Skin Deep

Re:I hate immigration(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.01 1:15 (#14817194) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.25 4:13)
I must point out that you are still too much particular about defining their side of invasion to your mother land that took place roughly 500 years ago. Their-European side to your-Native Kuwakiutal. But the fact is you yourself have two mixed breed -from German origin and Kuwakiutal, so I have no idea why you are so particular about your ancestoral background, it must be nothing but a struggle between your different origins.
In our case I used to mention that main invasion/immigration took place roughly 2000 years ago, last resistance by natives lasted till around 700 A.D. Ainu people had resided till 1870s in Hokkaido, but almost all people dispersed because of the assimilation policy done by Meiji government.
Now nobody talks about our racial identity -almost all are so Asiatic, but some are so Caucasian. But nobody dare say he's European rather than Asian. Although we might point out that he's got Greek nose or pale skin, we don't say he's European. We define ourselves as Japanese since we are born and raised up hear. The same thing in the United States. No matter what the ethnical background they might have, they have to be defined as American.
Apart from that, you are very American in every sense of the word. Distinction in appearance is only skin deep.
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Changing Landscape

Re:I hate immigration(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.01 0:20 (#14816664) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.25 4:13)
I don't want to move to any other country. Here's a good place to live. However there are some cases even though we are not immigrating anywhere, we feel as if we are immigrants..
Our land has been occupied by many immigrants already from all over the world.
Though statistically obscure, many Chinese are already deep inside our daily life. We can't tell the difference in their appearance at all.
And more and more Americans/English are coming. They have job -teaching English, and they don't have to worry about mating. Japanese girls are fanatic about marrying them.
I don't have to immigrate. Since many immigrants are coming. It's mere whether I move or they move.
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Enjoy Slow Life

Enjoy Slow Life(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.28 5:00 (#14811115) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.25 4:13)
Back in my early thirties, I went on a trip throughout not only Japan but America, Europe as well by taking a local train that stops station by station. And I greatly enjoyed its slowness indeed.
Slow amd steady makes our trip perfect, it is a privilage for the young. Although I'm not still sure whether you are young enough to spend luxuary hours in a trip though. Please enjoy your flight slowly, since few can be allowed to have this type of trip.
Haha, I have already quit visiting Technocrat.net since they changed their template. Are you visiting the site? Did they change their colourful template? If you knew, just let me know.
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Apparent Priority

Apparent Priority(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.28 4:34 (#14810893) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.25 4:13)
Herbal medicines are only good for the state before you caught disease. If you were caught in a disease, I strongly recommend you to consult a doctor and resort to Western medicine.
But it is true that originally many Western medicines are derived from the emperical knowledge obtained from the close observation having been done in nature. Basically their origin is the same, but western people analysed the ingredients and research & developed, extracted the effective ingredients and concentrated as a form of pill. You are taking what it used to be found in nature.
After you recovered from the ailment, why not look into whereabouts the origin of Western medicine?
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Freedom Of Movement

Freedom Of Movement(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.28 4:11 (#14810684) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.25 4:13)
Freedom of movement from one region to another or from one country to another is one of the main fundamental human rights. Your kincaidian stance toward immigration fits my stance well.
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Lesson Of Joseph

Excuse Me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.28 3:39 (#14810376) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.25 4:13)
Could you tell me what The lesson of Joseph from the Bible refers to?
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First Post In The World Forum

Comment posted! Thank you for contributing.

[new] Nice To Meet You (none / 0) (#3) by mercedo (Japan) on Sun Feb 26, 2006 at 04:12:18 AM PST
Nice to meet you. I'm from Japan, probably we have scarce posters from Japan, language barrier is still existing and beyond all our imagination. For my part, I am not that hard to understand English here. I am excited to view many opinions around the world, and I start posting comments here.
See you somewhere.

