Past crimes cause teacher to be deported November 08, 2007
"For the first time in Korea, an English teacher has been deported for a crime he committed before coming here, the Justice Ministry announced yesterday. An American whose name was not released was deported, the Justice Ministry said, after a previous conviction in Los Angeles of possessing and distributing child pornography was uncovered."
and, from the same article:
"Currently, 17,020 native English speakers are working as language teachers in Korea on E-2 visas, according to data from the ministry. Through August of this year, 100 teachers were caught on visa violations or felonies committed in Korea. Eighteen were deported, but 82 were allowed to remain here."
I researched it while still in the US before going to visit Tokyo, in 2004. When I got there, I began to learn that, as usual, feet on the ground often is more revealing that web sites.
Expats and repeat visitors there told me to go to Nova and talk directly with them. So, I did that, and the people there were amazed (or so they acted) when I began to speak. They drool over native English rather than 2nd-hand learned English, so much so to the point that even an ASIAN born in the US and who speaks graduate-level English or as well as any so-called degreed person from the US is likely to be turned down over white, Black, or even Latino who speaks articulately.
Anyway, they (or one of their competitors, or was it both of them) would have taken me, despite having no degree, but the economy was still in the tail end of the crash, and I wasn't going to be there long enough to have face time while the economy officially showed itself turned around.
What you apply for is a Teaching Assistant position. Since theoretically (or on practicality) you're not "teaching" and you're just "assisting" the teacher, you might get a position in a very busy company.
Be warned though: not all of the shops are equal, or even near equal. Some places forbid after-hours income (they either want you committed to them, or just want you to learn how to decompress, get sleep and be worth it to your students/teacher's students), while others don't care if you tutor in Starbucks.
Tutoring is still teaching, and if you get caught, you can get into trouble. That's why I did not even bother with that risk. Lots of people DO game the system, and I think I encountered at least 5 people who outright told me they either faked their creds or overstayed, or had more than one job, one being within the scope of their visa, and the other outside of the visa restrictions.
But, Teaching Assistant/Teacher Assistant, at least in 2004/early 2005 was a viable way to go. However, many of the potentially-accepted, degreed types could weigh in and complain and cause that avenue to close up. Not sure if that WOULD happen, as teaching assistants would earn less money to start with and may provide the "Novas" a way to improve productivity with an acceptable increase in cost...
Many of the guys there are players. They see the Japanese women as some exotic sex freaks and something to conquer. Not all the guys, but enough of them that it is troublesome. It also doesn't help when a loser of a local loses the girl who probably was already going to dump him finds out he's lost her to a gaijin. Then, sometimes the girls lose the guy when another girl comes along.
Aside from sex players, some of whom who just happen to be US English-speaking teachers, some of them end up teaching at Starbucks or maybe Freshness Cafe or Freshness Burger or other places. They might run afoul of the limits on their working visas and when caught, just create more mess for the local agencies to follow up with. Messes up the orderly, neat day.
Sometimes, the English teachers are not as smart of polite as they ought, or they get caught up in speaking Japanese in their English classes.
And, sometimes, the stress and limitations imposed by government or by some of the teaching schools drives the teachers batty, and they either quit their contract and leave by rules in teh law (the proper way, if they are going to quit), or they leave, and jump ship (or try to) another company which might bend the immigration rules processing and acquire the quit-but-non-departing teacher who hasn't properly followed the rules.
Then, the BIGGEST problem.... frauds who DO NOT have the degrees or certs they claim they earned. I encountered such people, who flaunted that they never completed college, or never attended college, and then sully the process for people who could really be teaching assistants (non-degree, but highly articulate, personality-gifted (at the appropriate times) and possibly "exemptable" tourists who locally apply but cannot be hired (my case, when the economy was bad) because so many visa-holding teachers are still awaiting assignment to avoid being deported or forced to self-depart.
