In Japan, almost all large apartment blocks being built these days have either FTTH or CATV Internet connectivity as standard. You'd be surprised what can happen when enough people ask for it. Your attitude is self-defeating.
Same thing here with the music - when I'm really involved in what I'm doing, I find that I can be completely unaware of the last 20 tracks I was 'listening' to.
Miyuki Miyabe's OK, but not really in Murakami's class.
Some of her novels seem to be quite derivative as well... "Crossfire" and "Ryu Wa Nemuru" (dunno if there's an English translation - "The Dragon Sleeps", I guess?) spring to mind, although I did enjoy the twist in "R.P.G.". Also, her period novels ("Furueru Iwa", etc.) are a good read but nothing special.
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In fact I have not watched a complete Disney movie in my life
I don't think you watched this one either...
1) She certainly does abandon them - or perhaps you didn't realize that the pigs were her parents? Or maybe you were asleep during the bit where she runs away from them? 2) Haku was assisting Yubaba *not* because she took her name - he *asked* her to teach him her magic, a condition of which was that she took his name from him. 3) I really don't see how you can consider her a 'villain', at least in the simplistic balck/white way you propose. After having this discussion I think your view of the world is MUCH simpler than mine.
Why are you so quick to assume that his professor is a "bitter liberal"? Not to mention your contempt for people who actually bother attempting to learn something at university.
1. The little girl, who initially abandons her parents, is overall good? 2. Haku (the river spirit) is clearly good, despite the fact that he assists Yubaba only because of his desire to learn her magic? 3. The "old broad" (Yubaba) is 'clearly bad' even though she eventually repents of her treatment of Chihiro? 4. If you don't like thinking, fine. 5. OK.
And you wanted another character: The "No-face". He is not inherently bad, but only reflects the desires of those he absorbs.
Sorry, but it just seems to me that you've been brainwashed by too many years of morally black-and-white Disney movies.
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Nothing even remotely comparable exists in Japan, and certainly not in any areas where FTTH may exist.
And how, perchance, would you know? To put it bluntly...
Eh? Who was talking about subdivisions? Your earlier post was about apartment buildings, as was mine. Now who's comparing apples to oranges?
$US195K? Sounds pretty good to me.
I'd have to pay more than that for a two-bedroom house on a postage-stamp's worth of land over an hour from central Tokyo.
My brother-in-law bought a 1500 sq. foot plot of land in western Tokyo for about $800K. The house cost him another $350K.
My hardware wouldn't FIT in a wiring closet.
It'd be like some virtual circle jerk
That pretty much describes most of the Internet right now anyway...
You can get FTTH 100Mbps service in and around Tokyo for $US50-80 a month, that gives you actual bandwidth of 10-30Mbps, and no download cap.
;)
Aren't you just dying of envy right about now?
In Japan, almost all large apartment blocks being built these days have either FTTH or CATV Internet connectivity as standard. You'd be surprised what can happen when enough people ask for it. Your attitude is self-defeating.
Same thing here with the music - when I'm really involved in what I'm doing, I find that I can be completely unaware of the last 20 tracks I was 'listening' to.
See here.
I think the moderators were laughing at the "Lifetime Planning" part of your comment.
It's kind of hard to plan ahead when you don't have a life...
Xine.
...200 *hours*.
I just bought Time Bandits off Amazon - it shipped the next day, so they have it in stock.
Not to mention the category... exactly what was the question? ;)
Screaming hot molten poisonous metal.
Beer Water.
You measure your coastlines in mules? Hmmm... how many Libraries of Congress per hogshead do your mules get?
What's messy about the contruction "...kereba ... hodo ii"? It's no messier than the English "the ...er the better".
And if you wanted to say "If I do...", that would be "... shiyou to suru to", not "... shiyou to shitara".
"...te iru" doesn't mean what you think it means because you're thinking of it as English progressive. It's not. It indicates state, not progression.
"Hayakereba hayai hodo ii (or yoi)" does not translate as "if fast then level of fast (is) good".
It translates as "the faster the better".
What's the point of translating the individual words, and not the overall meaning?
(By the way, "I hit my head while entering the bath" would be "furo ni hairou to shitara, atama wo butsuketa".)
Miyuki Miyabe's OK, but not really in Murakami's class.
Some of her novels seem to be quite derivative as well... "Crossfire" and "Ryu Wa Nemuru" (dunno if there's an English translation - "The Dragon Sleeps", I guess?) spring to mind, although I did enjoy the twist in "R.P.G.". Also, her period novels ("Furueru Iwa", etc.) are a good read but nothing special.
Hee hee...
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As opposed to the college student who doesn't bother to show up at all?
In fact I have not watched a complete Disney movie in my life
I don't think you watched this one either...
1) She certainly does abandon them - or perhaps you didn't realize that the pigs were her parents? Or maybe you were asleep during the bit where she runs away from them?
2) Haku was assisting Yubaba *not* because she took her name - he *asked* her to teach him her magic, a condition of which was that she took his name from him.
3) I really don't see how you can consider her a 'villain', at least in the simplistic balck/white way you propose. After having this discussion I think your view of the world is MUCH simpler than mine.
Why are you so quick to assume that his professor is a "bitter liberal"?
Not to mention your contempt for people who actually bother attempting to learn something at university.
1. The little girl, who initially abandons her parents, is overall good?
2. Haku (the river spirit) is clearly good, despite the fact that he assists Yubaba only because of his desire to learn her magic?
3. The "old broad" (Yubaba) is 'clearly bad' even though she eventually repents of her treatment of Chihiro?
4. If you don't like thinking, fine.
5. OK.
And you wanted another character: The "No-face". He is not inherently bad, but only reflects the desires of those he absorbs.
Sorry, but it just seems to me that you've been brainwashed by too many years of morally black-and-white Disney movies.