Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Lula contra la redistribución de pérdidas
El coste de la crisis no puede repartirse si no se repartió la ganancia.
Lula da Silva, II Encuentro Empresarial Brasil-Unión Europea (22/12/2008)
Totalmente de acuerdo con esta negación. Se llama coherencia, de la cual la mayoría de los políticos no ha oído hablar.
Sin embargo, esta negación es incompleta. Yo digo No a la redistribución de pobreza propugnada por el socialismo, sean ganancias o pérdidas. Es ineficiente, injusta, inútil e ineficaz.
Fuera el Estado entrometido, fuera los gobernantes que salvan a sus amigotes y resuelven su desastrosa gestión con dinero de los contribuyentes. Arriba el Mercado, porque el Mercado (que no el Estado) somos todos los ciudadanos.
Feliz Navidad.
Saturday, 13 December 2008
ACA exam-qualified!
I am pleased to announce that I have passed all my ACA exams as of yesterday!! Hurray!!
Now I am going and find my name (in tiny font) in the FT. Hehe.
Love and freedom.
Now I am going and find my name (in tiny font) in the FT. Hehe.
Love and freedom.
Fábula del auditor y el pastor de ovejas
Estaba un hombre dando de pastar a su rebaño de ovejas, cuando de repente aparece por el inhóspito camino una camioneta Navigator 4×4 full equip.
Se detiene frente al viejito y se baja un chaval de no más de 30 años. Traje negro “Armani”, camisa blanca “Hugo Boss” y zapatos “DKNY”; se acerca al viejo y le dice:
- Señor, si yo le adivino cuántas ovejas tiene ud. en su rebaño, ¿me regala una?
El viejo responde con algo de asombro:
- Sí, cómo no.
Entonces el joven vuelve a su 4×4 y saca una Toshiba Trío Tecra 9000 Pentium VII a 4.5Ghz con 1TB de RAM. Se conecta a la Red de Redes, baja una base de datos de 900 MB. Entra a una página de la NASA, mediante un satélite identifica la zona exacta de donde está el rebaño, calcula el promedio histórico del tamaño de una oveja tipo “Merina” mediante una tabla dinámica de Excel y, con la ejecución de algunas Macros personalizadas en Visual Basic, logra completar el diagrama de flujo. Después de tres horas le responde al viejo:
- Usted tiene 1347 ovejas, 256 machos y 1091 son hembras y 104 pueden estar embarazadas.
El viejo asintió y le dijo que efectivamente, así era, y que se podía llevar una oveja. El joven tomó una y la cargó en su 4×4. Estaba por irse, cuando el viejo lo detuvo y le preguntó:
- Disculpe, pero si yo llegase a adivinar cuál es su profesión, ¿Ud. me devuelve mi oveja?
El joven le dijo sonriente:
- Seguro, hombre - mientras abría la puerta de su 4X4 para marcharse.
El viejo entonces contestó: - Usted es Auditor.
El joven, sorprendido completamente, dijo: - ¡Exacto! ¿Cómo se dio cuenta?
El viejo le respondió: - Por 4 razones.
- Primero, por ser un chulo vacilón;
- Segundo, vino sin que yo le llamara;
- Tercero, me cobró por decirme algo que yo ya sabía;
- Y cuarto, se nota que no tiene ni idea del negocio. ¡Devuélvame a mi perro!
(via Javier Ruiz)
Se detiene frente al viejito y se baja un chaval de no más de 30 años. Traje negro “Armani”, camisa blanca “Hugo Boss” y zapatos “DKNY”; se acerca al viejo y le dice:
- Señor, si yo le adivino cuántas ovejas tiene ud. en su rebaño, ¿me regala una?
El viejo responde con algo de asombro:
- Sí, cómo no.
Entonces el joven vuelve a su 4×4 y saca una Toshiba Trío Tecra 9000 Pentium VII a 4.5Ghz con 1TB de RAM. Se conecta a la Red de Redes, baja una base de datos de 900 MB. Entra a una página de la NASA, mediante un satélite identifica la zona exacta de donde está el rebaño, calcula el promedio histórico del tamaño de una oveja tipo “Merina” mediante una tabla dinámica de Excel y, con la ejecución de algunas Macros personalizadas en Visual Basic, logra completar el diagrama de flujo. Después de tres horas le responde al viejo:
- Usted tiene 1347 ovejas, 256 machos y 1091 son hembras y 104 pueden estar embarazadas.
