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GPL violations are copyright violations. Where's the hypocrisy?

All that means is that Japanese young people are getting married later than was customary 30 years ago. For the eldest son, it's still expected in some families that he will never …

ATMs in banks and train stations, sure, but not the ones in 7-11s. (You'll notice nandemo said "in convenience stores").

"Bullshit" is a lack of concern over whether what you've said was true or not. "We’re not tracking you when you’re logged out" was a straight up lie.

Maybe the deal didn't go through.

Funny, I seem to run into people everywhere saying you can't trust Wikipedia. Where are all these people who take it as Gospel?

I think that definitely depends on where you live. Here in Shizuoka, in the 90s, pretty much all big public works projects came to a standstill. Roads they were building just stopp…

Isn't it weird that this article is trying to squash the myth of the "lost decade"--the 1990's--by Japan's affluence since 2000? Big screen TVs, advanced cellphones, high-speed int…

There's a lot of diversity in North American comics, just not in their sales. All the diversity gets shoved into the back corner of the store, where only those already "in the know…

I hate it when I don't know why I'm being downvoted---did I make some kind of error? did I word things wrong? or do people just disagree with me? What if there were a separate "fla…

The packages are text files, not executables.

When e-readers get down to the $10 price point, I'll certainly consider buying a stack for my kids!

I just about upvoted you until you threw in that last parenthetical comment.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow...

The article wasn't about agreeing or disagreeing with Stallman's beliefs, it was about all the comments that inevitably pop up about how fat, weird, smelly, unkempt, etc. he is, wh…

Tablets?

Is there an advantage to this for someone who owns no Apple products and has no iTunes account? EDIT: Looking at http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_compa... it …

But that's taken from all the software available in the repos, not the software that's actually installed on people's systems. For instance, the pie chart shows slices for both Gno…

I agree with a lot of what you've written, except for one of my favourite topics that you've stumbled across--- the idea that increasing education funding will result in more educa…

I don't have hard numbers, but I wold like to point out that Japanese students spend more days per year and longer hours in school, as well as hours of cram school on top of it for…

The thing with the winding streets is that they came out organically---nobody planned them that way. You can't really fix that without doing something horribly draconian. The newsp…

Wow. I've only owned Toshiba phones (on both au and SoftBank) before I got my HTC Desire, and making a call was always a matter of clicking the 電話帳 button and selecting the name. A…

Except that most people (even Japanese people) don't know his name.