The News Topic

[Kei]

This topic is for posting random interesting news stories that aren't directly related to anime or manga.

As if kaiju and giant robots weren't enough, Tokyo now has to deal with beserk pile drivers.

[Kei]

Will Japan's immigration laws become more or less strict?

[Kei]

North Korea has been using Japanese parts to build their missiles. The parts were seized aboard a North Korean missile ship that was delivering technology to Pakistan.

[Shamisen]

North Korea has been using Japanese parts to build their missiles. The parts were seized aboard a North Korean missile ship that was delivering technology to Pakistan.

Humm.. the plot thickens
So how did these mystery items wind up in N. Korea?
If they (N Korea) were exporting these, does that mean they have better stuff at home.
If so from whom and what do they have???

[Kei]

Scotland now has Jedi police. Schweet!

[Taiga]

About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.

The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists.

Killjoys. Wonder how many will put Haruhiist in the next one.

[Kei]

Although recent court verdict against The Pirate Bay is considered an ideological loss for supporters of copyright reform, it is nevertheless good news for the Swedish Pirate Party.

[Kei]

SMAP's Tsuyoshi Kusanagi is arrested for public nudity. The Japanese media has a typical knee-jerk reaction.

[Kei]

Bad news for Europeans: The EU says traveling to the United States or Mexico could be a health risk.

[Taiga]

That's news? I always just assumed that anyway.

*shot*

[Kei]

Meh, I hear England is infested with cooties.

[Taiga]

Infested with catgirls at the moment. Currently picking out dresses.

[Kei]

China Demands That Software Companies Disclose Source Code.

[Shamisen]

China Demands That Software Companies Disclose Source Code.

Legal ripoffs "Gad you have to love lawyers."

And of course the WEST hasn't given a response

*Why am I not surprised?*

New motto:
"Go back to the stone ages.. Something the Chinese Government seems to understand."

So they swipe our IP and use it and we get squat? They are assuming we are going to sit around and do nothing too.. *Bad assumption me thinks.*

[Kei]

Predictably, the Swine Flu has turned into an excuse for Republican media personalities to voice racist sentiments.

I just want to say to anyone who is blaming this new disease on Mexicans or Latinos:

SHUT UP, RACIST MORONS!!!

[Taiga]

I find the 'genetically engineered' views amusing :p

[Kei]

I find the whole thing amusing... and pathetic. There's a reason these people lost the election.

[Kei]

Despite the fact that Swine Flu is not spread by pigs, Afghanistan is quarentining it's only pig.

The most interesting bit of the above article is the history of the zoo, described near the end.

[Kei]

Will a bill, passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor John Baldacci, Maine becomes the fifth state to allow gay marriage. New Hampshire is poised to soon become the sixth. The age of bigotry is ending at last!

[Kei]

Can we outlaw guns NOW? Please?

[Kagami]

This disgusts me, shoot first ask questions later. Can you judge people by their mugshots?

[Kei]

The Republican Party continues to fall apart at the seams. At this rate, America is rapidly headed for a one-party system...

[Kagami]

multiple websites are reporting that japanese citizens are irate at google for invading their privacy through streetview, such that there will be a re-shoot, lowering the camera height by 40cm.

[Kei]

Food companies are no longer able to ensure the safety of their frozen products.

[Kei]

The US House of Representatives passes extensive credit card reform.

[Kei]

The Nation for Homophobia strikes again, this time by manipulating children. How utterly bigoted and hateful.

[Taiga]

So... do i wipe the blood off my hands NOW or LATER?

[Kei]

The Daily Show covers the MP expenses row.

Also, Stephen Colbert vs. the Keyboard Cat.

[Kei]

North Korea threatens war.

[Kagami]

on a lighter note:
7/11 are going to offer domo slurpees for the masses