Comments by Anjin-San

"Open mouth, insert carrot, close mouth? Not really seeing the additional time cost in that particular example."
What will you do if your child object to insertion of a carrot down his/her mouth?

"...while the rich German banksters are being bailed out by all EU countries."

Correction; it's the US and UK banksters who are being bailed out by German taxpayers. Note that Greek debt to Non-Euro banks has NOT yet taken ANY HAIRCUT WHATSOEVER.

If you want an example of Youtube journalism, try getting images of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami last year. There are literally thousands of 'first person' images that would leave you (at least) stunned.

FormerRepublican
I'm sure IAF or IOC would have access to fast testestrone testing techniques for anti-doping purposes. I'm not sure how much they cost though.

"Footage shot at dusk shows him and a couple of men throwing election billboards to the ground, to a soundtrack of frenetic Algerian rap. He was promptly picked up at home by police in plain clothes. He was later freed, but faces the magistrates at the end of the month."
Just a question of fact; would the same thing happen in the UK, with only differences being the background music and the police being in uniform, had a British youth defaced election billboards and posted the image on youtube?

"In places like South Korea, Greece, Russia and Saudi Arabia, antisocial punishment proved to be almost as common as collaboration."

Oh, now we see a scientific evidence which would support Grexit!

"Though I doubt gender segregation in hair and nail salons is the ultimate goal of city lawmakers."

A.C.S. may be interested to know that Tokyo's hair salons are indeed gender segregated precisely because of the divergent requirements/priorities of male and female hair salons. They are even licensed and named differently.

In the 1980s, a Japanese coach operator did organize an eastward coach journey through the entire length of the Silk Road from Germany to Japan. They bought their first coach from Germany and decided to make its transport a tour in itself.

One important historical footnote:
During the Tokugawa Shogunate, Convicts were tatooed on the shoulders to make them easily identifiable (rather like orange prison jackets in the US today, but even more foolproof). This led to a justifiable stigma attached to tatoos in Japan. This did not stop more elaborate tatoos being sported by rebellious minded citizens.

Having said that, at least two governors of Edo (Tokyo's old name during the Tokugawa Shogunate) are recorded to have sported tatoos (though not as a mark of conviction). They probably had similar streak to Mr. Hashimoto today.

One question:
Is your son going to be Danish-English bilingual or a Danish-American bilingual?
If it's former, then he might have a hard time whenever there is a debate about which bacon is better, Danish or English...

R.L.G.
I hope you and your wife have a third shared language, because sooner or later you will need a covert channel of communication that your children cannot understand.
I am still torn between making English a covert channel between myself and my wife, or to make it our children's second language...

So far, Darvish has won 5 games and lost 2. He was lucky to win one of the 5, but was unlucky to lose one of the 2 also, so Texas Rangers have been getting their money's worth so far.

In that case, ECB sanctioned Greek selective default against non-Euro creditors sounds like the best bet.

I think "Stiffing Goldman Sachs" is a perfectly valid option for saving the Euro. In short, allow Greece to default all outstanding debts to "NON-EURO" creditors, as long as they agree to uphold the "post-haircut" debt to Eurozone banks.

Yeah, but you could then be charged with second degree murder... :P

roastbeef
We have a similar radio signal in Japan as well, but one of the transmitter happened to be located within 30km of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and had to be evacuated for over half a year last year, resulting in total loss of signal in Greater Tokyo area.
Technically this could be solved by having TWO overlapping networks with slightly different frequencies to provide 2N redundancy, but that seems to be an over-the-top investment.

"The chips' top layers detect weak blue light, green light is recorded in the middle, while energetic red light travels all the way to the bottom of the stack."
Erm, blue light is more energetic than red light, as energy of a photon is INVERSELY proportional to its wavelength (or proportional to its frequency)...

If the Greeks try to default AND stay in the Euro, then the rest of EU could be really vindictive and punish Greece in a really nasty way: Allow Turkey to join the EU!
Sarko is gone, so there is no one to veto Turkish membership just this moment in time, if Greek (and Greek Cypriots) are discredited by this default fiasco.

As far as Japan is concerned, I can safely say KE8 is correct in this matter, and TracyD is wrong. Japan simply CAN'T do it, (I'm sure there are 100k+ bureaucrats and politicians who wish they could :P)

From about 1997 onwards, the EU seems to be overreaching and overextending. The current crisis may be EU's own Stalingrad: Retreat now or face total ruin.

Exit strategy/plan from the Euro back to national currencies may be in order. Single currency works only if common workers are prepared to migrate anywhere within the currency zone (as in the US of A).