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  • Are we living in a post-PC and a post-Mac world?

    Great links to Fraser's post, romantic stuff. I've recently migrated to Mac in full with iphones and ipad to support. Still have a portion for Win7. I'm not missing old times but when you have to computing you need a PC, that's it! Apple is doing great but innovation does not accelerate for ever, all that cash in hands will be handy when competing on price, but then it will lose its cool

  • Facebook is a monopoly, so why shouldn't it be nationalised?

    Nationalisation is not a solution. Would you trust your politician to manage your online identity? As mentioned in the piece, the only way out would be ia mandatory openness of all the social networks (twitter, linkedin, g+, etc) so we could communicate across them. I would even pay for such a thing so to retain some exclusivity (if you're on FB you won't join Twitter).Tidier, market regulated and no monopoly. Easy
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My comment on "Silvio Berlusconi's antics: The return of Ruby"

Here's my comment posted on "The Economist" article on Berlusconi 14/11/2011 http://t.co/OOREqzR

Regardless of the outcome of yet another investigation on Mr. Berlusconi, I doubt that much will change in Italian politics. The Italian voters are way too much polarised to even change their mind in spite of the disgraceful charges brought against him and the Church (that so much power yield in Italian politics, but not in the population) will find a way to "contextualise" the fact.

The power of Viagra

Focusing on Berlusconi is a "false problem" or rather a distraction. He is just hanging on his power in order to prevent a correct functioning of democracy throwing him out of the country or worst in jail. He should have never been there in first place (as the Economist said at the very beginning) because of his conflict of interests. Indeed his interests have stopped him doing anything for the country and Italy going anywhere.

The latest episode will probably just accelerate his decline, as any empire in demise how the fall will be managed will be more important.

Italy's Finance minister Giulio Tremonti is in charge of the normal administration in Italy, of its enormous financial problems and of its embarrassing lack of competitiveness.
Despite doing quite well in minimising in the short term the effect of the Great Recession, the long term welfare of the country hangs on a thread.
Don't worry (ghe pensi me too!)

In this confusing situation, no one seems to have the capacity to lead the country out of mess. Again the "elite", that nothing did to prevent Berlusconi coming to power, is gone AWOL leaving Italy in near-anarchical situation.

In this confusion interest groups are using their power to save their skin or worst taking advantage of it( see Lega Nord backed by Tremonti, FIAT, etc)and again the sacrifices of the austerity measures will be mainly felt by the poor or not-aligned groups (workers, Southern Italy).

Whoever will come in power after the late Berlusconi empire will have to show some justice, the road to economic and welfare growth will be hard and painful but it can be shared more evenly that it is now.

Unfortunately no one seems to take the initiative to lead the country toward a more functioning democracy, leaving me wonder that Italians just can't.  
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Italy and Berlusconi

This comment was posted as response to an article on "The Economist" on 10/10/09

The fact that Mr.Berlusconi doesn't accept the decision from the Court and he's trying hard to undermine it is not new and in true it's pretty boring now. Even when he lost in the precedent general election he refused to accept the outcome invoking electoral frauds. Was at time the will of people not to be respected? No, unless Mr Berlusconi doesn't get his way. To be honest, in 1994,I did believe that the actual PM would have been a good thing for my country, I thought that his experience and his entrepreneurship would have given modernity to a nation that has underachieved in the past 20 years. However, soon I became disillusioned by his antics, his inability to do anything concrete for the country apart from resuscitate old communist ghosts when it was time to look forward and to exacerbate the political debate to an extent that today I don't see how we (italians) will ever be able to work together again to make Italy a better place. And so, nowadays it seems to assist the show of little boy that just can't lose, that cries foul and doesn't respect anything. If he ever loves his country, he should leave his place to whoever but not him, in order to reinstitute a bit of dignity to our beloved Italy. I'm not a leftist and I would love to see a modern, liberal and conservative government in Italy that would make those reforms that are urgently needed, but I'm sorry Berlusconi is obviously not the person to do that, he's unfit and dangerous.
Moreover, I'd love to understand, why with all the leftist judges and communist press, the left is not even able to form a coherent opposition or at least be able to govern when needed. I think is just an excuse and an enormous lie, pretending that the left controls everything and that it's going to destroy democracy in Italy.
Finally,to everyone thinking that the Lodo Alfano was in place to guarantee our PM to dedicate his precious time for governing, I'm afraid but I don't believe anyone with such unclear past should be able to messed up my country and then being processed at a latter stage. If he's clean as he affirms he should have clarified his justice's problems before entering in politics.
Mr. Berlusconi I truly regret having voted you 15 years ago, you are the scorn of our Nation..please, for Italy's sake, leave as soon possible!
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