The European Domino Effect: Why the Continent is Burning, and What It Means for the Future of the EU A wave of historic unrest is sweeping across Western and Southern Europe. In France, an estimated 550,000 to 800,000 people took to the streets on October 17, resulting in what experts call the worst riots in decades—including the near-total destruction of the Limoges City Hall. Meanwhile, in Italy, major northern cities like Milan and Turin are facing violent clashes, and in Portugal, thousands of youths are occupying public squares. To the casual observer, these look like isolated domestic disputes over school budgets or housing. But look closer, and a striking historical parallel emerges: We are witnessing a modern-day "European Spring." Much like the Arab Spring of the early 2010s, a single spark has crossed borders, fueled by a generation of youth who feel their future has been stolen, and amplified at lightning speed by social media. However, the root cause of this chaos is far deeper than local policy. It is the structural breakdown of the European experiment itself. The Three Triggers: What is Driving the Unrest? While the protests manifest differently in each country, they share a common foundation of economic hardship and collapsing infrastructure. • France (The Education Crisis): The chaos erupted over a government proposal to cut roughly 4,000 teaching positions in the 2027 budget. Students, already frustrated by deteriorating classrooms and a lack of resources, blocked schools. They were quickly joined by powerful labor unions protesting skyrocketing living costs. • Portugal (The Housing Crisis): In Lisbon, the youth are protesting a brutal housing market. Years of tax incentives for foreign investors and a surge in short-term tourist rentals have priced locals out of their own cities. With historically low wages, young Portuguese citizens literally cannot afford a place to live. • Italy (The Infrastructure Crisis): Sparked by the events in France, Italian students and labor groups have launched massive strikes. They are protesting crumbling school infrastructure ("our schools are collapsing," they argue) and opposing the Meloni government's shift toward increased military spending at the expense of public welfare. The Structural Paradox: Unified Markets, Divided Politics To understand why these protests are so difficult to calm, we have to look back at the history of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the birth of the EU. The grand vision of a united Europe was born out of geopolitical necessity. European leaders realized that individual, fractured nations could never compete on the global stage against superpowers like the United States, Russia, and China. To survive, they achieved staggering integration: they unified their markets, adopted a single currency (the Euro), and erased borders for the free movement of people. But they left the politics to individual nations. This half-baked integration has created a devastating paradox that is now exploding on the streets: 1. The Budget Trap: France and Italy are under immense pressure from the EU headquarters in Brussels to reduce their massive public debts. 2. The Domestic Backlash: To meet EU fiscal rules, national governments are forced to cut spending on schools, healthcare, and infrastructure. 3. The Misdirected Anger: Citizens blame their local leaders (like Macron or Meloni) for these austerity measures. However, local leaders cannot simply print money or adjust interest rates to fix the problem—because they handed those powers over to the EU long ago. Governments are trapped between the rigid rules of Brussels and the desperate cries of their own voters. The Verdict: Why History Favors a More Powerful EU As the chaos deepens, many predict a "ultra-right turn" for Europe, where nationalist parties take power by promising to close borders and reject EU mandates. We see this sentiment rising rapidly ahead of the upcoming French presidential election. But while nationalism offers an emotional outlet for angry voters, it is a historical U-turn that Europe’s economy cannot sustain. In a world dominated by massive geopolitical blocs, pulling out of the EU is economic suicide. Therefore, the long-term arc of history points to the opposite conclusion: This crisis will likely force the growth of EU power, not its destruction. The current system—where the economy is unified but the checkbook and the politics are separate—is unsustainable. To resolve the friction between Brussels and the streets, Europe will eventually have to finish what it started. It will need to transition from a mere trading bloc into a true political union with a centralized treasury capable of redistributing wealth and funding education, housing, and infrastructure on a continental scale. The current riots are the painful labor pangs of an incomplete superpower. Right now, Europe is driving a vehicle where Brussels controls the engine, but individual nations are fighting over the steering wheel. Until they unify the controls, the continent will keep crashing.

The Polycrisis and the Final Leap: How Science Holds the Key to Global Peace We are living through a historical crossroads. From the streets of France, where tens of thousands are protesting soaring living costs and educational deficits, to ongoing geopolitical conflicts and the swift acceleration of the AI revolution—the world feels more turbulent than ever. It is easy to look at these simultaneous crises and feel overwhelmed. However, if we look closer, these global anxieties are not isolated incidents. They are the eruption of long-simmering structural issues, deeply tied to resources, population growth, and a shifting economic paradigm. But history tells us that whenever humanity faces its darkest hours, our collective ingenuity rises to the occasion. The Root of the Turbulence: The "Polycrisis" and the AI Shock Today’s global unrest is driven by a phenomenon experts call a polycrisis—a web of interconnected crises where inflation, resource scarcity, and systemic distrust amplify one another. At the same time, the AI Revolution is introducing a brand-new variable. Unlike previous industrial shifts that replaced manual labor, AI is rapidly transforming white-collar and highly specialized fields, including law, medicine, and education. When a tire-less, perfectly precise, and infinitely patient AI can instantly answer complex queries, the traditional role of a human teacher or advisor changes forever. With a growing global population and a shrinking pool of traditional jobs, the friction between productivity and human employment naturally manifests as social unrest. The transition period—before wealth can be effectively redistributed through systems like Universal Basic Income—is undeniably rocky. Turning to History: The Triumph of Human Ingenuity Despite the current shadows, humanity has a proven track record of solving seemingly impossible crises through the power of collaboration and science. Look no further than the COVID-19 pandemic. When the world ground to a sudden, terrifying halt, scientists across the globe united. Utilizing cutting-edge mRNA technology, they developed and deployed highly effective vaccines at a speed previously thought impossible, eventually stabilizing global health. If we could muster that level of collective wisdom to conquer a microscopic enemy, we can undoubtedly apply it to the macroeconomic and resource crises we face today. The Next Paradigm Shift: Unlimited Energy From Water and Air Most modern wars, economic spikes, and social anxieties boil down to one core issue: the fierce competition over limited resources, particularly fossil fuels. Human progress has always been defined by how we harness energy: 1. The Discovery of Fire 2. The Rise of Fossil Fuels & the Industrial Revolution 3. The Unlocking of Atomic Power We are now standing at the precipice of the next major leap. Imagine a world where we break our dependency on finite geographical resources. What if the next great invention allows us to extract boundless, clean energy from water and air? If technologies like commercial nuclear fusion, artificial photosynthesis, or revolutionary zero-emission extraction become reality, the domino effect would look like a landslide of global solutions: • The End of Resource Wars: If energy is limitless and ubiquitous, the primary geopolitical trigger for war vanishes. • The Collapse of Living Costs: Free or hyper-abundant energy would drastically lower the cost of food production, clean water desalination, and automated manufacturing—virtually eradicating extreme poverty. • A Smooth Transition into the AI Era: Abundant wealth generated by hyper-productivity can cleanly fund the social safety nets needed to support humanity as we pivot from "working to survive" to focusing on care, community, and creativity. A Call to Our Scientists: Keep Pushing Forward! The gap between our current systemic friction and this sustainable future is a race against time. The faster our technology evolves to provide for the global population, the sooner our political and social unrest will calm. To the researchers, the engineers, the dreamers, and the experimentalists working late nights in laboratories across the globe: Keep going. The world is cheering you on. Humanity’s wisdom has brought us through every dark age we have ever faced. Armed with science, rationality, and a shared vision for peace, there is every reason to believe our best chapters are yet to be written.

