JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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sf2k
the point of the triathlon and other human activity is about accomplishment. Replacing human accomplishment is weird and oddly traitorous. Like Big Blue playing Jeopardy. Take the human out of the activity and it is no longer a human activity.
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sf2k
This just ensures that Japan falls even further behind and never learns a language properly. China, Vietnam and other Asian countries do not have this problem, only Japan. There is always an urge to make it sound Japanese rather than just respecting Japanese and English as two separate languages. Thus by not caring about language failure is assured. I believe this stems from Japanese not having a history. Learning history is bad, so this means that language is always remade, and as a consequence so is English. However no one knows what the changes are except Japanese, making their English effectively a dialect of Japanese
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sf2k
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -- YogiBerra
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sf2k
Nakamozu is great.
The whole point of a second test is to ensure it isn't a false positive reading. Given the negative tests I can't see how they can justify the reprimand.
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sf2k
edojin
sounds pretty fatalistic. Just keep doing what you're doing even though you know it's wrong? I don't know what kind of life that is
Posted in: Post-tsunami Japan sticking with nuclear power
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sf2k
all he had to do was invite others to visit and tell him he's wrong, show a little backbone. Instead the LDP probably received a bonus fee from the nuclear industry by now
Posted in: Industry minister resigns after 8 days over 'town of death' comment
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sf2k
and the bar gets higher and higher to the point where no one can say or do anything. How is Japan supposed to have a frank discussion about anything after this?
Posted in: Industry minister resigns after 8 days over 'town of death' comment
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sf2k
what gets me on Windows 7 are the constant security updates of 5 to 20 MB in size almost every week. It would have to be a pretty active changelog for anything comparable to that in Linux. There are security fixes being made there too, but on no where close the scale and expense of Microsoft. The cost of constant security patches might outdo its product portfolio at some point? Probably a long way yet
Posted in: Half of world's PCs use pirated software: survey
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sf2k
as an Linux user all the software is free. When you get off Windows you no longer have to cheat to get working software. It just exists. Lots and lots of it. I have since returned to Windows 7 for work and paid for the software. I guess I'm rare?
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sf2k
proves who owns the media and what messages get reported and how.
Posted in: Industry minister resigns after 8 days over 'town of death' comment
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sf2k
In Canada anyway Hallowe'en except for the candy isn't much of a commercial holiday. It's one spent with friends and family and follows Canadian Thanksgiving earlier in the month, making October about harvest, appreciation and family. Black, Orange, Red and Gold colours like those of the changing leaves. The fall colours are always inspiring. Kinda like hanami but without the picnic.
Amazingly and thankfully it's not anywhere close to the commercial industrial nightmare like Christmas has become. It's actually almost like a holiday is supposed to be. Then from Nov 1st onwards starts the Christmas shopping ads.
So for me the contrast to this Japanese season appears quite clownish and uneducated, sorry. There was a lot more to offer than this.
Posted in: Universal Studios Japan kicks off Halloween season
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sf2k
Huh? Hallowe'en is an end of October festival. You dress up as a dead person to not be haunted by th ghosts who walk the night. Usually a fun party. I love cooking pumpkin seeds. The date at least is a 1000 year old pagan festival.
This announcement reminds me of Japan having Oktoberfest in July. Another insane change.
This is pretty annoying. What is the point of co-opting holidays from other countries if you change the date and intentions? Other countries who also take in holidays from other places don't change the date or intention so wildly.
It would be nice if Japan could respect something
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sf2k
it's a trap
Posted in: China's Wen pledges to improve ties with Japan
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sf2k
no news of course about how the LDP set the foundation of this disaster with decades of corruption. I fail to see how Kan can possible be held responsible under such a feckless and irrational media and public.
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sf2k
How many countries with low corporate tax rates also has high paying jobs though? Paying taxes means that to avoid paying taxes companies invest in their companies since they are taxed on income not investments. By building a bigger pie their overall effectiveness increases. With low taxes there is no incentive to innovate nor invest in people. The money stays in their pockets. The American style has been to cut wages and staff and ask for more productivity to the people who remain. The result has gutted what manufacturing used to exist.
While Europe is in the doldrums, the high taxed high investment Scandinavians states are fine. It's about approach. The American one is a failure, so continuing with a failed system isn't how it's going to be fixed. Taxes need to be raised. Funny enough Reagan did that in the 80's along with removing loopholes for corporate and rich cheats resulting in 7 years of prosperity, starting from a recession I might add. This is an inconvenient history.
There has to be a price of citizenship. Paying for services needed is how a community improves. Weirdly, this is lost in America.
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sf2k
That appears to be an oxymoron, since only laws would provide certainty. Where does this disconnect from reality come from?
Posted in: Obama says Congress must pass job program
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sf2k
replace in the last sentence ", so do everything possible" with ", but do everything possible"
Posted in: Obama says Congress must pass job program
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sf2k
Term confusion one: I notice that the terms are a means of subterfuge; regulation is from a corporation perspective, yet citizens in a country follow laws. America seems to only have regulations, not laws. It's important to create the illusion that no one has any responsibilities, are not to give to their country, and if not allowed to do whatever they want are thus being held back. It's weird. Greed has destroyed the country, and laws need to be put in place. Call them what they are.
Term confusion two: people and government. It would seem in order to win any argument it is important to rail against government as harming people at all times, when governments are formed by elected people. Makes no sense. I guess with such a low voter turnout people don't even connect to the idea that they could be represented. Thus if they rail against government they are railing against the corporate control of that government not the people, so do everything possible to ensure more corporate control, not more people control. Crocodile tears
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sf2k
not all Wall Street just those who were responsible for their greedy and foolish actions.
Kind of like TEPCO in Japan. How is one supposed to feel confident when the people who just ruined the place are still left to run it?
Same solution for both. Put responsible people in jail. Send a message that this isn't acceptable.
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sf2k
Without putting Wall Street people in jail nor raising taxes on the super rich, I fear for the future of America.
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