Japan's first commercial jet in 50 years makes maiden flight Japan's first commercial jet in half a century made its maiden flight on Wednesday, in a breakthrough for the country's long-held ambition to establish an aircraft industry that can compete with some of the major players in global aviatio...

Salty, for the record your problem isn't run-on sentences.

Now even panty thieves have gone cyber. Tokyo man accused of stealing Facebook underwear photos A Tokyo man accused of accessing a woman's Facebook account and allegedly downloading pictures of her in her underwear has been arrested, police and reports said Tuesday. Ehhhh,if the pics were on facebo...

The issue isn't your criticism of Japan. It's your only-in-Japan attitude towards things that aren't unique to Japan. I think in some cases you guys are reading that into my statements, regardless of my intent. It's not what we're reading into it, it's what you're writing. You regularly unnecessari...

And yes, it does feel wrong because the basic justification for tax is the state provides the environment where you prosper enough to gain assets of value. Japan cannot say it provided support to my parents while they scrimped and saved to buy a house. And Japan wouldn't tax your parents or their e...

Now even panty thieves have gone cyber. Tokyo man accused of stealing Facebook underwear photos A Tokyo man accused of accessing a woman's Facebook account and allegedly downloading pictures of her in her underwear has been arrested, police and reports said Tuesday. In what is being reported as the ...

I had not mentioned gerrymandering until you – out of thin air, suggested that I equated it with vote buying. I'm the one who initially suggested it though not as directly. Since you said that voter suppression and vote value manipulation were buying votes it would be easy to categorize gerrymander...

It's got to be KPH, right? I can't imagine they could get up to 80 MPH on a shopping cart no matter how steep the hill was.

matsuki wrote:LOL, or in other words, the whole "don't acknowledge it and it didn't happen" will save you face mentality....I'm sorry, "culture."

Sure comes in handy in relationships.

Japan its own enemy in push to improve cybersecurity Apart from rogue hackers, criminal organizations or even state-backed cyberwarfare units, Japan's businesses and government agencies are facing a unique cybersecurity foe: themselves. Even with the frequency and severity of cyberattacks increasin...

wagyl wrote:Which country's "democratic" system brought us the word "gerrymander"?

Gerrymander means to buy votes, right?

Maybe Chinese and Japanese men can find common ground. :lol: Cross-dressing Chinese man with selfie stick arrested at Japan spa A Chinese male tourist in drag has been nabbed after he entered the female section of a seaside public bath to take selfies, local police said Monday. Xia Liang, 36, was ar...

Salty, you seem to have a very loose definition of what it means to buy votes. Erm... providing money or items of economic value as quid pro quo for votes. Agreed? I did say the LDP buys votes ... by vote suppression/vote value manipulation. How is that buying votes? OK - now I see the discrepancy....

Salty, you seem to have a very loose definition of what it means to buy votes. Erm... providing money or items of economic value as quid pro quo for votes. Agreed? I did say the LDP buys votes ... by vote suppression/vote value manipulation. How is that buying votes? OK - now I see the discrepancy....

Salty wrote:

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Salty, you seem to have a very loose definition of what it means to buy votes.

Erm... providing money or items of economic value as quid pro quo for votes. Agreed?

I did say the LDP buys votes ... by vote suppression/vote value manipulation.

How is that buying votes?

He already has an FAO thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31021&p=370063

Mods, would it be possible to ban Shitsta... mmmm Wagyl from this thread... ? It's an explicit F.A.O Coligny and I put the little turd on ignore eons ago... That makes no sense... Overruled by the guy who started this thread. Come on... show mercy for once... Mercy is for the weak. watercat.gif

legion wrote:You'd pay income tax at source.

Not necessarily.

Salty, you seem to have a very loose definition of what it means to buy votes.

I think they should not be levying tax on property inherited abroad, I think it is out of their jurisdiction, and I think that a lot of people in the UK will agree, and a lot of expats here. I expect at some point it will become an issue in the UK & USA, and politicians will be called on to tak...

Coligny wrote:Mods, would it be possible to ban Shitsta... mmmm Wagyl from this thread... ?

It's an explicit F.A.O Coligny and I put the little turd on ignore eons ago... That makes no sense...

Overruled by the guy who started this thread.

My "walking dead" theory is pretty supported by this. They're dangerous on the road, whether behind the wheel, on a chari, or doing the zombie-walk through traffic. Maybe but old people can die from slipping in the bath so I could also reflect that accidents are more likely to kill senior...

Here's the full interview. As I suspected those assholes set her up. It starts at 1:36.

My "walking dead" theory is pretty supported by this. They're dangerous on the road, whether behind the wheel, on a chari, or doing the zombie-walk through traffic. Maybe but old people can die from slipping in the bath so I could also reflect that accidents are more likely to kill senior...

Wherever it is, it's just stupid...they're like the black equivalent of "Asian" Americans defending Kimonos from being misappropriated. Not sure I see the connection. Anyway, without context it's hard to judge. If she just walked up and called them niggers for no reason they've got a righ...

How can a policy buy votes when there are no differences in policy between the parties? What you are saying is like saying that the LDP are buying votes because they have a policy to use Yen as the currency for Japan. When the Democrats and the JCP have the same policy, that is not buying votes. Th...

So am I to understand that if I lived in the UK and inherited money from an overseas estate it wouldn't be taxed no matter how much I received? My sense is that that is correct - although I haven't checked it carefully. But yes, the estate rather than the recipient is liable for inheritance tax. If...

So am I to understand that if I lived in the UK and inherited money from an overseas estate it wouldn't be taxed no matter how much I received?

matsuki wrote:

Samurai_Jerk wrote:They call this French chick Japanese for some reason but that's not important. My favorite part starts at about 1 minute.

LOL, what was that about chips on shoulders?

I like her complete and total lack of fear. A lot of people would be shitting their pants in that situation.

They call this French chick Japanese for some reason but that's not important. My favorite part starts at about 1 minute.