Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!netnews.mcu.or.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!q2g2000vbk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "mtfester@aim.com" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Debito and the JET program Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <9d500e6e-b0b4-4668-a10e-8d00fd4d17b1@o15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <8b2862e3-ba0f-403f-8497-3185f7a49100@n41g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <9a1a5033-bd53-48c1-af70-369cec34bc1f@n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.36.199.201 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1287068549 27163 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2010 15:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000vbk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.36.199.201; posting-account=hVE8VAoAAAAm7TgTau1_kq7xQQTOGz4r User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169492 On Oct 13, 12:59=A0am, mtfes...@netscape.net wrote: > chuckers wrote: > > On Oct 12, 4:45?pm, JimBreen wrote: > > > On Oct 12, 6:23?pm, The 2-Belo > > > wrote: > > > > > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that De= clan Murphy > > > > has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > > > >I'd forgotten that the Japan Times still existed. I wonder what it= s > > > > >actual (paid for) circulation might be. > > > > > 382 (readers); 227,586 (as decoration in knick-knack shop displays)= . > > > > I get the headlines via an RSS feed. It's pretty > > > bad - of about 30 articles a day, 25+ are about > > > sport. > > > I only visit the site for the comics. =A0Roger Dahl can be pretty > > funny. =A0Gwen Muranaka, not so much. > > I used to enjoy JT as a physical paper when I had access to it even if > > most of the stories tended to be about a day late and a dollar short. > > The wide range of coverage of stories from around the planet was > > really nice. > > The restaurant reviews are decent (they'd be great, if it weren't for > reviews of so many YYY shops, and if they'd review places outside of > Tokyo and Osaka), and the job section on Monday and Thursday is pretty > good. Well I'd suggest you start reading that job section then, so that you can find a way to be a productive contributor to society, instead of following people around usenet and trolling them everyday. Mike