tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11575500479024515402024-03-14T18:01:39.665+00:00The DublimatDiplomatic immigrant in Dublin - or somewhere closeby.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-63562483301082943282017-10-01T23:19:00.002+01:002017-10-01T23:19:57.298+01:00How to talk diplomatically at the coffee tables of CataloniaIt should be clear that this week's political, and unpolitical, discussions at workplace, home, and bus will be about Catalonia. But what if you are not studied history, or didn't even know that Spain might be an issue.<br />
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I have prepared a few easy getaways on how to participate in a friendly, and sometimes sarcastic, way to all the discussions concerning Catalonia for the following week until you can capture what is really happening.<br />
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<img alt="Crowds gather to await the result of the Independence referendum at the Placa de Catalunya on October 1, 2017 in Barcelona" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/2AED/production/_98098901_042129545_getty.jpg" /><br />
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- Lenin called one-party systems centralised democracy. These days there are not so many who believe socialism should be instated with tanks, and concentration camps. I don't think people would vote for Lenin.<br />
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- Greece is the cradle of civilisation in many ways, and it is very close to Spain.<br />
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- It takes a certain way of thinking to shoot elderly people with rubber bullets. Then again in Israel it is kind of cool to drive over kids with tanks. I believe in Israel's right to existence by the way.<br />
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- Not all Nato Countries are Police States but all Nato countries have a police.<br />
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- Democracy should be used with wise and care. That is why we have politicians elected. I am not a politician by the way.<br />
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- Police brutality might be a good word to describe violence but I would still wait until we have a clear picture of what actually happened. Videos can be used for propaganda as we all know.<br />
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- European Union cannot police all their member states. Some problems are better left for people to decide upon. Remember what happened to Soviet Union?<br />
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- If there's not going to be a Rambo movie about it - it's probably not that bad.<br />
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With these 8 random one-liner(ishe)s you can nail the coffee table talks, and get enough to time to delve yourself into it.<br />
(c) Dublimat Diplomacy Learning CenterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-46973762534064062002017-08-15T23:15:00.003+01:002017-08-15T23:20:30.161+01:00I got exposed to posing ex-amnesty bloggers exposing<h3>
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On default I keep Adblocker on, and remove it when using sites that I like to support. This also includes Facebook. I don't hate commercials, and I understand the business model of having ads. Of course ads sometimes make me furious the same way that a two hour movie that you want to give another chance for every 15 minutes thinking that even if it's bad I'll be one experience richer. Ads are usually shorter but they are everywhere.<br />
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About the Bush, said George and went back to Facebook. What I meant to say to myself: "get to the topic, lad!" </div>
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I was Scrolling down Facebook today when I got exposed (pun intended - you'll find the pun soon) to a weird commercial. It was an ad for <a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/">Amnesty Ireland Exposed</a> (backward pun indeed) - a blog from "former supporters of Amnesty International Ireland who recognise that AI has truly lost its way, is no longer independent and that donating to Amnesty Ireland is really bad value for money." Actually the name of the blog is Amnesty International Ireland Exposed and the domain is just shortened to Amnesty Ireland Exposed. From a Copywriter's perspective, I think that the shorter one is better. The target is obvious, and it really doesn't matter are you against Amnesty International, or the Irish Branch. Their tagline is the classical clickbait "10 reasons why donating to Amnesty Ireland is bad value for money."</div>
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The anonymous blog is doing two things right. It has a clear message (don't support Amnesty), and it uses credible sources (Irish Times, Independent, established newspapers so to speak). I am person who likes clear agendas and visible targets. These kinds of one-purpose movements are at their best when they have a focus. This definitely has one. Also, at these times when there is an information overload on the web, credible sourcing is required. Also, very good use of Facebook marketing dollars. It is very cheap to reach out to people using that platform. </div>
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It is said that in (marketing) communications you should put the bad news first, and the good news at the end because the final perceived message is the one that is the tone that is left for the audience. If you noticed, I did the good news on the previous paragraph. Those who know how certain texts are produced are already seeing the clouds darkening the sky.</div>
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Let's see what are those 10 reasons. They are:</div>
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- Amnesty promotes international sex industry (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/amnesty-international-promotion-of-the-global-sex-indu/">Amnesty International Promotion of the global sex industry</a>)</div>
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- Amnesty doesn't care about prisoners of conscience nor the people on death row (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/amnesty-international-ireland-has-lost-its-way/">Amnesty International Ireland has lost its way</a>)</div>
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- Ireland pays salaries (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/65-79-of-amnesty-ireland-income-was-spent-on-salaries-prsi-and-pensions-in-2015/">65.79% of Amnesty Ireland Income was spent on salaries, PRSI and pensions in 2015. €443,846 was spent on fundraising in 2016</a>)</div>
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- There are too many organisations and non-profit organisations are getting tax reliefs (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/11/amnestys-work-is-no-longer-unique-only-draining-scare-resources/">Amnesty’s work is no longer unique – now it is only draining scarce resources</a>)</div>
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- Amnesty international gives monetary support for Ireland's branch (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/amnesty-failure-to-properly-fund-international-group/"> Amnesty International Ireland failure to properly fund international group</a>)</div>
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- Amnesty pays their worker's salaries - mentioned again (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/chuggers-chuggers-and-more-chuggers/">Amnesty Chuggers – I am sorry but facts do matter!</a><span id="goog_860416135"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_860416136"></span>)</div>
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- Give shelter and clothing to refugees, and support Goal, Irish Red Cross, and Concern worldwide (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/opinion-polls-coming-out-their-ears/">If you want to help those in need, there are better orgnisations to donate to other than Amnesty Ireland</a>)</div>
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- Amnesty is not a refugee aid (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/amnesty-international-ireland-raises-funds-on-the-back-of-refugees-but-does-little-to-help-them/">Amnesty International Ireland raises funds on the back of refugees but does little to help them</a>)</div>
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- George Soros supports Amnesty (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/amnesty-international-ireland-is-no-longer-independent/">Amnesty International Ireland is no longer independent</a>)</div>
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- Amnesty Ireland did only one tweet for Asia Bibi (<a href="https://amnestyirelandexposed.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/the-persecution-of-ashi-bibi/">The Persecution of Asia Bibi and the shameful silence of Amnesty International Ireland</a>)</div>
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Before going to commenting individually those 10 (or as I count 11) reasons, I should mention that I have been a member of Amnesty Finland, and I have been paid by them for one (1) month's work. In my comments I will bring out justified claims. </div>
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To the aforementioned blog writers: If my arguments work for the blog site, please feel free to use them. I must warn though, if your reading skills would be better you will not use me as a reference.</div>
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1. Sex industry is a controversial topic. Feminists are divided by the question. From liberal feminist's perspective it is on other hand empowering profession, and at the same it's about the freedom of profession. On the opposite human trafficking, slavery, and the grey-area of is-it-or-is-it-not-free-will is brought into questioning for good reasons. Blog has picked it's side, and it does very good by sourcing academical studies. My competency isn't good enough to disregard those. My own opinion is leaning to liberal feminism but I don't want to disregard the slavery part. </div>
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2. That is kind of bullshit. Amnesty's annual report is - in my humble opinion - one of the greatest source works of human rights violations. Just because you don't agree on the reproductive rights of ladies doesn't mean that Amnesty's work on those other topics are off the table. The reason why Amnesty Ireland might be actually more efficient on the reproductive rights -field than death row- and the prisoners of conscience is because the latter two are fairly lower in Ireland. Also 8th amendment is very high on the list. <a href="https://www.amnesty.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AI_Report_2017_Web1.2.pdf">Check this</a>.</div>
