Peter Neil comments

Tim SullivanToday  09:28 am JST

First class is still good though.

True. Once you fly first class, you'd rather poke knitting needles in your eyes than fly economy ever again. ;)

Deregulation killed the experience. Flying used to an event, an experience where people dressed nicely, now it’s all fat, sweaty people in flip flops and tank tops.

People used to be polite to each other, now they’re jerks.

People used to carry a small carry on, and checking a bag was free and easy and quick, now they carry as many bags as they can get away with and have to stand in an hour long line to pay for checking a bag.

Flight attendants were helpful and smiling, now they’re surly and condescending.

Here’s some snacks and a drink with a smile, now pay up and maybe I’ll give you some peanuts.

Passengers had some leg room, now your face is smashed against the seat in front of you.

Here are some earphones, now you have to pay for them.

Smaller airports had flights, every flight has to go through Atlanta where you have to go through the whole ordeal again.

Once again, it’s always customer money that pays these settlements and fines.

There is no disincentive for employees and executives. It makes perfect sense to be a crook because it’s never their money. Billions of dollars of other peoples money.

Oppenheimer was a little too dark and could have been an hour shorter. Because director Nolan refuses, for some strange reason, to correct the dialogue sound and only uses the sound recorded at the time of filming, I found myself reaching for a remote in the theater to back it up so I try to hear a lot of the dialogue.

When I saw it, people were walking out about the halfway mark. Even the BBC film critic walked out of the movie. Audio is just as important as the visual in movies, but this was the worst sound I’ve heard for a movie. And what seemed like the same 8-bars of music played throughout the movie is tedious.

The timeline moving back and forth is also a distraction. Yes, some nude scenes with a woman who looks like a checkout lady from the supermarket were probably an afterthought by some studio suit to “punch it up.”

Robert Downey Jr. is the best actor in the movie, by far. I give it one star out of five. But I had cotton in my ears because the sound was unbearably loud. Plus the 20 minutes of previews for movies you couldn’t pay me to watch didn’t help my mood.

Movies are awful now, in general. Hollywood is an ocean of mediocrity now.

The movie Oppenheimer is more about him than the first atomic bomb. Thus, the title. It's the backdrop, not the premise.

She had ultimate responsibility for the safety and security of the weapons on the set. Allowing people to use it for firing live ammo is beyond irresponsible. She said the gun was safe, handed it to the AD, who said it was safe, who handed it to Baldwin.

He was told by the cinematographer to fire it directly at her. It was not an accident, it was criminal negligence by the armorer.

Workforce participation, meaning the percent of the working age population either working or actively looking for work has increased from 60% to 62%

So 38% are unemployed, plus the portion of that 62% actively looking for work.

Oh my.

If a person works one hour per week, they are considered employed.

If you have exhausted 26 weeks of unemployment benefits, that's it. You can't get it again.

Millions are no longer seeking employment (discouraged workers) because of age discrimination.

Jobs available is a false number. Many job postings are never intended to be filled by the employer because of requirements to post the job when the position is being filled by an internal transfer or promotion. And to fill a database if they ever do want to hire.

The effective rate (it's called U6) is about double the U3 used by the news.

You can't negotiate or use reason with irrational people.

Select imported Chinese products that compete against Japanese companies and seize them for safety reasons.

Unemployment numbers are useless. They are a facade and relic from the Depression. Once people run out of unemployment benefits, they are dropped from the rolls. Anyone unemployed more than six months is not counted. After you are counted as unemployed, you cannot be counted again if you become unemployed again. There are plenty of people unemployed who are not collecting any unemployment benefits, which the "data" is solely based upon.

A nonsense metric.

It's still a scientific advancement, nowhere near an engineering one. The lasers were the most powerful on the planet. More powerful lasers will still be for the science. It's not a method for commercialization,

magnetic containment is. Still back to tokamak, which my uncle was associated with in the 1960's and he and I talked about lasers back then.

Sure it's an advancement, but the countdown clock hasn't moved. It's still forty years out like it was 60 years ago.

StrangerlandToday  04:34 am JST

Some folks need to read the last sentence of the article again.

“Someone else needs to read the comments where it has been well addressed.”

Sustainable fusion has been forty years away for the last 60 years. The total energy of the system was 302.05 megajoules in for 3.15 megajoules out.

I’ll leave the math to you, if you’re up for it,

Good idea by the museum and good idea for its supporters.

Some folks need to read the last sentence of the article again.

Yes, it’s true the that plutonium, cesium, strontium, etc. would be a huge problem IF IT WERE PRESENT in the water to be released, but it’s not.

It will be present, but only in trace concentrations far below all international stands, then diluted again another 1,000 times before release.

They did talk to Japan. People flew to Japan during the pandemic to address it. They knew the Chinese were still within the Japanese systems. They offered technical assistance. Japan didn’t really want assistance. They wanted to do the Japanese way.

This has been going on for years and still not resolved. I don’t believe for a minute US is exchanging critical intelligence with Japan anymore.

In a better world, applicants would have a number or identifier at the time of submission. No name, sex, race, address, no high school name, only grades and classes, test scores and other information, such as honors, etc.

Claim your admission if your number is selected.

Japan didn’t wake up one morning and say, “Hey, let’s bomb Pearl Harbor.”

