Law Of Success
2006.04.07 3:06
One of my co-worker is a University student, he is in senior now, a year ahead of his commencement, usually almost all students in their four grade have already decided where they go after they graduated - usually a company they are going to work, so as is usual I asked him whether he has already decided the company he will be engaged in. 99.5% students go to workforce soon after their graduation. He said 'No, I am not going to be engaged in a company, I want to be an actor.' Immediately I replied, 'You know there's a law of success?' 'I don't know' he said. ' You are sure to succeed. 99.5% students are going to be engaged in a company, that means majority people are out of course from success. You are one of .5% people already. This is a law of success.'
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Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.07 3:41 (#15078473) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
He's retired now, but he used to have a Mom&Pop restaurant in Beaverton serving American/Japanese fusion cooking (his Chicken Cheese Katsu on Fried Rice was to die for). He went by the name Crazy Chef Sato. On his menu was the following explaination of the name:8 out of 10 people are normal.1 is a genuis, 1 maybe crazy.I don't like to call myself a genius, so that leaves only one choice. I've duplicated *some* of his recipies at home- but I've yet to get good enough at knifework to duplicate Chicken Cheese Katsu, despite knowing the full recipie (Thaw a chicken breast. Butterfly slice it. Stuff in a slice of American Kraft Cheese. Close and bread in traditional Katsu crumbs, then deep fry at 400F. Serve with Tonkatsu sauce.) I just can't seem to get my hands to slice a chicken breast the thin way....
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Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.08 2:45 (#15086036) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
This is a post personally I feel it difficult to reply. Since many people call me I'm genius since I was a child, I know I'm genius and I don't hesitate to call myself a genius.
He should have said that many people call him a genius or he knows he's genius.
Genius has much to do with creativity. Genius has to challenge something new perpetually. That's what I think it's genius, not just that someone who shows extreme skill.
Many people call me a genius and I myself knows I am, but only history can tell who was genius. Unfortunately we can't live that long.
As to the difference of insane people and genius. Genius has got similar mentality as insane people have. But he overwhelmed his insanity and is able to handle with his insanity completely. While insane people were just overwhelmed by the darkness of their mind.
Should I post this?
I do and I shall wait for a judgement of history.
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Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.08 3:05 (#15086222) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
I'd call him a genius, his creativity in his chosen profession was quite obvious, he was the one who introduced me to the whole concept of fusion cooking- a concept I've taken to my own extremes in an amateur way (at a yearly church social for making pasta sauce, mine are always named after, and inspired by, the nationality of Popes. Pope John Paul The Great sauce was an Alfredo with Kielbasa, extra Parmesian, and Saurkraut. Pope Benedict XVI is a egg and bratwurst in Hollandaise. Neither of these are strictly Italian- or strictly German or strictly Polish.)
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Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.08 3:36 (#15086509) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I never met him so I'm not sure though. Probably he is a genius guessing from your description.
Geniuses are not here and there, but once I met guys who showed an extreme skilfulness in painting and writing a novel. I was able to tell they were very skilful in painting and writing since it was apparent for anyone to judge so to see their works. The problem was, however, we were unable to tell whether their works showed sheer creativity or just met the standard. For laymen it is sometimes hard to tell the level of professionals. Only professionals can tell how exquisite other professional's works are.
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Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.09 0:33 (#15090886) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
One of these days I'm going to find where Crazy Chef Sato retired to- and try to get him on Iron Chef America to find out. It's only by going up against Morimoto that I'd truly find out if he was genius, or merely crazy. But either way- I'd bet the ingredients for his creations would cost less.
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My Slashdotting Life
My Slashdotting Life
2006.04.05 4:03
I wake up at 9 in the morning. I start working at 10 till around 7:30 in the evening. I usually work 8 hours in a day. After finishing taking a bath, dinner, relax with a friend, around 10 at night I start my slashdotting life till usually 4 in the morning. I usually spend 5 to 6 hours in reading and writing Slashdot.
Do I read newspaper? I stopped doing it twenty years ago. Do I watch TV? I ceased to do it about a year ago.
From 4 in the morning to 9 I sleep well.
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Not much sleep(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.06 8:40 (#15071949) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
Not enough sleep. Some people get that little, but very few, and usually not for long.
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Re:Not much sleep(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.07 2:47 (#15077950) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
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2006.04.05 4:03
I wake up at 9 in the morning. I start working at 10 till around 7:30 in the evening. I usually work 8 hours in a day. After finishing taking a bath, dinner, relax with a friend, around 10 at night I start my slashdotting life till usually 4 in the morning. I usually spend 5 to 6 hours in reading and writing Slashdot.
Do I read newspaper? I stopped doing it twenty years ago. Do I watch TV? I ceased to do it about a year ago.
From 4 in the morning to 9 I sleep well.
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Not much sleep(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.06 8:40 (#15071949) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
Not enough sleep. Some people get that little, but very few, and usually not for long.
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Re:Not much sleep(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.07 2:47 (#15077950) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
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What's 'Zen Ya'?
What's 'Zen Ya'?
2006.04.05 3:16
All night long I was transcribing my past works written in Japanese into Romanised form. Japanese language is totally transcribable in English alphabet, but usually they don't do. Yet as long as they write as they speak, they are not going to face serious problems as to how to write down their national language.
Recently I've been visiting Slashdot Jp, there they are wondering whether I am really a Japanese. So that was one of the reason I posted my Japanese writings in Slashdot Jp, they will soon realise I was very senior in writings in Japanese.
The 'Zen Ya' means 'the Zen=Previous Ya=Night', literary it's the same as the Eve.
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Zen means "Previous"?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.05 3:31 (#15060222) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
So Zen Buddhism is "Previous to Buddha"?
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Re:Zen means "Previous"?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.05 3:53 (#15060439) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I was anticipating comments like this. It's my fault, I didn't fully explain it. You see if you say 'I want to play in a pool bar' I understand you want to play billiards since I know pool means two -water cistern and a ball game. But someone doesn't know these difference, probably asks, a pool bar? A bar with a pool? Or Bar means many -rod, lounge, jurisdiction, etc. This time is similar and much more complicated, the sound of Japanese is so limited that just the sound Zen means five or six usually. Sometimes in America, they too confuse what's American Bar Association, security company (usually security-guard, securities-bonds but some don't tell).
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Re:Zen means "Previous"?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.05 4:00 (#15060504) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
When I was on my honeymoon- the "pool bar" was a floating Tiki Bar in the pool that you could swim up to to get drinks (seems to be a highly popular concept in Florida- I have a tendency to stay out of those Southern states, they're crazy down there). So yes, I do know what you mean....
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2006.04.05 3:16
All night long I was transcribing my past works written in Japanese into Romanised form. Japanese language is totally transcribable in English alphabet, but usually they don't do. Yet as long as they write as they speak, they are not going to face serious problems as to how to write down their national language.
Recently I've been visiting Slashdot Jp, there they are wondering whether I am really a Japanese. So that was one of the reason I posted my Japanese writings in Slashdot Jp, they will soon realise I was very senior in writings in Japanese.
The 'Zen Ya' means 'the Zen=Previous Ya=Night', literary it's the same as the Eve.
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Zen means "Previous"?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.05 3:31 (#15060222) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
So Zen Buddhism is "Previous to Buddha"?
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Re:Zen means "Previous"?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.05 3:53 (#15060439) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I was anticipating comments like this. It's my fault, I didn't fully explain it. You see if you say 'I want to play in a pool bar' I understand you want to play billiards since I know pool means two -water cistern and a ball game. But someone doesn't know these difference, probably asks, a pool bar? A bar with a pool? Or Bar means many -rod, lounge, jurisdiction, etc. This time is similar and much more complicated, the sound of Japanese is so limited that just the sound Zen means five or six usually. Sometimes in America, they too confuse what's American Bar Association, security company (usually security-guard, securities-bonds but some don't tell).
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Re:Zen means "Previous"?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.05 4:00 (#15060504) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
When I was on my honeymoon- the "pool bar" was a floating Tiki Bar in the pool that you could swim up to to get drinks (seems to be a highly popular concept in Florida- I have a tendency to stay out of those Southern states, they're crazy down there). So yes, I do know what you mean....
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At Server Room
At Server Room
2006.04.04 3:48
Japanese joke patagon did versus American joke I did.