Sugar Loaf II

Re:Uhh(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.25 10:52 (#14800245) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.24 14:13)
There must be several 'Sugar Loaf's near your area.
The guy shot at the centre seems to be Asian origin, but he's more Indian or Vietnamese. Guessing from the name of URL (we can read 'redbrick') it might be a school excursion. Of course I'm not in the pictures.
These 103 pictures perfectly illustrates what I saw in those days in Wicklow county, near Dun Laoghaire, Irish Republic. I was there for two months from June to July in 1991. I tell you the real reason I chose to show these pictures. You see a woman wearing a red jacket who were waving her right hand looking and smiling at us. She 'ridiculously' takes after a woman who I climbed with those days. I encountered a woman on the street of Dun Laoghaire the very day I landed from Hollyhead, Wales by ferry called Straener.
It is true that the Internet enables us to experience what seems impossible. I was able to experience once more the day's excursion fourteen years later.
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'Sugar Loaf'

'Sugar Loaf'(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.24 12:41 (#14794509) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.21 13:58)
In 1991, June and July, for two months I stayed in Ireland. For one month I stayed in Dun Laoghaire (pronounce Dun Lairy) I was struck with a very bad cold there so I had to stay there. The memory in Ireland is not very good. I climbed the mountain called 'Sugar Loaf' located near Dun Laoghaire with a woman who I happened to encounter at the harbour of Dun Laoghaire the very day I landed from Hollyhead in Wales by ship called Straener I recall.
I recommend you to visit Sugar Loaf, which is not a high mountain, or rather just a hill of 300 or 400 metres. It would be defenitely a very good excursion to go with your beloved.
Apart from that I visited every nuke and cranny deep inside Ireland, but not Rathlin Island. For example, Currick-on-Barrow, which is a destination I took a bus at random. I never forget the scene of Saltee Islands from the hill of the village.
Limerick was very secular city. Driver's license in any country is valid. Belfast was still very dangerous those days, I think situations are greatly changed. I used mostly B&B for accomodation, I recommend staying the ones 'recommended by sightseeing ministry', otherwise it might not be comfortable. Hitchhiking is lawful, but I had no courage to do so. And one thing to add. Wherever I were, the wind was very strong. I visited Drogheda, Kinsale, where Irish were defeated by English completely. Thinking back the bygone days, I was just overwhelmed.
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Secret Revealed

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Secret Revealed mercedo 2006-02-23 05:47 pm UTC (link)
I saw you, thank you for these nice pictures. (By the way, LPetr is cool.) These days more and more people start disclosing their identity by showing their pictures, it's just natural for us to start being eager to show how we are like. I hope I can too.
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Bethanie's Blog

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Beautiful landscape.
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Nice picture. I'm glad to be able to see some photos (Slashdot has no such a section), your photos surely helps our understanding your journal.
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No Title(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.23 11:25 (#14785354) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.21 13:58)
Short, and strong message to us all.
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Welcome Back

RE: STOP SPAMMING MY BLOG ASSHOLES By mercedo at 8:08 AM, February 23rd, 2006 (Thursday), Comment #557
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In Korea?

In Korea?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.23 11:00 (#14785089) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.21 13:58)
Is your son serving in Korea? If I remember correctly.
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The Worth Of Journals

The Worth Of Journals(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.19 4:04 (#14750648) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.19 3:17)
Shouldn't we say that the worth of our journals is equall to the sum of scores and replies? The score of our comments are affected by moderations, oftentimes they were decided in arbitrary basis, on the other hands the score of our journals are decided automatically by computer without bias and favour, personal preferences, etc.
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Read Between The Lines

