2013-04-06, 19:35 | Link #27364 | |
Sensei, aishite imasu
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I mean, this list puts France and Japan as about even in terms of their reception to foreign visitors...despite the fact that France quite often tops lists on rudest countries for foreigners, and Japan is regarded as being extremely polite. Mind, It's even more complex than that. Especially with culture. In Japan, politeness tends to be applied to even people you find boorish, where as many Parisians have no qualms about being quite rough verbally even with people they like. So you can have a Frenchman and a Japanese man with the exact same opinion about foreigners, but they express it differently.
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2013-04-06, 20:07 | Link #27365 | |
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Funny that Iceland and New Zealand take the top spots because those are two places I'd really like to visit. |
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2013-04-06, 20:22 | Link #27367 |
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BitTorrent Site IsoHunt Demands Jury Trial:
"The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and said it’s on the hook for what could be millions of dollars in damages payable to Hollywood studios. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Gary Fung and said the Motion Picture Association of America automatically won on the merits of the case, without a trial. The decision marked the first time a federal appeals court had ruled against a BitTorrent search engine." See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...demands-trial/ |
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2013-04-06, 22:15 | Link #27371 |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Kansas set to enact life-starts-"at fertilization" abortion law
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93501220130406
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2013-04-06, 23:27 | Link #27372 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Honestly SG people will say anything to stoke their own ego and a poll where SG is in top 10 for friendliness to foreigners cannot be trusted More like don't like anyone not yourself...<_<
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2013-04-06, 23:53 | Link #27374 | |
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It has become decadent that they are glad at finding a Malaysian or Indonesian - we used to hate them for stealing the low-end part-time jobs but now they are like good friends to us. Likewise, they see us as allies in an environment with lots of cheap China labour around. The friendliness index is more akin to anyone who isn't a Chinaman or Pinoy. To me, Pinoys are fine, it is just that at managerial level they tend to be assholes; though that is no different from any Asian race at managerial level - giving them power tends to turn them into one . Politics 101 : An enemy of my enemy is my friend. Stop cheating. If you guys didn't have Russian lolis with parents working for OMON you would have made it at the bottom.
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2013-04-07, 02:21 | Link #27375 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Which is what SG is full of.
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2013-04-07, 10:13 | Link #27377 |
books-eater youkai
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Maduro plays up his bus-driver roots for Venezuela campaign¸
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93603F20130407 Chavez protégé invokes Venezuelan curse on opposition voters http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93600G20130407
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2013-04-07, 10:22 | Link #27378 |
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The headline is very misleading. There already was a trial. This decision is by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely upholding a judgment against Fung made by the Federal District Court for the Central District of California. Read the actual decision for more details.
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2013-04-07, 15:46 | Link #27379 | |
AS Oji-kun
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Damaged Nuclear Plant in Japan Leaks Toxic Water
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If 120 tons equals 32,000 gallons, then a quarter-million tons equals over 64,000,000 gallons. Where on earth (no pun intended) do they expect to put the over 100 million gallons of contaminated water the story estimates will have been created in just the next few years? For those of you not afflicted with English measures, 64 million gallons equals about a quarter billion liters. An English ton, two thousand pounds, is about 0.9 metric ton.
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