It was at the end of the fiscal year on the 31st of March that he was working. So I thought he was working in a room with a lot of people congested. He wrote he was working in 'a mackerel room', so I imagined as if it were a lot of sushi with a vinegered mackerel on it packed like sardines', though at the moment I came up with the scene I couldn't recall the English term for 'server', I never mind since I ended up the expression of 'packed like sardines'. As a matter of course, I knew blue fish mean mackerel, weak fish mean sardines, just I didn't think it's important.
These are the interpretation of my post 'You meant a room packed like sardines?' It was not a joke. I thought you meant so by 'server room'.Japanese joke was just from phononym server-Saba, while I thought mackerel was used sushi packed like sardines.
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I think the word that commonly...(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.11 12:12 (#15103350) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
2ch [2ch.net]'s origins [media-k.co.jp].# But, I think that it can go back more.# Maybe, when the first server in Japan came from oversea.
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Re:I think the word that commonly...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.11 22:46 (#15105219) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I was not in any Japanese site for a long time. So I thought as if I were a foreigner there.
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2006.04.04 3:48
Japanese joke patagon did versus American joke I did.
It was at the end of the fiscal year on the 31st of March that he was working. So I thought he was working in a room with a lot of people congested. He wrote he was working in 'a mackerel room', so I imagined as if it were a lot of sushi with a vinegered mackerel on it packed like sardines', though at the moment I came up with the scene I couldn't recall the English term for 'server', I never mind since I ended up the expression of 'packed like sardines'. As a matter of course, I knew blue fish mean mackerel, weak fish mean sardines, just I didn't think it's important.
These are the interpretation of my post 'You meant a room packed like sardines?' It was not a joke. I thought you meant so by 'server room'.Japanese joke was just from phononym server-Saba, while I thought mackerel was used sushi packed like sardines.
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I think the word that commonly...(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.11 12:12 (#15103350) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
2ch [2ch.net]'s origins [media-k.co.jp].# But, I think that it can go back more.# Maybe, when the first server in Japan came from oversea.
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Re:I think the word that commonly...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.11 22:46 (#15105219) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I was not in any Japanese site for a long time. So I thought as if I were a foreigner there.
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A Day's Excursion
A Day's Excursion
2006.04.02 21:39
It was rainy this morning but when we started going on a picnic to Mt Aratsu, the sky was as clear as the deep blue sea. It was windy though. We went to Mt Aratsu where whole mountain forms a park called West Park. We enjoyed seeing cherry blossoms. They were a little bit prior to full swing, and because of the strong wind we had last night, the flowers were not as good as we saw the last year.
There we went to see a poem in 'Collection of Ten Thousands Leaves' that said,'Like perpetual waves at the cape of Aratsu, am I going to keep on loving my wife?'-written in 723 A.D. Many times soldiers here were forced to leave their home in Osaka for here in Yahoo! City, so they were longing for their wife who lived separately.
My ex said 'It's a good song' It must be her unfalsifiable thinking.
We walked around the small mountain hand in hand. And on the way back home, we went to Yahoo! Dome. Many new facilities were constructed there. I sent several photos to johndiii. I wrote a journal. I go to sleep.
2006.04.02 21:39
It was rainy this morning but when we started going on a picnic to Mt Aratsu, the sky was as clear as the deep blue sea. It was windy though. We went to Mt Aratsu where whole mountain forms a park called West Park. We enjoyed seeing cherry blossoms. They were a little bit prior to full swing, and because of the strong wind we had last night, the flowers were not as good as we saw the last year.
There we went to see a poem in 'Collection of Ten Thousands Leaves' that said,'Like perpetual waves at the cape of Aratsu, am I going to keep on loving my wife?'-written in 723 A.D. Many times soldiers here were forced to leave their home in Osaka for here in Yahoo! City, so they were longing for their wife who lived separately.
My ex said 'It's a good song' It must be her unfalsifiable thinking.
We walked around the small mountain hand in hand. And on the way back home, we went to Yahoo! Dome. Many new facilities were constructed there. I sent several photos to johndiii. I wrote a journal. I go to sleep.
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Cherry Blossom Viewing
Cherry Blossom Viewing
2006.04.02 11:11
Cherry blossom viewing. It's a Japanese tradition to go to see flowers and trees in a park around this time of the year.
We are going to West Park today. I plan to send a photo to johndiii this year too.
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Photos...(Score:2)
by johndiii (229824) * <johndiii&amilost,com> on 2006.04.02 12:11 (#15044041) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 4:58)
Will be sincerely appreciated. I hope you enjoy the blossoms.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.02 13:39 (#15044227) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
The Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. is such a big deal because the Japanese people gifted the USA hundreds of Cherry Trees. Not that cherry trees didn't exist in D.C., but the Japanese Cherry trees have exceptional flowers.
There are lots of photos online of the ones in D.C., if Mercedo doesn't have any for ready upload.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.06 2:05 (#15068049) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I used to watch the scene many viewers were appreciating cherry blossoms along with the estuary of River Potomac. In TV. And the flowers were exactly the same as the ones here.
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Re:Photos...(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.06 9:28 (#15072222) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
Yes, and thanks for the Email as well.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.07 2:40 (#15077880) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Welcome. Why I feel so familiar with you while we haven't seen one another even one time. I notice how large the portion of spirit-to-spirit contact occupies in our daily life.
I am very healthy because I've been spending life free from stress by this soul communication.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:19 (#15044702) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I just sent you seven photos -6 cherry blossoms and 1 additional one. I will write about my excursion today -nothing special though later today.
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DC Cherry Blossoms are really good this year(Score:2)
by AB3A (192265) on 2006.04.02 23:35 (#15045475) (http://slashdot.org/~AB3A/journal Last Journal: 2006.03.15 8:15)
Of all the things about DC, this is one of the biggest tourism magnets. The folklife festival in the summer is a big one, as are the independence day celebrations.However my favorite is the kite festival. That's one of the best kept secrets.And if you live in the region, don't forget about the notorious punkin chunkin [punkinchunkin.com] contest. It's amazing what idle time and a ridiculous contest can do...
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Re:DC Cherry Blossoms are really good this year(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.06 2:15 (#15068164) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Actually I've been to DC three times. It was many years ago though. It was early summer twice and late summer once, so I only saw trees with lots of green leaves.
Cherry trees change their views completely as the seasons go by. So we are unable to imagine cherry blossoms in full swing from the green leaves tree. It was only one week that we can see the blooms in full swing. So it will be very fortunate if I could visit DC again around this time of the year.
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2006.04.02 11:11
Cherry blossom viewing. It's a Japanese tradition to go to see flowers and trees in a park around this time of the year.
We are going to West Park today. I plan to send a photo to johndiii this year too.
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Photos...(Score:2)
by johndiii (229824) * <johndiii&amilost,com> on 2006.04.02 12:11 (#15044041) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 4:58)
Will be sincerely appreciated. I hope you enjoy the blossoms.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.02 13:39 (#15044227) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
The Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. is such a big deal because the Japanese people gifted the USA hundreds of Cherry Trees. Not that cherry trees didn't exist in D.C., but the Japanese Cherry trees have exceptional flowers.
There are lots of photos online of the ones in D.C., if Mercedo doesn't have any for ready upload.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.06 2:05 (#15068049) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I used to watch the scene many viewers were appreciating cherry blossoms along with the estuary of River Potomac. In TV. And the flowers were exactly the same as the ones here.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:Photos...(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.06 9:28 (#15072222) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
Yes, and thanks for the Email as well.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.07 2:40 (#15077880) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Welcome. Why I feel so familiar with you while we haven't seen one another even one time. I notice how large the portion of spirit-to-spirit contact occupies in our daily life.
I am very healthy because I've been spending life free from stress by this soul communication.
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Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:19 (#15044702) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I just sent you seven photos -6 cherry blossoms and 1 additional one. I will write about my excursion today -nothing special though later today.
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DC Cherry Blossoms are really good this year(Score:2)
by AB3A (192265) on 2006.04.02 23:35 (#15045475) (http://slashdot.org/~AB3A/journal Last Journal: 2006.03.15 8:15)
Of all the things about DC, this is one of the biggest tourism magnets. The folklife festival in the summer is a big one, as are the independence day celebrations.However my favorite is the kite festival. That's one of the best kept secrets.And if you live in the region, don't forget about the notorious punkin chunkin [punkinchunkin.com] contest. It's amazing what idle time and a ridiculous contest can do...
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Re:DC Cherry Blossoms are really good this year(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.06 2:15 (#15068164) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Actually I've been to DC three times. It was many years ago though. It was early summer twice and late summer once, so I only saw trees with lots of green leaves.
