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How a high tech people like the Japs can hate digital things?
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>Japan has some of the fastest internet connections in the world, but physical media such as books and DVDs still remain popular.

>According to an R.R. Bowker study, 72% of Japanese consumers said they had not tried e-books and did not want to try them.

>“The Japanese do like to have something physical,”

>“Publishers are indifferent to, or even hate, digital things. Mainly because of excessive commitment to traditional print book distribution,”

http://fortune.com/2013/02/11/why-japanese-readers-dont-like-e-books/

>They use unsupported Windows OSes, and do banking with it

>They have websites looking like those from the 90s

>They hate ebooks

>They hate streaming services

>They only like to watch anime on FTA TV.

>They don't give info for NSA but monitor all their internet and punish people that is torrenting with tough penalties

What happened in Japan? They are real superior and we are retarded or it's the contrary?
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Fuck e-books I don't want some poor ass faggot shit to smudge up with my dick I want a fucking book
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They aren't high tech and your ideas about them are based off dumb positive stereotypes from the 80s.
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>>47726146
Difference of culture. They like to stick with things the way they are. They still have fax machines over there as well if I recall right.

I can't really blame them. I'd say since they're getting higher quality video by not streaming shit, owning their products by buying physical and not buying a license to use, and despite their web design being simpler (and sometimes pure ass) they don't have excessive flashy bullshit. I'd say we're more retarded than they are. Some of our banks and businesses still use antiqued systems as well though because they feel no need to shell out when it works. Rightfully so in some ways.

What I find very interesting though is apparently the average Japanese has a smaller home space than a westerner, yet they don't see any value in digital. Might be because the secondhand market is huge in Japan and they can't resell digital goods.
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>high tech people like the Japs
you're thinking of korea.

japan has always been mired in technological obsolescence and byzantine business practices.

japanese tech/auto companies who were state of the art in the '80s and '90s do not reflect on the culture itself
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This is actually sensible. I like having physical things too.

For example, with printed books, you can be assured that amazon or whoever won't suddenly decide that they don't want you to have them anymore and remotely delete them from your kindle or whatever.
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>>47726146
For them because collecting and displaying collection.

For me, I don't buy ebooks either. There's something about DISCOVERING a book that you didn't know you wanted until you got it. There are older books and those by obscure authors that are only exist in hardcopy form. Delving into a used bookstore and striking gold is part of the experience. Ebooks is about getting more of the same of what you already read.
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>>47726251
>They still have fax machines over there as well if I recall right.
so do we. faxing is still a standard in many places to to its ease
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>>47726146
No matter what they're an aging country with old people in charge of everything. Old people hate change.
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>>47726146
>“The Japanese do like to have something physical,”
Their waifus aren't real thou
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>>47726300
>you're thinking of korea.
>japan has always been mired in technological obsolescence and byzantine business practices.

Yeah, of course he's thinking of the country that bound its entire population to online banking using IE since the turn of the millenium by way of an ActiveX control for a security-through-obscurity NIH block cipher in the face of better alternatives.
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galapagos effect
they overspecialized and now they're ridiculously resistant to change
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This is what a japanese actually believes.

>>>/pol/44315172

boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/44309437#p44315450

boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/44309437#p44315886

boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/44309437#p44317330

boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/44309437#p44317678

boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/44309437#p44318594

Top fucking kek.
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>>47726526
hes right about fax machines though
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>>47726565
Why?
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>>47726577
its less steps to send something to another person
put it in your fax machine and it comes out the other persons fax machine
i dont agree with him on fax machines are 'better', scanners are still very nice when used by people that know how to use them. i just agree that fax is still good
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>>47726343
Apart from the insular Hacker News yuppie circlejerk enclave, don't expect anyone on this board to have jobs in the real world.
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>>47726610
i dont have a fax machine at my job, i do use fax for other things like my doctor, school, my real estate agent person
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Not to mention they're only now switching to smartphones and LCD monitors.
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>high tech
maybe in the 80's.
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>>47726640
There is no reason to have a fax machine since the 90s/early 2000s because you can get a modem and have that.
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>>47726745
My dad is the vice president of a small business; every once in a while, he has to send the secretary into the supply closet to dust off the fax machine because some backwater hick company wants to send him a fax. He's probably one of the most tech-retarded morons I know, but he can still email documents from his iphone ffs. No excuse for faxes these days.
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>>47726251
so they arent better or worse? just different?
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>>47726146
>hating books
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Japanese websites don't have a bunch of unneeded crap that you to load, I prefer them to most western sites.
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>>47726300
>japanese tech/auto companies who were state of the art in the '80s and '90s do not reflect on the culture itself

Honda proves you wrong
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BASED JAPAN
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>>47726146

because ebooks suck massive dicks
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>>47726146
>They have websites looking like those from the 90s.

