eComStation is the successor of IBM’s OS/2 and it is now available for free (here) under subscription. For those folks (like me) who love the OSs it’s a good opportunity to test a pretty good piece of software with glorious legacy.
Its strengths are security, stability and speed. Compared to better known OSs it grants more [...]
For geeks
Engineering of Consent
Below are links to a 2 parts BBC4 documentary. Quite disturbing…
Part 1
Part 2
Fiat Money
Tratto dalla traduzione di un discorso del candidato al Senato USA Ron Paul (traduzione di Roberta Panizzoli, da USEMLAB)
[...]Se davvero la nostra generazione è in grado di sostenere le ragioni a favore della carta moneta, emessa da una banca centrale non autorizzata, sarebbe d’uopo perlomeno rispettare la Costituzione ed emendarla in modo corretto. Ignorare [...]
Strategia e democrazia
Cito da qui questo interessante comment in risposta a questo post.
Oserei dire che lo scritto di Kuehnelt-Leddihn è la classica mondezza reazionaria travestita da discorso sulla libertà. E’ molto interessante notare che, pur lanciandosi in strali contro la mentalità e il modo di agire tipicamente politico della modernità, l’autore ne adotti toni e metodi.
L’uso della [...]
The unresistible drive for towers
Being by nature a designer and oversensitive to symbols and icons, my attention spotted something interesting in London yesterday. While commuting from the Northern to the Central Line in Bank I was reading a paper study about the power structure of the BCE and its relations with the ESBC central Banks in the EU. [...]
The Dark Side of Google
During the past two days I have been working on collecting information about the mechanism of propagation of monetary policies applied by the European Central Bank trough the National Central Banks with particular focus on how the Italian Central Bank deploys the EU treaties in this respect.
The original idea was to prove, in cooperation with [...]