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3. I really don't see why Amnesty shouldn't pay their workers. I do agree on personal level that the director gets a nice paycheck. On a sidenote, if you would copypaste the figures and not the figures that somebody made up, you would actually find out that the director makes a hundred euros more a year than you claim. You might want to update it. :D</div>
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4. This was completely a mystery text. How I gathered this text was that there are a lot of non-profit organisations that can be supported, and they are getting tax reliefs. Would it be better that there would be less, or that non-profit organisations wouldn't get tax reliefs, or am I just reading you incorrectly?</div>
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5. Amnesty supports Amnesty's own branch. Well, you are right. I give you this. Still it doesn't really answer why people shouldn't support Amnesty Ireland. </div>
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6. This again. The url is nice and very seo-friendly if you look for -> "chuggers-chuggers-and-more-chuggers". They do have a nice link to <a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/youre-a-filthy-b-who-doesnt-deserve-kids-how-i-went-undercover-on-streets-with-the-chuggers-34924461.html">three story piec</a>e which explains that their fundraising is effective. What? Why do you link to stuff that prove that you are wrong and the chugging is effective. I don't even. It's Iona institute all over again. </div>
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7. This one is actually very spot on. Amnesty is a lobbing organisation, global think tank, global research facility, and a global propaganda organisation aiming at the equal respect and human rights and stuff. It is nice that you were once supporters of these things. Also very nice of you to offer shelter and clothing to the refugees. Very good advice on how to be a good person. This site is not complete shite.</div>
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8. Continuation on the previous point. Refugee council is also an admirable cause. This site is now officially only 5/8 shite. If I don't have anything bad to say about the last two -- this site will be only half shite (5/10). Let's go genderless.</div>
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9. Fecking gobshites. You were on the roll. This is the official Alex Jones section. George Soros and other US corporations own Amnesty Ireland. You were even very good at linking to established news sites. Why didn't you find links for these? I have a hypothesis that even you felt bad if you link to Alex Jones or Breitbart, or any other of those sites. Well, the burden of proof is on me on my hypothesis, the burden of proof on claiming that George Soros or some other Us company owns Amnesty Ireland is on you. </div>
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10. I don't even. I'll just give this site 7 out 10 shitefactor. Of all the Amnesty's awareness campaigns you took this one, and saw that it was a crime because there was only one tweet about it. </div>
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Thank you for reading, and those anonymous gobshites, these were your 10 links of fame. Congratulations.</div>
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If I would like to be so ridiculous I would say that this blog has the same writers as the <a href="http://www.thelifeinstitute.net/">Life Institute</a> or the <a href="http://www.ionainstitute.ie/">Iona Institute</a>. Take a look. Can you make a difference?</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-9838984098486613392017-08-09T10:58:00.001+01:002017-08-09T11:01:52.317+01:00Marketing is too disruptive - Lean examples of beautifully capitalistic world<h4>
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Phone sales is selling</h4>
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There is a small (or huge) distinction between marketing and selling. To use an example; when you are watching a TV show on old fashioned channels (not Netflix, HBO, or any other subscription based digital channel) which are funded by commercials (or in some cases through taxes or donations), your show is filled with little gaps that where marketing people do their best to raise awareness. They also might offer a so called call-to-action. Which is the "go to the nearest shop and buy!", or "call this number immediately!" </div>
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Nobody threatens you with a gun to buy those matafaking, awesome whatevers. Phone sales is a completely different area. There is a small part of marketing involved there. Specially when you are cold calling. Cold calling is an unsolicited contact. In those cases the seller has to explain who they are, why they are calling, and what they are selling, and to call the person answering the phone a potential buyer is a stretch on imagination. If they are unaware that you can buy for example socks or phones right now, the seller has to first raise awareness, and this has to be done very fast. </div>
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I used to work for a company where we sold office equipment with brand names on them. Calling wasn't exactly cold calling as some of the customers where expecting calls every month, or a quarter, and some of them didn't. The customer list was based solely on previous interactions. The customers were not just potential customers, they were already customers. </div>
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One of the key performance indicators that we used was a conversion rate. Conversion rate was the amount of calls made that turned into sales. These numbers were somewhere between 0-5 per cent. Generally 2.0 or higher was decent and 5 was above expectations. </div>
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Now imagine what the conversion rate is with unsolicited calls. First we should make a some kind of definition for an unsolicited call. For this purpose I would say that there are three conditions where as two of those conditions have to be met. Getting a hat trick here is just a plus for the definition, and disruptive as fuck for the "potential" customer.</div>
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1) Contact is not based on previous interactions with the contacting party.</div>
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2) Contact is based on a random number generator, or - even at best - on a random list of contacts (list of people living in area A, list of people who are working, etc.).</div>
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3) "Potential" customer has not filled in forms where they give permission to call them.</div>
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You probably have a clue already why I started putting the "potential" in quotation marks. Calling something potential with a less of an 1 per cent success rate is the same as calling a lottery ticket a potential winning ticket. And we probably know at least a one person who has won 5 euros with a 3 euro lottery ticket. Such potential, such wow.</div>
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Now to the point of effective sales. If you would be working in a lean phone sales company, or a company that sells stuff also using phone sales, your target should be having as big conversion rate as possible. Everything else is waste. If you are not calling the right person, at the right time, selling the right stuff, you are wasting your capacity, and your customer's time. Added bonus is an annoyed customer. If your sales men can give up the sales, but still feel good about raising awareness of the products in a manner that the "potential" customer finds helpful, although not currently in a state of doing business, you can mark that as a 2/3 waste.</div>
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I sometimes read statements that bluntly argue that a good marketing campaign is when people feel the urge to buy the stuff that the campaign is raising awareness of. I could not agree more. My zone of uncomfortable thoughts lies in measuring. </div>
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If marketing would be looked as a product, the raising awareness/call-to-action -statements of an ad should not be measured in terms of sales. I'll use IKEA as a case study. There is no argument against IKEA doing pretty okay for a Swedish assemble-it-yourself-mofo-retailer (mental note: Lego is also a Scandinavian/Nordic brand - coincidence?). IKEA does a lot of marketing (tv-show Friends, anyone) and a little to no sales outside their shops. Compare this to the idea of somebody making you an unsolicited call to try to raise awareness, and sell you a bookshelf to be assembled at home ("with an incredibly low price!!!"). But it doesn't do that, although I would be interested in getting that call. I would love to hear that cold-calling opening pitch*.</div>
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Instead IKEA sees the ads as a product. They don't want to annoy people, so they buy ads where people are used to seeing Ads, and as a product placement. So even if they don't reach the right people at the right time offering the right stuff, they still don't waste other people's time. Except during that commercial break on Friends. </div>
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But there is a new breed of marketing (I'm stretching a bit - 20 years is basically a grown-up) which tries to combine sales with marketing. Which is perfectly fine if you can market and sell the right stuff to the right person at the right time. </div>
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When internet sites are getting accustomed to offering ads with new measures like pay-per-click, or pay-per-view there becomes an unintended incentive to make Ads disruptive. Ad-space buyers don't want to raise awareness, they want people to click, and to make people click they need to put the commercials just underneath the mouse cursor; Or open new windows; Or putting commercial ads inside texts - this is perfectly acceptable to me, and the least intrusive marketing scheme in my humble opinion -; Or having "I want your hourly newsletter"-boxes ticked by default.</div>
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To jump to my point: Ads should be measured by who they reach, and not how many they reach. I understand that I am asking a lot, but so did the politicians who wanted to fly people to the moon (I know it's cliche comparison). </div>
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"Imagine there's no waste, it isn't hard to do, nothing to disrupt, only right people at the right time doing right stuff." -John Lean</h4>
