JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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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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chotto
Is it wrong that I laughed when I read this?
I can't help but feel sorry for the poor state of the raltionship, though. They should've divorced a long time ago!
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I did. See my post / link above. Did you even bother to read it?
Posted in: Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
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smithinjapan at 12:41 PM JST - 4th January
What's your point?
Posted in: More needles found in supermarket oden packs in Chiba
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I also believe smoking can cause cancer. That is my belief. Again, in this case, if you don't agree with my belief, you are an idiot.
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Well, you labelled yourself as such, so I won't bother. I believe in God, but a firm believer in sceince and evolution etc.
Posted in: Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/11/blameitonthesatellite
Posted in: Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
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Awww bless you Molenir, for trying to hard to be intelligent. Considering your reply made next-to-no sense, let's try again, shall we?
Regardless of whether or not global warming even exists, we are emitting far too much CO2 into the atmosphere, among other pollutants. A lot of the entrenched right-wing numbskull opposition to climate change science (from people such as yourself) is purely reactionary: if the left believes it to be true, then it must be opposed as a matter of principle. You're probably kidding yourself if you think you're going to find a rationale any more sophisticated than that.
All climate change skeptics can do is brainwash gullible, ignorant people who wouldn't understand the scietific method if they were mugged by it on a crowded street (i.e. right-wing politicians) and hope they can create an illusion of doubt and debate within the scientific community for long enough to ensure that their economic interests are not threatened by these pesky, do-gooder environmentalists. It's pathetic, and I can only be thankful that the groundswell of public opinion is raidly shifting against them.
I am not worried about CO2 emissions as much as I am worried about toxics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, etc. being released into the environment; environmental degredation and destruction of natural habitat, destruction of CO2 sinks (rainforests), overfishing, heavy burden on soil, human population explosion and subsequent rising need for more resources, land, environment to exploit.
This is an issue with real-life consequences, the evidence supporting it is completely unambiguous and universally accepted by literally every credible scientific organisation. Considering how difficult scientific consensus is to build on any issue, let alone one this complex, such a consensus is telling in ways that perhaps people indifferent to the scientific process may not understand. If you wanna challenge it, good luck, If you believe the worldwide science comunity on global warming are liars, then:
1) Write up a paper indicating your thesis and detail the evidence supporting it. 2) Submit that paper to a journal of scientific review, where - if the science passes muster - it will be published. 3) Hope that your thesis is able to undermine the scientific consensus on the issue.
I look forward to reading your scientific analysis.
Posted in: Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
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Sigh. That's not what I mean. "Global warmiing" is a term used incorrectly, THUS, certain idiots cannot distinguish between global warming and climate change.
Please excuse my use of the word "design" here (I am in no way a creationist) but the earth is not designed to withstand these levels of pollution for a sustained period of time. FACT.
Or alternatively, we can bury our heads in the sand and pretend the problem doesn't exist.
Posted in: Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
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Good for him and his little company, but I think many companies could do this themselves, easily.
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Assuming that was a poor attempt at sarcasm, global warming DOES NOT EQUATE TO hot temperatures. Why is it that as soon there's any reports of cold weather, the ignorant right-wingers come out with the 'global warming' taunt.
A bit of reading would educate you, to the extent that global warming is about weather extremes / unpredictable weather conditions. Those ice-caps aren't melting due to a lack of global warming.
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Posted in: Japan enters high-speed train sales race
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Does it hurt you to realise not all the world conforms to America and the metric system when it comes to speed?
Posted in: Japan enters high-speed train sales race
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Can see it now...
"Furikomi just came through..."
Posted in: Hatoyama starts tweeting, using blog
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Early contender for 'Father Of The Year 2010'.
This absolutely beggars belief.
He is an animal with zero emotional maturity, and should be locked up and treated as such.
On a side note, why on earth are the 'FIRE' department involved? Unless they were planning to waterboard this scum.
Posted in: Chiba man arrested for kicking 2-year-old son in head
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Yes, because dying of cancer and selling your house in order to pay for medicine is exactly the same as pushing in the line of a cinema queue.
tigermoth at 01:14 AM JST - 22nd December
Wow! Revolutionary! Imagine that! Humanitarianism.
So, can you see how maybe some have a problem with this? I'm betting that five or ten years into this effort, some of you die-hard liberals are going to have a problem with it as well. When your'e working, struggling to feel a family - having more of your money taken to help someone else - while perhaps noble in intent - is a bitter pill to swallow.
I pull my own weight and do what I have to do to support my family. When you come in telling me I need to give some of my hard earned money to someone who isn't working so that they can have health care coverage - which I have to, and will continue to have to pay for out of my own salary, while at the same time our education system falls further into the gutter - yes, I have a problem.
**Me, me, me. **
Where is the humanity in DENYING someone healthcare because they are ill? Insurance companies are there to make money, they are not charities. Therefore, to make a profit on someone's illness is simply immoral. And the tax issue is equally retarded as the idiots who argue it. Because you see, you gun-touting uneducated moron, you will pay less in tax to pay for healthcare than you will do in insurance premiums.
Health insurance is a scam, and a morally-bankrupt one at that.
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So you're telling me, a car being out for 20 mins and journey done, wastes more fuel than a car warming up for 15 minutes and a 20 minute journey? Seriously...
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I'm not referring to the logistics of it, I'm referring to the selfish waste of fuel, pollution, and the selfishness of the act i.tself
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Shock. Horror. People will get free treatment when they're ill.
Nice to see America being dragged into the 20th century.
Posted in: Democrats put U.S. health care bill on brink of passage
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No sympathy for people who leaves their cars unattended, unlocked and with the engine on, anywhere. Epecially outside convenience stores. Needlessly polluting the air because they don't wanna get there little hands all cold is a pathetic excuse. I sometimes wish more cars would get stolen to teach these idiots a lesson.
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'Mother'. Yeah right.
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