2010-10-13
The stupidity, the idiocy of television stations… The match does not actually begin for another hour… There can hardly be such idiotic television broadcasting anywhere else in the world…
Why does NHK not do something this idiotic?
Because television, as well as newspapers, has already become a declining industry…
Because the world is not so foolish that their fundamental problems—their falsehoods and their submission to power—can continue forever…
They do not even realize that this problem, too, could be solved by dispersing to the regions… With five stations concentrated in Tokyo alone, making the same programs, it is only natural that sponsors should leave, yet fools too stupid to realize even this have repeatedly broadcast bogus reporting and made Japan what it is today.
How much my proposal hits the mark… I do not think a single person had noticed… If the stations were dispersed among Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka, advertising for every station would be secure… There is no helping fools who cannot understand why.
Saying that this is the only place they can make money…
They not only deceive the public in their reporting but even deceive them about when a match starts, thinking nothing of wasting a precious hour of working people’s time.
Who on earth made this country so stupid…
It has now been demonstrated that prosecutors, editorial writers at major newspapers, and the Tahebanas were among the prominent contributors.
It all comes down to the evil of the 10 percent who constitute the elite… Their hideous egotism.
Self-satisfied arrogance… It fits the editorial writers of the major newspapers perfectly.
So dim-witted that they can no longer even understand that behind petty-bourgeois morality there is always hypocrisy…
Now that it has also been exposed that most of those in Japan are mere political operators.
What can I do, what can you do?
Remain in this country?
Stay in this place?
Keeping our souls confined.
Unable to meet, speak with, or live with the beloved person who could have become a lifelong lover… Continuing to live a life half-lived—is that life?
Our country raises a great chorus of petty-bourgeois morality, a mass of hypocrisy, driven by a delusion manufactured by prosecutors called “politics and money”… It keeps up this idiocy, and all the media companies are deliberately ignoring last night’s momentous news.
And then, as if to demonstrate the height of idiocy, all the companies, side by side, one after another… Broadcast what they call rescue news from a country on the other side of the globe for more than thirty minutes on end…
It is now nothing other than deliberate concealment by all the companies together… Such a bleak night.
Even on a night like this, the world… No one had imagined that Android would spread at such a speed.
It must have been unexpected even for Andy Rubin, 47, the creator of this platform for smartphones—advanced mobile phones.
Five years ago, the start-up Rubin led had just come under Google’s ownership and was aiming to develop a platform to run smartphones.
The first mobile phone equipped with Android went on sale two years ago.
It could hardly have been called a success, even as a compliment, but improvements continued, and Android has now been adopted by leading mobile phone manufacturers such as HTC, Motorola, and Samsung.
According to Google’s announcement in August, an average of 200,000 Android-equipped mobile phones are newly registered each day.
There have also been days when the figure exceeded 250,000, Rubin says.
Android has overtaken Apple and surged into first place in the U.S. smartphone platform market.
It also ranks third in the global market and is far ahead in the rate of growth of its market share.
“I’ve never had an experience this enjoyable,” says Rubin, who has been involved with numerous technology start-ups over the past twenty years.
Android was developed by a small team of engineers in an unremarkable building at Google’s headquarters in California.
The program is extremely small, totaling just 200 megabytes—the equivalent of forty songs in MP3 files.
This small project is about to fundamentally change the way the mobile industry operates.
The industry’s balance of power is shifting from Europe and Asia to Silicon Valley, and the fortunes of some of the world’s foremost technology companies have begun to change dramatically.
Google and Apple, which had cooperated for many years, have also begun to clash fiercely.
Apple’s smartphone, the iPhone, quickly captured a large market share when it was released in 2007.
Until recently, Apple seemed assured of becoming the dominant force in the mobile internet…
From this week’s issue of Newsweek Japan.