No one can explain how this came to be, but once we realized we had suddenly started mispronouncing it, we decided to keep on keeping on with our crime against language simply due to the fact the "word" is so inherently stupid, we feel we are truly doing it justice.
Yeah, it's stupid, but it's just a fast way of expressing amusement for me. I'm usually not even laughing.
My friend had an issue with the term "LOL" too, so I switched to "URA", or "User Returned Amusement." He said he would prefer that over LOL, but he broke pretty fast, and agreed that LOL was much better. URA!
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I switched that to false, and http://www.google.com/ig wouldn't load anymore. I noticed a few other sites that just wouldn't "go." Am I the only one seeing that behavior?
Are Playstations even sold in S.K.? Last I heard, there was an embargo on those types of Japanese products due to sentiments from WW2 atrocities. Perhaps it's been lifted.
This may or may not be relevant, but to me, the actual sculpture/set/object that I toiled away upon for hours and a photo of said sculpture/set/object would be held in different esteem.
Thought the camera work was fine. Seen much worse.
Personally, I don't want a sequel. Now that all the relevant backstory is gone, it seems like any sequels will just be bolt-on Star Trek style episodic movies.
Hmm I used to be at VUG, and from what I recall, Vivendi took a very hands-off approach towards Blizzard in particular, since Blizzard was their shining jewel that could do no wrong.
Yeah, in my opinion they should ditch the color scheme, or adjust it. It comes off more like an environmental company or something.
Yes I know, green doesn't always mean trees. I mean/. is green. I'm just talking initial impressions of people who glance at the logo on some bilboard, etc.
That's debatable considering they usually refuse to recognize the Korean slave casualties that resulted from the same atomic explosions.
If it really were 100% "We don't want sympathy, just let it not happen again", I'm sure they'd recognize all ethnicities that were lost. I'll be nice and say right now it's probably at 80%, aggregated of course. I'm quite aware many Japanese would lean towards the 100% part of it, but there's also many ultra-right-wing nationalists, who already are quite successful erasing the parts about Nanking, the Bataan death march, etc etc, and they could be classified as a nice 0%.
She isn't a citizen. Bummer. At least she's allowed to stay. Try China.
How about comparing to somewhere a little more free, and developed, somewhere more comparable to Japan...somewhere like...America!
I note that the descendants of African slave labor are allowed to stay AND have citizenship. Hot damn! This is probably true of England as well. But in Japan, descendents of Korean slave labor are allowed to stay but are stripped of their citizenship. Hrm. Isolationist? Probably.
Proof and pudding: according to the above Washington Post article, the equivalent of the TOTAL NUMBER OF ALL FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN (just over one percent of Japan's population) naturalize into the United States recently EVERY YEAR. Or, according to the US Census Bureau, 1300 would-be immigrants every day enter America (Daily Yomiuri, Nov 25, 1996, p.3). That means that America absorbs all of Japan's annual intake of foreigners in just over a week!
AND THAT MATTERS
This is not a statistic to ignore. Just about *every single American* here reading this html has or has ancestors who went through a version of this process--my Polish great-grandparents in the 1910's, and my British dad in 1972. On the other hand, practically NO Japanese can claim this background, indicating a great deal about assimilation. If you're not born it, you have to claim it. Not all that many do.
But anyway, my point is this: this should all come as no surprise. Obviously, Japan is going to be far behind accepting foreigners legally, given what we know about Japan's history, constant refusal of refugees and active export of illegal immigrants, and social attitudes towards strangers in general. And even more so when compared to the US--the US is the real outlier in the world when it comes to absorbing extranationals. (Anybody else want to give me more information about other countries?)
Granted it's a bit dated (1996), and we are talking about america, but from what I recall, proportionally, Japan's annual intake has always been incredibly low, something like less than 0.01% relative to total population, whereas America has been around less than 0.4% total population? It's interesting to note that, even today in 2005, Japan is still 99% ethnic Japanese according to the CIA world factbook. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html
Btw, as far as I know, if those two mixed couples should decide to get a divorce, and already have kids, well, the foreigner of the pair will get the shaft as far as custody rights go. But I admit I'm not sure how that policy compares to other free nations.
Ummm, yeah no. Japan has probably the highest barriers to naturalization of any modern nation. I noticed you contrasted Japan with China. Um, yeah China is kinda, you know, not a free nation.
There are several photos there of government backed signs clearly targetting foreigners as "dangerous" or more likely to be criminal.
Then there's the exceptionally high propensity for Japan to deny refugee status (compared to other *free* nations), and instead just divert them to other countries.
Combat on the road, mainly. I figured someone would take it a bit too specifically.
Yes ok, in Road Rash, it's typically melee weaponry instead of ranged weaponry, and they're two-wheeled vehicles instead of four-wheeled vehicles, and instead of humans battling it out, it'd be AI, but i figured the parallels would be visible.
So you mean to tell me that if you were in the cinema watching a movie, it would be okay for the cinema owners to interrupt that movie halfway through to tell you that somebody's backed into someone else's car in the car park?
Um that's not really much of an accurate analogy. In that case, people tend to figure "well ok, he hit someone's car; it's not mine, it's not going to affect me, why are you telling me."
With the DMCA, and the microwave ray, if you still want to keep your movie analogy, it'd be more like the cinema owners interrupting to tell you that some guy is driving through the parking lot with a monster truck. Sure maybe your car will be spared, or maybe it'll make a nice skateboard when you come out.
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Yeah, it's stupid, but it's just a fast way of expressing amusement for me. I'm usually not even laughing.
My friend had an issue with the term "LOL" too, so I switched to "URA", or "User Returned Amusement." He said he would prefer that over LOL, but he broke pretty fast, and agreed that LOL was much better. URA!
