Il piu’ grande crimine, di Paolo Barnard

Ottanta e sei pagine, Sig. Barnard. Oggi, chi ha voglia di leggere 86 pagine su un discorso di economia, malgrado riguardi tutti? Non dico di scrivere tutto in 256 caratteri ma … sintesi, o video, forse rendono piu’ facile l’approccio.

Ho letto per ora le prime 5 e le ultime 5 pagine (no, non quelle di citazione delle fonti): non mi fermero’

Ne cito un pezzo, magari incuriosisco qualche amico a leggere tutto il malloppone:

Insomma,il risultato [della situazione economica europea] è che coloro che da sinistra credono di lottare contro il Sistema in realtà lo stanno nutrendo con il loro credere nella ‘buona economia’, che altro non è se non esattamente l’economia predatrice delle elite spacciata per buon senso. I Globocrati sono stati molto più intelligenti di quanto chiunque di voi creda.

Buona interessante lettura, giuro che provero’ a finirlo tutto !

Grazie wikipedia.it, contro comma 29 del DDL interecettazioni

Wikipedia.it non e’ piu’ accessibile, in quanto l’ultimo disegno di legge a’ la Berluska compromettera’ fortemente la liberta’ di parola e informazione, anche su un’enciclopedia online.

Io, se fossi Italiano MI VERGOGNEREI! Per ora mi viene da piangere. Ci vuole una class-action contro il governo.

PS
Ovviamente, Wikipedia.it e’ un covo di comunisti – la Bielorussia e’ vicina, amici italiani.

How easily might a fly get a positive karma?

Sometimes I think about death, after-life, reincarnation and religious philosophies. Today at lunch with my collegueas I introduced one of my dilemma: how easily can beings inferior to humans acquire a good karma?

If we believe humans are the top re-incarnation beings, we know for them how easy it is to get bad or good karmas. Help grandma crossing the street, give to the poors, share love with your friends and so on: good. Act nasty, kill, desire the wife of your friend: bad.

However, if you are a bug, a earth worm, a gut bacteria…how can you go up again to final freedom, annichilation and eternal nothing?

Is a mosquito good when it does not bite me, or good and bad are concepts very different for very different living beings? Does anybody know anything about it? My colleagues left me alone at the table..

The 3 golden laws to rule them all!

1. create targets

2. create rules for reaching such targets

3. create fears of losing what was gained

Targets at point 1 must be unequally distributed, thus to create frictions in the society. Frictions, ordered by the rules at point two, will create a dynamic competition between people looking for targets and people who reached them. Fears at point 3 must be created, thus to introduce uncertainty also in people who reached their targets and avoid excessive unbalance towards a stall situation.

Cheap money-driven systems always win, but at what price?

Think about living during the culprit of a “money-driven system”, where every product could gain its place in the world just because of its low price and its large public acceptance. High prices would play against the buying power of the majority. As well, niche, peculiar products would guarantee no high incomes.

Would we lose anything by producing everything by following these few restrictions?

What if art and culture learned the same rules? What if medicine and science looked for profit instead of health care and research? What if the working class had to renounce to its rights to keep prices low? What if technology wasted its power to satisfy markets and not innovation? What if media followed audience levels instead of increasing everybody consciousness? What if politics substituted their public agenda with populist initiatives?

Only God knows how such society could survive!

Lorana on National Geographic Traveler Feb.2011 !!! Best hints for Azores islands adventures!

There is something familiar on the website of National Geographic Traveler this month. Where did I already see that picture from Azores Islands ???  Oh yeah, our holidays on Azores have been published on the February 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler!!!

We spent three wonderful weeks on Azores in summer 2010, and you can bet Stasia wrote on this fifteen (15!) pages long reportage all the best you can do in this Portuguese paradise! Have a low-res (for copyright reasons) preview of a few pages from  this amazing article here.

Buy this very interesting National Geographic Traveler issue here (if you can read Russian!)

PS: all our photo collection from Azores you can find here while a short summary of our best hints (in English) you can find HERE!

