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No. 中国 refers to the geo-political nation boundary (geography), whereas 中華人民共和国 refers to the residing governmental body which administers the nation. But you use personal anecdotal evidence as empirical proof that all Chinese guys behave that way. I'm not here to defend China and say it's the...

Not all Chinese people hate Japan. To assume someone hates Japan just because they're ethnically (or nationally) Chinese would, in fact, be racist. Also, 中国 means "middle country", as in the land that is geographically located in the middle. If it meant "center of the world", it would be...

You should check out some Yoshimura Taku AVs. He has the perfect perverted fat, ossan look, and is so pervasive in the JAV world that he even has some DVDs dedicated to him having sex with random actresses: His list of works does not disappoint, either...

Actually I think you have it backwards. Nationally, the age of consent is set at 18, but certain prefectures or local governments set age of consent lower in accordance with local practices. Cases of legal sexual activity among "minors" is far and few between, with most prosecutors citing the...

Rule number 1 abut media sources: never implicitly trust media sources. I don't care if it's Washington Post or NY Times, or any number of so-called credible cable networks. You can never be 100% sure that the corporations owning the news media don't have some interest in promoting anti-nuclear...

Solar: incredibly inefficient so far, and Japan does not have a lot of land-mass to develop solar infrastructure. Wind: In real world use, still very deadly (ironically), limited land-mass, and expensive to deploy latest designs at sea. Geothermal: Extremely expensive compared to oil and natural...

Well, when an entire ecosystem is damaged by oil spills, it still suffers long term disruption. If an entire segment of the foodchain is knocked out, species can die out very quickly, and restructuring the prior balance of the ecosystem may take longer than "just" decades, if even possible at...

The difference is the world still uses the US Dollar as a reserve currency. Meaning the world is buying American debt to help keep the economy relatively stable (which is great for Americans). The problem is that the past 30+ years of US presidential administrations have severely undermined the...

Imouto.tv titles are authored as BDAV, not BDMV.

As imouto.tv BD discs are not AACS-encrypted, you can just open the BDMV\Stream or BDAV\Stream folder, and play the m2ts files in any media player. Or use a media player software that is capable of reading BD structure, such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. For BDs that have encryption, you need to use...

Japan has a declining birth rate. But just because the birth rate is low doesn't mean people aren't having sex. You should probably also look up rate of contraceptive use, or rate of abortion, etc.

Considering that a sizeable number of AV actresses in Japan are scouted, is there any reason in particular why you think Rina would necessarily have been coerced into the AV industry? And why must her parents consider committing seppuku? Is it impossible for Japanese families to have...

Anime depictions of high school life are, in a word, quite fetishized. That is, while they aren't inaccurate, they tend to show only a (often exaggerated) narrow slice of school life, with each successive anime trying a different angle (school-related dramas do this too). In response to...

I watched the video. A lot of the "strange" facts are seemingly blown out of proportion for effect, or simply gloss over details that would change the tone in which they are presented. - Quips on Japan's water and food consumption/waste were compared not to consumption/waste of other countries...

^ But America today is vastly different than the America half a century ago. Big businesses exported hard labor because it was cheaper to set up factories overseas to increase profit margins. We enjoyed a substantial surge in standard of living compared to most of the rest of the world. Suburban...

Well there would be a difference if they were only trying to ban the import/sale of faulty dosimeters. It's just as much the public's fault for sparking hysteria because of faulty dosimeters and lack of understanding on how to differentiate radiation sources (and their unwillingness to...

As much as I dislike Ishihara and all his cronies, I can understand why they want to ban (at least) the import of dosimeters. A proper, reliable dosimeter is relatively expensive, and requires some basic training to use properly and understand the readings. But with all the radiation paranoia...

A couple of the "hotspots" in Tokyo debunked: http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/10/14/setagaya-radiation-hot-spot-not-from-fukushima/ No word about the Yokohama apartment complex.

You'll get more radiation on the plane ride to and from Japan than you will spending a couple weeks here.

Some exciting news on the decoding end of things. Intel has been working to enable hardware decoding with its latest QuickSync-compatible processors for ffdshow (the core decoder component for packages like CCCP). It might not be a huge improvement for the higher-end Core i5-2xxx and i7-2xxx...

Yes I'm aware of the wipe option, but 3-pass on MFT and free space is a really conservative method (ie: not very effective). When you use your computer, temporary and cache files are regularly deleted and overwritten, so it is already relatively difficult to recover those files, even without...

CCleaner is good for basic housekeeping (deleting temporary/cache files, etc). But if you need to secure-erase your hard drive, you really ought to go for a proper program like DBAN.

The legendary TOKUMOTO Kasumi (徳本佳寿美).

Depending on the MKV's framerate, H.264 profile/level, and audio codec, it could be as simple as remuxing the streams into an MP4 without completely re-encoding the whole file (or maybe only re-encoding the audio). Take a look at mp4box and the YAMB gui. Of course, if you're interested in small...

I think what he means is, can you link the news articles that you read.

