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- メディカルコーディネーター/ Medical Coordinor (ハワイ、タイなどへの出張あり)
- 株式会社メディブリッジ, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 25万円 ~ 45万円 相談可 マネージメントポジションは給与が高くなります
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- Translator 旅行業界ニュース翻訳業務（日本語 → 英語）
- 株式会社エフネス / F-ness Corporation, 東京都
- Salary: 年収 300万円 ~ 400万円 相談可
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- 営業アシスタント
- 株式会社 天時情報システム, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 25万円 ~ 35万円 相談可 歩合制
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- Associate Position with International Assignment Services
- PwC International Assignment Services, 東京都
- Salary: 給与についての記載なし
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- Export/Import Personnel
- Yamato Soysauce Miso Co., Ltd. 株式会社ヤマト醤油味噌, 石川県
- Salary: 月給 23万円 ~ 25万円 相談可
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wipeout
As it turns out that the government does have a role in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, shouldn't the corporations concerned be spending a lot less energy on tax avoidance?
http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/09/21/tax-avoidance-by-microsoft-and-hp.aspx
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@KariHaruka
You don't speak for "us".
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Of a criminal conspiracy.
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Yes.
There's nothing to clarify really. 18,000 yen is not what you're going to pay, and 49,000 yen is. (That's if you travelled on those dates I mentioned, but I chose arbitrarily).
But you can either waste energy chasing a price that looks absurdly unrealistic and then be disappointed every time, or you can get the actual price you're going to pay by typing the out date, return date, the origin and the destination into some search boxes and wait about 40 seconds while the price is returned to you.
By the way, I looked on the Cathay website, and apart from the surcharges, the crucial information is that the 18,000 fare is for a 24 hour trip, landing in Hong Kong at 1 in the afternoon and taking off again for Tokyo 12 hours later, at 1.00 in the morning. Just under 10 hours total in the air.
http://www.cathaypacific.com/cpa/enJP/offerspromotions/offerslanding?refID=e3c95bfec128e310VgnVCM62000007d21c39____&cmsp=JP--SALES--HKGSPCL13S-JPNHKG
I don't believe Cathay seriously tries to tell you this is "the fare" to Hong Kong, they advertise it as a special deal. They give other fares on their website as "from 38,000 yen". I'm sure you know what they mean by "from".
I've usually paid 40,000 to 50,000, depending on the airline and the time of year. That goes back about 25 years.
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wipeout
No, I am saying that calling Obama a socialist is wildly inaccurate. His policies are not socialist, he does not describe himself as a socialist, his political associates and his administration do not call themselves socialist, and his rank and file supporters don't call him socialist. Because he's not.
The word is used pejoratively rather than descriptively in the United States, and is effectively meaningless.
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Or alternatively, why not? Plenty of people do. You are conflating your own preferences with the market in general.
For example, there are 40 million homes in the United States with Bluray players. That renders your question irrelevant. And it is a market that is expanding, not shrinking.
What you fail to understand is that It is entirely possible for different things to coexist in the market: in fact, the digital world makes it more likely. This is why people who think everything will move to downloads and streaming are not necessarily correct. In the years that they've been predicting the death of the optical formats, Bluray has seen annual growth in double digits. That's no failure.
Even declining formats like CD - well, they're still around, after 30 years, which is a good run for any format (cassette got about 40, the 12" LP got about 40, videotape got about 25. Even the most iconic format, the 7" single, was introduced in 1949, and for most people fizzled out somewhere around 1995, less than 50 years. )
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So save yourself the grief of reading spam, and check a source you consider reliable. I get a price of 49,000 return (24 May out, 31 May back) with Cathay Pacific. It took less than a minute to get that quote, and it's the final price. I can use the site I checked it on to book immediately if I want to.
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wipeout
I don't know, but a definition of socialism (Merriam Webster dictionary) doesn't appear to describe Obama's government, policies, or beliefs.
"any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods"
I realize that in the US, socialism can mean whatever you like, but there was once a definition of the term that meant something.
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wipeout
Instead of paying any attention to the advertised fares of discount travel agents, it seems easier just to use a site like Skyscanner, where the quoted price is the final price you are going to pay. Before internet booking took off, I used No. 1 quite a bit and was basically satisfied with the service, but they're becoming a bit irrelevant in an age when you can get decent prices straight from the airline or from an aggregator.
Why bother resenting ads that quote unrealistic discounts when you can cut those agencies right out of the equation?
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The Playstation 3 and Bluray would count as hits.
Sony's a contender in a console market confined to (at present) three companies: Microsoft and Nintendo are the other two, and no single company has absolute dominance. But Sony is estimated to have sold about 77 million PS3s worldwide as of January this year.
