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Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff

Posted by michael on from the scrutinizing-the-inscrutable dept.

haahr writes "Good article about why the coolest electronics products are available first in Japan and may never make it to the U.S., in Slate."

13 of 517 comments (clear)

  1. japanamation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dragon ball z is the reason why
    first post

  2. Revelation! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Japan tosses Jon Katz's salad.

  3. Re:PWP is dying by Diskore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh god please make this stop

  4. ALL YOUR COOL STUFF ARE BELONG TO US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/m

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  6. Re:To quote: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey C'mon, mod him up. (Score:5, Flamebait?) Yeah, it could be a bit cruel, but I laughed my ass off. And BTW, I'm Japanese. ;-)

  7. Re:Not inciting hate by PacoTaco · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Every good discussion mentions Hitler eventually.

  8. Re:This little ghostse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. Re:America the Chauvenistic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or we could flood them with ignorant fucks like yourself. That will increase the unemployment level (after all, do shitheads like you know how to do real work?), increase whining about how 'they' are taking all of the jobs because you are too unqualified, and increase the need for capital punishment to do away with fucks like you.

    Ah yes. The whiney, racist, obese, middleaged white male. Keep it up. You're fun to laugh at and insult.

  10. Take notice... by 0rx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of how the anonymous is just describes the key word of Coward. Seeing as how black people and latinos are both the largest growing populations in the U.S, it won't be long until people like this are out and out culled for elimination from the human populace. Biological rejects have been here on /. for awhile, but this is the first time I've seen biological waste here, ever...

    1. Re:Take notice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Lemme do a keanu Reeves here: Whoa!
      So you want to start culling the human population? I have heard something like this was attempted in Europe, about 60 years ago. Didn't work then, but you won't give up, right?

    2. Re:Take notice... by 0rx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      No, it's called population growth. Soon enough, the amount of Black voters will outnumber the amount of white voters, and buy that time the Latino population in the United States will outnumber them both. So in the end, the U.S. will become dominated politically by the "minorities" it once tried to dominate. It's a nice future.

  11. Re:Isn't it obvious? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Stupid fucking NOVA teachers. You so-called "teachers" (graduate of ABC University of Basket Weaving, usually) make life shitty here for the rest of us hard working engineers.

    Ever take an ethics course? You are NOT suppose to engage in sexual relationships with your students. Scumbag.

    P.S. A big old, "fuck you" goes out to the fucking soccer lamers who came here. I have lived here for years trouble-free yet had to put up with being stared down by hundreds of cops everytime I walked through Shibuya.