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Posted in: A spirited competition for low carbon energy See in context

From a UN site

Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?

Surprise!

According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, **the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport.** It is also a major source of land and water degradation.

Didn't take long to find this information but, hey, parroting Rush Limbaugh's hateful ideology beats doing research any day. Just stick to that.

Here's the link

http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html

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Posted in: A spirited competition for low carbon energy See in context

Sarge, produce some reasoning to back up your opinions, or they're worthless. A huge amount of greenhouse gas (about 20% of the total) comes from meat farming, directly and indirectly. This is the same as that produced by cars.

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Posted in: Mystery still surrounds death of Crayon Shinchan creator See in context

The best thing about Japanese cartoons is that they feature vaguely realistic family settings and thus children can relate to them. Chibi Maruko, for example, has a three generation household and many problems are ones faced by children. It's better than the crap we had on TV as kids - killer robots for boys and sparkly ponies for girls.

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Posted in: Ishihara blames Tokyo 2016 failure on behind-the-scenes deals See in context

I remember as a child I was taught to shake hands and praise my opponent, win or lose. It's called 'sportsmanship' and I haven't seen a whole lot of it recently from anyone related to the Tokyo Olympic bid.

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Posted in: Afghan policeman fires on U.S. troops, killing 2 See in context

Obama's handling of hurricane Katrina was also pretty bad. And he could have fought the civil war a bit better. On the other hand, the Louisiana Purchase was nicely done.

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Posted in: Chicago's Olympic loss is blow to Obama, too See in context

The London Olympics will be the 18th in Europe. The US has had the Olympics only 4 times. So I expected the US to get them this time.

I agree with tclh, Presidents and Prime Ministers shouldn't get involved in the Olympic lobbying process. Sport shouldn't be related to politics in the same way that religion shouldn't be. And PMs etc have much more important things to be doing (like brush-clearing).

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Posted in: Chicago's Olympic loss is blow to Obama, too See in context

So the 106 delegates have had 4 years to make up their minds/be bribed and because Obama failed to changed enough minds in his 45 minutes he's a failure? I thinketh not.

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Posted in: Ban handguns? U.S. Supreme Court taking a new look See in context

Everyone should be buying guns to support our 2nd amendment rights - why not focus on more important rights like freedom of speech, privacy rights etc that are slowly being chipped away? If the government was talking about making it illegal to stab yourself in the foot with a fork would you do it just to "defend your rights?"

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Posted in: Should public funds be used to bail out big companies like JAL? See in context

I'm seeing a lot of right-wing contradiction over these bailouts. Bush bailed out the banks and that was fine because, hey, it was Bush. Then Obama bailed out GM and suddenly America's gone Soviet? You guys seriously make it hard for anyone else to take you seriously because there's nothing the Republicans can do that you'll criticise and nothing the Democrats can do that you won't.

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Posted in: The McJob of Asia See in context

BOEs usually (always?) pay 300 000 yen a month, which is good, but the 'dispatch companies' take 50 000 - 70 000 of that, leaving the teacher on a pretty average wage. With the crapification of Japanese jobs, it is still an above average job by Japanese standards but most teachers could be making much more back in their home countries.

Just a word of advice to anyone who is married to a Japanese national: quit your job immediately and just do privates. You'll double your salary within a year, be able to choose who you teach and when you teach them. I have no sympathy for those too lazy to take this step.

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Posted in: Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism' See in context

I personally know hundreds of Canadians who moved to Cuba after watching Sicko. And the Prime Minister's wife went to Venus for a night. It's a magical, mystical world.

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Posted in: Erika Sawajiri loses comeback movie role as contract termination looms See in context

Comebacks seem to be taking place at younger and younger ages. 23? I was in university then. Anyway, never heard of this woman or anyone else in this story but the fewer Japanese celebrities the better. They're all annoying.

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Posted in: Wal-Mart best symbolizes America; Clooney favored over Obama: poll finds See in context

Half the respondents of a new poll say taxing the richest Americans by at least 50% is a great idea When you get down to it, most people are socialists. The term has been demonised so they don't identify themselves as such, but break socialism down to its base policies, ask people if they agree or not and you'll find that most people qualify as lefties.