There are other reasons, too, such as teachers who sell themselves to the Yakuza as controllers, or to other people who supplement the income of teachers who somehow increase their cost of living and decide to illegally gain more income they don't have to report (filing taxes and income statements I understand are voluntary, with very little negative effect for NOT filing, unlike in the US...)...
"Vista may become viable as hardware becomes cheaper or if there is a sufficiently large threat to XP that is left unpatched but does not affect Vista."
But, surely you are aware that prices HAVE come down. They always DO. But, the problem is that although market forces drive DOWN the price of hardware as economies of scale factor in through greater consumer uptake, mshaft and various players in the market conspire to consume or eviscerate MOST of the technical gains, just enough to drive constant upgrade treadmill newbie users or those who crave cutting edge performance.
I wish programmers would program more responsibly, return to using their OWN drivers so as to make things independent of the OS. Ahh, but then that would negate the reason for the Registry, which I think came to be not for driver consolidation, but for attempting to:
1. lock users into windows upgrades by depriving them from simply grafting the applications from C:\program-name to new OS version c:\program-name
2. lock users into vendor apps (and reinforcing #1 above) to guarantee developers stay in ms' fold
3. lock users OUT of doing # 1 to quickly copy (illegally or just for use on more than one of ones own, controlled computers at home and at work) apps and saving themselves money
Prices will keep coming down, or be relatively cheap. It almost assured that ms will keep chewing those gains to ensure space and place for whatever next OS they claim will be better.
I remember back around 1995 or 1996 when ms said they were going to modularize windows so that people only paid for what they needed and could upgrade modules as needed and pay then.
Still waiting. No, CE, scrillenium, didn't do it for me.
Unfortunately for me, and for others whose passports say "USA", as tourists, we cannot legally stay in Japan more than 90 days at a time AND subsidize our stay via legal work. The normal ways westerners from the US can stay over 90 days are:
-- Finally gain residency (by defined immigration means) -- become hired by a company which handles all the processing in advance (or, after the fact, sends the new hire out for one day to reenter as a hired employee) -- be transferred there by an external or internal company having recognized operations/presence in Japan -- at day 89 or 90, depart for at least one day, say to Korea, The Philippines, or SOMEplace outside of Japan proper, then return
Now, as for Canadians, many Europeans, many Asians from local non-enemy countries, and Australia, visitors CAN stay over 90 days AND work to subsidize their visit. They can stay **180*** days before having to depart.
I realize that there potentially could be hundreds of thousands of "merkuns" who could visit Japan and theoretically, if allowed to stay 180 days like other non-US passport holders, could swamp out the other visitors from smaller, less number-intensive who may have a lot to offer to Japan besides the presence of US companies and diplomats and soldiers/base occupation.
So, many "Americans" or US passport holders CHEAT, or game the system. They do the round-robin number, until at some point, some diligent or irritated immigration worker/officer sees the impropriety of doing this to effectively "live" in Japan. Sure, some of these US citizens CAN and DO speak Japanese, and maybe even other languages and probably have a lot to offer, but that's not the point. The Japanese system is very specific (not that the US' isn't), and some things are frowned upon.
Another way people cheat is by exploiting their dual citizenship status in more than one country. Some people visiting Japan are blood-related (but not enough) and hold a Japanese passport (or maybe just permission) to go to school, but hold Australian, Canadian, and European passports and just rotate them carefully so as to time/juxtapose the stamps so as to confuse or snow the immigration official at the inspection counter. Until and unless a system tracking retina, fingerprints, and other non-passport-dependent information is installed and vetted of bogus information, people will game the system.
This is likely the UNSPOKEN reason. 9/11 is a red herring. Since the embarrassing loss of WWII Japan generally knows how to conduct herself so as to not INVITE or DESERVE any 9/11 attack from external elements. Showing pity for the US is just a face-saving AND a red-herring method to push this fingerprinting thing through. I don't AT ALL have a problem with it. I've encountered numerous people gaming the system, and they are just giving a bad name to everyone who WANTS to LEGALLY immigrate to, even if only seasonally residing in, Japan.
