$ 3 Trillion
2005.08.09 12:12

Trillion? I have no idea what the figure means..it's time to look up he dictionary.

Trillion...a million million...1,000,000,000,000. So according to the report, total asset of Japan Post is 300 trillion Japanese yen that is 3 trillion US dollars. Here is the site I refered to. <The">URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4130456.stm>

The figure is still unbelievable for me. Is this the result we accumulated over 137 years by tens of thousands of millions of trillions of hard work and deligence?

The figure was 100 times larger than I previously thought. Those fund has been used like a free water mainly to public investment. Here lies the apparatus of corruption in the case of Japan at least.

The final war of Mr Koizumi started now.

#Not AC does not mean NT

All other answers are not AC type behaviours- I agree, but neither NT type behaviours. If I understand it correctly. I answer 0/10 but obviously I am not NT. I think his assertion -if you were not an AC, you would be probably NT is -wrong.

#As far as I can see, you have no sign of personality disorder or something similar at all. As to the test, I think it is a joke or parody as the author noted, if he insisted his article was written in a serious manner, he must have been nothing but showing his disorder itself.
I've got lots of things that I was unable to know about autism. There has been strange cases related to autism, multiple characters, some are put in geol and others are in a hospital, but if it's curable we all have to deal with the matter, that makes our society better.

#That's just the turing effect. For all you know, I'm not even really human, just a computer playing with you. -Marxist Hacker 42

What this means? When I write a letter, I am not talking to paper with a pen. I am talking to a receiver of the letter which it is sent to. A letter is a means, not an ends. When I ring a phone, I am talking to a guy through the telephone, not talking to a telephone itself. When I face in front of the screen, I am not talking to computer, but a guy who's connecting to the computer away from here.
A sufferer from the Asperger's syndrome feel a kind of alienation we don't normally feel in communications through these tools?

#Advanced!

I'm typing this on my cellphone in a hotel room. -October_30th

Is your cellular connected to Slashdot? If so, what type of cell do you use?

#Portable PC

I certainly anticipate within two or three years or rather earlier we will start carrying portable PC like you have so that we don't have to buy books, CDs, newspapers, TVs any more.

#Good Experience

I feel a little bit secured after completing reading to the last of your report. It's going to be definetely a good experience, but preferably autonomy of university will have to be kept.

#Home Front

Many years ago, hurricane was rare to land in the main land and flood-control was never thought imminent. It's not too late to reinforce levees in delta of the big river, vast areas need to be done with. This is one of the real home front.

#Ecomomics is a product of times

I never expected to see two names in Slashdot. As to Friedman's article in 1970, all the ways of thinking of economics are products of particular times. His views on social responsibilities are apparently obsolete from today's viewpoints, and also we have to make allowances for his writting in mass media, so not endurable from scholastic viewpoints either.
As to Hayek, I didn't even read his 'Theory of Leisurely Class' or something though generally his idea is not clear.
I don't know the writings of both men have some sense in current world, probably if any it's scarce.

#Re:Analysis has more duration...

Last night I noticed I got your reply. But owing to a lack of sleep I was about to be out of my mind so though I wanted to reply I couldn't though it's not really a late reply if I'm writing the day after you wrote.First, correction. 'The Theory of the Leisure Class' 1899 was written by Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, I know it's not going to be a good excuse though I often mistake him for Hayek. Anyway sorry for my mistake.
When you say 'classics' I am not sure whether their works are included. At least one century is needed to call some works whether they belong to classics. But probably The Road to Serfdom might be different. This is a your recommendation, so I have a quick look at his work soon.

#Hologram

I'm 170 cm, 62 kg skinny guy, with straight dark-brown greyish hair. Nothing particular in appearance, typical Oriental boy.I am good at imaging out of description, now I can see you as if you are here.

#Celeb Trek

I like idealist. Since what is important is our process to achieve the goal, not goal itself.Our? trek continues.

