Maybe you could sound pretty good in spoken conversation but I wouldn't call yourself "fluent" until you can pass at least the JLPT level 2 and if you can pass Level 1 I definitely would. It's an anal test that doesn't reflect real-world usage but as a test of whether you are really "fluent" in the language there isn't really much else.
Sounded like that to me as well. I was instantly reminded of the incessant Alarm Force ads on the radio promoting their "Patented Two-way Voice Communication".
Manly-sounding voice: "This is the Alarm Force Central Station. Identify yourselves immediately!"
I can imagine the usual response: "Piss off. By the time the cops get here we'll be long gone."
I was wondering whether to mention this as it does represent a small but significant demographic especially in large-immigrant countries. We have IPTV but barely watch anything other than the programs from Japan on TV Japan for which we pay a $15/month extra fee over and above the regular fees.
I would like to find an Internet-based alternative to get all these shows which would take away the need for the IPTV and we wouldn't miss it. Problem is, my wife thinks that a TV is the only way to watch TV so at some point I'd have to put together a PC-based DVR that acts just like a TV.
Good for you! I was waiting for someone to mention the Atom. If anyone really wants to see what this car can do watch Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson getting his face distorted.
If the car is at a distance or traveled perpendicular to the police then the license plate might not be visible. Listen to police radio communications and they tend to begin with "Suspect is driving a blue hatchback". There are fabrics that can change colour, and this can change shape in certain ways. What the GP said is quite possible.
Do you understand how the Exchange MTA works? Do you understand the nature of mailbox storage on an Exchange server both pre and post E2K3? It sounds like you are confusing standard mailbox file folders with PST files which aren't even used for mail storage on a standard Exchange server.
For whatever reason, the current system is a clusterfuck and far too much time has passed without a resolution and with visible stonewalling on the part of the government at getting a solution to be complete absence of malice as the article points out.
Global rules can be implemented on an Exchange server to do the replication required to perform some sort of journaling even if an external system is required to implement more in-depth rules based upon content and/or recipients.
One of my first projects after moving to Vancouver was a couple of test installations of pre-release Exchange server back in 1996. Since then I've worked constantly with every version of Exchange in all kinds of backup situations. Early versions of Exchange were a bitch to restore but it's gotten better.
However, there has *always* been a way to retain and archive emails automatically from Exchange and no shortage of migration utilities from notes to Exchange. The reasons stated in the article just don't wash. No one, not even the newest tech school grad could come up with a system like that currently in use.
However, it may in fact not be intentional malice from the start but more likely an existing state of incompetence that was taken advantage of to hide traces or misdeeds or at least to make finding any evidence difficult.
This still doesn't address the use of non-government email systems for official business by Rove and other Republican members. According to the laws of the United States this is all highly illegal. Don't you care at all about what your government is doing or do you think whatever you do won't make any difference?
I see replies pointing out the difference between the body and the soul as though these are both real concepts. Unless more evidence shows up, one of these is a real physical thing and the other is just wishful thinking. The "soul" is now what the religious want to be the part of them that continues on forever and never dies. The part of them that will experience that joyful afterlife because they realize the absurdities of projecting the physical self into the afterlife. For example, if I were to meet my grandfather after death, would he be the funny, joyful, joking man with the thick Lancashire accent that I last saw, or the angry, delusional Alzheimer's sufferer he was the last two years of his life?
Once again, unless proof shows up, the body and the "soul" are one and the same. That which you call your conscious is a function of the electrical activity in your brain. Once that activity stops everything that existed as part of your thoughts and memories is gone too. That is the scary reality that people don't want to face.
In the face of that some might take the sarcastic view of burial, but I take it as an incentive to achieve as much as possible within this lifetime without being an asshole. My belief is that I won't see my wife, kids, parents, relatives, friends or anyone else after I die. I will only live on in what people remember of me.
And if I am wrong and a nice party is waiting on the other side, it will be a very pleasant surprise.
Don't be such a downer, it would work. The dirigible just needs to be big enough to exert serious tension on the bungie so that the upwards force would be enough to launch him higher than the dirigible. If you've seen the video of the guy doing the reverse base jump using stretched bungies you know this is possible. Enough tension and he would go shooting straight through the dirigible which could then ignite the rockets attached to his body resulting in even greater altitude gain and a more spectacular show.
I had to do some Wikipedia research before I believed that was a true map. Considering the first successful transatlantic cable was only achieved in 1866 a lot of cable-laying was done in successive years.
The lines to Hawaii is projected as it only came online in 1902.
