tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50497952011-04-22T00:13:37.411+02:00Random thoughts (often deteriorating into rants) that came to my mind while in the loo. Half-baked reactions to something read, heard or experienced. Some in English, some in Croatian. More <a href="http://bnz.blogspot.com/2003_02_09_bnz_archive.html#89137844">here</a>.<br> An interesting word on blogging in general <a href="http://bnz.blogspot.com/2004/11/ea-on-graphomania.html">here</a>.Bonzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18171851659456010996noreply@blogger.comBlogger731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049795.post-1127653668032516992005-09-25T15:03:00.001+02:002008-04-07T23:06:59.357+02:00

I am, at least temporarily, moving my infrequent blogging efforts to LiveJournal, entirely for the purpose of experimentation. I will quite possibly be back here, in which case you will probably not see this entry anyway... :)

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Preliminary results from French referendum on European Constitution are in: Chirac and Europe have lost, 55%:45%. Who has won? Nobody, probably...Mr. Chirac did not have to put the Constitution to referendum; National Assembly has authority to pass the law ratifying it. However, he wanted to show he has strong support, whatever his policy. Europe is paying for this hubris.Analysts claim that

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When American energy lobby and their tame scientists and Presidents deny dangers of global warming (or, more PC put, climate change), that's not news. But when a widely respected senior scientist, a botanist David Bellamy joins them (in a letter to New Scientist, a reputable British weekly for amateur science fans), that is something completely different.George Monbiot of AlterNet did an

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Mr. George Galloway, a rogue British ex-Labour PM, testified before US House Committee on Unameric... oops, no, this was Senate sub-committee, on his alleged role in scams around Iraq oil for food program. Well, the guy simply destroyed poor clueless senators (you see, no use of lobbyist-prepared statements in a real debate). Excerpts, CNN comment, BBC comment and full video.The guy is probably

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This one is from Croatia, but all of my compatriots who perhaps might read this speak English, anyway... So:We had local elections yesterday. The party I actively support (for the lack of anything better) (SDP) got 40% votes in Zagreb, bringing it to a single seat short of absolute majority in municipal assembly. The results in boroughs are even better. So, why am I depressed?There it this guy

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There's an op-ed text in NYT on failure of The Holy See to admit and apologize for its failure to use its moral authority to stop the Holocaust. (As usually, the author only mentions six millions Jewish victims; others, like Romany, are forgotten again.) It is mentioned that bishops in France and Germany did issue statements expressing regret for their passivity.In Croatia, priests, monks and

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Cheap labour from 'the East' has not swamped the West (except for jobs Germans and French don't think about taking for decades now). Eastern economies did not collapse under the pressure of competition once barriers got dismantled (though some, like pampered Slovenian food industry, did feel the heat). All said, the enlargement went surprisingly smoothly.And yet, people in some of 'core' EU

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60 years ago an era of unthinkable evil ended, hopefully for good. During the last 15 years new Croatian politicians tried to distance themselves from anything remotely smacking of Communism (and some of them received hefty contributions from extreme right wing emigration), so the theme of Croatian antifascism was rarely brought up. This year, however, I see it more on places like public TV, and

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I have returned from Paris, New Year holidays have come and gone, likewise Croatian presidential elections (both rounds of them) with all the folly that goes with them. The world is no more intelligent, honest or diligent than before, be it local politicians and 'businessmen' or the favourite target of my interest and comments, Americans. Still, I somehow don't have energy to comment... Sigh.

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Iz "Briefinga":Ponudu uprave T-HT-a da prihvate stimulativne otpremnine za odlazak iz tvrtke prihvatilo je 2.300 zaposlenika, izvijestio je T-HT. Otpremnine iznose od 129.000 do 221.000 kuna neto za one koji su u T-HT-u proveli više od pet godina, a Republički sindikat radnika hrvatske pošte i telekomunikacija tvrdi da je dio zaposlenika ponudu prihvatio pod velikim pritiskom.Da, pritiskalu su ih

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Allas, the Dan Brown's novel, not the Italian master's works. The fact that the novel which, in my opinion, does not deserve special attention, manages to comprise perhaps half of Paris comuters' current library is really a tribute to literary marketing.