Re:in this country(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.18 3:29 (#14743905) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.17 4:21)
Many years ago tabacco was only sold in tabacconist's shop, usually they were located at the corner of the cross and with narrow window only adults could buy the portion. Because of the current trend of deregulation or just a consistent development of commercialism, now many people can get access to tabaccos. But announcement only encourages the young to know tabacco is sold in a premises. This is not an encouragement of keeping away from smoking, but a different and another intricate way to show tabbaco is sold in a shop.
Besides, first off anyone can get access to tabacco through automatic vending machine outside the shop. I think simply to show or display the warning about the harm of tabacco or some form of age restriction is fairly acceptable, but they ought not to announce such an explicit principle repeatedly ( roughly once in twenty minutes ), such an anouncement only arouses the excessive interset among minors. This is another form of advertisement.
These types of subliminal advertisement was once used a lot of times in a telly commercial. We used to have lots of tabacco commercial message, and at the end of the commercial message, they always added the phrase ' Be careful of excessive smoking'. This expression was rather ambiguous. If they said ' Be careful not to smoke too much' it was acceptable, but they just said ' Be careful to smoke too much' here the function of 'too' was rather ambiguous.
You see these types of message that hides real intention can be seen in many areas. Be careful to see all these messages. Or Not to see..
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Interpretation Of Her Name

Interpretation Of Her Name(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.17 4:12 (#14735447) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.17 4:21)
Her penname - surname Kisaragi means 'February' in old Japanese and givenname Koharu means 'the small spring'. Her existence was like a day of small spring in February.
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A Guide To Nietzsche

Re:Nietzsche(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.16 5:32 (#14726853) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.15 4:43)
Apollo and Dionysian archetype was first raised in 'The Birth Of Tragedy'
The notion of Overman was first raised in 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
Master and Slave morality, probably in 'The Genealogy Of Morals'
Other important works are 'Beyond Good And Evil', 'In Wagner's Case', 'Anti-Christ', 'Ecce Homo'. Vast Left draft was edited as 'The Will To Power', which is also worth reading. 'Dawn' is less worthy.
For reference purposes, 'Untimely Thought' and 'Human, All Too Human'.
If you found difficulty in understanding his writings, I hope you try talking to yourself, probably you would find an answer within yourself. Enjoy reading.
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A Dialogue With Myself

Re:Useful Perspective(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.16 1:47 (#14725157) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.15 4:43)
I read Descartes, Spinoza, F.Bacon, J.J.Rousseau, because I found them beneficial to read. I didn't read Pascal, Marcus Aurelius, Leibniz, La Rochefoucauld.
I read Derrida but didn't read Wittgenstein. These are just a result of my personal preference. Again what is important is not which books we read but what we were able to get from our previous reading. It doesn't matter whatever the books we read.
In my early tweneties, of course I was able to get many things from my friends, besides from my reading. At that time we had no chances to talk to through the Internet. Now we've got more media than twenty years ago. Reading a book is just a part of it, still less reading the works of one particular thinker is.
Apart from that, reading Nietzsche was a dialogue with myself. Nietzsche just showed the multiplex of thought, I learned many different views from the reflections out of this multiplex.
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The Works Of Mishima

Re:Mishima Yukio is unknown to me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.15 3:14 (#14717460) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.14 6:10)

In 1970, I was still at age 9. I didn't know anything about him till we had a shocking news with military uniform, with headband he was making a speach at the headquarter of Self Defence Force in Tokyo. Later at age 14, I started reading his novel, 'The Sound Of Tidal Wave' simply because it was dramatised in a movie and became very popular among Japanese young including us like middle school students. It was a love story between the young.

I was impressed in not the story of his novel, the story was rather boring but the way he described, immediately after I read this novel I understood he is not a novelist but a poet, and a distinguished poet. I started reading his novels one after another, 'The Spring Too Long', 'A Forest Full Of Flowers', 'A Boy Who Writes A Poem', ' Fellow', 'Tabacco', 'Excerpts From Philosophical Diary By Murderers', 'A Million Yen Baked Rice Candy', 'Worrying About A Country', 'Pyrotechnic or Chrysanthemum ( I'm not sure the title but it was about 100 victims of Chinese under Japanese occupation )', 'The Golden Pavillion', 'Confession Of the Mask',' The Beast's Play', 'Thirst For Love', 'The Cateract Sunk'. I read 7 middle sized novels and 20 short stories from age 14 to 15, just for two years. I didn't read all of his novels, though, I recommend 'Excerpts From Philosophical Diary By Murderers' and ' Confession Of the Mask'.

