Daniel Neagari comments

Video games and TV... I would loved to say "go out with friends" but that did not happend until I was in College. Highschool years were basically, do homework, study, play video games and watch tv.

Reading is a thing a start doing when I was alredy an adult...

What can I say... I only have 5 friends and all of them live 16,000 km away.

@Spitfire

Why a CEO of a company don't go visit a worker that suffer and accident inmediatly?

Why the President of a country (any country) doesn't go inmediatly to a desaster zone?

Why a person doesn't go inmediatly to visit a friend/family that has suffered some sort of loss or injury?

Son of Sam, Angel Heart, Velvet underground...

But the reason is that I only watch them half drunk or half asleep....

I suppose the U.S.??.... because over there they have a Stable Genius as former and probably future president?

Kim-possible!!... but if his warmongering and invade SK, first of all War in Asia will unfortunately occur...

Also, we can call him from that point on "Invader Kim!!"

mmmm... I have a dog and sure I would like to travel with him.....

Taking to the cabin sounds good (for me), but other people may be alergic or have some issues with dogs (or any other animal)...or plainly it could be an jackass that kicks my dog. I would prefer to avoid that kind of unnecesary trouble.

So for my dog to be in the Cargo area will be better.... instead, maybe there could be some sort of arrangement so the pet owner can access the cargo area (I suppose a specially designated area of sorts) to see his/her pet, specially for long hauls.

You forgot something there is almost nothing for the women to gain except justice and dignity.

They can get a lot of money....

Also

Everyone should believe in equal rights for women - you don't?

Equial rights means equial rights... so women and men should be subjected to the same laws, same rights and thus same scrutiny.

If you feel that I am (an may be other people commenting, I don't know i don't read minds) defending Ito, you are wrong. I do not defending nor acusing, Ito may have done what he is being acused, but may be not.... let me rephrase that..

The women may have been victimized by ito... or they may have not.

At the moment, with the information we have, noone can say one or the other.

But we can say that there is the posibility.... And yes I am inclined (does not mean that i belive 100%) to think that Ito may have not done what he is being acused of, simply because, I cannot belive that a person could be as foolish as to jeopardize his career by violating a person... and then increase the risk to present a false acusation.

One thing that is missing in the artile is that Ito has submitted a dennouce to the Osaka Police, for false accusation, and that the police is also investigating this.

Aside of the above, let's make a list

What do Ito gains making a false acusation to the police:

1) He will be charge with falase acusation crime.

2) He will have to pay compensation and may be jaialtime, and at the end will loose everything.

3) His carreer, not only as football player but as anyother thing is over.

That is a dangerous move if you ask me. Sure may be with enough resources he may "erase" the violation acusation with this... but it is highly unlikely. Specially considering that already this is having a lot of attention.

What do the women have to loose with a false acusation:

1) They will be charge with false acusation crime.

2) They will have to pay compensation and may be jaialtime, and at the end will loose everything.

3) They carreer, not only in.... whatever carreer they have, but but as anyother thing is over.

Probably they don't have enough monetary resources, but they don't need them since they are the victims...

Another thing.... in the past (and still now) there are "criminal groups" that acuse men of touching/abusing women, specially in trains in order to get compensation from those they accused..... Is undestandable consider women victims because there are many reason to support that... just saying, you have to consider that men can also be victims.

@Zaphod

I think you are obfuscated. Or at least you are willingly blind just to go along with you political allegiance.

Neither me nor others commenting here are supporting what Hamas (a terrorist gourp) is doing. But we are trying to meassure with the same stack both sides trying to be fair and centred... if you want to call that bias that is sad.

errrr... why stop funding?

That people in the organization may been implicated with terrorist OK, take those people out of the organization and reinforce or implement a strict monitoring system of UNRWA but stop the funding is not the way.

I know this many wont like the following but....

Why victimhood allows a country (not the people the country) to take hostage of an entire nation and manipulate the UN for its territorial expantion?

Why the victim is now doing something similar to what her offender did to her 80 years ago?

I am not in a gaming industry, but how difficult is it to make different versions of translations/language styles for the very same game and give the user an ability to choose from it?

Of course it depends on the scale (size) of the game but, talking only about resources it may require an additional 1/4 of the cost for developing the game to change it to one language only.

If the changes are greater, i.e., change a character hairstyle, cloathing, etc., the cost goes up, and additional language also means more money.

