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gaijinTechie
Debucho, Vesperto. You are assuming that Japan had experts making decisions for the benefit of Japanese people. It didn't.
Japan had amakudari leading the NISA, which is equal to nothing. According to their own guidelines, he was supposed to send experts to the site. He didn't. He didn't even bother to attend the crisis meetings with the prime minister. He could have not been a bigger failure.
Any foreign expert would have been beneficial to the Japanese people. Also, there is no such thing as a domestic nuclear accident.
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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gaijinTechie
Here's some tritium contamination data: http://tinyurl.com/tritiumJP
And it's recap in English: http://tinyurl.com/tritiumEN
Posted in: Fukushima radiation higher than first estimated, TEPCO admits
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gaijinTechie
They will deny admitting it later. They've done it before, got away with it, so they'll do it again.
Posted in: Fukushima radiation higher than first estimated, TEPCO admits
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gaijinTechie
Basroll, touched a nerve, did I?
1) If there is no place to dump trash, then perhaps Japanese should a) upgrade their incinerators to western standards or b) look into recycling, c) using that for the landfill projects or d) stop creating so much garbage!
2) Low-heat incinerators are NOT effective, no matter how Japanese they are. Go ask city hall the dioxin levels of your home town. Not that they'd tell you, mind you.
3) Again you're missing the point. I didn't buy it for a lab, I bought it because it was made by a double disaster victim and I wanted to help without endangering myself and my family. And perhaps you should compare it's data sheet with it's price tag before saying anything silly, such as comments about the types of radioactivity - you do understand how the radiation types differ, don't you? And how it's child's play to separate them, even for a ¥3500 device (quite properly calibrated by an outside laboratory as well as myself, since after university I used to do it in an official capacity for a living after Chernobyl messed up my home town).
Moderator: Stay on topic please.
Posted in: City in Shizuoka starts incinerating tsunami debris
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gaijinTechie
I wonder why people are under the assumption that burning it is some sort of perfect final solution? It simply spreads the microparticles everywhere (i.e. into the fields), both radioactive and otherwise toxic.
Sure, I'll support hard-hit people in a meaningful way (proud owner of Pocket Geiger counter "Made in Ishinomaki", although it is kind of pain to use). But if kizuna means I have to take as much damage as they have taken, then count me out. That's just stupid.
Just bury the debris.
Posted in: City in Shizuoka starts incinerating tsunami debris
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gaijinTechie
With regards to increased levels of dioxin and asbestos spreading to the surrounding tea fields to due to low-tech burners, irradiation is the lesser of many evils. So long Nihoncha made in Shizuoka, I wonder when you'd be safe to drink again?
Posted in: City in Shizuoka starts incinerating tsunami debris
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gaijinTechie
Marine biologist Stephen Palumbi smuggled a portable laboratory to Japan to test the whale meat sold in supermarkets. He found toxic whale meat, whale meat that was misslabeled and "whale" meat that wasn't even from a whale.
Regrettably he chose not to go public but to "inform politely" the officials of the findings. They must have had a good and long laugh at the expense of the poor naive sap (and of course, Japanese tax payers).
TED Talk with Stephen Palumbi: http://tinyurl.com/7wm6ene
Posted in: Japanese whalers leave for Pacific
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gaijinTechie
Nothing wrong with that, competition pushes down prices and is pretty much the only reason of improvement.
I just wish Japanese would be much MUCH more objective when evaluating their achievements (because some of them really aren't).
Posted in: Japan launches first commercial satellite
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gaijinTechie
That's funny, I thought the same about his "comedy acts". When he's serious, his work is a pleasure to watch, though.
I didn't know this subject was so dear to him. Hmm... Let me just make my own assumptions about that and spread my conclusions without allowing him to elaborate on his behalf (because, you see, that's how it works when you speak first and think later, if at all). Also, because people who use Reductio ad Absurdum propaganda technique (among others) in so transparent way are dum-asses.
