Bernd Laurent comments

The outcomes of the majority of referendums have been more beneficial for the people than any politician will ever be.

Japanese TV offered her exposure but did not pay. She was not happy. YouTube offers her exposure but does not pay. She is happy.

You are misinformed. Youtube pays about 1$ of ad money per 1000 views. Too much in my opinion, considering that most popular youtube channels are not any better than TV quality-wise.

People are so disconnected with nature, it's sad that they can't find access to it without guidance.

The internet is not a safe space. Get over it.

Just one word in case some Westerners might get on the high horse: Rotherham And yes, I agree that the Japanese police is not doing enough to protect women from shady agencies.

Fascist states are very good at reducing crime on the day to day level but then commit the atrocities themselves.

Facebook was never free, it comes at the cost of your privacy. A price high enough for me, I don't need to see ads. I for one will always block any ads on corporate websites.

As for the definition of harassment Just remember, if you are an old, ugly and low-status John Doe it is harassment and if you are George Clooney it's not.

And here I was told let the free market reign and everything will be fair, balanced and glorious.

I prefer to think that it's a small group of rather well organized folks who like to play on people's fears of anything that science produces that will be bad for you, just like the homeopaths who play on the fears of the unknown too.

As cleo explained, there is no benefit, only potential for risk in GMOs. Just as 'useful' as a tear-free onion.

That Chaplin lookalike from Austria destroyed Germany and Merkel is putting the last nails in the coffin.

I work from home ... I can recommend it. Beats going to work.

Well, if only we had a choice...

They probably thought the rest of the military would go along with them and the people would be out in the street tearing up pictures of Erdogan and giving roses to the soldiers of the coup.

I don't think the mid-ranking military is as naive as you seem to be. Everybody knows that Erdogan has like 80% popular approval in Turkey and that most of the military leadership supports him.

a coup is no way to advance democracy.

Hitler was democratically elected. We all know how that went down.

We all know who is calling the shots in Japan and the Western world.

Thins the world doesn't need right now.

using conventional plant-breeding techniques

good!

"Seems to" or "does"? If you are going by the number of articles you read in the news paper, that's about as scientific as religious faith.

Well, it's not scientific, that's why I wrote "seems". This is purely based on my own experience and impression. I believe in relation to other crimes, Japan has a disproportionate number of stalking and related crimes. I wish there were statistics on that which were comparable across countries, but their aren't any.

Japan seems to have a disproportionate share of women (and men) like this. It's scary. Bad parenting and lack of treatment exacerbate this.

Seriously considering Linux for the first time, despite its terrible usability.

This referendum doesn't change anything. You're still the poodle of the US and ruled by the corporations.

By googling her name, you can get numerous cheerful, hot, inviting nude images which make one hard to believe coercion.

That doesn't prove anything. Actors are paid or in this case possibly forced to act. Have you never smiled when you felt like crying?

"local youths"

fxgai, I'm sorry to inform you that wealth in capitalism is not endless and not for everybody. Assets are limited, meaning when somebody becomes richer, many other people become relatively poorer in comparison (if just in natural resources or quality of life). So that fairy tale about everybody being able to get rich through hard work is just a convenient myth put forth by... the rich.

The lowest of the low are not rich people getting richer, but the poor people defending them.

As long as Uber undermines the minimum wage, taxi insurance/safety regulations and corporate taxes it should be banned!

And this won't happen when you sell the same boring stuff everywhere.

Good point! Every luxury strip mall in the world looks basically the same, with the same brands all over. Furthermore, Luxury brands have lost their appeal. Replicas are much cheaper but similar in quality and people realize what a rip-off luxury brands are.

It seems many readers on JT are also blinded by his looks.

Why do famous men marry at all? It just makes no sense and only works in very few cases (when the wife accepts all the infidelities).

Gumo is a well-known con-artist and fraudster (just check on google). I guess he conned his way out of this charge.