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I've wanted to create this fictional character called John Lean who is loosely based on the factual character John Lennon. John Lean is a visionary, who doesn't think of how to get there, he imagines how the end products look alike.</div>
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John Lean has a global company called The Lean Beat which manufactures and sells customised music instruments. Lean Beat has a manufacturing department, an engineering department, a marketing department and a sales department. People working in all departments work rigorously together changing ideas. On the premises of selling and advertising, John Lean is mostly interested in how the two latter departments work.</div>
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Marketing department has a lot of people working on the creative parts, and inside their team works another team whose sole purpose is to find out if people find the products meaningful. Their product is the ad. They do rigorous search profiling their customers using a huge chunk of data, and a lot of analytical tools including Fermi problems, 8 wastes, Pareto charts, three M's (mudi, muri, and muda - not forgetting the media, message, and market), stream-value-mapping and 5 why's just to mention the few most obvious. They don't give a flying fundamental about how their ads align with sales. They only care if the ads align with their other products. In terms of input and output, they care if the marketing team receives meaningful information about the products, and that they can conceive those messages to people that actually want to use their time for the ads. </div>
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Sales department is also big, but there are only a few people who actually sell. Most of the team actually works out to find people who want their stuff without disrupting their lives at all. One of the workers there is Jennifer. Jennifer's market area is the whole UK, and she works on the market area all by herself. She sells instruments by the phone and email. Her conversion rate is 99,996 (very Six Sigma, so much wow). How they manage this is by calling people who are seriously thinking of buying an instrument. Jennifer calls them exactly when expected, and quickly works out the customisation plans. </div>
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Also because the marketing nor the sales department waste people's time, people don't find their marketing nor their sales efforts disruptive nor harassing. </div>
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This is a childish text that nobody who wants to make short-term profits should care about. Also in a dog-eat-dog capitalism you can't play nice. Game theory might present a small glimpse of how the w<span style="background-color: white;">ork should work: if every company on this planet would try to market to people that are interested in the ads, and to sell people who actually need stuff, companies would require a lot less capital in their sales and marketing. Everyone would profit. Less things would be produced, and it would be superawesome for the nature.</span><br />
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"You may say I'm a dreamer<br />
But I'm not the only one<br />
I hope someday you'll join us<br />
And the world will lean as one"
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* Opening pitch imagined: "Hi, this is Joe from Assemblers at home Ltd. How are you doing? Do you have a minute to talk about what a new bookshelf could do in your living room? I assume that you have a living room? Do you have a bookshelf there? Do you still have space there? What if I could say that you could assemble your own bookshelf at home up to your standards? It would cost 25 euros + handling fee of 10 euros. Building up the bookshelf will take on average 7 minutes. Do you want to hear the best part? If you measure the space that you can allocate for the bookshelf we will send you customised parts with an extra cost of 8 euros. How does that sound? (open-ended questions are always good for picking up information).</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-26911061237115840192017-06-17T02:02:00.000+01:002017-08-09T11:07:21.637+01:00Old script living<div class="tr_bq">
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Oil spill stopped under 200 bars of pressure. Off he goes again. Just to celebrate saved ocean life. This time in Las Vegas. His part time nemesis Joker recognises the armour that my son is wearing.<br />
*Thumb*<br />
He walks closer.<br />
*Thumb*<br />
Even closer.<br />
*Thumb*<br />
"Lex Luthor wants to buy you a drink," says Lex Luthor.<br />
Uncomfortable as my son can sometimes be he whistles and the Iron Man's armour flies through the ceiling. With a spin of a hand - basically just finger - the whole armour gets attached into him. May I remind that this is the prototype of mark 42. In the movies they use cgi.<br />
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"Sorry, busy," my son says and flies to New York. It wasn't a disaster. It could have been. My son doesn't have disasters, he has cramps. Inherited. Sorry.<br />
Anyways. Lots of thumb-thumbs, and of he goes. Did you know that Metropolis is trying to be New York. My son landed on the highest of the buildings. Andrew Webb was waiting for him in his mark 42 armour. Anything less would have made Webb's spider senses tingle. May I note that my son was also wearing similar kind of armour - just much more fabulous.</blockquote>
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This is the happiest day of my life!<br />
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What is your strongest move you can do professionally?<br />
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Eighties just called and they want your "funny" joke back!<br />
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Which one is cooler; Ice-Cube or Ice-T?<br />
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- Stop it. You are just trying to make an obvious joke about peace, prosperity and social ladders, and that everybody should mind their own fucking business because there is no joke. Except the peace. Which is a joke.<br />
- As a Muslim if with you man, except I am also suicidal.<br />
- As a Rabbi I only care about the glory.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-91329630003414158852017-05-20T23:28:00.001+01:002017-05-20T23:28:26.142+01:00Welcome to Sinn FeinI am not the only one who sees that the politics in crisis. In a countries where there is a freedom to vote, people abstain using that power that a lots of other people used gunpowder, ink and manpower to achieve.<br />
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There are not many good reasons to avoid the crisis. There are too many good things in life and too little trustworthy parties to just go for it. For me it was kind of easy. I've been a party member before, I know the crisis (for me it has been that parties should be judged by their goals and their doings). I've been and I still am a member of organized and less organized political movements. Sinn Fein is not the most leftist or a liberal party of Ireland, but it's hefty lot more credible than the labour party. It kind of reminds me of a party that I used to belong. It was Left Alliance back in Finland. It wasn't the most liberal and the most to the left, but it was the party whose other member wanted positions themselves there.<br />
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When I joined Sinn Fein I was actually surprised that somebody called me, just to check what kind of a member I wanted to be. I was happy with the idea that I just join the party and can support it with my subscription fee. I got surprised by that proactiviness I did enjoy it even though I could have lived without it.<br />
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We met with this Party Worker (I don't know if it's appropriate to say his name as this is a public blog), and his reason was only that because we work from the grassroot-level (my words, not his) that we want to know what people want to do in the party. People can be supporters, and it's a big thing; Joining a party is already a big step because you are aligning yourself with the ideas of a party.<br />
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To keep it short.<br />
There might be some political stuff on this blog.<br />
I wanted to write about Finnish government possible trying to make slavery official.<br />
It is nice to write stuff.<br />
I enjoy writing.<br />
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This is not a poem.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-66961971930163894172016-10-26T09:38:00.000+01:002016-10-26T09:38:01.837+01:00Imagine there is no religions<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if Ireland would be more secular society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a quote from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 16:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">"No more ceremonies to attend.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">No more blessings to give.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">No more prophecies to fulfill.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">I'm just a Starfleet officer again.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">All I have to worry about are The Klingons, The Dominion and The Maquis.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">I feel like I'm on vacation."</span></span><br />
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I'm trying to find reasons why the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman should not get the Nobel for Literature. Norwegians are already giving the peace price for anybody just for pretending to try.</div>
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Jean-Paul Sartre refused of the mentioned acknowledgment because he didn't want literature to become an institution. Later on he changed his mind but the Swedish academy of Sciences wanted to respect the artist's previous stronger performance and declined. And Bob still play<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ed a concert in a small Danish pub at the change of the Millennium.</span></div>
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Darion Fo's sarcastic and playful playwrights are short stories compared to some of the previous winners. The ones that kind of gave precedent for Harold Pinter's win. Both were mostly playwrights and were never considered truthfully authors in the long play of marathon novelists. And Bob wrote even shorter pieces.</div>
