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Haven't seen the new blue lights on the Yamanote, but I'm not sure why they put it on that line -- that's not the line where most people jump from. Then again, the line that most people do jump from has installed platform barricades (iirc) in order to stop suicides. So it may be that they want...

+1 for GetDataBack NTFS General safe-practice tips for dealing with a (possibly) corrupt drive: - Do not write anything to the drive. This includes coping files to the drive, or moving/deleting files from the drive. Any changes to an NTFS partition will make XP alter the file tables, and if the...

Does it have to be AVI? Ever thought about giving MP4 a chance? MKV is an independently developed media container and for that reason very few set-top devices support it. On the other hand, MP4 is a standardized container for current/next-gen codecs (specifically H264 for video and AAC for...

The solution is not to submit replies with font and/or color tags in the server-stored posts themselves, but to simply have them modified on your own computer (only). This can be achieved easily, if you're using Firefox. Install the Stylish extension. You can target text inside posts by using...

FTP and HTTP have nothing to do with Share and will not fix connection problems. You need to manually specify/add a rule that will forward "TCP Any -> 31111". You may need to change your router security settings from High to Medium. If the guide at portforward.com is not helping, you need to...

Well the correct term would be a gold digger, not a poor woman.

If you have the $$, you can only pick up one type of woman!

Regarding sexual media (anime/manga/toys), I would wager that most Japanese know they exist, but as buttobi says most probably haven't actually seen any of it firsthand. Still, that little knowledge can go a long way to help curb any "shock" that they might otherwise have once they actually see...

There's plenty of posts about these sorts of incidents over at Sankaku. I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I can only assume that pretty much most (if not all) of the feedback would be the same, "neither agreeing with, accept, nor condoning the behaviors of these people". At best this...

You leave your country when it's in the middle of an economic crisis and all your friends and acquaintences can't get jobs back at home. No one goes to Japan to teach English as a permanent career (although some have ended up that way for lack of being proactive). The whole point is precisely...

You typically request the portfolio if you're looking to hire the person, to see if their photography style matches what you need. If you're looking for confirmation of his/her credibility, you normally request a CV and/or references.

Of course it's a trend of warming, it's not like industrialization led to less production of carbon dioxide and other chemicals. Human activity has without a doubt added to the earth's greenhouse gases. But the actual amount that such human activity has caused warming is next to nothing. The...

Actually global warming is real; the key is that humans have almost nothing to do with it (humans altogether contribute about 2% of all greenhouse gases), and we most certainly have no control over it. The annoying part is people who believed the next global ice age was real, and then when that...

Yes, although it's not the entire TPB system but just the full database of torrents (and the .torrent files themselves). The fear was that the database would be deleted or heavily edited after TPB was sold, since the prospective buyer expressed their intention on making TPB a "legitimate...

That too, but not as much as people who seriously thought Jon Stewart ought to run for president before the 2008 elections. I actually like the Daily Show for its political satire, and I think it's a fine show for getting a different (non-serious) "perspective" on the news -- Stewart and...

#1: Stupid people. Not people who aren't academically intelligent, just people who don't use their heads. Recently on the political front: #2: People who believe whatever the media force feeds them. Not so much people who think FOX News is great, because they typically don't get past #1 in my...

Not just TPB trackers. Many other trackers with various domains were also hosted on the same TPB servers. Since the servers were shut down, a lot of major trackers have been disabled (thepiratebay.org, prq.to, torrent.to, etc). Fortunately there are a lot of other public trackers still...

Use FFSJ to join the files. You can also use HJSplit (but you need to rename .__a→.001, .__b→.002, etc). After joining, you will have a file MIRD032.rar Then you just extract like a normal RAR file.

Get a $5 PSU tester to confirm #4. On most motherboards, #2 GPU fail should yield a beep error code. Beep code also occurs with faulty memory. No beep most likely means the CPU is broken. Without the CPU, the mobo cannot load the BIOS logic which would control the beep codes. You should...

Yes. Non-Japanese AV is allowed because all AV production units adhere to at least US Code Title 18 Section 2257. But there is no analagous legal code governing the production and sale/distribution of content featuring under-18 models, therefore it is important to limit it as best we can to only...

It's hard to ask for "more of japan feel" in Yokohama because it's a relatively internationalized city. If you want a more traditional place you'd be better off heading at least towards Kyoto or ideally somewhere into the mountains/middle of nowhere. At the very least you can look for a ryokan...

Look in your Share directory, edit query.txt.

Actually, a lot of manga is based off of real life events, and the artistry among the well-known titles is usually very well researched and uncannily precise. Off the top of my head, you could also look to Sasebo Slashing (Nevada-tan) and Junko Furuta for some of the more extreme incidents that...

Oh for sure, no argument there. But some people couldn't care less about having absolute perfection and only care about the easiest, fastest way to transcode from one format to another. For those, Handbrake's "choose source, choose output filename, click Start" interface is a no-brainer.

Of course you can extract the VOB files and play then like regular AVIs, but that does not solve OP question about how to make the filesize smaller. As RollyCo suggested, meguIV will get the job done. If you can't get your head around meguIV's settings, you can always use a one-click encoder...