El viejo asintió y le dijo que efectivamente, así era, y que se podía llevar una oveja. El joven tomó una y la cargó en su 4×4. Estaba por irse, cuando el viejo lo detuvo y le preguntó:
- Disculpe, pero si yo llegase a adivinar cuál es su profesión, ¿Ud. me devuelve mi oveja?
El joven le dijo sonriente:
- Seguro, hombre - mientras abría la puerta de su 4X4 para marcharse.
El viejo entonces contestó: - Usted es Auditor.
El joven, sorprendido completamente, dijo: - ¡Exacto! ¿Cómo se dio cuenta?
El viejo le respondió: - Por 4 razones.
- Primero, por ser un chulo vacilón;
- Segundo, vino sin que yo le llamara;
- Tercero, me cobró por decirme algo que yo ya sabía;
- Y cuarto, se nota que no tiene ni idea del negocio. ¡Devuélvame a mi perro!
(via Javier Ruiz)
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Spanish MPs' ignorance
Most citizens think that the government and the politicians should take care of the Nation because: a, that is why we pay them; and b, that they know more than the average citizen. Ja-ja-ja (sad laugh).
As the sarcastic interviews of TV program CQC show (surprisingly this time teasing non-PP politicians), the Spanish Members of Parliament (MPs) and many other politicians are plainly ignorants and able only to use the rethoric in their own benefit and to hide their embarrassment.
Politicians' shameless behaviour will end up converting us all to agorism. Fight the politicians. Bin them all! A la calle todos!
(via Jorge Valin)
As the sarcastic interviews of TV program CQC show (surprisingly this time teasing non-PP politicians), the Spanish Members of Parliament (MPs) and many other politicians are plainly ignorants and able only to use the rethoric in their own benefit and to hide their embarrassment.
Politicians' shameless behaviour will end up converting us all to agorism. Fight the politicians. Bin them all! A la calle todos!
(via Jorge Valin)
Meeting with Albert Esplugas
Last Sunday I had the pleasure to meet Albert Esplugas, proud blogger of RedLiberal. We had an interesting conversation over a drink at an elegant pub in Bayswater, London.
Albert is a tall, slender, young professional guy with a geeky hint in his talk who tries to write an average of two posts a day in his blog. Having born in Barcelona and sharing nowadays a life in London with his girlfriend, Albert loves chatting about philosophy and tasting new cocktails: he is afraid of neither being wrong or facing a new discovery. We talked about the metaphysics of the blog-sphere and about libertarian initiatives. I must admit that those two hours flew by and I am grateful that he accepted meeting a complete stranger which happened to be one of his readers.
Albert is currently having a great discussion with Citoyen about the general idea of redistribution of resources. In this post, they argue about the re-distribution of human organs. As I comment in his post:
Love and freedom.
Albert is a tall, slender, young professional guy with a geeky hint in his talk who tries to write an average of two posts a day in his blog. Having born in Barcelona and sharing nowadays a life in London with his girlfriend, Albert loves chatting about philosophy and tasting new cocktails: he is afraid of neither being wrong or facing a new discovery. We talked about the metaphysics of the blog-sphere and about libertarian initiatives. I must admit that those two hours flew by and I am grateful that he accepted meeting a complete stranger which happened to be one of his readers.
Albert is currently having a great discussion with Citoyen about the general idea of redistribution of resources. In this post, they argue about the re-distribution of human organs. As I comment in his post:
Absorbing, bright debate. Well-mannered, intelligent discussions like this one refresh the hopes set on the potential of the blog-sphere. As I told you verbally, chapeau and congrats for your blog. The same to Citoyen. Keep up the good word.
Love and freedom.
Friday, 28 November 2008
Muslim terrorism in India
Lots of things are going on in the world around us at the minute, but unfortunately I can't find the time to discuss all of them in writing.