The Silicon Classroom: Can AI and Video Lessons Save a Dying Public Education System? Public education in Western Europe is reaching a breaking point. From the streets of Paris to the lecture halls of Belgium, hundreds of thousands of students and teachers are marching against a familiar trio of crises: overcrowded classrooms, crumbling infrastructure, and a staggering shortage of qualified educators. As governments scramble to balance hemorrhaging budgets, tech developers are pitching a radical solution: replace the missing human workforce with artificial intelligence and high-definition video lessons. To cash-strapped policymakers, it sounds like a utopian dream. To critics, it looks like a dystopian shortcut. So, is the automated classroom a lifesaver, or the final nail in the coffin of public education? The Tech Promise: Scaling the Unscalable On paper, integrating AI tutors and video lectures looks like an administrative silver bullet. The arguments in its favor are undeniable: Bridging the Staffing Gap: When a school district cannot find a physics teacher for six months, a curated video curriculum paired with an interactive AI chatbot ensures that students don't simply fall behind. It provides an immediate, scalable safety net. The Infinite Patience of AI: In a crowded classroom of 35 students, a human teacher is stretched thin. An AI assistant, however, possesses infinite patience. It can analyze a student's math mistakes in real-time, slowing down to re-explain a concept three different ways, or accelerating the pace for a student who is bored. Sipping the Budget Straw: Building physical schools and paying competitive teacher salaries is incredibly expensive. Once an educational software is built, distributing it costs pennies. For governments looking to cut public spending under the guise of "modernization," the cost-efficiency is intoxicating. The Human Peril: The Dangers of Automated Learning Despite the glowing brochures of EdTech companies, teachers, psychologists, and sociologists are sounding the alarm. Turning the classroom into a digital kiosk comes with steep societal costs. 1. Rich Kids Get Humans, Poor Kids Get Screens The most terrifying risk of automating public education is the worsening of social inequality. Wealthy families will always pay premium tuition for elite private schools where human teachers mentor their children in small groups. If public schools resort to AI bots and pre-recorded videos to save money, we risk creating a two-tiered society: one where the privileged are taught how to think by humans, and the vulnerable are taught how to click by algorithms. 2. Education is Emotional, Not Just Informational Children do not learn through logic alone; they learn through connection. A pre-recorded video cannot look at a student's body language and realize they are too hungry or stressed to focus. A robot cannot teach empathy, charisma, or how to navigate a difficult playground argument. True mentorship - the kind that inspires a student to pursue a lifelong career - requires a human soul. 3. The Passive Learning Trap We already live in an era of digital fatigue. Replacing an engaging classroom debate with a video lecture turns students into passive consumers of content. Without a physical teacher pushing them to defend their arguments or think critically, education risks devolving into automated memorization designed purely to pass automated tests. The Verdict: AI as the Co-Pilot, Not the Captain Technology is not the enemy, but substitution is the trap. If we use AI and video lessons to replace teachers, we will strip public education of its humanity and accelerate its decline. However, if we use technology to empower teachers, the possibilities are historic. Imagine a world where an AI assistant handles 80% of a teacher's administrative paperwork, grades standardized quizzes, and tracks attendance. By automating the bureaucracy, we give teachers their most valuable asset back: time. Time to focus on individual students, time to craft creative lessons, and time to actually teach. The crisis in our schools cannot be coded away. We cannot build an algorithm to fix a lack of government investment. Technology should be used to elevate the teaching profession - never to make it obsolete.

From Metal Refining to Moby-Dick: The Fiery Biblical Threads Connecting Science and Literature Have you ever started watching a casual YouTube video, only to find yourself down a fascinating rabbit hole connecting ancient chemical engineering, biblical prophecies, and classic American literature? That is exactly what happened when diving into the world of Yasagure Metal (Yasagure Metal), a popular Japanese YouTuber known for his mesmerizing metal extraction and refining videos. A passing remark in one of his videos opens up a world of burning intensity that bridges ancient science with Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. Here is how a simple metallurgy technique ignites the deepest themes of one of the greatest novels ever written. 1. The Ancient Science of "Cupellation" in the Old Testament In his videos, Yasagure Metal mentions that cupellation (Haibuki Ho - Haibuki-hō) is actually recorded in the Old Testament. This is entirely true. Cupellation is an ancient metallurgical process used to separate noble metals like gold and silver from base metals like lead. Invented around 3000 BCE, it was the cutting-edge technology of the ancient Near East. Because everyone in the ancient world understood this process, biblical writers used it as a powerful metaphor for spiritual testing and purification: Jeremiah 6:28–30: Describes bellows blowing fiercely and lead being consumed by fire to refine metal, mirroring how trials test the human heart. Psalms 12:6: Compares the purity of divine words to silver refined seven times in a crucible on the earth. 2. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the "Hellish Furnace" This concept of surviving a purifying fire transitions beautifully into Chapter 98 of Moby-Dick, titled "Stowing Down and Clearing Up." Melville describes the "try-works" - the massive brick furnaces on the deck of the Pequod used to boil down whale blubber into oil. The scene is terrifying; the deck is engulfed in pitch-black smoke and roaring red flames. Yet, amidst this hellish heat, the premium whale spermaceti emerges pure, beautiful, and completely unblemished. To describe this bizarre phenomenon, Melville invokes the Old Testament story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. In the Book of Daniel, these three Hebrew youths were thrown into King Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace - heated seven times hotter than usual - yet emerged completely unharmed, without even the smell of smoke on their clothes. They are literature's ultimate symbols of enduring the fire completely unscathed. 3. Captain Ahab and the "Fire-Baptism" While the whale oil survives the fire untouched, Captain Ahab undergoes a much darker transformation. He doesn't just survive the fire; he worships it. In Chapter 113, "The Forge," Ahab commissions a special harpoon crafted solely to kill the White Whale, Moby-Dick. Instead of tempering the hot steel in water, he demands it be quenched in the blood of his pagan harpooners, howling in Latin: "Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!" ("I baptize thee not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil!") This is Ahab's "Fire-Baptism." Borrowing the biblical phrase from the Gospel of Matthew (where Jesus is said to baptize with "the Holy Spirit and fire"), Melville subverts it. Ahab rejects the holy, cleansing "water" of baptism and instead baptizes himself in the raging, destructive fire of wrath, hatred, and ultimate doom. 4. The Unescapable Trap: Fedallah's Three Prophecies Ahab's fire-fueled madness convinces him that he is invincible. This delusion is cemented by Fedallah, a mysterious, fire-worshipping Parsee harpooner who delivers three cryptic prophecies regarding Ahab's death in Chapter 117: The Pilot: Fedallah must die before Ahab, but will return from the dead to guide him. The Two Hearses: Ahab cannot die until he sees two hearses on the sea: one "not made by mortal hands," and the other made of "American wood." The Hemp Rope: Only a hemp rope can kill Ahab. Ahab laughs at these words. Hearses on the open ocean? Being hanged at sea? He assumes the prophecies guarantee his immortality. The Grim Harvest During the final three-day battle with Moby-Dick, the traps snap shut with terrifying precision: Fedallah drowns on Day 2. On Day 3, his bloated corpse reappears, lashed to the whale's back by tangled harpoon lines. He has returned as the undead pilot. The White Whale carrying Fedallah's body becomes the first hearse - "not made by mortal hands." Moby-Dick then smashes into the Pequod, sinking it. The ship itself becomes the second hearse - made of "American wood." Finally, as Ahab throws his last harpoon, the hemp line catches him around the neck, instantly dragging him into the dark depths of the ocean. He is killed by the hemp rope. Conclusion: The Ultimate Irony of the Coffin When the fire finally consumes the Pequod and sucks it into the sea, only one man survives: the narrator, Ishmael. In the ultimate stroke of literary irony, how does Ishmael survive the deadly vortex of the sinking ship? He clings to a coffin. It was a coffin built for his dear pagan friend, Queequeg. The very object meant to carry the dead becomes the life buoy that saves the living. While Ahab's obsession with fire and prophecies dragged him to the abyss, Ishmael is saved by a symbol of mortality, floating safely on the cool, forgiving waters. The next time you watch a simple video about metallurgy, remember: the fires that refine our metals have been burning through our greatest stories for thousands of years.

The Shadows Under the Sunny Day: How Folk Songs Carry History’s Darkest Warnings History is not a straight line of inevitable progress. It is a complex mechanism of interlocking gears. When those gears turn smoothly, we enjoy eras of stability, human rights, and comfort. But as we look back at the origins of our most innocent cultural traditions, we are forced to confront a chilling reality: the peace we experience today is fragile, and the horrors of the past are events that could occur at any time should the gears of history go awry. To ensure humanity never forgets how easily society can slip into darkness, history has left behind breadcrumbs. It has concealed its cruelest chapters inside the very things we pass down to our children during times of peace: words, children's games, and nursery rhymes. These historical legacies do not exist merely to frighten us; they serve as a powerful, perpetual warning to humanity. The Flesh and Bone Behind the Objects When we look at cultural relics, we often forget the human cost that prompted their creation. Consider the Terracotta Army of Xi'an. While it is celebrated today as a masterpiece of ancient craftsmanship, its true historical significance lies in what it replaced. It was built to abolish xunzan—the ancient practice of burying living soldiers, servants, and concubines to accompany a deceased ruler into the afterlife. The clay soldiers were a visual "proxy" designed to stop the bleeding of a nation’s human resources. Similarly, the humble manju (steamed bun) traces its lineage back to the Three Kingdoms period, where the brilliant strategist Zhukeliang ordered chunks of dough filled with meat to be shaped like human heads. This culinary invention was a desperate, clever deception to appease river deities without severing the necks of 49 living men. Even the cheerful Teru Teru Bozu paper dolls we hang in windows to pray for good weather carry the shadow of the Saoqingniang (Sweeping Sunny Girl)—a tragic folk legend of a beautiful girl sacrificed to the heavens to halt a catastrophic flood. These objects teach us a vital lesson: behind our most common cultural artifacts lies a historical struggle to transition away from human sacrifice and state-sanctioned cruelty. The Cruel Realities Hidden in Children’s Play Perhaps the most eerie vessels of historical trauma are the songs sung by children. Because children mimic the world around them without understanding the socio-political weight of their actions, nursery rhymes act as flawless time capsules for dark eras. In Japan, the beloved playground game Hana Ichi Monme sees two groups of children facing each other, negotiating over which friend they want to take next. To a modern observer, it is a game of rock-paper-scissors. To a historian, it is a haunting reenactment of Zegen (human traffickers) buying and selling impoverished children for the price of a single monme (a fraction of silver). The lines "Winning is so happy, losing is so frustrating" echo the cold economic transactions of parents forced by famine to price the lives of their own flesh and blood. The enigmatic song Kagome Kagome traps a child in the center of a spinning circle, asking them to guess who stands directly behind them. Among its many interpretations, the most grounded and terrifying is that of a family conspiracy. It paints the picture of a pregnant woman pushed down a flight of stairs by a relative eager to secure an inheritance, her dying thoughts wondering exactly who was standing at the "front of her back." The Border Between Life and Death We see this warning manifest perfectly in Toryanse, a song famously played at modern Japanese pedestrian crossings. The lyrics describe a mother taking her child to a shrine to celebrate their 7th birthday, only to be warned by a guard that while the “way in is easy, the way back is terrifying.” In ancient times, severe poverty gave rise to infanticide and ubasute (abandoning the elderly or vulnerable in mountains). Because child mortality was staggeringly high, a common cultural belief dictated that "until the age of seven, children belong to the gods." If a family could not afford to feed another mouth, a trip to a remote shrine under the guise of a blessing was often a one-way trip to return the child to the spiritual world. A Message to the Future Why do these horrors persist in our languages and folksongs? Why haven't they been sanitized by the passage of time? Because peace makes us forgetful. When a society enjoys prolonged periods of safety and abundance, it develops historical amnesia. We begin to believe that human rights, ethics, and stability are permanent fixtures of the human condition. These dark folk traditions are humanity's subconscious defense mechanism against its own complacency. By embedding the memories of human trafficking, starvation, betrayal, and sacrifice into catchy melodies and everyday vocabulary, our ancestors ensured that even if history books were burned or rewritten, the warning would survive. Every time a child sings these songs, or an adult uncovers the grim etymology of an everyday word, the gears of history are momentarily greased with awareness. They remind us that the line between civilization and savagery is razor-thin—and that keeping the gears of history aligned requires our constant, unyielding vigilance.

