Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
- Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
- The Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
- Alice: "I don't much care where."
- The Cat: "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go." Alice: "…so long as I get somewhere."
- The Cat: "Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough."
- The Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
- Alice: "I don't much care where."
- The Cat: "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go." Alice: "…so long as I get somewhere."
- The Cat: "Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough."
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Friday, December 04, 2009
Are we approaching the end of up move
Interestingly, the aggressive sectors are rotating and defensive are rising
Monday, November 23, 2009
Let me see if I understand all this...
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY
YOU GET A JOB, A DRIVERSLICENSE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, CREDIT CARDS, SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTHCARE, A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON AND IN MANY INSTANCES YOU CAN VOTE.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY
YOU GET A JOB, A DRIVERSLICENSE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, CREDIT CARDS, SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTHCARE, A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON AND IN MANY INSTANCES YOU CAN VOTE.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
There’s a surgeon, an architect and an economist. The surgeon said, ‘Look, we’re the most important. God’s a surgeon because the very first thing God did was to extract Eve from Adam’s rib.’ The architect said, ‘No, wait a minute, God is an architect. God made the world in seven days out of chaos.’ The economist smiled, ‘And who made the chaos?’
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Rupert Murdoch Chairman and CEO, News Corporation On Receiving AJC National Human Relations Award March 4, 2009 New York City
Thanks for those kind words, Hugh.
Over the years, some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were.
So tonight, let me set the record straight: I live in New York. I have a wife who craves Chinese food. And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word “chutzpah”.
Ladies and gentleman, I thank you for having me tonight. I also want to thank Nelson Peltz … Michael Gould … and the many co-chairs for the time and effort they have put into this event. I am humbled by the honor you have given me – because this award speaks more to your good work than it does to mine.
Michael, I was fascinated to hear you talk about this history of this fine organization. The American Jewish Committee started in response to the persecution of Jews in Czarist Russia. And your response took a very American form: An organization that would speak up for those who could not speak for themselves.
In the century since your founding, the American Jewish Committee has become one of the world’s most influential organizations. Yet though your concerns begin with the safety and welfare of Jews, these concerns are anything but parochial. The reason for this is clear: You know that the best guarantee of the security of Jews anywhere is the freedom of people everywhere.
Your good work has helped bring real and lasting changes to our world. Unfortunately, while some threats have been defeated, new ones have taken their place. And these new threats remind us the AJC’s work is more vital than ever.
In Europe, men and woman who bear the tattoos of concentration camps today look out on a continent where Jewish lives and Jewish property are under attack – and public debate is poisoned by an anti-Semitism we thought had been dispatched to history’s dustbin.
[...more...]
Over the years, some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were.
So tonight, let me set the record straight: I live in New York. I have a wife who craves Chinese food. And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word “chutzpah”.
Ladies and gentleman, I thank you for having me tonight. I also want to thank Nelson Peltz … Michael Gould … and the many co-chairs for the time and effort they have put into this event. I am humbled by the honor you have given me – because this award speaks more to your good work than it does to mine.
Michael, I was fascinated to hear you talk about this history of this fine organization. The American Jewish Committee started in response to the persecution of Jews in Czarist Russia. And your response took a very American form: An organization that would speak up for those who could not speak for themselves.
In the century since your founding, the American Jewish Committee has become one of the world’s most influential organizations. Yet though your concerns begin with the safety and welfare of Jews, these concerns are anything but parochial. The reason for this is clear: You know that the best guarantee of the security of Jews anywhere is the freedom of people everywhere.
Your good work has helped bring real and lasting changes to our world. Unfortunately, while some threats have been defeated, new ones have taken their place. And these new threats remind us the AJC’s work is more vital than ever.
In Europe, men and woman who bear the tattoos of concentration camps today look out on a continent where Jewish lives and Jewish property are under attack – and public debate is poisoned by an anti-Semitism we thought had been dispatched to history’s dustbin.
[...more...]
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Very interesting book
Few months ago I read a great article from Malcolm Gladwell: A gift or hard graft?
This is the book in question: outliers
This is the book in question: outliers
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Letter to Bank
Dear Sirs,
In view of current developments in the banking
market, if one of my checks is returned marked
'insufficient funds', does that refer to me or to you?
Sincerely Yours,
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
LinkedIn: Spamming in disguise?
I'm member of linkedIn for quite awhile now. Here's a situation that just happened to me and it shows one of the perverse aspect of linkedIn and how it is used to simply spam people and disguise this as building networking.
Few days ago I got an email from one of my first line members on linkedIn. His name is Octavio Pitaluga and his profile present him as "king of the world" with mastery in about everything. So this chap spams me for his new business and that I should go visit his website and arrange a demo session and bla.bla.bla.
I send a response asking to stop receiving this kind of spam and here's the rude answer I got from him:
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So you see, on one hand I am interested to network with people and get to know other interesting people but I certainly don't consider that this give permission to all my contact to start spamming and start sending me emails about their latest product or promotion. Isn't that perverting the idea of networking? Isn't that simply a way not to abide to permission marketing? and finally shouldn't these "super promoter" be banned?
So what's your opinion about this?
Few days ago I got an email from one of my first line members on linkedIn. His name is Octavio Pitaluga and his profile present him as "king of the world" with mastery in about everything. So this chap spams me for his new business and that I should go visit his website and arrange a demo session and bla.bla.bla.
I send a response asking to stop receiving this kind of spam and here's the rude answer I got from him:
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....pls break the connection with me on LinkedIN and any other online social network=============
If we can not communicate, there is no reason to keep any connection at all.
Kindly avoid replying to this msg. Just do what I am asking for right away.
File closed.
Octavio Pitaluga
So you see, on one hand I am interested to network with people and get to know other interesting people but I certainly don't consider that this give permission to all my contact to start spamming and start sending me emails about their latest product or promotion. Isn't that perverting the idea of networking? Isn't that simply a way not to abide to permission marketing? and finally shouldn't these "super promoter" be banned?
So what's your opinion about this?
Friday, September 19, 2008
Time to do nothing?
If you have plenty of cash, big positions in world-dominating businesses, and a cache of physical gold to protect your purchasing power... then doing nothing is probably the way to go right now.
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