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 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 the […]

artist’s pay

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

How much should an artist get paid for its work? Can’t settle that, ok, what is an art item then? A unique, or an almost impossible to repeat, happening; a singularity; then, yes, it’s possible to copy it but not make it happen as it happened. Not even the artist itself can’t have the same […]

now

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

fresh talent on the block: Afraid of you, from Our sleepless forest (2008), by Nomads; it sounds like Leaf, from 1989 (2008), by Disparition. wish u were there.

how a socialist constitution looked like

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Here are some excerpts (the section about the rights and duties of the citizens) from the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Romania (RSR), issued in 1965:

Art.17
The RSR citizens, without discrimination based on nationality, race, sex or religion, are equal in rights in all the domains of economical, political, juridical, social and cultural life.
The state […]

the irony of being a saint

Friday, May 9th, 2008

An ancient holy Chinese guy said, once: One is not a saint if one leaves any worldly trace after his own death. This quote being one of the worldly traces he left, it slowly follows that defining what a saint means is either worldly unimportant or self-contradictory.

oil forecast

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

crude-oil is now around 120USD/barrel, and is forecasted at 160USD/barrel in a year, that means it will almost double in two years, that means the high cost of using cars is finally getting visible for the ignorant too. Pittsburgh needs a subway network, now.

costume and tie

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Did you notice how deeply moronic looks somebody in a suit and a tie?
Why do they keep wearing these horrible pieces of clothing? I find this habit atrocious.
The elderly have the excuse of the ’50s: factory workers had a work-suit, and their bosses a visibly different one. But the youngsters have none, unless they have […]

namlook

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Passing airwhales, from A view to a chill (2001), by Pete Namlook. Wish you feel like we do.