The Confession Of the Mask is widely regarded as his best novel, but it's not a novel as such. It is a chronicle of his private life since his birth. Here's the list of his books [amazon.com] in amazon.com. His last 5 novels were a series of five books which are 'Spring Snow', 'The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea', 'The Decay Of The Angel', 'Runnaway Horses', 'The Temple Of Dawn', all were written based on the thought of samsara and all are boring, we don't have to read.

I was enchanted with reading his novels for two years to the extreme, although I only read half of his all novels, I think it was enough.

My most recommended reading on his writing is 'Excerpts From Philosophical Diary By Murderers', this is written at age 18. This volume is 10 pages or something but very excellent work, you would probably find it in a collection of short stories.

Do you know of any especially good translators?

For example, I wrote my prose 'The Eve' at age 17 in Japanese first, then many years later I myself translated it into English, so my writing is able to be regarded as being written both in Japanese and English. I think unless he himself translated his works into English, true translation is hard. If you could enjoy his works, I am really glad.

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Vulnerability Of Japanese Writers

Re:Beheading(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.14 4:46 (#14709690)
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Basically from the tradition based on Christianity, killing himself has been strongly denied in Western culture, which itself is a very good thing. Japanese people tend to think light of their value of life, because they think too highly of the culture of shame, I think.

I am sad to see just too many Japanese famous writers killed themselves for various reasons. Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio, Kawabata Yasunari, Ariyoshi Sawako, in the case of Western writers, only Sappho( I am not sure), Hemmingway, (probably) Camus, anyway very few writers committed this most heinous crime.

At age 45, Mishima Yukio cut his belly by Japanese sword at the headquater of Self Defence Force. He was an extremely talented writer, not only him but in other examples, Japan's elitests are vulnerable to reality. I am glad I was not an elite.

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As Easy As Pie

"I said that I would do it and indeed I did."
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well done!congratulations.
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Back in many many years ago I received a teaching certificate for social studies in commencemet ceremony. Yeah it took four full years with hard work. No, no it was as easy as 3.1415... When I saw your image, I recall the image of the active galaxy NGC 1097 . Just take a look.
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A Moment Of Intoxication

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They're pretty flowers. Julia will like those.
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Oh, I am completely charmed by a magic of mathematics, it's a moment of intoxication.

Olympics For Every Year

Re:they were(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.13 0:39 (#14699936) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.12 4:47)
every four years, together, until the mid-1990's when the split was made.
Oh really? I didn't know that. It might be hard for two different cities to hold summer and winter Olympics in one year respectively since we've got many attendants around the globe. One Olympic year must be too busy for many countries to prepare for them. Economically speaking, many cities want to hold Olympics regardless of whether they are cities in developing countries or advanced countries, because it will bring lots of advantage to the cities.
I hope it won't be held every year like winter Olympics, spring, summer, and autumn Olympics.
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Death Has No Meaning

Re:Beheading(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.13 0:21 (#14699857) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.12 4:47)
Exactly. Seppuku is described as 'self-determination' in Japanese terminology, which itself is very strange, and has long been believed to be related to the purification of soul, but actually it is nothing but a denial of self-existence. Many warrior class people used to do it when they were ashamed of some misconduct or wrongdoing against their master. It was till recently that this act was thought to be the ultimate way to take responsibility for their wrongdoing.
On the other hands, kamikaze has different meaning, which is thought to be an ultimate form of self-sacrifice, to serve their lives to save the lives of their tribes. Only after Western view on value of life was adopted, we can hardly see such heinous acts anymore fortunately.
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Lack Of Love