Since when did this become a bad thing.

I'd take that any day along with Japanese ISP's no bandwidth cap than surf with too much java and flash embedded with most western sites.
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>>47726557
>implying he isn't right
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Flashy does not mean good.

Full of CSS and java shit does not mean good.

A lot of people, like I, still enjoy physical books and even the smell.
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>>47726146
>“Publishers are indifferent to, or even hate, digital things. Mainly because of excessive commitment to traditional print book distribution,”
>>They hate ebooks
>>They hate streaming services

as if all the above are considered "bad"

Actually, the Japanese should be applauded for being smart consumers.

As seen in America, all this net service shit right now is ripe with censorship and license expirations (netflix for example).
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The only way to fix Japanese is by widespread malware that steals banks details of everyone who uses an obsolete OS or browser.
They're just resisting change thay should have taken place long ago
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you have to remember that japan has always done shit the hard way

like that sword shit, where they fold the steel 1000000000 times (it's more like 8)

protip: a swordmaker admitting he folds steel is like a programmer admitting he uses a shitty computer

good steel doesn't need folding
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>>47726146
>neckbeard finds out that Grorious Nippon isn't all that Grorious
serves you right for being an ignorant chinese kid cartoon lover, you subhuman.
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Japs are not into consumerism, they use the things they buy until they break - and then they have them fixed.
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>>47727876
>good steel
so precisely what they didn't have
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>>47726146

>They have websites looking like those from the 90s
and ?

>They hate ebooks
because it's shown that the powers may be can remove DRM-laden e-books at anytime amazon feels like it.
i doubt doujin culture in japan will survive in a dystopian world of e-books.

>They hate streaming services
>They only like to watch anime on FTA TV.
because it's naturally inferior in quality compared to japanese-standard uncompressed OTA HDTV broadcasts

>but monitor all their internet and punish people that is torrenting with tough penalties
this is like most of the cases that involve kiddie porn... only the stupid & not tech-savvy gets caught.
only those armed with /g/-tier knowledge can continue the flow and exchange of illegally recorded anime
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>>47726251
>despite their web design being simpler
You know you're living in a retarded time when people think simplicity is a negative trait.
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>>47727911
>Japs are not into consumerism

then you haven't been to fashion capital and otaku capitals of japan
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>>47727977

fashion is way different than technology

one is self expression (art), the other is tools and utility.
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>>47727947
yes exactly
but these days they have everything they could need on the global market, this includes the internet, devices to connect to it, tuturials on using it

fact is, they're a very traditional people, with grown-ass men in their thirties still worrying about bringing shame to their family by taking up anything as a hobby or pasttime that isn't work raising kids, fucking their wives, so new shit is left in the dirt. Weebs sound common in japan, but astonishingly enough they're more common in the states, we just tend to handle it differently than keeping them well fed and shit, we usually tell them to fucking get a god damned job, no matter how embarrassing they are.

I forgot where I was going with this
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>>47726146
It's pretty easy to have amazing internet speeds when nobody is actually using any bandwidth, and you're all crammed into a giant city.

Also, why bother with high definition porn when its all censored anyway?

Japan is a joke. Their boom died as soon as the Koreans and the Chinese embraced the rest of the world.
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>>47726146
We're retarded yeah, they're doing it right.
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>>47727977
The younger ones may be, due to western influence, but the majority of the population still clings to traditional values.
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Japan honestly cannot into technology. Even the US bureaucracy is more high-tech than its Japanese counterpart. They make you fill out paper forms for everything, then just file them away. Their government offices almost look like 50s America, just loads of guys sorting, signing and filing papers.

In the airports, they have Windows 8 computers to use, but they're made to look like 95. Not because it's better, but because it's tradition now.
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>>47727977

Also, 7-11, Starbucks and McDonalds fucking everywhere.
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>>47727876
>you have to remember that japan has always done shit the hard way
>like that sword shit, where they fold the steel 1000000000 times (it's more like 8)
>protip: a swordmaker admitting he folds steel is like a programmer admitting he uses a shitty computer
>good steel doesn't need folding
>>47727947

but japos more than make it up with advanced metallurgy process.

in fact some of their state-of-the-art metal techniques (after ww2) started appearing in their oil and cargo ships
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>>47728045
Nah, Japan is honestly a cool place with pretty friendly people and a lot of unique stuff. They have refined just about every non-tech product to be as convenient as possible in a lot of cool, innovative ways (look up Japanese salad dressing packets, it blew my mind).