Beyond the Apocalypse: Why Human Systems Don’t “End” — They Evolve We live in an era obsessed with finality. Open any book catalog or scroll through your news feed, and you will find an endless parade of intellectual obituaries: The Decline of the West, The End of History, The Death of Capitalism. It is easy to see why. Phrasing complex systemic changes as an “apocalypse” is a highly effective rhetorical device. It generates urgency, triggers emotional reactions, and captures our superficial concern. But history reveals a deeper, more mature truth: massive socio-economic systems rarely die in a dramatic flash. Instead, they transform. By moving past the sensationalism of “the end,” we can see how the great ideas of the past actually map onto a world of continuous adaptation. The Flaw of the Biological Trap A century ago, the German philosopher Oswald Spengler captured the world’s imagination with The Decline of the West. He viewed civilizations through a strict biological lens, arguing that they are living organisms destined to grow old, enter a rigid winter, and inevitably decay. But civilizations are not plants or animals; they possess a unique capacity for regeneration. Europe, which Spengler doomed to a dark age of authoritarian collapse, managed to reinvent itself after the catastrophes of the 20th century. It transformed from an arena of destructive nationalism into a cooperative, highly integrated economic bloc. While its global share of GDP may shift, its material prosperity and quality of life endure — proving that systems can adapt and find a comfortable, prolonged plateau rather than a sudden drop off a cliff. From Static Ends to Continuous Progress When we look at the 19th-century thinkers who attempted to map out human progress, we see a constant tension between rigid finality and evolutionary adaptation. Auguste Comte believed human knowledge was marching through fixed, linear stages toward a scientific, positive era. Herbert Spencer famously coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” suggesting society evolves through fierce biological competition toward a state of laissez-faire perfection. While their theories had flaws — Spencer’s view often lacked empathy, and Comte’s later ideas became overly dogmatic — they recognized something Spengler missed: human society moves forward by continuously shifting its cognitive and economic foundations. Feudalism didn’t vanish into thin air; its legal and labor structures evolved into early industrialism. The Evolution of Capitalism This brings us to the modern obsession with predicting “the end of capitalism.” Whether argued from an ecological standpoint (the myth of infinite growth on a finite planet) or a technological one (information abundance destroying scarcity), the “end” is the wrong lens. The American sociologist Daniel Bell understood this beautifully in the 1970s. In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, he didn’t predict a communist revolution or a total economic collapse. Instead, he foresaw a profound structural shift: capitalism wasn’t dying; it was pivoting. The engine of the economy was moving from the factory floor and manufacturing to theoretical knowledge, information technology, and the service sector. The traditional capitalist was giving way to a new technical and meritocratic elite. Yes, this transformation brings intense internal friction — or what Bell called the cultural contradictions of capitalism, where an economy built on hard-work discipline clashes with a consumer culture built on instant gratification. But these contradictions don’t break the machinery; they force the code to be rewritten. The Power of Reframing Words matter. When we use the phrase “the end of,” we fixate entirely on what is being lost and lapse into fatalism. If we swap out termination for metamorphosis, adaptation, and evolutionary synthesis, the conversation changes. We stop waiting for the sky to fall and start looking at the emerging rules of the next phase. Capitalism isn’t dying; it is currently morphing to absorb the shocks of artificial intelligence, automation, and global climate realities. Human systems are rivers, not stone walls. They curve, they overflow, and they change the landscape — but they keep moving forward.

Meaning of love

My girlfriend came tonight. She's now sleeping beside me.
What is the meaning of love for lovers who can only see once in two weeks?
I think it's scarce.

Future of this country

No future lies in this country since there's no rule and regulation, order and moral.

About me

I'm a novelist Born in Kokura in June, 1961 Kokura High School Tokyo University graduate Works; Essay on metaphysical pure poem 1978 The Eve 1978 Proclamation of war 1980

I want to be a car.

Teaching method

Message:
Try to enter the heart of each student. Some teachers talk to a textbook and others talk to a blackboard or white whatever.
But in such ways our words do not enter the heart of audience.
Always try to talk to them directly. Grasp their heart with your eyes.


The way you took in this session was appropriate in this regard.

List of all journals

I've been keeping journals, here's a list.


http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=822671 Oct 2004 - Oct 2008

http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=1381133 Oct 2008 -

Kokura

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Writers II

Yeah, I think so.
Everyone has got their lives.
Mine is not the only one that is special.
Writers are bestowed the talent to reveal it.
That's the point that differs greatly from others.

Writers

Yeah, I think so.
Everyone has got their lives.
Mine is not the only one that is special.
Writers are bestowed the talent to reveal it.
It is responsibility and at the same time obligation for the writers to write.
I'm just doing what I ought to do.
As if men breathe.

Mistake

Mistake
2006.06.25 23:25

I am a connoisseur of wine, especially red one. My birthday is near and my love told me she planned to give me a present and she asked me what I would like. I said I like wine, a red one. She said she doesn't know many about wine so I proposed to her to visit a wine corner in a department store to tell her a little about wine.
I was looking at the wine section without any serious intention and one clark interrutted me saying, 'This indication is wrong, while this label indicates it's 'full body', it is indeed a 'light body'. So I said, 'Full body and light body are completely different, it's so misleading, why not correct this indication.' He was just keep smiling, for him it seems not an important difference. That was not he but I who made mistake where to come.

My Soap

My Soap
2006.06.25 23:10

I always use the same soap in my daily life. So one thing I don't like to use hotels is that I have to use soaps other than my soap. I had made use of love hotels to have a good time with her for four times and because of the fact that I usually use the same soap I just had evaded using soaps in all the hotels I used so far. I should have evade using the soap in a hotel but because I met her immediately after I finished working today, I made up my mind to use the body shampoo - any soap will be OK as long as it's soap, I mean any soap will do but usually in a love hotel, many times only body shampoo was equipped. I must say I am not interested whether body shampoo is just OK to use for other people, but for me because it gives too much moisturing effect on my skin, I hadn't used it so far...until last night. To tell the truth in fact by this applicaion, I was unable to get tight and it was unable to be bearable well that certainly disappointed her. As a matter of fact we had to have a main dish for five times though we hadn't a room service.
Next Saturday night she agreed to visit my house and we will sure to have a good time in my room. Good-bye to any trouble in a love hotel, sorry I am particular about too many things.

Sign of Virginity

Sign of Virginity
2006.06.25 22:41

On the 3rd of June -actually it was in the morning of the 4th of June, when I met her the second time she started menstruation, I was very glad to see it. Blood is a sign of virginity when the first intercourse was done and it is true that a woman who menstruated when she met a man means he will be a very father of her first baby in future. However old she is, blood is a sign of virginity.
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by Scott Lockwood (218839) on 2006.06.25 22:54 (#15600337) (http://www.lrsehosting.com/ Last Journal: 2006.11.07 5:26)
Where do you get that from??? I thought it was, when you stuck it in her, and she went, "Ow!!!!" and bled everywhere (and laid there like a lump) that was a sign of virginity.
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.06.26 0:38 (#15600672) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2006.11.22 3:02)
My point is if we don't eyewitness her bleeding in time of sex, we might not be able to tell for sure that a baby in advance will be our own.
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by StalinsNotDead (764374) <umbagaNO@SPAMgmail.com> on 2006.06.27 5:34 (#15608325) (Last Journal: 2006.11.21 7:46)
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.06.27 22:31 (#15612210) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2006.11.22 3:02)
If a father showed too much affection on his child, this could be a cause of their living in separation therafter. A mother think it's threatening if a father were so affectionate that he take her baby away, as a result she along with her baby would run away from a father.
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Big Cross

Big Cross
2006.06.25 21:51

In Kokura we went near the small mountain where I used to live for a long time -15 years. And today I noticed for the first time the Cross has disappeared. We used to have a Big Cross at the top of the mountain, where we called a Memorial Park. I am not sure still the Park exists there though.
This cross was built in commemoration of dead 150,000 American GIs during the World War II in Pacific theatre. Big Cross was big enough to be seen from all over the city Kokura. Why it had to be removed? Because Japan is not a Christian country? Anyway I had seen this landmark throughout my childhood. It had been a landmark in Kokura for many years after the World War II, and still the figure exists clearly in my mind.