Cherry trees change their views completely as the seasons go by. So we are unable to imagine cherry blossoms in full swing from the green leaves tree. It was only one week that we can see the blooms in full swing. So it will be very fortunate if I could visit DC again around this time of the year.
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Tradition
Tradition
2006.04.02 5:37
Part of the reason I was unable to realise was time lag between USA and here, here it's already over April the first, besides it's not our tradition to do so, so.
I changed my preference and set up Eastern Standard Time. I am longing for the day is over.
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clear(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.04.02 14:45 (#15044361) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
you're safe (from this) for another year.
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Re:clear(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:39 (#15044738) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I won't turn on the computer next year on the first of April. And the year after next year too. April the first will be my Passover forever.
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2006.04.02 5:37
Part of the reason I was unable to realise was time lag between USA and here, here it's already over April the first, besides it's not our tradition to do so, so.
I changed my preference and set up Eastern Standard Time. I am longing for the day is over.
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clear(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.04.02 14:45 (#15044361) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
you're safe (from this) for another year.
--you probably shouldn't have read this. [slashdot.org]
Re:clear(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:39 (#15044738) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I won't turn on the computer next year on the first of April. And the year after next year too. April the first will be my Passover forever.
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Joke?
Joke?
2006.04.02 5:31
Reading many Slashdotter's journals, now I gradually believe it's merely a joke. April Fool joke. You see it's a tradition in Western nations, but certainly not here one of East Asian countries. As if I were caught by a ghost, but if it's just a temporary, of course I can endure -I think.
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The origin(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.02 6:00 (#15043048) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
Its related to the pre-Christian calendar and pagan celebrations of the spring equinox. Unfortunately, being a tradition approaching two thousand years old, the exact origin is lost.Also unfortunate is that America is not one of the countries that observes the tradition of only committing pranks before midday, so the colour scheme will stay this way until the 2nd arrives on their shores. But yes, it is only temporary.I have my own tradition regarding April Fool's day jokes: I can be a good sport about people's jokes if they can be a good sport about being punched in the face. Some day I'll have to invent a device that allows this over the internet; the closest I've come so far is a web page that asks them to look really closely at their CD/DVD drive, then issues an "open tray" command after a short delay.
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Re:The origin(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:58 (#15044780) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Around this time of the year is a turning point from long winter to short spring. People here get together under the cherry tree day and night, drinking, eating, singing, dancing, sometimes taking off their cloth people enjoy having fun. April Fool is also based upon such a jocular one.
After this season passed, again people start pursuing serious business. April Fool and Cherry Blossom Viewing, both work as an oasis in our life.
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You're missing out(Score:1)
by jawtheshark (198669) * <slashdot@jawthesh[ ].com ['ark' in gap]> on 2006.04.02 6:14 (#15043092) (http://www.jawtheshark.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 23:29)
One of the oddest days on slashdot in the whole year. One can't take seriously anything at all. OMG!!! Ponies!!!! I need to run now I saw some furry equi caballi.
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Re:You're missing out(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 18:03 (#15044787) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
A sense of humour -I don't miss out on it again.
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2006.04.02 5:31
Reading many Slashdotter's journals, now I gradually believe it's merely a joke. April Fool joke. You see it's a tradition in Western nations, but certainly not here one of East Asian countries. As if I were caught by a ghost, but if it's just a temporary, of course I can endure -I think.
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The origin(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <
Its related to the pre-Christian calendar and pagan celebrations of the spring equinox. Unfortunately, being a tradition approaching two thousand years old, the exact origin is lost.Also unfortunate is that America is not one of the countries that observes the tradition of only committing pranks before midday, so the colour scheme will stay this way until the 2nd arrives on their shores. But yes, it is only temporary.I have my own tradition regarding April Fool's day jokes: I can be a good sport about people's jokes if they can be a good sport about being punched in the face. Some day I'll have to invent a device that allows this over the internet; the closest I've come so far is a web page that asks them to look really closely at their CD/DVD drive, then issues an "open tray" command after a short delay.
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Re:The origin(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:58 (#15044780) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Around this time of the year is a turning point from long winter to short spring. People here get together under the cherry tree day and night, drinking, eating, singing, dancing, sometimes taking off their cloth people enjoy having fun. April Fool is also based upon such a jocular one.
After this season passed, again people start pursuing serious business. April Fool and Cherry Blossom Viewing, both work as an oasis in our life.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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You're missing out(Score:1)
by jawtheshark (198669) * <slashdot@jawthesh[ ].com ['ark' in gap]> on 2006.04.02 6:14 (#15043092) (http://www.jawtheshark.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 23:29)
One of the oddest days on slashdot in the whole year. One can't take seriously anything at all. OMG!!! Ponies!!!! I need to run now I saw some furry equi caballi.
---- A sharkless slashdot is a toothless slashdot. -- Turg (19864)
Re:You're missing out(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 18:03 (#15044787) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
A sense of humour -I don't miss out on it again.
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My Retina
My Retina
2006.04.02 3:35
My retina is not good enough to see this pink. I have to find an alternative.
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My Alternative(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 4:33 (#15042697) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
My alternative -main journal in my daily use is either use Perl, Slashcode, Mccarthy, or old Technocrat. I think use Perl is fine since there are a number of users and so so active. I cannot see even a glance of this pink, see you there and preferably for a while.
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It burns!(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.02 5:34 (#15042940) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
A thoroughly bejagnant* colour scheme indeed. I hope the editors look at the vastly reduced number of posts today and realise that this whole thing is nowhere near as funny as they thought.*Bejagnant (adj): a totally meaningless word, but it sounds like it should mean something pretty nasty, such as "when Slashdot was bright pink".
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Re:It burns!(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 5:42 (#15042979) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Thanks. To write-it's for me a matter of life and death. As if I were damaged from bio hazard.
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Re:It burns!(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.02 6:06 (#15043062) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
I understand; I'm the same when it comes to noise. The site must look to you the way a dog whistle sounds to me: incredibly annoying.
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2006.04.02 3:35
My retina is not good enough to see this pink. I have to find an alternative.
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My Alternative(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 4:33 (#15042697) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
My alternative -main journal in my daily use is either use Perl, Slashcode, Mccarthy, or old Technocrat. I think use Perl is fine since there are a number of users and so so active. I cannot see even a glance of this pink, see you there and preferably for a while.
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It burns!(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <
A thoroughly bejagnant* colour scheme indeed. I hope the editors look at the vastly reduced number of posts today and realise that this whole thing is nowhere near as funny as they thought.*Bejagnant (adj): a totally meaningless word, but it sounds like it should mean something pretty nasty, such as "when Slashdot was bright pink".
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Re:It burns!(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 5:42 (#15042979) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Thanks. To write-it's for me a matter of life and death. As if I were damaged from bio hazard.
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Re:It burns!(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <
I understand; I'm the same when it comes to noise. The site must look to you the way a dog whistle sounds to me: incredibly annoying.
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What's This?
What's This?
2006.04.02 2:15
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
My eyes are not good enough to see this pink. May this change soon!
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It made me chuckle(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.03 3:00 (#15046211) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
In the article about the slashdot make-over, someone made the comment that it needed more Hello Kitty.
That one also made me laugh.
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Re:It made me chuckle(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.04 1:12 (#15050870) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I don't want Slashdot to change this simple template. If someone wants to post a photo, choose Livejournal. If someone wants to see visual arts, choose devianArt. There're tens of hundreds of the Internet communities, Slashdot is one of them and for those who want to talk, debate, discuss, argue.
Here I feel very secured.
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Re:It made me chuckle(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.04 10:28 (#15054827) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
I thought the April Fool's day joke was pretty funny. But yes, the bright pink was too bright. So I implemented this [slashdot.org].
Now, no matter which section I visit, I get the same (overall) color scheme.
--Define the finite space of spelling definitely - no A exists there
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Re:It made me chuckle(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.05 3:23 (#15060144) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Thanks, Deg. Let me use this scheme in case of emergency.
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I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.11 11:47 (#15103261) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
You should use the "Simple Design".Why do you keep the default design?Based on the especial reason?And, I reject and hate that the bad morale foolery of "April Fool".
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.11 22:41 (#15105174) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Simple Design? Once I changed into it in my preferences. But I was unable to see the title of journals. I was not sure whether it is based on browsers or not though I got back to default.
That's the reason I keep on staying in default.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.12 4:04 (#15107776) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
> But I was unable to see the title of journals.It's legendary Slashcode's bug.At least, selecting all(use 'Ctrl+A'), You'll be able to see the titles.However, reason understood.
