JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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likeitis
Duh. Also your adopted country.
Double duh. This is specifically about terrorism by Muslims in western countries.
But still, its about statistics and general trends, not individual and unique cases.
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likeitis
While I totally agree with your sentiments, I do not think the problem is a lack of history study. Its a condition many of my countrymen suffer from which could be called I-am-the-center-of-the-universe syndrome that most other countries cure their kids of by around age 5.
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likeitis
I guess you are not aware that you made the EXACT SAME fallacy as I called you on before. I guess its not really all that important to engineering, but still...
Further, my post clearly states:
Or, do you consider bin Laden to be a foot soldier?
Same fallacy. Third time.
Look, this is about run-of-the-mill terrorism; garden variety blowing yourself up in the marketplace in your own country, stuff like that, NOT the major terrorism headlines of specific years in western countries that experience considerably less terrorism.
Posted in: Study: Poverty fueling Muslim tension with West
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likeitis
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Posted in: Aki Hoshino mistaken for minor at Macau casino
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likeitis
You live a sheltered life. There was a sixth grader at my old school who looked older and dressed like that. I saw her less than a year after graduation in high heels and dressed down even more and walking slow with one hand on her back like she had some serious tension there. But of course, you would not have been sure she was a minor until someone told you.
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likeitis
They are not after money. They are bitter and seeking payback of a different kind. The effects of poverty can often be irreversible, such as loss of family when you could not afford medicine, or even violent deaths for living in poverty stricken areas.
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likeitis
Guards like to hassle women with large breasts. Any excuse is fine. And the "you look like a minor" excuse is a winner because its also a compliment. And they always hope for the possiblilty of a strip search!
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likeitis
smithinjapan, I would still argue that without the gun, killing would have been considerably more difficult.
Sure, he could have attacked her with a knife, but if he had, other people in the store might have been able to interfere, because it takes more time to stab several times than shoot several times. The woman herself might have been able to put a door between him and herself. She might have even escaped without injury as he tried to reach over the counter to stab. She would have had time to dodge. Not much possibility for those when all one has to do is point and shoot, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, in quick succession. A child could do it.
So we might say he could have waited in a strategic location at a strategic time instead. Sure. But this dude in the wig seems like a bit of a dunce. Increase the difficulty of doing the crime, and he might have either given up, or flubbed it to the point that woman would still be alive.
Gun gripes aside, sad case. For what its worth, I offer my condolences also.
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likeitis
Alphaape, how could you miss the difference between general trends and individual cases and still get out of high school? Or haven't you yet?
Seriously, these discussions always fall apart on very basic fallacies like this.
The other popular fallacy is demonstrated by bushlover and sailwind, who would swear to almighty heaven that they have isolated a very complicated issue to one single element, and there is nothing more to say. Daft. And we have been through this umpteen times.
There are a few reasons to explain why Islam has been with us for over a thousand years but Islamic terrorism is mere decades old, and no, it is not the poliferation of the AK-47 nor even mass printing of the Koran. One of the several reasons is poverty, and more importantly, AWARENESS of one's own poverty contrasted by AWARENESS of the affluence of others, not to mention both AWARENESS and MISCONCEPTION of the relationship between the two. But that has far more effect in generating the foot soldiers of terrorism and not the masterminds.
But there are more compelling reasons than poverty, and Islam does play a part, a small part. FAR more important is certain interpretations of Islam by particular followers, and it is not remotely fair to blame millenia old Islam for either recent popular interpretation nor interpretations by crazy people in the last few decades. The masses tend toward a great many fallacies you know, and that makes their interpretations of most anything suck for air.
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likeitis
A bad rep but no one provides specific details always makes me suspicious. Wiki says the biggest problem with the Yugo was a failure of the owners to perform regular maintainence. Sounds reasonable. People who go for the cheapest car tend to be too tight to change the timing belt. You cannot blame either Fiat or the Yugo for that.
Then you got the types who buy such cars. They tend to be starry eyed lefties with no mechanical sense. Reminds me of the couple who realized their car was low on oil. So, disregarding the dip stick, they bought oil and topped it off, as in until the oil was filled all the way to the top of the valve covers. Car did not run too good after that. They had all sorts of excuses, but darned if they would take the blame. Would not be surprised if the Yugo got a lot of that sort of treatment, and people blaming the Yugo for their own failure to read the owner's manual.
