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Scrote: "It's interesting that minister Edano sent his family to Singapore shortly after the nuclear disaster."…
Posted in: Official defends secrecy over worst-case nuclear disaster scenario
That is, the wife pronounces "Not over my dead body!" And means it.
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
@sillygirl LOL....you're so silly! Oden is probably my all-time favorite Japanese dish...especially when my friends and…
Posted in: Try some dessert oden
Universal Music Group... owned by Vivendi, a French company, did the same when Amy Winehouse died.…
Posted in: Remembering
But most of the general population doesn't know much about Santorum and have liitle knowledge of…
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thedeath
sorry,
18-19th > 80-90
Posted in: U.N. says climate finale may have happy ending
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thedeath
other - drawing or image of the sun and perhaps the moon too. it is depended on culture.
Posted in: What do you think is the most recognizable image in the world?
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thedeath
willib, you know it easy to say that. and you know you don't have much fact to show actuary.
back in 18-19th, global warming wasn't in anyone attention. it wasn't a point to ask for more money support, not even a point of business gain. but yet the data during that time already show the rising.
Posted in: U.N. says climate finale may have happy ending
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thedeath
that is selective evidence and argument. that is the same old trick you guys always point out. give me something new please! everyone know that we start record way longer than 5 years.
there are unusual warm year that make the years follow seem to be cooler, but why you look at the longer corrected data, no! the temperature doesn't get any cooler.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/
Posted in: U.N. says climate finale may have happy ending
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thedeath
yeah, it cool enough to melt ice. the logic's make sense! by the way you turn on heater so that you can get cooler during summer?
Posted in: U.N. says climate finale may have happy ending
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thedeath
What new technology sony will use in their new 3D tv? glasses!?
Sony doesn’t even have its own display technology and buy most if not all of its panel from Samsung.Study a bit before pay for the over price sony, many will find that a lot of cheaper brand that sell LCD monitor and LED backlight TVs in the market are also using the same panel as sony which is supplied by sumsung.
Posted in: Jackson film not part of Sony's new 3-D vision
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thedeath
nopoint to as, everyone in that region only point finger at one another and seem like they really need a war. so let it be. hope that next war, they can do it better than 6 days!
Posted in: Defiant Iran vows to enrich uranium even more
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thedeath
Navi Pillay it is not “anti-foreigner scare-mongering” the swiss is just ban the construction of "new" minarets across the country.
they did not order it to be destroyed, hang whoever build it or call for the death to ...foreigner like some peace lover chanted death to America and Israel as we just saw in iran's hajj.
don't blame people who fear of the Islam's bad image. nobody give islam the image they have today. it is the muslim build the bad image for islam. blame them and ask them to stop that.
Posted in: U.N. slams 'discriminatory' Swiss minaret ban
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thedeath
i thought this people make money off advertising!
Posted in: Murdoch: Media must get readers to pay for online news
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thedeath
throwing a shoe is still far better than throw a hand grenade at anyone.
Posted in: Iraqi shoe-thrower finds out what it was like
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thedeath
sorry,
fixable > flexible
Posted in: Do you think exchange rates should be fixed?
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thedeath
i do aware, and i do know quite a few. i know what they are trying to do to fix it also do know why they want to bring china back to the game.
are you? you might know a lot than me, could you elaborate it? you still haven't clarify me of how the fix exchanged rate could benefit any good to japanese's economic. i did explain you how i think it won't benefit her.
actually from your answer about push yen to the same level with Yuan, i don't think you aware of the rule of the game everyone trying to push it to use today.
if we can bring china back to play the same rule as everyone do, it would bring the balance back. it will benefit a lot more to both developing and developed countries. and governments around the world would never have to intervene in the money market much. i don't see cheating the rule can fix anyone problem. it will just hurt more people and when people get hurt get angry, they will pay us back the long run.
by the way
he put "the" brake on the Malaysian currency collapse, and that just happen to be only "a" brake on the crisis in the region. i don't want to give him the credit he doesn't deserve. after he freeze malaysian money "in the country", the crisis haven't slowed down at all. it still movie on to hongkong and south korea. hit them very hard, japan was partly effected too. it need a lot of government from both heavily effected and partly effected country work together and implement a new safer way of handle their own currency and business grow to actuary stop it.
one of the new way they use with their exchange rate is fixable rate system. and they are still using it today.