And Bluray is still the reference consumer format for watching movies. If you want the best available copy of say, The Hobbit, you buy the Bluray. It wasn't always this way: Bluray had to win a format war first, and it now occupies the technological top spot despite confident predictions for the last few years that "the optical disc is dead". The Bluray market is expanding year by year: more players in homes, and more discs being bought.
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@molenir
As you want to question my memory, here's a timeline:
USS Stark attack - 17 May 1987
Halabja attack - March 1988
Kuwait invasion - August 1990
You're trying to sell the idea that the US pulled their support because of WMDs. Iraq possessed and used WMDs in 1987, on its own people, and the Reagan (and later Bush) administration was fully aware of this. In October 1989, Bush signed a national security directive in which it was stated that "Normal relations between the United States and Iraq would serve our longer term interests and promote stability in both the Persian Gulf and the Middle East." The Bush administration was still trying to maintain a relationship with Saddam's Iraq, and it was the Kuwait invasion that forced that to an abrupt end.
There's a lot of scandalous behaviour from Republican presidents since Nixon all the way to Bush junior. If Benghazi is the best Republicans can do after nearly 5 years of Obama, they'd better milk it for all its worth. And if people really believe this is an impeachment issue, they should be wondering what's going to happen with the next Democrat president. Are they intending to impeach them all from now on?
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wipeout
Then it should be a simple matter for you to cite the criticisms Reagan and Bush (Sr) made - publicly - about Saddam Hussein long before the invasion of Kuwait. We can compare them to those made by Bush afterwards, which came thick and fast.
I do remember the chemical attack on Halabja. The US government of the time wanted to pin it on Iran. Bit dishonest really.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/opinion/17iht-edjoosted3.html
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wipeout
There should be enough precedents to form an opinion on that. People have already mentioned Iran-Contra - that's the sale of weapons by the Reagan administration both in violation of an arms embargo and directly to an enemy power - and the killing of the Marines in Lebanon has also been mentioned.
There was also the unprovoked (and allegedly accidental) attack by an Iraqi jet on the USS Stark, in which 37 sailors were killed. (For the young 'uns out there, Saddam was once considered useful to the US until his unwise invasion of Kuwait presented a problem that could not be swept under the carpet.)
The attack on the Stark seems to be barely remembered today - it may be instructive to see what Republicans (and Democrats for that matter) did with it at the time, so we can decide whether getting steamed up about four dead in Benghazi is really worth the effort.
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Talking of idiotic reactions, not one comment above yours suggested outlawing guns, and despite the distaste for hunting expressed a couple of commenters, no one called for that to be banned either.
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If their cars have a crappy image here, and they do, the Americans need to do something about that. If Japanese have a prejudice against US cars, that is in fact their right as consumers, but if the US wants to sell cars to them, they have to work out how to turn that around. People buy VW but not Ford or Chevrolet.
Is there something about this you don't understand? The Americans aren't even selling a tenth of the cars that the Europeans are. Their cars, to put it in language that you cannot pretend to misunderstand, are not as popular.
So it's an American problem. Obviously so. They can either accept it and give up, or do what it takes to equal European sales in this country. Right now, they're not even in the same league.
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In this case it does, because what I said is that European cars sell in far greater numbers in this country than American cars. It's blindingly obvious. Are you suggesting they don't?
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wipeout
Yeah, yards dollars and lbs. Great calculation.
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wipeout
Is anyone not letting them?
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Nonetheless, they are quite a visible presence here, and American vehicles are much less so. I see European cars every day, and some of my neighbours own one. There are no American cars at all in my neighbourhood, and I can easily go a week without seeing one on the road. But there are the occasional masochists who equip themselves with a Hummer or even an RV. Regular old driving-around cars from the US? Hardly ever see them. People are buying VWs though, and BMWs, Mercedes, Citroens, Audis, Alfa Romeos...the list could go on.
So yes, there's an American problem there, regardless of how dissatisfied Euro manufacturers may be. The problem is that it seems most Japanese wouldn't be seen dead in an American car.
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wipeout
You can always buy the ingredients yourself and cook it yourself.
900 yen represents having it cooked by a professional, providing the place where you can eat it (including air conditioning or heating), a toilet for you to crap into, waiting staff to bring the food to you and take care of your needs while you're having a meal, and taking the plates and utensils away when you're done with them.
The 100 yen ingredients - assuming your calculation is correct and not wishful thinking - will never translate to a 100 yen plate of pasta, and people who cost their meals in this way should probably consider cooking at home.
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