When Japan came out of isolation, emissaries were sent around the world to study and understand how to thrive in the world. They opted for a system like England, an island nation with a parliamentary system, a monarchy and a massive empire with the most powerful navy at the time. Japan was an ally during WWI, then treated as a third class entity. Its navy was limited similar to the WWI losers.

Japan introduced a proclamation to the League of Nations against racial discrimination and the vote was overwhelming to pass it, except for the US, England, France and a few other European nations. Woodrow Wilson, who had no authority in the League of Nations, “vetoed” it.

Japan looked around and saw they were surrounded by European and US colonies. The French, Dutch, England, Spain, US and Portugal had colonized most of Asia, plus Russia and Japan had already fought a naval war. World power came in the package of colonizing others. The writing was on the wall. Japan felt they could either do the same or be colonized.

When the US cut off oil to Japan, that was the last straw. The US had colonized Hawaii, Midway, The Philippines and together with England were running China as a de facto colony. I think the question was and is today, would the US, England or any European nation fight or be colonized?

Right or wrong, that was and is a non-US, European perspective.

TaiwanIsNotChinaAug. 6  02:03 pm JST

Peter NeilToday 01:56 pm JST

They also knew Japan would capitulate when Russia entered the war, and is exactly what happened. Truman was not about to risk the political fallout from not using something that cost so much money to produce.

“Or of allowing Stalin to grab more territory I'm sure”

I agree.

Elvis is hereToday  01:21 pm JST

…only our American leaders at the time can tell is if it was really necessary

Five out the six 5-star US officers at the time said it was unnecessary, because Japan was already beaten and they were against targeting civilians. None of them believed an invasion would be necessary. Japan didn’t have the navy, aircraft, fuel or ammunition. They wanted to just wait offshore.

They knew Japan had sued for peace through Russia. Truman wanted the word unconditional, say “uncle.” The exact terms offered were the final terms of surrender. The question was maintaining the emperor. They knew the emperor would be needed for an occupation to be successful.

They also knew Japan would capitulate when Russia entered the war, and is exactly what happened. Truman was not about to risk the political fallout from not using something that cost so much money to produce.

Ironically, he vetoed the use of using any more being produced after seeing the reports of the results. There were people in congress calling for accepting no surrender and to use every device made until not a single Japanese person remained alive.

Truman said he didn’t have the stomach to kill women and children that way.

TaiwanIsNotChinaAug. 5  07:22 am JST

But they are not causing carbon emissions assuming the grid is clean enough, which is what is most important.

Except for those pesky emissions from 500,000 lbs of mining for one battery, shipping it to China, manufacturing it using coal and oil, shipping it again for assembly in plants using coal, gas and oil, shipping the finished car on trucks using diesel, etc.

SpideyToday  07:59 am JST

born and raised in Japan

Being born in any country should be an automatic right to citizenship. Period!

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BigPToday  08:00 am JST

Give them a break! They are Japanese. Can’t the authorities see that?

kiwi07Today  09:49 am JST

We're talking about residency here, not citizenship. 33 countries allow unrestricted birthright citizenship, which is when a child is born in a country and neither parent are citizens of that country. However, apart from the USA and Canada, most of those 33 countries are places like Chad, El Salvador, Guatemala, and other countries that people are not not flocking too to have children's there unless they're in an even worse country such as Venezuela. 

Most countries, such as New Zealand, Australia, UK, most European countries, etc, have restricted birthright citizenship, which means that at least one parent must be a citizen of that country for the child to become a citizen of that country.

So, I said early on that jus soli is rare, about 30 countries, and jus sanguinis is more common. Why was it deleted?

I’m going to see Oppenheimer tomorrow on iMax. There were only 12 other people with seats when I just made the reservation just now. My butt will probably reach critical mass after sitting for three hours.

Intermissions not allowed anymore? What’s with that?

...meaning it would then just be a few months before Iran develops a nuclear bomb.

Iran has been months away for 30 years now. Netanyahu made a career out this line.

We certainly don't need Iran to have the capability of it, though.

US, Russia, China, France, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel, and maybe N. Korea. Most of their tests have yielded less than optimum design. The ability to deliver a long-range weapon, considering the complexities of re-entry, plus reliability of design are speculative. That's why they seem to have opted for tactical devices.

The photo is a cheap journalistic trick, considering that the content of article.

I suppose TEPCO could also sue people who make libelous and defamatory comments, right?

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  12:20 am JST

If you don't think there are 9-11 memes all over the internet, you don't browse much.

Oh, I have. Have you seen the one with Barbie overlaying the twin towers, and the uproar about it?

There seem to be more people coming here from ihateeverythingaboutjapan.com

"Barbie" producer Warner Bros initially latched on to fan-produced memes that depicted Robbie's Barbie with actor Cillian Murphy's Oppenheimer alongside images of nuclear blasts.

Imagine the reaction in the US of fan-produced memes of a joint release of Hello Kitty and 9/11 movies. Images of Hello Kitty dancing alongside the twin towers collapsing, in early September.

The uproar would be enough to spark congressional hearings.

In the US, Toyota workers make more on average than GM workers.

The hits keep coming. Next up, indictment in Georgia.

It's like a Hallmark movie.

Saying women in Japan wear them implies they all wear them. Less than 60% wear them, according to those surveys. Saying some women wear them is probably a better way to express it. I’m curious, what kind of scientist are you, Strangerland?

I think the humor of the comment was a little too subtle for you.