Go To Heaven

Go To Heaven
2006.06.23 2:25

I work in a three storey building. I often use elevator. Today I happened to get on an elevator with a young lady in a ground floor. I was going to the second floor, she was going to the first floor.
When she and I were in a very enclosed area, I talked to her with a smile, 'Will you go to heaven with me? She replied, 'It's scary.' In my word I include two meanings -one is why not go with me to the second floor? Though I know you get off at the first floor. And I intended to add sexually suggestive another meaning -of course 'go to heaven' means we feel ecstasy in sex.
But she didn't notice two of them, just thought that going to heaven means being dead.
It was not irrational at all judging from the recent news that malfanction of elavator killed a man.
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Punchline(Score:2)
by linvir (970218) * on 2006.06.23 3:09 (#15583960) (http://linuxvirus.net/ Last Journal: 2006.08.18 23:26)
It was not irrational at all judging from the recent news that malfanction of elavator killed a man.Great punchline (whether you intended it to be or not)!.
Re:Punchline(Score:1)
by helicobacter (930363) * on 2006.06.23 3:27 (#15584086)
Yes, this gave me the giggles! Honestly, I don't know what I would do if someone said that to me in an elevator!
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.06.24 0:29 (#15589740) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2006.11.22 3:02)
I regret failing to get the message. I was supposed to say, 'Don't worrry, everybody feels it scarey for the first time.'
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Safety First
2006.06.24 2:18

I live far away from noisy downtown, so always some time after a midnight I hear a sound of bikers in a very distant place and a subsequent siren of patrol cars -usually like an echo from a cave.
But tonight it is just extremely calm. Absolutely no sound in the least. During the daytime we had torrents -by this very large amount of shower, the road must be still very wet. Even rogue bikers evade driving on such a wet road. Safety first for all.

Night And Day
2006.06.24 6:16

For these two weeks I never met any people but for in my job. I always lived with a woman in love in my thirties, but after I was over forty, unfortunately so far I live with no woman. This is unusual for a guy of 44.
Tonight I will see her. And next week I will invite her in my house. Hope she will be my last destination. Both two are at work today on Saturday, so we will see at 9 p.m. Probably we enjoy our weekends at a bar. On Sunday we plan to go on a picnic, hiking, or mountaineering. See you on Monday
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Good luck(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <(samthebutcher) (at) (gmail.com)> on 2006.06.25 4:36 (#15597351) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.11.25 13:39)
It's been fun reading your journals about your journey with her.
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Re:Good luck(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.06.25 23:39 (#15600466) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2006.11.22 3:02)
My creed or motto is there's no privacy in writers. Writers ought to be free from all concepts of privacy, writers gain universality by revealing any secrets they own. I intend to reveal just all in order to show all the facts I faced. I hope that helped many readers to know a little bit about the fact of life.
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Re:Good luck(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <(samthebutcher) (at) (gmail.com)> on 2006.06.29 0:13 (#15621254) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.11.25 13:39)
I try to not have much privacy - I like to open it up as much as possible. My wife reins me in with regard to our family and daughters, however, which is a good thing.I've had difficulty when writing songs, though, I try to be open without disclosing too much. That way it makes the song more universal instead of specific. But obfuscation isn't always the best route to truth. :)My fiction stories might be about real-world stuff, but through the eyes of "fictional" characters, so that's usually easier.I've posted lots of stuff in my journals here, but man, there's a lot of those to wade through. :)
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.06.29 0:45 (#15621545) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2006.11.22 3:02)
But obfuscation isn't always the best route to truth. :)
As a matter of fact, some facts prevent us from grasping exactly what the fact of life is. In that case I do circumnavigate the main point and try to beat about the bush, then as a result readers understand more what I was driving at.
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Re:Good luck(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <(samthebutcher) (at) (gmail.com)> on 2006.06.30 2:42 (#15629131) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.11.25 13:39)
Excellent point. Thanks. :)
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Truth One Way
2006.06.25 21:15

I used to live in Kokura till age 20. I went to a high school for four years and still I had to spend two more years to enter the University, so naturally I know many things in Kokura. While we were walking through one of the main arcades we came across Japanese style restaurant -'Young Bamboo' where my young parents first met and kept on meeting till they got married. I told a clark how many years has it passed since it's established. She said, 'It's 53 years.' 'Oh, that makes sense. That means it was established when young parents were 16 or 17, and they happened to meet here at age 23 or 4, I was a first son of them at their age 25. ' My love was listneing silently, I continued. When my dad met her and kept on meeting her here, she told me that dad told her 'I am truth-one-way'. Truth-one-way is not a popular Japanese term but still exists but more widely known a title of one Japanese novel. I don't believe he read it, but he used it to express his willingness to marry her. I told my love whereabouts of the word 'truth-one-way', and I uttered in front of her clearly, 'I am truth-one-way.'

Conversation With Her

Conversation With Her
2006.06.22 3:42

My new girlfriend is Japanese. We use Japanese when we talk, so one day she asked me if I kept on using Japanese with her like this conversation, don't I forget how to speak English?
I said, No, I always think it first in English then I translate it into Japanese, so I don't forget English.
I said I changed my job more than ten times, this is too many according to the tradition in Japan's society, then she asked me whether I tend to get tired of anything in general. I said, No. I am a type of man who always pursue things to their ultimate. I am just opposed to a man who is easily getting tired of it. Around us people are working in a same company in a same job for more than 20 years at the same age as mine. I said I would get puncture if I did this.
My relationship continues.

Hello

How are you?

Kokura -Rock Band

Hi, Luc. Since my love lives in Kokura I make it a rule to visit Kokura once in a week usually at weekends. And I took many photos to send especially for you. Please check. I hope you enjoy.

Fluctuation Of Sleeping Hours

6/3 4:40 - 8:20 [3:40]

6/4 0:25 - 9:00 [8:35]

6/5 7:20 - 9:00 [1:40]

6/6 3:40 - 12:00 [8:20]

Total for these four days = 22:15

22:15 devided by 4 is 5 strong.

Electronic Private Mail III

6/7 19:01My premises are not busy. Especially it's not busy today, since we didn't distribute bills. Today I see Mr **. Are you preparing supper? I don't care if you reply later.

6/7 21:15 Yeah I start waking up from this hour. It's so sad I am unable to see my love. I am weeping every night. I knew the consequences, does love mean endurance? It's a little bit too serious though my real job starts from this hour.

6/8 21:50 I got home at 9 p.m. it rained a little in Fukuoka. Radius 3 km from home is my circle of daily life. I got back to 4a.m. to 9a.m. sleeping patern and renewed my journal for the first time in a week. I was able to feel your feeling and I have got stable, but honestly speaking I'd like to always be with you.

6/9 20:58 What time are you going to finish working tomorrow?

6/9 21:14 Why not see a little? I will start working at 9 a.m. tomorrow night so I can't stay but I have time to have some drink and talk.

6/9 21:28 So we arrange to see in Kokura Station at 6 p.m. I'm glad.

6/10 17:32 I arrive at 5:58. Please come without making haste.