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Doris Lessing wrote a lot about white people living in Africa, about strong and sneaky women, and about men who were not destined to do big things but to fail in the long run. Men and women spent hours to finish her books. And Bob's lyrics still make people think is "it an accident made into a rhyme, or a rhyme to make the poem stand?"</div>
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At least all the winners have written. The Norwegian assembly should learn about the premises of making notes of great people at work. If Dylan would have won the peace prize somebody would have criticized the peace prize again for giving it into the wrong hands.</div>
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At least he wrote something about peace. We should give literature prices for people who write pieces about peace. We should do it in all categories. I believe that was Nobel's idea. Peace out.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-64359347392322160222016-09-24T21:52:00.004+01:002016-09-24T21:52:52.498+01:00Comfortable monologue for oneselfI meant to publicsh thszich here:<br />
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My Rant (written for a female actor, can also be a male)<br />
1. Only to be spoken out loud<br />
2. Where people can smoke<br />
3. Inside<br />
4. Can also be done outside<br />
5. Has to be to the letter<br />
6. The speaker, or the spoker, or the midnight joker<br />
7. Must get it right on the first run<br />
8. Must be<br />
9. Alive<br />
10. Thinier than the olympic athletes<br />
11. But not as thin as the female beauty contestants<br />
12. Could be cool<br />
13. If they would rule<br />
14. The dynasty that they become<br />
15. would be fun<br />
16. Tiny breasts or little buts they shall not have<br />
17. Bigger bottoms they might keep as they are --<br />
18. this should rhyme, resonate, or dare I say it<br />
19. Somebody died<br />
20. more intelligent, more kind, more animal than you and I<br />
21. Nature says, nature does, and it doesn't hold, oh dear, your eye<br />
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Rest in Peace<br />
I'm glad I can bury<br />
Into the hole<br />
All that is whole<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-57525036396181007532016-06-07T14:23:00.000+01:002016-06-07T14:28:06.924+01:00Metal Gear Solid going all Irish<span id="goog_541612161"></span><span id="goog_541612162"></span><br />
I have a tendency of watching a lot of game-related videos on Youtube. I try to explain to myself, that it is part of my work. But with all the hours spend watching those would get my employers sued for slavery, so let's say that I do it do keep myself up to date. Who am I fooling? I'm watching videos made at the age of Early Internet (also referred to as E.I.).<br />
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My today's project has been to find all the parts of Metal Gear Solid the Irish edition, and by watching myself from the mirror I can count from my tears that I have failed. There are supposedly five episodes, and I've only been able to find 4 of them. Originally they were published on entertainment.ie gaming -channel on Youtube, and I can't imagine what kind of sick game they are playing.<br />
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So dear Internet, if you know where the first part is, please post it below in the comments sections. Under here you can find all the four episodes in chronological order. After watching this epic Irishized version of the original Metal Gear Solid, you will understand my pain.<br />
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This might be where it all started. <a href="http://entertainment.ie/gaming/Watch-Metal-Gear-Scholid-is-a-thing-and-we-can-thank-Viper-Higgins-for-it/379863.htm">(<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">Watch: Metal Gear 'Scholid' is a thing and we can thank Viper Higgins for it</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">)</span><br />
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So far it seems that a group, or an individual going with the name Onecoin Polska (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/OneCoinPL/">Link to Facebook</a>), has been promoting an event held at Fitzgerald Hotel on the 16th of February. According to their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/827425200700837/">Facebook event </a>45 FB users were invited but zero people showed any interest into it.<br />
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<span id="goog_1596122602"></span>This will not probably end here and that is why the public should be made aware of Onecoin, and how it is manipulating people to give money to their owners.<br />
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I've made a few pointers that a potential victim should be aware of, but before that I'll quickly explain what is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme">Ponzi Scheme</a>. Ponzi Scheme is a scam where people are asked to invest their money for something that will bring great return on the investment, and promises are usually in epic proportions. It could be something like "double your money in six months" or something similar.<br />
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Onecoin recruiters are not afraid to use Bitcoin as an example. They will explain that Bitcoin's worth was 10 cents a coin at the beginning, and then it skyrocketed to thousand dollars. First of all, there are hundreds of crypto currencies available, and Bitcoin is the only one which market value has climbed so high so fast. If you take a look at <a href="http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/views/all/">coinmarketcap's list of crypto currencies</a>. Secondly, you don't find Onecoin on that list. Thirdly Onecoin is not a crypto currency.<br />
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Recruiters might try to explain that Onecoin is as much a crypto currency as bitcoin is, and that they use improved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_chain_(database)">block chains</a>. Block chains is a technology describing how the virtual ledger can be validated, and how it can be made sure that nobody tries forgery. As all the information is shared inside the network, it is important to put complex cryptography in place. Onecoin, on the other hand, claims to use block chains even though they don't have any need for that. All the onecoins are located on Onecoins servers and there is no need for block chains. They will try to explain that their own computers will do "the mining" (confirming that all the transactions are legit, and that there are no conflicts in the database).<br />
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Be warned, and when confronted about Onecoin, please do your research. They might be telling you that internet is full of lies (which is true), and you should trust themselves for accurate information (which is not true). If you feel conflicted about their promises that you will be rich, and all the warning signs that internet is full of. Do yourself a favour, and do your research.<br />
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For the dessert. Here is one of those warning signs from the "<a href="http://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/chinese-authorities-investigating-onecoin-investors-arrested/">Behind MLM</a>" which has consistently reported ill-doings of the Onecoin. Also, please find a video below, where a true believer of Onecoin diss this report. This is the kind of language that they use, and they might be very aggressive in manipulating you to believe that everything else is a lie except what they tell you.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-64819144927099309082016-05-18T18:37:00.002+01:002016-05-18T18:37:51.467+01:00Soldiers of Odin is now a platform for Unicorns and GlitterThe world might know <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_of_Odin">Soldiers of Odin</a> as a racist street patrol gang working underneath the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement">Nordic Resistance Movement</a>. They are registered as an non-profit organization in Finland, and has been working aggressively against anybody who disagrees with them, including a parody clown group called LOLdiers of Odin.<br />
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Group was very sure that they are protected by law, and nobody can represent them in public without their consent. In February Riikka Yrttiaho applied for Soldiers of Odin trademark, and got the approval late April. On their <a href="https://twitter.com/soldiersofodin_">@soldiersofodin_ </a> -Twitter account they published the news two days ago.<br />
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On the same day Finnish newspaper <a href="http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2016051621572802_uu.shtml">Iltalehti</a> got a few quotes from Riikka Yrttiaho. According to her she has not received any communications from Soldiers of Odin, and she said "hopefully they will take it cool." The owner(s) of the new trademark plans to use it to create good, and fight against racism and intolerance. They don't have anything yet on the production line, but they are talking about producing tote bags and pink t-shirts. The profits they/she make(s) are supposed to go to a yet unnamed charity to promote good.<br />
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On the other news, the leader of the Soldiers of Odin, Mika Ranta was convicted for assault of a man and a woman. The assault included kicking a person on ground in the head. According to <a href="http://www.lapinkansa.fi/lappi/odin-johtaja-mika-ranta-syytteessa-torkeasta-pahoinpitelysta-seuraamme-oikeudenkayntia/">Lapin Kansa</a>, a Finnish newspaper published at the northern parts of Finland, Mika Ranta got angry because Ranta's wife told to him that she got assaulted. Mika Ranta apologized to the victims as the assault against his wife wasn't true. He was convicted to 18 months of jail conditionally, and to 50 hours of community service.<br />
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In other media (this will be updated on my own discretion):<br />
<a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/woman_trademarks_soldiers_of_odin_name_for_unicorn-themed_clothing_in_anti-racism_protest/8886818">Yle: Woman trademarks Soldiers of Odin name for unicorn-themed clothing in anti-racism protest</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-30934563051165128672016-05-11T00:22:00.001+01:002016-05-11T00:22:28.728+01:00Why I love Grace and FrankieFor me, the Netflix has been the HBO of the 90's and the Television of internet for a time now. Netflix is doing what the local rental shops, and the TV should have been doing a long time ago. On a sidenote I have to say that it wasn't more than 20 years when we had to introduce ourselves over the phones, we couldn't see the calling number before hand, and we had to keep the phone plugged into the socket just in case. There were no myriad 'block this number', 'keep it on silent', and I miss those times only like once a year. Technology gap covered, move forward, yes please, and thank you sir, I will on the next chapter.<br />
