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sarcasm123
Experiments do not stop and go home at 5PM at night.
If you are working with cells, doing a time series experiment where you pick up samples at 1h, 2h, 4h, 6h, 8h, 12h, 16h, 24h, 48h, etc after some stimulation guess what happens? You will have to be in the lab at moments when normal people are not working. If you are going to do research this is something you know before you even start.
If some people can't accept this, fine. But don't complain afterwards when some other guy gets the better papers, and the promotion.
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Haha, "high-speed trains", in Belgium?? Good one! :P
Posted in: At least 18 killed in Belgian train collision
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Did he fall or was he pushed....? He unlocked the window, opened the window, climbed out of the window, released one hand, was hanging there with on one hand, and then, yes, then someone pushed him.
So, did he fall or was he pushed? Both of course.
Posted in: Asashoryu's retirement: Did he fall or was he pushed?
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Only if the average is equal to the median, which is not necessarily true.
Posted in: The dumbing down of Japanese students
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There are some classes of people who want to go live in Japan:
some can study -> they enter a university in Japan
some can work -> they enter a company in Japan
some can do something else -> they do whatever they do in Japan
some can do none of the above -> they become English teachers in Japan
Posted in: The state of the language school industry
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All the best to these REAL scientists. I hope they get papers in top journals, with great findings. Unlike the Japanese "researchers" publishing in "Proceedings of the whale meat fan club" journal they print by themselves.
Posted in: Researchers sail to study Antarctic whales
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But there the males are foreigners.
Thus, Japanese women get objectified, foreigners get objectified. You could say that all 2nd class humans get objectified.
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And does the Japanese law state that anyone can be asked to open their bags at any time at any place without apparent reason?
I think not.
Posted in: Nowadays, everyone is a mark in Roppongi. I don't like being made a mark of.
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Haaa, yeah, Friends. We used to watch the first 5 minutes of a show every once in a while and predict how it would end. Most of the time we got it right. Predictable stuff.
Posted in: What are your most fondly remembered TV shows?
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sarcasm123
What is this Buddhism talk about a SHINTO ritual?
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Hi roomtemperature,
So a desperate attempt and purposely moving forward are the same thing to you? Interesting.
Getting desperate???
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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Yet when I see the footage from the third ship I see it turn to the right to ram the Ady Gil. Amazing that this ship which is "not easy to veer" could, well, veer into the direction of the Ady Gil.
Also, what guest wrote is correct. I saw a stationary Ady Gil, that only started moving forward when a collision was sure to happen. Probably a reaction made in a desperate attempt to avoid the whaling ship.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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There is no doubt in my mind that the SM did veer a little toward the Ady Gil but there is also no doubt in my mind that the Ady Gil PURPOSELY shot forward toward the SM as well. Both sides made some stupid moves there. With regard to this specific incident, neither side has the right to whine about being the victim. The SM was much bigger and should not have made that turn toward such a small vessel and the AG was so much smaller, knew the rules of the seas, yet the skipper chose to move forward even further into harm's way just for the sake of making it all look more provocative. If SS were looking to win any extra support with their stunts, they failed miserably on getting mine.
If anything, I think they are breeding a kind of disrespect from most of the general population toward their organization. Worse, by doing these things that most are beginning to think are assanine, they are desensitizing many people to their cause.
Seriously, what does throwing acid at a whaling ship, casting nets and ropes in the water to get caught in the whaler's screws, illegally boarding another vessel, and ramming a huge steel hull with their cardboard boat do for awareness about whaling???? NOTHING! There is not one bit of information or education I gleaned from any of their activities over the past few years other than: 1. Their crew have good throwing arms. and 2. Big ships can crack open the front end of little dingys disguised as the Batmobile.
Give me something real about the plight of whales and then I might actually sit up, listen, and give a S***.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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Nonsense, they are NOT conducting research.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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In this case only when the goal is research. However, we all know that Japan's goal is 1. to eat whale meat (or at least pretend to be eating it), and 2. to p*ss everyone off. Hence, the whalers are illegal (too).
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bamboohat, gave a look at the video shot from the Bob Barker. You can see the whaling ship make a turn to the right just to ram the other ship.
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Hm, I wouldn't send it to buy condoms if it was covered with spikes, if I were you.
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Don't eat in the restaurant of this hotel. It is expensive, and portions are small. Unfortunately, there are no other places to eat in the neighborhood, except for some very old soba restaurant.
Also, I saw a cockroach just ouside my room when I stayed there.
For the rest, a very interesting place to stay.
Posted in: Hakone's Fujiya Hotel full of history
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I think you learned today that eating whales is only a minor habit in Japan.
Posted in: Australian PM threatens legal action against Japan over whaling
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I am happy to see that you admit that eating whale meat was only a minor habit before 1910. I am even willing to admit that many Japanese might have eaten whale during the period between 1910 and 1960. Now, however, whaling is again a minor habit. There is no need to make minor (stupid) habits (like chikan, telling lies, or whaling) into a major habit.
There is also no reason to continue stupid habits. Do you hear Americans saying that the US should continue slavery "because it is our tradition"? No, you don't. This is because Americans are not as stupid as you are.
I don't care what Australians say or do. You are focussing too much on Australia, my dear. Japanese are making a fool of themselves in front of the entire world, not only in front of the Australians. So, I don't care what Australians say or do. I care about the stupid habits of Japanese.
(That being said, I would not be surprised if eating kangaroos is not an older habit than eating whales. So, perhaps eating kangaroo is a more important part of the human culture than eating whales?)
Making eating whale meat just a minor habit. I know it, you know it (now).
Not "even more widely", because if was not flourishing at all before 1910. I do agree that it started to flourish after 1910 though, thanks to the Norwegian whaling method. This also leads us to the fact that hunting for whales is a more important part of the Western culture than it is of the Japanese culture. Western countries have been hunting whales for a much longer time, and at higher numbers than Japanese have. So, following your logic, it would be a good thing for all those Western countries to continue whaling. Luckily, Western people are not as stupid as the Japanese.
Yes, written by people who know nothing about whaling history in Japan, like you.
Posted in: Australian PM threatens legal action against Japan over whaling