Re:Just an observation...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.12 3:12 (#14695064) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.09 7:19)
To tell the truth, I am heartbroken.
One month ago, around last Christmas, she -my African girl-friend sent me a email saying good-bye. These farewell letter was not just two or three times, indeed she had sent me many times. Every times she sent me, I just repeatedly asked her to keep our relationship, and she replied OK. During two years accompaniment, we both had learned how hard for us to keep our relationship -where we live- we live in distance, distance in location, race, age, hobby, etc.
So I admit our love just ended, and what I am suffered from is not our experience, but a lack of object of love in my life. Luckily enough, I found a new girl-friend just one week after I received her email. I succeeded to be able to forget her by finding another new girl-friend immediately though.
A lack of object of love in my life is one of my big themes.
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The Secret Of Creation

Re:Yes(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.11 1:47 (#14688211) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.09 7:19)
If I were told what my profession is, immediately I would reply that I am a writer, then if I were asked when I compose, I would answer almost all portions are formed while I am working, but there're some cases I can compose while I'm in a sleep.
Normally I don't think while I'm writing, but I usually transcript what I conceived in my mind.
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Infinity

Re:Where Are The Glasses?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.11 1:16 (#14687911) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.09 7:19)
Yeah, yeah, whatever, this is a good oppotunity to improve my language skill. Thank you for corporation, it's infinite definitely.
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No River Without A Bridge

Re:Another Thought...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.11 0:48 (#14687626) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.09 7:19)
Back in my twenties, we'd had a foreign student from the Philipines, nomally we didn't have any students from the Philipines, basically because of the economic gap, few people could come and stay, but his father was a famous doctor back in his country, so he was able to come. He and I were not on good terms with one another, so I generalised like Filipino is like him.
At age 31, I got married to my first love - she's a Filipina, and we went to the Philipines and stayed there for a while, naturally I'd got a number of Filipino friends, my fixed idea about Filipino was totally changed.
Again back in my twenties, while I was travelling across the USA, near Washington D.C. I saw an Asian guy in a greyhound bus. From the way he behaved, from the ambience he gave off, I thouhgt he must be a Japanese, so I asked him whether he is Japanese. The moment he said he's Korean, I thought I was not supposed to talk to him, since I had a fixed idea about Korean at that time. But we talked a lot and he let me stay in his appartment for 6 days, after I encountered him my idea was totally changed.
I must say a river without a bridge only exists in our mind.
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Where Are The Glasses?

Where Are The Glasses?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.09 6:52 (#14673058) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.09 6:22)
You see this is a hypothetical question, so I posted here to practice writing.
Although I don't wear glasses, for those who always wear glasses, where are the glasses must be the biggest question if the one left them somewhere. Sometimes they have to wear contact lenses if they have just to look for their glasses, but when they found them, probably they noticed that they don't have to wear glasses any more.
Does practice make perfect?
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Mouth-To-Mouth

Re:/. == Dead End?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.08 2:26 (#14660793) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.07 9:45)
Real teachings are transmitted not through manuscripts but mouth-to-mouth.
Look at the examples as Buddha, Socrates, Confucious.
At the age of paper culture, it might have been a matter of luck for any manuscripts to be published and known to the world. We cannot confirm whether we've got what we couldn't get, but we can easily assume many precious, epoch-making inventions, literary works, art were lost before they were known to public. We used to live in the world a drop of bomb not only killed many people but also their works.
How about now? My writings are read immediately after I published the one, now we have countless readers around the world. Our correspondence is not only read by slashdotters but also countless unknown readers. We can say we succeeded our millennia old dream -how to prevail our knowledge, in the age of the Internet. We are all winners, not a loser, we now live in history.
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Theory Had Proved Existence

Theory Had Proved Existence(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.08 1:51 (#14660475) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.07 9:45)
Many years ago -probably around 30 years, I had heard that we might have got the 10th planet within a solar system in calculation. Calcualtion made by influence of gravity, course of orbit, etc. At that time it was thought to be only imaginative. A story in a fancy world. And I never imagined thirty years later today, we could find 10th planet, if the report was certified as true.
Just amazing.
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No, But I Want To

No, I Haven't(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.07 21:50 (#14658984) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.07 9:45)
I sometimes recall Mike Hawk, do you know him personally?
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A Man Is Dead And He Leaves Words

Re:/. == Dead End?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.07 8:28 (#14655418) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.06 2:41)
Sorry for the late reply, I noticed your comment last night, after I had drunk Bourbon.
As is usual we live, play, love, but it will not last forever. We are not immortal. There's a start for everything, and an end as well. I'm now 44, a season of fruition of my life, we hope our life lasts forever, but it is a dream we all cannot accomplish.
Now then Slashdot, since this journal system started just few years ago, almost all people who have been keeping their journals here are alive, but how about 50 years later, what about 100, undoubtedly almost all people who kept journals here died away.
A tiger is dead, he leaves skin. A man is dead, he leaves words. We are not immortal, but our words left here will keep on shinning over the heads of our offsprings.
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Rayban

Re:Ouchies... bad design!!(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.06 22:32 (#14650074) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.06 2:41)
I tried to get accustomed to, but just found it unable to. It hurts me definitely, so I quit visitin the site any more.
Or probably to wear Rayban is a good idea. But I can't do it in someone's presence, people will ask what I am doing. I will probably reply that because the colour hurts me. People will reply whether I have another alternatives like reading a book. I would reply 'no, no I like zogger and zogger's articles, I have nothing for it but to wear the sun glasse to read his articles'. People will say go ahead, and I will do.
Seriously I intend to buy a Rayban to read his articles.
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As To Mr Fujita

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mercedo
Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:06:54 PST
Slightly on topic, but I must add that Mr Fujita is from same high school with me. When I was in high school, once we had had lecture from him. I think I can recall waht he had repeatedly said -when you found an object of interest, just keep on pursuing it. He had said he did it. He repeated that he did it several times in a lecture. That would probably make him known to the world.

Style-Sheet Change

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mercedo
Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:20:41 PST
Thanks a lot. I don't know what they are talking about by using the terms like Safari, ajax, let alone what browser is. So really I have no idea.
At least three people have contributed style-sheet hacks, and I'll look at them and make them available
That's what editor said, I will wait and see. But if you know how to change, will you let me know. I've got I, B edit keys, seems mine is not Safari.

What Is Browser?

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mercedo
Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:05:42 PST
With the fancy editor disabled, I have no problem so far as to composing. I could see I, B in the edit field, but I had no idea how to operate them.
What 'browser' am I using? First of all, I have no idea what 'browser' means in computer. I am not well versed in computer. But if I can change the colour of style sheet etc by manipulating something, will you please tell me the way?
Anyway I will wait and see. If I can choose a template from two or three options, that'll be fine.
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Water In Desert II

Re:Then again...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.05 0:38 (#14641698) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 17:25)
I like concise expression like this, but I add the explanation.
In the desert where water is scarce, people are generally eager to get water, so naturally they tend to spend much money just for water. Water will be sold much more expensive in the desert than other areas. So all we have to do in a society is to try to sell water in the desert as much as we can so that we can make a lot of money. This is what we have to learn from the society.
On the other hands, it is not a easy task for us to acquire knowledge in a university. It needs endurance, endeavour, perseverance, patience, constant effort. It is something like we try to get water in the desert. But only those who can get water from the desert are eligible to give it to people in the desert. That was not just sell &buy relations in it. We need benevolence in it in the first place. Money comes afterwards, it is merely a result of good will.
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The Role Of University

Re:Then again...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.05 0:13 (#14641604) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 17:25)
Let me start with my personal experience in the university. I never had a part time job in my school days. Even just one time, never. If I were asked what I was doing, I can't help but reply that I was studying and reading a book and writing a thesis, that was all what I was doing.
But my case is very different from the case of other students. Many students had a part-time job, and enjoying their holidays with their intimate friend. Some student naturally started to have a romantic relationship with their boy or girl friends. I didn't believe any of them were studying hard. Only those who wanted to go to the graduate school or study abroad were eager to study in the university. Me? Throughout 4 years of my school days, I only studied, did nothing other than study. So I learned the world through a book first. In fact my life kept on like this till age 30.
I guess your opinion forms a majority of our society. But if we were in the university, I recommend young people that they'd better spend hours in their study and not outside the study. Then after they graduated from the university, they ought to start learning from experience in a society. That's my point.
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Dynamics Of Humanities

Attatched in 'Autism & Human Evolution'
written by sam_handelman
[ #128123 ] 2006.02.04 2:37

Very interesting reading stuff.