Regarding the memory requirements (pc, conosle) that may also mean a heavy tole if you include different languages (and content) for the user to choose from. In this case that will mean that the developer will have to put a lot of information in the game, and the user will have to donwload/install a huge file, but most of that content won't be used cause the region/language the user chose will not require it.

In short, giving the user the option to choose (there have been some games that do that), means increased costs to the developer and the user

@TaiwanIsNotChinaT

Yeah... it's a gag thing.

When I was younger I may have bought something like it (I came close to buy a "chocolate undie" once).

What I never appreciated was the lack of humor... lately everything is either sexist, racist, misogynist, pedophile, beastophile, etc.... and it is kind of maddening.

Also, it does double upsets me because all the above makes me sound like a white male mid west (US) babyboomer.. which I do not appreciate at all.

DanteKHToday  07:23 am JST

That quotation sais it all about Japan sadly...

That's an US product (or at least from a country that still uses messurements in imperial units)... so "that quotation sais it all about (what ever country it is from, probalby US) sadly...."

I'm not a gamer myself (I'm an adult), 

I don't get that "I'm an adult" thing... does being an adult imples your that eye-hand coordinations goes AWOL or that people suffering from this condition (adulting) loose their thumb movment or something???

I tell you this cause I have 46 years old and play games and I know a plethora of people of my age or older that play games on a regular basis. But since we do play, we are not adult?.... at least going by the meaning that I know of we should be.

adult adjective

1. fully grown or developed

behaving in an intelligent and responsible way.

So.... around 70% of the commnets are based only by reading the title of the article... clearly didn't even bothered to read the article itself.

Other comments kind of missing the point or simply didn't like the implications againd GTA.

So what happened to the guy who ordered the hit, the husband?

He killed himself when he knew the police was going to arrest him.

You can check the BBC's article about that

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68089279

Basically every day is a nightmare in the latter scenario. No one can realistically just pretend that the state isn't getting the gallows ready for them. Even nature gives you a heads up when your health is failing.

The wating for the excecution order is "inhuman" either way... I understand that "giving" people time to "make peace" with themselves may look as humanitarian.

...But then again just "get over with it quickly" may also be humane.

All depends on each person. Sure there may more views for one stance rather than the other but it is very subjective.

If you are in the death row (wherever country), the end is the same. I suppose, the moment the sentence is given that person should begun to "make peace". The time will come either way.

Just like natural death, just that in the death penalty, it is "controlled"

If killing by a private person is wrong, then killing by the state is wrong.

hmmm, I think the thought of State as one individual is wrong. The State as a figure is very different from a person. Specifically, as a person you cannot negotiate treaties, secure boders, create laws and manage those laws, defend the country and declare war.

There are many instanteces that if an idividual do it is wrong, but if the State do it is ok... i.e. create laws... so State sanctioned killing (note that i am using as ugly wording as possible) may not be wrong.

Capital punishment is a relic of the past and should be replaced by better education and mental health support systems. Killing someone after the crime does not help the victims, much better to prevent the crime in the first place.

Yes in an idealize utopia sure. But better education and mental health system does not guarantee a safer /peaceful society. Many horrors have been done by people with good education.

You can be mentally healthy but that does not mean you will not comite a crime.

I suppose is good to try to achieve an utopian society as you say but it will never be achieved.

What is a relic of the past? death penalty? but then imprisonment is also a relic of the past. as well as education, religion, speach. war, agriculture, immigration, lies, reading, those are also "relic of the past", but those are essential for what is our culture as humans... may be violence and killing are so too.

Surprice excecutions???

By that you mean, the order to be excecuted when you are in the death row?

So what, let's take the US for example, they order the excecution a week before the act? so that week is just OK with you? you will be suffering 7 days before the act...

I think, just be death the next day is less anciety and stress than waiting for the day to come.

Also, I have no knowledge for it but other countries with the death penalty how do they give the order? with days, weeks, years of advancement??

As a person that suffers with anciety, knowing that the day will come in my case would cause much more damage.

I am pro with the death penalty to be honest. This by no means is to say that there has been innocent people sent to death, but that is not a fault of the "death penalty" but more of the judicial system (and again, that problem is not endemic of the Japanese judiciary system but to ALL judiciary system around the World).

As for the crime fitting the punishment, I think it does but probably not in the way some people think.

