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sf2k
global fishing has to take a break anyway. Australia could reply by asking Japan to make Antarctica a UNESCO heritage whale park, thus stopping whaling and solving the Sea Shepard problem.
Otherwise any other agreement with Japan just says Australia support Japanese whaling "research" in this area.
Posted in: Okada asks Australia to help stop attacks by anti-whalers
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sf2k
Global warming is not a myth. Pakistan for example, will continually run out of water from lack of mountain glaciers which fills the Indus river. It is not cold enough for the rains to freeze and in winter they will have higher evaporation and flooding. The ground is too dry so when there is water it does not stay and floods. Followed by lower river water the rest of the year and more droughts. This is one example of many.
But hey, if winter was cold where you were last year, that must be the same everywhere on earth right?
Posted in: Hatoyama pledges on world stage 25% emissions cut by 2020
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sf2k
is it human? what a ghastly photo. maybe good for hallowe'en
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sf2k
wait, did he actually call it whaling or research? Australia could then agree that violent research should be stopped, thus ending the whaling as well. ho ho... Whoops there Japan
Posted in: Okada asks Australia to help stop attacks by anti-whalers
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sf2k
The Greeks are tired of the rest of Europe disproportionally dumping new immigrants upon them, they have few resources as it is. They should take it upon themselves.
Posted in: French police bulldoze immigrant camp near Calais
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sf2k
needs a bathroom attachment, that would be more useful
Posted in: Panasonic develops bed-shaped robot transformable into wheelchair
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sf2k
sorry, that's clearly a D not a C-
Posted in: Want to read all about it online? It may cost you
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sf2k
Right, so he comes, goes to court and the court would have to prove that the slaughter of the dolphins was somehow disturbed by his presence. Parks are to protect wildlife normally. With new jury system the J-Police can't control the outcomes any more and haven't a hope if the movie is screened for the jurors. If the evidence is the movie, then they have to see it.
Posted in: 'The Cove' director risks arrest to come to Tokyo
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sf2k
they can't make money online because they are not an online business. Experience has shown me that no matter the intentions, unless online business has Internet people in the decision making process they cannot succeed.
Thus they will just shrink down to a size that is supported by ads and local subscribers. They are too big, too merged and too stupid. A lot of fluff will go, and that's a good thing.
Editors are taken to task more online, if it bleeds it leads isn't how most of us use the Internet. The level of conversation happens more readily than a newspaper could ever achieve.
When Gore noted 928 peer reviewed articles on climate change with zero articles against it, a 100% acceptance rate, the newspapers had a 53% acceptance rate. Why anyone should accept the lousy science and low C- reporting standards of newspapers is another nail in their coffin.
Good riddance to the useless news. Hello useful news
Posted in: Want to read all about it online? It may cost you
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sf2k
who cares? they're adults. The small town JT at it again.
Posted in: Figure skater Miki Ando rumored to be in love with 3-time divorcee coach
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sf2k
This is madness. If you don't want digital go back to analog. The music industry died years ago but nobody has told them yet. Musicians don't need them. Odd that France is lost on this issue.
Posted in: France approves Internet piracy bill
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sf2k
So woman who are golddiggers have no hope of being married at all. That's good news! If they have unrealistic expectations then throw them away, not the possibility of a happy life with someone.
A husband isn't a cash register
Posted in: Low-income bachelors victims of widening 'sex gap'
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sf2k
Peak Oil and Global Recession force airlines into a corner, and it won't end. I think it will go like this; Worldwide, first we'll see airlines merge to save any administration and operations costs since fuel costs don't diminish and tickets suck due to recession. Next, after that phase has run its course will be demands for nationalization or even a global merger funded by nations, as oil continues its climb higher making costs and profits impossible for a normal business. The need of airlines will be more important. After that, there will be no further domestic flights any more in order to save fuel for only over seas and oceans. Japan and Europe have trains at least. Then it'll go like the Concorde at that point.
Why all the fuss? 6% drop in oil per year, thus forced reductions. Rearrange the deck chairs around the titanic all you want, but nature bats last.
Posted in: JAL considering tie-ups with KLM, Air France or Delta
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sf2k
thanks rtega, nice to read a riff on understanding our predicament.
Posted in: Global air travel may not recover until 2011
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sf2k
That's funny, I thought the 6% to 8% drop was the dropping of the world percentage of oil production as reported by EIA and Energybulletin. Thus both the drop in demand and a drop in oil availability are going in the same direction.
What happens when one curve goes upward? Even if there is a recovery in 2011, if the oil production rate keeps falling lower and lower there will be demand destruction instead of an uptick or "expansion".
Remember, airlines are the oil canaries-in-a-coalmine, and as such where ever oil production goes, so do they. As oil production resources move downward and costs rise I expect competitors to merge first to save overhead, then after costs can't go down any further they'll demand to be nationalized, then after that fewer airlines or limited rationed days of use.
Japan is lucky, it at least has really good national railway and shinkansen. No more domestic flights are inevitable but I suspect planes and their fuel will be saved for international routes only.
Tom Whipple articles here: http://tinyurl.com/muup75 from http://www.energybulletin.net
Posted in: Global air travel may not recover until 2011
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sf2k
it's a free country (or so I've heard) and if someone wants to convince you of something they are allowed to. If you decide to go along with it, then the idea had merit.
Posted in: Taiji sets dolphins free following int'l outcry over 'The Cove'
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sf2k
probably has two slits in the back for the ambulance forklift if need be
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sf2k
overtly hilarious for the child native speaker, rather sad if pondered from the point that this is replacing the Japanese language. Other countries have mixed language usage, but no more so than in Japan. As well, people in another country are mindful to not replace their native language with English. But not Japan.
If Japanese don't want to keep their language, who else will do that for them? English is the new kanji.
I once had a conversation regarding TPO, which means time place and opportunity. I tried (in vain) to explain that this means you're going to jail by a jury and has zero romantic quality. Also TP on it's own is short for toilet paper etc.
It's not that Japanese screw up English, but they insist that they are allowed to provide new meanings to words. How is anyone supposed to understand?
But I realized later that a country where it is taboo to know your own history is also not going to know anyone else's. Hence why language as history is wholly unknown in Japan, along with word meanings
Language is about communication. Making up words may be fine for 5 year old children, but not for adults and certainly not at the expense of your own cultural heritage. New words are made all the time, but they add to language and do not subtract. Japanese by throwing away their own native words that describe things perfectly well are throwing away their history too.
Ironic because for such a xenophobic country to use so many English words would imply that it's open.
Weirdness.
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?
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sf2k
If USA and China met before the meeting as a gesture to the world that they are serious, then the Copenhagen meetup might work. Without prior serious effort, people will just go on suffering for the Boomers' way of life. If Boomers gave a damn this would change. They don't, so it won't.
Posted in: 350: The magic number
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sf2k
the main issue is really population. Control world population as a national security issue would then solve the pollution and food and oil problems. Reduced loads reduces CO2 etc.
But even a simple topic like population when compared to the USA, falls flat. USA has a birthrate in excess to a 3rd world country and does nothing to stem the 4 million more births per year. No politician can even try due to the right-wingers. I wish the world well, but it's all quite meaningless until we really do things instead of holding meetings.
If the least you can do, you can't even do, nature will decide for us and as one scientist put it: "Nature bats last"
Posted in: 350: The magic number