# Re:Capitalist Marxists

Marxism is materialism. Capitalism is materialism. Although Marxism is not Capitalism, the very idea they both are based upon is the same idea. Marx analysed early capitalism and its derived problem and wrote his work Das Kapital. It is our task to analyse the system of capitalism and shed light on the demerit the system itself has then try to find the better answer for it. Indeed your view -combination of Marx and capitalism counts for something.

#Re:#2- Marxism is a theocracy

I'm a Marxist CAPITALIST, not a Marxist COMMUNIST.

This is your statement earlier. Then,

Marxist Capitalism is a theocracy. So is Marxist Communism.

You are Marxist Hacker. I don't know what 42 exactly means, probably assuming the figure has something to do with someone's book, anyway, I wrote in my previous comment that Marxist Capitalism counts for something since both ideas ( Capitalism & Communism ) derives from very basic materialism, it is conspicuous considering the fact that many countries before Enlightenment -I mean in the Middle Ages, had been resort to its resource of political power in theocratic absolutism.

Marxist Capitalism ought not to be based on theocracy, but sheer analysis on materialistic reality.

#Re:Funny that when it comes to responsibilities

A much larger one is the utter lack of a maximum wage law, like the one we had in the 1940s.

Maximum wage law, if it had existed in the 1940s, it would have been as good as socialistic policy. That made our willingness to work unenthusiastic. If it were abolished, it woud be appropriate. I think you were talking about from different views, like corporate exectives received big amount of revenues from the company, but it is utterly based on the princles of capitalism -those who brought about huge profit deserve to receive big reward.

most of the poor today have 2-3 minimum wage jobs to make ends meet.

True. In fact I'm doing the same. Companies don't want to hire us in full time base, so like I'm working 6 hours in one and 6 hours in another, there labour standard laws are neither existing nor being violated. It stands to reason if we were in the managemnt, their expectation toward their emloyees are high, if we couldn't come up with the profit enough to share among employees as well as corporation, our salaries would not be likely to rise.

We'd better not blame companies or politics. We are expected to act adjusting well to this system.

#Re:Funny that when it comes to responsibilities

That's why I'm working for Cascadia to secede

To have independent country has no joke. You'd better not try to do in the economic reasons.

Aside from that, unlike other countries like Russia, China, UK, US has its unique system of local autonomy, and it has been working well at least from outsider's viewpoint. All other countries have autonomous regions based upon the ethnic background. So there have been severe conflicts involving violence. EC has been struggling to integrate all the countries but so far still on the way, in this case they all are vulnerable from outsider's initiatives, especially economic ones, because their economic interests have been diversifying themselves.

From your viewpoint, US might have a lot of fault in its system, but from outsider's view, the system of US has been functioning well. And I must point out that if you make a country within a country - economically, regeionally whatever, it makes your international standpoint significantly weaker.

#Half-half

I think in many countries domestic news is half and international news is half. But in the case of USA, since the size of country is very large, they tend to feel USA is the world and the world is USA, inevitably the rate of domestic news gets much larger than the case of other countries.

#Silence Itself Talks

One of my earliest writings at age 10 showed the lowest temperature in January was around 1 or 2 degrees minus zero. It was 34 years ago, now the lowest was 5 or 6 degrees in January. Eternal icy soil in Antarctica has been decreasing, glaciers in the Arctic Ocean has been decreasing, either, the avarage sea level has been constantly rising. As you pointed out the global warming has been occurring, and it's apparent.

So why do some people totally deny it could be happening

I don't know , either. There are many people around the world who believe something differently than ordinary people do. So that doesn't bother me.

Probably there are two main causes. Deforstation weakens the homeostasis of the earth resuling in the unregulatory change of temparature in some area. The extra-consumption of fossil fuel overproduce carbone dioxicide that makes the layer over the atmosphere resulting in the greenhouse effect on the planet.

Why there are so many peole who are reluctant to admit human factors on the cause of the global warming? The answer was also apparent. Because so many factors have much to do with our daily economic activities. If people cannot get a cultivated land to plant something, if we were unable to get access to the workplace by using a car, if we were unable to use air-conditioning, and if we were told these were the causes of global warming, we would pretend not to know the cause of the phenomenon. The causes are us, so we want to deny.