JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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timtak
Another question for the meeting: Are comparisons between the different way in which food protein is obtained relevant to this debate?
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timtak
Why do they even meet these people? There is civilisation for you.
I am not sufficiently civilised that if a dolphin hunter came to my abbatoir (or vice-versa) I would give him the time of day.
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timtak
I think that KSB1978 is right. Japanese men are similar to Western girls. And Japanese girls are similar to Western men, they patronise their partners and put up with a little selfishness as long as their partner gives them what they need.
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timtak
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timtak
Nice article. I agree. There are some things that Japanese service can do better though. For example Western service aims at giving the customer the freedom of choice, whereas Japanese service aims at giving the customer the best that the service personnel believe the customer wants. If you believe that you know what you want more than anyone else, then Western service is for you. If you know that you want to leave it up to experts, to provide you with the best, in season, in the most appetizing combinations, then go with traditional Japanese service. Freedom is not all fun.
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timtak
"Fishermen cpture fish, but free young" My goldfish are aware.
Posted in: Taiji kills dolphins but frees young
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timtak
“Before then, I never had the experience of working,” Oh you poor boy.
I generally disapprove of the death penalty...
Posted in: Ichihashi sends letter of apology to Hawker's parents
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timtak
OOh, I hate conversation view too. And it was a drawback when trying to persuaded people to open gmail accounts because they were used to outlook, yahoo, and other email software that does not bundle mail together. Now I only need to work out how to turn it off.
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timtak
If Japanese parents can keep custody of their children and divorce, many of them will divorce because in a sense many of them they are "divorced within the home" anyway. The are so estranged partly because so much emphasis is placed upon keeping children with their mothers.
Perhaps the Japanese can award dual custody to non-Japanese parents. But then Japanese parents will demand it too. In Japan it is not the (dream of romantic) "love", but the children that are the glue, or rather "children are staples" as the Japanese saying goes.
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timtak
tigermoth
Quite so. And just because you believe FIMA/NIST does not make them true either, but who here is saying that saying that your opininions are like bigfoot or Nostradamus, or hocus pocus?
By saying that the other side of an argument is hocus pocus, then you are in a sense already on your way out of the room. You are shutting dialogue down.
And the end of dialogue is a sad thing, it seems to me, as the "scumbag" pointed out.
Posted in: U.S. walks out on Ahmadinejad U.N. speech after 9/11 remark
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timtak
If the representatives of the American people refuse to even listen to the opinions of the other side they have effectively banned discourse, at least at this level.
The delegates are those of the American people. It is their job to represent the American people in dialogue at the UN. By choosing to leave the UN at this time, a political decision was made remove the American people from the debate on the cause of 9/11.
Fortunately they are still free to debate it on the Internet.
Posted in: U.S. walks out on Ahmadinejad U.N. speech after 9/11 remark
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timtak
Ahmadinejad called for establishment of an independent fact-finding U.N. body to probe the attacks and stop it from turning into another sacred issue where “expressing opinion about it won’t be banned”.
It seems that the US did exactly what the Iranian president was saying should be avoided - an issue that (like the holocaust) can not be discussed. Expressing opinion has effectively been banned, at least in front of US deligates.
It was almost as if the US deligates were paid by the Iranian prez. "Get up and leave half way through my speech, to prove that you are unable to discuss this issue, and when you get outside compare us to anti-Semites."
Trouble is there are people that speak about it. "He did not explain the logic of that statement" He might have mentioned
http://buildingwhat.org/
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timtak
Or they might rather try to encourage China to stop controlling its exchange rate.
Posted in: Sharp president calls for more action to contain strong yen
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timtak
Would the Chinese, and Taiwanese accept a share arrangement? If so, it seems like a good idea.
Posted in: Who has the best claim to the Senkaku Islands: Japan, China or Taiwan?
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timtak
My computer uses a solid state hard drive.
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timtak
Pear Harbour!
No Country for Old Men was brilliant like a really good dentist.
Dune by David Lynch (though I worship some of his others). Likewise, Kill Bill and all of Tarrantino's movies after the first three, "True Romance", "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs," are really bad in comparison.
Independence Day was really queasy. I saw it at a cinema and wanted to leave before the lights came up lest anyone think that I am from the land of its creation.
I have not seen The Cove, but I think that it is going to make want to eat dolphin.
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timtak
Thanks Jamal.
You are good at pointing out my errors.
But by the way, was there nothing in my post that was persuasive? No good bits?
You point out the following
I thought at first that this was an error of omission on my part, but I am not sure how this rejects the thermite hypothesis. Please can you explain?
It seems that they have a working model (computer simulation) for how the fires could have caused the structural damage. They then say that they do not believe thermite was the cause. They do not say why they do not believe it.
