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 [...]