Re: [tlug] Wifi hotspot access in Tokyo

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 03/13/2014 02:11 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Raymond Wan writes:
>
>    > [+] Sadly, a few people have taken the "subway regulations" into
>   > their own hands and recorded people eating and uploaded the videos
>   > up on to Youtube.  I'll take security roboto any day...
>
> Heh.  I am *very* tempted to do that with traffic violations here....
Come on over to the other side of Kitaura and you'd be surprised at how 
much worse traffic is in coastal Ibaraki than up on the Piedmont, where 
you are.  We have the additional cachet of being on the road connecting 
Tokyo with the Hokkaido ferry dock at Oarai and end up with long static 
lines of trucks with Wakkanai, Sapporo, and Tomakomai license plates 
that don't stop to buy anything from the local shops, wreck our roads, 
treat red lights as optional, and stuff articulated tractor-trailers 
into right hand turns through spaces vacated by a K-jidosha turning 
right from the opposite direction.
After several years here, I am convinced that if the Israelites had come 
from Ibaraki, Moses would have climbed Tsukuba-san to receive the 
Fifteen Really Good Ideas written on the back of an envelope that had 
contained God's TEPCO bill, and received instructions to narrow it down 
to ten.  And, after 4,000 years the twelve tribes would still be sending 
junior-double-under-sub-assistant-fuku-kakaricho-dairis to meetings in 
Chikusei to negotiate the menus for the annual meeting of the kachos in 
Hitachi-Ota, where they would discuss making a plan to form a committee 
to decide the schedule for forming the study group to propose the 
membership standards for the management group that would vet the 
candidates for the organization that would investigate changes in the 
social environment, and the possible perceived changes in the meaning of 
the terms, since the envelope was carried down from the mountain, and 
prepare a report that could be discussed by the General Conference in 
Kashima, with an eye toward appointing a committee of experts.
--
CL