Heh. I got a 14. -sam_handelman

By the way, what's this?

Firstly, autism is not a real trait. It is a classification we use when discussing a family of (probably completely unrelated) traits with similar outcomes in terms of making people behave like Rainman. Even Asperger Syndrome is classified exclusively on the basis of behavior - if there is a syndrome there, we don't have a fraction of the depth of understanding needed to know what it is.

Interesting. I myself used to have a misunderstanding as to the usage of the words. I correct.

Now, you can still make an argument that this class of autistic traits has been, or will be, selected for in the human population. In both cases, we can only speculate.

I am not autistic at all, then I always assume this type of claim made by autistic people is merely self-righteous.

I maintain that human beings have been selected for intellectual diversity. A tribe of humans would survive best if it had some members who were cautious, some who were bold, some who were more capable of abstract thought, some who were more sociable, and so forth. In some cases there is a tradeoff, due to the engineering limitations of the human nervous system.

It is dubious for us to exaggerate the role of some particular group in a human tribe.

It is also possible - as is the case with Cystic Fibrosis, for example - that there are genes associated with autistic traits that have some beneficial effect when present in single copy. This is total speculation, however - our understanding of the relationship between human genetics and human intellectual diversity is shallow, at best. It is entirely possible that the spectrum of autism-like disorders are very rarely caused by genetics and mostly by environmental factors - the fact that they show some indications of heritability not withstanding (see child rearing practices below).

Good point. I entirely agree to your opinion.

At present, the majority of selective pressure on human beings is cultural. Will we wipe ourselves out as a species? That's a big one, not a genetic question.

For individual humans, the question is becoming not "am I fit to reproduce?", or "am I rich enough to reproduce?", but "do I *want* to reproduce?"

The obvious effect of the wide availability of birth control is that people who just want to have sex without having children are now absolutely free to do so, and they will. This may have some impact on the frequency of genes that impact, for example, the strength of parent-child bonding one way or the other.

This is very true. Retrogression will occur in the organism that stopped being used frequently. Genes related to this practice are not the exclusion.

However, the overwhelming effect is going to be on child-rearing practices. If you have child-rearing practices that give you children who do not, in turn, want to have children - those child-rearing practices will die out. This is another form of cultural selection.

This is the very reason of our human dynamism. It is correct to grasp the nature of humans as this.

Cool

Re:Perhaps(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.04 4:39 (#14637017) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 3:42)
I feel it's too cool to find comments of themselves only in someone's journals. Since when they are gone, they leave everything.
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Water In Desert

Re:Then again...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.04 4:22 (#14636878) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 3:42)
In the society we learn how to sell water in desert, while in the university we learn how to buy water in desert.
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New Organ

New Organ(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.04 4:15 (#14636782) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 3:42)
I strongly recommend you to read New Organ, there is an appropriate time to read a good book like this, younger the better, but it is hard to understand if you read it when you are too young. Now.
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Descartes

Descartes(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.04 4:01 (#14636662) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 3:42)
I read his Discourse on Method, Principles of Philosophy, Rules of Spirit Instruction back in my early twenties, still Descartes forms an important part of my thought.
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Check

"Yes I'm Still Alive!!!"
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Check.

Definition Of Integral Calculus

"what i do all day"
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I understand these are related to the definiton of integral calculus, correct?

Yellow Is Too Stimulus

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mercedo
Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:57:53 PST

The style sheet hurts my eyes...

The colour yellow is too stimulus. I was unable to sleep well because my retina reacts excessively.

I have no idea how to write as other people properly do. Will somebody tell me how to use edit code? I just want to use I &P.
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mercedo
Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:09:09 PST
With checking ' With the fancy editor disabled', I was able to solve part of the problems when I was posting. As to the stimulus colour, I will see the results.