On Wednesday 26th of November 2008, some gunmen have attacked several spots in Mumbay (India), including luxury hotels, in what seems an orchestrated terrorist action. The attacks have been claimed by another Muslim terrorist group.
Muslims have a problem with their religion. That is something that everyone in the world but they know. But the issue for the non-muslims is that they are taking violence against the different to extreme limits and that their madness may impact our lives badly. The same way it did with the 100 dead people in Mumbay this week, or in Madrid in 2004, or in London the 7/7, or in NY in 2001. Fatally.
However, most terrorist acts don't change History. There are some that do, such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that triggered the WWI, or the murder of the Member of the Spanish Parliament José Calvo Sotelo, which triggered the Spanish Civil War. But most terrorist attacks don't change History, just their victims' history. The show must go on and for them the victims that sucks.
Aware of the slow reaction and usual opposition to violence of normal citizens, terrorists try to generate terror in their target in order to achieve their aims. But nevertheless the terrorists also foster a violent response by the attacked society which would enable them to justify their terrorism. Terrorists hate and they are good at that, so they want everyone to learn to hate and to take part in their bloody game.
I was discussing the Mumbay shootings on Wednesday evening with an Indian workmate. Our company is a multi-cultural work place where staff from very different backgrounds treat each other as equals. Staff is very respectful with the difference as long as some common professional rules are kept. Considering that work culture and the fact that Hindu people are very pacific, I was shocked to listen the excited talk of my Indian workmate. He was calling for extreme measures agains the muslims while it was possible, before they were too powerful to be beaten, before any islamic terrorist group had the atomic bomb... he was calling for the erradication of the muslims. I felt very sad as I saw that muslim terrorists were accomplishing the objective of their terrorist attacks on Indian sole: they are making the Hindu people learn to hate. To hate the muslims. And that may be the beginning of yet another religious war, the most lethal type of war because it's utterly irrational. And the jihad the muslim extremist are always looking for following their reading of the Koran.
I am profoundly concerned. All this goes against:
Love and freedom.
On Wednesday 26th of November 2008, some gunmen have attacked several spots in Mumbay (India), including luxury hotels, in what seems an orchestrated terrorist action. The attacks have been claimed by another Muslim terrorist group.
Muslims have a problem with their religion. That is something that everyone in the world but they know. But the issue for the non-muslims is that they are taking violence against the different to extreme limits and that their madness may impact our lives badly. The same way it did with the 100 dead people in Mumbay this week, or in Madrid in 2004, or in London the 7/7, or in NY in 2001. Fatally.
However, most terrorist acts don't change History. There are some that do, such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that triggered the WWI, or the murder of the Member of the Spanish Parliament José Calvo Sotelo, which triggered the Spanish Civil War. But most terrorist attacks don't change History, just their victims' history. The show must go on and for them the victims that sucks.
Aware of the slow reaction and usual opposition to violence of normal citizens, terrorists try to generate terror in their target in order to achieve their aims. But nevertheless the terrorists also foster a violent response by the attacked society which would enable them to justify their terrorism. Terrorists hate and they are good at that, so they want everyone to learn to hate and to take part in their bloody game.
I was discussing the Mumbay shootings on Wednesday evening with an Indian workmate. Our company is a multi-cultural work place where staff from very different backgrounds treat each other as equals. Staff is very respectful with the difference as long as some common professional rules are kept. Considering that work culture and the fact that Hindu people are very pacific, I was shocked to listen the excited talk of my Indian workmate. He was calling for extreme measures agains the muslims while it was possible, before they were too powerful to be beaten, before any islamic terrorist group had the atomic bomb... he was calling for the erradication of the muslims. I felt very sad as I saw that muslim terrorists were accomplishing the objective of their terrorist attacks on Indian sole: they are making the Hindu people learn to hate. To hate the muslims. And that may be the beginning of yet another religious war, the most lethal type of war because it's utterly irrational. And the jihad the muslim extremist are always looking for following their reading of the Koran.
I am profoundly concerned. All this goes against:
Love and freedom.
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