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My current book for the metro is Milan Kundera’s “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (“Kniha Smichu a Zapomneni”) from 1978. It’s interesting that the English translation I am reading was done in 1995 from “the authentic French edition”, as Kundera put it, not from the Check original. Anyway, instead of a review (which I might yet attempt), I am noting here several thoughts the author had

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... 59 million people really can be so dumb! (Go here, look for Nov 4 2004 at the bottom if it fell off the page.) It's not so simple, of course, and it did help that Karl Rove is clearly a genius, but still.... So, it is over now, and no post can change anything (as if anybody reads this), but I will nevertheless post the list of Dubya's accomplishments that I got (via multiple forwards) from

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That's The Economist's cover story title. OK, the incompetent is easy; but I was a bit surprised at the magazine labeling Kerry incoherent. Perhaps is has something to do with a world according to a conservative talk-radio host featured on CNN:There are not many liberal talk-radio hosts. They are not interesting. They see everything in shades of gray. We see the world black and white, as all

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The new Bin Laden's tape appeared some three days before American presidendial elections. Bin Laden look almost academical, sitting at the lectern, "clean shaved, as far as these folks get", as Walter Cronkite put it at CNN. Naturally, Bin Laden attcked Bush. Also naturally, this helped Dubya (although just slightly, judging by polls). Again, in paraphrased Cronkite's words, "this is as if Karl

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Two weeks ago "Charlemagne", a columnist for "The Economist" wrote that European Parliament is playing "an intoxicating game of 'let's pretend'", pretending that is was a real parliament, deciding about a real cabinet. Of course, the matter at hand was confirmation hearings before parliamentary commitees, which Rocco Buttiglione, nominated for justice and home portfolio, failed. ("The Economist"

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I read another day an article (I lost the link) about more and more US veterans not having health insurance. The article also complained that those who are covered through VA enjoy less than stellar level of care. An VA official retorted along these lines:Veterans insured through VA enjoy approximately same level of service as general population on a HMO plan: for example, they rarely wait for a

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Down the short Rue Greuze in which I temporarily live are embassies of Spain and Thailand. For the last week or so in front of the later are those omnipresent (in Paris) barricades used for corraling pedestrians for the purpose of avoiding falling into a hole in the pavement, making show ticket queues more orderly, keeping streets free for Tour de France competitors or trying to keep protesting

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Some American reservists are discovering that war is, generally speaking, dangerous, and that military discipline on the frontline is not always a pleasant thing. Perhaps their parents, friends and relatives will have that in mind before being too gung-ho about going to the next war. (See, for example, here, or Google for 'Iraq mutiny' or something like that - it will be all over the Web.)

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I like a good thriller, mystery, police procedural novel, whatever these are called. The best authors seem to be women: P.D.James, Minette Walters, Elisabeth George. I will also gladly read a competent techno-thriller, like those from an old reactionary Tom Clancy (but emphatically not those thom "his workshop"). Recently I tried to add another one to the trio of my favorite lady writers, a

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As you probably know, a country cannot be a member of Council of Europe (not to be confused with European Council) if it practices capital punishment; the organization is meant only for relatively civilized nations. (Admidetly, savages such as USA (see further) are sometimes granted observer status.) Curently in the USA there are 73 people on 'death row' who commited their crimes when under 18

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Rafael Barajas (El Fisgón) writes: The typical Mexican political boss has an inclination toward violence and cruelty; he despises legality and intellectual activity, has a personal history of alcoholism and dissipation and lies systematically. Sound familiar?He goes on to note how in this age of globalization one of truly global-impact processes, that of American presidential elections, is,

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My friend Zvonči was leaving Paris for Zagreb today, so I went with her to the CDG airport. We were walking down the lenght of long and narrow terminal 2B concourse trying to locate appropriate passport control booth (this particular terminal is organised so that you first go through passport check, and only then to check-in), when we encountered several police or airport security guys clearing

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'Forbes' has an article on steroids being more harmful than useful in treating head injuries. While mildly interesting as kind of medical trivia I like to read about, what makes the article appearing in the blog is this: In general, Roberts said, "there is little clinical research in brain injuries. Most treatments for brain injuries are unproven. They may be useless or harmful as well." Roberts

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Apparently, a medium-sized bomb detonated this morning in front of the Indonesian embassy in Paris, barely three blocks from the appartment where I stay (no serious injuries reported, luckily; only some flying glass cuts). I did not hear a thing, despite one of my bedroom windows facing in the direction of the embassy. I must be working too hard...