Posted in: Do you think exchange rates should be fixed?
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thedeath
@apecNetworks
I can not see what good for japan if she fix the exchange rate. Can you clarify what good she will benefit?
I can see one thing happen for sure if she do that. The G8 / G7 / WTO will kick japan out of the comity and possible (just a possibility) scansion of Japanese product too. that I can not see as a benefit to japan.
fix exchanged rate will not reflect the real demand of foreign currency in the country. it will also close the door of trading balance system which will only work in the flexible exchange rate system.
Simple say, when you buy one foreign product way more than you sell it out to that country. that particular foreign currency will be in height demand. If it has been going on long enough, it will push that foreign currency’s value higher therefore later it will push its import price higher too. and the higher price will reduce your domestic demand later. That is a healthy balance in the free market. no one can take advance too much for too long. The market will adjust and re-balance its self.
Look at the Chinese fix exchanged rate have done to the world today. It make its currency way lower than it should be. That makes every thing made in china so cheap, and it kill a lot of other 3 rd world country economic that play by the rule of the free market. it also hurt exporting countries like japan even EU and American got hurt because their products simply can not compete with the price offered by Chinese producer. When a country with economic and market side like china does that, it destroys all the balance in the free market. That creates a lot more problem to everyone. Do I have to clarify anymore than this? If your idea has been approve by a constitution like IMF, you should know this basic idea of free trade.
Fix exchange rate also open doors for any attacker as I said “learn from the last Southeast Asia financial crises and think again.”
If you read carefully what Mahathir said about George Soros you would know it. And if you analyze why Soros successfully attack the Thai currency you would be able to see that fix exchanged rate was playing a major roll there. Stupidity of thai government at the time that took all the country reserve to protect its currency did the finish off. I views Mahathir’s way of stop the attack as a smart short term solution. And that was during the region under financial attack. Don’t mix up with the problem we are facing today.
And why I say it will never work with a massive economic size like the Japanese one? That simply say, japan is not Malaysia. Japan need trade partner world wild. Destroy the trust by try to cheat the market? You will see what G8/G7 and WTO can do to japan. And japan is not china where she can produce cheap stuff feet the greedy investors.
Posted in: Do you think exchange rates should be fixed?
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thedeath
if anyone want to see another side of argument.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-hackers-leaked-emails
and
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/stolen-cru-emails-who-areb366474.html
Posted in: Climategate: The fix is in
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thedeath
try northern thailand first! i don't know if government overthere successfully stop the problem yet, but it was real and many family did it in common when i was there. i heard that Cambodia also has the same problem going on for sometime now.
i guess when the economic go south, some (sick) people will start to put their children on sale!
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thedeath
lol yeah look at arctic and antarctic today. it's getting cooler now a day!
Posted in: Christmas lights return to Omotesando after 11 years
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thedeath
Mahathir fix malaysia economic with a short cut, and it seem to work with malaysia's size of economic. it is not for the japanese size of economic. at the time some financial institution didn't even accept malysia money. or if they did, they will have another rate for it. it is not the rate that used in malaysia. one currency 2 vaule, it won't work with a massive economic size like the japanese one.
Posted in: Do you think exchange rates should be fixed?
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thedeath
ha ha
Posted in: Less for Moore
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thedeath
learn from the last southeast asia economic crises and think again. fix currency doesn't help anything.
Posted in: Do you think exchange rates should be fixed?
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thedeath
whoever involve with this (sony?) seem to make a lot of money already. they made like $67 millon in a week or two. can they yet pay back the city of LA for jackson's private funeral? it is only $1.4 million.
Posted in: Jackson's 'This Is It' documentary to be released on DVD on Jan 27