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
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Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.12 22:42 (#15113074) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I see, let me try... Oh, I can see the title of journals! But it is like a horror show. I can't change. You knew well and I feel really impressed.
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Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.13 11:02 (#15118315) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
> But it is like a horror show.Because this was seen, "The Rocky Horror [amazon.com] Picture Show [amazon.co.jp]" was recalled ;-).
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2006.04.02 2:15
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
My eyes are not good enough to see this pink. May this change soon!
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It made me chuckle(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.03 3:00 (#15046211) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
In the article about the slashdot make-over, someone made the comment that it needed more Hello Kitty.
That one also made me laugh.
--Define the finite space of spelling definitely - no A exists there
Re:It made me chuckle(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.04 1:12 (#15050870) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I don't want Slashdot to change this simple template. If someone wants to post a photo, choose Livejournal. If someone wants to see visual arts, choose devianArt. There're tens of hundreds of the Internet communities, Slashdot is one of them and for those who want to talk, debate, discuss, argue.
Here I feel very secured.
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[ Parent ]
Re:It made me chuckle(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.04 10:28 (#15054827) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
I thought the April Fool's day joke was pretty funny. But yes, the bright pink was too bright. So I implemented this [slashdot.org].
Now, no matter which section I visit, I get the same (overall) color scheme.
--Define the finite space of spelling definitely - no A exists there
[ Parent ]
Re:It made me chuckle(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.05 3:23 (#15060144) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Thanks, Deg. Let me use this scheme in case of emergency.
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I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.11 11:47 (#15103261) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
You should use the "Simple Design".Why do you keep the default design?Based on the especial reason?And, I reject and hate that the bad morale foolery of "April Fool".
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.11 22:41 (#15105174) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Simple Design? Once I changed into it in my preferences. But I was unable to see the title of journals. I was not sure whether it is based on browsers or not though I got back to default.
That's the reason I keep on staying in default.
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[ Parent ]
Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.12 4:04 (#15107776) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
> But I was unable to see the title of journals.It's legendary Slashcode's bug.At least, selecting all(use 'Ctrl+A'), You'll be able to see the titles.However, reason understood.
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
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Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.12 22:42 (#15113074) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I see, let me try... Oh, I can see the title of journals! But it is like a horror show. I can't change. You knew well and I feel really impressed.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:I could advise for you just now,(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.13 11:02 (#15118315) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
> But it is like a horror show.Because this was seen, "The Rocky Horror [amazon.com] Picture Show [amazon.co.jp]" was recalled ;-).
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
Horiemon Is In Prison
Horiemon Is In Prison
2006.04.01 23:34
Mr Takafumi Horie has been in prison for nearly two months, and as if he were unable to get out of the geol unless he admit he did the wrongdoings, that he's not likely to do. Does Tokyo Prosecutor's Office keep on detaining him till he confess?
If Tokyo Prosecutors held some solid proof of his violation in law, they ought to submit it in court. They seem to eager to draw his confession. In this current world I don't think it's appropriate for them to only rely on the confessions of the detainees.
2006.04.01 23:34
Mr Takafumi Horie has been in prison for nearly two months, and as if he were unable to get out of the geol unless he admit he did the wrongdoings, that he's not likely to do. Does Tokyo Prosecutor's Office keep on detaining him till he confess?
If Tokyo Prosecutors held some solid proof of his violation in law, they ought to submit it in court. They seem to eager to draw his confession. In this current world I don't think it's appropriate for them to only rely on the confessions of the detainees.
The Exchange Rate
The Exchange Rate
2006.04.01 5:11
Roughly speaking, 1 dollar =117 yen, 1 euro=142 yen. Many people believe it's an exchange rate. Sure when we want to change our currency to others, we use this rate. But we don't normally change our currency.
The exchange rate in fact means how hard our life is in our respective society. To compare the relative value of our currencies, I convert the least unit of currencies like 100 cents =117 yen, 100 new euro =142 yen. Then what we realise? We buy the same pencil for 100 cents, 100 new euro, 100 yen. In other words we buy the same one for 100/117 in America, 100/142 in Europe, 100/100 in Japan.
Where do you want to live?
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As i mentioned in a recent JE..(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.04.01 12:24 (#15039737) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.30 7:20)
there is also the geni index. sure, 110 yen is 100 cents, but does your typical low level japanes worker gladly take a job for 570 yen an hour? as they might in the greater majority of Us states? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_mi nimum_wages [wikipedia.org]not to mention all the jobs who tie their wages directly as a multiplier of the minimum wage... yeah sure, we've got walmart's everywhere and can buy a lot of things cheap, in the US... but realistically america is probabbly the only 'developed' country where you're the most likely to find yourself suffering _Below the poverty line_ (13% of americans are)so um yeah, just for the record, my last job paied the equivalent of 800 yen an hour. and was pretty good paying considering my work history, etc.
--A Fool nation and their money are soon parted. America's Net worth -13 Trillion USD.
Re:As i mentioned in a recent JE..(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 1:56 (#15042108) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Let me see your recent JE, Uhmm.. Unexpectedly we were thinking about the similar not to say the same thing. We'd better not expect too much in our life. If we were fulfiled a daily meal and health, nothing is necessary. Our life is not for money, but money has to serve our life.
Let's enjoy.
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Re:As i mentioned in a recent JE..(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.04.02 6:34 (#15043166) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.30 7:20)
heh true enough, i'm not a big fan of money, it's never made me happy, no matter how much my parents tried to teach me that it could haha. --; well they acted like money could solve their problems anyways. don't know that they really believed it because they never really did the kind things one would to aquire loads of money.
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2006.04.01 5:11
Roughly speaking, 1 dollar =117 yen, 1 euro=142 yen. Many people believe it's an exchange rate. Sure when we want to change our currency to others, we use this rate. But we don't normally change our currency.
The exchange rate in fact means how hard our life is in our respective society. To compare the relative value of our currencies, I convert the least unit of currencies like 100 cents =117 yen, 100 new euro =142 yen. Then what we realise? We buy the same pencil for 100 cents, 100 new euro, 100 yen. In other words we buy the same one for 100/117 in America, 100/142 in Europe, 100/100 in Japan.
Where do you want to live?
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As i mentioned in a recent JE..(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.04.01 12:24 (#15039737) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.30 7:20)
there is also the geni index. sure, 110 yen is 100 cents, but does your typical low level japanes worker gladly take a job for 570 yen an hour? as they might in the greater majority of Us states? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_mi nimum_wages [wikipedia.org]not to mention all the jobs who tie their wages directly as a multiplier of the minimum wage... yeah sure, we've got walmart's everywhere and can buy a lot of things cheap, in the US... but realistically america is probabbly the only 'developed' country where you're the most likely to find yourself suffering _Below the poverty line_ (13% of americans are)so um yeah, just for the record, my last job paied the equivalent of 800 yen an hour. and was pretty good paying considering my work history, etc.
--A Fool nation and their money are soon parted. America's Net worth -13 Trillion USD.
Re:As i mentioned in a recent JE..(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 1:56 (#15042108) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Let me see your recent JE, Uhmm.. Unexpectedly we were thinking about the similar not to say the same thing. We'd better not expect too much in our life. If we were fulfiled a daily meal and health, nothing is necessary. Our life is not for money, but money has to serve our life.
Let's enjoy.
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Re:As i mentioned in a recent JE..(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.04.02 6:34 (#15043166) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.30 7:20)
heh true enough, i'm not a big fan of money, it's never made me happy, no matter how much my parents tried to teach me that it could haha. --; well they acted like money could solve their problems anyways. don't know that they really believed it because they never really did the kind things one would to aquire loads of money.
--A Fool nation and their money are soon parted. America's Net worth -13 Trillion USD.
Medical Profession
Medical Profession
2006.03.30 9:32
One medical doctor was found not-guilty for his initial misjudgement as to how serious the accident was. One 4 year kid was carried at the hospital with a part of disposable wood chopstick inside his brains. The doctor couldn't detect a part of wood stick that was remained in the patient's brain, that and other causes eventually led him to death next morning. The doctor insisted he did his best although he ignored the fact above.
It might have been his fault or not his fault as to the ignorance of the serious facts upon patients, it might have resulted from his lack of education, or a lack of experience, but we are not supposed to call his mistake into question.
Medical doctors are doing their best every day and night, let's give them a free hand.
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Might not be technically possible(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.30 9:54 (#15022485) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Hate to say it, but wood soaked with blood is about the same specific gravity as nerve tissue. It might not be technically possible to detect that short of an MRI.