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Danas je stigla Zvonči, i ostaje oko tjedan dana. Nisam je dočekao na aerodromu, nego na aerodromskom autobusu, što mi Jaca ne kani zaboraviti. Odmah smo se dali u veliko šetanje, od kojeg se još oporavljam. Slike po svoj prilici tek po povratku u Zagreb.

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I saw yesterday on CNN's pretentiously called "Insight" program a segment on Dan Brown's incredibly well selling novel "Da Vinci Code", "controversy" surrounding it and what the Church has to say. Hordes of "codehunters" visiting the book's locales were also covered. Here is an article that contains perhaps half of the program (that is, almost everything except the most interesting parts where

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I went today to Paris Autoshow. Entering metro, I saw a tall young black guy sprawled on the floor. He looked asleep. He probably was asleep, as Paris homeless people sometimes are on metro benches. Perhaps he was dead, in which case there was nothing to be done. But he might, just might, had been in some kind of trouble (drunkenness, overdose, stroke...), and not beyond help. Nobody paid any

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CNN has an article about a judge questioning former Chilean dictator Pinochet. Too little, too late, of course, but there is an encouraging element in the article: Pinochet's supporters staged a demonstration; all four of them.

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Can somebody please explain to me why don't Americans build proper houses, at least in hurricane-prone areas? I mean, I understand Japanese houses made of bamboo sticks and paper: nothing heavy to fall on one's head when the next earthquake decides to make face of the earth wart-free. But that is appropriate. This Florida stuff is anything but. I am watching on CNN some poor soul boarding up his

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I read on CNN teletext, as one of about ten top news from the world, about several American students punished for installing in their on-campus apartment a 'stripper-pole' and holding a dance competition among their (clothed) female colleagues. Somehow, I dont think there were only nine more important things happening in the world at the moment. Or did CNN publish this as an illustration of the

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Sickening images of hurricane survivors in Haiti fighting for food and water reminded me that USA does not tend to intervene in situations like this quite as easily as when a little regime change is called for. Then again, considering the track record (say, in Somalia), this is perhaps as well....

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I saw another day on one satelite Travel channel or another an ad for something called "RealTV". It goes like this: In a dirty alley two policamen, hunkered behind a squad car, are exchanging fire with a young 'bag guy'. The guy runs out of ammunition, reloads, wounds one of cops, and then the third policeman appears with a machine gun and cuts the 'bad guy' down. The twist is that the machine

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Jučer je "Vjesnik" donio člančić o jugomasonskoj judeokomunističkoj zavjeri da se svo hrvatstvo istrijebi nagibnim vlakovima. Te mišljeni su za kraće pruge (da, kraće od transsibirske), te svima je u njima muka (vidi dolje), te putnici više vole odjeljke (oni s demižonima i pečenim picekima koji odmah stave noge na vaše sjedalo, možda; ja ne). Danas se mogla pročitati i vidjeti vijest o tome

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Have I told you yet that I arrived in Paris, for the second part for consulting stint at SNCF? Well, here I am! No much time for sightseeing, but I will do my best! Semiorganised photos (mostly from the first tour) here.

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Sutra doista idem u Pariz. Nije to tako jednostavno - prekjučer sam nazvao ljude od kojih Prolifics unajmljuje stanove, tek da čujem gdje će mi ostaviti ključeve, jer nedjeljom ne rade. Umjesto toga sam saznao kako s Prolificsom nisu imali kontakt od preliminarne rezervacije prije mjesec dana. Nako mnogo emailanja, IM-anja i telefoniranja uspjelo je sve skrpiti (ali nisam u stanu koji je izvorno

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Izgleda da za tjedan dana opet idem u Pariz. Pokušat ću se javljati redovnije...

