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
oh and learn Linux, you're an adult now.
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friends don't let friends use IE. Use firefox or kazehakase or whatever.
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first sorry for the long post. Some ideas to seriously consider. This is for starters the number one warning sign from a canary. The airlines are canaries of world Peak Oil. Always watch the canaries.
You all make valid points. Use land to grow food to eat. Use land to grow food to fly. Pick one. (fly!) Wrong!
On top of that no biofuel on earth can create the same amount of energy as kerosene jet fuel so you're not going to go the same distance for the same amount of full tank. The kilojoules would not be equivalent. So, you'd need more tanks, which makes the plane heavier etc and the range goes down again. You can't win. It's the old polish rug trick, cut a bit from the top and sew it to the bottom. It's not hot swappable. It's a no go. It's a dead parrot. Bad idea. Bad.
How about this: If you'd just fly 1/3rd less you'd save the fuel and not burden crop yields for flights, and maybe use your local trains more (if over land). Or if you use 1/2 the fuel and create an emergency fuel reserve with the rest that would also help supplies.
Most biofuel is an ERoEI (energy returned on energy invested) energy loser, and does not scale commerically. Unless this is hand grown and sown with oxen there is nothing sustainable about it. It's fine for local use, but that's about it. You basically run out of land or use too much energy in creating, refining and shipping it as you get bigger. Oh yeah, they would have to ship it wouldn't they? Kinda defeats the purpose slightly. The shipping ship/plane wouldn't run on it. If it did it would run out of fuel before it arrived. You'd have to send twice the number of ships to cover the 2/3rds lost by the ships! Sweet irony.
As the beginning indicated, this is important. Put another way, not a single one of us is going to fly in the years ahead as oil dwindles anyway. Between 5 and 7 years, but no more. Mexico Oil will go bust in 3 years, which will start a chain reaction and make supplies tight. Oh, and on top of that, the IEA Paris World Report from Nov 2008 has stated a worldwide oil decline rate of 6.7% per year! That's about 50% less oil in ten years, with a growing global population. I'm saying 5-7 because I don't think it will be so smooth.
We might avoid this stark decline due to the global recession/depression, but it's over for airlines everywhere. Airlines are going out of business at about 30 a year, and increasing. That means we're probably going back to ships!
Travel sooner rather than later if you can. And always watch the market to see how many have gone. Count the canaries.
Follow the train of thought (or plane of thought in this case har har) at http://www.theoildrum.com/ on a variety of topics. bittorrent/Google/View "The End of Suburbia" documentary then use current stats.
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sf2k
question is a bit odd; are outpatient services also emergencies? To the point though is that you have nurses turn them away at the hospital and direct them to a local clinic. If there is no local clinic then see a family doctor. If there is no family doctor then to hospital. rinse. repeat.
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it's called SOCAN here... Society for Composers Artists and Music Publishers of Canada : www.socan.ca
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don't know why Japan is following the USA style model where even 9 year olds are sued. Japan has a long history of cooperation rather than stifiling innovation technically, why should copyright/copyleft be any different? You make a product but if you redistribute for commercial use, then you pay. Owner has the right to charge for everything or just commercial use. Most don't do this as ie: music is better when people hear it. If they hear it they'll go to concerts. Canadians pay a tax on media, that tax goes to musicians who get a lot of air time on radio or other media. If Napster was in Canada it wouldn't not have been sued, as the taxes mean than people paid. The USA is not an ideal or even welcome example. A tax on media provides the middle road on redistribution to the artist, not to the mega-corporation, which is why they hate it.
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sf2k
haha... thanks for the laugh. I still don't know what the heck this is... is she going to explain heroine injections, marajuana, aids, guns, then say have a nice trip? huh?
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piezoelectricity works at small changes so it would work at a normal volume. I suppose the American models would last longer though haha. The problem is that is rewards long talkers, the most annoying aspect of calls. but even button pushing would produce electricy so it's not just voice that would do it. text'ing is far more common, so as long as the potential energy in pushing the button is more than the display it could work. we'll have to see what they do.