Electronic Private Mail II

6/5 22:27 Last night I was unable to fall asleep from then the time I fell was about 0:20. I got up at 9 -yeah my consciousness was very clear during the day. I work from 10 to noon then go to ** except for Saturday and Sunday. I work for 45 hours in a week. I will eat supper from now. I will write from 23 to 4. Did your daughter get home?

6/6 17:44 I'm now taking a short break. Did you finish working just now?

6/6 20:49 What are you doing? I managed to finish working past 8 p.m. We had ****. I wonder we are working in a same company. I start working at 2 p.m. since we have ****. I don't work in the morning, so I will write a journal in the Net tonight too. I usually keep a meno what I noticed in a notebook and write it at night. I wonder I should send a masterpiece in literal history.

6/7 12:53 I fell asleep about 3:30 and woke up some time ago. 8 hours 30 minutes I slept well. I didn't finish writing in the Net by 4 a.m. and kept on writing till 7:20 a.m. and slept till 9 a.m. I took 22.5 hours sleep in these four days. Average sleeping hours was 5 hours strong, which is best. I sammerise my main work 'The Eve' last night. We can read it in the Net. We are not busy today. I will work fully 8 hours on Thursday and Friday and I will have dayoff on Saturday for the first time in two weeks.

Electronic Private Mail I

5/18 12:21 I want to keep our encounter. I hope I can go with you forever from now on.

5/20 11:35 I'm mercedo I'm at work on Thursday, Saturday. I'm off on Sunday. I am looking forward to Wednesday. I wish it would be fine.

5/25 9:37 Re: ++ I had a happy time too. We will be seeing at the plaza in front of the wicket of Kokura Station at 2 p.m. on the 25th of June. I'm looking forward to seeing you.

5/26 20:12 Good Evening I mainly use personal computer at night so set manner mode in your cell. I will mail to you at night.

My main work is Trecca , http://mercedo.blogspot.com and you can read my main work at your cell too. It is something like an attached photo. My Japanese work is viewable in the Net, though, right now it's scattered, so wait for a while. 'Dusk is a sunset in the morning that leans on water. Irons sweep stones and the future makes this time.' My work is like this I think it's nearly hard for you to understand.

5/30 3:18 I'd like to see you soon. I'd like to see you soon. How about 9 a.m. on the 3rd. I will work till 7:15 p.m. this day so I will reach Kokura around 8:30 p.m. by taking subway and Shinkansen. We can stay till the morning on Sunday if stay is not forbidden. How about it?

5/31 19:37 Finished working today This is the real debut to write it in cell. I was unable to type small letters like 'tsu' and 'ya' , though, I learned to type them. Till now I wrote it in my laptop first then sent to my cell. I sent it to Miss++'s cell. I will be able to write to you when I want. I guess you were dayoff today, how was it?

6/3 19:55 I got on the subway. I will be arriving before 9 p.m.

6/4 12:02 I am satisfied to have been able to have date as I drew in my mind . See you again.

6/4 22:37 Good night my sweatheart, last night I slept 3 hours and 40 minutes -4:40 --8:20 I will sleep for a starter.

Money Back

Money Back
2006.04.27 4:44

In some commodities, the indication says '100% satisfaction guaranteed, or money back.' This one is cheap, and I was unable to feel satisfied. I cannot claim money, because it is so cheap and in addition I had already tasted.
I'd better refrain from buying cheaper products again. They needed to write an excuse -money back, if it's really good we won't complain about its taste.

The Label

The Label
2006.04.27 4:27

I was asked from one of our customers. 'Is this raw fish a wild or a farm-raised?', 'I can tell, will you bring me the fish?' ...'This is wild.'
In our label system, if it's wild, we don't indicate so. If it's farm-raised, we indicate so. I just saw the label, but the customer seemed to have thought that I was able to tell from the skin of fish, which is nearly impossible.

An Able Hawk Hides Its Nails

An Able Hawk Hides Its Nails
2006.04.27 4:07

This is a comical story..
I am a superman, I think I have to hide my talent in my daily life, so people who don't understand my lifestyle don't hesitate to blame me for not working as hard as our supervisers. Our supervisers usually work nearly 12 hours, as for me I don't work more than 8 hours in a day. So when I was accused from one of my colleagues ( a woman the same age as me ) as not working hard, I replied, 'An able hawk hides its nails.' My colleague replied, 'Do you intend to keep on hiding your nails?' I said,' Yes, till the end of time.'

Contents With Charge

Contents With Charge
2006.04.27 3:37

While I was browsing many Japanese bloggs last night, I encountered some sites which requires us to pay for their contents. I want to raise some question on this. There are two reasons why this is not good. Knowlegde has to be prevailed without the difference of our economy. If someone who can pay can only get access to the information, this is not called information as such. The second point is its credibility. Information has to be confirmed by many, not only some readers who were able to pay but others need to get access to the information just to confirm.

Enclosed Outside Japan

Enclosed Outside Japan
2006.04.27 2:45

It was probably 1984 or 5 still I was an undergraduate student when French philosopher Jacques Derrida came to Japan to see Akira Asada, Kojin Karatani. In their talk, Derrida used French and English, Asada used French, English and Japanese, Karatani used English and Japanese. Anyway they were able to communicate whatever the tool of communication might be. In their conversation, Karatani said, 'The extremely rapid growth of Japan's capitalism that has been taking place right now is as a phenomenon an extraordinary thing, so I can't help enclose inside Japan all the more.' Derrida's replay was this, 'I'd like to rather enclose outside Japan.'
Both Philosophers were seeking for what the nature of capitalism in progress worldwide those days, but their objective of study was different.
Derrida was gone, but Karatani is now in America. For those who are interested, here're some links.
Nationalism And Ecriture On Kant And Marx
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And to think I just read an article in Asian Times(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.27 3:17 (#15206450) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
That claimed that Japan was failing at capitalism- and is currently experiencing a very swift reversion to feudalism- seen mainly by a high unemployment rate and professional Gen-Xers thrown onto the welfare system, even as an unamed "economic recovery" shows the nation growing richer. Of course, this is the ultimate cost of privatization: concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 3:49 (#15206668) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Yes, we are heading for feudalism again. I have no idea as to how to escape from this process unless I myself feel eager to seek for wealth. Am I corrupted?
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.27 3:57 (#15206725) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Yes, we are heading for feudalism again. I have no idea as to how to escape from this process unless I myself feel eager to seek for wealth. Am I corrupted? Money is power- and power corrupts. The problem with capitalism is that being eager to seek wealth isn't enough- nowhere close. Most people living under capitalism seek wealth. The problem is to actually find wealth, you need wealth- it's a chicken-and-egg problem. That's why capitalism eventually breaks down into corporatism and feudalism- because there isn't enough wealth to start out with.
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 4:19 (#15206866) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
In our current society the very rich get richer, the so so rich get poorer, the poor become very poor. This process is just gathering speed very rapidly. If things unchanged as it is, we have another Middle Ages again. I observed that this is inevitable and we cannot change the course of direction toward this. Within two or three years many things will change.
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by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.27 6:11 (#15207805) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Reversing the direction of the flow of wealth isn't very hard- it's just very painful. Truman and Eisenhower showed us how- and between them created the first non-agricultural middle class the world had ever seen. Their method? High marginal income taxes. In 1953 America, 93% income taxes were common, to pay back bonds from the war. By doing this, the spendible income of the very rich was checked. Likewise they put in the first minimum wage the United States had ever seen- which limited the income of the poor as well, so that the rich man could only earn 8x what the poor man earned. Standard market economics took over from there- luxury goods suffered a major deflationary period, neccessity items experienced inflation in their prices- and the postwar housing boom insured that returning GIs could afford a house.This created the world our parents grew up in- Japan experienced something similar in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But such tax rates are not sustainable- and once relaxed, the road of the rich becoming richer and the poor getting poorer returns rather quickly.
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Read A Blog

