Wednesday February 15, 2012

tkoind2's past comments

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    tkoind2

    "....she composes most of her music and is a sweet and sensitive soul..."

    That just "happen" to be nearly identical notes, tempo and tone to previously written songs by other people. Imagine that....

    Posted in: Going Gaga

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    tkoind2

    SmithinJapan. I do agree the name is no good, too many bad suggestions imbedded there.

    Posted in: Japan's 'Lolita' style: cutesy and disturbing

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    tkoind2

    Why does everything here have to fit into a neat little box? Even the alternative movements have all these silly limitations and definitions. Compartmentalized to some extreme degree of detail.

    The ladies here could learn a thing or two from American altnerative movements like Goth for example. Age is not an issue, economic strata is irrelevant and conforming to a very specific pattern is not required. Instead, young and older women just follow what they feel works.

    Some notable Goth girls I know work in high end tech companies, make great money, have great relationships and are involved in community etc... While another is in the medical field, pink hair and all.

    The point is simple. If you love a fashion or a movement or just want to express yourself, why not go for it? If it makes you feel good, happy and alive, then have it your way. Forget the boxes, forget age, forget requirements.

    If Japan needs anything to happen to make people here a little more free and happy, then it is to shatter all these tiny boxes that society has constructed to pigeonhole people. Live a little, kick down those walls!

    Posted in: Japan's 'Lolita' style: cutesy and disturbing

  • 3

    tkoind2

    Hey! Don't insult the Addams Family. Maybe she is a distant 10 times removed, wrong side of the tracks cousin.

    Posted in: Going Gaga

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    tkoind2

    "“little monsters” really? The meat suit lady calls her fans little monsters?

    Gaga is a rip off of Madonna, down to swiping her melody lines in a few songs. Her "girl power" seems to require that women give up things like intelligence, grace and elegance in favor of corsets and extreme outfits. When I would prefer women I care about to simply be who they are and be confident in their own unique personalities and not have them resort to lingere or silly behavior to impress people.

    Gaga is extremely annoying. I miss truely "alternative" women of music who didn't need to rip off other people's music or leverage shock to get attention. Take Annie Lennox, Siouxie Soux and many others as better role models.

    Posted in: Going Gaga

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    tkoind2

    gogogo. Sadly not only true of the family custody issue. But largely true in how the nation deals with the rights and humanity of anyone who isn't Japanese. It is a shameful situation and a big reason why Singapore and other sites in Asia are far more attractive to the best talent from abroad.

    Posted in: Clinton urges Japan to take action on child abduction issue

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    tkoind2

    Yes, that is the answer. A "product" to get people to spend time with each other. Let's look at the profit motive to get people to "reconnect" shall we?

    It is profoundly simple Kameoka-san. What Japanese people need to "spend time with one another" is a shift in culture that allows them to do so. Begining with the following easy to follow steps.

    1. Stop over working people. Let people go home at a rational hour so they can spend time with family and friends.

    2. Give people more time off to enjoy vacations and holidays with family and loved ones.

    3. Don't work people more than 5 days a week. Weekends and days off give people time to spend with others.

    4. Encourage people to become involved in community and to create ties to others in their area. This is dependent upon 1-3 first, but the nation should give added paid holidays to people who volunteer, get involved in community or charity programs.

    5. Don't over work your children. Improve the quality of education and not the number of hours spent at school or in cram school. If kids are home, you can spend time with them and they with you.

    6. Break down this wall between work and home so that they do not become isolated islands of reality. Again 1-3 get working people back home and into the community. #5 gets kids home too. Now, let work become supportive of family with more opportunities for company employees to develop community ties with each other.

    No products required Kameoka-san. Marketing and sales are not the sole sum of human existence. Sometimes we just need a little common human sense and a little time.

    Posted in: The earthquake reaffirmed that our daily lives are supported by ties with others. There are a lot of chances for businesses if they succeed to come up with a product that gives friends and families a chance to spend time with one another.

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    tkoind2

    "Give everybody nukes, perhaps we'd finally get some peace... one way or another."

    Spoken like someone too young to remember the cold war and living under the constant fear of nuclear holocaust. Idiotic does't begin to describe this idea as a political policy for the world.

    Look, I am not for war with Iran or N.Korea over nuclear weapons. But I am also not for either country, or any country for that matter, to have nuclear weapons. They are simply far too dangerous to the well being of humanity. And anyone who cares about any other human being should be on the same page.

    Let's say county A actually decides to use a nuclear weapon. The chances that country B or C will retaliate are high. Even a small exchange of nuclear madness would have profound consequences for nearly everyone in those nations as well as in neighboring states. And this is before we even begin to consider the risk of escallation.

    I do agree that we don't want an arms race in the ME leading to more nukes. The only way to avert that is to make sure Iran doesn't get them. War is not the answer, but economics can be. That is why it is important for the world to boycott Iran and press them economically to give up this plan.

    Posted in: Japan refuses to stop Iranian oil imports

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    tkoind2

    Gaman, gambarro etc... will not save or revitalize Japan. Sticking to the qualities of the past will not revive Japan. What Japan needs is new almost revolutionary thinking. Which is oddly the most forgotten quality resposible for the development of Japan from medieval feudal state to global #2.

    Let's look at history for a moment.

    The black ships arrive heralding the very real possibility that Japan would be under threat of colonization by hungry western powers. Looking to China and other areas in Asia, most had been pressed into economic control by powerful European nations.

    Japan, in constrast to most other nations recongized the need to modernize and become a power herself. And in less than 50 years did exactly that with radical revisions of how the nation worked, how it was governed, what it could do and how it viewed the world. The defeat of the world's #2 Navy in Russia was just one of many undeniable indicators of just how much the feudal state of Japan had changed.