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latenights;
yes, but easier to take the mass of the train, which is much larger, and put it through heavy magnets on the station tracks while it stops and generate much more direct electricity. Regenerative braking performs like this. It could possibly be both on the train and on the station. Trains only have it built in currently since it's cost effective to do so. Platform magnets would be more expensive but maybe less inverter problematic as electric2004 suggested.
the wind generation could be put just below the platform as the trains pass above the magnets, so yeah I could imagine that it would produce something, but I wonder if it would be worth the effort. Another experiment please! everything helps
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thanks electric2004 for the info on ICE trains.
I was refreshing my memory on piezoelectricity on wikipedia, and an American university is working on using the piezo effect to charge a cellphone by just talking on it, which sounds promising. For micro electronics finding means of recharging seems to be getting easier. Seriously though if we just rode bikes more often the energy is there already.
For a city or a commuter that's quite a different matter. Maybe have gyms that put all that mechanical energy to use would be better than cattle calls? It really gets down to just recycling everything and increasing efficiencies rather than making more supply. What I like to call saving from declines.
when oil cuts off Japan in 3 years this will start getting serious instead of these nice toys. (My Peak Oil inferrence on the IEA report Paris November 2008). Given communities in Japan though that have hot springs and whose cities are generally well organized locally, Japan can fair quite well. It's really just about how to move around? Or more about having a purpose to the trip. If more people lived locally they wouldn't need the train as often.
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just one last idea....;) why not generate energy from the trains as they enter the station? you're never going to get perpetual motion no matter which idea is used, so these are all exersizes in saving from declines. ie: regenerative braking etc. but reclaiming some efficiencies instead would do a whole lot more. Otherwise it's like throwing out bicycles while recycling yogurt cups.
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heck, why not put a bowling ball on the arm of the gate, then move it back and forth all day long? Bigger mass, make it lightly magnetic and it'll make way more energy. It'll be perfectly weird for Japan too
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Good idea anyway; proof of concept.
how about those heavy doors for entrances or exits? Or revolving doors? wouldn't you make more energy from moving turnstiles and doors connected to generators rather than minor piezoelectrics? then they wouldn't waste all that electricity for control systems. Instead, use a water pump, and as they walk through, water is pumped vertically into a container. Then the water downwards can make a consistent electricity like a waterwheel. Again probably not much, but not zero either.
this is all mechanical-age stuff, clocks, gears, potential energy etc. digital age can't compete as it always takes electricity for itself first. Basic use of Thermal is always easier (and cheaper) than swanky solar panels and gadgets.
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oh I found it... he goes to drink it but we don't see it actually.. anyway enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTWqRkBN74
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thanks Himajin. I was thinking more of the "will it blend?" series on youtube which also rocks. http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=K0m4x0y3QNw This is a Coke + Chicken blend. Then the guy drinks it!
either the okonomiyaki are extrodinarily small or this robot is extrodinarily huge. It's not what I want, so it's not okonomiyaki haha.
get me a ramen making robot for goodness sakes, why the delay?
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so a business is complaining in a bad economy of too much business?? People are weird to blind live auctions taking place. Those flashes can be pretty annoying. So why not build a stand or something, maybe a glass thunderdome. y'know..make a buck. Sell it like fish-theatre
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Pakistan is in danger of becoming a failed state. I'm pretty amazed it hasn't happened yet. Any thoughts? Lack of food, oil expenses no longer subsidized, and lack of exports means bankruptcy isn't far behind. It's always number on a failed state list, even ahead of North Korea. The nuclear threat between India is also the most troubling.
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sf2k
clearly not a math class
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sf2k
how about...you just learn to cook? and count? this is pretty lazy. Why not just make a robot blender then you can drink it from a straw. would work with big macs and fries too haha.
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All that allows evil like this to exist is that good people do nothing. This man needs an example of what hate brought to this earth. Send him to Poland now, and take the tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau. There is a price to the world of forever being viligant against the likes of Gen Tamogami. This is a world lesson not just German. Nor is Japan ever absolved by ignorance. Nor is anyone.
Sadly no one can question him because they don't teach history in Japan as far as I can tell. Ignore it, it will just go away is not how evil is beaten. It's through example, through dialog, and through real remorse. Germany has worked tirelessly on remorse. You can't get rid of idiots, we all have them, but at least they have a hate law, that it is a crime to deny the Holocaust or promote hate. Japan should pass a similar law and make this tool do community service.
Arbeit macht frei
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