Read A Blog
2006.04.27 2:05

Last night all night long till 4 AM, I was reading a blog written by Japanese bloggers. I found some of them are extremely knowlegdeable, they know many things and even they show them without stinginess, but that is all. They just show a lack of digestion, comprehension, sublimation at the same time.
To learn and not to think. That is stupid. - Confucious.

Read A Blog

Read A Blog
2006.04.27 2:05

Last night all night long till 4 AM, I was reading a blog written by Japanese bloggers. I found some of them are extremely knowlegdeable, they know many things and even they show them without stinginess, but that is all. They just show a lack of digestion, comprehension, sublimation at the same time.
To learn and not to think. That is stupid. - Confucious.

Leather Back

Leather Back
2006.04.24 3:55

It's been hard to find a book with a leather cover nowadays. But today, I found it. I had asked them to order a book with a leather cover about a month ago -on the 26th of March, then I found the book in a bookstore, especially dealing with a foreign books.
I bought a de lux ninth edition of the New Pocket Oxford Dictionary. That's really what I have wanted.
It cost 47.5 dollars. As a single copy of dictionary of intermediate size, it is not inexpensive. I've been using this edition of paper back since the 10th of October, 2002, so I've been using it for three years and a half. I like it, I like it very much.
This edition was printed in Japan, Japan is good at printing such an intricate work, I recommend yhis country's these technics only limited in those areas.

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
2006.04.24 3:39

I am pessimistic about Japan's near future. As is usual, my girlfriend and I went to Amusement Park called Mari**, where a largest big wheel (or rather a ferris wheel) in Japan is located.
I asked her how many years Japan's position in internatinal society will last. After a while she replied, it's 30 years. I said two or three years instead.
I assume the collapse of Japan, financially, culturally, liguistically will be coming soon surprisingly soon. Japan's stagnant system has already come to a point of no return. I hope the sun also rises, but we have to change ourselves within an extremely short term. And it is second to impossible. Japan's economy is declining, sluggishing conspicuously enough.
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Decline relative to whom?(Score:2)
by AB3A (192265) on 2006.04.25 2:00 (#15190856) (http://slashdot.org/~AB3A/journal Last Journal: 2006.03.15 8:15)
Yeah, Japan isn't the powerhouse it once was. But neither are the US and most of Europe. The up-and-coming countries are China, India, and possibly Brazil. However the up-and-coming ones are growing at unsustainable rates. The only question I have is whether they will "crash" or whether they will find some way to dial back their growth to a more reasonable pace.I have always had great respect for Japan's electronics industry. They still hold the number one position in my mind. Unlike those of us in the USA, where manufacturing seems to be an unwanted and dying art.
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 1:48 (#15205698) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
The up-and-coming countries are China, India, and possibly Brazil
Agreed.
However the up-and-coming ones are growing at unsustainable rates.
In the case of India, Brazil, it might be so. But China has been showing rapid, steady, sustainable rate of growth in economy. China is an extremely big country. And it is surprising to see such a big country shows such a double-digit figure in economic growth rate.
The only question I have is whether they will "crash" or..
Neither of these countries won't crash but Japan will. Soon -within 2 or 3 years, this country will be gulped from USA, or being already gulped?
Decline relative to whom?
Particularly relative to China, Korea. China is sure to surpass Japan in every respect soon -within 10 years.
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This Week II

This Week II
2006.04.23 1:16

This week I worked 9.5, 7.5, 6, 8, 8, 6. Total working hours are 45 hours. This is over the top.
Next week working hours will be 8, 8, 6, 6, 8, 6. Total working hours will be 42. Tomorrow is holiday. I must confess that I am completely exhausted now. But it's a comfortable one. With a full of achievement.

Slashdot Statistics

Slashdot Statistics
2006.04.22 4:27

(The number of fans minus the number of freaks) divided by (the number of friends plus the number of foes) equals the rate of support in Slashdot.
This merely reflects my particular opinion tonight.
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I approve(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.04.22 6:25 (#15177304) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
This is a very deep and interesting statistic. I like it.Mine is +1/12 ~= 0.0833
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Re:I approve(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.22 23:22 (#15180346) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I tried calculating other noticiable Slashdotters' indices given that the indices must be showing some meaning.
(13 minus 9) divided by 48 is 0.0833, which was your case.
In the case of my best friend MH42, (196 minus 97) divided by 400 is 0.2475.And me myself 60 divided by 172 is 0.3488.Sammy(SamTheButcher)'s case, (247 minus 4 ) divided by 247 is 0.9838.How about Morosoph? 77 divided by 127 is 0.6062.
The more the index is small, the more unique they are. The more the index is big, the more their view is generally accepted.
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hmm(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.04.23 1:33 (#15180905) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
no one so far has a negative score.but there are a few slashdotters who have more freaks than fans, for example former editor 'michael' [slashdot.org].if you didn't make any friends or foes, your statistic is invalid (division by zero!) and you are excluded from the study.
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Re:hmm(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.24 3:15 (#15185599) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I've been trying to post carefully not to make a freak. I have been posting a comment with a view to making a new friendship with other Slashdotters. But this behaviour somehow restricts my freedom to speak out freely as I want. I wish I were able to post a comment without worrying about being someone's foe.
By the way since I was a kid, I've been repeatedly told that the division by zero is impossible. What is the mathematical basis on this?
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Re:hmm(Score:2)
by slothman32 (629113) <pjackso5@nOspaM.rochester.rr.com> on 2006.04.24 4:50 (#15185988) (http://www.thegaminguniverse.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.20 17:32)
Since division is defined so a/b = c is the same as a = c*bthen if b=0 it translates to a = c*0 wich would make a=0.If you begin with a=1 and b=0 then also a=1, contradictory to the other result.The make it easy by saying that if you have a/b = c and b=0you can't take the b from the bottom of one side and put it at the top of the other. That means there is no way to figure it out unless a/0 is defined some other way.It isn't needed so they don't do that.'i', the imagionary number wasn't defined until it is needed so 1/0 isn't either.Think of it this way, if you know limits:The limit of (1/x) as x goes to n=1/n, unless n=0.If n=0 then it diverges, i.e. goes to infinity.Mathematitions don't like dealing with infinities in arithmetic so they get rid of it.P.S. You talked about MH42. It could theoretically be possible for one mole of a metal to deal with 42 moles of hydrogen.Some higher elements like Platinum can actually disolve Hydrogen. It doesn't work with even Helium though.Some factories use it to purify Hydrogen.They are also thinking it could be used to store Hydrogen at room temperature instead of liquid really cold for use in Hydrogen cars.Yes I know who you mean but I always think of chemistry when I see a few letters like that.
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Re:hmm(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 0:46 (#15205123) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
My basic position as to the use of acronym is we'd better not use it as much as we can. The reason is clear -because of its ambiguity. The speaker only understands what that acronym really means, but oftentimes readers are subject to taking them for something completely different.
'i', the imagionary number wasn't defined until it is needed so 1/0 isn't either.
I didn't try calculating it even experimentally. As long as mathematic basis concerns, I understand.
then it diverges, i.e. goes to infinity.
In my imagination, I've got a similar conclusion. 'We cannot divide by zero.' It's a rule in mathematics. Though ambiguity still remains if we were asked this rule is derived from our empirical conviction. Almost all mathematics is firmly rooted in our empirical conviction based on our close observation to the order of things. I mean division by zero is not impossible in our daily life.
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heres mine(Score:2)
by slothman32 (629113) <pjackso5@nOspaM.rochester.rr.com> on 2006.04.24 4:56 (#15186004) (http://www.thegaminguniverse.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.20 17:32)
Mine is about 0.10989 or 1/9.I just cleared up a bunch of foes though.
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Re:heres mine(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 1:14 (#15205392) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I'm in my mid forties. I came to be much more moderate than my twenties. My supposed index those days -in my twenties would have been (62-738)divided by(400+400).
(F+F) means someone's scope of interest -matrix, wheras (F-F) means the number of support from this matrix.
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The Spiral Rod

