Monday May 28, 2012

yildiray's past comments

  • 6

    yildiray

    Had Japan followed the lead of Germany with dealing with it's war past, it too could have moved on decades ago.

    I think you have hit the nail on the head there. Japan has tried revisionist policies many times and none have worked, I don't understand why they cannot just accept that bad things happened in the past and move on from them instead of hoping nobody notices!

    Posted in: New Jersey town's monument to Korean sex slaves upsetting Japanese officials

  • 8

    yildiray

    It was reported back then, this is an update to the story... I don't think the FAA works around golden week dates so it can't be helped lol!

    Posted in: FAA probes near collision between JAL, UPS planes over Hawaii

  • 0

    yildiray

    Cactusjack is correct - unless the author has a flux capacitor, the current bid has only just passed the 1million yen mark according to the auction page.

    Posted in: Lady Gaga auctions teacup to help Japanese artists

  • 2

    yildiray

    66 burglaries only netted them 2.1 million yen? That comes to just over 30,000 yen per burglary

    Read the article again ;-)

    Posted in: Gang robs 66 residences to get money for maid cafes, AKB48 concerts

  • 1

    yildiray

    Phone alarm went off but barely noticed it in Nakano! thankfully it wasn't too serious!

    Posted in: M5.8 quake jolts Kanto; no tsunami warning issued

  • 1

    yildiray

    In Feb she was shedding those croc tears about her ol' geezer not wanting to marry and then BAM. 2 months later,knocked up and planning to marry.Now that is taking the bull by the horns, if I'm being politically correct.

    Shotgun wedding?

    Posted in: Rie Hasegawa pregnant by boyfriend

  • 3

    yildiray

    Pity no one noticed all the frogs leaving one week earlier?

    I'm sure the French bailed en masse after the event, not before...

    Posted in: Signs of three major Japan quakes before 2011

  • 1

    yildiray

    Not entertaining.

    It appeals to my male way of thinking... But it really is a dumb advert!

    Posted in: TV commercial of the week: KARA for SoyCat

  • 0

    yildiray

    He worked in forensics... Maybe he had suspicions of the woman being a cocaine user and was investigating evidence? (If Britney can shave her hair days before a child custody case and get away with it, he had to move fast!!!)

    Posted in: Policeman arrested for licking woman's hair

  • 5

    yildiray

    Of course Japan doesn't really want to join - the price fixing over here is too deep-rooted to remove!

    Posted in: U.S. lawmaker has strong doubt on Japan's entry in TPP talks

  • 1

    yildiray

    Nuclear power plants or not, wouldn't something that big wipe everything in the area out regardless?

    Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters

  • -1

    yildiray

    Wonder if she has a boyfriend and has had to step down?

    Posted in: Atsuko Maeda 'graduates' from AKB48

  • 2

    yildiray

    The Blade Runner comparison makes no sense...

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  • 1

    yildiray

    The numbers seem to make this comparatively good news...unless one or both sets of data are wrong?

    It's all guess work... they haven't got a clue!

    Posted in: Quake researchers warn of Tokyo's 'Big One'

  • -3

    yildiray

    he dumbs it down for ordinary people to understand more easily

    Alternating between units to use bigger numbers doesn't make things easier to understand... never has and never will.

    The government/tepco does it and they get slammed. Zichi does it and is praised for it... makes no sense to me!

    Posted in: Workers at Fukushima plant toil away in deadly conditions

  • -4

    yildiray

    In my comments I've been using the same units of radiation as used and presented by the government, atomic agencies, TEPCO and the media. So I just followed suit. When referring to local radiation they usually use microsieverts/hr but when referring to the amount of radiation you could receive in a year then they use millisieverts. All the charts and maps are in microsieverts When referring to radiation in food or soil then they use becquerels. So I will continue t use them the way its reported, sorry if that bothers you.

    Absolute nonsense - The last time I called you out on this, you had used both in terms of hourly doses. The point is, if you want to present information accurately and fairly then consistency is important (vital in fact!). The government and media pull this crap to confuse people ("lies, damned lies and statistics") so please don't fall into that same trap.

    Again, as a fellow engineer, I find it incredible that you don't see any issue with this...

    Posted in: Workers at Fukushima plant toil away in deadly conditions

  • -1

    yildiray

    There are many areas around the plant compound which continue to have dangerous levels of radiation. Near the No3 reactor, a TEPCO spokesman stated last week, the level was more than 1,500 microsieverts/hr. TEPCO had stated, all workers at the plant were measured at the end of each shift for radiation exposure and total records kept because then it reaches 100 millisieverts, the workers are banned from working at any nuclear plant for five years, but I doubt that is actually happening.

    Again with the unit inconsistencies... is there any specific reason you said 1500microsieverts instead of 1.5millisieverts which would then give people a sense of scale with the following units you use for comparison?

    As I asked last time, you said you were an engineer - wouldn't you agree it is a bad idea to alternate between related unit values?

    Posted in: Workers at Fukushima plant toil away in deadly conditions

  • 4

    yildiray

    not trying anything to make anything more scary than what it was. I don't do that if you have followed my comments on the nuclear disaster .

    Oh no, your posts are generally the most well informed - I didn't mean it in that way. But, as a fellow engineer, surely you should be aware of how changing the units, especially in a way which makes numbers appear larger, can give very different impressions. Your post read:

    The firemen who were rushed from Tokyo to pump sea water onto the rector fuel pools received radiation more than 100 microsieverts/hr.

    That wording makes it sound like a massive dosage when, in actual fact, 100microsieverts/hr is only 0.1millisieverts/hr which, while not good, is not a particularly worrying amount - it is only 20% of the international limit for those assisting in a nuclear disaster.

    But, as I see I got a load of -ve votes for even questioning it, I guess people do not want to think in such logical terms...

    Posted in: Gov't feared nuclear crisis would engulf Tokyo, report shows

  • -4

    yildiray

    Immediately following the beginning of the disaster, the workers trying to get into the reactor buildings to vent the steam building up from the fuel meltdowns were being exposed to 50-100 MILLIsieverts/hr and could only stay a few minutes trying to locate the venting value. The firemen who were rushed from Tokyo to pump sea water onto the rector fuel pools received radiation more than 100 microsieverts/hr.

    Aside from making it sound more scary, is there any reason for the change in units? Always concerns me when people do this as it looks like they want to make the numbers bigger so that a certain impression is given...

    Posted in: Gov't feared nuclear crisis would engulf Tokyo, report shows

  • 0

    yildiray

    On a serious note though, why are almost none of them native speakers of English if that is one of the selling points?

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