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As it is pretty obvious from the first paragraph, I'm not a person who likes to go straight into business. With some sexual 70's innuendo -voice "ladies, please, I'm just a man". And with this side paragraph, which should have been edited away after proof reading - and here it's still - let's run into the business of writing.<br />
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When I was a reasonably young playwright - 20 something: I was writing some plays where most of the characters were ladies. I meant them to be without a gender, but with actors being around I really didn't have a choice. I had to genderize them for actors.<br />
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The nice part was that I didn't have trouble filling roles with female actors. Hard part was that there were not that many male actors. Before getting from this intro part to the actual point about the headline, I have to confess that I'm not an expert on Simone De Beauvoir's life, she only struck my mind with one sentence, and I'm paraphrasing now: ' the only reason that history doesn't recognize female writers or scientists, is because we were never given a chance." I don't know how to speak French, and somebody might translate it better. To me, it was something that needed to be recognized, I started writing fiction without gender. At least I tried.<br />
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For this part, it was a strike of luck that I was in theatre. For how would someone be able to imagine in groups that we should look past genders and to beyond, and not see our genders as cages that in so many ways might make us trapped in language.<br />
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So, Grace and Frankie starts. Season two now on Netflix. After the first episode my immediate response is to watch the next one. My spoiler free comment is that the atmosphere is the same as in the first one. There is the fragility of family relationships, and also the strength that comes with asking for forgiveness. If you've never seen the series, I'll just say that it starts with two couples, and in those two couples there were lovers, and the lovers were not always the ones inside those mentioned couples. Without the weirdness: there were GAYS! And two very old ladies. So old that even Jane Fonda (Who is actually older than the character she is playing [Ralph Macchio beaten]) can play a younger character.<br />
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Premise is two divorced ladies and their gay husbands. Do you want some slapstick humour with that one? You will not get it.<br />
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The show is just full of very written dialogue. It has the same kind of drama that I've seen in Frasier and The Oz (the jail series, not the fairy tale 'we're not in Kansas anymore'), and the same humour that I find in Archer (an animated series about chauvinist super-spy of ISIS (sic)) and Gilmore Girls.<br />
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In the end it is not just the wits. It's also about the roles, and the roles we think that don't need another look at at all. I gave the first season already a 5/5. How can I give the same for the second season after only watching the first two episodes?<br />
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To me, Frankie and Grace poses serious questions. Why do I enjoy watching these old people with children, who has more problems than they do, over a fast-action packed feature film featuring at least a very big guy, or a not so big of a guy, or a very very small guy, who is old, but doesn't smoke weed, and is terrified of hamsters?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-25002200760020630802016-03-31T07:31:00.000+01:002016-03-31T07:31:12.335+01:00Poker should be honest even if the players ain'tI've been a long time fan of poker starting somewhere at the beginning of this century when we had this ring of Scandinavian Stud (Sökö) players getting together once a month (on payday). It was poker at it's friendliest level. With a random entry fee, everybody was allowed to eat and drink for free, and everything that was leftover was in the pot. Winner takes it all, but the winner had to pay the cab to the first pub and buy around for everyone involved in the game. As you can guess, the winner was the one who lost the least amount of money during the night.<br />
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Few years later I got into Texas Hold Em, and afterwards I went on to games like Omaha, Courchevel, Eight-game, Seven-deuce, Crazy Pineapple, Lime and all kinds of variants. My favourite is Dealer's choice, where you basically play the form of poker that the dealer (The player on the button) decides.<br />
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Today I was reading <a href="http://www.irishpokerboards.com/">Irish Poker Boards</a>, and found a link to <a href="http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=139756">David Kilmartin's</a> aka Lappin's latest blog post <a href="http://rocshot.com/lappin/239-poker-players-are-liars/">"Poker players are liars"</a>. There he starts with the so called "show one, show all"-rule, which means that if a player shows his/her cards to another player, he/she is bound to show the cards to the all players. This rule is commonly mistaken to mean that if you show one card before mocking, you are required to show the other one as well (assuming you are playing Texas Hold Em, and of course you are, because you don't know any other forms outside 5-card draw poker commonly know as the Strip Poker).<br />
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He goes on talking about politics, and the life outside of poker. The main thing I noticed is that, even though poker players might occasionally bluff (100% bluff rate in the long term is de facto impossible), we shouldn't assume anything about poker players outside the set of rules. It is game of misleading, and one of the hardest forms of game theories as everyone has to make their decisions without having all the knowledge.<br />
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This takes me to an important lesson I once taught to my girlfriend when she was starting out. She registered to <a href="http://www.fulltilt.eu/">Full Tilt Poker</a>, and started playing sit'n'go's (tournament which starts when a preset amount of players have been registered). Then she moved on to more challenging tournaments. We used to play poker at the same time with our own laptops in the same room. Once we were in the same tournament, and ended up in the same table. She was already saying that we should play against other players.<br />
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She was basically suggesting that we collude against other players. Which is basically cheating. She showed her hand (pair of kings), and I instantly turned my screen away from her informing my disgust against cheating, and also saw a change to teach an important lesson.<br />
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I was bound to act after her in the table and I had a pair of fives. The flop came with Ace, ten and a five. I made a set, but also the whole flop was coloured with spades. She checked, and I bet 1/3 of the pot. She looked at me, and was like what are you doing? I said that I won't tell you. She was probably afraid of the ace, but she also had the king of spades, which would give her the nut flush (the best possible flush). Turn card was a three (diamonds I think, anyways, not spades). She checked and I bet, and she was like "What am I doing? Do you have the ace?". "Guess?", I asked her. I think she thought I was playing some kind of mind game with her, and she was partially right. River card was the lucky three of spades, completing her flush, and giving me the full house. She checked, and I bet a full pot against her. And she was like "You know my cards, why are you betting?". She pondered for a while and decided to call to see the bad news.<br />
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She was pissed off. I did explain to her that she gave me all the information, and she should be lucky that I only bet 1/3 of the pot on the flop. There was a longer tutorial against cheating in poker, and so on, but to my knowledge she has never cheated after that. And she does pretty decent on poker tables.<br />
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What was the lesson then? Well, as I see, Poker is a game of luck, deception, and skill. Poker is also a game of rules, and we should feel compelled to them at all times. I like to think poker is a gentleman's game even though it is not represented with such class in TV, and even less in the corner tables of pubs. In the long term, I would like to think, every time somebody cheats in Poker, one to-be poker player gets another reason not to get involved, so in the end, all poker players lose.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-21269909162788045122015-12-01T23:24:00.001+00:002015-12-01T23:24:28.745+00:00My wordz are my moralitiesHuman rights should not be delivered from your nationality<div>
Human rights are delivered from nationality</div>
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There are people with no nationalities at all</div>
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Human rights are repressed differently inside nations</div>
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Humans should not defuse themselves into nations</div>
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Right wrong doesn't make right wrong</div>
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Doing wrong by mistake is no law at all</div>
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Governing all by law doing wrong should be wrong</div>
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Pronounced they sound everything but wrong</div>
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And wrong are you doing by the before mentioned wrongs</div>
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Wrong law is better than no law at all</div>
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Every law should be proven right from the wrong</div>
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Every day no play not here no foul</div>
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Standing up against wrong law is truthfully better than no love for law</div>
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Rebelling against a law without love is standing up against the right law</div>