Google bringing high speed FTTH is great as a start, but personally I don't want to rely on a data-mining business as my ISP. All I want is a dumb pipe that connects me to the internet and nothing more, not to potentially log and track every single thing I do on the internet. At least by...

Profit does come with popularity. But most of those profits go to the producers and the companies, not to the idols themselves. Most girls who work to become and idol do so because they want to be famous and well-known. And the rest about hard-working and seppuku are just stereotypes about...

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You can always go into your control panel and turn off avas/sigs -- that way you never have to see them, except when you choose to (by clicking an individual member's profile). I do that anyway just to keep my forum reading experience uncluttered. Although dissociation is admirable, it's it to...

Just because you would like to see them in JAV doesn't actually mean they are "more perfect" in any way. Both Erena and Haruna are far, far more popular in AKB than Rina ever was -- and it's popularity that decides who stays and who graduates. It's also popularity that influences what they can...

"Dominant" doesn't really mean anything. Which network is good depends on what you're looking for. Many people still use WinNY for general purpose file sharing. A lot of DVDISOs are shared on ShareEX. PerfectDark has lots of ROMs and software, and also a ridiculous amount of porn. Smaller files...

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People who clearly understand English and are willing to speak their mind, but fail at basic reading comprehension. (It makes for exceedingly frustrating conversations.)

If you don't know the password, then the file isn't intended for you. Think of it like a clubhouse pass phrase. There are a few select people who come up with and understand the password "scheme", which they use to share files between themselves. And if you aren't part of the group, then you...

Because Japanese manga publishers have almost no connections with people in the government. No matter how many appeals you bring before the government, if you have no legislative support, the governing party can simply continue to ignore you. The alternative way is (for the publishers) to...

Yep that did the trick. Not sure where it got mixed up, never had to manually set it before. ʅ（‾◡◝）ʃ Anyway, you can expect a 1080p and 720p rip of SSEB-001 soon.

Got a really weird bug I've never encountered before. Using QuickTGMC 3.31 on MeGUI 2028. Trying to process a 1080/30i file to 60fps. Normally, you would expect proper frame order, as such: 12345678... (where SelectEven would return 2468... etc) My frames now appear switched, giving me...

Wow, congrats on reviving a dead thread. Aqua's comments may be lowbrow, but they usually come from astute understanding/observation that I think some people are missing. In this case, the point is: if OP doesn't understand how people can get girlfriends "just by going to school or...

But the end effect is the same. An outright ban would be far simpler for authors and publishers to recognize what themes to avoid. As it is, judgment on manga circulation is completely arbitrary, and reviewed by essentially Ishihara's own people (eg: not independently). Basically, the manga ban...

It's not the same person. The JAV actress is Kohaku Uta, who looks distinctly different than the real Maeda Atsuko. However, on a few of the JAV front covers, they've actually photoshopped Atsuko's real photo onto the JAV actress' face, hence why at first glance she looks so similar.

Obviously it varies per person, whether you have an appealing personality or characteristics, or otherwise. And it also depends on the girl: all girls will recognize that you're a foreigner (I'd say it's pretty tough to get far in a relationship without her knowing you're not Japanese), and to...

Only in Hokkaido, where ex-Russian sailors tend to get drunk and trash onsens and bars, thus scaring away Japanese locals and making business very difficult for shop owners. Once in a blue moon you may spot a "No non-Japanese" sign in urban parts of Japan, but 99.9% of the time it's simply a...

Actually, "serious" music is in fact quite extensive in Japan. The reason why "manufactured" music is so prevalent is because 1) it's easy to produce, market, and make money, 2) the melody lines are usually simple and memorable enough for even the most tone-deaf to follow when it comes to social...

Refer to JIC rules: http://www.akiba-online.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2599 4. Only persons working within the Japanese Jr industry. Unless you can provide some sort of proof that the videos were made within JI industry standards (eg: there is a DVD cover, DVD code, publisher name, JI names...

The preview of the .avs will not reflect the correct aspect ratio. The display aspect ratio (DAR) is just passed onto the container during muxing, and it is the software player (such as Haali in MPC-HC) that will read the DAR and correct the ratio during playback. Just make sure the DAR...

Good to know. Trimming GUI would certainly be nice, but I personally don't need it right away as my AHK scripts handle the task pretty well. (Megui's native AVS trimming GUI is frame-accurate, and passing in frame numbers from MPC usually gets it within 25 frames of the in- and out- points...

Just wondering if the Trim function in MeguIVit is frame-based; if so, aren't there potential issues with different FPS encodes? (eg: trim numbers should be doubled for 60fps encodes) For most DVD/BD encodes I imagine this won't really be an issue, since (most) publishers are good at separating...

TEPCO has reported on everything, it's just that they report in Japanese to Japanese media first and foremost, and can't be bothered to spend extra time to translate everything into English for the foreign media. The INES scale depends on a lot of factors, such as the presence of leaks, the...

The password has already been posted. You must use the correct software. Also, the girls in the video both are under age and did not consent to the making of the videos, so this content is not allowed at AO.