Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Japan makes it big in world news Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:57:51 +0900 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3F08C58F.4070306@hotmail.com> References: <73fde4f0.0307040506.76ea8fcf@posting.google.com> <3F079EC2.A49301A3@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: news@yamasa.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1057539436 3148258 202.215.53.66 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2051 Ernest Schaal wrote: > in article ad4hgvgc82osiqbmc3t2qve08mnkeso811@4ax.com, Michael Cash at > mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp wrote on 7/7/03 6:18 AM: >>Ummm.....Because 1) so many of them don't 2) it's easier than putting >>forth an active police presence and 3) gives the impression that >>something is being done about the problem? >> >>If that ain't the answer, then I'm stumped. > > You don't see them in the US, do you? Out of curiousity though, how many US cities have mass-transit subway systems comparable to those in Japan or with London, Paris etc? NYC? East coast only? -- "Forget Spanish. There's nothing in that language worth reading except Don Quixote, and a quick listen to the CD of Man of La Mancha will take care of that. Who speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to? The help? Your leaf blower? Study French or German, where there are at least a few books worth reading, or if you're American, try English." Dame Edna Everage "If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up," Barry Humphries