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Law that represents morals might be a good start</div>
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Revolutions take that good start into a good law</div>
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Good laws present the precedence with good </div>
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Good precedence might not represent the good at all</div>
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The good are the first to go when the precedence go wrong</div>
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Wrong reasons to show all the good where they might wrong</div>
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Right cause for righteous laws</div>
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1. Atheists are probably the worst with morality. In the worstest of the worse cases they are acting kindly knowingly that there is no higher force to punish them.<br />
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2. Obnoxiousness of Atheists is peculiar. They jump on against every explanation of how the universe was created but when challenged back to give a better explanation, they know nothing.<br />
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3. Silly is the idea of universe created out of nothingness. Sillier is the idea that nothing created everything. Still some of them say that they don't know.<br />
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4. Paradoxes should be broken down to at least two categories. Those that are paradoxes, and those that are not. We can put it to a poll. Or to a referendum.<br />
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5. You cannot choose your beliefs unless you are an Atheist. Then it is always a choice. At least that's what Atheists say to Theists when they ask why they are Atheists. Theists think that Atheists are trying to be funny.<br />
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6. If there wouldn't be so many cinematic versions of Bible then the Game of Thrones would be challenged every year. Not with just dragons. The cast would be a lot bigger, and they would all die. And if an important character dies the writers would make the character come back even after the death. The Bold And The Beautiful has run over 20 years.<br />
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7. What is the religion of Jedis called? Is it Jedism, or Jeduism?<br />
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8. Followers of Zen seem to be asking a lot of questions and even answering them with a question, don't they? Are those Zen dudes really that stupid?<br />
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9. Matrix-trilogy is a much better movie series if you think that Neo never got out of the Matrix. Matrixception.<br />
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10. Only a few people critical towards religion knew how to use footnotes. Look where they are now.<br />
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11. Someday there is going to be a thing called iReligion. Probably from the PC people. There is nothing wrong or bad about products with an apple logo. First people afraid of the brand were performing on Betamax.<br />
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12. There probably was a man who had an apple falling to his head. I don't know if he was actually called philosopher because of that. It might have actually been an appraisal at that time so I don't want to take it away from him either.<br />
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Children should be let to decide their own names. As long as we want to believe that they are able to do it.<br />
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Do you have one cigarette to spare? Regardless of the thank you's, you shouldn't be smoking.<br />
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I've been watching dead children floating on the line of water and sun. They might be dead. Could be fake. Somebody calls them illegal.<br />
<i>(In Finnish somebody called them welfare surfers)</i><br />
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The fortress I live in is not the language I stay in.<br />
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There is no magic in writing poetry. It just happens a letter at the time. In thoughts there are pictures as well, but no magic. They always come out clear.<br />
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I've done my private research is the new expert. Luckily I'm no expert to say otherwise.<br />
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Blogger who is against the mainstream media should be aware of the count of his readers.<br />
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It's funny how cool the weather is when you are thinking how hot the debate about climate is. Hopefully they will meet halfway the Köppen.<br />
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My first sip of cognac was the most distasteful act of oral injection. I feel nostalgic about the toothpastes that taste like candy.<br />
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I've read a study that clever people have a ready-to-use grammar of 1000 words all the time, and normal people have only like 200. I used 140 already on Monday.<br />
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Psychology is like horoscopes but with a scientific methodology. People who believe in it want to cure themselves.<br />
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Guy in debt is the most gracious. Guy owning all the debts avoids taxes. I'm just the middle man in the company. You will play again - we are counting on it.<br />
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There are two kinds of managers I like. The ones who are supporting my work and the ones that keep distance.<br />
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"If the truth in itself is true then you can only use that as a measurement of truth"<br />
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The biggest count of people checking the quote?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-66363619059524992422015-07-19T00:00:00.000+01:002015-07-19T00:00:03.641+01:00Why Are You Still Looking for Headlines?<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">If we outsource all of the intelligence, who would notice?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Life is a peach but not a pear. Nobody can fight against a full-grown pear. I only know one fictive character doing that. He survived. The pear did not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">If I'm measuring my intelligence, how long will it take for me to know what I'm measuring?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">No-one can be told about the new Playboy 4. But two people who has experienced it can talk about it. Will they be talking about the page numbers or the games they play?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Always when I'm looking at the old female pictures, I think they are a bit of conservative. We should protect the new picture!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">It's nice to know that performance art is not dead. I just read about it, and it seems to be thriving. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">You know people who hate politicians who say a lot and still so little. I wish they wouldn't talk so much.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">When asked how I always make things look so easy, I say it's magic. Magicians never show their tricks. They make it look so hard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I miss those old book clubs where you would be send books every month with a price of a yearly subscription and you would just archive them into your bookcase. Internet destroyed it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Would you accept Groucho Marx into your club? I would just post his application to Internet, and let him deal with the after shower. I would use my own name.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Do you remember when you were kids and toys were smaller than you. Then you grew up and so did the toys. And the budgets. And the bills. And the inflation. And your kids.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I still laugh about the time during that sad Christmas when I was hoping for a cancer that would kill me fast and painlessly, and I got a Playstation 4. I still haven't finished any of the games that I have bought. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Of course every European knows that Santa Claus is from Finland, and American that he is from North Pole, and 9 percent of Christians that Jesus is from Bethlehem. I made the statistics up just to stop people mocking religions. </span></span><br />
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In case somebody is wondering how the Parliament felt about the Greece's situation you might be interested in these <a href="https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/vaski/KokousPoytakirja/Sivut/SuVP_16+2015.aspx">minutes</a>. I could not find them in English so I have taken this opportunity to translate the minutes. Everything inside brackets are my own comments to give background information and it might not be completely unbiased. I'm solely responsible if something is lost in the translation or if the translation is inaccurate on any accounts. Also, keep in mind that politician's don't always speak the language that you would hear in a pub. Viewer discretion is highly recommended due to these limitations.<br />
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"Item 3 - Eurogroup 11.7.2015<br />
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Meetings of European Council and European Union's councils<br />
<a href="https://www.eduskunta.fi/valtiopaivaasiakirjat/EUN+41/2015">EUN 41/2015 vp</a> [link is broken or unpublished]<br />
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Following were heard by the Committee:<br />
- Minister [of Finance] Alexander Stubb<br />
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Assisted by Secretary of the State Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Secretary of the State Martti Hetemäki, Ministerial Adviser Minna Aaltonen, Financial Secretary Jouni Lehto [from] the Ministry of Finance.<br />
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Follow-up Letter EJ 14/2015 vp (E 137/2014 vp) has been received by Eduskunta [the parliament]. The Minister Stubb and the Secretary of the State Heinonen outlined Finland's Policy [so far].<br />
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The floor was given to MPs Tuppurainen, Arhinmäki, Elo, Biaudet, Jalonen, Essayah, Haavisto, Harakka, Mykkänen, Kalmari and Vice Chairman Pekkarinen. Minister Stubb, and Secretaries of the State Heinonen and Hetemäki, and the Secretary of Finances Lehto then answered to queries.<br />
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The Grand Committee pointed out that the item in hand involving the contents of the Follow-up Letter EJ 14/2015 vp (E 137/2014 vp), the position of the Government, and the discussion made in the [Grand] Committee is a matter of discretion on the grounds of the <span style="font-family: inherit;">Constitution<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;">§ 50 subsection 3 to secure the negotiations. During the discussion the Chairman Virolainen made the following basic proposal as the position of the Grand Committee: Committee agrees with the Government's Policy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The meeting was suspended at 16.34, and it was adjourned at 16.50.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MP [Johanna] Karimäki made the following proposal for the Grand Committee to approve as it's position supported by MP [Eva] Biaudet: </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Finland's objective of negotiations should be to secure the stability, the unity and the future of the Eurozone. Greece has made a new request for a new loan program via ESM [European Stability Mechanism], experts have given their views of the Greece's reform proposals, and the Greeks have indicated through a referendum that they want a change.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The evalution given by the <i>Institutions</i> were presented to the Grand Committee only verbally. According to the statement the Government's position is against the recommendations of the <i>Institutions.</i> The Grand Committee acknowledges that the evaluation should have been trusted. The growing humanitarian crisis has to be stopped, people should be able to fulfil the requirements for living in the whole of European Union. It is in the core of the European values. The legitimacy of European Union is based on this.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finland's overall liabilities should not necessarily be increased as there is still capital in ESM to cover Greece's third loan program. In the long run it should not be a threshold question should the capacity of the crisis solving mechanism be increased if the stability of the Eurozone requires it. Crisis solving mechanism to maintain the stability of the Eurozone has been proven to be a success. For example, Portugal and Cyprus have been able to get their economy on a more sustainable foundation due to the support program. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the last five years we have been solving the crisis by saving banks. According to experts 75 per cent of the benefits of the European Union and other creditors went to international banks. Most of the benefits went to Germany. In a normal market economy banks and the investors would have carried the risk. Cuts in the Greece have been substantial, and most of it is being paid by people who are already in the low income and unemployed. This does not remove the fact that Greece needs to do systematical reforms to expand the foundation of taxes and to tackle the grey economy, tax evasion and corruption. Also the reform of pension scheme should be continued so that the raise of the pension age would not only affect the now young generation. Greece's government should be able to decide what are the reforms that provide the best growth. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Big part of the Greece's economical problems and the amount of the debt is derived from domestical problems. But also a very big part is derived from the financial crisis and the bank saving operation. This has to be acknowledged when we are thinking about the terms of a compromise. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Uncontrollable exit of the Greece from Euro would lead to a long-term instability which could in the worst case expand to a European wide crisis. The objective should be to keep all the current Eurozone states in using common currency. In case the Greece exits the euro it would be probable that the Greece would not pay their debts. Also the risk of Finland losing all it's receivables is high. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The terms and conditions of the crisis countries' support programs or loans should be able to be readjusted if the crisis countries implement healthy reforms for their economies and if the readjustment is to secure the well-being for the whole Eurozone and Finnish economy. Support programs are to be implemented in the matter that they support employment and growth. Principal is that the loans given out through the support mechanism will be paid back.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Greece's government needs room to choose their economical means to get by the crisis, but we also need to to see true commitment to necessary reforms. Syriza needs to be held responsible for credible accounting. In the mean time EU and Finland should be prepared to give humanitarian aid immediately if the whole economical system of Greece, and the availability of groceries and medicine collapses in the immediate following days.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[Grand] Committee expects that the negotiations are driven to find a compromise that secures Finland's and Europe's interests, secures our receivables, secures the stability of Eurozone, and is fair to Greece and to their ability to see growth as a part of the union of common currency. From this position Finland can agree that we will negotiate with Greece about the ESM program."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;">"Finland is prepared for a solution that enables Greece's economy to grow, unemployment to go down, stop the growing of the humanitarian crisis and is ready in principle to start the negotiations for the ESM program. Also as proposed by the so called <i>Institutions </i>(Comission, ECB, IMF) the Greece's proposal will be the foundation of the negotiations for ESM program.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;">"Finland's government has been unable to acquire enough information and credible estimations of the situation in Greece to make decisions. Finland has to hold on to it's receivables negotiated through [our] liabilities."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1000003814697px;">[Grand] Committee approved the position of the Eduskunta: [Grand] Committee agrees with government's policy."</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-17819119179152630492015-07-13T00:47:00.002+01:002015-07-13T00:47:35.661+01:00Utrecht puts basic income to the testWhile the Greece is currently the main focus of economical experiments, meanwhile in the land of wooden shoes the concept of basic income is getting an interesting treatment. Basic income being the social welfare model where everybody (presumably) gets a certain amount of money (per month) regardless of their situation.<br />
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It is going to be put into a test in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht">Utrecht,</a> Netherlands. This time it is not entirely political. 300 people living on welfare have been chosen and divided into groups. 50 of these people will receive something between 900-1300 (according to <a href="http://qz.com/437088/utrecht-will-give-money-for-free-to-its-citizens-will-it-make-them-lazier/">Quart's article</a>). The idea is not to put basic income in use permanently, but to do an experiment to see if people will be "lazier" if they get free money. Local university is involved in the experiment.<br />
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Interesting part about this experiment is that there are two other groups as well. One which continues to receive benefits according to current legislation which is not that interesting, but provides a necessary comparison. The third group is the bomb. They have to earn their benefits through a system involving incentives to get rewarded. Think about a social welfare system were you would be required to do certain mundane tasks just to be considered receiving social benefits.<br />
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Of course there are requirements to be fulfilled before being eligible for social benefits in every country around the world. In Ireland to be eligible for Job seeker's allowance you have to have a certain amounts of job history behind you, you have to be unemployed, and you have to be looking for a job. I admit that it is not a lot that is being asked.<br />
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There are two reasons why this experiment's outcome could be criticized even before any final conclusions have been made. The amount of people participating is quite small. Only 50 people from 300 is participating in the basic income part. Sampling size is too small, and it is also too local to draw universal conclusions out of the outcome.<br />
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Secondly, all the selected people are already customers of the social welfare. Now the hypothesis of "people dropping out of job markets" is not included. I don't have any deeper insight in to this experiment as I was unable to find more details about the methodology that is being used. For starters I don't know how long the experiment will take. Will it last for a fixed amount of time or will it continue ad finitum and the sampling size is measured with the same questions every half an year or an year?<br />
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But we should be excited as this social experiment might give us actual information about how the basic income could and would affect behaviour. It will add much more weight to the debate concerning basic income than (politically) opinionated 'might-happens'.<br />
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Also check:<br />
<a href="http://dutch%20city%20of%20utrecht%20to%20experiment%20with%20a%20universal%2C%20unconditional%20%27basic%20income%27/">Independent: Dutch city of Utrecht to experiment with a universal, unconditional 'basic income'</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-58388955332595369142015-07-02T01:05:00.000+01:002015-07-02T01:05:21.360+01:00The Clever Headlines Are Not What They Used To Be"In the old days. Days when even the Nostalgia was better. You noticed that clever timejump wordplay? Well, it's too late to play with time travel when you already got this far. Unless we try to undermine the original premisses. That is only if we don't go that far back in time - only to the moment when the actual change in headlines happened - and not go too far. Would that be okay? Are you a man from the future talking to me? Or am I just talking to myself?", he responded.<br />