Just an excersice of thought, which do you think will cause you more anciety, waiting for the order for your excecution or the excecution itself.... personally, the waiting is the important part.

TaiwanIsNotChina

ummm.... I cleary said in the comment I replied to (and in my comment) regarding Soccer (Football) so that is the sport I am refering and honestly I don't think Suzuki is going to change at the moment from a Football goal keeper to Baseball or Amercian Football....

Again, I have been taking a lot of racial attacks during my life, and honestly, those from Japan in my case have not being as problematic as others.

Most times of not being included in things come from both parties not able to talk or break the barrier that are when you first encounter people. Again... this is from my experience and from what I have seen from others like me.

As a "half" also but male... I can tell some stuff.

1) This is from the language point of viex, but your dominating language influence how you think and how you perceived things.

There are research papers related to this, but also from personal experiece. The language that you use mostly affects in almost every aspect of once life. I have experience that first hand too. there have been periods of my life where I use heavily one particualar language at the time (Spanish, English or Japanese), in each of those periods how I engaged with people or situations changed from language to language.

2) I get that "wah ha-fu no hito" time to time even now. But most of the time I don't get it as a slur.... Given I don't give much attention to that sort of comments... I am a cynic and fatalist so in my mind when i get those types of comments usually I go "Yes, you have stated teh obious BRAVO!!"... I don't say that ever, 'cause well common sence.

But again I have never got it as a slur, if people intendet to be so well it was lost in translatiion then.

3) How you are being approached by people (male japanese), that may have many reasons, but two I am sure can be appointed.

a) The type of people that you hang out with... If you go meet people to a bar or disco in Roppongi, or simil the average type of male you are going to get are those types of airheads morons.

b) How you are being introduced by your friends or acquiantances,

Should have played for the US or Ghana, I feel.

Sure becasue the US has no race problems at ALL.... not to say that football (in US soccer) is a SO popular sport there.

If you have said, "He should had played in Ghana" then yeah maybe, though considering how competitive is Ghana football there he may not got that positioin.

But then also, there shoudl be reasons for him to chosen to play in the J League and not in Ghana.

Racial slurs and racism is a problem, but i feel in Japan the magnitude of the problem is not as alarming as in other parts of the World. This I say it from personal experience.

Everyone who think that official number is refflecting reality is decieved.

I am certain that the "real" growth rate must be much much more lower than 5.2%

SpeedToday  11:17 am JST

Does anyone know WHY he got agitated and bit the stewardess?

That term is not politically correct... though.

It seem people are confused about the phrase "I don't remember/have recollection"

First, Is not an exclusive of Japanese, it has been well recorded and used in other countries too.

Second, having no memory of what one did does not absolve of a crime. Not in France, not in Colombia not in the US and not in Japan.

Third, sure in some cases "having no recollection" may lightend the punishment, but that depends on the type of crime and circumstanses (and again, is the same in other parts of the World).

I know many want to make Japan to look evil because... reason (i suppose) but these types of comments are absurd.

No, not "every" country. The First Amendment of the U.S. Bill if Rights exists for the exact purposes of PREVENTING that type of system from ever existing.

Dude, the US First Amendment it can be also be abused... just an example D.J Trump.

The fact that it is an "Amendment" and not an Article (or section) shows that the constitution by itself was flawed, and the cure (amendment) was a patch.

I am not saying that the first amendment is bad or wrong, I am saying it is a law redacted by humans and thus it can be abused or manipulated according to interpretatioin, as any other law in the world.

It is kind of hard to understand the positon of some comentators in here.

This project of law (since it has yet to be discuss in the senate), is something similar to what many countries, specially in EU has already implemented or are in way to be implemented.

Basically the law is to regulate false infomration and toxic commentators that may cause real harm to people.

That the law could be prone to be abuse? yes that is a risk, but every law of every country is the same.

I think, at least in part, that many people concept of "Freedom". I think many have the idea "Freedom = no restrains, no limits" or pehaps they just enjoy caos like Musk and his musketeers.

Britan... you always in that fine line between beint civilized and crazy.

Ahhh.... I rember some years ago, there were people saying "Japan will never be a powerhouse in soccer, because....(this and that)".

Are those guys eating their spaked shoes just yet?

Peter NeilToday  08:41 am JST

None of these are true. You don’t want to know the top searches.

Of course not, but then again those search results are easily filtered.