So, what I'd like to see Japan's Immigration agency consider is something like this:
- Time-Restricted visitors should earn behavior points accrued during their initial and susequent stays
-- those who show respect for immigration and labor laws (or, at least not "caught", or if found out, at least have not received any official action such as fines, ejection, barring, etc...) get to apply for seasonal 180-day or 90+ day duration visits.
-- After at least one or two successful (needn't be consecutive) and trouble-free visits, the visitor could apply for and obtain a working permit to subsidize visits.
-- after so many (maybe 4 or 5) repeated 90+day visit/working holiday stays, the person would be required to "take a break" so as to allow OTHER first-time visiting US or time-restricted visitors to enjoy the same new benefit granted to US or time-restricted visitors.
I say this because I don't think Japan is trying to be evil, but somewhere along the line in my frustration, I began using the statement, "But *I* didn't drop the bomb. I wasn't even BORN then. I had
Everytime I submit something and see it attributed to others makes me wonder if the Karma rating is fake, and that only non-controversial submitters will get posted. Does anyone else wonder that? That words or profanity or assymetrical thinking....
This is just downright INFURIATING that Kyocera is so blind and pliant to mshaft.
Sometimes, retribution just takes too damn long. Life would be so nice if corruption and racketeering were smacked hard and fast more often than few an far in between/far/few in between.
If I were Korean, I'd start (like in the movies) wielding some baseball bats in the mshaft boardroom -- AND waking up the Korean staff that they are being screwed by ms tactics. Sometimes, you just sniff the money and pass, not take. Dammit! Makes me wonder if when it comes to occupation and software if Korean government and business are wusses or like the dollar. Just tell ms to go to hell, Kyocera. Show your balls!
Tony Leung did in Lust Caution. Don't you businessmen have balls?
(I keisseikki will mod me troll or flamebait, but...)
Based on the recent news of a major Korean company being under investigation for corruption/et cetera (this isn't localized to Korea, just mentioning it in proximity to this article), I will go on a limb and say microsoft is just wheeling and dealing and paying some exec to "go along with the script":
"We'll claim you're violating one or more of our patents; doesn't matter which ones, if they're pending or not; doesn't matter if later the USPTO tells us we're full of it; doesn't matter if prior art exists. WE rule this world, and if you play by our terms, Sonsaengnim, you'll make a buttload of money."
1. Nutshells off a tree, or husks around gigantic nuts?
2. It would work for a non-English speaker IFF the Identification Friend of Foe recognition doesn't get cranky between "or" and "of"...
3. Would the baby be Borg, Swedish, or Cylon (from today or from Trek/Galactica...)? Once connected to a Latebula, it would have as much in common with us as Gary Mitchell would to a lab of (cat-attacking) white mice.
(To the modders, i am replying to a question, so pls don't go nuts with the "off-topic/flamebait" mod/ding...)
It stopped being "my navy" once i discharged (honorably) at the end of my enlistment contract. Grew sick of the spectrum of dubious, corrosive politics, double-standards, backstabbing and more. It's the US' navy. I have nil contact with it. Later, I entered a world in which I'd create a new world class, stateless (admittedly fictional) navy/maritime police force. Minimal nationalism, no flag-waving, no bullying, but with a mandate to deprecate all power-projecting nations' flag-waving navies into nothing more than own-shore coastal patrol units. No status of forces agreements... no aircraft carriers... no "expeditionary" forces...
"In whose navy would YOU like to serve" is my site slogan.
Might impress the hell out of Johnny Weismueller or Ron Ely, or Boy or Jai.... Jane might be jealous, tho...
But, would such alteration surgery be cruel and unusual punishment for convicts? Thoracic replacement vs jail time. Chime fits the Crime: pre-pubescent pitch to 25,000 baud. Thieves get girly voices, bad/naughty priests get 250k baud so they can more quickly talk to God.
UP to a certain point I agree. Blanket party, I've had. Shipmates dicking with my fold-n-stow in the boot barracks earned me Marching Party. Two marching parties would have led to "Short Tour", but then the jerks (some among us recruits) figured out I was harmless, and they left me alone. While others claimed Marching Party was hell (PT with 14-lb rifle, at night, during sleep time, from about 2200-0000), I considered it exercise, and I made it just fine. By considering it exercise my mind dissuaded me from trying to cheat. Cheaters ended up with a 2nd Marching Party.
But, breaking jaws or limbs during or after boot, ehh, I won't go that far. Never know when later on you end up a casualty of friendly fired. Grudges can be held for years, resurfacing when you least expect.
Remember the race riots of the 70's in the USN? Sailor stabbing one another in their racks (bunks, for you land lubbers)?; sailors ending up in sea bags and tossed overboard for witnessing drug deals at sea?; sailors being cold-cocked/whacked over the head with a dogging pipe or dogging wrench from behind?; the sailor in the 80's who was restrained by multiple shipmates who "raped" him with a pneumatic grease gun's tube and pumped the mil-spec stuff in him, ruining his innards? (they got Leavenworth for that);
There's a reason you DON'T whack the shit out of people or break limbs. I swear, had that happened to me, I'd have become a serial killer, maybe. Not out of weakness, but out of revenge.
Fortunately, I kept myself just inside the line of nerd/annoying-but-not-threatening. How? I learned WHEN not to report certain violations. I never turned in people from gambling, slushing, or the like, but I DID prep my pistol to deter a multi-occasion deserter from deserting on my watch when the quarterdeck watch of another ship was watching him and us. Had I looked the other way, they'd have reported seeing the Roving Patrol walking away from someone with a seabag shimmying down the stern quarter mooring line.
No, the DUR (Dicked-Up Recruits) you weed out despite the expense of acquisition. I only get physical for DEFENSE, not training or offense. But, then I wasn't a Marine or army soldier, either. Nor did I train for SEALs or the like, so fortunately, I was never really NEAR the level of intense training USMC/Army guys might be under.
-- police sirens (to scare of stalkers while jogging)
-- sex sounds, to lure pervs in closer to the bushes
-- the sound of back-firing car (but, thorax might burst...)
-- the "Sound of Music"
-- Big, bad wolf banging Goldilox, or Pinocchio
-- wolf baying (so people can play Lucan)...
Now, if we can just get prosthetic bulging/throbbing temple veins, we can play Talosian.
Would REALLY freak people out is to use these devices to communicate with a collaborator and tell each other to do things, using our throat, nodding and veins, selectively turning the actual speakers on and off for effect... (Maybe, throw in spiraling contact lenses, or color-adjusting, emotion-controlled contacts...)
(might send the CIA/NSA/other lettered-agencies on an ET easter egg hunt...)
Hah! Wikileaks is BACK up... Maybe it IS a CIA front, after all. Probably they took it down to do some "housecleaning" to remove unsanctioned documents, then restored it...
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know if this has happened in Japan yet:
http://www.seoulselection.com/streetwise_read.html?cid=4036&area=home
Past crimes cause teacher to be deported
November 08, 2007
"For the first time in Korea, an English teacher has been deported for a crime he committed before coming here, the Justice Ministry announced yesterday.
An American whose name was not released was deported, the Justice Ministry said, after a previous conviction in Los Angeles of possessing and distributing child pornography was uncovered."
and, from the same article:
"Currently, 17,020 native English speakers are working as language teachers in Korea on E-2 visas, according to data from the ministry.
Through August of this year, 100 teachers were caught on visa violations or felonies committed in Korea. Eighteen were deported, but 82 were allowed to remain here."
They ARE among us:
The Vidiians, Malon, Talosians, Kazon/Ferengi hybrids occupying the white house. Maybe we need to SAVE this green planet
(a reference to Save the Green Planet:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354668/
http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/horror/savethegreenplanet/savethegreenplanet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Green_Planet!
http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050419save.html
http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm03.html
It's funny, serious, nutty, and more. One reviewer said this is one film that packs virtually every known film genre into one sitting.
