gramie

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My point is not about how case is meant to be used my point is that it is very easy to make a mistake that is difficult to spot. I think it makes a lot more sense to the case insensitive, and force different names to be used.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I feel the same way about programming languages. There is no way that "User" and "user" should refer to different variables. How many times has that screwed people up, especially in a weekly typed language?

One of the many things that I feel modern versions of Pascal got right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Famous people take out those kinds of insurance policies, or say that they have taken them out, in order to get attention.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Japanese government wants people to choose citizenship by the end of their 20th year, because 20 is the age of majority in Japan. But if you don't say anything, they won't ask, and you can keep renewing your Japanese passport along with your other nationality's.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I'm a Canadian, and I was married to a Japanese woman. She was on the family registry, and our children were, but I was a comment. Way to show a commitment to treating all people equally, Japan!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I would imagine that it also has to do with the family registry. If a woman marries a man, she is taken from her own Family Registry and entered in her husband's. I would imagine that upon the husband's death nothing changes for the wife, but she has the option of returning to her own family registry.

I'm not 100% sure that this is how it works, or the reason for this termination, but it seems like a valid one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The "Mission" paragraph above the highlighted text is even more ludicrous!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It seems that he is deliberately conflating the Holocaust with the deaths (due mainly to exposure, famine, and disease) of three million Soviet prisoners of war (out of six million captured).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He is a Canadian by virtue of being born here, but also American because of his parents. Thus he is eligible to become President. Please keep him!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that's part of the puzzle is definitely that small children don't get embarrassed or ashamed if they make a mistake. Adults and older kids do, so they stop trying or they limit themselves to what they know they can do well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

As he himself says, he writes songs about the working man, but has never held the job in his life.

However I did go to see him this summer for the first time. The cheesy Rock Icon bit is tedious, but by the middle of the show I was enjoying myself. He really is an excellent showman.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I went to a double feature because I wanted to see The Tin Drum. First I had to sit through another movie I had never heard of that sounded really corny: Runaway Train.

Starring John Voight and Eric Roberts, and with a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, it was extraordinary. Certainly not just a cheap action flick.

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