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    Thread: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?
Post: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?

JimmySeal Wrote:dat5h Wrote:Are you actually going to blame anti nuclear protestors for the rise in heat deaths? Ill neglect for now the obvious truth that the elderly population hardly care what youn...
dat5h Off topic 65 13,741 2011-07-25, 7:27 am
    Thread: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?
Post: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?

Katsuo Wrote:dat5h Wrote:This says, in your own given article that the government (and from tepco, too as I have seen in Tokyo) has been asking all of us to stop using AC. The leaflet TEPCO put in my ...
dat5h Off topic 65 13,741 2011-07-25, 7:01 am
    Thread: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?
Post: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?

bodhisamaya Wrote:Heatstroke deaths quadruple as nation shuns air conditioners In my opinion, nuclear energy protesters will be the #1 reason for the expected shattering of the record for heat related...
dat5h Off topic 65 13,741 2011-07-25, 6:01 am
    Thread: The Japanese Have a Word for It!
Post: The Japanese Have a Word for It!

kapalama Wrote:jisho.org, like WWJDIC, rikaichan etc all are user contribution dictionaries, which means foreigners put things in there that Japanese simply would not recognize, because the foreigner ...
dat5h The Japanese language 135 38,221 2011-04-14, 8:02 am
    Thread: The Japanese Have a Word for It!
Post: The Japanese Have a Word for It!

I learned this the other day on 教えてgoo. 喘ぎ声, edict lists it as 'heavy breathing', but I think that definition loses a common image that the word implies. Let's just say it involves showing her your O-...
dat5h The Japanese language 135 38,221 2011-04-12, 7:23 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I've been playing around and I gotta say that I haven't seen any problems, it even saves the Japanese definition without issue including the part-of-speach-marker. I also kinda find it amusing that if...
dat5h Learning resources 859 243,960 2011-04-11, 8:53 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Wow, I've checked it out and it seems to work great so far. I'm quite impressed by the speed of the J-J internet lookup.
dat5h Learning resources 859 243,960 2011-04-10, 10:43 pm
    Thread: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?
Post: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?

dat5h Wrote:dizmox Wrote:Has anyone else discussed moving in together with someone from Japan? (to your home country) My current girlfriend seems quite worried about leaving Japan so I'm not sure how...
dat5h General discussion 94 23,736 2011-04-09, 4:19 am
    Thread: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?
Post: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?

dizmox Wrote:Has anyone else discussed moving in together with someone from Japan? (to your home country) My current girlfriend seems quite worried about leaving Japan so I'm not sure how that's goin...
dat5h General discussion 94 23,736 2011-04-09, 1:53 am
    Thread: 国語辞典 in EPWING format ... any thoughts/suggestions?
Post: 国語辞典 in EPWING format ... any thoughts/suggestions...

Thanks a lot, I'll look at some of those dictionaries you suggested to see if they work for me. Also, I had no idea there was an RTK share group. I'll look for that thread when I get access to the gro...
dat5h Learning resources 2 1,058 2011-04-07, 7:53 pm
    Thread: 国語辞典 in EPWING format ... any thoughts/suggestions?
Post: 国語辞典 in EPWING format ... any thoughts/suggestions...

Hey there, I was wondering if there were any suggestions for a good 国語辞典 in EPWING format. I know some of the users on here use epwing dictionaries, so if you have any experience then I'd like to hear...
dat5h Learning resources 2 1,058 2011-04-07, 6:49 pm
    Thread: Learn to write Kanji Compounds
Post: Learn to write Kanji Compounds

Asriel Wrote:I used to have cards like this. This example uses edict definitions, because coupled with a (even short) sentence, it's enough to differentiate homophones Q: あくい 本当に[あくい]のある人は少ない ill will...
dat5h The Japanese language 9 3,125 2011-04-07, 6:00 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I tried this out and it works like a charm. At first I got confused between "Highlighted word" and "Dictionary lookup of word", but I figured it out after some testing. One feature that would be gre...
dat5h Learning resources 859 243,960 2011-04-07, 12:51 am
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

Age: 25 I hate to admit it, but I started learning Japanese 10 years ago in high school. Japanese classes were never really my strong suit, so I continually did poorly. When I entered college I starte...
dat5h Off topic 357 73,668 2011-04-07, 12:34 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

bodhisamaya Wrote:I can't believe the media is still going crazy over the nuclear plant problem. Don't they have perspective? In the USA about 30,000 deaths/year from coal pollution Impact is a litt...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-04-06, 10:23 am
    Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn...
Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea...