Perhaps they mean
1) Thermite is ridiculous, so if they have another working model, then that working model is going to be more plausible than thermite. I can really appreciate this arguement.
2) The structural damage occured slowly over the course of the day, and therefore this is inconsistent with thermite. Why? Could some thermite have been used to produce some structural damage over the course of the day? Or...
3) The structural damage moved with the fires? Even if so, why does this suggest that thermite was not used to bring about the collapse (but not the preceeding damage)? Or could there have been some structural damage caused by fire, and some by thermite?
4) The fires would have any thermite placed in the buildings? This sounds plausible. A controlled demolition sounds difficult to produce in a building that is subsequently subject to fire. How difficult?
With regard to the fire hypothesis, I don't know what to say. It just seems implausible to me. I have no proof. Er...I use a steel barbeque? No I admit that is not very persuasive.
How about...Recently a 43 story building caught fire catastrophically in Bejing. Please have a look at this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSPFL2Zlpg
The 43 storey building burnt for a long time. There were no sprinklers. And it is still standing. One can see before and after images on google herebelow
http://tinyurl.com/tvccbuilding
Here is the wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeijingTelevisionCulturalCenterfire
Regarding the office fires in WTC7 "it has since been determined that the fires burned out in 20 minutes at any given location as they moved from point to point." (wikipedia)
Jamal wrote
Thank you for pointing my error out. I repeated it slowly. It was the FEMA report.
So the NIST report explains the collapse for you?
They primarily put it down to the fire, and particularly that the sprinkler system did not work. They say that WT7 was the first steel building in history to collapse due to fire. Just after another couple of steel buildings had collapsed downwards, symmetrically, speedily, on the same site on the same day.
And even though there have been a lot of other fires in a lot of tower blocks.
Everything is possible. Under the right sequence of chance events one could fell a skyscraper with an office fire. And one can produce a model to show how it can happen. But is it plausible to you? Here is that 43 storey building in Beijing again, likewise without sprinklers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSPFL2Zlpg And it is still standing.
WTC7 got unluckly, very unlucky, and whammy, went straight down.
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timtak
Oh dear. The verinage system had me off "truth" but I think that it may not work on steel framed buildings (only on concrete buildings without a steel frame).
And I think that (as in all the videos) it stands to reason or Newtons third law, that the collapse must be initiated in the centre, since the top will be destroyed at the same rate as it destroys the bottom.
All in all the verinage (it self a form of controlled demolition) videos show what would be required for progessive total collapse. No, or weak steel frame and verticle symmetry.
A strange thing about WT1/2 is the collapse started near the top, so I think the top should have destroyed itself before it destroyed the bottom, even if it were not true that the beams were thicker at the bottom, which I am sure they were. Since there was verticle assymetry, one would expect a large piece of the bottom of the tower to be left. But strangely the buildings were raised almost to the ground, with virtually no structural integrity in the ruins.
With regard to the NISTs claim that large amounts of thermite could not have been taken into WT7. I am not sure how they can make this claim. WT7 was home to "Secret Service" (wikipedia) offices and it is not called the Secret Service for nothing. If persons related to or posing as the Secret Service wanted to bring a lot of packages into the building they could say that their contents were a "secret". NIST does not seem even to gloss this possibility.
With regard to the World Trade Center towers one and two they just had finished being rewired, meaning that tons of fibre optic cable had just been transported into the ducting throughout the building (I guestimated about 14 tons judging from the mileage given in a press release). If not 14 tons, but 40 tons of stuff had been put into the ducts, would the security guards have become suspicious? "Hey that is a bit too heavy isn't it? You shouldn't need that much fibre optic cable." And even if the security guards were really good at estimating the amount of fibre optic cable required, there are no end of excuses... "Its the sheathing, it needs to be moisture proof." "The extra weight is the equipment we need for testing the cable" etc, etc.
And then there are those that doubt the security of the WTC security, . From a "debunking" site http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2006/05/marvin-bush-mystery.html we can learn that part of the security was provided by a company in which the presidents brother was a director until June the previous year.
With regard to jamal's faith in the NIST, fair enough, but according to wikipedia's 7 World Trade Center article, the NIST report is quoted as saying, "the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence." That needs to be repeated slowly. The NIST's best hyphothesis has a low probability of occurence.
One of those hypotheses that the NIST rejected (as having an even lower propability of occurence) was that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition. They appear to have rejected this hypothesis on the grounds that the explosives could not have been brought into the buildings.
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timtak
I recommend the Vérinage link I posted above. I think that I have ceased to be a "truther," now that I am aware that non explosive, symmetrical, fast and power producing collapse is very possible, and frequent in the world of verinage.
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timtak
Okay...I have found another everyday answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFHEoiUZ7o
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