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Posted in: Should public funds be used to bail out big companies like JAL? See in context

America should have let its banks go bankrupt? That would have been interesting.

Public funds should be used if it's in the public interest.

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Posted in: Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism' See in context

Thanks but no thanks.

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Posted in: Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism' See in context

Owning shares in an unethical company doesn't mean you support their activities. What if there was one company so evil that only one person was immoral enough to own those shares? I personally have shares in mining companies that are exploiting Aborigines and their land in Australia. I don't support those activities and would gladly attend a protest against that company (ERA).

I'm looking forward to seeing the film.

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Posted in: Police investigators find Noriko Sakai's luxury condo in filth See in context

police stood frozen at the sight before them. Worn clothing, magazines...

AAAAAARGH! Magazines on the floor! Quickly, torch the place before they animate and kill us all!

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Posted in: Okada asks Australia to help stop attacks by anti-whalers See in context

Australia owns 48% of Antarctica and the whaling is an illegal invasion of Australian territorial waters. Maybe when the illegal invasions stop we can talk about other things...

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Posted in: The age of the disposable male See in context

Hahaha, "intellectual convo".

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Posted in: JR installs anti-suicide lighting on platforms See in context

Gainjinocchio, you make no point at all. The only inference is that you think 7000 lives are unimportant. BTW if you check suicide rates on Nationmaster (awesome statistics site) you'l find that if Japan reduced its suicide rate to 23000 a year they would be far below a lot of first world countries (such as Australia).

These lights will save nothing like 7000 lives but even if it's just half a dozen a year they've worked well.

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Posted in: JR installs anti-suicide lighting on platforms See in context

I associate those lights with heroin and depression. They are sometimes used in public toilets to stop heroin addicts from being able to see their veins.

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Posted in: 'The Cove' director risks arrest to come to Tokyo See in context

I'm sure he'd love to be arrested if he gets a per centage of the gross from the film. The publicity would turn his film into an outstanding success story.

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Posted in: Birth control could help combat climate change See in context

4thestate - Do you have a point to make or just be abusive? I shouldn't have to point out the inference of my point but I will just for you. If the first world consumes many times more resources per person than the 3rd world then should we not concentrate on the first world? Do you have an opinion?

dontpanic - I stand corrected. Although methane and CO2 are both greenhouse gases, which is the point I wished to make. Cheers.

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Posted in: Birth control could help combat climate change See in context

Eating less meat is certainly the most constructive thing most people can do. I believe about 20% of CO2 comes directly or indirectly from meat farming (land clearing/animals farting/increased water usage etc etc). It's about the same as all the cars put together...

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Posted in: Birth control could help combat climate change See in context

Remind me again... who uses more resources, an American/Australian/Brit or an Indian/Phillipino/African? Because our ecological footprints are many, many, many times higher in the West we should try to improve our own environmental practices before blaming the third world.

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Posted in: Woman, child not wearing seatbelts fall out of car at intersection See in context

I don't care that she wasn't buckled up. I spent my childhood years riding in a car without belts and I'm ok. Are you a representative sample Bushlover? Also, check the definition of 'survivor bias'. Where are all the people saying 'I spent my childhood years riding in a car without belts and I'm a vegetable/dead because I didn't use a seatbelt'?

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Posted in: Woman, child not wearing seatbelts fall out of car at intersection See in context

Lucky I wasn't there to give medical aid because I would have been incapacitated with laughter.

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Posted in: Kanye West outburst rains on Swift's MTV parade See in context

This guy's a living joke. It makes the South Park Gay Fish episode even funnier though.

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Posted in: Obama accepts lawmaker's apology for floor remark See in context

I hope the GOP are going to stop being a rabble and form an opposition one of these days. They just can't get anything right. Come on guys, democracy implies at least 2 parties. Get your act together!

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Posted in: Question remains: What will rise at ground zero in New York? See in context

I think the lack of buildings is a touching evocation of the spirit of American efficiency.

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