to be serious and apolitical as much as possible.
Posted in: Obama widens war against al-Qaida in Afghanistan, ordering in 4,000 more troops
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buddha4brains
A shotgun wedding is a slang euphemism to say the bride is preggies regardless of the amount of force used. Anyway, Fredster you seemed to miss the point that the fact of her pregnancy did force upon her to decide to do something. Pregnancy is like that.
Posted in: Miyavi and melody. wed in shotgun marriage
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buddha4brains
This is what the world got behind in 2001/2002. When those goals got murky and Bush ventured into Iraq that support evaporated along with America's prestige and moral standing.
Posted in: Obama widens war against al-Qaida in Afghanistan, ordering in 4,000 more troops
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buddha4brains
Wolfpack how can you say Bush clearly achieved his planned objectives when those objectives changed almost daily at one point. And when I say changed, I mean forced to change because reality did not match up with ideology rather than change as in a strategic and/or tactical adjustments to match the reality on the ground. Events led Bush rather than the other way around.
Obama is going after OBL and al Quaida who were the principle planners of 9/11. Remember them? Remember "smoking them out" bringing them to justice "dead or alive"? Christ it is 2009 and OBL is still at large. America still has unfinished business. Business Bush left for someone else to do. If you want to complain, then complain why Obama has to wipe up after Bush (again).
Posted in: Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan
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buddha4brains
Marx Brothers would have been a better choice.
Posted in: Sean Penn to play Larry in 'Three Stooges' movie
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buddha4brains
Calling it "One World Trade Center" is a defiant FU to the terrorists. That is how it can be spun to satisfy the "Freedom" people.
Posted in: Renaming of 'Freedom Tower' in New York prompts criticism
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buddha4brains
Maybe she threatened to kill his puppy ... Why are people defending this guy? Perhaps you got a bit of him in you. Physical attack in a non-threatening (physically anyway) situation is not part of civil society. He already mouthed off to her, surely that was more than enough.
Posted in: Man held for punching 50-yr-old woman on Saitama train over playing games on cell phone
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buddha4brains
No doubt, as Clinton had also done much for the country that put the Bush Jr. administration on a good footing - and look what he did with that. Clinton could have turned what was given him into a giant mess, as George Jr. has done. Hopefully Obama will be able to find the silk purse out of the sow's ear that has been given to him.
Your lack of confidence argument is also a deflection of the fact that many, too many Bushies refuse to own up to the mess left behind. Besides, confidence is what America had in spades back in the 80s and 90s. Anyone that confident today has to be on something because most people are scared, angry or both.
Posted in: Unified Democrats mirror Obama budget priorities
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buddha4brains
Karl Marx is a product of the excesses of capitalism. If capitalists do not want the excesses of the socialism, then they should not be pulling the dumb sh:t they do. Of course that goes the other way also.
Posted in: Anger mounts in Europe over job cuts, exec bonuses
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buddha4brains
Bill Clinton had balanced budgets and surpluses. Cuts had to be made for that to be done.
Posted in: Unified Democrats mirror Obama budget priorities
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buddha4brains
Nancy Reagan had it right when she said "Just say No!", but if that is the sum total of America's fight against drugs, then not much will change.
Posted in: Clinton says U.S. shares blame for Mexican drug wars
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buddha4brains
No. It is not just a supply problem. Where is the demand? Those on the demand side also have to address this problem.
Posted in: Drug violence in Mexico becomes top U.S. security concern