I don't think I have much to say here, but I have been thinking about this for a long time. While I love the current system, I do not think it is entirely beyond possibility to change to a phonetic wr...
dat5h Off topic 186 32,828 2011-04-02, 10:52 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

nest0r Wrote:Quake shakes Japan's science I'll add to this. I'm a simulation researcher and my University has put strict restrictions on all computational research in order to save electricity. The re...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-27, 8:49 pm
    Thread: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?
Post: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?

nadiatims Wrote:I thought the consensus was that pumping the reactors full of salt water will basically trash them making repair not-economically viable. Yes, that is the final result. However, in the...
dat5h Off topic 65 13,741 2011-03-25, 10:00 am
    Thread: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?
Post: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?

One concern I heard voiced recently, but I had not considered previously was the amount of salt left in the reactor. Converting sea water to steam leaves the salt, and this will coat everything. Even ...
dat5h Off topic 65 13,741 2011-03-25, 8:47 am
    Thread: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?
Post: Nuclear crisis : what is the exact situation ?

This is a blog by an Engineering professor in applied science and engineering at Chubu University: http://takedanet.com/ He's been writing on nothing but the nuclear situation since it began, and he ...
dat5h Off topic 65 13,741 2011-03-25, 7:43 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

aphasiac Wrote:So is there a reason printed money cannot be exchanged for tangible goods or services? I'm not an economic genius, but here's how I see it. They injected money into the stock exchange t...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-25, 5:51 am
    Thread: Civil Engineering jobs in Japan?
Post: Civil Engineering jobs in Japan?

Hey, I was wondering, have you ever thought about grad school? I know that engineering jobs exist here in Japan, but generally all require native level japanese. The reason I ask abou grad school is t...
dat5h JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 9 14,130 2011-03-24, 9:15 pm
    Thread: 々 - What is it?
Post: 々 - What is it?

duder Wrote:yudantaiteki Wrote:Although 日にち is a pretty common way to write that word also, maybe to avoid confusion. id like to make this more confusing by adding that 日々 is sometimes read nichi nich...
dat5h The Japanese language 12 4,835 2011-03-24, 12:40 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

cangy Wrote:(all else being equal, e.g. no further leaks or concentration etc.) Yes yes, here is where my concern has been lying considering the continued delays, smoke, and problems associated with t...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-23, 8:58 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

astendra Wrote:Yeah, but they're also saying it won't affect health unless ingested long term. Yes ... but how long is it going to be in the water? It's not yet determined. Unnecessarily exposing ones...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-23, 1:43 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

Radioactive iodine levels in Tokyo water facilities are unacceptable for infants. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110323...21000.html I hope I'm not misreading that, but it certainly makes me want...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-23, 1:35 am
    Thread: You find it easier to....
Post: You find it easier to....

bodhisamaya Wrote:There seems to be a link between lack of English skills and increased waist size in America's South I'll go ahead and add my backing of this statement since 16 years of my life was i...
dat5h Off topic 31 6,904 2011-03-23, 12:13 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

captal Wrote:We left Tokyo last Wednesday morning to spend some time down in Fukuoka with my fiancé's family. Though there have been reports of water and food contamination we are thinking of heading ...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-22, 4:30 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

@vix86: To be honest, I think you are coming to this conclusion a bit prematurely. I, too, am very hopeful that this situation will begin to see positive results shortly, but you seem to be basing th...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-19, 1:33 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

It would seem there having trouble spraying reactor three because of problems with the battery of the water supply vehicle. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110319...81000.html I'm a little confuse...
dat5h Off topic 690 113,304 2011-03-19, 12:37 am