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In general, it's shenanigans with the display of VAT.

In Yamato's case, they make paying cashless a tiny bit cheaper because handling cash is a time sink for their couriers

That color is common in incandescent green traffic lights around the world, not only in Japan. The idea was to use a blue-green lens to make a mostly green light when paired with a yellow lightbulb

If those words and others were more obscure I’d agree with your point, but they really are common enough that I think Aoi can mean blue or green in nodern Japanese.

I passed that with flying colors by saying グリーン

You’re going to have to define modern usage because words where ao=green are still common in every day language, like seishun or aoba

Can you tell me the location of an actual blue traffic light in Japan?

> Whilst I do like a lot of Infected Mushroom's stuff I've always seen them as the cheesy, commercial, "like it ironically" side of psy-trance.

You're going to have to trust me that as far as Israeli producers go, IM are neither cheesy nor commercial.

> I don't consider them truly representative of psy-trance, at least the eurocentric versions I listen to.

Ehhh, that's veering way too close to "metal genres" territory for me

It helped that they did major releases only every 2-4 years. I think a new major release every year is too much, especially when the changes are things like "we rearranged the system preferences menu" or "new emoji"

Well, he traded the BMW for a crappy plane in its first appearance. I like to pretend that the next few movies never happened.

> which to me sounds like some big ego bullcrap?

Umm... Suck It Down?

Russia and Ukraine were the two Soviet factions in the OG Red Alert

In RA1-2, they are good as fodder to soak up Tesla Coil hits and tank rounds so your armor can break through, especially agianst a human player. A good amount of fodder will force a human player micro against that attack, and distract them from other things.

> Young people just don't want to live in them.

That's why the hometown tax exists. Small towns use their residence tax money to raise children then none goes back in when the young adult moves to Tokyo and pays residence tax there instead of in their hometown.

> Typefaces ≠ fonts

I always get angry about "x but on a computer" patents, and the "typefaces ... but on a computer" court case lights a similar fire in my belly.

> This is evidenced by the fact that no one seems willing to clone popular typefaces because making a font is a lot of work even if you have a guide.

The 1,000,000 Helvetica clones out there disagree with this statement

Typefaces aren’t meant to be IP in most countries. So to me, companies rent-seeking on fonts is gross

from my past experience with Mac OS, the users of the .0 version are the test suite

They used to make hot drinks really hot just for the purpose you mentioned, but in the last few years they are just lukewarm to save money on electricity

I think it's because Japan was the first to adopt western education. It's why people you wouldn't expect to be were educated in Japan, like the founder of the CPC or Chiang Kai Shek

Chinese and Japanese = formally 電子計算機 (electronic calculating machine), everyday language uses a transliteration of "computer" in Japanese and 電脳 "electric brain" in Chinese.

If you give professional chef an elaborate dish and the recipe for it, will they be able to make exactly the same thing?

I never thought an encyclopedia article would go to such extreme lengths to avoid mentioning Chris Chan

“Snake oil” is a reference to Clark Stanley, whose snake oil was infamously found to contain no snake oil whatsoever.

I'm guessing the author is refereing to emoticons from MSN Messenger. I don't think the term "emoji" gained popularity in the west until the iPhone came out, and made emoji wildly popular because of the one secret trick you had to do to enable the keyboard on non-Japanese phones.

I don't think it's fair to act like navel-gazing NHK documentaries aren't a thing though. You can watch them at any time just by turning on channel 2

Use web.archive.org to find a version of this site from before Sheldon Brown died circa 2009. The new guy seems pleasant, but he doesn’t know his shit the way Mr Brown did

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https://web.archive.org/web/20080913084945/http://www.sheldo...

I guess you were done with games too, except maybe "Battletoads"

Sony and Nintendo aren’t competing for the same market segments in Japan, so Sony made the PS5 western and exotic.

I can remember at least one instance this year where an entire family died from when their Kei car got rolled over in what would have been a survivable accident in a vehicle built to full size safety standards.

Kei cars are popular because they’re cheap to run and small, but they are a tin can on wheels.

Don't forget the character who has magic powers that are revealed to be fake and generated by technology then revealed to be actual magic powers

Gangster-style yakuza rarely bother normal people. It’s not worth the trouble for either party. There are some industries with a lot of yakuza-owned and operated companies, but their main goal is to make or lose legitimate money, so unless you are aware of some tells you’d never know that they are yakuza.