JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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Its up to you and me to decide what we think is art. and to decide on many other things that we may have opinions on, but it never makes us right or wrong, as there is always someone on the other side of the fence who thinks otherwise. No prize or medal for being right or morally superior, just the imaginary halo on your head. Let him paint, you can go paint what you want. and let the viewers decide what they will. I offer no opinion on his work, because it doesn't matter what I think, unless I tell it to him in an open dialogue where I would also be listening to what he says.
BTW, which way is up? You could argue about that till the cows came home too, but no one would be right at the end of it. The point of sensationalist art at least gets us questioning something, instead of being spoon fed what is deemed to be tasteful by ...well by who exactly? It is not a means to find any real answer.
Posted in: Is there more to controversial art of Trevor Brown than meets the eye?
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NO BBLeo, not involved in drugs, just involved in Japan. people here often seem to think that blood and death are the solution to such minor matters. Men here don't seem to fight it out, rather they sneak up and stab you in the back or get you while you sleep.
Posted in: Man arrested for stabbing friend with kitchen knife in Mie
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This is a great photo
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not a chance, she is just a random talento, with the interpreter hovering in the back.
Posted in: Wild Speed
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notimpressed
They are like...why did they get us up on stage with some toothpick chick who cant even speak English, and what the heck are we supposed to do with flowers?
Actually, Vin looks like hes holding off a sneeze. Allergies?
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good point, why release something you don't have in store? Especially stupid considering that people have a limited window of opportunity when changing company.
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societymike, its actually 18,000 odd yen up front, while in début mode, then goes up in price after October. I know you can expand the memory with SD card, but that is like external memory, the internal memory of the phone itself is only 512mb of flash memory, a lot of people have had trouble with filling that up, as you cant install new apps to the SD.The SD may be onboard, but it is still separate from system memory. Oh and the HT-03A is the same as the HTC hero, re-branded for docomo.
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Brantastic: waiting on Android to mature and for WinMo 7 to bring it;) Getting tired of having to convert my avi files and the frustration (for me personally) that is iTunes.
Best statement yet.
Right now to me, the lack of multiple language interface is a major flaw in WM regardless of what gimmicky developments they come up with to try and be "cool" like the iPhone. I played with the android handset yesterday and was stoked when it took me all of 20 seconds to change the os to English and back. Problem with that handset seems to be that its internal memory is only around 500mb. Even if you can have up to 16GB on a mini SD, that wont be any consolation as you cant yet run applications from the SD. SOmething Im sure they will get on top of eventually.
Also, so far, one annoyance of both the iPhone and the HTC Magic, is the capacitive screens. Resistive screens can actually do everything a capacitive can with the right software behind it, but a capacitive is not made for handwriting recognition. Try writing all that kanji with your finger on one of those screens and you will understand. Having onscreen keyboard only is a drawback if you wanted to search a kanji definition, by writing it down. If you dont know the kanji, you cant type it out in kana and convert it. In fact, I like that resistive screens can be used with any object including your finger. With the latest technology on them, you can use a paintbrush on it if you so desired, in addition to multi-touch( if Appple didnt block every other company out with thier copywrite litigation)
ahh, what to do? my 2 year contract is up, and I have to choose between iPhone, WM, and android, which all have thier drawbacks, but its pointless to wait for them to combine all the good features on one device. At the moment, in my mind, I would either have to go iPhone just because its free up front, (it could take its gimmicky gadgetry and stick it otherwise), or the android thanks to its open development ethos, and non regionlisation of anything ( itunes store etc ) sigh. Maybe I should just do anything in direct opposition to apple fanbois...god forbid I become one.
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Looks like they are leaving in a huff, through a tantrum, and just dumped all their crap like that.
Posted in: Moving out
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your right, its not the soldiers job, its the people paying for and ordering them to do this stuff. And your right again, I will never understand war. I hope I never do. I will also not be able to feel that its fair for people who were most likely very poor and desperate and suffering thanks to the Taliban, to in turn suffer at the hands of their liberators. Yeah I know it will happen anyway, but it still sucks. I just see this type of thing as akin to drive by shootings, indescriminate shooting and then running away, then a pat on the back for getting away with it with your own skin intact. I do actually understand your points, and they are not wrong, I just think its screwed up we have come to this. and in my eternal pessimism I know it will never change, rather get worse. So I should probably not post my opinions because nothing makes any difference. These out numbered religious nuts wont disappear, and no matter how outmatched in numbers and technology they are,it will be another war that goes in circles without a clear winner. Only the losers will be easily identified by their dead civilian bodies. FTW
Posted in: NATO airstrike kills 90, including 40 civilians, in Afghanistan
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The question: you make human life sound like a statistic. No, they are each and everyone one of them, someone's' son or brother. I couldn't care less about modern military tactics, if you cant look a man in the eye while you take his life, you will never know the value of what you have taken.