But, I better stay low, and to borrow a phrase from Janeway, "... Steer us a course clear of that... I'm in NO MOOD to donate organs today..."
)
I researched it while still in the US before going to visit Tokyo, in 2004. When I got there, I began to learn that, as usual, feet on the ground often is more revealing that web sites.
Expats and repeat visitors there told me to go to Nova and talk directly with them. So, I did that, and the people there were amazed (or so they acted) when I began to speak. They drool over native English rather than 2nd-hand learned English, so much so to the point that even an ASIAN born in the US and who speaks graduate-level English or as well as any so-called degreed person from the US is likely to be turned down over white, Black, or even Latino who speaks articulately.
Anyway, they (or one of their competitors, or was it both of them) would have taken me, despite having no degree, but the economy was still in the tail end of the crash, and I wasn't going to be there long enough to have face time while the economy officially showed itself turned around.
What you apply for is a Teaching Assistant position. Since theoretically (or on practicality) you're not "teaching" and you're just "assisting" the teacher, you might get a position in a very busy company.
Be warned though: not all of the shops are equal, or even near equal. Some places forbid after-hours income (they either want you committed to them, or just want you to learn how to decompress, get sleep and be worth it to your students/teacher's students), while others don't care if you tutor in Starbucks.
Tutoring is still teaching, and if you get caught, you can get into trouble. That's why I did not even bother with that risk. Lots of people DO game the system, and I think I encountered at least 5 people who outright told me they either faked their creds or overstayed, or had more than one job, one being within the scope of their visa, and the other outside of the visa restrictions.
But, Teaching Assistant/Teacher Assistant, at least in 2004/early 2005 was a viable way to go. However, many of the potentially-accepted, degreed types could weigh in and complain and cause that avenue to close up. Not sure if that WOULD happen, as teaching assistants would earn less money to start with and may provide the "Novas" a way to improve productivity with an acceptable increase in cost...
Good Luck.
With so much dubious and miasmatic shit on, um, IN the "Internets", how can one find the tubes, the bees, OR the poo?
Will there be Afro Sheen Care with this bare product?
I wonder if this is related to the msoft and patents thing vs Linux...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=363431&cid=21385189
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/16/2146233
I'd hate to be guessing correctly about this.
See my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364483&cid=21410595
Many of the guys there are players. They see the Japanese women as some exotic sex freaks and something to conquer. Not all the guys, but enough of them that it is troublesome. It also doesn't help when a loser of a local loses the girl who probably was already going to dump him finds out he's lost her to a gaijin. Then, sometimes the girls lose the guy when another girl comes along.
Aside from sex players, some of whom who just happen to be US English-speaking teachers, some of them end up teaching at Starbucks or maybe Freshness Cafe or Freshness Burger or other places. They might run afoul of the limits on their working visas and when caught, just create more mess for the local agencies to follow up with. Messes up the orderly, neat day.
Sometimes, the English teachers are not as smart of polite as they ought, or they get caught up in speaking Japanese in their English classes.
And, sometimes, the stress and limitations imposed by government or by some of the teaching schools drives the teachers batty, and they either quit their contract and leave by rules in teh law (the proper way, if they are going to quit), or they leave, and jump ship (or try to) another company which might bend the immigration rules processing and acquire the quit-but-non-departing teacher who hasn't properly followed the rules.
Then, the BIGGEST problem.... frauds who DO NOT have the degrees or certs they claim they earned. I encountered such people, who flaunted that they never completed college, or never attended college, and then sully the process for people who could really be teaching assistants (non-degree, but highly articulate, personality-gifted (at the appropriate times) and possibly "exemptable" tourists who locally apply but cannot be hired (my case, when the economy was bad) because so many visa-holding teachers are still awaiting assignment to avoid being deported or forced to self-depart.
There are other reasons, too, such as teachers who sell themselves to the Yakuza as controllers, or to other people who supplement the income of teachers who somehow increase their cost of living and decide to illegally gain more income they don't have to report (filing taxes and income statements I understand are voluntary, with very little negative effect for NOT filing, unlike in the US...)...
