There’s a common belief in Romania that while most countries tend to offer various degrees of justice (for whatever reasons) to victims of past crimes up to a reasonable limit, it’s only Romanian law that results in outstanding aberrations on a wide scale. Such is the case of sweeping under the rug the crimes of [...]
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Getting Internet service in Romania is a difficult task because while there are many companies, there’s no competition. Each company has a slice of a given area and runs its service without much interference from the others. Thus you can reach ridiculous situations where you live across the street from a provider’s point of sale, [...]
Conform EVZ, presedintele Romaniei, Traian Basescu si-a facut propriul aeroport. Aeroportul Baseasa a fost inaugurat azi, in pofida avertismentelor premierului Boc care a contestat vehement denumirea oarecum feminina. Opozitia a sabotat instantaneu proiectul, provocand un incediu in aceeasi zi. Acuzatiile care au urmat, precum si negarile din partea liderilor Antonescu si Ponta, nu explica totusi [...]
One would think that with the emergence of electronic book readers (or eBook readers), paper books would fall out of consumer grace (saving the forests and helping students move around without a truck of paper books). As we’ve learned by now, that didn’t happen. EBook readers are basically divided in two: the classical LCD/TFT backlit [...]
Pentru compatie am apelat la cel mai popular magazin IT din Romania (Emag). Emag nu e chiar cel mai ieftin magazin, dar are preturi mai accesibile decat majoritatea celorlalti retailer. De cealalta parte, am folosit Pixmania. Pixmania este un retailer raspandit in Europa, ce ofera servicii decente si preturi acceptabile (mai ieftin decat Amazon, dar [...]
Fostul mare folkist Victor Socaciu s-a trezit peste noapte ca vrea ca filmele straine sa fie dublate in limba romana. Stupiditatea ideii este prea mare si nu merita subliniata, dar de dragul discutiei, argumentele merita atinse (cu mentiunea ca aceasta sugestie mai fusese facuta in anii ‘90 si respinsa vehement). 1. Argument: “telespectatorul poate urmari [...]
Cum am mentionat si in alte randuri, din cand in cand se mai intampla ceva care imi aduce aminte de ce nu imi place Romania sau majoritatea oamenilor de acolo. Astazi, pentru ca spammerii sunt peste tot, am primit si eu ultima mostra din cea mai enervanta abilitate mioritica: falsa dihotomie, sub aspectul unei “cauze” [...]
In a press conference date May 3rd, France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard and its CFO Gervais Pellissier have declared that France Telecom is reviewing several of its European operations. With the exception of France, Poland and Spain, all other Orange branded operations are under scrutiny. The pull-out is considered mainly with respect to Austria, Belgium [...]
Compania nationala a Cailor Ferate Romane e in perfuzii. Asta o stiam demult. Pierderi imense, fraude, coruptie si un sistem de calatorie vechi si in pioneze incat doar intarzierile controlate pot evita dezastrele. Totusi, datele concrete au fost mereu invaluite in mister si panze de paianjen acumulate prin birourile directorilor CFR concediati si/sau trimisi in [...]
The “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” award goes to Russian president Vladimir Putin who proved conclusively that one can be both a country’s leader and puppet master (Putin’s Medvedev is now a recognized rival of Dunham’s Achmed), while keeping self in power. We look forward to Putin performing his puppeteering in [...]