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Re:Might not be technically possible(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 10:48 (#15022770) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
The accident happened 7 years ago and still the trial had been in progress. His parents intend to appeal to the upper court for further interrogation. Of course I understand the pain and sadness of his parents, but considering the fact that the doctor must have been feeling guilty inside his mind, I'd prefer for them to withdraw their appeal.
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Doctors(Score:2)
by Shadow Wrought (586631) * on 2006.03.31 1:48 (#15026871) (http://slashdot.org/~Shadow%20Wrought/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.29 4:47)
One of my very best friends went on from college to become a Doctor. It was fascinating to learn from her just how little Doctors know. Don't get me wrong, Doctors know a lot, but there is still far more that they don't know, than they do know. A good deal of it is still very much experience and the general "art" of practioning. So many people are used to TV shows where doctors can figure every little thing out that they expect miracles.
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Re:Doctors(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.01 4:18 (#15036072) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Doctors are humans. Doctors are subject to error. If doctors cannot cure the disease, let alone ordinary people. They saved tens of thousands of people, but sometimes failed to do. I can't feel but say that it is unfair for them to be accused only when they failed. I think we ought to tolarate them even if they failed to do. Their tens of contribution to life just overwhelms the mistakes they inevitably make.
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2006.03.30 9:32
One medical doctor was found not-guilty for his initial misjudgement as to how serious the accident was. One 4 year kid was carried at the hospital with a part of disposable wood chopstick inside his brains. The doctor couldn't detect a part of wood stick that was remained in the patient's brain, that and other causes eventually led him to death next morning. The doctor insisted he did his best although he ignored the fact above.
It might have been his fault or not his fault as to the ignorance of the serious facts upon patients, it might have resulted from his lack of education, or a lack of experience, but we are not supposed to call his mistake into question.
Medical doctors are doing their best every day and night, let's give them a free hand.
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Might not be technically possible(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.30 9:54 (#15022485) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Hate to say it, but wood soaked with blood is about the same specific gravity as nerve tissue. It might not be technically possible to detect that short of an MRI.
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Re:Might not be technically possible(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 10:48 (#15022770) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
The accident happened 7 years ago and still the trial had been in progress. His parents intend to appeal to the upper court for further interrogation. Of course I understand the pain and sadness of his parents, but considering the fact that the doctor must have been feeling guilty inside his mind, I'd prefer for them to withdraw their appeal.
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Doctors(Score:2)
by Shadow Wrought (586631) * on 2006.03.31 1:48 (#15026871) (http://slashdot.org/~Shadow%20Wrought/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.29 4:47)
One of my very best friends went on from college to become a Doctor. It was fascinating to learn from her just how little Doctors know. Don't get me wrong, Doctors know a lot, but there is still far more that they don't know, than they do know. A good deal of it is still very much experience and the general "art" of practioning. So many people are used to TV shows where doctors can figure every little thing out that they expect miracles.
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Re:Doctors(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.01 4:18 (#15036072) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Doctors are humans. Doctors are subject to error. If doctors cannot cure the disease, let alone ordinary people. They saved tens of thousands of people, but sometimes failed to do. I can't feel but say that it is unfair for them to be accused only when they failed. I think we ought to tolarate them even if they failed to do. Their tens of contribution to life just overwhelms the mistakes they inevitably make.
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France In Turmoil
France In Turmoil
2006.03.30 9:04
France, entire France has been in turmoil over the laws that allows employees whose age are under 26 to be subject to firing if it's within few limited months.
The first demo occurred among University students, then later it expanded to entire French workers in strike.
I must say, 'What's wrong? 'Under the capitalism system, dismissal from a job is not only inevitable, but necessary to revitalise the economy. It has nothing to do with personal mishaps but rather one of the best oppotunities to polish your job skills. Let's grasp dismissal as chance to promote your career. We face another Luddite in the early 21st century, we have to get over it.
I myself was fired seven times in my 17 years career, I must confess I was appaulled from the initial two dismissals, then gradually I had been accustomed to be fired, now it's just an annual event.
2006.03.30 9:04
France, entire France has been in turmoil over the laws that allows employees whose age are under 26 to be subject to firing if it's within few limited months.
The first demo occurred among University students, then later it expanded to entire French workers in strike.
I must say, 'What's wrong? 'Under the capitalism system, dismissal from a job is not only inevitable, but necessary to revitalise the economy. It has nothing to do with personal mishaps but rather one of the best oppotunities to polish your job skills. Let's grasp dismissal as chance to promote your career. We face another Luddite in the early 21st century, we have to get over it.
I myself was fired seven times in my 17 years career, I must confess I was appaulled from the initial two dismissals, then gradually I had been accustomed to be fired, now it's just an annual event.
The Neutrality Of Academics
The Neutrality Of Academics
2006.03.30 8:40
Kyoto University medical professor Mr Shirakawa was fired as a way of punishment from the University by accepting donation which is $450,000 worth, from a pharmaceutical company. He claims he did nothing wrong and it was lent not given to him.
I understand he's nothing wrong. Why he had to be fired? It is based on a severe misunderstanding by the University board.
Since Kyoto University had been a national University, it had been run by government fund entirely. It was only recently that the body changed from national to 'independent administrative body', it is now officially not a national but a publicly run, but it doesn't make many differences. Anyway the University has been running from public fund, not from private sectors.
So you know if public bodies accepted donations from private companies, etc. strictly speaking it is violating rules and regulations. In some cases it might be regarded a form of bribe. The University fired him for fear that the donations affect results of his study. The board thought academics has to be neutral from all sides.
The idea itself was not bad, not bad at all. But in the first place is there any academics which is far from the influence of society? I must say because the University has been funded entirely by the government, has the University done something against the policy of the government? The fact was because it was government fund, the University had done nothing against the national government.
The neutrality of academics is an illusion. Get him back to his respected position and accept donations from other companies too. That's much better to strike a balance both from public and private interests. There's no neutrality, neither public nor private.
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Public and Private(Score:2)
by Morosoph (693565) on 2006.04.01 0:13 (#15033932) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.wesson/ Last Journal: 2006.04.24 18:35)
There's a real risk that we lose sight of the fact that there are other legitimate interests, such as the investigation of nature or the pursuit of truth.
The pursuit of truth should count as giving purpose to the people at large, but this is a hard one to argue with the religious, for whom the greatest purpose and "truth" is given by the creator, and all else is subsiduary to that. Result: crude utilitarianism rules, since other purposes cannot compete.
To serve your fellow man is promoted above truth in a religion of love, and as the religion claims universality, none can have other priorities, unless they find their own funding. In general, serving your fellow man is a great good, but the evil is done in making that prescription universal. Nowadays, making a claim to truth that competes with God is "arrogant", vis: the debate on evolution and creationism.
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Re:Public and Private(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.01 4:45 (#15036304) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Truth is not one. Governmental people, judicial people claim they are in truth side. But I believe public side is in the first place already biased. If we were helped by only public side, and we just failed to accept donations from private side, that's the very definition of 'biased'. He was fired from this biased idea.
It is still far away for them -public people to realise they are not representing any neutral entity at all.
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Great Risk...(Score:2)
by Morosoph (693565) on 2006.04.01 7:30 (#15037797) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.wesson/ Last Journal: 2006.04.24 18:35)
Is the politicisation of everything.
Truth (the nature of nature) can sometimes be in opposition to both the democratic will, and to capital. I would venture that this is most likely when religion is involved. It is important to remember that there are more than two sides.
You cannot achieve balance by making the private influence match the public. In fact: balance is the wrong end, as it is likely only achieveable with an equal drenching of ideas from previously identified influences.
If you're interested in truth, you want minimal influence, even if the residual influence is one-sided.
And I disagree with you: reality is singular; it is not a matter of opinion.
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Re:Great Risk...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 1:19 (#15041960) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Politics is a result of balancing two or more interest groups, so there's no truth can be found in politics. Yeah, that's right, yet we all are influenced from various sides at the beginning, which is just an inevitable thing.
We both are raised up in different environments. You are Briton, and I am Japanese. English is your native tongue but not mine, when I was able to handle with only my native tongue and after I learned how to read and write this universal tongue, my 'truth' has been completely different from one another.
I mean there's no general truth that penetrates my entire life. I myself have repeatedly experienced in my entire life a Copernican change or other revolutionary ones, or just a paradigm shift before and after I had religion.
