Canon ElectronicsI've had jobs that involved standing all day, but they were working in retail or restaurants where sitting would have hurt productivity. I can't picture it for an office job; I wonder what they expect to do if one of their employees becomes injured o...
RapelayThings like this shouldn't be approached with kneejerk reactions. If you're going to ban something then it has to be both practical to enforce and the gains must outweigh the costs. Alcohol doesn't work, but young drivers are generally reckless and i...
RapelayMost of those are overblown fear-mongering. Millions of people play violent games every day without any kind of incident. If children snapping because of a video game was a matter of reality then you'd think it would occur MUCH more frequently than i...
RapelayThe problem though is "I'd be better off dead" is a common attitude among a lot of victims of traumatic incidents. It's something that eventually recedes over time in a lot of cases, but that doesn't mean it's not something they can recover from. (N...
RapelayWhat makes rape any different from any other traumatic incident? You could argue the same thing about losing a limb, getting your face mangled, being beaten to a bloody pulp or suffering third degree burns all over your body.
With the exception of...
RapelayStatistics aren't supposed to reveal everything, just the pervasive trends. So long as the sample size is large enough and the study is well conducted they generally tend to be accurate.
As it is I was citing American research studies, so I couldn'...
RapelayEvery study I've seen regarding sex crimes suggests that states or cities with oppressive laws regarding sexual conduct tend to have -higher- sex crimes than places without them. Banning the material is much less productive than heavily regulating it...
Japan Jury DutyAmerican jury duty barely pays enough to cover a lunch at Denny's. This might not be so bad for students or something, but for anyone who earns more than minimum wage jury duty would be a significant paycut.
Japan Jury DutyThe process of a trial should be left to the court system, or used only for non-felonious trials. Quite frankly I've seen enough instances of someone being wrongfully prosecuted thanks to the jury's bias that I really have no faith in the jury system...
Japan InfluenzaNo real changes here, though there's supposedly been a couple of confirmed cases in Colorado. I'm not terribly worried since traditional medications and Tamiflu seem to be effective in combating it so far.
Muscle MarchI have no idea what the gameplay is like. But the concept is pure awesome, and would make many heads explode in the US if it were released.
Anime DeclineSuccessful does not equal good. The only thing "successful" necessarily means is that they've managed to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Anime DeclineI've gotten more and more picky about anime lately, simply because I can't be bothered to watch the latest highschool slice-of-life drama fest whose plot has been recycled for the 9,000th time. If a show can't grab me in the first 5 episodes I genera...
Tokyo Freelance JobsAvatars are easy enough. I'll see about cropping a few of them, though I'm generally used to sites with 100x100 limits and not 64x64. :)
Japan Swine FluI'm not overly concerned. So far its only slightly more lethal than SARS was, and that petered out in a few months. If we're still hearing about Swine Flu a year from now and the deaths ramp up to the thousands, or we start seeing something out of Th...
BlytheLong as the hobby's harmless it's not a big deal to me one way or the other. I do tend to think guys collecting dolls are a bit odd, but otherwise it's not that big of a deal. Then again I'm hardly representative of anything, considering how far left...
