Archive for May, 2008

the law

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

If you don’t obey the law and you come with the excuse you did not know it, that excuse doesn’t hold, right? It’s your obligation as a citizen to know the law. Then the law should be published on the Net and should be freely accessible to any citizen.
The responsibility of publishing the law online [...]

the Net and the narrow thinkers

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Mr. Dvorak complains about the dying of newspapers, which supposedly should give you a skillfully baked world view. In this article, although he’s right in a few details on the education, he’s utterly wrong with the main theme, that a world view should be served at breakfast. There is no world view one can grasp [...]

euro VAT and oil

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Mr. Sarkozy thinks EU should drop the VAT for oil. For oil in general? No way, that would be an encouragement for the European to consume it as if nothing happened. But dropping VAT for oil used in transportation of merchandise and in some industries seems reasonable.
Then he says the VAT should be diminished for [...]