Forum - View topicINTEREST: Fractale's Azuma Writes About Japan, Quake in NY Times
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enurtsol
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Weird that newspapers are now switching to paid subscription models. I've had old online accounts (that I hardly use anymore, with email domains that no longer exist yet used for the login ID) with some of those for a decade and more - pretty much since they started.
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Haterater
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Glad both sides are coming together for this. Hope it stays that way way after immediate problems are gone as well, or else we're back to the same old ways.
As for paid subscriptions, not sure I like this direction. I prefer if common news is free while opinion or editorial ones are paid for. |
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einhorn303
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[quote="Haterater"]Hope it stays that way way after immediate problems are gone as well, or else we're back to the same old ways.
/quote] Judging from the previous example of 9/11 in the USA: it won't. |
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Brent Allison
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The NYT tried to have some of their most widely-read columnists (like Paul Krugman) on a per-fee basis, and also put their stories behind the pay wall if they were over two weeks old about five years ago. That model failed, and I predict this one will as well. |
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enurtsol
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They might as well just take down their website. Or have 20,000 ads per web article. 
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DarkAngelCloud
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Well It was my idea at first that the earthquake and Tsunami was a "Divine Punishment" However my reasons were unique and blunt.. I realize that the divine punishment was due to the cause of World war 2. They were ambitious for Nanjing Massacre, and for bombing Pearl Harbor. Guys please don't rage on my post I'm just trying to state my perspective although I'm still learning World History. I might as well apply possibilities as my conviction.
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hissatsu01
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How does that work? "Hey everybody, I'm going to say something spectacularly stupid... but don't call me on it." I guess the hundreds of millions of people who live along the ring of fire get earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of their predisposition towards sin.
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Vicserr
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Dude, let's not bring that kind of discussion here (and been the only nation on the receiving end of 2 nuclear weapons during WW2 isn't exactly a walk in the park)..
The thing is that the writer wants his country to find a balance and not restart a movement that let it into ruin. |
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TrissMerigold
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I totally agree with Vicserr's reply. Please DarkAngelCloud think about this - you cannot connect these two issues. Many people have died in Japan during tsunami - men, women and children died/or lost their loved ones. How this can be divine punishment? And if you quote history please consider this - according to your point of view such tragedy should also hit the Germans and Russians because of what happened during WWII. I am Polish and both these nations destroyed my country during WWII. And I would never, ever wish such tragedy upon them. How could I? For me it is something inhumane. |
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ItAintEazy
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No, it's divine punishment because the Japanese aren't paying enough taxes. No, seriously. |
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