You get what you pay for, and if its cheap, it might require more maintenance. Poor people have to be diligent. Thems the breaks.
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likeitis
Its a more clever response than trying to deny it, I will give you that. I am not falling for it though.
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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likeitis
Keep what away from the children? So Adam and Steve across the street are married. So what? Most children barely have a concept of male female marriage. And they are not going to go gay for seeing Adam and Steve hold hands. They might grow up to flirt with bi-sexuality, but who cares? Its not like there will be any gay offspring.
And look on the bright side: There will probably be a lot fewer gays marrying the opposite sex just to make kids. This could actually REDUCE genetic homosexuality, IF you believe in such a thing. I do not.
Pure homosexuality is NOT a choice. A true gay never chose to be that way. You can argue genetics and you can argue subconcious, either way, its NO choice, and its silly to suggest it is.
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likeitis
This is not about values. This is about rights.
What society has? This society won't last, but it won't be because a small minority of homos had their marriages recognized by the government. It might for not being able to see the forest for the trees though.
I hope not. But if it does it would not be the first time nor the most severe case. Even so, oppose that, IF it happens.
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likeitis
Could we just cross one bridge at a time please??? This bridge is safe to cross. And crossing it is right. That is all that matters at this time.
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likeitis
He asked for and took the job * Skip, yes. He did not ask for *the problems though. I am sure he would have been quite pleased if Bush solved them before he entered the Oval Office.
*The problems *that began and were not solved by the Bush administration were inherited by Obama's admin. The term is commonly used that way to refer to problems that began in the previous administrations. Its common and apt parlance.
I do not remember us jumping into action the second the Taliban took over. So I am thinking there is some other reason this is happening.
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likeitis
Not true. But just because I cannot call the shots and people do not do as I think they should DOES NOT render me incapable of predicting a small chance of success despite my belief in a large chance of failure.
You are expecting me to never admit facts even if they go against my opinion, past or present? Not going to happen. That would be pushing an agenda. Not my realm. I just tell it likeitis.
One cannot be done without the other. That seems clear enough to me.
The only goal I approved of in Afghanistan would have been pushing the Taliban any direction necessary to get bin Laden, then getting out. But if something is ever made of Afghanistan despite my recommendation, I will be grateful. If it meets the cost/benefit analysis, I will happily say I was wrong. But I can't see that happening after all thats happened.
Russia. Britian. The most important lesson from them is that Afghanistan is hopeless. America did not learn that lesson, despite all the little lessons learned.
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likeitis
The quote bit is right on the money TokyoHustla!
But in actuality, this is not about the government stopping a marriage. They cannot do that. What this is about is the government recognizing the marriage and granting the rights that married people are supposed to have, as well as regulating their relationship with eachother, ie setting a legal framework for the government to deal with them, and in case there is some trouble between the marriage partners requiring government or court intervention.
The question is not "Should gay marriage be allowed." That is a shorthand that is being misunderstood. The question is "Should gay marriage be granted the same legal and rights status as hetero marriage."
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likeitis
Irrational people? Agreed. But where to put them all?
Advancement.
Eye surgery sickens me. But you don't see me trying to ban it.
Anyway, its not all about you and your little feelings and you should have figured that out around age 5 or so.
ANY marriage is unnatural. You do not see deer weddings do you? You don't see bears exchanging rings.
And perverted? Now you are talking about gay sex I expect. Yes, its both unnatural and perverted. But so is lingerie, oral sex, shaving, adult toys, even when used between a man and a woman!
You are just applying what you are used to and comfortable with to define natural and perverted. You have nothing else to back up your opposition. And like I said, its NOT all about you and your little feelings. Its about people's rights, whether you like them or not.
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likeitis
LFRAgain at 09:45 AM JST - 7th May, I agree with everything except your prediction of the action of the Supreme Court. Of course, that should be their finding, but I am not so hopeful that even they can separate themselves from Christianity and the opinion of the masses for half a second and just vote straight reason.
Reason seems somewhat out of fashion in America. It hurts too many people's brains it seems.
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likeitis
hoserfella: Again. likeitis confusedly wondering aloud with zero authority, info, or grasp of the situation, yet going on like he's just watched a "Matlock" marathon. 'tis funny, though...
Care to comment on the topic? Show us how not confused you are and how authoritive, and how you have a firm grasp of the situation.
Show us some courage, and tell us what you think about the topic. Your little feelings toward me are obvious to everyone by this time.
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