ca1ic0cat said...

ca1ic0cat at 01:43 AM JST - 28th October

Given what the "masters of the universe" bankers have thought up so far I would like to see them leave the industry. A few leaders more interested in their shareholders, their country and societal responsibilities would not be taking the foolish risks that the previous loosers have gotten into.

Drain…

Posted in Will new executive pay rules cause a brain drain? at 01:43 AM JST - 28th October
ca1ic0cat at 01:40 AM JST - 28th October

I'm not sure I have any idea what that amounts to in practice. I'm sure the Japanese think it means that Sea Shepherd will stop violating COLREGS. I'm sure that the Dutch mean that Sea Shepherd won't set out to kill people. There's a lot of ground in the middle…

Posted in Japan, Netherlands agree to ensure maritime safety over antiwhaling at 01:40 AM JST - 28th October
ca1ic0cat at 01:35 AM JST - 28th October

I imagine that all the abductees who wanted to come back have done so. Perhaps there are some who want to stay. Perhaps some of the abducteed committed suicide and were never found. Even if NK took the Japanese list and made notes of the status of everybody they took…

Posted in Hatoyama wants bigger effort to get abductees back from N Korea at 01:35 AM JST - 28th October
ca1ic0cat at 01:30 AM JST - 28th October

Helly is right, the RAM should be recoverable. Even if it is a surface mount device there are any number of labs in Japan that would be able to extract the data. Only if the memory device itself is broken would the images be lost.

But guys over 50 do…

Posted in Cop caught taking up-skirt videos during anti-pervert campaign at 01:30 AM JST - 28th October
ca1ic0cat at 08:48 PM JST - 27th October

Unfortunately they will probably get plenty of Sunni recruits fresh from Saudi Arabia to fight the infidel Shia. This lunacy makes N. Irelans or the protestant reformation look like a walk in the park. The religion of peace strikes again!

Posted in Al-Qaida linked group claims Baghdad attacks at 08:48 PM JST - 27th October
ca1ic0cat at 04:16 AM JST - 24th October

A day late and a dollar short, I think. This is old news and they are just getting around to being upset? Oh, the outrage!

Posted in U.S. bands blast use of their music in Gitmo interrogations at 04:16 AM JST - 24th October
ca1ic0cat at 04:04 AM JST - 24th October

Anybody going to get a Win7 Whopper from Burger King?

I'm going to explain to all my J-friends that "whopper" has a different meaning in english - a really big lie! Now that's delicious....

Just think, Win 7 is a whopper that is too big, consumes too many resources, clogs…

Posted in Windows 7 goes on sale in Japan at 04:04 AM JST - 24th October
ca1ic0cat at 08:59 PM JST - 23rd October

Shipping old munitions through the mail? Idiots! Yelnats is right no matter what they were charged with.

They should have removed the bullets from the cartridge and removed the powder. Then everybody would have been safe and there wouldn't have been a crime.

I know an ex SDF officer who…

Posted in 3 military enthusiasts charged with taking WWII bullets from Pacific at 08:59 PM JST - 23rd October
ca1ic0cat at 08:52 PM JST - 23rd October

OK, how about some pics? Guess I'll have to go looking.

Posted in Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled at 08:52 PM JST - 23rd October
ca1ic0cat at 08:52 PM JST - 23rd October

This is nuts. Unless you are going to put in the effort to become a citizen why should you expect to be able to vote? What vested interest in the future of the community have you demonstrated? Or are you going to high-tail it back home at the first sign…

Posted in PM suggests giving foreigners local voting rights in near future at 08:52 PM JST - 23rd October