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Nice thread, well overdue. Another usenet provider I would recommend is newshosting.com - they carry almost all NG's with 1400+ day retention. No doubt, binsearch.info is a must for searching for files and NZB's. And I've become a big fan of SABnzbd, THE open-source NZB browser. It does away...

[The] hacker group Anonymous has launched cyber attacks on Japanese government websites. The attacks are a response to last week’s revision of Japanese copyright law, which added harsh new penalties for illegal downloading. According to a statement posted on the Internet, Anonymous...

Wozniak is right on. This has been a Hollywood Gestapo operation from the beginning. They're being paid off by the Democrats cause it's an election year, pure and simple. Megaupload was virtually ignored by the "U.S. authorities" until Holy-Wood threatened to cut off donations to Barry's...

Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year's Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month. Japan has approved the restart of the two reactors at the Kansai Electric Power Ohi nuclear plant, northwest of...

Japan police probe man who cooked own genitals Tokyo police are investigating whether a man who cooked his own severed genitals and served them to five paying diners committed a crime, the force said Tuesday. The police probe came after the mayor of Suginami ward, the Tokyo district where...

I find it curious that this data was copied immediately after the raid, sent out of the country illegally in a flash... but when ordered by a court to copy what they copied the FBI needs months. Bastards. Also, how does one Fedex 150 tb worth of data? You could use 50 3 tb externals, I...

Thanks to a development team known as Webempires, we can take a causal gander at this global market full of surprising results with their number one website by country map. Looking at their map we can clearly see Google’s grip on the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Australia...

It looks like it’s going to be another hot summer here in Japan and as the country calls for voluntary power cuts to cope with post-March 11 shortages, the Japanese people are using their head to come up with eco-friendly ways of keeping cool. And we mean literally using their head: net...

Kanagawa and Kyoto prefectural police last Wednesday arrested five employees affiliated with a restaurant chain that features [underage] female staff members in revealing clothing. “Of the 16 girls on staff at the time, nine were under the age of 18,” says a local newspaper reporter. “With...

TOKYO (AFP) — About 20,000 people gathered in front of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s residence in Tokyo late Friday to protest his decision to restart two nuclear reactors. “No to the restart!” shouted the protestors, who were led by investigative journalist Satoshi Kamata and Nobel...

The Recording Industry Association of America wants to put an end to software and services that enable people to rip songs from music videos. Two days after YouTube-MP3.org, a site that converts songs from music videos into MP3 files, was blocked from accessing YouTube, the RIAA has asked...

Despite the huge upheavals of the last few months, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has announced that his answer to the music industry’s outdated business model is coming soon. The Megabox service will shift the balance of power away from multi-billion dollar corporations to the artists who...

FUKUSHIMA -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s final report on the Fukushima nuclear disaster has triggered a major backlash from prefectural residents and authorities who call it weak and even laced with falsehoods, it has been learned. "We still don't know what happened in the cores of...

New in-car camera/rearview mirror from Hamwha... It looks more or less like a normal rearview mirror but has an internal camera pointing forward to record what’s happening in front of your vehicle. Unlike other in-car recorders that you attach to the windshield, the advantage of this...

Former chief of staff of Japan’s Air Self Defense Force, General Toshio Tamogami, was dismissed in 2008 after he published a politically incorrect magazine article... he now spends part of his retirement writing a weekly column for Asahi Geino. ... in his latest installment (June 14), he...

TOKYO — P8bSWgknGAQ This commercial is for a popular item on KFC’s menu called Krushers which is like an ice cream flurry. Kyary pamyu pamyu, who is a popular fashion model/singer, is the main character featured in the Krushers commercial...

Police sergeant arrested for public nudity A police sergeant was arrested for public indecency in Kawasaki city on Saturday after flashing the lower half of his body to a woman. http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/96969.php Yoshinori Kurata reportedly stopped his bicycle by the...

Court acquits expert on Japanese manga of child porn STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s highest court on Friday acquitted a Swedish expert and translator of Japanese manga comics of possession of child porn, saying the fantasy figures cannot be put on a par with real children. “To criminalize...

The US government has been ordered by a New Zealand High Court judge to immediately prepare to copy the 150 terabytes worth of data held on Megaupload servers seized by the FBI in order to turn it over to indicted founder Kim Dotcom. Included in the 150 terabytes of data are over 10 million...

...nice catch, Jake. The pic was labeled both under suicide and Boat Quay while searching. I shouldn't have used it, but it is a very powerful piece of artwork that can be seen different ways. Dude, I'm so sorry about your oldest sis. I'm sure everyone reading this thread feels the same...

Many Japanese women... prefer pets to parenthood. Startlingly, in a country panicking over its plummeting birthrate, there are now many more pets than children. While the birthrate has been falling dramatically and the average age of Japan's population has been steadily climbing, Japan has...

TOKYO — The number of people who took their own lives in Japan in 2011 was 30,651, the 14th consecutive year the figure has exceeded 30,000, the National Police Agency said in a white paper released Friday. The white paper said there was a spike in suicides between April and June...