We tend to evaluate almost everything from our consistency in ourselves-whether something is for or agaist our 'nature of the nature' but in the first place is there any 'nature of the nature' and is it really based on purified form of reality? In you it is singular and I am hardly imagine how reality exists in singularity since I believe there are many 'truth' according as how we were raised up, how we acquired the notion of generally acceptable common knowledge.
I believe in the first place it's irrational not to say absurd for us to position ourselves in 'neutral', since we all are biased, then my conclusion-we are in the first place 'biased' so by adopting many different sources, we can mend our biased viewpoint.
Nature of the nature is something that we can't be achievable, so it is my standpoint that we can only be achievable relative truth by accepting as many sources as possible. We cannot purify the core of nature of the nature, but can make more round sphere by acceptance, adoption, that even leads to tolerance to others and other's viewpoint. It is more preferable than the core which is something unattainable.
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2006.03.30 8:40
Kyoto University medical professor Mr Shirakawa was fired as a way of punishment from the University by accepting donation which is $450,000 worth, from a pharmaceutical company. He claims he did nothing wrong and it was lent not given to him.
I understand he's nothing wrong. Why he had to be fired? It is based on a severe misunderstanding by the University board.
Since Kyoto University had been a national University, it had been run by government fund entirely. It was only recently that the body changed from national to 'independent administrative body', it is now officially not a national but a publicly run, but it doesn't make many differences. Anyway the University has been running from public fund, not from private sectors.
So you know if public bodies accepted donations from private companies, etc. strictly speaking it is violating rules and regulations. In some cases it might be regarded a form of bribe. The University fired him for fear that the donations affect results of his study. The board thought academics has to be neutral from all sides.
The idea itself was not bad, not bad at all. But in the first place is there any academics which is far from the influence of society? I must say because the University has been funded entirely by the government, has the University done something against the policy of the government? The fact was because it was government fund, the University had done nothing against the national government.
The neutrality of academics is an illusion. Get him back to his respected position and accept donations from other companies too. That's much better to strike a balance both from public and private interests. There's no neutrality, neither public nor private.
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Public and Private(Score:2)
by Morosoph (693565) on 2006.04.01 0:13 (#15033932) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.wesson/ Last Journal: 2006.04.24 18:35)
There's a real risk that we lose sight of the fact that there are other legitimate interests, such as the investigation of nature or the pursuit of truth.
The pursuit of truth should count as giving purpose to the people at large, but this is a hard one to argue with the religious, for whom the greatest purpose and "truth" is given by the creator, and all else is subsiduary to that. Result: crude utilitarianism rules, since other purposes cannot compete.
To serve your fellow man is promoted above truth in a religion of love, and as the religion claims universality, none can have other priorities, unless they find their own funding. In general, serving your fellow man is a great good, but the evil is done in making that prescription universal. Nowadays, making a claim to truth that competes with God is "arrogant", vis: the debate on evolution and creationism.
--The death [tinyurl.com] of reason [slashdot.org]
Re:Public and Private(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.01 4:45 (#15036304) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Truth is not one. Governmental people, judicial people claim they are in truth side. But I believe public side is in the first place already biased. If we were helped by only public side, and we just failed to accept donations from private side, that's the very definition of 'biased'. He was fired from this biased idea.
It is still far away for them -public people to realise they are not representing any neutral entity at all.
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Great Risk...(Score:2)
by Morosoph (693565) on 2006.04.01 7:30 (#15037797) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.wesson/ Last Journal: 2006.04.24 18:35)
Is the politicisation of everything.
Truth (the nature of nature) can sometimes be in opposition to both the democratic will, and to capital. I would venture that this is most likely when religion is involved. It is important to remember that there are more than two sides.
You cannot achieve balance by making the private influence match the public. In fact: balance is the wrong end, as it is likely only achieveable with an equal drenching of ideas from previously identified influences.
If you're interested in truth, you want minimal influence, even if the residual influence is one-sided.
And I disagree with you: reality is singular; it is not a matter of opinion.
--The death [tinyurl.com] of reason [slashdot.org]
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Re:Great Risk...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 1:19 (#15041960) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Politics is a result of balancing two or more interest groups, so there's no truth can be found in politics. Yeah, that's right, yet we all are influenced from various sides at the beginning, which is just an inevitable thing.
We both are raised up in different environments. You are Briton, and I am Japanese. English is your native tongue but not mine, when I was able to handle with only my native tongue and after I learned how to read and write this universal tongue, my 'truth' has been completely different from one another.
I mean there's no general truth that penetrates my entire life. I myself have repeatedly experienced in my entire life a Copernican change or other revolutionary ones, or just a paradigm shift before and after I had religion.
We tend to evaluate almost everything from our consistency in ourselves-whether something is for or agaist our 'nature of the nature' but in the first place is there any 'nature of the nature' and is it really based on purified form of reality? In you it is singular and I am hardly imagine how reality exists in singularity since I believe there are many 'truth' according as how we were raised up, how we acquired the notion of generally acceptable common knowledge.
I believe in the first place it's irrational not to say absurd for us to position ourselves in 'neutral', since we all are biased, then my conclusion-we are in the first place 'biased' so by adopting many different sources, we can mend our biased viewpoint.
Nature of the nature is something that we can't be achievable, so it is my standpoint that we can only be achievable relative truth by accepting as many sources as possible. We cannot purify the core of nature of the nature, but can make more round sphere by acceptance, adoption, that even leads to tolerance to others and other's viewpoint. It is more preferable than the core which is something unattainable.
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Word
Word
2006.03.30 8:07
I don't read Japanese any more, let alone write it. Why? In spite of my being Japanese?
I don't use Japanese any more because I am Japanese. The statement at a glance which seems contradictory includes some sort of truth in my life.
I was forced to hear tens of thousands of Japanese language since I was a kid, so I'm just fed up with using it any more. Of course as long as I live in Japan, I've got to use this language in some way or other. But I must say it is not the country that determines which language we use but rather it is ourselves. We are entirely free whatever the language we use, for example, even in the United States, I speak Japanese to Japanese if he can't speak English. But here in Japan, if both speakers prefer to use English as a way to communicate one another, we are glad to do so.
So when I use English in my daily life, someone often claims that 'Here's Japan.' So what? Whether here's Japan or the USA, nothing prevents us from using any language in our daily life, what language we use entirely depends on our side.
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as it happens(Score:2)
by Mantorp (142371) * <mantorp 'funny A' gmail.com> on 2006.03.30 8:23 (#15021862) (http://slashdot.org/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:13)
I was an exchange student in the US a long long time ago, and on the same flight back to Sweden I ended up next to a childhood friend who had done the same thing. We spoke English nearly the whole way home. Nowadays however my brain has gotten better at switching back between the two so I prefer to speak English here and Swedish to Swedes.
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Re:as it happens(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 11:01 (#15022832) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I noticed your name first in johndiii's journal, 'The Origin of Your Nick'. Since then I have thought you are from a country from Europe.
Whatever the language we use, it is important for us not to feel alienated, in our case, we are not supposed to limit our free hand to use any language we'd prefer. I myself feel alienated strongly in using my native tongue.
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2006.03.30 8:07
I don't read Japanese any more, let alone write it. Why? In spite of my being Japanese?
I don't use Japanese any more because I am Japanese. The statement at a glance which seems contradictory includes some sort of truth in my life.
I was forced to hear tens of thousands of Japanese language since I was a kid, so I'm just fed up with using it any more. Of course as long as I live in Japan, I've got to use this language in some way or other. But I must say it is not the country that determines which language we use but rather it is ourselves. We are entirely free whatever the language we use, for example, even in the United States, I speak Japanese to Japanese if he can't speak English. But here in Japan, if both speakers prefer to use English as a way to communicate one another, we are glad to do so.
So when I use English in my daily life, someone often claims that 'Here's Japan.' So what? Whether here's Japan or the USA, nothing prevents us from using any language in our daily life, what language we use entirely depends on our side.
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as it happens(Score:2)
by Mantorp (142371) * <mantorp 'funny A' gmail.com> on 2006.03.30 8:23 (#15021862) (http://slashdot.org/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:13)
I was an exchange student in the US a long long time ago, and on the same flight back to Sweden I ended up next to a childhood friend who had done the same thing. We spoke English nearly the whole way home. Nowadays however my brain has gotten better at switching back between the two so I prefer to speak English here and Swedish to Swedes.
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Re:as it happens(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 11:01 (#15022832) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I noticed your name first in johndiii's journal, 'The Origin of Your Nick'. Since then I have thought you are from a country from Europe.
