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Ridicolmente Ridicolizzati dal Ridicolo
Mar 29th
Ridicoli.
Questo siamo.
Un popolo di RIDICOLI che permettono ad un uomo RIDICOLO, Silvio Berlusconi, cancrena degli ultimi 20 e piu’ anni d’Italia, senza alcuna vergogna, remora, timore o paura, di fare il bello ed il cattivo tempo. E di RIDICOLIZZARE ogni Valore, Diritto, Legge, Organo Istituzionale.
Il tutto abusando, anzi dire i violentando, stuprando, le parole. Parole come “Liberta’”, “Diritto”, “Stato”, “DEMOCRAZIA”.
E quindi si arriva a cose orribili e disgustose, come il gesto fatto in chiusura dei “lavori” del nuovo partito da lui fondato, PdL (Popolo delle Liberta’), con cui si e’ letteralmente mangiato tutta la destra italiana.
Nerds and Wonks should drive America(?)
Oct 20th
I could start comment this out, but the article itself is interesting enough: I don’t need to add my own juice (and, most important, it doesn’t need it neither).
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We owe our well-crafted democratic form of government with its cleverly designed system of checks and balances, to a weird bunch of policy, technology, and scientific wonks and nerds such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton.These guys and their compatriots were the kind of wonks and nerds, who, when presented with a problem and a complex system to analyze and possibly replicate, threw themselves into learning as much about it as possible. Some were best at policy, and others were best at technology, and some, like Jefferson and Franklin were outstanding contributors to both.
But today – because some of them did not exactly have winning personalities and others had personal morality issues – few would have little chance of getting elected. Which is a shame because not only did they have the desire, education and life experience to deal with such problems, they also had what Walter Lippmann – a premier political journalist of past decades – called “civic virtue.,”
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The wonks and nerds we need to run for political office and take direct control are out there. Some I see working within government advising the politicials, such as engineering nerd and ecomomics wonk Neel Kashkari, the interim assistant secretary in the U.S. Treasury assigned with the responsibilty for managing the financial bailout. Others I meet at the embedded system design, science, and technology meetings I attend and write about.Many of you are satisfied and busy with the work you trained for. Others may have a complete disdain for politics and politicians. But remember our representative democracy was designed as a “goverment OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people.”
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I would be an interesting perspective, to see real man, with real, proved, good technical skills, drive a country Politically. And, as Bernard Cole itself says, that’s what was in the past. The best men, the once with the skills and the study, drove countries to write their Constitutions.
But nowdays Politicians are, most of them, bunch of wankers with no culture, no civic virtue, no morality, no vision in “science and technology as a the way to improve citizens life”. Just personal interest.
Full article on Embedded.com.
I like angry techs
Aug 12th
I wrote about Hadoop some time ago (for “some reasons”) and I did EXACTLY what Ted Dziubas says here.
But I’m not offended at all: he is 100% right! And I strongly suggest to take a look at this article: in the middle of his swearing there is, actually, some good stuff about “what is going on in the Web2.0 Yet Again Exploding Bubble!!!
Innovation lesson from Pixar
Apr 17th
Innovation is one of the major topics that all the Big companies speaks all the time about: how, what, when… Innovation?
When the reality is of a little/medium size company, Innovation is easy: you don’t need to convince, motivate, move people. Teams with “Innovation in mind” just pop out from the ground… and a good manager just need to feed and support them.
But when it comes to big companies, with budgets of millions, with Customers that are even bigger… it’s like trying to move an Elephant using one man and a cord. Mission Impossible.
But.
There are brave companies. Companies that plays the game smart. And those company lead Innovation. Apple? Yes, please!
This article is indirectly about Apple: it’s about Pixar. It’s an interview to the Director of a different great movies in Pixar that brought “Innovation where looked impossible”: Phillip Bradley Bird (aka Brad Bird).
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In Italia il crimine paga e potrebbe farti eleggere
Apr 13th
Dopo che la Chiesa l’ha ammonito per essersi elevato al rango di “Salvatore”, si e’ auto proclamato Papa: potra’ ’si farsi “Encicliche ad Personam” per permettere al Papa di rappresentare ufficialmente la reincarnazione di Cristo.
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A beautiful, romantic country of olive-dappled landscapes and cobblestoned piazzas famed for its food, fashion and bella figura, Italy is today a land awash in corruption, economic decay, political ennui, rampant impunity and a fast-declining standard of living. Inflation is among the highest in Western Europe, growth the lowest. Record numbers of people report feeling poorer than ever.
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Volevo andare a correre stamane, ma la pioggia mi ha fatto finire su questo articolo del Los Angeles Times sulle elezioni e le condizioni generali del Italia.
Vorrei tanto che il mio popolo aprise gli occhi. Che realizzasse in quanto lerciume navighiamo.
Poi mi viene da pensare che una buona parte di questo popolo di “ciechi”, neanche sa dove si trova Los Angeles. Ragazzi, e’ dove e’ iniziato CSI Scena del Crimine, ricordate? E’ qui! E’ posto reale. Ci sono persone, vite, case, scuole, amori, dolori, morte. Come da noi. E leggete cosa pensano di noi!!!
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The conduct of business is a murky and frustrating experience — unless you’re the Mafia, now the largest business in Italy, accounting for 7% of gross domestic product, according to the Assn. of Italian Industrialists.The judiciary rarely functions: Cases can languish not for years but decades. Italian Parliament members are the highest-paid in Europe but, in the opinion of many people, the least effective, a self-perpetuating elite that seems hellbent on taking the country down with it.
“With its byzantine and decadent style of politics, Italy is at a point of no return,” says sociologist Luca Ricolfi, author of a scathing critique titled “The Art of Non-Government.”
Lack of accountability trumps civic duty every time. And don’t expect national elections taking place today and Monday to change things.
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Ci classificano ormai come il paese con l’inflazione piu’ alta e il prodotto interno lordo piu’ basso: non parlano di culi, costantini, e l’ultimo colore della chioma del nano di Arcore. Parlano di numeri. Numeri che, tradotti nel linguaggio di noi comuni mortali, significa poverta’, significa basso potere d’acquisto… significa che i nostri Padri hanno vissuto in un paese MIGLIORE di quello riservato a noi. Ogni regola di progresso e’ capovolta: i figli soffrono di problemi di cui i padri non hanno sofferto.
Qualunque cosa voterete oggi (si, anche per quel frocio demagogo bugiardo e felino del nano), io credo che non cambiera’ ancora niente. Solo una rivoluzione civile potrebbe. Solo.
Continuate a leggere qui, se vi va. Ma, se non vi va, capisco. Non tanto perche’ “ci fa soffrire leggere quando si parla male del nostro paese” (non avrebbe poi senso seguire con tanta attenzione la De Filippi, i culi e le tette di Costanzo, i Grandi Fratelli, gli altri centinaia di Reality e tutti i Lucignoli che classificano il nostro paese come un covo di bimbi-rattusi-malcresciuti-mammoni-poveri-precari-leccaculi), ma perche’…
Ah, ma e’ in inglese???
Allora appena posso…
Anche i Francesi sono meglio di noi in Inglese…
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