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"TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION" pretty clearly applies to the package accompanied by the license. I looked at the Wikipedia page and this wasn't r…

Read the last line.

Your mind (the rational part) is just a collection of ideas. One of them is called oil.

Maybe he thought your comment was under the WTFPL? Hooray Anarchy!

I think screaming at people and all sorts of other stuff (16-hour days?) is just an unfortunate reality of the restaurant business. It's not like your experience is unique. I feel …

One aspect of the difference is that the physical force and violence with white collar crime are indirect / externalized, because the crimes involve manipulation of intangibles.

"If you're serious you cannot reason" is such a great projection.

There's a nice table with $5 and $.5 words here: https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/style/pompous_words.html First time encountering the expression for me. It's not about jargon, as…

There are quite a few massive cities in wealthy countries where a significant number of people choose not to drive even though they can afford it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…

My 3% came from this article (which I linked, but which is fine to have ignored): http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html The LGBT stat came from Wikipedia. For controversial st…

Alright, so I missed the "half of". But you missed that there are 9 8-hour blocks of leisure in a week, not 7. So it's half of 5/9, or simply 5/18. Which doesn't sound that bad com…

It's not 5/7ths, you're awake for 16 hours: 8 work, 8 leisure. This means on 5 out of 7 days, half of your leisure time is gone. So if you burn 4 commuting then you've given up 20 …

I didn't link to the wrong thing. If you read that article the top cities excluding Nara are all in greater Tokyo. The max time for Kanagawa is not reported, the average time for K…

But even just assigning someone to jaywalking duty is already selective enforcement. Even if the entire police force was on jaywalking duty, you couldn't catch all the jaywalkers i…

Yeah, me neither... but I don't think blaming commuters like ryandrake for advocating their lifestyle is the answer. Different people have different priorities. You wouldn't sneer …

Yeah, ok, fair enough. First, I was conflating Tokyo with Japan. Second, by normal I meant "culturally accepted" so maybe I shoulda just said that. But you know, normal kinda also …

Everyone is tearing you apart, but this is normal in Japan.

I also agree that you have a point about the arbitrary distinction. Presumably you agree that accidental / criminal / insane / unnecessary shootings are a problem. What do you prop…

We stopped buying raw sugar as well as things with added sugar at the grocery store. We also stopped buying juice and obvious junk food like potato chips. We still buy whole milk a…