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Fascinating!
Fascinating!
2006.03.30 0:43
subgeek (263292), thank you for befriending me. I'd like to show my deepest gratitude to you.
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I hereby nominate you(Score:2)
by Mantorp (142371) * <mantorp 'funny A' gmail.com> on 2006.03.30 0:49 (#15017970) (http://slashdot.org/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:13)
for the most humble person online award
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Re:I hereby nominate you(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 1:10 (#15018163) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
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Re:I hereby nominate you(Score:1)
by StalinsNotDead (764374) on 2006.03.30 1:26 (#15018318) (Last Journal: 2006.04.26 23:15)
I'll second that. He's the only person I've seen that dedicates an entire journal entry to personally thank everyone who befriends him.I'm considering unfriending him, and befriending him again, just to get a journal entry;-)
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wow(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.03.30 4:51 (#15020101) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
i wasn't expecting a whole JE to commemorate the event.it's funny. i clicked the link to this journal while working on something else. a couple minutes later i glanced at the screen, saw subgeek (263292) at the top, and immediately concluded that i was going to be reading an automated page when i got around to it. i was surprised when i looked again a few minutes later and saw that it was someone addressing me personally and not an automated message. things change when given more than a passing amount of attention.i hope it does end up being fascinating for you. i don't post that much anymore, but i appreciate the recognition just the same.
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2006.03.30 0:43
subgeek (263292), thank you for befriending me. I'd like to show my deepest gratitude to you.
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I hereby nominate you(Score:2)
by Mantorp (142371) * <mantorp 'funny A' gmail.com> on 2006.03.30 0:49 (#15017970) (http://slashdot.org/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:13)
for the most humble person online award
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Re:I hereby nominate you(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 1:10 (#15018163) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Ha ha, I am not a modest person at all.
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Re:I hereby nominate you(Score:1)
by StalinsNotDead (764374) on 2006.03.30 1:26 (#15018318) (Last Journal: 2006.04.26 23:15)
I'll second that. He's the only person I've seen that dedicates an entire journal entry to personally thank everyone who befriends him.I'm considering unfriending him, and befriending him again, just to get a journal entry;-)
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wow(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.03.30 4:51 (#15020101) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
i wasn't expecting a whole JE to commemorate the event.it's funny. i clicked the link to this journal while working on something else. a couple minutes later i glanced at the screen, saw subgeek (263292) at the top, and immediately concluded that i was going to be reading an automated page when i got around to it. i was surprised when i looked again a few minutes later and saw that it was someone addressing me personally and not an automated message. things change when given more than a passing amount of attention.i hope it does end up being fascinating for you. i don't post that much anymore, but i appreciate the recognition just the same.
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Revised
Wrong Examples
Wrong Examples
2006.03.28 2:36
Please do not show wrong examples in a dictionary. This has been always the only reason I didn't purchase the one.
For example, in some dictionary, 'Please do not write different of. If I cannot write so, please do not show.
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A better place to learn to write English(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 2:47 (#15004120) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Isn't a dictionary- but rather works of fiction. The best in the business will teach you more about how English is actually written than any dictionary ever written. It's the difference between fact and emotion- dictionaries are good to find factual meanings, but to get emotion, you need to turn to the people who are good at it.One I recommend is an up-and-coming young author, http://www.reginapaul.com/ [reginapaul.com]
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Re:A better place to learn to write English(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 11:08 (#15022863) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Dictionaries sometimes show mistakes. It is not a dictionary that instructs how to use words but us humans. We determine how to use words in the first place. Dictionaries only pick up the words we used. That's what dictionaries may do.
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2006.03.28 2:36
Please do not show wrong examples in a dictionary. This has been always the only reason I didn't purchase the one.
For example, in some dictionary, 'Please do not write different of. If I cannot write so, please do not show.
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A better place to learn to write English(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 2:47 (#15004120) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Isn't a dictionary- but rather works of fiction. The best in the business will teach you more about how English is actually written than any dictionary ever written. It's the difference between fact and emotion- dictionaries are good to find factual meanings, but to get emotion, you need to turn to the people who are good at it.One I recommend is an up-and-coming young author, http://www.reginapaul.com/ [reginapaul.com]
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Re:A better place to learn to write English(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.30 11:08 (#15022863) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Dictionaries sometimes show mistakes. It is not a dictionary that instructs how to use words but us humans. We determine how to use words in the first place. Dictionaries only pick up the words we used. That's what dictionaries may do.
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Certainly
Solutions Edition
Solutions Edition
2006.03.28 2:18
Everybody around me knows that I am extremely particular about a dictionary. I used to carry a dictionary wherever possible whenver. I was a man walking with a dictionary, then people called me in short, I am a walking dictionary, and I'd prefer to be called so.
This time my choice is Collins English Dictionary. They say or I say there are five good dictionaries in the world. Those are Oxford, Chambers, Collins, Longman, Cambridge. Now I have OALD -however old it is -it has lost 18 pages in A section, and POD -however disbanded it is -it is devided into 10 pieces. Oxford Pocket Dictionary -however small it is, Longman Pocket Dictionary -I just store it, Cambridge International Dictionary of English -however big it is,. Chambers -I was unable to find it any more.
Collins is a new star to me. Instead of purchasing again OALD, POD, I chose Collins. This comes in handy, brighter paper, lighter weight, many vocabulary, with appropriate etymological description I found it almost perfect to meet my demand and needs.
Solutions Edition -that's the name of this edition.
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Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 2:38 (#15004037) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Getting a PDA and then buying the electronic editions of these works? I'm into Bible History- and I carry around several Bible translations, all on one convient flash card....
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.28 3:05 (#15004242) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
several Bible translations
Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Koine ( Common Simplified Greek around that time ). It might be a little bit hard for you to understand Hebrew though why not challenge reading the New Testament in Greek. I think it is worth while to try.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 3:31 (#15004444) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Koine ( Common Simplified Greek around that time ). It might be a little bit hard for you to understand Hebrew though why not challenge reading the New Testament in Greek. I think it is worth while to try. It's actually a bit more complicated than that. There's also a version of the OT in Koine Greek that contains books not preserved past the Council of Nazareth in Hebrew. In addition to all listed above, I keep around the Douay-Rheims (first English translation), a modern English version, Luther's 1504 Bibel in German, some extra-Biblical works such as the Nag Hammadi Texts (which are the Coptic Bible from Egypt/Ethiopia), and some Bible Study tools. In addition to all of that, I've also got the Standard Microsoft Library of Public Domain Works for Microsoft Reader, and a couple of books by my friend Regina Paul (I'm working on coming up with .LIT versions of her books so that she can sell them on her website).
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 3:21 (#15012038) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Wow!
There's also a version of the OT in Koine Greek that contains books not preserved past the Council of Nazareth in Hebrew.
Are the books related to the Apocrypha? I'm curious to know the real reason 14 books were taken away from the Old Testament.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.29 3:34 (#15012132) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Are the books related to the Apocrypha? I'm curious to know the real reason 14 books were taken away from the Old Testament. Yep, that's them. Really 13 books and a few extra chapters from the book of Daniel. There were three reasons, at three entirely different times, for removing them. The earliest was the Council of Nazareth- a Pharasee Jew council after the destruction of Jerusalem, that blamed the revolution on Christianity and other end-of-the-world sects like the Essenes and the Zealots and the Zionists. They traced all of these theologically back to the Greek Invasion of Israel- and so expunged from the Hebrew scriptures anything written after the time of Ezra the Priest, which would include the Septugiant, a Greek translation done in the time of Alexander the Great because so many of his subjects were Jews who did not know Hebrew.The second was the Manichean Heresy- an anti-Nicene Gnostic group that both added extra books to the New Testament and adopted the Hebrew version of The Scriptures. Around this time the mythical stories of Daniel battling the Dragon and the Babylonian God Bel were also expunged. But the Manicheans died out, they didn't survive the fall of Rome.The last was during the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500s- Martin Luther considered nothing of importance to be in the Apocrypha, and also tried to expunge the later epistles.
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How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.28 2:56 (#15004179) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Do you have them in a backpack or something, or are they small enought that they're easy to carry?
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.28 3:38 (#15004499) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I used to carry at least one, sometimes two in the backseat of a car. The book was 11 cm x 17 cm. The weight was probably 100 -150 grams I believe.
I carry not only one or two dictionaries but a collection of my previous writings and other books - usually I was reading a book at my leisure, my favourite one was ' The Whale '.