And, there are OTHER reasons....
"Vista may become viable as hardware becomes cheaper or if there is a sufficiently large threat to XP that is left unpatched but does not affect Vista."
But, surely you are aware that prices HAVE come down. They always DO. But, the problem is that although market forces drive DOWN the price of hardware as economies of scale factor in through greater consumer uptake, mshaft and various players in the market conspire to consume or eviscerate MOST of the technical gains, just enough to drive constant upgrade treadmill newbie users or those who crave cutting edge performance.
I wish programmers would program more responsibly, return to using their OWN drivers so as to make things independent of the OS. Ahh, but then that would negate the reason for the Registry, which I think came to be not for driver consolidation, but for attempting to:
1. lock users into windows upgrades by depriving them from simply grafting the applications from C:\program-name to new OS version c:\program-name
2. lock users into vendor apps (and reinforcing #1 above) to guarantee developers stay in ms' fold
3. lock users OUT of doing # 1 to quickly copy (illegally or just for use on more than one of ones own, controlled computers at home and at work) apps and saving themselves money
Prices will keep coming down, or be relatively cheap. It almost assured that ms will keep chewing those gains to ensure space and place for whatever next OS they claim will be better.
I remember back around 1995 or 1996 when ms said they were going to modularize windows so that people only paid for what they needed and could upgrade modules as needed and pay then.
Still waiting. No, CE, scrillenium, didn't do it for me.
Unfortunately for me, and for others whose passports say "USA", as tourists, we cannot legally stay in Japan more than 90 days at a time AND subsidize our stay via legal work. The normal ways westerners from the US can stay over 90 days are:
-- Finally gain residency (by defined immigration means)
-- become hired by a company which handles all the processing in advance (or, after the fact, sends the new hire out for one day to reenter as a hired employee)
-- be transferred there by an external or internal company having recognized operations/presence in Japan
-- at day 89 or 90, depart for at least one day, say to Korea, The Philippines, or SOMEplace outside of Japan proper, then return
Now, as for Canadians, many Europeans, many Asians from local non-enemy countries, and Australia, visitors CAN stay over 90 days AND work to subsidize their visit. They can stay **180*** days before having to depart.
I realize that there potentially could be hundreds of thousands of "merkuns" who could visit Japan and theoretically, if allowed to stay 180 days like other non-US passport holders, could swamp out the other visitors from smaller, less number-intensive who may have a lot to offer to Japan besides the presence of US companies and diplomats and soldiers/base occupation.
So, many "Americans" or US passport holders CHEAT, or game the system. They do the round-robin number, until at some point, some diligent or irritated immigration worker/officer sees the impropriety of doing this to effectively "live" in Japan. Sure, some of these US citizens CAN and DO speak Japanese, and maybe even other languages and probably have a lot to offer, but that's not the point. The Japanese system is very specific (not that the US' isn't), and some things are frowned upon.
Another way people cheat is by exploiting their dual citizenship status in more than one country. Some people visiting Japan are blood-related (but not enough) and hold a Japanese passport (or maybe just permission) to go to school, but hold Australian, Canadian, and European passports and just rotate them carefully so as to time/juxtapose the stamps so as to confuse or snow the immigration official at the inspection counter. Until and unless a system tracking retina, fingerprints, and other non-passport-dependent information is installed and vetted of bogus information, people will game the system.
This is likely the UNSPOKEN reason. 9/11 is a red herring. Since the embarrassing loss of WWII Japan generally knows how to conduct herself so as to not INVITE or DESERVE any 9/11 attack from external elements. Showing pity for the US is just a face-saving AND a red-herring method to push this fingerprinting thing through. I don't AT ALL have a problem with it. I've encountered numerous people gaming the system, and they are just giving a bad name to everyone who WANTS to LEGALLY immigrate to, even if only seasonally residing in, Japan.
