JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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lostrune2
Sounds like Ol' Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra and the mob, ha!
Posted in: Until the entertainment business, which is an influential force on society, gets together and cuts all ties with organized crime, celebrities will probably continue to be taken advantage of by gangs and wind up suffering from the same problems again and again.
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lostrune2
That's just a sad thing to hear someone say.
Posted in: Karina, AKB48's Yuko Oshima to costar in drama
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lostrune2
There are other ways ya can get your hands on some Japanese underpants and burn calories in your crotch, I'm sure.
Posted in: Japanese underpants burn calories in your crotch
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lostrune2
If Turkey can do a raid in another country against those bombing them, that's like the US doing a raid in Pakistan against those who are suicide-bombing them in Afghanistan.
Posted in: Turkish military renews raids on PKK bases in Iraq
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lostrune2
I too wish NATO need not be involved. But I don't blame the Libyans for rising up. It would've been ideal if the Libyans would've done all this by themselves. But a prolonged war would've jeopardized more lives in the long run. And we all want less people getting killed. So the faster this is over, the better.
Posted in: Gadhafi forces killed detainees, survivors say
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lostrune2
But if ya live in fear, it's not worth it.
Posted in: Gadhafi forces killed detainees, survivors say
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lostrune2
tmarie,
AFAIK, ranking is based on points earned on a rolling 4-year calendar - Japan just hasn't won as much tournaments over 4 years. It's like that guy Yohan Blake who won the 100m World Track Championship after Bolt got DQed - if there was a ranking, Bolt would still be ranked #1 because Blake just hasn't won as much as Bolt did in the last 4 years.
Posted in: Bolt is human; his sport's rules are not
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lostrune2
Can anybody really defend this regime anymore? No wonder the Libyans themselves rose up! Nobody wants to live their lives fearing under such a dictatorship. No life is worth living under such fear.
Posted in: Gadhafi forces killed detainees, survivors say
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lostrune2
Heh, we used to use expensive SGI computers for 3D modeling........... and then regular computers caught up with computing power.......
Posted in: Tohoku University selects SGI to advance fluid science research
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lostrune2
tmarie,
Just a tidbit: they're not rank #1, but they did win the WWC.
Posted in: Bolt is human; his sport's rules are not
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lostrune2
Another big difference:
Iraq: population 34 million, covering many areas of the country.
Libya: population just 6 million, mostly in cities along the Mediterranean coast.
That will allow Libya to move things along faster.
Posted in: Iraq an example for Libya on how not to overthrow a dictator
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lostrune2
Ha, yet another election blaring so soon?
Posted in: LDP calls for Noda to hold general election after budget is passed
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lostrune2
Now, the issue is whether consumers will associate this ad with the sushi delivery shop. There have been ads that became famous; yet consumers did not associate it with what the ad was trying to sell. Like recently that famous Super Bowl ad featuring the kid Darth Vader using The Force on his dad's car - consumers did not connect it with Volkswagen (yes, that was a VW car, if ya don't remember).
Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Gin no sara sushi delivery shop
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lostrune2
The DQ games, ha!
Posted in: Robles disqualified from 110 hurdles at worlds
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lostrune2
Most likely Algeria would eventually turn them over to the new Libyan government or to the Hague Court. Algeria has enough problems fighting its own Islamist insurgency - the last thing Algeria needs is more headaches from Libya or Europe and certainly not from yet another armed group within its borders from Gadhafi's heirs. From the pacifist point of view, it's best when this Libyan civil war ends as soon as possible.
Posted in: Gadhafi's wife, 3 children flee to Algeria
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lostrune2
We can't pick our relatives, hahahah.
Posted in: Obama's uncle held by immigration officials after being picked up on drunk driving charge
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lostrune2
So, the rats are fleeing the sinking ship. But is the captain going down with the ship?
Posted in: Gadhafi's wife, 3 children flee to Algeria
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lostrune2
NYC metro area was spared the worst, and they were also well-prepared, so there's hardly any news out of it, and that's the way it should be. There was raining for hours and hours even before the large slow-moving hurricane even got close, saturating the ground several times over, combined with high tides. But even so, the rain fortunately was not so heavy, and the wind, while strong, the strongest gusts were not the sustained kind. So there was flooding but not as heavy, and wind damage was pretty much limited to trees and wire posts.
After the eye finally passed over with its strongest gusts yet, the weather pretty much cleared up save for some leftover backside wind, so residents could almost immediately begin the cleanup process. Some people lost electricity; others had spotty TV and internet; but the cellphone networks stayed intact, so people were able to maintain contact and follow the events by mobile web. All in all, it wasn't that bad.
Unfortunately, it was New England that suffered the worse of it. The heavier rains fell on New England, where hurricane eyes go even rarer than NYC, so they were less able to cope with it. Yet still, people were back to work the next day.
Posted in: Irene charges into New England; New York escapes worst
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lostrune2
Notice the Japan LLers didn't cry. Now that's something older J-ballers should play. There's no crying in baseball, haha!
Posted in: California beats Japan 2-1 to take Little League World Series
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lostrune2
Bolt didn't need to be so precise at the start. He has enough speed that even a slow start wouldn't cost him. In the absence of his rivals, he would've won this race easy if he had more discipline.
Posted in: Yohan Blake is 100-meter world champion after Bolt jumps gun