angus77

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by angus77 16y ago
"Shlimazl" sounds to me like it could be translated pretty easily into Japanese: 「ついていない」. The phrase uses no noun, though, so would that disqualify it? I get sick of hearing foreigners going on about how there's no translation of the word
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by angus77 16y ago
This looks good, too. I especially like the fact that it tells which words are "Common word"s.
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by angus77 16y ago
Thanks for the link! Somehow I'd never come across that site before (I guess because I've got a good densi jisyo. The only times I check out words online is when I want more context; in which case I go to the Japanese Wikipedia). The ques
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by angus77 16y ago
I should probably double-check this with a Japanese first, but I think the words 「強盗」 and 「略奪」 don't mean "looting" in the sense of people snatching whatever they can from stores after a disaster. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is t
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by angus77 16y ago
It was pretty amazing. I couldn't call or text anyone for quite some time after the quake, but the internet connection was totally unaffected. I was talking to people around the world on Facebook, and even made some phone calls through gm
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by angus77 16y ago
Not to nitpick too much, but I do believe what you're calling a "kami-dana" is actually a "butsudan". The "kami-dana" is shinto, and the "butsudan" is Buddhist, and you keep them in separate rooms, from my understanding (although I don't d
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by angus77 16y ago
I really doubt anyone ever claimed the disaster at Bangiao was just an unfortunate incident. Who doesn't bash China for their blatant disregard of human life? Not that I disagree with your point.
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by angus77 16y ago
If he's contractually bound then I think it would be fair to say that he is railing against the restrictions imposed upon him rather than being hypocritical. Of course, this is all speculation until someone either gets a response out of him
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by angus77 16y ago
You're assuming I picked the Lambourghini for it's brand name value. I could have said "Volvo" but I didn't. Substitute "Volvo" for "Lambourghini" if you like and you'll get eh same point---a manufactured good will not become free by remo
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by angus77 16y ago
To whoever downvoted this: I think eyeforgotmyname was saying it was ironic considering Einstein worked in a patent office , not that he thought Einstein should have been able to patent it. It was a joke. You were supposed to laugh.
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by angus77 16y ago
Not so easy in the world of drugs or other manufactured goods. You can't torrent a factory, trained labourers, a distribution system, etc. And you can't torrent the finished product, either. If IP laws disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't be
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by angus77 16y ago
Any published work is copyrighted by default. Are you aware of Chomsky making any effort to keep his books out of people's hands? Has he sued anyone for copying or distributing his books?
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by angus77 16y ago
My deeply-ingrained image of the Ugly American get the better of me here. I actually thought you were serious until halfway through the post, and was mentally preparing a response to rip you a new asshole.
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by angus77 16y ago
Just remember that the "original" was a blog post quoting an email posted by someone other than the writer---the "original" title was not the author of the email's.
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by angus77 16y ago
I never expected much---and I sure didn't expect them to find it a year and a half later. Apparently it was left in a no-bike-zone and they realized it was stolen from the registration number. Glad I registered!
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by angus77 16y ago
Well, you have to admit that story is quite different from Feynman's, and has nothing to do with "the times" changing.
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by angus77 16y ago
The point that crime like theft is lower in Japan is totally valid, but I can promise you people do lock their bikes---bike theft is very common. You might not have noticed it because most bike locks come built into the bikes themselve
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by angus77 16y ago
If you follow the "more information" link on Japan, you'll find that the high suicide rate is a recent thing that's happened since the Bubble burst.
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by angus77 16y ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nobody has to lock their bikes? I've had three bikes stolen since I first came here in 1998---one of them twice! The cops found one of my bikes a year and a half after it was stolen. Within six months it was stolen ag
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by angus77 16y ago
Why would they call security for you being naked in your own room?
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by angus77 16y ago
Do US schools have no streaming? When I was in school (high school, at least---which starts in Grade 9 in Ontario, no Junior High), students were streamed into classes according to their abilities at the given subject: Basic, General, Adva
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by angus77 16y ago
You're still bringing up the "tests are useless" thingy as if anyone has ever said anything so ridiculous. All I've seen is the criticism of teaching test-taking skills as opposed to content (and the retention thereof). I'm pretty sure th
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by angus77 16y ago
I don't see what sharing music with your friends and incorporating GPLed software into closed/proprietary systems have to do with each other. Nobody's selling their torrents or claiming the music as their own.
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by angus77 16y ago
I almost want to agree (because $300 is an obscene amonut of money to spend on a concert), but seriously, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber don't seem to be struggling.
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by angus77 16y ago
This one deserves an upvote for at least citing a source.
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by angus77 16y ago
Safer than solar or wind power?
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by angus77 16y ago
God, I wish people would post a reply explaining why they downvoted something. I don't even know what my crime is here. EDIT: It was nice of someone to upvote me back, but I still don't understand what caused the downvote in the first pla
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by angus77 16y ago
It's expected to stabilize at about 70,000,000. It'll shrink, but it's not going away.
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by angus77 16y ago
Well, to be fair, I was only disputing the assertion that the first character in "taihuu" meant "big" (I'm assuming the author of the post assumed it was 「大」, a natural assumption to make). Giving a translation of the character at all was
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by angus77 16y ago
I haven't read the comment that was downvoted, but my understanding was that it was the brand of vaccine that was stopped, and not the vaccine itself. Anti-vaccine talk is not nearly as common in Japan as in North America.

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