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canman wrote:I forget who said it earlier that we all have a little Nazi in us. Well it seems that the city of Osaka has a little Nazi running the place.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120502p2a00m0na012000c.html
So he is against tatoos, and feels that they should be hidden and are not appropriate for workers to have them. What is next, dyed hair? Pierced ears?
This guy is sounding a little scary. And the thing is, he is gaining in popularity!
canman wrote:It is quite scary to think that some people hope he becomes a viable candidate for national politics. He would make old Blinky seem tame in comparison!
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fan by any means, but he's no less scary than the fundies the GOP puts up in the Untied States...
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Mind you, he certainly couldn't do much worse nationally than what we've had for the past three decades or so.
canman wrote:Sorry, I just came across it today. It is quite scary to think that some people hope he becomes a viable candidate for national politics. He would make old Blinky seem tame in comparison!
cstaylor wrote:FTFY.
The city government here has begun surveying all its employees over whether they have tattoos and, if so, which parts of their bodies have been inked, city officials said.
Starting this month, the Osaka Municipal Government is conducting the survey covering some 38,000 employees. The move was prompted by an incident in February, in which a city employee showed their tattoo to children at a welfare facility. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto ordered the survey be conducted following the incident.
If city officials have tattoos on their arms and legs, the written survey requires them to indicate exactly where and how big the tattoos are, in addition to giving their names.
On May 1, Mayor Hashimoto distributed written instructions to all city employees, stating that "it is inappropriate to work in outfits that will expose your tattoos" and asking them to return their survey responses by May 10.
The survey slip has two simple human figures -- front and back -- on which the inked among Osaka municipal staff must mark where their tattoos are if anywhere from their shoulders down to their fingers, from the neck up, and from their knees down to their toes.
"There won't be any legal problem (with the survey)," said an official with the city's personnel affairs section, adding that the results will be considered during personnel allocation.
FG Lurker wrote:Maybe he'll scare the national parties enough to get them to actually do something for a change?
cstaylor wrote:Actually, I'm disappointed that KEPCO might swing the Oi reactors back online in time for summer... I was looking forward to your tales of woe from sudden power outages, all thanks to Herr Hashimoto's 8-point (and 30 years too-late) plan.
FG Lurker wrote:Yeah, I am still hopeful that reality will win out on that one and the reactors will come back online.
FG Lurker wrote:If it becomes a problem I'll buy a notebook so I can work through power outages. It's not a perfect solution but it'll work.
cstaylor wrote:Here's to hoping the Tokyo 23 are protected from rolling blackouts this summer, otherwise I'll need to move my EC2-based customers to Singapore...
cstaylor wrote:Here's to hoping the Tokyo 23 are protected from rolling blackouts this summer, otherwise I'll need to move my EC2-based customers to Singapore...
Personally I think the Tokyo 23 should bear the brunt of any 50Hz blackouts considering they didn't have any at all last year...
"There won't be any legal problem (with the survey)," said an official with the city's personnel affairs section, adding that the results will be considered during personnel allocation.
FG Lurker wrote:Personally I think the Tokyo 23 should bear the brunt of any 50Hz blackouts considering they didn't have any at all last year...
chokonen888 wrote:I think they should just change this country to one fucking standard
FG Lurker wrote:Which would mean replacing every power plant that is on the Hz rating to be changed, along with a lot of specialized equipment that isn't Hz switchable. It also all needs to be done at once, you can't just slowly migrate from one to the other.
The 50/60 line sucks but it is unlikely to ever go away at this point.
FG Lurker wrote:Personally I think the Tokyo 23 should bear the brunt of any 50Hz blackouts considering they didn't have any at all last year...
cstaylor wrote:I'll bet they'll let Hashimoto twist in the wind, with sweltering heat and the elderly taking the brunt of it.
FG Lurker wrote:I don't understand the first half of that
cstaylor wrote:http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/twist+in+the+wind
FG Lurker wrote:I definitely expect to see an increase in the number of elderly heatstroke deaths.
FG Lurker wrote:I understand what it means, I don't see what Hashimoto has to do with blackouts in the 50Hz region of Japan.
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