Posted in: NATO airstrike kills 90, including 40 civilians, in Afghanistan
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I agree, that those air strikes and the collateral damage are shameful ways to avoid real fighting. If you say you are doing it for the people, you better try not to kill the people. If you don't want casualties on your own side, don't play around on a battlefield. Go home and knit. Modern warfare is like a video game, all the blood and guts you can hope for without anywhere near the risk to yourself that such destruction should warrant.
Posted in: NATO airstrike kills 90, including 40 civilians, in Afghanistan
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I heard a tale of a friend in the bureaucracy that a meeting was held for ten day to decide the name of a new office, this is the type of inefficiency and time and money wasting that can easily be fixed and is no doubt a good idea. If the point is to streamline the bureaucratic system, and have them working smarter, cheaper, and more effectively, then yeah, its a great idea, but it is a cultural issue that needs a lot of work to change - in the way that Japanese offices work. Not enough delegation, and too much patting each other on the back and talking in circles among other things. I can't see that changing very easily. But if Toyota can have an efficient assembly line, then bureaucrats and administration can develop a better system too. But who has the vision and charisma to design and get everyone to follow such a drastic change?
Posted in: DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama wants to remove power from the hands of bureaucrats. Can he do it? And is it a good idea?
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Its illegal in this country too Societymike.
Posted in: Man arrested for employing student at 'delivery' call girl business in Kanagawa
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techall: they were undercover and doing their duty,while laying back and thinking of Japan.
Posted in: Man arrested for employing student at 'delivery' call girl business in Kanagawa
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notimpressed
My thoughts exactly Timor
Posted in: Tokyo police open 2 bureaus for missing persons throughout September
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All too often, a bully is just as troubled a child as the victims, but they act out in a nastier way. Either way, perhaps going beyond punishment, and looking into the underlying causes of the bullying would be a smart way to go.
Posted in: Bullying blamed after two 13-yr-old girls jump to their deaths
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biglittleman, that was your best response yet. Case closed.
Posted in: Tattoos, rap and saggy pants
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HalcyonDaze: hahahahaha classic
Posted in: 'Inglourious Basterds' one of many tricky movie titles
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Gmme a break .... music and fashion are means of self expression, be it positive, negative, or nonsense. The moment we deem our opinions on such things to be more relevant than the right of people to express themselves in whatever way they wish, is the moment we are living in fear and repression.
I'd rather someone express their negativity through audio-visual means than physical. Can some of the posters not see that perhaps the people who make such music, felt that way in the first place? Would you even know about it if it wasn't for the freedom of self expression that we all enjoy today? You don't have to like it, you just have to have options. Listen to the music and have no other sources of information to make your own decisions? Weak excuse for bad behaviour. Never mind the music, where are the parents and the teachers of the youth, praising them when they do well, and teaching them better ways when they do wrong. Humans have that inate ability to do what they will. You can't stop artforms without forcing them underground and making them more fascinating, so stop whining and enjoy what you enjoy, promote what you promote, forget the rest. I don't have to like someones music to have an intelligent conversation with them. POsters here arguing about thier street cred, but trying to blame music for bad attitudes have missed the point. It just shows a stubborn refusal to accept reason, and the need to find a scapegoat, rather than look at ones own self, or the underlying reasons of any problem. Seriously, try digging a little deeper.
BTW, the poster who said something about killing people after listening to system of a down, thats hilarious. Comedy at its best. They sing songs that are anti-war, and do not promote violence at all. You are mistaking your own inability to control your emotions while hearing a certain type of sound with actual reality. I personally find thier music quite upbeat and happy. I would not consider it hardcore at all. The teens can have it.
oh and the writers writings are just the frustrated ramblings of an old guy who got left behind in the development of current music and styles. It happens, the youth will always question thier elders, and when they dont its stagnation. The human race as a whole, as well as individuals, explore thier options, and make mistakes and success where they find them. We all learn and move on.
I personally like lots of musical genres, i like baggy pants, but not down around my butt, and i have tattoos with a cultural significance that may escape some, but thats ok, I dont have piercings because they creep me out, but i dont mind people who do. And if you dont like me, thats ok too. DOnt blame the music, I think the most negative music I listened to over the years, probably saved me from acting out on some of the frustrations of growing up if anything. All my mistakes were my own, not some artists, and when I changed my life for the better, it was of my own free will, and I still listen to the same music, if not a broader range of tastes than before. gee, that darned rap and heavy metal music didnt do a good job of screwing me up now did it. YOur fired!! wheres a new invisible demon to blame?
Posted in: Tattoos, rap and saggy pants