Yeah, that was my big surprise in Korea. Right when the plane touched down on the tarmac all the Koreans took out their phones checked their messages and started making calls:)
Whole generations where not be able to call each other when they were driving. As nice it is to be able to contact someone all the time, when I am in a car, I just don't pick up the phone at all.
Same when I am in the train, or on the bus, or in a restaurant.
But that is because I am in Japan, and people still know how to behave when they get a phone call.
I just recently started to watch it again (16:9 how it was shot originally) and yeah, the acting is kind of Soap opera style. Partly very very unrealistic. But after watching several episodes I got over it. The story is really good.
Well women too. From my female friend circly about 80% smoke.
Although there are a lot of changes in the last years (eg JR in Tokyo area removed all smoking areas from the stations) it is still no problem to smoke in restaurants. I haven't been to a single restaurant that is non smoking only.
There are even some coffee shops appearing which are smoking only.
If you hate smoking, Japan is the last place you want to go.
Well, depends. Actually my phones takes surprisingly good photos. And the next generation has even an almost proper flash built in. Of course they all have auto focus, macro, etc settings.
So was I. Although I still feel a bit strange about having my mail at google, it is just so useful to have the same UI, the same info and everything always available everywhere, from whatever OS/Browser you come.
I haven't launched Mail.app or Thunderbird for almost a year now. There is just no reason. In my opinion stand alone mail apps are a dying bread.
well, traditional the only non fish sushi is with egg. Even slight cooked fish is not cooked fish. It is more or less "a little bit fried with a burner" fish.
But there is non fish sashimi, most known liver and chicken. Also horse and I think there is some beef too.
It also depends on the region. Where coke & google are used worldwide. But Xerox and Kleenex seems to me more American use. I haven't heard anyone use that in Austria. But there are other brand names used for certain things. Glue is Uhu and tape is Tixo.
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If done in the correct way. By a certified teacher. As it is law in Europe. You just can't have mommy teach you, that doesn't work here.
So where it is "normal" for Americans to be homeschooled, it is something unheard or very very very rare in Europe.
Well the difference is that in Germany you don't get hillbilly teachers trying to explain to you that the earth is just 5000 years old.
and yes, going to school is a law, you have to. You can't just say, no I don't want to. In Austria it is called "Schulpflicht".
Yeah, I don't care if people write mail son their keitai in the train or in the bus, or whereever.
I care if they have hyper annoying ring tones and talk on the phone. This is annoying and nobody does this.
Plus nobody will use a cell phone in the cinema or where they shouldn't use it.
That using the phone on your bicycle while you ride it is stupid, yeah, but I do that too ;(
Dunno about driving, haven't seen many use it thought.
This really depends on the country. Guess in America/Europe it is a must have.
I can tell you, in Japan you have to fall back on handjob if you do that.
Yeah, that was my big surprise in Korea. Right when the plane touched down on the tarmac all the Koreans took out their phones checked their messages and started making calls :)
Whole generations where not be able to call each other when they were driving. As nice it is to be able to contact someone all the time, when I am in a car, I just don't pick up the phone at all.
Same when I am in the train, or on the bus, or in a restaurant.
But that is because I am in Japan, and people still know how to behave when they get a phone call.
Canada + US != rest of the world.
Can't count how often it was delayed.
Even if, the point is moot. Who would then buy China goods when Europe and USA are nuked into the stone age. Would not really help at all.
The whole nuclear war is just complete waste of time. Nukes in that size and amount are really completely uesless.
yeah, if USA goes bust, so goes China. or who do you think most chinese work for. Hmm, well, yeah, for USA and Europe and Japan.
I just recently started to watch it again (16:9 how it was shot originally) and yeah, the acting is kind of Soap opera style. Partly very very unrealistic. But after watching several episodes I got over it. The story is really good.
Well women too. From my female friend circly about 80% smoke.
Although there are a lot of changes in the last years (eg JR in Tokyo area removed all smoking areas from the stations) it is still no problem to smoke in restaurants. I haven't been to a single restaurant that is non smoking only.
There are even some coffee shops appearing which are smoking only.
If you hate smoking, Japan is the last place you want to go.
Well, depends. Actually my phones takes surprisingly good photos. And the next generation has even an almost proper flash built in. Of course they all have auto focus, macro, etc settings.
If the DB can't keep up with inserting a billion examples, all the fast C code won't help here either.
So true. I really do not want to fight with updates, hardware problems, building or buying a PC for gaming. A console was the logical choice.
So was I. Although I still feel a bit strange about having my mail at google, it is just so useful to have the same UI, the same info and everything always available everywhere, from whatever OS/Browser you come.
I haven't launched Mail.app or Thunderbird for almost a year now. There is just no reason. In my opinion stand alone mail apps are a dying bread.
Unelss the webapp is developed for a financial system using SOX here does not really work at all.
Unions in Japan. I never heard of any ...
Well I am a heavy smoker for probably 15 years and I never had brown snot come out of my nose :)
On the other hand I am in the last western country that still has enough places for smokers.
Just recently a special smoking Cafe opened across the station I work. Just for smokers, nobody else. Gotta love it here.
Well in America perhaps. Haven's seen that in Japan. But the basic respect between people might be 0.1% higher ... who knows.
well, traditional the only non fish sushi is with egg. Even slight cooked fish is not cooked fish. It is more or less "a little bit fried with a burner" fish.
But there is non fish sashimi, most known liver and chicken. Also horse and I think there is some beef too.
Get a fucking live.
Someone in the car in FRONT of you is smoking and you are annoyed? Seriously? Get a life, ...
I see that, but I blame extensions for it.
It also depends on the region. Where coke & google are used worldwide. But Xerox and Kleenex seems to me more American use. I haven't heard anyone use that in Austria. But there are other brand names used for certain things. Glue is Uhu and tape is Tixo.
Auf gut deutsch, des is ois oasch.