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Vratio sam se (privremeno) iz Pariza. Dočekali su me (kao obično) Vesna i Grunf (i Andrija). Lijepo je biti doma, ali teško se navići na ideju da me Darko više neće dočekivati.

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Krešimir Fijačko, Darkov urednik i nekad dobar novinar, iskoristio je priliku Darkovog ispraćaja da primijeti što je imao u "kući" (izvor) : Dobri duh Vjesnika Novinari odlaze uz čuđenje svijeta: gotovo uvijek je to »već«, uvijek neočekivano, prečesto - prerano, i tek iznimno u krevetu. U ovoj se profesiji umire prije roka i s nogu, kao što se i živi na nogama, u vječitoj jurnjavi za rokovima.

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Danas je umro Darko. Ne znam što bih rekao - sve zvuči šuplje i otrcano. On bi znao.

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Mislio sam da ću stići često postnuti neku cvebicu narodu za uveseljavanje, ali nekako ne stignem. Na poslu doista ne stignem, laptop mi često tamo i ostane preko tjedna, doma sam malo, a i tada me živcira spora (i skupa) analogna veza. Slikam dosta, ali ne stignem sve odmah staviti na web. Ipak jedan detaljčić: postao sam toliko domaći da su mi lokani sindikalci počeli uvaljivati svoje biltene

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[H] Propao sam! Propao sam! Nakon dva tjedna ću morati živjeti na kruhu i vodi, ili fušariti kod onih što sviraju harmoniku u metrou na radnom mjestu medvjeda koji pleše. Naimakaje: odmah iza drugog ugla su, osim običnog špeceraja (koji je iza prvog ugla), mesnica s raznim paštetama i 'terinama', trgovina sirevima i pekara s uvijek vrućim bagetima. Rade i nedjeljom. Našao sam ih slijedeći trag

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U četvrtak sam stigao u Pariz, na dvomjesečni 'gastarbeit' u SNCF-u, francuskim državnim željeznicama. O poslu, na žalost, ne smijem pričati (NDA i to), premda bi bilo vrlo zanimljivo :-) Smješten sam u stančiću kod Trocadera. Par slika i prvi dojmovi ovdje. [E] Bonzi in Paris I am in Paris for a two-month consulting assignment with SNCF. A beginnings of a photo album (comments in Croatian)

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[E][P] Happy Europe Day! Today is 59th anniversary of capitulation of Nazi Germany, the day fittingly chosen as Europe Day. The day before was the anniversary of liberation of my city, Zagreb, by Partisans of 10th Zagreb corps. Congratulations, my fellow continent dwellers! Yesterday was also 20th birthday of Radio 101, a station that continue bringing urban spirit and liberal thought into

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[E][P] Eu25 Viennese daily Kurier tries to acquaint their readers with new members of the Union. Part of the effort is a series of slightly naughty tongue-in-cheek cartoons. Here is how they see Slovenia.

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[E] I am baaack! I somehow never got around to take some time and transcribe numerous thoughts from the loo from scraps of paper, several 'to do' files, notes in the phone or my unreliable memory to blog entries in the last several months. Well, perhaps this time I will preserve...

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[H][C/P] I ja sam bez teksta Predstojnik Vladinog ureda za internetizaciju misli kako je Web zastarjela tehnologija kojom se njegov ured ne treba baviti, a glasnogovornica dodaje da to graane ionako ne zanima: Bug On Line - Vijesti!

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[E][P] Imagine this insider trading From Slate: "Just a day after two Democratic senators reported the existence of the Policy Analysis Market, the Pentagon pulled the plug on it. The PAM was intended to be a kind of turmoil exchange. Investors would place bets on events in the Middle East occurring by a certain time—say, a biochemical attack on Israel before June 2004—and collect real money if

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[H][C/P] San Prije par dana sam bio na skupu korisnika jednog velikog, skupog, po svijetu i kod nas raširenog "standardnog" ERP paketa. Tamo nam je čovjek zadužen za hrvatsku inačicu tog paketa rekao kako je san svakog knjigovođe automatsko učitavanje izvoda (sada iz banaka, nekada iz ZAP-a u nekoj od njegovih inkarnacija) i isto tako automatsko "zatvaranje stavaka", te zašto je taj san