Posted in: Beat Takeshi compares same-sex marriage with bestiality
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gaijinTechie
When I was a customer, it was near impossibility to make any kind of international transaction via UFJ. I guess they were happy that they didn't have to do anything special to please American courts.
Posted in: Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ freezes Iran transactions on U.S. court order
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gaijinTechie
I remember reading how one elderly did a over-the-shoulder judo throw on one bear and one granny punched one in the nose. Japanese countryside grows some tough geezers.
Bears are not generally aggressive. It was probably just looking for food and got surprised by the farmer. It has probably mozied on back to the mountains by now.
It's not good when big animals get surprised like that. I think I'll get a few of those bells elderly hikers usually attach to their backpacks. And run hard and fast if I even see cubs ('cause mama ain't far behind).
Posted in: Elderly man attacked by bear in Yamanashi
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gaijinTechie
Those numbers are a lie.
I know what the 'BS' means, but what does the 'A' stand for in 'BSA'? (^-^)
Posted in: Software piracy costs record $63.4 billion in 2011: study
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gaijinTechie
True.
However, as an example how this problem has been solved in other countries: in my home country, if all you look forward is the distance equivalent to the diameter of that dime, then you are legally obligated to be able to stop in just that distance by adjusting your situational velocity appropriately. It is a good rule.
Children are unpredictable in traffic, that is almost a law of nature. But that is not illegal so as to constitute a capital punishment deliverable by just anybody. Responsibility belongs to those drivers who choose not to be vigilant in traffic.
Posted in: 6-yr-old girl dies after car plows into schoolchildren in Osaka
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gaijinTechie
If a mere housewife can compete with a university grad in job hunting, then their universities and education weren't worth much anything.
Some Japanese seem to believe that a mere name of the university should be enough for an employment. Real world is going to feel like a cold shower to these types.
Posted in: Housewives seeking part-time work squeezed out by surge in jobless
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gaijinTechie
Tech firms who can't keep up with the world should go under.
Posted in: TEPCO posts Y781.6 bil full-year net loss
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gaijinTechie
Is that how it's going to be? Better to bribe ignorant civilians to "see" radioactive contamination than to let independent radiation safety experts to do measurements?
Why is Japanese official propaganda so badly transparent?
Posted in: Japan seeks bloggers for cyber-charm tourism drive
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gaijinTechie
International collaboration of Japan comes as no surprise. All of my countrymen, including me, have blogged about fits of rage, childish bouts and open racism coming from Japanese doctoral level researchers. Who on earth would want to collaborate with overgrown children?
Posted in: World's top countries for higher education ranked
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gaijinTechie
What an idiot. He should leave talking about radiation to those who actually attended school.
Would it be too much for him to fathom the amount of dioxin that would be released in the primitive low-temperature burners littering (pun intended) Japanese countryside? And that would be the case even if the (most likely asbestos laced) rubble would be radiation-free. Have a happy cup of Shizuoka green tea, folks!
Posted in: Local gov'ts discuss public resistance to debris incineration
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gaijinTechie
History teaches. History has teached. Everybody knows what will happen. Tepco will not change.
Posted in: TEPCO names new management
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gaijinTechie
I was and still am pro-nuclear, but I'm more pro-responsibility. Japan has not and most importantly, will not accept responsibility for operating nuclear power according to international standards. Therefore, it should not have any.
Today's Japan's need for power is a reality that cannot be fulfilled with alternatives. But I get paid a lot of money to know about this type of tech, and Japan has what it needs to grow up from juvenile irresponsible nuclear supervision of today to truly innovative and clean energy sources. I know that some minor inconveniences in the form of rare power outages will boost this kind of development. Only truly regressive oppressionists would demand return for the old ways proven ineffective. Japan's economy has been losing for 30 years straight, people should understand by now that the obsolete ways do not work.
Posted in: Thousands rally in Tokyo ahead of last reactor going offline