    Look again at post WWII. Nearly every major city in Japan is a debris field. The Imperial way of life born out of the previous revolution in thought is gone. And yet Japan reinvents itself to become the #2 global economy and an icon of the first world.

    So why encourage more of the same gambarro and gaman thinking that defines the decline of Japan? What Japan really needs is out of the box revolutionary thinking like so many times before in her history. Japan's prosperity has NEVER come from more of the same. It has ALWAYS come from radical change and reinventing the Japanese wheel to fit the new challenges the nation faces.

    Posted in: Rebuilding Tohoku, renewing Japan - Part 1

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    tkoind2

    I have lived here and long time and truly do care about the welfare of Japan. Which is a big part of why I have to say "Japan stop being backwards." It does Japan harm, it does families harm and above all does children wrong.

    Japan do you really enjoy looking foolish to the rest of the developed world? Because this issue and whaling certainly go a long way towards making Japan look backwards and undeveloped.

    So why endure this kind of bad press? Especially when it does not reflect well upon the majority of people in Japan who are wonderful and iconic of the modern world.

    My theory is that the same stodgy, grumpy, self important old men who are keeping the government and economy backwards and ineffective are behind the unwillingness to open up on this issue or to end whaling. In most counties, we could wait them out and replace them with more clued in people when they die off. But in Japan, well, they have already trained a second tier of equally stodgy kohi to replace them. Leading most of us to the sad inevitable conclusion that none of Japan's problems are likely to be propery resolved in the imaginable future.

    Posted in: Clinton urges Japan to take action on child abduction issue

  • 0

    tkoind2

    Goodbye and good riddance to KJI, hello to "who" or "what"?

    Posted in: Japan, U.S. urge stable transition in N Korea

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    tkoind2

    I think you guys have missed the forest of the single tree. Sure maybe it was "dumb" to do this. But I am 100% certain that Bale knew that this was a likely outcome. But the point of any visit to a repressed person is to draw attention to his/her plight and to raise awareness. Which this clearly did.

    A well deserved black eye for the repressive regime in China.

    Posted in: Actor Christian Bale attacked during visit to China dissident

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    tkoind2

    China... Asia's future hope? I certainly don't think so. More like Asia's growing nightmare. Just another example of why we should stop funding their growth until they change.

    Posted in: Actor Christian Bale attacked during visit to China dissident

  • -2

    tkoind2

    What a psycho. Sick, sick, sick.

    Posted in: British woman jailed for microwaving kitten

  • -3

    tkoind2

    NeverSubmit. How very true.

    I do agree with "Time" in their selection of the protester. We are on a ride straight into the abyss if we do nothing. It is time for all of us to do what we can to call for positive change. Everything depends upon it and it is time we started taking the matter seriously and get involved.

    Posted in: 'The protester' named Time's person of year

  • 0

    tkoind2

    "Perhaps the key problem in reaching a global comprehensive deal remains the fact that attention of policy makers is currently focused upon more immediate issues such as financial fragility,"

    More likely, as long as it remains profitable to pollute the planet, there will be no substantial agreement.

    Posted in: We need a new climate change 'roadmap'

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    tkoind2

    Chuan, China's behavior is the problem, not Chinese people or culture. And no one is suggesting that China become a slave to anyone. You sound like you work for the propaganda ministry. Give this a rest mate.

    China has two choices for the future and I think they are pretty clear.

    1. Cooperation: Working in partnership with the rest of Asia and the Pacific region entities to make the region prosper while addressing the many regional and global issues impacting all participants.

    2. Bullying: China can carry on the current policy of trying to toss her weight around and intimidate other countries to bend to her will.

    Now. Choosing #1 will lead to prosperity for China and create a positive leadership role in Asia that will be of historic importance to all concerned. It will empower Asia to help solve some of the global problems. And raise up all people in the region.

    Choosing #2 will lead to an inevitable "taking of sides" across Asia with the US emerging as the dominant leader and military protector. This will be followed by limitations on cooperation, a likely cold war and the potential for real war.

    So, what kind of idiot leadership chooses option #2 when option #1 is so clearly beneficial to everyone.

    Answer? The current Chinese leadership. So that my friend is where the problem rests today.

    Posted in: China sends patrol ship to disputed waters

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    tkoind2

    Agreed what does her employment status have to do with anything. I often think that Japanese news writers cannot fathom the fact that ordinary "good Japanese" sometimes do terrible things. So they have to create new boxes to put people in who do something wrong.

    So the hard working salaryman becomes the poor performing psycho. Or the mom who cracks and harms a child becomes and unemployed 25 year old.

    Japanese people need to stop trying to put every little thing in to tidy boxes. The world just isn't like that people. The sooner you learn to accept that the world is complex and fluid, the sooner you can start dealing with your social issues properly.

    But I guess it is easier to box up the defectives separately and keep spending all that money on pretending everything here is perfect. Denial is a powerful thing.

    Posted in: Woman arrested for putting plastic bag over 3-year-old son's head

  • -1

    tkoind2

    "Rappers are worse than Japanese talento."

    Regardless of race or nationality, as rap is world wide now, I have to agree for the most part. Commercial rap is as mindless as J-pop.

    That said, there are rappers out there who send messages that are worth listening to. Sadly they are not what we usually end up hearing in a world where only fluffy commercial crap is widely available.

    As for Neil Young, wow, time is passing quickly.

    Posted in: Young will.i.am

  • 4

    tkoind2

    JapanGal. I have found the same to be true. Once given some freedom and the opportunity to shine, people here really do step up. But you first have to break down that barrier of self-repression.

    Posted in: Accepting it as it is

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