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the most obnoxious form of promotion and only encourages the local residents to vote for the candidate NOT doing it. Tell me--how does annoying your voter base forward your political aspirations? It's a clear case of preventable noise pollution and...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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that I'm an anal person. I'm never late, obsessively tidy, impeccably organized, and borderline OCD. I'm not without vices, however. I drink rum like a pirate and am sadly addicted to nori potato chips. Getting back to the point--maybe the reason Japan...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Strong Yen Weak Dollarhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10132-strong-yen-weak-dollar
a decadent shopping spree during my visit. I even bought a pony! My learned compatriot asserted that the dollar is not weak. How can it be when a single dollar purchases 78 yen? Meeting the first person not to be convinced of and vehemently jealous of...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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a bug in iOS that will be fixed with Apple's 5.1 release. Please wait. And waiting is all we customers have been doing. How long must we wait? Who knows? It's now the middle of February 2012, and I'm well over 4 months into being the owner of a 20,000...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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open those ultra-compressed mpeg-2 family videos that have absolutely nothing to do with work. 16. Always here to teach you how to use a mouse--day in and day out. 17. Accelerating the web so that XXX collegegirl download puts YOU in the action. 18. If...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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that I can't shuffle through all of their SIM cards in their stock room hunting for my desired phone number. Fair enough. However, I can give them a general request when purchasing the SIM. For example, I can request 090 or 070 or an easy-to-remember...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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screens and personal policy of only opening the windows when absolutely necessary, they still get in. Dammit. Given how aggressively I'm targeted, my American blood must be the finest, first-class epicurean indulgence for a suckling mosquito muzzle....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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and PROFIT! Warm regards go to this helpful article: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VirtIO_Driver_Support I'm not sure how much of this is still necessary as pfSense now has built-in virtio driver support, but disabling hardware checksum offloading...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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31 - IT Jobs in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/?view=article&id=10337:31-it-jobs-in-japan&catid=52
IT industry for foreigners, specifically Tokyo IT for Western foreigners. I narrate my fascinating personal story about how I got my foot in the proverbial Tokyo IT door, followed by learnings and advice. Recommended if you too are looking into working...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Podcast
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name combined with my company's longer foreign name make this an (unwelcome) Japanese communication challenge. I wondered how Japanese people deal with this situation, and I discovered that they rely upon place names to clarify the letter they're...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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for $10 USD per day ($8 if you buy 5 day-passes). What more can I say? - The device is fairly easy to use, and the menus show how many day passes are left, time remaining, data used, etc. - Net surfing speed was acceptable for business use. I tried...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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as well as nuts. Although extensive research is lacking (as is often the case with dietary supplements), it has been shown beneficial for sufferers of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder. Personally I notice a massive difference with Inositol....
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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bread later, I'm not the biggest fan of pizza toast anymore. Life can really suck sometimes, man. Right now you're thinking, "How could anyone NOT like pizza toast?! It's soooo good!" I too was once like you, but now my eyes have been opened to the...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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this. The language has countless examples of indirect communication via subtle queues that you just have to discern and somehow figure out. Japanese culture values politeness in speech, so indirect is always considered far more polite than direct,...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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Vaping in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/directory/10410-vaping-in-japan
E-Cigs is a USA-based vaping shop that ships to Japan. Please see this article for more information: E-Cigarettes in Japan - How to Find Nicotine E-Liquid
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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epiphanies, so I'm happy I subscribed. Is it enough on its own, though? That's a great question, and I suppose it depends on how much of your own time and effort you put into it. That's the kicker with these online services, right? You reap what you...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese