“Things are changing online way too fast for society and culture to adapt. Something will eventually break.”
—Michael Arrington (Source)
June 2009
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“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
—by Mark Twain. So true when you compare 1927/8/9 and 2005/6/7/8.
Nomunication - a bilingual coinage
Japanese; nomunication (from nomu = drinking & engl. communication).
So when you go out for a drink with a business partner or enjoying the after-party of a conference (business purpose only). You can use (twitter) ‘I am nomunicating …’, ‘Had a great nomunication time …’.
I couldn’t find it on urbandictionary.com (but on NYTimes) and I hope the twitter/tumblr community will spread it.
Germany - Der Sozialstaat.
The top 10% (income) of Germans citizens own 60% of all assets in Germany, while 6,8 mio (of ~82 mio citizens = ~6%) make a living of Hartz IV.
Heute besitzen die obersten zehn Prozent der Deutschen rund 60 Prozent aller Vermögenswerte, während 6,8 Millionen Menschen Hartz IV beziehen.
Source: Spiegel.de (didn’t check the numbers, BUT might be accurate).
My fellow European citizens.
Not every [future] problem originates from America and has to be solved by America alone.
“Es ist zu spät, Brunnen zu graben, wenn der Durst brennt.”
—Titus Plantus (um 250 v.Chr.)
Fixing 'failed' capitalism
We tend to forget about the bad stuff and remind ourself only about the good stuff. It is should be a part and a task of democracy to remind us about both - so we do not slip back into an economic stoneage (socialism / communism) while trying to fix ‘failed’ capitalism.
Have heard this somewhere ...
I only have one last thing to do, that my story has a start and an end. I have to marry you.
“Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929 (1975 ed.).
German pink letter ...
I was fortunate enought to read a pink letter from a friend of mine here in Germany;
“…sehr zufrieden mit Ihrer Arbeit und Ihrem Einsatz….”
“….müssen jedoch das Arbeitsverhältniss aufgrund der angespannten Wirtschaftslage beenden.”
After reading the last 3 words a loud laugh slipped out of me. It was a ironic one I explained my friend. I study Economics and read (and write about it) discussions about how long this ‘monsters breath’ will last. Without any attachments. And here I have now a personal case right infront of me.
Will be going to 'Trabant Treffen 09' Yay!
It is organised unlike the past events by the ADAC. Here is the Wikipedia article to give you a glimpse about the ‘cultural factor’ of former East Germany.
Day 1 of Summer Holidays 09 (17.06.09)
- got up at 1pm :p was a long travel day yesterday
- Sunny, 20-25 degrees
- read the local IHK issue 06/2009 while sitting in the sun
- read the telegraph from yesterday while sitting in the sun
- mom and dad had a business client visiting
- we had BBQ
- then did a bike tour at the evening
- late at night I checked Facebook and NYTimes till 2am