Iphone 4G or HTC EVO or iPad 64GB or eeePC 1800HA Karim Rashid? Please HELP ME!

It is days I do not sleep anymore. I read no-stop thousands of cNET reviews, Tech Crunch / Mashable / EnGadget posts, ictblog comments and even www.punto-informatico.it !!! Which of them should I choose?

What should I buy to be REALLY satisfied? I already have a Nokia N8 with 12MP Carl Zeiss optics but my wife got a Samsung Galaxy (the Luxury Edition with the leader case!!!!) for Christmas and she gave her old BlackBerry Android to my mother – I feel such a loser now!!! :,(

I do not dare anymore to read news online while I am on the underground with such a crappy phone – the 20GB .avi movies I compressed in cannot always run at 25fps (the battery does not even last so long!!), the screen is too small to read the 40 e-books I bought on amazon.com (yes, I want to read them while being outside!), I hate virtual keyboards and I have even one pixel burned!

Should I go for a Kindle, instead? They say the e-ink is so cool I could read the whole Tolstoy production under full sunlight when we go for outdoor activities! But is it water proof??

PLEASE, give me your TRUE, direct feedback on those machines and tell me what you recommend most!!!

PS

Also, what about the best mobile for the safest for e-banking? I love to check my stock options in bed but my wife is disturbed by the brightness of my actual ThinkPad W700ds Dual Screen Notebook when she listen to her 128 GB MP3 library on her iPod nano (the new cool one, with the nano monitor!) before getting asleep!

PPS

What about Xoom? I read at CES it was a real breakthrough!! Has it Honeycomb pre installed for REAL???! Is it already on Amazon??? Does it feel good in your hands or is it too plastic-like? Is it 4G?

PPPS

I like the design of the eeePC 1800HA Karim Rashid: but is it an all-round machine or is it already outdated? Is the back panel as soft as they write in the online product manual?

Why should I celebrate Christmas this year?

When I was a kid, every Christmas I had to write a letter to baby Jesus. I had to confess my sins to obtain gifts. Quite a nice bargain.

I never believed in Santa Klaus, so when the teacher told us Santa is a fairy tale I did not care.

Then I stopped believing in baby Jesus bringing gifts – it happened, I do not remember how.

I started to ask my parents for gifts and I happily celebrated Christmas because of winter holidays!

After teenager time, I got somehow a faith boost and I started to celebrate Christmas because Jesus-was-born-to-dye-later-for-all-of-us, saving humanity for the Eternity.

Maybe I just grew old, and the fairy tale of Jesus dying for us became barely believable. Somehow I started to believe more in “The Green Planet” version about Jesus than what the Evangelists wrote.

As I do not care about shopping and if it was for me all shops could close from the 1st of December to the 7th of January, I wonder why should I celebrate Christmas this year?

Вера в реальность

В голубом свеченье вечер
Мыслью снижу расстоянье
Жжет в глазах, рябь сердца, встреча
Год прошел со дня свиданья

Первое прикосновенье
Ток из пальцев по рубашке
ЗаИскрит от напряженья
Наша кожа в нежной ласке

Разорвем одежды панцирь
Снова голое на голом
Отслоится хрупким сланцем
Честь и совесть, долг и горе

Я – насквозь, а ты – движенье
Всё стремительнее гонка
Миг – в оранжевом круженье
Солнце лопнет стоном тонким

В наслаждении беспечно
Я глаза, забыв, открою
Предо мной на сайте личном
Твое фото в мониторе.

PS Все рассказы и стихи

Stardust: what do stars do? They shine.

Stardust is a 2007 fantasy film directed by Matthew Vaughn. The film is based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name,
illustrated by Charles Vess, and stars an ensemble cast including Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Peter O’Toole,
Robert De Niro and Charlie Cox.

Finally a movie where special effects don’t overwhelm the story.
We found this movie very appealing. Stardust isn’t a children’s movie. It’s a movie for anyone, of any age, who believes in magic.
Give it a chance!

- Daniele A. -