The Wachowski brothers, makers of the Matrix trilogy, acknowledged the influence of Ghost in the Shell in an interview.[2] Producer Joel Silver also admitted in an interview on the Animatrix DVD that he was shown the Ghost in the Shell movie during a pitch from the Wachowski brothers to indicate the style and look of the film they wanted for The Matrix.
Looks like Tachikoma just stopped off at McDonalds on the way to Mt. Fuji.
I'm very familiar with that particular on-ramp to the Tomei Expressway. There's a good Denny's nearby as well. (In Japan, Denny's is a good place to eat)
I just came in to support your statements and add to the call the Mr. Linguist is full of it. I don't think he has ever really *listened* to a movie just watched the action. He may know some technical things about languages but knows little about the emotions conveyed verbally in a film especially in an animated one. To get a good example of this you need to see a Disney animation dubbed into Japanese. It's stunning how well Japanese voice actors are able to convey the correct emotion that sounds completely natural. What is more impressive is they can do it with live action features as well. I followed a Korean drama (Tae Jang Geum) dubbed in Japanese and it was as if the production was originally done in Japanese. Later I happened across the original on the local Korean channel and the original Korean acting was horribly amateurish. The Japanese dubbing had actually made the series more enjoyable to watch!
I have yet to see a simple example, live or animated of this being achieved in a foreign-to-English dubbing. The generic voice characteristics and bland emotional delivery show that North American voice acting is a long way from being good.
Not only does he completely and thoroughly tear Monster's case apart, he also points out that Monster uses a Bermuda-based company for IP holding to shift income offshore and avoid paying US taxes. Not illegal per se, but also not something Monster would want broadcast.
Although it may have taken some time to write this he absolutely ensures that Monster will never mess with him again and decreases the chances of Monster going after anyone in a similar fashion. He has done in probably less than a couple of hours what would normally take months of messy litigation.
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Sounds like the opposite of rice wine which is written sake but pronounced by Japanese as "Sa-Keh" and not "Sa-kee".
Fluent after 6 months?? Yeah, right.
Maybe you could sound pretty good in spoken conversation but I wouldn't call yourself "fluent" until you can pass at least the JLPT level 2 and if you can pass Level 1 I definitely would. It's an anal test that doesn't reflect real-world usage but as a test of whether you are really "fluent" in the language there isn't really much else.
Look, if you live in an area where there is shrinking water resources and generally arid conditions there is one simple solution:
Move to Vancouver.
We have lots of water falling from the sky, all the time.
If you get nostalgic for the desert just drive 4 hours to Kamloops and you'll be back amongst the sagebrush.
Sounded like that to me as well. I was instantly reminded of the incessant Alarm Force ads on the radio promoting their "Patented Two-way Voice Communication".
Manly-sounding voice: "This is the Alarm Force Central Station. Identify yourselves immediately!"
I can imagine the usual response:
"Piss off. By the time the cops get here we'll be long gone."
I was wondering whether to mention this as it does represent a small but significant demographic especially in large-immigrant countries. We have IPTV but barely watch anything other than the programs from Japan on TV Japan for which we pay a $15/month extra fee over and above the regular fees.
I would like to find an Internet-based alternative to get all these shows which would take away the need for the IPTV and we wouldn't miss it. Problem is, my wife thinks that a TV is the only way to watch TV so at some point I'd have to put together a PC-based DVR that acts just like a TV.
That's a bad Youtube example as the "preppie" character admitted it was all a setup and a bit of an amateur film project.
Does he think his audience is in third grade?
No, just American.
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Good for you! I was waiting for someone to mention the Atom. If anyone really wants to see what this car can do watch Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson getting his face distorted.
If the car is at a distance or traveled perpendicular to the police then the license plate might not be visible. Listen to police radio communications and they tend to begin with "Suspect is driving a blue hatchback". There are fabrics that can change colour, and this can change shape in certain ways. What the GP said is quite possible.
Aha! Someone else also hung around Radio Shack.
Do you understand how the Exchange MTA works? Do you understand the nature of mailbox storage on an Exchange server both pre and post E2K3? It sounds like you are confusing standard mailbox file folders with PST files which aren't even used for mail storage on a standard Exchange server.
For whatever reason, the current system is a clusterfuck and far too much time has passed without a resolution and with visible stonewalling on the part of the government at getting a solution to be complete absence of malice as the article points out.
Global rules can be implemented on an Exchange server to do the replication required to perform some sort of journaling even if an external system is required to implement more in-depth rules based upon content and/or recipients.
Does this explain why Rove used the non-government system for 90%+ of his government-related emails?
10-50% just for convenience reasons and poor training I can see. 90%+?
No. Freaking. Way.