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[H][P] eVlada Nekidan je Vlada izvela PR cirkus s prijenosom sjednice preko weba (usput, stream je bio neupotrebljivo spor ili uopće nije radio). Gledanje snimke zahtijeva punih 128 kb/s što, valjda, svako kućanstvo ima, zar ne? Da ne bih ovdje dalje brabonjao, evo člančića što ga je jedan moj prijatelj napisao kad mu je urednik naručio panegirik na ovu temu (članak, dakako, nije objavljen):

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[E] I am still alive, don't worry... ...and I am not out of things that drive me mad. It's just that, shall we say, my focus was elsewhere for a while. I will resume my irrelevant comments of this maddening world soon, honest!

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[H][P] Sve za ostanak na vlasti Keine Zeitung piše o planovima za produljenje Jadranske autoceste do Dubrovnika, i kako su Dubrovčani protiv toga (oni bi da im gosti dolaze čarterima ako već ne vlastitim avionima, a još bolje da pošalju novce iz Zagreba ili veće daljine; most preko Rijeke Dubrovačke im ipak dobro dođe za šoping u Neumu - neće valjda plaćati PDV!). KZ dalje nastavlje da vladajuća

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[H][P] Mafiozi svih zemalja Nedavno smo čuli da je jedan od sudionika u atentatu na premijera Srbije i Crne Gore (ili kako se to već sad zove) Đinđića imao hrvatsku putovnicu, jednu od oko 930 "nestalih" iz našeg konzulata u Mostaru. Zašto me to ne čudi?

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[H][P] Rad!? Čini se da je nadbiskupu Bozaniću, nekim sindikalnim "čelnicima" i drugim ovisnicima o tuđem radu nesvatljivo da ima ljudi koji doista rade tokom tjedna (g. Bozaniću je također, čini se, strana ideja da je Hrvatska sekularna demokracija kojoj se trenutni poglavar zove Mesić, a ne Wojtyla). Keine Zeitung je nedavno posvetio gotovo cijelu treću stranicu peticiji koju su pokrenuli

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[E][P] Family Values I recently found this article on Bush administration health information policy that is (policy, not article) either formulated by utter morons or intended to facilitate spread of AIDS and other STDs, teenage pregnancies and abortions. While this is something to be expected by Dubya and his handlers, the source of the article is surprising: CONSCIENCE, A Newsjournal of

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[E] CRM SW Makes Great Strides It was my bithday a few days ago. More then half of cards in my mailbox and SMS messages waking me up in the middle of the night with congratulations are from my cell phone operator, bank, insurer, the guys from whom I bought my car.... (Note to myself: I must stop using my GSM phone as alarm clock, so that I can switch it off at night.)

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[E][P] Bad News All Over (but we expected them, didn't we?) In Israel/Palestine fanatical Moslem suicide bombers (whose victims are mostly those who have nothing to do with Israeli occupation forces except perhaps by voting for Mr. Sharon) and IDF 'surgical strike' helicopters, bulldozers and demolition squads (who also mostly target civilians and an occasional Western peace activist) are joined

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[E][P] Is It Vietnam Yet? Although I stole this title from a cartoon by Slate's political cartoonist Daryl Cagle, there is nothing to laugh about. GWII is transforming from a three-day cakewalk to another Vietnam, one bridge at a time (an article by Mark Franchetti of The Times; not for faint of heart or stomach). Everybody except Cheney/Wolfowitz/Perle cabal and their imbecile puppet expected (

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[E][P] Iraq I am speechless, more or less. I did manage to post few times here, on BBS for owners of an exotic audio device. Their Off Topic forum, however, is an excellent place for good discussion. I guess I will soon be able to tear myself from both work and alternative news sites long enough to post something half coherent here.