So, what I'd like to see Japan's Immigration agency consider is something like this:
- Time-Restricted visitors should earn behavior points accrued during their initial and susequent stays
-- those who show respect for immigration and labor laws (or, at least not "caught", or if found out, at least have not received any official action such as fines, ejection, barring, etc...) get to apply for seasonal 180-day or 90+ day duration visits.
-- After at least one or two successful (needn't be consecutive) and trouble-free visits, the visitor could apply for and obtain a working permit to subsidize visits.
-- after so many (maybe 4 or 5) repeated 90+day visit/working holiday stays, the person would be required to "take a break" so as to allow OTHER first-time visiting US or time-restricted visitors to enjoy the same new benefit granted to US or time-restricted visitors.
I say this because I don't think Japan is trying to be evil, but somewhere along the line in my frustration, I began using the statement, "But *I* didn't drop the bomb. I wasn't even BORN then. I had
Not to grouse, but I submitted this on THURSDAY!
Everytime I submit something and see it attributed to others makes me wonder if the Karma rating is fake, and that only non-controversial submitters will get posted. Does anyone else wonder that? That words or profanity or assymetrical thinking....
http://slashdot.org/~davidsyes/journal/187915
Then, you better get ... bizzzzzz-zeee
...Over or UNDER the bridge?
(Captcha: cadaver)
Cuz when the championship sexbot arrives on scene, it can signal:
You... will... be... ass-immolate...
So, will they command it to bugger the bugs they bugged? I guess it will bug the shit out of them... real buggery-like...
Sounds kinda... insectstuous....
Watch out for mating season. This is the REAL widow-maker. Exoskeleton-crushing sex....from a real sex-bot... I wonder how endowed this bugger is...
This is just downright INFURIATING that Kyocera is so blind and pliant to mshaft.
/far/few in between.
Sometimes, retribution just takes too damn long. Life would be so nice if corruption and racketeering were smacked hard and fast more often than few an far in between
If I were Korean, I'd start (like in the movies) wielding some baseball bats in the mshaft boardroom -- AND waking up the Korean staff that they are being screwed by ms tactics. Sometimes, you just sniff the money and pass, not take. Dammit! Makes me wonder if when it comes to occupation and software if Korean government and business are wusses or like the dollar. Just tell ms to go to hell, Kyocera. Show your balls!
Tony Leung did in Lust Caution. Don't you businessmen have balls?
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200711/200711150007.html
(I keisseikki will mod me troll or flamebait, but...)
Based on the recent news of a major Korean company being under investigation for corruption/et cetera (this isn't localized to Korea, just mentioning it in proximity to this article), I will go on a limb and say microsoft is just wheeling and dealing and paying some exec to "go along with the script":
"We'll claim you're violating one or more of our patents; doesn't matter which ones, if they're pending or not; doesn't matter if later the USPTO tells us we're full of it; doesn't matter if prior art exists. WE rule this world, and if you play by our terms, Sonsaengnim, you'll make a buttload of money."
That's the business world for you.
Von Boyage?
1. Nutshells off a tree, or husks around gigantic nuts?
2. It would work for a non-English speaker IFF the Identification Friend of Foe recognition doesn't get cranky between "or" and "of"...
3. Would the baby be Borg, Swedish, or Cylon (from today or from Trek/Galactica...)? Once connected to a Latebula, it would have as much in common with us as Gary Mitchell would to a lab of (cat-attacking) white mice.
May the Lords of Kobol help such a child.
(To the modders, i am replying to a question, so pls don't go nuts with the "off-topic/flamebait" mod/ding...)
It stopped being "my navy" once i discharged (honorably) at the end of my enlistment contract. Grew sick of the spectrum of dubious, corrosive politics, double-standards, backstabbing and more. It's the US' navy. I have nil contact with it. Later, I entered a world in which I'd create a new world class, stateless (admittedly fictional) navy/maritime police force. Minimal nationalism, no flag-waving, no bullying, but with a mandate to deprecate all power-projecting nations' flag-waving navies into nothing more than own-shore coastal patrol units. No status of forces agreements... no aircraft carriers... no "expeditionary" forces...