Yes

Yes(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.03 2:56 (#14627734) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.02 23:51)
1. Histories: Lessons to learn
2. Natural Philosophy: Truth
3. Poetry: Art
4. Moral: How to communicate with others
5. Logic and rhetoric: Logic-Most important, Rhetoric-Least important
6. Mathematics: Ruler of the world
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E-Book Is Fine

E-Book Is Fine(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.03 2:44 (#14627584) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.02 23:51)
Recently I founnd the site of e-book, the name of which I forgot.. You can read it from left to right consequently as you read a paper book.
I just stopped reading a paper book anymore. If you could publish a book in the Internet, it would be much easier for us to get access to it. -People soon start carrying a portable e-book, we'd better not particular about publishing a book in paper.
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Cloned?

Are They Cloned?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.03 2:03 (#14627115) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.02 23:51)
A woman who self fertilises could only have a female child .
Cloned?
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Stand By Me

Stand By Me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.03 1:15 (#14626519) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.02 23:51)
This is a short description, if you wrote some story based on this, you would probably be able to complete another 'Stand by me' -I only watched the movies though.
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Significant Moment

Significant Moment(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.03 0:56 (#14626339) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.02 23:51)
You unexpectedly discovered the botlle, and after a while you unintentionally opened it. That was the very special occasion.
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Two Signs of World Language

That is "there's no inflection in their words." and "they contain extremely enriched vocaburary." Both Chinese and English show a sign of world language.

English shows, in many aspects, a sign of good language. Probably proto-English used to have lots of paradigm change -inflection as other Indo-European language do. Nowadays we know Latin has more inflected words than English, but still English is an inflectional language.

On the other hands, Chinese is not inflectional. We say it 'analytical', for example, in English we say, ' In the past I went to the park.' or just 'I went to the park.' In Chinese, we say ' In the past we go to the park.' So if it's in present, we just say, 'I go to the park.' There's no inflection in Chinese. Then we noticed if we put the adverbal phrase like 'in the past', we don't have to use the past form 'went' to indicate the action was taken place in the past.

More and more English has been enriched by embracing many words - especially nouns from many other languages, less and less the inflection of English words is. I mean English words have been more rigid -fixed than before, because it is easier for non-native to learn not-inflected words.

Believe me now both world languages show strickingly similar syntax -both Chinese and English.

This Only Reflects a Part of Truth

This Only Reflects a Part of Truth
mercedo Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:41:19 UTC

I have heard tens of thousands of cases that Tamiflu played a decive role on recovery from influenza of many different types, many doctors here are using this drug every day. It is easy to raise a question, also there's no rule without exceptions.

Our Perception Determines How We Express

Our Perception Determines How We Express
mercedo Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:12:24 UTC

By and large, they researchers overestimate the value of language. Our perception is the first thing, and it varies according to different people. So like so many perceptions, we humans developed languages differently. Language determines how we perceive?is just an opposit to phenomena. Our perception determines how we express it, thus develop different languages.

I was unable to understand English till age 20 or something. Of course I passed English test, but what I understood at that time was not an English, I was able to understand only Japanese, what I was able to do was just a way to translate English into Japanese, for me Japanese was the only meaning.

Around at age 20, I tried to understand English as English speakers do -not through translation but as it is. Now of course I understand English quite well.

As a man who does not understand English till age 21, it seems absurd for us to overestimate the role of language in perception. Perception isn't affected by language, but language is a reflection of what we perceived. Therefore when our perception varies, our language also varies. But even though language we use changes, our perception never changes. Our perception determines how we use our languages. Our perception is prior to our language.

At age twenty, I just realised I am unable to express what I perceive through Japanese -my native tongue, so I decided to learn English to express properly what I perceived. But throughout my childhood to the present day, my perception has never changed.

If someone thinks that our language determines how we see things, I can't help saying he is not a master of language, but language has been affecting him decisively, which is a pity.

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Congratulations!