Actually, the charaterization and plot were far beyond what Lucas did in the Original Trilogy. Uh, no.
I switched that to false, and http://www.google.com/ig wouldn't load anymore. I noticed a few other sites that just wouldn't "go." Am I the only one seeing that behavior?
Seems like the perfect way to one day allow AI's to defend themselves from being unplugged, go nuts, and stab a few people. Destroy, destroy!
Are Playstations even sold in S.K.? Last I heard, there was an embargo on those types of Japanese products due to sentiments from WW2 atrocities. Perhaps it's been lifted.
Not really.
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Would a giant phallus be better?
This may or may not be relevant, but to me, the actual sculpture/set/object that I toiled away upon for hours and a photo of said sculpture/set/object would be held in different esteem.
Thought the camera work was fine. Seen much worse. Personally, I don't want a sequel. Now that all the relevant backstory is gone, it seems like any sequels will just be bolt-on Star Trek style episodic movies.
Hmm I used to be at VUG, and from what I recall, Vivendi took a very hands-off approach towards Blizzard in particular, since Blizzard was their shining jewel that could do no wrong.
It's time to get a suit of power armor, your Vault 13 shirt, and prepare for the Chinese take-over of San Francisco.
I'm surprised there's not more class actions.
Seems kind of biased.
I immediately think of the YF-22 from Macross Plus with the mighty morphing wing.
Yeah, in my opinion they should ditch the color scheme, or adjust it. It comes off more like an environmental company or something. Yes I know, green doesn't always mean trees. I mean /. is green. I'm just talking initial impressions of people who glance at the logo on some bilboard, etc.
If it really were 100% "We don't want sympathy, just let it not happen again", I'm sure they'd recognize all ethnicities that were lost. I'll be nice and say right now it's probably at 80%, aggregated of course. I'm quite aware many Japanese would lean towards the 100% part of it, but there's also many ultra-right-wing nationalists, who already are quite successful erasing the parts about Nanking, the Bataan death march, etc etc, and they could be classified as a nice 0%.
And we're talking isolationism
She isn't a citizen. Bummer. At least she's allowed to stay. Try China.
How about comparing to somewhere a little more free, and developed, somewhere more comparable to Japan...somewhere like...America!
I note that the descendants of African slave labor are allowed to stay AND have citizenship. Hot damn! This is probably true of England as well. But in Japan, descendents of Korean slave labor are allowed to stay but are stripped of their citizenship. Hrm. Isolationist? Probably.
Naturalization procedure: http://www.debito.org/naturalization.html
Proof and pudding: according to the above Washington Post article, the equivalent of the TOTAL NUMBER OF ALL FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN (just over one percent of Japan's population) naturalize into the United States recently EVERY YEAR. Or, according to the US Census Bureau, 1300 would-be immigrants every day enter America (Daily Yomiuri, Nov 25, 1996, p.3). That means that America absorbs all of Japan's annual intake of foreigners in just over a week! AND THAT MATTERS This is not a statistic to ignore. Just about *every single American* here reading this html has or has ancestors who went through a version of this process--my Polish great-grandparents in the 1910's, and my British dad in 1972. On the other hand, practically NO Japanese can claim this background, indicating a great deal about assimilation. If you're not born it, you have to claim it. Not all that many do. But anyway, my point is this: this should all come as no surprise. Obviously, Japan is going to be far behind accepting foreigners legally, given what we know about Japan's history, constant refusal of refugees and active export of illegal immigrants, and social attitudes towards strangers in general. And even more so when compared to the US--the US is the real outlier in the world when it comes to absorbing extranationals. (Anybody else want to give me more information about other countries?)
Granted it's a bit dated (1996), and we are talking about america, but from what I recall, proportionally, Japan's annual intake has always been incredibly low, something like less than 0.01% relative to total population, whereas America has been around less than 0.4% total population? It's interesting to note that, even today in 2005, Japan is still 99% ethnic Japanese according to the CIA world factbook. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html
Btw, as far as I know, if those two mixed couples should decide to get a divorce, and already have kids, well, the foreigner of the pair will get the shaft as far as custody rights go. But I admit I'm not sure how that policy compares to other free nations.
Check this link out: http://www.debito.org/
There are several photos there of government backed signs clearly targetting foreigners as "dangerous" or more likely to be criminal. Then there's the exceptionally high propensity for Japan to deny refugee status (compared to other *free* nations), and instead just divert them to other countries.
Yes ok, in Road Rash, it's typically melee weaponry instead of ranged weaponry, and they're two-wheeled vehicles instead of four-wheeled vehicles, and instead of humans battling it out, it'd be AI, but i figured the parallels would be visible.
I could be wrong, but in that case, I don't think you could set up your secret voyeur shop in my room that's on your property.
Not that I'm saying any such virtual rights exist yet, if ever.
You mean, video card right? Since I assume the monitor he uses leaves no distributable imprint on files he views...
So you mean to tell me that if you were in the cinema watching a movie, it would be okay for the cinema owners to interrupt that movie halfway through to tell you that somebody's backed into someone else's car in the car park? Um that's not really much of an accurate analogy. In that case, people tend to figure "well ok, he hit someone's car; it's not mine, it's not going to affect me, why are you telling me." With the DMCA, and the microwave ray, if you still want to keep your movie analogy, it'd be more like the cinema owners interrupting to tell you that some guy is driving through the parking lot with a monster truck. Sure maybe your car will be spared, or maybe it'll make a nice skateboard when you come out.
MythBusters is a terrible show. I think they could definitely stand to use some more consultation in their experiments.