JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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likeitis
What nonsense. Its amazing that you seem to have not learned a thing despite so many quite clear and education posts in response to this kind of nonsense over many months. Does your memory get wiped every time you reboot, putting you back in default setting or what?
Jihad is not about terrorism. Jihad is old. Islamic terrorism is new. Islamic schools are old. Al Quaida training camps are new. And I cannot be bothered to explain more what with your memory getting wiped every time your power on button gets pushed. Not even sure if this simple explanation made it past your anti-Islam firewall.
Posted in: U.S. missiles kill 12 at Islamic school in northwest Pakistan
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likeitis
Seems like a plan to redirect our tax money just like with the fingerprinting machines. Now they want to put chips in the alien card, so they start talking about changing everything.
And you got to love all these great new conviences. As if your gaijin card is going to start making julianne fries.
I don't like this chip in the ID business. I can't tell what it says on it. It costs to darn much for no benefit to me whatsoever. And my understanding is that it CAN be read from a distance, like that between you and the door jamb you are passing through, so it will make a great tracking device.
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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likeitis
Pah! Race, heighth, eye color, face shape, hair length....they are just descriptive words to me, not that much meaning beyond that.
ALL races are beautiful in their own way, not sure about Mona though.
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likeitis
Very funny. I was not talking about a nationality obviously, but rather an ethnicity.
Moderator: Stay on topic please.
Posted in: Cosmetic touch
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likeitis
A good find Sarge. LOL!
Not only the implication that CIA truth is actually lies, but also the implication that it does matter what the CIA says, Congress is supposed to divine the truth anyway. Too bad its not an exact quote.
Or torturers. I think its outrageous to call all CIA employees "terror-fighters", even those directly invovled with terror are bound to have some bad apples and people don't really give a crap about terror. So give us a break.
Posted in: Pelosi draws CIA response, Republican criticism
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likeitis
rogerbentham: no j-girl looks caucasian.
Wrong. In general, Japanese can be considered the closest to caucasian of all Asians. A few Japanese could pass for caucasian, but many have what we would consider to be caucasian features.
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likeitis
The CIA lie?! Now who would believe that!
What does the CIA stand for again? Was it "Creeps In Action", "Creative Information Anonymous" or was it "Corruption Instigating A-holes"?
Posted in: Pelosi says CIA misled her on waterboarding
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likeitis
The score: Bush 254 Obama 13 The game: Human Rights golf. I would much prefer a perfect score of zero, but this is certainly an improvement.
Posted in: Obama to restart military tribunals for Gitmo detainees, dismaying liberals
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likeitis
Teleprompter, rather than just take yet another opportunity to bash Obama, do you think you could tell us where you stand on releasing the pics in one of your little sound bytes? For or against buddy?
And did you feel the same when Bush was prez? Or no?
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
Sezwho and Betzee, excellent posts! But since you did not reduce that into one or two sentence blurbs, I am afraid you exceeded the attention span of most conservative posters here. You need to make it shorter, hopefully make it rhyme, add a wordplay or buzzword, and conclude with a rhythmic "Ra! Ra! Ra!" or its just not going to stick. Who needs logic when there is cheerleading to do? Too much scientific left brain where conservatives want more artistic (autistic?) right brain.
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likeitis
So they are in U.S. custody? If not, you might find Photoshop to be a very useful program. You can use it to put the heads of the guys in U.S. custody onto the other guys who are...wait a minute...did you say "would" torture and kill me? I thought we were talking about actual crimes committed.
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likeitis
I have to wonder: If none of us had ever seen her before, and were shown her pic without being told her nationality, how many would guess she was Japanese straight off the bat.
As I have seen so many times here, so many posters have reflex 20/20 hindsight and are acutely unaware of the fact.
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likeitis
Exactly. And many of them have a beauty practically unique to Japan.
What I would like is for these pageant to stop stereotyping a fixed look as being the highest beauty.
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likeitis
That is interesting. Perhaps you could give us a scientifically tabulated estimate of the excess American deaths and injuries releasing the pictures will result in?
We are dealing with unprovables with regard to that. What is not in question is that democratic ideals are being undermined.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
If the fools would have installed Linux on the PS3 like they said they would, and advertised the thing all the many many things it can do, I bet it would have sold better. I think they were thinking it would just sell itself.
Another problem here is they won the hi-def DVD war just as people have to spend a bundle to update their TVs to digital. Its not like they were complaining about the quality of the old DVDs! But just to watch TV in a few years, they have to do something, and no solution is cheap. So they are in no rush to go to blu-ray, and the easy way to do that is buy the PS3.
Imagine if there was a digital tuner in the PS3. Then it would really sell.
Posted in: Sony reports Y98.9 billion annual loss; says it will close 3 plants in Japan
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likeitis
I just want to say that, criticize Obama as I do, this is still a lot easier to swallow than half the crap Bush and Co. pulled. Still quite happy to have Obama by comparison, even over where I think McCain would be right now.
Also (and I think another poster reflected this) this might be from Obama's new general in charge. It might have been a condition to taking the job. If it was, I can tell you I would be a whole lot more comfortable if that fact were relayed to us. Because otherwise, I am thinking Obama got suckered.
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likeitis
I can only take that to mean that you agree with me that Iraq and Afghanistan are both collosal wastes of time, money, and lives, and that we should withdraw from both immediately and never should have gone to Iraq, and not to Afghanistan in the capacity we did.
And once that is done, it will be safer for them, so one less reason to withold the pics.
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likeitis
No. But the jury better watch. Guess who is the jury when the government is the accused.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
While it is true the true imagery won't be there, there is still the fact we are covering up information and undermining our claims to be an open democracy. Either choice has a bad effect, just a different bad effect. I would much rather people have their little fits now, so that later when they settle down, they can realize that it was AMERICA that had the balls to show the world their own dirty laundry and clean it up by themselves.
Instead, what we will get is a creeping loathing that will only continue in the long run, and terrorist recruiters having tangible proof that we say one thing and do another while having no intention to rectify the situation.
And like I said, after Abu Graib, I don't think the effect is going be all that big for releasing similar pictures. At least these won't have a guy giving the thumbs up over a corpse, will they?
And what is more, this cat is pretty much out of the bag. All they got to do now is reprint the Abu Graib pictures with this story.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
I was against going into Afghanistan with intent on tossing out the Taliban and rebuilding (getting bin and getting out would have been ok). I was against going into Iraq for any reason. Want to know why? Well one reason was because a crapload of my countrymen would die in a Vietnamesque quaqmire, that's one reason why. And a crapload have died, haven't they? I got a cousin in Iraq FYI, and he should not be there and no American soldier should be there.
And here you are worried that a few pictures piled on top of the nasty ones already released from Abu Graib could get a few more soldiers killed? What a joke man! Its these damned wars getting the lion's share of American servicemen killed. But so many were so eager to go in, so by God, I am going to demand they do it right since they got their way. I am freaking embarrassed enough by this whole episode as it is. If my patriotism seems a little lacking, you can blame the war nuts I have to share America with and their seven years of fumbling the ball, and now thinking a few pictures are going to change the whole face of this debacle.
Frankly, its the patriotism of the gung ho who wanted these wars so damn bad that should be questioned, particulary with regard to Iraq. America would not be so soiled if they had just wiped their bottoms with the flag. So many of those yahoos did not give a crap about America then. All they cared about was having a war, like it was going to be some freaking picnic.
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