But their strict gerontocracy and work culture has destroyed their tech scene. The trendsetters of the 70s and 80s are still considered the trendsetters, but they're 50 or 60 years old now and have no fucking clue, but they're still calling the shots.
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>>47728112
most of those metal working techniques make up for the fact that they use pig-iron, it's nothing to brag about except to say that they overcame a difficulty

fucking woo but it's an archaic thing these days, you can't even apply those things to regular steel because it's all about carbon content control for most of them, a precise amount of carbon makes the strongest steel, so performing a carbon removal technique on good steel turns it to butter
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>>47728045
>Also, why bother with high definition porn when its all censored anyway?

your newness is showing.

protip: there's plenty of uncensored jap porn to be as long as it's not filmed in japan
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>>47728134
>The trendsetters of the 70s and 80s are still considered the trendsetters, but they're 50 or 60 years old now and have no fucking clue, but they're still calling the shots.

Like Miyazaki, the normie shit producer loved by shitters.
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>>47728159
Go back to le reddit lol xD
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https://youtu.be/fR6GefDZWeQ

Japanese aren't high tech


All their technology are outdated and expensive

An i5 cost like $600 USD there be $200 here
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>>47728143
AUS and VG Steel are both made in Japan and are a pretty huge when it comes to knives/swords.
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>>47728170
Reddit shitters are the ones that love miyazaki garbage.
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>>47726146

japs may have faded away on the consumer side of tech things, but their B2B sector is still tops.

10/10 would still buy japanese made professional grade equipment than gook/chink made abominations
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>>47728186
that's a marketing thing, people think better steel in japan because they're retarded, everything that comes out of japan these days is made with regular steel that was formed in japan, because the japanese know they can speak some crazy moontalk and we'll pay triple for whatever they sell
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>>47728174
>An i5 cost like $600 USD there be $200 here

Thank PM Abe for increasing sales tax.

coming soon to Japan - VAT-style taxation
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>“The Japanese do like to have something physical"
Then why do they make so many H-games?
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>>47727811
>>47727851
>java
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>>47726146
That's because they know that e-books are an enemy of freedom.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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THIS JAPAN IS LE OLD IS JUST A SHIT MEME.

>Japan has some of the fastest internet connections in the world, but physical media such as books and DVDs still remain popular.
OMG THAT'S SO LE OLD XD PHYSECAL THENGS LEL XDDDD

>They use unsupported Windows OSes, and do banking with it
Bullshit, Windows 7 is by far the most popular OS and Windows XP is still used by millions of people and corporations WORLDWIDE.

>They have websites looking like those from the 90s
NO YOU IDIOT! If a website looks REALLY like something from the 90s it's because it's very likely to BE from the 90s.

Are you implying that rebooting your website every two years, and throwing away most of your old content, and killing your old links, is somehow better? Give me a fucking break.

If you mean webdesign as a whole, then get a fucking clue you dumb hipster. Perhaps the problem is YOU. The idiot who expect EVERY FUCKING WEBSITE to use HTML5, huge blocks with strong contrast, the whole Windows Metro style bullshit.

>They hate ebooks
SO LE OBSLEOTE ROFL XD

>They hate streaming services
So? Plenty of people elsewhere hate those too. Perhaps there's not that many people there who care. Oh wow, how can this be? Why won't those people act like me? How can anyone not like what I like?

>They only like to watch anime on FTA TV.
There's plenty of people who buy the discs or who pirate it. Even if that weren't the case, how on Earth is this a legitimate argument? Is TV so le obsolete now that it should be destroyed because you don't like it? Also, FTA TV IS a kind of streaming service.

