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didn't Obama say that those involved should be held accountable for their actions. Pleading the fifth…
Posted in: U.S. Congress grills former IRS boss over tax scandal
But, but, but ... didn't Obama say that those involved should be held accountable for their…
Posted in: U.S. Congress grills former IRS boss over tax scandal
@yankeeshogun The boycott will work if everyone does it. Everyone is not willing to do it.…
Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush even though he was a donor to the…
Posted in: U.S. Congress grills former IRS boss over tax scandal
Well if Ishihara did something to affect the anime and manga industry in Tokyo, it explains…
Posted in: 'Moe' madness: Gov't realizes selling power of cute 2D girls
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The tickets sold out in 2 minutes this year. It was a mad dash to mash the "purchase" button, and anyone who didn't have their credit card info prefilled was toast. Lots of people were plagued with site errors that made it impossible to buy.
Luckily I was one of the lucky few who made it in time.
Posted in: Apple annual developers conference set for June
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Maybe I'm out of touch with the common man, but does a 30 yen price difference really make that big of a difference for anyone? Unless you're eating like 100 bowls of the stuff...
Posted in: Sukiya, Matsuya to cut 'gyudon' prices
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Just looked up the articles on Boeing's fix. They still don't actually know what went wrong or how to fix it, so they're just adding measures so a battery fire isn't as dangerous (separating cells, more insulation, smoke vent to outside the plane). WTF.
Posted in: ANA keeps Boeing 787 in June schedule for now
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@Ewan Huzarmy: As if manufactured pop never existed before? It's not that music in general was better before, it's that the crap tends to get forgotten. There was lots of completely manufactured super-popular music like "The Archies", or even The Monkees in the beginning
Posted in: AKB48 ballot to be held on June 8
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B.S. whenever there's a one of those "korean school kids show their feelings" projects online, maybe 10% of the drawings are "kill japan" or "dokdo is korean" type stuff.
Posted in: Unfriendly relations
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mike23thurgood: Same thing happens every now and again in Europe as well. Before evacuating people onto slippert tracks in the dark with dangerous overhead power lines‚ possibly other traffic on nearby lines etc, they have to be REALLY sure they can't somehow get the train going again. In Sweden it happened in the middle of the hot summer, passengers broke a window for fresh air since they feared a baby would get heatstroke and without power the aircon was dead.
Posted in: Bullet train derails in Akita
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This scares me more than a design flaw. With a design flaw at least they know what to look out for, and once it's diagnosed it can be fixed. With poor quality control, any part can fail at any time...
Posted in: U.S. to review Boeing 787, but calls plane safe
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WA4TKG: The Rolls Royce jet engines are actually the ones that have had the most issues. For instance, the one that exploded on a A380 was a RR.
Posted in: Dream flight
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blackrock: That hasn't been true for a while. Each new standard has just been a war between corporations as to who can jam their patents in there so they can profit off the next generation, instead of picking the best technical solution. It's been like this since GSM. Even if there were no patents, corporations would still need to compete on technical solutions.
Posted in: Samsung hits back at Ericsson in patent battle
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Software and standards patents need to die. Yesterday. It's all a massive scam to keep any innovative new players out of the business, and keep the big entrenched corporations in their comfortable positions.
Posted in: Samsung hits back at Ericsson in patent battle
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Age shouldn't be a problem - London is still using the Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel in the world dig under a body of water build 170 years ago. It's all about proper maintenance and inspection.
Posted in: Tunnel disaster puts spotlight on Japan's aging infrastructure
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At least it's not Kim Kardashian
Posted in: AKB48 tops Yahoo! celebrity search term ranking for 3rd consecutive year
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Nice ad from IBM
Posted in: Death of the cassette tape much exaggerated
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Sato was also kinda crazy and blew up his engine more often than not - what's up with Japanese F1 drivers!?
Posted in: Button lashes out at 'idiot' Kobayashi after Korean Grand Prix
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@Probie: Yes? Even this guy with all his crazy stuff wasn't some terrorist since he didn't actually DO anything on the flight. He just has funny shopping habits (maybe a survivalist).
Posted in: Man on flight from Japan held in LA after smoke grenade, leg irons, body bags found in luggage
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Dwight Schrute?!?!
Posted in: Man on flight from Japan held in LA after smoke grenade, leg irons, body bags found in luggage
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The tech is very cool, but the resulting photos are 2007-cellphone-camera-resolution. Hoping for version 2 or 3...
Posted in: Camera adjusts focus after taking pictures
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Smaller device, fewer components, cheaper freight.
Posted in: Sony plans slimmer PlayStation 3 before yearend
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The REAL question here is, what does this mean for the status of SNH48?!?!?
Posted in: Japan embassy, businesses shut as more protests erupt in China
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I actually have an easier time ordering food at fast food places in Japan than in the U.S., despite my limited japanese. I'm not sure they're speaking English anymore in America... One lady at Starbucks asked how to spell my name "Karl" (and not just the K vs C).
@Pidestroika: I have no idea how you manage to complicate such a simple thing... Just grunting answers works much quicker and easier. You're really asking the staff at a fast food place if a particular burger is any good?!?! What do you think they're going to answer? "No, our food tastes like shit"?
Posted in: Fast food service in Japan vs America: 2 videos tell the story