The Japanese Atomic Energy Agency devoted a page on its website to an effort to "make the hard words used in the nuclear power industry" more easy to understand, particularly for women. The page, which included a cartoon of an angry, fist-waving wife and her cowering husband, compared...

...actress and model Sora Aoi is said to be the most famous Japanese person in China. She commands over 11,180,000 followers on China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform Sina Weibo—enough to start a potent revolution if she were so inclined. If numbers aren’t enough to convince you of...

thanks for the tip

Softbank 107SH Pantone 5 Geiger counter phone: Tool or toy? Posted by SBS I'm skeptical that it is appropriate to build a Geiger counter directly into a mobile phone, as has been done with the Sharp Pantone 5 (107SH) smartphone just announced by Softbank Mobile. In the end, I imagine it...

Ah, cool post, Aqua. :tea: I bet the US won't allow these devices; too much power in the hands of the people. And of course, their bullshit on matters of radiation would be useless...

TOKYO- Mobile phone operator Softbank Corp said on Tuesday it would soon begin selling smartphones with radiation detectors, tapping into concerns that atomic hotspots remain along Japan’s eastern coast more than a year after the Fukushima crisis. “The threat from the nuclear accident cannot...

The National Police Agency (NPA) [is being] forced to establish a special committee to deal with a surge in crimes committed by police officers, including robberies and molestations. In the first three months of this year alone, disciplinary measures have been handed down to 110 officers, of...

Don't know whether to laugh or cry... :ohnoes:

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is demanding access to 135 computers and hard drives that were seized from his home in January, so the data can be used for his defense. Until then, he refuses to give up passwords to encrypted data stored on the machines. [Dotcom's] lawyer argued that the data...

AFP - A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities. Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them frozen for two months...

More: ...the World Health Organization released a report on radiation doses that said infants living in the communities worst affected by the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were exposed to much higher than normal levels of radiation...

(Reuters) - Scientists have found a "superbug" strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat. The new strain of the sexually transmitted disease -- called H041 --...

No doubt! I thought Ai Shinozaki would have broken that mold. Hooray for all the plus-size Japanese starlets.:bingo:

Oh Japan... By Paul Tamburro I'd wager that at least 90% of the world's porn emanates from Japan. Now I understand that "sex sells", but the frequency with which the Japanese shoehorn a pair of boobs into their commercials makes me wonder how anything ever gets done around there - when...

Akimoto Yasushi's idol group from Osaka, Japan, NMB48 gets its name comes from NaMBa, an alternate romanization of Nanba, a district of Osaka. Oh yeah, and the fact that there are 48 performers, broken up into different teams. Junjou U-19 ("Innocence Under 19") is the group's 3rd single...

Rates of anoxeria and bulimia in Japan are increasing more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, with one in 100 Japanese women dealing with an eating disorder. In fact, women in Japan are consuming fewer calories than they did in the Second World War. A third of the population of Japan...

Doomsday scenarios spread about No. 4 reactor... In its April 17 edition, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that included [Sen.] Wyden’s claim that there was a serious and unresolved understatement of the earthquake risk at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The Huffington Post carried a...

Infowars did not source this story out of thin air: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki...

Osaka has the highest crime rate in Japan both as a city and a prefecture with more r***s and murders than any other city. While this may come to a surprise to foreigners it certainly does not surprise the locals who are all uniformly weary of a certain location in Osaka: Nishinari-ku, a...

You may have heard of the recent dental trend in Japan called tsuke yaeba, where women get their canines capped to get a crooked set of chompers. If so, you might have guessed that a snaggletooth girl group couldn’t be far behind, and here they are: TYB48. Eighteen-year-olds Nana, Mio and...

During a recent Congressional delegation trip to Japan, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden witnessed with his own eyes the horrific aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The damage situation was apparently so severe, according to his account, that he has now written a letter to Ichiro...

Shin Dong-huyk is the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean prison camp. He was born into a life of enslavement and torture inside Camp 14, where he was starved, beaten and forced to watch the executions of his mother and brother. His body bears many scars — his finger was...

A commercial showing members of wildly popular all-girl band AKB48 passing bite-sized candies seductively from mouth-to-mouth is under fire in Japan for encouraging homosexuality. The advertisement, which aired in March, shows the school uniform-clad young women—all in their late teens or...

Japan’s porn industry is reeling. Low-cost amateur adult video (AV) actresses are being employed on weekends, revenue is suffering, and salaries for pro gals are way down. “It goes without saying that one’s popularity determines income level,” says AV writer Tetsuo Kokko. “An actress who...

Alfred Perry, vice president of worldwide antipiracy for Paramount Pictures... appeared on a panel during the On Copyright conference at Columbia University. Perry told attendees that the studios "continue to make criminal referrals" to authorities regarding "rogue" cyberlockers. He also...

...a study has found that almost a quarter of Fukushima residents hospitalized in the aftermath of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami were treated as having a “psychiatric disorder” because of their concerns over radiation. The treatment of Japanese citizens who expressed concerns...

The tower, standing at 634 meters high in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, overseeing a vast part of the capital and its suburban areas, and combining a rare design of traditional Japanese culture and modern technology, has for many already become the landmark of Japan's urban design and a symbol of...

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