I assume you mean teaching English in Japan. If so: GaijinPot Dave's ESL Cafe JapanProbe classifieds Teaching English in Japan, abridged: your basic options are eikaiwa, dispatch, or private/direct-hire. Eikaiwa (AEON, GEOS) will accept almost anybody and you have a decent chance of being...

OOKUBO Kayoko (大久保佳代子), a comedian, though I don't know much more about her than that.

Actually it's on regular OTA broadcast, although it's a late, late night program (2:00-2:30am on TV Tokyo). And of course everything gets censored, eg: チ○コ, マ○コ, and mosaics anytime nudity occurs. Info, episode guide, channel/broadcast schedule, etc...

They, and the Japanese AV industry as a whole, make enough for there to be an off-shoot AV variety show. 2TQs81A_3sc t5ZG_6Gtndc kiv34kjn02E GQnAv35mpVc

大 can also be read as おお, as in 大盛/おおもり (eg at McDonalds: I'd like that supersized, please). The reason 大 isn't used with 乳 is probably because its usage isn't always about literal/physical size but often used to "quantify" abstract things (in terms of varying degrees): think 大好き, 大ピンチ, 大雨...

A little late but just a couple thoughts. The problem with the NYT article is that it makes no attempt to explain that Nisan is part of hardcore otakudom, and instead through its generalizations makes otakudom appear to be normal in Japan. Basically, "Look at how we here in America, reading the...

1) Japanese girls aren't interested in white/black guys simply because they're white/black. Many Japanese girls who date white/black guys do it just to be able to say they've dated foreigners -- a superficial, often short term relationship. Those who end up marrying white/black guys often do so...

Comiket is very popular in Japan, and as a result there a lot of fake files get posted on Share. I can pretty much guarantee that any files posted during C76 will be fake. You will have to wait a few days until after C76 ends before the real files start to get posted. You have a few options...

Glad you had fun! If you thought now was hot, you just missed out on the late-summer heat wave due in a few weeks, so consider yourself lucky. You can also now use ATMs at 7-11 to withdraw money from either a debit card or cash advance credit card. Menus are available in English (and some...

If you're worried about repercussions on society, you can step back and look at it more fundamentally: Why is it that we are so insistent on making robots look like a human? What edict is there that says that robots should walk on too legs, have too arms, a head, fingers, be able to communicate...

Might have something to do with the AmazonAWS attacks on Share. Or everyone might indeed just be on vacation. :goodboy:

Cache is not required for Share. Specifying a "upload" folder is required for Share's startup checks, but you are not required to have anything in the folder. Share will still function just fine without any uploads. PerfectDark, the new P2P network intended to eventually replace Share, requires...

Good points overall, though I personally don't think we need to be overly dramatic about an inevitable overlord robotic working class. I'm not gonna argue about the general stuff, I'll just put out a few thoughts about Japan specifically. Japan's working class is aging and exhausted. It's not...

Japanese nominalizes adjectives all the time. The grammatical breakdown is as follows: - A normal sentence might look like this: 「でかい胸が好き？」 (Do you like big breasts?) - If 胸 is introduced prior or implied, you can replace it with the particle の which acts as a pronoun: 「胸って、小さいのかでかいのか、どっちが好き？」...

Japan is far from the only country researching these kinds of body-augmentation robotics. The difference is that most other countries that are doing the same sort of research are for private military applications (go figure). My gut instinct is indeed to correlate this to the problem of Japan's...

I have an idea: in order to discuss the credibility of the so-called link between U-15 modeling and AV. If, for instance, it were established that a great number of U15 girls were in fact being pressured to move into nude modeling or AV after turning 18 (eg: a cheap way to channel girls into...

That's a completely different topic. This thread is refering to girls who did non-nude modeling when they were under 18, but who have now (after becoming 18) turned to adult entertainment. Legality is not a question in this scenario, OP is simply polling for information and possibly opening the...

Test in a virtual sandbox environment (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc). Also just to offer an anecdotal counterpoint, when I used to install XP straight from legit retail discs, I would always end up with spyware/adware that always crept its way into the OS, even with Windows Update patches. After...

As IdolFun mentioned, WMV because that's how most content providers encode them. It's because the vast majority of Japanese use Windows and thus have WMP, and WMV is effective at enforcing DRM. People who share WMVs on torrents aren't the ones encoding it to WMV. Rather they are simply...

Although the url points to the attachment.php script, the server will still send the appropriate Content-Type=image/jpeg header when sending the file over. Without that header, Firefox would not be able to render it as an image, so the fact that you can see the image in the first place means the...

You can load your links into a container, such as a .DLC (for compatability with clients like jDownloader). It's not entirely foolproof and other people can still copy off of your work, but as more people begin to use filehost managers like jDownloader, they will begin to prefer using .DLC over...

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Did that happen at every single restaurant you tried to go to? There are bound to be uncomfortable situations for any foreigner, no matter which country you go to. But cases of intentional ostracism (for lack of a better word) are indeed rare; most unpleasentries are the result of some...

The vast majority of Japanese aren't racist. They just have xenophobic tendencies stemming from the fact that some 93% of the population is ethnic Japanese and they simply don't know anything about foreigners. In larger cities you will probably be ignored for the most part (except of course at...