This is great news! This episode has 12 parts of which parts 5 and 10 have previously been recovered. Unfortunately, they still have to find the other 9 parts.
For those who don't know, many Doctor Who episodes were destroyed when the BBC thought they would never be worth anything and didn't want to bother storing them anymore. Various lost episodes have turned up in the form of lent copies around the world. Fans have also remade many of the lost episodes using audio recordings and still images.
Wow, this post has a 5. In a post I made earlier I was attempting to be sarcastic by saying an equal and opposite statement which is also true: "It's pretty sad when Mac-users feel they have to bash Windows machines to make them feel superior about their purchase."
And yet, somehow, this post is a 5 and my previous is a 0. Interesting. This seems to uphold the status quo; it is okay to criticize the faults of the majority but not the faults of the minority.
Seriously, the internet is the new time waster. Better than TV, it is too easy to surf oneself into oblivion. Check your email from somewhere other than your workplace. Do you really need to check slashdot once every 2 hours?
About not being farmers anymore -- it wouldn't work very well. (I live in the countryside so I am only speaking on my observations).
* First off, most of the people doing the farming are eldrely.
* Secondly, have you noticed that more people already do less work in Japan? Japan attempts to let everyone have a job at the cost of creating a lot of useless jobs. e.g. 6 people guiding your bicycle around a 2 man street work site (that it takes 6 months for them to finish).
Basically, if nobody farmed anymore they would not have any other job to do. I do think they should farm less rice and expand their production of fruits, vegetables, and legumes other than soy. Those $5 peaches are good but how many can you afford to eat a year?
That's not really what keeps them afloat. Japan imports a huge amount of food from other countries, and it is not as crowded as everyone thinks. Japan is about the same size as California, although with less arable land, and four times the population. Yet, they make far more rice than they can eat here and a huge portion of it goes to waste. The goverment is paying farmers NOT to produce food. Now consider that their population is declining. It's not exactly overcrowded.
What IS overcrowded is Tokyo. The population of the countryside continues to decrease while Tokyo increases. People live in tiny apartments. An apartment complex (danchi) means 30 buildings, 10 stories each, 10 units on each story and a family in each 4 room unit. Seems easy enough to wire up to me.
I'm on DSL in Japan and the service is VERY cheap and quite fast. The only drawback is that you are required to pay the monopoly telephone company NTT for their service at $30 a month -- just for the basic service. And, it costs $500 to set up.
I live in Japan, and they won't even sell me computer equipment here locally because they are afraid it won't work with my computer and I will bring it back later.
Destron (from California)
You are being mean, as in petty. I'd also like to point out what is insightful about your post(Score:2, Insightful). What makes you and the think you know Americans so well? Because you can point it out on a map? Because if somebody handed you a blank map you could fill in the names of Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand correctly? If you are from a European country (your post does not say), how many years have you lived in a non-European country to give you such great insight on the world? A, yes, Americans are the mean ones, as in base.
Dell sells computers to all countries. Because Dell is a huge corporation they are able to squash all local competition. Dell gets everybody else's money. Everybody else complains because, once again, corporate America has cheated the world out of competition. Americans sure are greedy!
That's exactly what I need; another bill to go along with my electricity, gas, water, water and phone! While we are at it, why don't we make cell phones mandatory and change libraries over to a rental service?
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I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so...
This is great news! This episode has 12 parts of which parts 5 and 10 have previously been recovered. Unfortunately, they still have to find the other 9 parts.
For those who don't know, many Doctor Who episodes were destroyed when the BBC thought they would never be worth anything and didn't want to bother storing them anymore. Various lost episodes have turned up in the form of lent copies around the world. Fans have also remade many of the lost episodes using audio recordings and still images.
...and I fully expect this post to be 0 also. The moderators must be commie Mac-using bastards :).
Wow, this post has a 5. In a post I made earlier I was attempting to be sarcastic by saying an equal and opposite statement which is also true: "It's pretty sad when Mac-users feel they have to bash Windows machines to make them feel superior about their purchase." And yet, somehow, this post is a 5 and my previous is a 0. Interesting. This seems to uphold the status quo; it is okay to criticize the faults of the majority but not the faults of the minority.
It's pretty sad that Mac users have to make themselves feel good about their preference by pointing out all of Windows flaws.
That I stopped wearing pants in the office years ago.
Seriously, the internet is the new time waster. Better than TV, it is too easy to surf oneself into oblivion. Check your email from somewhere other than your workplace. Do you really need to check slashdot once every 2 hours?
About not being farmers anymore -- it wouldn't work very well. (I live in the countryside so I am only speaking on my observations).
* First off, most of the people doing the farming are eldrely.
* Secondly, have you noticed that more people already do less work in Japan? Japan attempts to let everyone have a job at the cost of creating a lot of useless jobs. e.g. 6 people guiding your bicycle around a 2 man street work site (that it takes 6 months for them to finish).
Basically, if nobody farmed anymore they would not have any other job to do. I do think they should farm less rice and expand their production of fruits, vegetables, and legumes other than soy. Those $5 peaches are good but how many can you afford to eat a year?
That's not really what keeps them afloat. Japan imports a huge amount of food from other countries, and it is not as crowded as everyone thinks. Japan is about the same size as California, although with less arable land, and four times the population. Yet, they make far more rice than they can eat here and a huge portion of it goes to waste. The goverment is paying farmers NOT to produce food. Now consider that their population is declining. It's not exactly overcrowded. What IS overcrowded is Tokyo. The population of the countryside continues to decrease while Tokyo increases. People live in tiny apartments. An apartment complex (danchi) means 30 buildings, 10 stories each, 10 units on each story and a family in each 4 room unit. Seems easy enough to wire up to me.
I'm on DSL in Japan and the service is VERY cheap and quite fast. The only drawback is that you are required to pay the monopoly telephone company NTT for their service at $30 a month -- just for the basic service. And, it costs $500 to set up.
I live in Japan, and they won't even sell me computer equipment here locally because they are afraid it won't work with my computer and I will bring it back later. Destron (from California)
You are being mean, as in petty. I'd also like to point out what is insightful about your post(Score:2, Insightful). What makes you and the think you know Americans so well? Because you can point it out on a map? Because if somebody handed you a blank map you could fill in the names of Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand correctly? If you are from a European country (your post does not say), how many years have you lived in a non-European country to give you such great insight on the world? A, yes, Americans are the mean ones, as in base.
Dell sells computers to all countries. Because Dell is a huge corporation they are able to squash all local competition. Dell gets everybody else's money. Everybody else complains because, once again, corporate America has cheated the world out of competition. Americans sure are greedy!
That's exactly what I need; another bill to go along with my electricity, gas, water, water and phone! While we are at it, why don't we make cell phones mandatory and change libraries over to a rental service?