JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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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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sf2k
the best animation has style and is not photo realistic. It's close but the style becomes a part of it. Otherwise it's not an escape medium and you might as well use regular real actors.
Posted in: Too real means too creepy in new Disney animation
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sf2k
Yes it was a good read. Book was written in 2005 and includes more than just sumo match fixing.
Posted in: 'Freakonomics' documentary looks at sumo match-fixing scandal
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sf2k
Yeah, why let science ruin a good bias? Naps are awesome. Research shows you are also helping your memory.
Posted in: U.S. gives tired air controllers an extra hour to rest
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sf2k
just default already. The USA relying on the Chinese dictatorship for its existence has to end along with the 300 times difference in wage disparity, millionaires and billionaires milking off the population. The facade of freedom must come back to reality at some point. Not until after its collapse though
Posted in: Obama says Republican budget 'wrong for America'
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sf2k
where's the war? Normally Americans go to war on things. War on drugs, war on whatever. They need a war on debt. Declare a state of emergency, ration the nation's energy and food and get the entire economic output of the country to pay off that $14 trillion in debt. Even then it would take years. Forgo your bonuses and salaries for a couple of years. Y'know, for the country. Call it Victory Wages.
Then maybe there is a chance.
Posted in: Obama says Republican budget 'wrong for America'
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sf2k
Except this has never happened, anywhere, ever. Why do you think all your companies left? To keep profits for themselves as Job #1 to rake in even more cashola. Pretty sad. Reaganonics is a FAIL. The strongest nations in Europe who are not in a debt crisis (you know there are a lot of nations right?) have a strong social safety net, high taxes, and companies that exist. This is not rocket science.
High taxes are fine if the return from an accountable government means clean food, healthy lifestyle and free-as-in-beer healthcare paid for by taxation.
Posted in: House passes huge GOP budget cuts, opposing Obama
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sf2k
this has another 5 years to go. Ask me then
Posted in: How would you compare the roles of Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano in terms of showing leadership ability during the crisis of the past five weeks?
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sf2k
No that's just biological ignorance. Yet another facade in need of a bubble burst since so few wash their hands and think the all magical surgical mask heals all.
Masks are single use, limited time. Not daily use, all the time.
Posted in: French ban on Islamic veils put into force
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sf2k
oddly I support this. If you don't want to live in a secular country then don't live there. I applaud the French for this declaration that to live there is to be a part of society, not just pick and choose convenience. It ensures a future of at least trying for equality, rather than accepting divisions. Who knows if they will be successful, but it reflects their country, and if that's how they want to run it then that's their decision to do so.
May be it will give pause for those moving there to reconsider it, if this doesn't jive with their way of life. After all, you want some connection, not zero connection.
Posted in: French ban on Islamic veils put into force
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sf2k
..beyond ordinary greetings
Posted in: Cheer up
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sf2k
it shouldn't be rude to do nothing at all.
Posted in: Cheer up
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sf2k
why? unless he's prepared to tell Americans about their real prospects under their crushing debts but I don't think so
Posted in: Obama announces re-election bid in email to 13 mil supporters
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sf2k
too smart by half. This will end up cluttering and killing google.oom as a search engine. It will not be a boon for advertisers because they will not have a return on their investment when all those fake clicks don't materialize in real dollars. Then the advertisers will flee Google and that's when alternatives pop up.
Posted in: Google adds button to endorse search results, ads
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sf2k
did Google just jump the shark?
Posted in: Google adds button to endorse search results, ads
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sf2k
yeah, that won't get abused, not at all
Posted in: Google adds button to endorse search results, ads
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sf2k
Harper caught in his own lies last two days. He keeps bringing up coalitions but gets back in his face his own proposal for one in 2004 when he was opposition leader. D'oh. UK has one now, and we have the same/similar system of gov't. So what is he smoking?
Headlines on the subway keep picturing Harper with the words: fear, caught, and such
Our election is only 36 days, we hit the polls on May 2nd. Maybe one day he'll explain how much the new jails and jets will cost. Certainly not when he was in gov't, and now not in an election. Then when??
The Parliamentary Secretary Kevin Page responsible to keep tabs on real costs in government to avoid waste (ironically appointed by Harper in his first year of office) keeps showing up Harper and his government as the most wasteful with every report he makes! It forces Harper and his ministers to deny Mr Page's conclusions, every single time. Needless to say he has not increased Page's budget!
To be constantly woefully lying about costs, is why there is an election. This isn't about conservatives necessarily though. There was a progressive conservative party not too long ago but it got split then merged with the more religious types of the reform party in Western Canada. So there are a lot of conservative minded people thinking WTH is going on...
If our elected officials whose duty is to manage a budget, can't even do that, because they don't want to tell anyone, then they should be fired.
It's time for a change. Enough really is enough.
Posted in: Opposition brings down Canadian government
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sf2k
There are no histrionics here, everything is a matter of public record.
Posted in: Opposition brings down Canadian government
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sf2k
Harper literally couldn't spend enough. He is now on record for contempt of Parliament, a Canadian historical first. For such high and mighty conservative voters they sure are a massively hypocritical lot. All is quiet. Proposals for more jails and more jets while the Baby Boomers head into their healthcare years of dementia and hip replacements.
Also note he canned the nuclear safety chair early on and Chalk River which is responsible for 50% of the world's isotopes for medicine isn't being replaced. So the death knell to Canadian healthcare will affect more than just Canadians.
The logical and predictable disasters are allowed to continue. Baby Boomers will suffer the most ironically as they voted the most for Harper, so perhaps there's some poetic justice in that, unfortunately the authors of their own misfortune as they take us all down with them.
Posted in: Opposition brings down Canadian government
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sf2k
Harper says coalitions are illegal.. Then coalitions are bad etc. It's the only way to stop him but people believe him more than the rules of our Parlimentary system. UK has one, and many provinces in the past have used them. It's getting pretty sad when fellow Canadians ane being played off their ignorance.. I fear for what's left of my democracy if the conservatives win again
Posted in: Opposition brings down Canadian government
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sf2k
oh, and our national census has been cancelled. There is a short form left, but the long form, the one where decisions are made by thousands has been cancelled.
Posted in: Opposition brings down Canadian government