But it's true, even if I were not in a car, I used to carry a dictionary by the hand. For example I used to carry a dictionary in picnic, etc.
I said 'used to'. I ceased to do so several years ago. Once when I was 33, my first wife hid my dictionary in a barn - OALD as I mentioned. The second wife when I was at age 35, she torn apart my dictionary into two. That's the one I am still in use -the same one -OALD. I've been using the same dictionary longer than my better-half.
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.28 4:23 (#15004875) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
So how old are you now?
And why did they hide them? Would you use the dictionaries to correct them?
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 3:43 (#15012201) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I'm 44. My first wife was the Filipina, she didn't like to hear my very literal expression with a lot of authoritative pronunciations, so she hid it in a barn. I was extremely perplexted. As if my laptop were taken away. My life at that time was exacerbated, anyway soon after we found we had not shared the same value in life, I divorced my first wife first time.
After my second wife -Japanese, tore apart my dictionary, I went to Kinko's whether my scattered dictionary is able to recover, they say it's hard to repair. I repaired it with paste and Celotape by myself, and I didn't like the woman who burst into tears, so I divorced my second wife.
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.29 3:48 (#15012252) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
How did you find slashdot, meaning, how did you stumble upon this community of ours?
I'm 35, by the way. Do you have any pictures of you posted where I can see what my Brother looks like? :)
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 4:59 (#15012822) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
About one and a half year ago I was looking for what the 'corporate governance' is through the Internet. I put the word in the MSN search, where I found one Slashdotter's journal -this one was Slashdot Japan User -the name of User was von_yosukeyan. I read his journal and it was an excellent explanation as to 'corporate governance'.
I was impressed, then I made an account in Slashdot Japan site, but unfortunately at that time I'd been almost only using English in my private and public life, so I wrote entries in English. Naturally nobody seemed to care about my comments and journals.
Then I assumed -there must be an American site, I put the word 'Slashdot' in a search engine.
Eureka! I made an account, I started posting comments and journals here. You can check your mirror or screen.
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.29 6:18 (#15013346) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Got the picture. Yes...there are similarities. :)
I didnt know there was a Slashdot Japan. Wow...I just loaded it. Very pretty.
I have no idea what it says. I mean, apart from the numbers and "Apple Vs. Apple" part. :)
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2006.03.28 2:18
Everybody around me knows that I am extremely particular about a dictionary. I used to carry a dictionary wherever possible whenver. I was a man walking with a dictionary, then people called me in short, I am a walking dictionary, and I'd prefer to be called so.
This time my choice is Collins English Dictionary. They say or I say there are five good dictionaries in the world. Those are Oxford, Chambers, Collins, Longman, Cambridge. Now I have OALD -however old it is -it has lost 18 pages in A section, and POD -however disbanded it is -it is devided into 10 pieces. Oxford Pocket Dictionary -however small it is, Longman Pocket Dictionary -I just store it, Cambridge International Dictionary of English -however big it is,. Chambers -I was unable to find it any more.
Collins is a new star to me. Instead of purchasing again OALD, POD, I chose Collins. This comes in handy, brighter paper, lighter weight, many vocabulary, with appropriate etymological description I found it almost perfect to meet my demand and needs.
Solutions Edition -that's the name of this edition.
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Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 2:38 (#15004037) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Getting a PDA and then buying the electronic editions of these works? I'm into Bible History- and I carry around several Bible translations, all on one convient flash card....
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
Re:Have you thought about(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.28 3:05 (#15004242) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
several Bible translations
Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Koine ( Common Simplified Greek around that time ). It might be a little bit hard for you to understand Hebrew though why not challenge reading the New Testament in Greek. I think it is worth while to try.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 3:31 (#15004444) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Koine ( Common Simplified Greek around that time ). It might be a little bit hard for you to understand Hebrew though why not challenge reading the New Testament in Greek. I think it is worth while to try. It's actually a bit more complicated than that. There's also a version of the OT in Koine Greek that contains books not preserved past the Council of Nazareth in Hebrew. In addition to all listed above, I keep around the Douay-Rheims (first English translation), a modern English version, Luther's 1504 Bibel in German, some extra-Biblical works such as the Nag Hammadi Texts (which are the Coptic Bible from Egypt/Ethiopia), and some Bible Study tools. In addition to all of that, I've also got the Standard Microsoft Library of Public Domain Works for Microsoft Reader, and a couple of books by my friend Regina Paul (I'm working on coming up with .LIT versions of her books so that she can sell them on her website).
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 3:21 (#15012038) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Wow!
There's also a version of the OT in Koine Greek that contains books not preserved past the Council of Nazareth in Hebrew.
Are the books related to the Apocrypha? I'm curious to know the real reason 14 books were taken away from the Old Testament.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.29 3:34 (#15012132) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Are the books related to the Apocrypha? I'm curious to know the real reason 14 books were taken away from the Old Testament. Yep, that's them. Really 13 books and a few extra chapters from the book of Daniel. There were three reasons, at three entirely different times, for removing them. The earliest was the Council of Nazareth- a Pharasee Jew council after the destruction of Jerusalem, that blamed the revolution on Christianity and other end-of-the-world sects like the Essenes and the Zealots and the Zionists. They traced all of these theologically back to the Greek Invasion of Israel- and so expunged from the Hebrew scriptures anything written after the time of Ezra the Priest, which would include the Septugiant, a Greek translation done in the time of Alexander the Great because so many of his subjects were Jews who did not know Hebrew.The second was the Manichean Heresy- an anti-Nicene Gnostic group that both added extra books to the New Testament and adopted the Hebrew version of The Scriptures. Around this time the mythical stories of Daniel battling the Dragon and the Babylonian God Bel were also expunged. But the Manicheans died out, they didn't survive the fall of Rome.The last was during the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500s- Martin Luther considered nothing of importance to be in the Apocrypha, and also tried to expunge the later epistles.
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
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How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.28 2:56 (#15004179) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Do you have them in a backpack or something, or are they small enought that they're easy to carry?
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.28 3:38 (#15004499) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I used to carry at least one, sometimes two in the backseat of a car. The book was 11 cm x 17 cm. The weight was probably 100 -150 grams I believe.
I carry not only one or two dictionaries but a collection of my previous writings and other books - usually I was reading a book at my leisure, my favourite one was ' The Whale '.
But it's true, even if I were not in a car, I used to carry a dictionary by the hand. For example I used to carry a dictionary in picnic, etc.
I said 'used to'. I ceased to do so several years ago. Once when I was 33, my first wife hid my dictionary in a barn - OALD as I mentioned. The second wife when I was at age 35, she torn apart my dictionary into two. That's the one I am still in use -the same one -OALD. I've been using the same dictionary longer than my better-half.
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.28 4:23 (#15004875) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
So how old are you now?
And why did they hide them? Would you use the dictionaries to correct them?
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 3:43 (#15012201) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I'm 44. My first wife was the Filipina, she didn't like to hear my very literal expression with a lot of authoritative pronunciations, so she hid it in a barn. I was extremely perplexted. As if my laptop were taken away. My life at that time was exacerbated, anyway soon after we found we had not shared the same value in life, I divorced my first wife first time.
After my second wife -Japanese, tore apart my dictionary, I went to Kinko's whether my scattered dictionary is able to recover, they say it's hard to repair. I repaired it with paste and Celotape by myself, and I didn't like the woman who burst into tears, so I divorced my second wife.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.29 3:48 (#15012252) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
How did you find slashdot, meaning, how did you stumble upon this community of ours?
I'm 35, by the way. Do you have any pictures of you posted where I can see what my Brother looks like? :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 4:59 (#15012822) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
About one and a half year ago I was looking for what the 'corporate governance' is through the Internet. I put the word in the MSN search, where I found one Slashdotter's journal -this one was Slashdot Japan User -the name of User was von_yosukeyan. I read his journal and it was an excellent explanation as to 'corporate governance'.
I was impressed, then I made an account in Slashdot Japan site, but unfortunately at that time I'd been almost only using English in my private and public life, so I wrote entries in English. Naturally nobody seemed to care about my comments and journals.
Then I assumed -there must be an American site, I put the word 'Slashdot' in a search engine.
Eureka! I made an account, I started posting comments and journals here. You can check your mirror or screen.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.29 6:18 (#15013346) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Got the picture. Yes...there are similarities. :)
I didnt know there was a Slashdot Japan. Wow...I just loaded it. Very pretty.
I have no idea what it says. I mean, apart from the numbers and "Apple Vs. Apple" part. :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
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