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"Interesting, wonder how that will effect me as I have a permanent visa status which does not expire. I guess that makes no difference, just the re-entry part will increase to 5 years?" There will be no reentry permit.

p.h.o.t.o.s.

You can sum it up this change like this: "We want to put IC chip in the gaijin card so that we can track you better. In return for this, we will stop charging you the ludicrous reentry permit 'gaijin tax'. PS: spouse visa now valid for 5 years instead of 3." There is a load of moaning on debito.org about this IC chip issue if you are interested.

MitchPee: When you come back to Japan you will just have to reapply for a gaijin card, no big deal. It doesn't void your visa if you are on a spouse visa (source: personal experience). However, it may affect your application for permanent residency as they like you to have a consecutive reentry permit of x years.

If they lose to man utd and udinese then I think Arsene will be a Gooner.

how are you guys feeling to be back in Japan, quietly relieved to be back in good old reliable Japan or are you kinda wishing you could stay back home?

I may never get another chance to post this in my lifetime, so here goes. We are top of the league! Code: P GD PTS1 Liverpool 2 2 42 Newcastle 2 1 43 Bolton 1 4 34 Man City 1 4 35 Man Utd 1 1 3

myp2p.eu had domain trouble but they put up a new one on twitter so i could get a decent feed of sky sports. GET IN 2-0 When I saw that Frimpong with his BA Baracas hairdo dive in two feet up at 100 MPH in the first 5 mins I thought he might end up getting sent off, and sure enough he went walkies and was lucky not to get a straight red in the end. I noticed that our line up was 100% whities and thought I hadnt seen that for a while in the premier league. Then I thought about our bench, and I cant think of a single black player in our team now that Babel has been sold...

Is it just me or is myp2p.eu down now? Anyone got a link to the Arsenal Liverpool game? I am desperate!

We are 1-0 up at halftime, Downing looking white hot. Ah how I missed the PL.

I predict that this was organised by someone or some group. What is needed is 'a tipping point' (I guess many of you have read the book), ie. that first act of vandalism in the day to kick it all off. I think someone is creating these tipping points around the UK by getting their gang members or whoever to start incidents, and then use the crowd-effect to recruit a small army for free to protect you while you target the mobile-phone shops etc. In other words, I think either gangs or possibly anarchist groups are kick starting incidents in order to use the ignorant crowd (kids etc) as a

Olympics coming up might have something to do with reticence to bring out the army (bad publicity etc) The guys who get caught are going to be in for a proper beating I would imagine, and rightly so! I think Twitter and the like enable this kind of thing.

I would like to see some kind of 'licence to have kids' where people take a test in order to be able to have more than 2 kids. In China they had the one child rule, and the UK now forces foreign spouses to take a ridiculous Life in the UK* test, so I do not see why we cannot implement this kind of restriction on people. If they have 3 kids without a licence, withhold their benefits etc like China did. * it is so hard, questions about the royal family and minor home counties etc, I would not be able to pass it myself without memorising the book.

The areas affected are pretty much all poor areas. It is quite a nice checklist for tourists or potential residents as 'places to avoid'. I am not sure how we can solve this problem. There is already a lot of welfare in the UK, so clearly that is not working. From my experience, the problem is cycles of bad families who have lots of kids at a young age (as an aside, note the guy who got shot had 4 kids and was only 29), they instill bad values in the kids or neglect them. I wonder if there are any examples where a nation managed to solve this kind of problem?

The officer had a gun because he was doing a bust for Operation Trident which is aiming to tackle gun crime in London. These riots are nothing more than kids out to have fun and steal things, watch the videos to get a feel for the kind of people it is doing this.

YES I LOVE IT!!! Click on this link to the BBC News article about this riot, and play the video at the top: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14434318 ... it starts with an advertisement for VISIT BRITAIN - YOUR INVITED

I went to school not far from Tottenham and a lot of the bad kids in the school came in from that part of town. It is quite rough up there, not as bad as Brixton etc but still a lot of crime and perpetual broken families. It seems some parts of London are becoming like how I imagine the ghettos of America to be. From what I read it seems some guy shot at a policeman and got shot in retaliation, how this justifies rioting is beyond me. This is good timing for me as I am quite seriously thinking of moving back to the UK this Xmas and it reminds me to avoid London!

Quality is not as good, but value for money is infinitely better.

yes, 14:30 UK time. need to find me a good torrent.

check out sony reader too.

Fergie likes his combative defensive midfielders. Who do they have now? Only Carrick?

I luv me unagi

I was up rooting for jp, but to be fair usa deserved to win it 3-0

Well, over here an 80s mullet and a shiny shellsuit is a sign of wealth and taste.

I always bring this guy up, but "Tanaka" who used to be governor of Nagano seems interesting and fresh. He opposed all the "muda-dam" building in the prefecture and eventually got ousted cos of it. Read this and understand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Tanaka