>They don't give info for NSA but monitor all their internet and punish people that is torrenting with tough penalties
They're crazy about copyright, so what? How does this prove your point? How is this even relevant? And it happens in the US, the UK and other countries too.
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Truth is Japan hasnt been mostly irrelevant in technology for a while now.
Only their automobiles and rice cookers are high-tech.
Most of their "technology" are American or chink status.
Hell, Korea far surpasses them in technological advancement, and is still considered behind compared to the US/EU.
Also, physical formats are more of a novelty purpose for them.
Shit like DVD's/BDs, CDs, figmas and books, etc, are more for a collectors kind of feel more than anything.
Plus, having something physical is much more fulfilling than having something digital anyway.
That being said;
Learn to speak English, construct better sentences/queries, and yes. It's the contrary.
They're retarded, and we are superior. We've been superior for quite some time now, dipshit.
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>>47728397
has been mostly irrelevant*
It's late.
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>>47726146

Because they are smart consumers and can see through the foreign bullshit

With printed books&manga:

1. You can buy one with cash, anonymously.

2. Then you own it.

3. You are not required to sign a license that restricts your use of it.

4. The format is known, and no proprietary technology is needed to read the book.

5. You can give, lend or sell the book to another.

6. You can, physically, scan and copy the book, and it's sometimes lawful under copyright.

7. Nobody has the power to destroy your book.


Contrast that with Amazon e-books (fairly typical):

1. Amazon requires users to identify themselves to get an e-book.

2. In some countries, including the US, Amazon says the user cannot own the e-book.

3. Amazon requires the user to accept a restrictive license on use of the e-book.

4. The format is secret, and only proprietary user-restricting software can read it at all.

5. An ersatz “lending” is allowed for some books, for a limited time, but only by specifying by name another user of the same system. No giving or selling.

6. To copy the e-book is impossible due to Digital Restrictions Management in the player and prohibited by the license, which is more restrictive than copyright law.

7. Amazon can remotely delete the e-book using a back door. It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984.
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>>47726251
>They still have fax machines over there as well if I recall right.

Snowden revealed that faxes are more difficult to spy on compared to phones or email.

Encrypted fax machines need to be physically tampered with in order to "break it" like actual swapping of its guts.

The UN's encrypted fax machines were apparently a lot of trouble to break.
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>>47728418
>buying books


Enjoy paying $250
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>>47728397
>>47728413
jesus lol
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>>47728418
>smart consumers
>wasting 20 bucks on a volume, plus some more if imported or published from a foreign source
>wasting money on any media when you can download them for free and not be caught if you aren't dumb enough to allow yourself to be caught
>having to install proprietary software to read a book
>not sharing through dropbox/puush/usb swaps
Seems like someone needs to get off that nihonjin dick.
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>>47728397
>Hell, Korea far surpasses them in technological advancement

That gook-made 2015 top of the line "curved tv" looks shit and a huge stepback compared to my Pioneer ELITE Kuro TV/monitor made by obsessive japanese engineers and manufacturers
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>>47726669
Japan plans to make all TV broadcast in 4K by the Japanese Olympics.

Also, tomorrow, the Japanese Prime Minister is gonna convince America to buy their magnetic levitation bullet trains.

Texas is already making deals to buy a Japanese bullet train and set up a bullet train network in Texas.

And this week, Japanese bullet train set a new record like 600 miles per hour.
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>>47728143
Japanese submarines were the largest and most advances in World War 2.

After the war, America suck Japanese submarines on purpose because they feared the Soviet Union getting their hands on Japanese submarines.

It wasn't until nuclear powered submarines emerged decades later, that there existed a submarine larger than Japanese submarines.
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>>47728473
>filthy pirate

thank god westerners & foreigners have no say when it comes to games & otaku entertainment.
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>>47728552
Enjoy your shitty anime adaptations, axed/rushed series, poor gameplayability, edgetastic heroes, kawaii-uguu~ sluts, and shitty stories that seem like they're written by 12 year olds.
Enjoy paying for them as well.

Weeaboo banzai~!
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>>47728397
>Truth is Japan hasnt been mostly irrelevant in technology for a while now.
Bullshit. Anyone parroting this crap is a grade A moron. Just because they aren't releasing phones in the US doesn't magically make them irrelevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies

Of the top 14 tech companies by revenue, 3 are Japanese. The leading country is the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_equipment_sales_leaders_by_year

Your precious Korea and China don't come anywhere close to Japan in manufacturing semiconductor equipments. This is the highly specialized shit. What makes your pretty phone works.
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>>47728174
Japanese food tariffs will never cease to amaze me. In any other country on the planet there would be revolt over this garbage. 20 years ago.
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>>47728501
Don't forget the Zero, the most advanced fighter in for most of the war.

