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well he bought a farm in Brazil so propably a few yen ya ken
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Dalek Dave wrote: What an arse.
A bit harsh.
Dalek Dave wrote: 30 years in a jungle because he was too proud to admit Japan lost a war.
Not what the story said.
<excerpt>
The young soldier had orders not to surrender - a command he obeyed for nearly three decades.
"Every Japanese soldier was prepared for death, but as an intelligence officer I was ordered to conduct guerrilla warfare and not to die," he told ABC in an interview in 2010.
"I became an officer and I received an order. If I could not carry it out, I would feel shame. I am very competitive," he added.
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Mr Onoda ignored several attempts to get him to surrender.
He later said that he dismissed search parties sent to him, and leaflets dropped by Japan, as ploys.
"The leaflets they dropped were filled with mistakes so I judged it was a plot by the Americans,"
</excerpt>
He may have been an enemy soldier, but one has to admire his resolve.
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JimmyRopes wrote: "The leaflets they dropped were filled with mistakes so I judged it was a plot by the Americans,"
Was he a grammar nazi?
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Oh I admire his resolve and determinism, but to think that instead of living in a jungle, providing his own food and not having a job, he could have been in a comfortable bed, working hard as a drone in a Japanese corporation, and living in a smog filled metropolis like Tokyo whilst his children....
Wait a minute...
What am I saying?
Right, I am off to the Jungle for the next 30 years!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: longest serving Lieutenant in the Japanese Army,
That depends on when he joined the army. There was Private Tero Nakamura[^] who was the last jap army member to surrender.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Dalek Dave wrote: I wonder how much back pay he received?
From the Nakamura story.
As a private of a colonial unit, Nakamura was not entitled to pensions after a 1953 change in the law on pensions, and thus received only a minimal sum of ¥68,000 (US $227.59 at the time, now US $1,100 in 2014).[3] This raised a considerable outcry in the press, motivating the government to donate over $100,000 similar to what had been given to Onoda
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So, it means WWII officially ended in 1974 when the last warrior surrendered?
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Shameel wrote: o, it means WWII officially ended in 1974 when the last warrior surrendered?
Apparently so.
<excerpt>
The Philippine government granted him a pardon, although many in Lubang never forgave him for the 30 people he killed during his campaign on the island
</excerpt>
He continued the war to the very end. 
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"Bishop to beseech Royal Family and German leader to become Arch-Enemies."(6,4)
Nice and easy to end the week.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Oh! It's a CCC. I thought it was a real headline!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are you planning this as a mini-series?
Or will there be 13 episodes with an option for a second season? 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I've been in talks with Auntie. We were planning on getting Rolf Harris to do the show from a small 8 by 10 room. Looks like he'll have plenty of free time.
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I'd chip in a few bags...it's a worthy cause.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Movie Quote Of The Day
A: I brought Peggy here on our first date.
B: Yeah, we all did. ... Not Peggy, of course.
Which movie?
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Dating Queen
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"Married With Children - The Redemption"... easy one 
(yes|no|maybe)*
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Alaska Party time - The dark edition
That movie sucked...literally :P
and they even did a second one.
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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yup it sucked ... :p
A second, really? Was it more succulent than the first one?
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Even worse,
plot holes as big as the US budget holes :P
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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XKCD of the day[^]
The wonderous thing about it is the tooltip... "You can win every exchange just by being one level more precise then whoever talked last."
That's exactly how you play "chapeau"[^] 
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Back in October, I completed a(nother) gun safety course online while attending a course in Las Vegas on designing electrical distribution power lines. Yes - I multi-task, and I won a bit in poker while I was there, too.
Anyway, having passed that trivial class, I printed the certificate, spent a couple hours at the local jail watching a deputy try over and over again to get a decent set of fingerprints on a card for me (they really should train these guys a little), then sent the whole mess with my application to the Arizona Department of Public Safety to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Arizona is a "must issue" state, that is, unless they can find a legal reason to deny a permit, they are required to issue it. There are a number of things that are legitimate reasons for denial, but I've committed none of them in my life. The law allows them 60 working days for the background check, then 15 days to either issue or deny a permit, and a denial is allowed to be appealed.
Since tomorrow (Friday) is, by my count, the 60th working day and I've heard nothing, I was getting nervous last weekend. Most people I know who have permits got them in 3 weeks, as I did twenty years ago when I got my first one. So I called last Friday about it, and was told that my application had been pulled for additional background checks, and that I should call back in two months! 
On the weekend I did some checking and discovered that nowhere in the statutes are they given any right to delay approval or extend the background checking period, so I emailed them and challenged this bull. Okay, writing to the State Police and threatening them with prosecution is probably not the smartest thing to do, but it was late on a Saturday night, and there might have been some liquid courage involved, and email is a medium which confers false security for some. Needless to say, I fully expected to be arrested and carried off in chains from work on Monday, never to be seen again. Instead, nothing happened.
Much to my surprise, yesterday I found an email reply from AZ DPS that said, "Your background check is approved. The permit will be printed and mailed tomorrow, Jan 16."
Others I know are still being stonewalled, and they're being told that the backlog extends to applications received clear back into July 2013. Should I suggest to them to try the email route, or just let them figure out their own way? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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