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[E][P] A Presidential Candidate I Could Vote For I have often read posts by Americans rejecting UN right to influence USA policy, since 'they did not elect them [UN]'. A friend of mine turned the argument upside down: if a country pretends to be a global power or 'influence', the whole world should have a say in choosing its leadership. Well, should I be given such a right to vote for American

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[E][C] Enough Specs Already! An Evil Empire (a.k.a. Microsoft) engeneer Don Box, one of the original authors of SOAP spcecification, said another day something I can certainly agree with: "The software industry has become so fixated on new specifications [relating to SOAP et al] that it has lost sight of the fundamental goal: using XML to link software applications together. While some new

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[E][P] The Price of War I finally saw an American cartoon whose author understands the real price of war.

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[E][P] Things are Rarely Simple... I have discovered an interesting online magazine, AlterNet, with quite ambitious mission and certain to attract every Republican's favourite curseword liberal. Google news led me to an article there titled The Two Faces of France which reminds that things in politics, diplomacy and war are rarely clear-cut. The article is brief; read it, rather than relying on

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[H] Financijski interesi U današnjem izdanju "Keine Zeitung" donosi uobičajeno nepismen razgovor s glasnogovornikom HRT-a Krešimirom Macanom o "neopravdanim razlozima daljnjeg prikazivanja i snimanja 'Turbo limach showa'", kako se izrazila Iva Stilinović. Kako u našim "novinama" uglavnom nemaju ni najosnovnijeg pojma o novinarstvu, ne treba čuditi da se iz teksta ne da vidjeti kakvo je to

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[H][P] A da Sabor biramo kao porotu? Oduvijek sam tvrdio da je problem s politikom i političarima negativna selekcija: u Saboru, vladi, pa i najmanjem mjesnom odboru često završavaju upravo ljudi čije bi ambicije i ljubav prema vlasti trebali biti diskvalicirajući. Ako znate engleski, pogledajte ovaj člančić Charlesa Strossa, škotskog pisca. Za ostale, ideja je da se Gornji dom britanskog

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[E][P] Parliament as Jury I have always maintained that the problem with politics is negative selection: we tend to be governed by exactly those people whose misguided amibition and love for power should be disqalifying. Charlie Stross explains his idea similar to one I had some time ago - select representatives randomly.

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[E][C] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi There has recently been a fair number of articles (e.g. this one) on problems besetting Agilent Technologies, not the smallest of which is one of visibility, or lack thereof. If you don't know who are they, I don't blame you. Agilent was born when Hewlett-Packard spun off its core business (whatever Carly Fiorina might think what their core business is supposed to

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[H][C] Spada li Konzum u tekstilnu industriju? Prije tjedan-dva primili smo iz Hrvatske gospodarske komore poziv na "prvi poslovni susret gospodarstvenika IT sektora Hrvatske i Srbije i Crne Gore".* Osim što se, čini se, nije imalo što vidjeti, zanimljiva je tvrdnja u pozivu da u nas ima 1800 informatičkih tvrtki. Sad, ja sam u ovom poslu dvadesetak godina i znam mnogo kolega, ali imao bih

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[E][P] Some Thoughts on Prospect of Gulf War II (not mine) One I did not quite expect: John le Carré: The United States of America has gone mad This one is a bit more expected.

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[E][P] US Academia on Gulf War II I recently got into posession of several interesting bits of correspodence on and around a mailing list for professional diplomats, run by a prestigious US university (I am not a member, and I am not sure what their, er, reposting policy is, so I will not tell you the source)*: Anyway: A 'moderated-out' post: "It is no reflection on American universities that

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[E] On My Blogging When my first company bought one of the first Sun Netra computers in order to establish 'web presence', facilitate communication with customers (mostly banks at the time) and, if possible, offer some kind of 'e-services' to local businesses, we had contract #7 with our friendly local monopoly backbone provider. So, you could safely call us early adopters. Part of our presence

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[H] Another Test Da vidim kako se vide naša slovca: ČčĆćĐ𩹮ž Pa, vide se nekako.....

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[E] Test OK, this is the obligatory first test post. Let it be in English (I intend to post about things that only my compatriots could possibly find of any interest in Croatian, others in English; this is not to say that anything here is guaranteed to be of any interest to anybody whatsoever, of course). Anyway, let's post!

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