>these anti-japan hipsters invading my site

If you don't like Japan, get off my Chan.
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>>47727960
How if you can't use tor for torrenting music for example?
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>>47728174
their tech is fucked, sure. sony is fucked and neither the japs, that are ultranationalists, are buying sony products. the korean samsung is their savior.
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>>47728391

All of your ironic meme usage gave me cancer.
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>>47726834
There is an excuse: Legal work. They are still needed where evidence that the paperwork hasn't been tampered with is necessary. It's one of the reasons the Japanese still use telegrams. The person on the end receiving the telegram has to confirm they received the telegram, like if a text message told you the person read it.
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You think that's bad? Japan is still stuck with a Apple dominated market . Japs hate android
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>>47729107
Japs have something better called chromaggusOS
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>>47728397
Google bought several Japanese robot companies and a Japanese robotics team beat Americans at their very own DARPA robotics challenge competition.
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>>47729107
Yeah the love iphones there, but laptops are pretty rare.
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>>47727862
japanese won't even steal each other's bikes.
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>>47728397
i know rite, japan and its so-called "technology"

pfft
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Friendly reminder.
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>not hating ebooks
It's almost like you love your little shitty devices and think books are a quickly-consumed commodity like music that you have to stuff dozens or hundreds on a device.

Physical books > ebooks.

Now anyone that still uses physical media for movies: you're an idiot. Fucking Blushit should never have become a thing.
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>>47729366
This.
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They must be reading mainstream shit exclusively.
>tfw your favourite book was last printed before your birth
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They're just people. Stop trying to generalize the whole nation. They just have different trends and that doesn't mean it says anything about them for better or worse.
>>47726300
Fuck korea
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>>47729366
>Now anyone that still uses physical media for movies: you're an idiot. Fucking Blushit should never have become a thing.
*stayed a thing
physical media was necessary, but no longer is
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>>47728159
>Miyazaki
>garbage
Are you fucking retarded?
Miyazaki films are the ONE and ONLY everyone in this world should fucking enjoy.
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>>47728296
Physical copies are available and if you go to the store that sells them, or a debut, you can buy them.
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>>47728391
I agree with you but turn it down.
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>>47726146
>What happened in Japan?

Nothing, their preferences just happen to differ from yours.

Take your meds and calm that Autism.
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>>47728397
>They're retarded, and we are superior
Holy shit not even the most ignorant people in this here burgerland think this you fucking fag.
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>>47727851
>even the smell
are book smell air fresheners that you stick in your kindle case a thing yet?
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>>47728647
This so hard.
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>>47728134
>Japanese salad dressing packets
i just looked them up. where do you live that you haven't seen these?
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What happened was nothing. They have a history of eschewing new technology in favour of the status quo.

Look at their history, it's all about ignoring new technology. They had a colonial spat in the 19th century, but only because their entire navy was demolished by iron-clad ships.
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>>47729625
http://ebookfriendly.com/book-smell-perfumes-candles/
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>>47728647
>defending infallible glorious nippon because m-m-muh chinese cartoons!!!
okay, kid
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Japanese value their private lives.
Japanese culture, like that of most civilizations in Asia, is honor based; personal reputation is prioritized.
They don't use facebook to brag about what they're reading.
They prefer to have physical copies to impress people with.
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>>47726146
This is pretty consistent with people who are numb to technology.

I am a sysadmin at a high tech company in Silicon Valley.

My home computer is a shitty whatever whitebox I put together like 7 years ago, I still have a dumb phone, I don't have facebook or twitter accounts. I have a linkedin because it's for work.

And all my coworkers are pretty much the same.

After spending all day managing a virtual environment in the datacenter I just come home, read some paper books and go hiking and shit on the weekends.
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>>47726251
You are stupid, everywhere has fax machines. We have lync entrise voice at my office and 5 analogue lines, 1 for fax, 1 for the EMC, and 3 for whatever.
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>>47726146
>>Japan has some of the fastest internet connections in the world, but physical media such as books and DVDs still remain popular.
good
>>According to an R.R. Bowker study, 72% of Japanese consumers said they had not tried e-books and did not want to try them.
kinda stupid, guess they're not really into reading in the first place then
>>“The Japanese do like to have something physical,”
good
>>“Publishers are indifferent to, or even hate, digital things. Mainly because of excessive commitment to traditional print book distribution,”
just businesses being assholes as usual
>>They use unsupported Windows OSes, and do banking with it
fucked up
>>They have websites looking like those from the 90s
better than web 2.0 shit that runs javascript from 200 different domains and collects 500 different types of data to spy on you
>>They hate ebooks
retarded
>>They hate streaming services
good
>>They only like to watch anime on FTA TV.
pretty stupid
>>They don't give info for NSA but monitor all their internet and punish people that is torrenting with tough penalties
fucked up
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>>47726300

Canon are a great example of this.