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"They are all very good questions, but they are not even touching the interface of How Language Has Changed During All These Years -App. ", was shown on the screen opposite of the mall hall. She didn't really react to the man talking about "days when", "Nostalgia", "man from the future", and "am I just talking to myself." It all seemed so eerie. Misty as a hall full of people could ever be. But they did not know half of it.<br />
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You don't know yet how, but the next paragraph is going to start with a small reference to the structure. And it is going to end to the conclusion.<br />
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It is trying to reflect itself from the headline without realising that the headline is just a foreword before the afterword. At least then the headlines used to make sense.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-75397457636943790772015-06-20T04:07:00.000+01:002015-06-20T04:45:28.132+01:00The Five Reasons to Be Against AbortionThere is a good few of you folks who still needs reasoning against abortion. We all know it, and we know what already happened when gays were allowed to get married. God doesn't live in this country as strong as it used to. I think the strongest reason why we failed there was because we were not reasoning enough. Before the kettle of hell gets turn to us as a nation we should all figure out how to fight the next level of Satanism, and Abortionism. So write these down. These are the five good reasons why abortion should not be allowed.<br />
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Did you know that after the Schengen deal, most of the Europeans that came to Ireland were the ones from Poland? There are more people speaking Polish than Irish. According to <a href="http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/sexual-and-reproductive-health/activities/abortion/facts-and-figures-about-abortion-in-the-european-region">eurostats</a> there are more people moving to Ireland than from anywhere else. Think about this?!? Enda Kenny might be required to have a simultaneous translator from Irish to English, and then to Polish, just because of all those ladies who had an abortion in Poland. The good lady always stays home, and what are they doing here right now?!? Not just taking jobs, but also protesting for abortion.</div>
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Did you know that Eiffel Tower is more than 300 meters tall? You probably did not know that. French also built the Statue of Liberty. They also were very rebellious against the Monarchy, just like Irish did. What do they do with that easiness?!? They build a fekking tower which some could find a bit like a penis looking, and who do like penises the most?!? The ladies who are driven by the devil, and don't want to get married. They just want to get pregnant, just to have an abortion, because they like to visit France. </div>
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It is probably a bad moment to talk about Aer Lingus, but as you know the bible says<br />
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And this is why it never works the same way as Ryan Air. Of course the other company can take where ever you want to go, but you should never forget that there is no such thing as a cheap abortion. Think about the brimstone, and then think about flying planes. Think about the Aisling, the daughter of Ireland. Were would you be now if we would have been using Aer Lingus just to get an abortion?!? Think about that.<br />
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If you have ever seen a pregnant woman, you will know by heart that there is a living, and breathing thingie inside the mother. That's why it is already perfectly a good situation to do personality tests to them. Hardest part is to get your voice heard through the pregnant people, and that's why normal people use amplifiers. They can raise your voice's normal strength to as high as 120 db. which allows you to make reasonable questions to the child. You can ask him/her questions like which colour do you like the most? This red, or this blue. Of course you might laughing because children cannot speak at that time. They are not even breathing. BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO MURDER THIS LOVELY PERSONALITY, just because you hate god. I think not. You want to cherish that pile of DNA as a person of free will. </div>
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Somebody probably still remembers Novaya Gazeta, and Anna Politkovskaya. The latter was murdered about a century ago, and the paper itself has met some hard times in Russia. Politkovskaya wrote many articles in Novaya Gazeta about some probable mischiefs from Russian government's side in Chechen War. Murderers were never caught, but she got a lot of attention for her articles. Russia still doesn't really excel on the transparency level.<br />
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Then there was this website based solely on donations, and they torrented US diplomatic cables around the web. Julian Assange is wanted in the USA for spying (or maybe not), and in the Sweden for a (alleged) rape. Wikileaks produced papers that showed that everything is not so black and white in war, and probably never will. USA government was not very happy with this issue, but seems that Julian Assange is too liked person for drone attacks.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-61757545141095632092015-05-22T10:20:00.000+01:002015-05-22T10:20:27.670+01:00Celtic Tiger Might Take a Great Leap for Equality Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This is a great moment to live in Ireland. You can see, hear, and feel the history being made. Referendum will be held today to decide what should be the age of presidential candidates. Important as well, but also the vote for Marriage equality will be <i>cum in actum.</i></div>
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My favourite bully group, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Institute">Iona Institute</a>, has been publicly advocating against equality by saying it is inequality. Let's take a moment to look at the work of these great minds.</div>
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Reasoning is that a mother can't be a father, nor a father cannot be a mother. I don't think anyone has even tried regenderize (I don't know if that is even a word, but I'll let it be here for a while. Maybe it will grow some root) parents. On a grass root level the no-side has been vigorously handing out leaflets explaining why you should vote no in bullet points. The point seems to be that it is redefining marriage, and that even the Bible says something about something. I just fail to see what is the downside of Marriage Equality. Is there going to be a flood, or a swarm of grasshoppers raining from the skies? </div>
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This is probably how they see themselves:</div>
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When I go through Iona Institute's established view points. I see this:</div>
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You kind of know that things have gone too far when a lobbyist group starts posting news about<a href="http://ionainstitute.ie/index.php?id=3936"> two heterosexual men marrying each other</a>. It is like taking everything that you can find, and just keep throwing them at imaginary enemies. Well, why not. They seem to be in good terms with a special kind of imaginary friend. </div>
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This is what was happening on O'Connell street yesterday:</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157550047902451540.post-64836918723526926352015-04-28T19:10:00.000+01:002015-04-28T19:28:03.698+01:00Susan Anne White Recognizes the Arrival of the 1900sIt seems that Ireland is getting to the 1900s sooner than expected. This evidence was brought to me by Susanne Anne White as covered in the <a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-candidate-wants-gay-people-jailed-adultery-made-illegal-and-rock-bands-outlawed-31176105.html">Independent</a> yesterday. As you probably are aware (cause you know what is Internet, and you were able to find here) things like Feminism formed itself with pioneer thinkers like Simone De Beauvoir, Rock'n'Roll conquered the whole wide world about 50 years ago, and from the ruins of two World Wars rose European Economic Community, or the European Union as it is commonly known these days.<br />
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White is against all these things, but she doesn't regard herself as an extremist, as she sees that the society has moved, and back in the old good days people would have shared her views. They would have probably partied like it was 1899 again if it wasn't for those long haired what-you-calls-them.<br />
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But if you don't know what the internet is, and you are reading this from a paper that your holy padre brought to you as evidence of the Devil being close then you might agree with several of White's points. Rock'n'roll music decapitates holy matrimony, fuels sexual anarchy, and there is a connection to drugs. And the Devil said it was a good thing, and rock'n'roll Atheists celebrated in the orgy of death (or Friday as we tend to call it).<br />
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But she doesn't stop there. Gays should be jailed, adulterers should be imprisoned, and feminists should be - well, she really doesn't propose anything bad for Feminists. Only that because of them the idea of man as a provider for the family has decayed, and ladies are forced to work instead of being little baby ovens.<br />
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It seems that a woman standing for election to have women returned back to the kitchen from the public life doesn't lack anything in the irony shop. Wait till she hears about the <a href="https://www.yesequality.ie/">Yes Equality movement</a>.<br />
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ps. If you are reading this post from the paper don't wonder about those blue letters. We call them links. It's basically the same thing as in those (old) adventure books where you are required to turn to a certain page to continue the adventure, and you could go on and read it again, and again, and make different decisions, and have completely different adventure. Tomorrow people also play video games, and some of them don't take the concept of God too seriously.<br />
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edit: Check this Metro's photo of her <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/28/one-election-candidate-wants-to-re-criminalise-homosexuality-adultery-and-ban-rock-music-5170520/">campaign promises</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0