Mediocre But Arrogant

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk Harvard’s masters of the apocalypse If his fellow Harvard MBAs are all so clever, how come so many are now in disgrace? Philip Delves Broughton If Robespierre were to ascend from hell and seek out today’s guillotine fodder, he might start with a list of those with three incriminating initials beside their names: MBA. The Masters of Business Administration, that swollen class of jargon-spewing, value-destroying financiers and consultants have done more than any other group of people to create the economic misery we find ourselves in.

My dear friend Antonio (thank you, Anthony! ) pointed that out to my attention....
It's worth reading, definitely!

Sillogismi

Sabato sera, a cena con amici - la discussione vira sulla politica...
Ad un certo punto uno fa: "Noi in Italia le opere pubbliche non le sappiamo fare".
Dopo un po' di discussione, con toni sempre più accesi e affermazioni sempre più apodittiche, un altro (assai filo-governativo, a dire il vero) se ne esce con: "Ecco, voi siete i soliti - sempre a dire che in Italia non funziona nulla, che noi italiani siamo delle merde... Allora anche i tedeschi che hanno ammazzato 20 milioni di ebrei sono tutti assassini!!!".
Ora, a parte la risibile consequenzialità della frase, faccio rispettosamente notare che una delle commensali era tedesca di origine...
Quando si dice pestare una cacca e non accorgersene nemmeno!!!

Già, che significa??

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com May 5, 2009, 12:37 am Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old By Robert Mackey The first known instance of the symbol @ being used in writing: a 1536 letter from an Italian merchant. From our colleagues over at The Lede, The New York Times’s news blog: Because it is used in every e-mail address and many tweets, you might be forgiven for thinking that the remarkably common symbol @, which English-speakers know as the “at sign,” but Italians call a “snail,” and south Slavs know as a “monkey,” is a fairly recent invention. In fact, as Wired magazine’s Tony Long points out, a Florentine merchant named Francesco Lapi used the symbol @ in a letter written 473 years ago today, on May 4, 1536. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported in 2000 that Giorgio Stabile, who was then a professor of the history of science @ La Sapienza University in Rome, had come across the symbol in the merchant’s letter, where it was used to indicate an ancient measure of weight or volume, an amphora.

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Ecco tutta la storia:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/internet-star-least-473-years-old/

... e comunque ci siamo sempre di mezzo noi italiani

Cancelliere e cancelleria...

clipped from www.macchianera.net Tipp-ex. Wife out. di Gaia Giordani 4 mag 2009

Geniale!