They used to be at the top of their game but seem to be sitting on their laurels with no sign of wanting to climb back on top.
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>>47729831
the more you know about technology the less exciting stupid "apps" for everything and social media becomes, etc
good job, keep it up
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>hey, wanna buy something from our digital store?
>no thanks, we prefer hard copies.
>WHY ARE YOU SO BACKWARD JAPAN IS GOING TO BE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY

There are three things that make for a developed nation:
1.) the intellectual capital of the citizenry
2.) the economic and social cultures
3.) the level of technology available to industry

unless you're filthy rich on natural resources, everything else is negotiable and nothing else matters.
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>>47728174
i wonder if fruit being so expensive makes it taste better.
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>>47728134
>>47728134
I find the Japanese love for over the top plastic food packaging both wasteful and stupid.
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>>47729805
Fucking this.

Patetic faggots grow up.
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>>47729805
Says nothing about that you idiot
Get an argument you illiterate child
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>>47729898
You're the fucking idiot
You're putting anime in this when it's not even relevant when people support Japan so you can continue to justify your irrational stance.
Anime isn't the only reason people would defend Japan. It's actually a good country.
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Is this why so many people in anime still have flip-phones? Speaking of which, do they use SMS? Because they always say they're emailing each other.
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>>47729821
>honor

honor isn't well represented with the bizarre javs, bukkakes, cp, young girls prodtituting themselves to buy the brand new gadget and the organized crime that the government dont give a fuck
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>>47729954
Yes, there are still a lot of flip phones, although many young people are switching to the modern smart phone style. No, they don't use SMS. There was a period in the late 90s/early 00s where Japan was really advanced in cell phone technology, which is why their flip phones are very feature rich. Then it just stagnated.
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>>47729964
Porn is in every country and so is organized crime.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan
Read that and tell me it's a problem
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>>47729954
Using email is smarter since it avoids you getting jewed all the time.
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>>47727761
how so?
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>>47730001
people only use their emails to log in facecuck
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>>47726300
>Korea
The country so advanced that they evolved into humans who can't smell anymore. So advanced because of that open sewage. Let's not forget about plastic surgery.

>>47726146
I also like physical stuff. I never buy digital shit unless its some dlc or only available digitally (Nintendo mostly). Music, books, games are all physical. Software like Photoshop is paid for and digital though (no discs and shit).
Just something about actually owning your shit and relying on servers to stay online for shit you paid for (looking at you, psn).

BTW, I'm Canadian, if that matters
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>>47726380
Haha, that's the weird thing. Everything physical, but women. Unless body pillows count (IMO they don't because they can't make you sandwiches, or whatever Japan's version of sandwiches is)
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>people who think korea is good
Only the most fake, unvirtued people could think this
Seriously I don't think people yet grasp how lame it is
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>>47726146
I'm the same.

Fuck digital. I'm not paying money for fucking just zeroes and ones.
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>>47726146
it's because they are instant people

iphone, mac osx, nintendo, low and outdated hardwares pc with old windows, everything is only for their fast pleasure

do they even have android device?
do they even care linux?
do they always bu expensive hardwares with the lastest windows?
do they even know how to hack, rooting, or even jailbreaking their idevice?

the answer is no, why?

because they only care 'how to make my life more instant'
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>>47730308
>nintendo, low and outdated hardwares pc with old windows, everything is only for their fast pleasure
Your statement is so stupid I don't even.
Windows and macs. Old stuff = fast pleasure = Nitendo. What?
You might be retarded.
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>>47730308
And what's your opinion about it?
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>>47730308
>nintendo
>fast pleasure
Are you seriously this stupid?
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If they go all digital, how will they hug their waifu at night?
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>>47730373
>>47730375
>reminder these reatards never see that 2chan arguments about freedom software
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>>47730391
Reminder that you can't even speak Japanese.
そうでしょ
日本語で返事してみな
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>>47728159
Miyazaki is the modern Walt Disney. His works are amazing.
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>>47728174
I lost it at the watermelon.

But seriously, fruit is a special case there. Those 60 dollar melons? Raised with more care than a child by the farmers there; they're competition fruit. Luxury commodities.

You can still buy imported crap for reasonable prices in Japan.
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>>47730298

Why not? If you're not paying for the information in the book then what are you paying for?
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