"In whose navy would YOU like to serve" is my site slogan.
"Not that it isn't impressive,"
Might impress the hell out of Johnny Weismueller or Ron Ely, or Boy or Jai.... Jane might be jealous, tho...
But, would such alteration surgery be cruel and unusual punishment for convicts? Thoracic replacement vs jail time. Chime fits the Crime: pre-pubescent pitch to 25,000 baud. Thieves get girly voices, bad/naughty priests get 250k baud so they can more quickly talk to God.
UP to a certain point I agree. Blanket party, I've had. Shipmates dicking with my fold-n-stow in the boot barracks earned me Marching Party. Two marching parties would have led to "Short Tour", but then the jerks (some among us recruits) figured out I was harmless, and they left me alone. While others claimed Marching Party was hell (PT with 14-lb rifle, at night, during sleep time, from about 2200-0000), I considered it exercise, and I made it just fine. By considering it exercise my mind dissuaded me from trying to cheat. Cheaters ended up with a 2nd Marching Party.
But, breaking jaws or limbs during or after boot, ehh, I won't go that far. Never know when later on you end up a casualty of friendly fired. Grudges can be held for years, resurfacing when you least expect.
Remember the race riots of the 70's in the USN? Sailor stabbing one another in their racks (bunks, for you land lubbers)?; sailors ending up in sea bags and tossed overboard for witnessing drug deals at sea?; sailors being cold-cocked/whacked over the head with a dogging pipe or dogging wrench from behind?; the sailor in the 80's who was restrained by multiple shipmates who "raped" him with a pneumatic grease gun's tube and pumped the mil-spec stuff in him, ruining his innards? (they got Leavenworth for that);
There's a reason you DON'T whack the shit out of people or break limbs. I swear, had that happened to me, I'd have become a serial killer, maybe. Not out of weakness, but out of revenge.
Fortunately, I kept myself just inside the line of nerd/annoying-but-not-threatening. How? I learned WHEN not to report certain violations. I never turned in people from gambling, slushing, or the like, but I DID prep my pistol to deter a multi-occasion deserter from deserting on my watch when the quarterdeck watch of another ship was watching him and us. Had I looked the other way, they'd have reported seeing the Roving Patrol walking away from someone with a seabag shimmying down the stern quarter mooring line.
No, the DUR (Dicked-Up Recruits) you weed out despite the expense of acquisition. I only get physical for DEFENSE, not training or offense. But, then I wasn't a Marine or army soldier, either. Nor did I train for SEALs or the like, so fortunately, I was never really NEAR the level of intense training USMC/Army guys might be under.
And, while we're at it, build in:
...
-- car alarms
-- ship's collision gong
-- submarine diving gong
-- police sirens (to scare of stalkers while jogging)
-- sex sounds, to lure pervs in closer to the bushes
-- the sound of back-firing car (but, thorax might burst...)
-- the "Sound of Music"
-- Big, bad wolf banging Goldilox, or Pinocchio
-- wolf baying (so people can play Lucan)
Now, if we can just get prosthetic bulging/throbbing temple veins, we can play Talosian.
Would REALLY freak people out is to use these devices to communicate with a collaborator and tell each other to do things, using our throat, nodding and veins, selectively turning the actual speakers on and off for effect... (Maybe, throw in spiraling contact lenses, or color-adjusting, emotion-controlled contacts...)
(might send the CIA/NSA/other lettered-agencies on an ET easter egg hunt...)
Egg-zeh-lent...
Considering the recent military trial of one USMC drill instructor.... maybe not. Their congress/progress person might get involved...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926591/posts
"A military jury had found that he beat or otherwise denigrated 23 men in his charge last winter at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego."
Hah! Wikileaks is BACK up... Maybe it IS a CIA front, after all. Probably they took it down to do some "housecleaning" to remove unsanctioned documents, then restored it...
LOL!