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A ne ovi naši pišokakići koji su se upiškili i ukakili na samo pomisao demonstracija i mogućnosti da odu s vlasti pa pristaju na sve i rade tako nemoguće dogovore iz kojih definitivno ništa pametno ne može nastati.

Schwarzenegger orders mass layoffs, unpaid furloughs
Union leaders for state employees vow to challenge the legality of the mandatory time off, which amounts to about a 9% pay cut according to the governor’s finance department.
By Patrick McGreevy and Jordan Rau
December 20, 2008
Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered mass layoffs and unpaid furloughs for state workers starting in February to address California’s growing fiscal crisis.

Under his executive order, 238,000 employees will be forced to take off two unpaid days per month through June 30, 2010. Managers will receive either the furlough or an equivalent salary reduction during the same period.

A i brojka mi je nekako u tom rangeu… podsjeća me na neke nama bliske brojke i neki zakon koji omogućava smanjenje radnog vremena… pa pošto se neke plaće obračunavaju prema radnom vremenu… eto odgovora. Terminator je to ipak efikasnije riješio… brutalno ali elegantnije. :-)

Ne, meni stvarno nije jasno odakle su sad oni izvukli 6% povećanje plaća… mislim znam zašto, da umire sindikate ali odakle… to me muči. Nekako ima osjećaj da Sanader još uvijek vjeruje da nas neće zahvatiti ta svjetska kriza i da je to sve tamo negdje daleko u nekim zemljama na Marsu ili Jupiteru…

A što kažu ljudi s tog Jupetera ili Marsa? Ništa, otkrili su novi sport… nemojmo se razvesti jer nemamo para za razvod… :-)

Hitched to the economy
Divorce rates drop as couples realize it’s cheaper to stay together

Hehe… eto super, kao nekad davnpo davno… ekonomija je opet osnova za brak. :-) Ali neke stvari nisu baš tako super…

As economy falters, more people giving up pets
Animal shelters across nation filling up as faltering economy leads owners to give up pets
A growing number of Americans are giving up their dogs and cats to animal shelters as the emotional bonds between people and pets get tested by economic ones.

Tako da je sad pitanje da li su baš miševi potpalili utočište za životinje ili je i utočište ostalo bez love i odlučilo riješiti problem napuštenih životinja po kratkom postupku…

Mice or rats are thought to have chewed through electric wires

Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say.

The fire at the humane society shelter in Oshawa also killed three dogs and some rats that were up for adoption.

An initial report from the fire marshal says mice or rats chewing through electrical wires in the ceiling are likely to have sparked the blaze.

Da, optužite jadne miševe… oni se ne mogu braniti… gdje su sad ti zaštitnici životinja kad pred sudom treba braniti miševe od optužbi da su potpalili mačke… to nešt ko Tom & Jerry kad Jerry zapali Tomu rep… :-))

No šalu na stranu… u Rusiji postaje "zanimljivo" kao iz one kletve "Da Bog da živio u zanimljivim vremenima."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTAWpP3stYg

No to su samo usputne žrtve krize, prava žrtva će biti sloboda govora i izražavanja jer će sad svi fašistički orjentirani dušebrižnici počet graktati o tome kako je Internet zlo koje treba strogo kontrolirati, cenzurirati i na kraju čak i zabraniti jer… eto… sloboda je opasna, mogli bi ljudi… ahm… pričat…

Yahoo, Google, Microsoft… CIsco, filteri, firewalli… Kina … cenzura… u stvari privatizacija cenzure ili kako od cenzure napraviti dobar posao bez obzira koga će ona zakačiti i zašto… ono…. baš te briga što mine proizvode invalide… ti ih samo proizvodiš i prodaješ… nisi kao to kriv, ne… :-))

Institute of Ideas
London, U.K.
Nov 1st, 2008

The internet is increasingly seen as a threat in need of containment: a threat to public morality, to children, to privacy and even to knowledge itself. Lobby groups campaign for the removal of offensive pages, businesses worry about copyright piracy (while others worry about corporations monopolising the web), and, amid fears of terrorism, home secretary Jacqui Smith announced at the beginning of this year that the internet is ‘not a no go area for government’. The internet is fast becoming a place where different groups clamour for digital authority, and control. So how free should the internet be, and who gets to decide?

From the pragmatic self-censorship of Google in China to legal battles over copyright and music-sharing, it certainly seems there is more to the issue than overt state censorship. At the same time, the internet is heralded as a new democratic force, bringing people together to collaborate in novel ways. So does this require absolute internet freedom, or is censorship just another issue to be redefined by the netizens of Web 2.0, and made a collective enterprise? It is striking that, rather than being the outcome of public debates, decisions affecting us all tend to take the form of private deals between Internet Service Providers and various lobby groups. So are we seeing democratisation, or rather the ‘privatisation’ of internet censorship? Has the utopian ideal of unrestrained freedom on the internet given way to resignation in the face of inevitable regulation, or even an embrace of it? Or does this obscure the real question of who’s in control? -Institute of Ideas.

Ali nema veze… evo nam prvi dual screen laptop… OK, nije baš prvi… IBM ThinkPad