One of my first projects after moving to Vancouver was a couple of test installations of pre-release Exchange server back in 1996. Since then I've worked constantly with every version of Exchange in all kinds of backup situations. Early versions of Exchange were a bitch to restore but it's gotten better.
However, there has *always* been a way to retain and archive emails automatically from Exchange and no shortage of migration utilities from notes to Exchange. The reasons stated in the article just don't wash. No one, not even the newest tech school grad could come up with a system like that currently in use.
However, it may in fact not be intentional malice from the start but more likely an existing state of incompetence that was taken advantage of to hide traces or misdeeds or at least to make finding any evidence difficult.
This still doesn't address the use of non-government email systems for official business by Rove and other Republican members. According to the laws of the United States this is all highly illegal. Don't you care at all about what your government is doing or do you think whatever you do won't make any difference?
I'm so evil. I sent that link to my kids.
Now they're infected.
C'mon, *everyone's* dad had that album. Mine included. He was actually a Herb Alpert fan so the album cover was just icing on the cake.
So to speak.
I see replies pointing out the difference between the body and the soul as though these are both real concepts. Unless more evidence shows up, one of these is a real physical thing and the other is just wishful thinking. The "soul" is now what the religious want to be the part of them that continues on forever and never dies. The part of them that will experience that joyful afterlife because they realize the absurdities of projecting the physical self into the afterlife. For example, if I were to meet my grandfather after death, would he be the funny, joyful, joking man with the thick Lancashire accent that I last saw, or the angry, delusional Alzheimer's sufferer he was the last two years of his life?
Once again, unless proof shows up, the body and the "soul" are one and the same. That which you call your conscious is a function of the electrical activity in your brain. Once that activity stops everything that existed as part of your thoughts and memories is gone too. That is the scary reality that people don't want to face.
In the face of that some might take the sarcastic view of burial, but I take it as an incentive to achieve as much as possible within this lifetime without being an asshole. My belief is that I won't see my wife, kids, parents, relatives, friends or anyone else after I die. I will only live on in what people remember of me.
And if I am wrong and a nice party is waiting on the other side, it will be a very pleasant surprise.
Eats shoots and Braaaiinnnssss!!!!
Damn you! Now that song is going to be in my head for the rest of the day with visions of slowly turning helicopter blades!!!!!
Don't be such a downer, it would work. The dirigible just needs to be big enough to exert serious tension on the bungie so that the upwards force would be enough to launch him higher than the dirigible. If you've seen the video of the guy doing the reverse base jump using stretched bungies you know this is possible. Enough tension and he would go shooting straight through the dirigible which could then ignite the rockets attached to his body resulting in even greater altitude gain and a more spectacular show.
You just have to plan these things properly.
No, the only thing that should be used on ducts is aluminum tape. The shiny stuff.
Don't you watch "Holmes on Homes"?
I had to do some Wikipedia research before I believed that was a true map. Considering the first successful transatlantic cable was only achieved in 1866 a lot of cable-laying was done in successive years.
The lines to Hawaii is projected as it only came online in 1902.
From the Wikipedia entry for GITs:
Looks like Tachikoma just stopped off at McDonalds on the way to Mt. Fuji.
I'm very familiar with that particular on-ramp to the Tomei Expressway. There's a good Denny's nearby as well. (In Japan, Denny's is a good place to eat)
I just came in to support your statements and add to the call the Mr. Linguist is full of it. I don't think he has ever really *listened* to a movie just watched the action. He may know some technical things about languages but knows little about the emotions conveyed verbally in a film especially in an animated one. To get a good example of this you need to see a Disney animation dubbed into Japanese. It's stunning how well Japanese voice actors are able to convey the correct emotion that sounds completely natural. What is more impressive is they can do it with live action features as well. I followed a Korean drama (Tae Jang Geum) dubbed in Japanese and it was as if the production was originally done in Japanese. Later I happened across the original on the local Korean channel and the original Korean acting was horribly amateurish. The Japanese dubbing had actually made the series more enjoyable to watch!
I have yet to see a simple example, live or animated of this being achieved in a foreign-to-English dubbing. The generic voice characteristics and bland emotional delivery show that North American voice acting is a long way from being good.
Not only does he completely and thoroughly tear Monster's case apart, he also points out that Monster uses a Bermuda-based company for IP holding to shift income offshore and avoid paying US taxes. Not illegal per se, but also not something Monster would want broadcast.
Although it may have taken some time to write this he absolutely ensures that Monster will never mess with him again and decreases the chances of Monster going after anyone in a similar fashion. He has done in probably less than a couple of hours what would normally take months of messy litigation.
This guy is a hero.