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I will never snowboard/ski in the rain its really miserable, I hate the damp and it will lead to sickness. I dont ming snow that as just been rained on though as it does soften it up a bit(until the refreeze) Its the same as surfing in the rain, its really not worth it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-tan

Kill their parents and school mates. You should google "Nevada-chan"

I guess its just for appearing, Pop Idol started in the UK and that is why he was exported along with the show. They are easily making hundreds of millions of that show.

U-571 a historically incorrect propaganda piece, it was the British that solved enigma as much as I hate those prod. A lot of war films are propaganda pieces usually made by warner. But there are some good ones out there too. Especially Behind enemy lines, Platoon, Hunt for the Red October(though a propaganda piece) Disneys Sinbad was god awful, nothing like the films or the stories I grew up with (Clash of the Titans was my favorite film) but Disneys Sinbad is 100% propaganda the worst I have even seen. Its basically about how women are just as good as men in every situation/feminism/t

When I am on cheap flights I feel like I am John Lenon walking down the roll up stairs.

Because they are afraid of the very right wing Japanese. People generally see Yakuza as being bullies and not to mess with, but they will still buy takoyaki from a yak. People in their 20s who are wanting to rebel a bit are far more afraid of the Right wingers or even the Kaku Maru. Also Japanese people become very outspoken when you break the rules. Try putting your rubbish out at the wrong time in the wrong place and you will have somebody shout at you. When Japanese are confident in their position they really come out of their shells.

I 100% agree that wifi support is utter shit. But then I think the same of wifi, it is so unsecure even password protected its a joke in 30 minutes you can break into and leach of almost any wifi connection with auditor (now backtrack) http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html Havn't had much of a problem with usb cameras though, even ubuntu recognised my camera and my canon 20d raw files straight away.

what sites do you spend your hours reading? /. kuro?

Cant get a credit card, I have been black listed in 3 countries so far. That is what being a student for too long gets you. I am going the computer route because I can build a good one for pretty cheap. Also my sister has a new kid so I want him to have computer access at as young an age as possible. (If I go linux there are some amazing packages for children of all ages I was supprised at the quality of stellarium)

You are worried about 79 meg? I download 7.9 gig in a 2 hours.

I have decided to build a small computer and send it back home. I am fed up of paying for phone calls. Usually my mobile phone bill is 25,000 and most of that is going back home because I am often too lazy to buy a call card and I don't have a credit card to pay for skype. I am going to do all the configuration here so all they have to do is plug it in. But I have to chose between Ubuntu or XP (Vista is too gimicky just now) Has anybody done the same?

"and their dog does it" I laughed because in Japan you can actually buy matching clothes for your dog.

Tesselator - I have gone through a lot of the same transitions, As I mentioned when I was young I was brought up in a Christian Cult. They used to laugh a scientist from the pulpit during their sermons etc. Their programing never worked on me I became fanatical about science, secretly reading books on evolution and counter social movements. But I did have loyalties to my family and apostasy would of killed my mother so I stuck that religion out for far to long. I started to self study about religious history formation of fundamentalist churches in America, bible techniques such as "Bible

Saw the vid on Youtube, it was pretty balls'y I don't know how they even got in the tube with skis because of all the security these days.

You sound quite like me bobby, when I am pissed of at work, I spend overtime looking for new jobs, improving my linux skills for said new job and sometimes just do nothing but read the Internet all day. I am great at hiding it too, I am the only person in my office using linux as their default desktop, so if the boss if wondering around he cant catch what I am looking at so easily, also if I feel they are really looking I will go back to using a text browser with a transparent terminal.

I have used the plane toilet maybe twice in my life. Any time I travel I get instantly dehydrated and never have to go. I was even on a 36 hour flight before, a series of connections and didnt have to go at all.

manda If it was a 12 year old boy who got the 14 year old girl pregnant, which of the 2 were "sick"/"wrong"?

keba that is what I was getting at earlier. Its funny because sometimes even in the same day there have been 3 new users all asking the exact same question. I am pissed off because although some people dont like my attitude here, I have been helpful in the past and not even get a thank you. There was this girl coming from Australia that emailed me directly about equipment. I gave them all the information about shops in jimbocho and said that I would show them were to go to get the right equipment as I was going there on a friday. It didnt pan out so, I gave links to Google maps and

Samurai the mags that a shrink wrapped most of the time contain no nudity oddly enough. Its a trap to fool salary men. Underage "artistic" nudes were very popular in Japan 10 years ago, it has cleaned up a lot. But I have seen pretty doddgy photobooks in Bookoff. What is far worse is manga, if you really want to see perverted you have to checkout the manga in places like K-books. or www.mandarake.com haha. I know this because I was going to open a foreign export book business at one stage but I gave up. Photobooks have limits but manga is a lot more relevant to to mindset.

Seems like really a lot of us are in the same situation, I have been here for 4 years ( 2 years of study though) I was earning more pro rata when I was a model part-time. I want to find a job in Singapore or China, at least I can get some fun and spicy food also I can complain publicly, Chinese know how to complain about shitty services and bad prices. Eventually I want to start my own business in China I have some good Ideas and even some investors. But something about living here has made me doubt my abilities.

Tesselator not being rude, but were you a Born Again or something to that effect? You quote scripture like I used to (Though I was not born again) Getting back to the start 14 yo mother? Go to poor areas of the UK and Ireland and you will see them everywhere. I knew loads of people in my school who used to shag like rabbits and at that age I was quite jealous of them. If they want to do it let them. But when you throw an adult into the mix it automatically becomes an "abusive" relationship. If I teen commits murder they are tried as an adult, but when it is anything sexual they ar

I know how you feel bobby in the UK and Ireland it is 30 minutes every 4 hours. Which means if you are working a 9 - 5 job you are getting paid for lunch. But here you are not. Also even with a 2 year contract you are not a permanent worker, but don't worry in Japan sometimes being a permanent worker is worse off, you can actually be fired easier and your pay is more relevant to your performance. If you a good worker and something better come along all their bitching about a 5 minute break offers them no loyalties.

Read your exact contract, its sounds pretty legal and almost the same situation as I am in. You probably are not getting paid for your lunch either. You are a contract employee and not a permanent employee by the sounds of it. Also I don't get paid overtime unless I do more than 40hours extra in that month. Coffee brakes, take up smoking and nobody will complain. This is the unfair rule of office politics law for the non-smoker.

For XP I can get everything working, Japanese and English locales, but it requires a restart for some applications. If you have a Nvidia video card be sure to install the drivers when the locale is set to English. As it will supported in English and Japanese, but installing in Japanese it will be set to Japanese only. Its weird, so if your os in originally Japanese, install the base in Japanese with English support. Convoluted I know...