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My flight had no delays, had cute girls in pretty dresses, no turbulence, free unlimited booze and Django Unchained and the SNES F-Zero on a personal monitor
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JOY
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several of the Kairosoft games combine simple city building with other stuff. Like Ninja Village or Epic Astro Story. Though none of them with a sidescrolling game like Actraiser (which was indeed great, that was an excellent birthday present back in the day).
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Sup
I'm in DC
It's been raining a lot
Don't worry, it'll be sunny and muggy as fuck tomorrow.
I bought new ones. they're the new larger squarer clubmeisters.
They a much better fit.
Enjoy DC. Tell the prez I said holler
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This is kind of bullshit apparently
When measured on a per-km basis, yes, planes have a far lower accident rate than cars and other land vehicles.
When measured on a per-trip basis, which is by far more relevant for personal risk assessment, planes have a substantially higher chance of death.
Also, the safest vehicular transportation per trip IIRC was bussing.
Just intermittent periods of heavy rain
I been visiting HS friends... One is recently engaged, the other has a ring on the way from Scotland...
That is weird
Lots of wedding talk... and they know lots of engaged people or whatnot
Which is weird to me
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
I dunno. Hm. There's something to be said for taking care of some writeup duties in chunks rather than one huge blob of writing.
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This sounds as good as you can get without first class.
add:
animal masks
poi
confusing music
people painting on things which are not meant to be painted upon
remove:
current social identities
boring habits
generic modes of "being in a club"
Right, I'm just considering what the current blob is, and it isn't really that big - eight scenes, some of which won't be difficult to convert into less IRC-ish text (though that last scene might be the exception)
In about three years you will spend p much every weekend a summer at a friends wedding.
It is known
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chu, just fuck a housewife in the back of an Accord with too many option packages added at the time of purchase already and get it out of your system.
They're playing the Fox in a month
Welp, that's concert #1 for June booked
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Loaded Accord? What am I, an asst manager at Best Buy?
Would someone without a Great Firewall please PM me the text of this please please please? You will get much gratitude in return!
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/will-abe-address-japans-number-one.html
Or even just post it here.
I am a monster
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If you want an exciting new experience, look no further - the hottest club in New York is HHHNNNNNGGGHH.
Sculpted from the calcified refuse from ten years of subsidized housing tenants, this place has everything - barbarians, axe-jugglers, men with hairy backs and no shirts, drug dealers who don't do their own stuff, a booth where you can get your labia pierced so they always look like a cheeseburger, and a human spice rack, which is that thing where you hang a bunch of midgets from a mechanized tie rack and they chew on various aromatic herbs and dribble it onto your food.
Now, Abe is talking about an issue that I think is far more important than monetary policy - and one which I had even less hope that he would address. I'm referring to the status of women in the Japanese economy.
One of the essential things that differentiates Japan's economy from ours is that in Japan, women still form an economic underclass. Japan's labor market has an infamous "two-tiered" structure, in which there are two kinds of workers: "Real workers" and "contract workers". The former have (theoretically) lifetime employment guarantees, guaranteed yearly raises, bonuses, and full benefits, with the possibility of promotion to top management. The latter have low, stagnant salaries, few benefits, few guarantees, and little if any possibility of promotion. The former are mostly men. The latter are mostly women.
Not only is this a tremendous waste of talent, it discourages women from entering the workforce. For this reason, most Japanese mothers quit work when they have kids, and working Japanese women tend to have few kids. In addition to holding down Japan's GDP, this is often cited as one cause of Japan's low fertility rate.
Many of Japan's peculiarities seem less peculiar once you know this fact. For example, Japan's unemployment rate is famously low. But Japan's labor force participation rate is even lower than ours. Women make up much of the difference (teenagers and early forced retirees make up the rest).
Anyway, it has long been known that women's exclusion from the Japanese corporate system is one of the main things holding back Japan. In addition to boosting U.S. total GDP by getting more people into the formal workforce, women's increased economic equality has thought to have boosted American productivity by quite a lot. Japan has received no such boost. Pretty much everyone knows that Japan needs to make women more equal; everyone from Aung San Suu Kyi to the U.S. Embassy to the IMF harps on the point. A thousand articles have been written on the topic, but not much has changed.
Why has not much changed? Japan's protected economy, heavily subsidized "zombie" companies, and weak corporate governance insulate it from the Beckerian free market forces that probably helped advance gender equality in the U.S. in the 80s and 90s. In the absence of such market pressures, the most proven route to gender equality is the Swedish/French route, in which the government basically just tells companies "Thou shalt hire and promote women." This method has proven successful in those highly regulated, somewhat protected European countries.
However, Japan's politics has long been dominated not by France/Sweden-type social democrats, but by arch-conservatives. These arch-conservatives made their home in the long-reigning Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled uninterrupted for 55 years and squelched most efforts at social reform. Nobusuke Kishi, the founder of the LDP and its most important leader, was Shinzo Abe's grandfather.
During Abe's first term, he appeared entirely uninterested in addressing the problems of women's equality. His foreign minister and right-hand man was the late Shoichi Nakagawa, who once said:
"Women have their proper place: they should be womanly...They have their own abilities and these should be fully exercised, for example in flower arranging, sewing, or cooking. It's not a matter of good or bad, but we need to accept reality that men and women are genetically different."
So you can see why I have been skeptical about Abe's commitment to women's equality.
However, Abe may surprise me again. According to all reports, Abe is contemplating a big push to put more women in corporate boardrooms:
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moved Friday to compel corporate Japan to promote more women to executive roles, asking business leaders to set a target of at least one female executive per company...
“Women are Japan’s most underused resource,” [Abe] said...
More details are expected in June, when the government is to unveil a “national growth strategy” of deregulation measures and other structural changes designed to make the economy more dynamic.
Just by saying this, Abe has surprised me, actually. But given his party's strongly sexist traditions, it is far too soon to declare a revolution. As he did with monetary policy, Abe must convince me with dramatic, unprecedented, massive action...and more importantly, he must convince Japan itself.
But if he does...then Abe will have outdone even his predecessor and patron, Junichiro Koizumi...and maybe even his own grandfather as well.
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I dunno chu
are you
now fly to california for Priceless and let's float in the river and talk to snooty girls who are on drugs
...whoa
No way to know really, Dont think there were much in the way of sales numbers then and nintendo doesnt release Virtual Console numbers.
The Price is Right.
Unless your chu and poor.
It was quite a popular title at the time.
Thank you, chu
Thank you
when the indigo children come
I'm tired
If you loved me, we would cuddle
*accusing glare*