The Spiral Rod
2006.04.22 2:52

helicobacter, thank you for befriending me. Is your nickname made from the combination of helico=spiral, bacter=rod ? Literally it means 'spiral rod', if the word were invented, I thought it so artistic.
Japanese slashdotter 'NoGood' created an account and befriended me. Thank you very much.
And the ship pulls up the anchor again.
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So very close!(Score:1)
by helicobacter (930363) on 2006.04.22 9:24 (#15178418) (Last Journal: 2006.04.29 22:25)
Helicobacter Pylori is a spiral shaped organism [mpiib-berlin.mpg.de] that causes ulcers.
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Re:So very close!(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.24 2:54 (#15185496) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
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West Meets East

West Meets East
2006.04.21 3:21

I haven't read any political news for more than one month. Apparently it is not good as a teacher of social studies. Any way I did tonight. Oh, Chinese leader went to see U.S. President. The photo is here. The two leaders will never fight against one another, because two are too strong to fight with. They will seek for a peaceful co-existsnce very naturally.

At The End Of The Day

2006.04.21 2:57

I worked 8 hours today as was usual. I visited Slado tonight, SassyOS2, NoGoodslash..., cyber205, oddmake are Japanese Slashdotters in which cyber205, and NoGoodslash...are a regular contributer. As opposed to numerous entries from other countries, the number of members from Japan is still small.
I have noticed I am not keen on latest world movement. I work very hard, but I don't want to attribute my lack of common knowledge in the current world to the lack of free time as a result of this hard work, but sadly I must say it's true, I have no time to browse 'even' the latest news. This vicious circle already affects so badly over all ourselves.
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I rarely find that national news matters to me(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.21 11:16 (#15170167) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
I rarely find that national news matters to me. I do however, use an RSS feed from my local newspaper to keep up with local news.
And I visit the /. front page to skim the article headlines.
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.22 0:51 (#15174043) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Before the advent of the Internet era, the lifestyle of almost all Japanese people were similar. They work from 9 to 7 and at home they watch the same TV program. They read the same newspaper. They were talking about the same social topic, hold the similar opinion. Always say we Japanese think, believe, act, not I. We had been feeling very secured when we put ourselves in this group psychology. They rarely thought they act because it is right. Everybody does, therefore I do. They didn't care whether it is right, or not. Our mentality was so simplified as if they ceased thinking that nobody wasn't willing to take responsibility for their act, nothing but their act. According to their criteria, they do because everybody does so.
I was one of the very few renegades in such an era. But I didn't change my lifestyle. I had been keeping my lifestyle though it was opposite to majority of Japanese people.
Time has passed. Things have been changing drastically these ten years. Preferences of people have been just diversified so we no more point out someone is different from others. People nowadays prefer to live according to their preferences. People are different essentially.
Japan's society has been changing. But in comparison to American society, still it's very conventional.
Twenty years ago I was much more particular about what Prime Minister said about national politics in a newspaper than what my friend said about politics. Now what Degree said about politics is much more worthy of than what one unknown critic said in a TV show.
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Re:I rarely find that national news matters to me(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.22 4:19 (#15176161) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
I do like reading Journal Entries and associated comments more than I like broadcast media. Particularly, I like the fact that people from (sometimes wildly) different viewpoints can post their ideas. Once in a while, I add my own opinion; but often, I just read other people's opinion.
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Jenseits

Jenseits
2006.03.20 0:21

This is a German word for 'beyond' - in other words, 'another world'. Around this time in a year -autumnal and vernal equinox, two times in a year we call them Jenseits, we go to cemetry with a bunch of chrysanthemum to talk to the dead. Then I thought about why we call this time Jenseits. Because the length of day and night is the same, ancient people must have thought this fact leads them to the world of the dead smoothly. From the living to the dead, from this world to another they must have thought that they need a parallel of two different worlds.
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Minor nitpick(Score:2)
by Ethelred Unraed (32954) * <john@grantGAUSSham.de minus math_god> on 2006.03.20 4:30 (#14952915) (http://www.grantham.de/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 21:01)
It's actually "Jenseits" with an s, not a z. It also literally means "beyond" or "other side", and indeed in English it's acceptable to use the term "the beyond" in the same sense as "Jenseits" is used in German.
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Re:Minor nitpick(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.21 0:43 (#14956982) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Thank you very much, I will mend it later.
I learned the term first of course in Jenseits von Gut und Boese by Nietzsche, later I found the small writtings by Freud called Jenseits von Lustprinzip. I guess the term Jenseits has been so used in German soil. Indeed it's philosophical rather than practical. When I looked it up the term -Jenseits, I was able to find the meaning of outside, that world, etc. But as to the meaning of beyond, I was unable to find the noun which refers to the underworld, gehenna, besides the English translation was 'Beyond Good and Evil' 'Beyond Pleasure Principle' so I thought there's no noun usage in beyond.
Now I look it up in dictionary.com. I found the noun. Twenty years ago I looked it up in a middle size dictionary, where certainly I couldn't find the noun usage. I should have done it in Oxford English Dictionary.
Later on when I found the movies called 'Beyond' I thought the term might refer to the noun meaning of the hereafter, but it was just a matter within a movie, I didn't mind it. Many years later when I came up with the idea of use Jenseits, I thought about the word 'beyond', I could have titled it as 'beyond' But just I didn't like to confirm again what the meaning the term beyond contains.
Now I clearly know what the beyond means. It was not beyond my capacity.
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