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Yeah please don't stereotype Aussies as drinkers who can't control themselves after they have had one…
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Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
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Posted in: Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'
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Posted in: Meisa Kuroki cancels appearance at March 4 event for fans
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Posted in: Former gang member shot dead in Denny's restaurant in Chiba
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sf2k
oh and reduce drinking milk as well.
Posted in: 90% of Americans eat too much salt: study
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sf2k
reduce eating meat. The body only needs about a deck of cards worth a week, so it can be reduced significantly. Make the salad the main dish. Eat more fish.
Other countries do it just fine. It isn't differential calculus
Posted in: 90% of Americans eat too much salt: study
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sf2k
maybe learn how to cook?
Posted in: 90% of Americans eat too much salt: study
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sf2k
look up the Okinawan diet, an examination of why traditional Okinawans and not those who have adopted an American diet live longer with less disease and stress. The social interaction alone would however mean that Americans put down the guns and start helping each other. Highly doubtful that the solutions that are shown to work could even work in such an environment of ignorance and fear.
No one is pointing to the network regarding allowing this chef's show on the air. No one wants to take responsibility. This just underlines the incapacity of a once prosperous country
Posted in: After diabetes diagnosis, U.S. celebrity chef feels heat
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sf2k
Not sure how anyone could call the Japanese diet in comparison to the American one given the thinness of Japanese versus the landmass rotund of Americans
Posted in: After diabetes diagnosis, U.S. celebrity chef feels heat
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sf2k
Agree with comments above. If the salary isn't worth it, I am not helping the company by wasting both theirs and my time by not asking about it. You don't even have to be specific, just within the industry range what range is it and where on the scale is it? If they don't value you, why should the interviewer?
Posted in: Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'
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sf2k
This is too bad. If some interviewer were to actually get to know who is it they have in front of them, they'd have a real conversation and get real positive employees.
Posted in: Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'
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sf2k
In a rare moment of transparency, Japanese are shocked! That's pretty scary in of itself
Posted in: Azumi under fire for revealing forex intervention level
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sf2k
not much in Canada at all. Give the snow back. Please?
Posted in: Northern Japan braces for more snow; 83 deaths, 1,184 injuries reported
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sf2k
stop! or I'll say stop again
Posted in: Japan 'should watch' China's naval reach: report
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sf2k
as nutty as sora no ki
Posted in: Tokyo Sky Tree's two observation decks named
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sf2k
hold your own in Kendo, that always goes over well
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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sf2k
@malfupete
Canadian University for us is where we start to get serious about academic issues and courses. Thus exams are at the end of each semester or year depending on the university style. We don't have entrance exams in junior and senior highschool and university like Japan but you're carried through just by passing. No pressure at all.
University does have entrance marks and the levels vary depending on the program of interest, but still not an entrance exam. Thus the system has a teaching purpose through each level of the year in study making exams required. This is usually the first time students are challenged and forced to really work hard. I don't think this is unusual outside of Japan
The issue is that memorization isn't helping Japan anymore and the educational system needs to allow people to grow in university rather than depending on business to do it.
University grade level minded people or those of even older years should start their own businesses. The level of entrepreneurial activity in Japan is remarkable low compared to other countries. Quite literally no one can even think of working for themselves. I know many talented people but they are afraid to try and I'm always saddened when their work for a large company, never to use their real skills again.
Posted in: Japan job treadmill grinds down workers and firms
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sf2k
why is this being developed at all? Invisibility will only be used for ill will.
Posted in: New material takes 3D 'invisibility cloak' a step closer
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sf2k
I realize the Japanese health insurance system is more like the USA than those in other countries with healthcare systems paid for by taxes. In other countries the decision to deny children healthcare is never made. I simply can't imagine
Posted in: Gov't says no to free medical care for children under 18 in Fukushima
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sf2k
what an appalling statement. Please Japan, stand up for your suffering children.
Posted in: Gov't says no to free medical care for children under 18 in Fukushima
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sf2k
The governments are not tech savvy enough to understand that this is all turning into a global monopoly. It's time we broke it up ourselves using the free tools that are available. This gives me a reason to learn programming again so at least I'm technical. I'm sure there are many who wouldn't mind not being Googled or FB'd in the future.
Diversity gives the Internet strength and it's looking time to diversify
Posted in: Facebook IPO could value it among top companies
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sf2k
This is nuts. So I and all my information plus yours and everyone elses is worth billions? We decry government prying into our privacy but we gave it away to Facebook who monetized it. Ridiculous. It's not worth billions if we gave it away. This is the ultimate shill corporation. Literally made of clouds.
With Google and Facebook and even Twitter of late caving into bans and merging accounts and selling out our privacy, I'm tending to go it alone. There is free server software out there like Diaspora and others that I realize I don't need to be opening myself to be monetized, slaved into someone elses business plan. Diaspora can also log into FB and act as an interface so I'm looking to start using it before the "Timeline" facelift myspace replacement takes hold.
It all is based on email connections so it looks like I'll have to secure my email on its own server at any rate, then start from there.
Posted in: Facebook IPO could value it among top companies
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sunhawk
Japan is America's arms dealer
Posted in: Noda struggles to conquer Japan's debt mountain
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sf2k
since Japan will avoid making a decision, one will eventually be imposed on Japan by the markets. Or maybe a slow down scaling of economic capacity will just continue until nothing can be paid for.
Given this and the national tendency to look inward, Japan will go back to a self imposed exile. I'm trying to think what can alter this trajectory but I don't see it.
Posted in: Noda struggles to conquer Japan's debt mountain