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Tulajdonképpen egyre szimpatikusabb, amit az FBI lépett…

The photograph above will accompany an article in the Business section in this week’s issue. It shows Kim Dotcom (pictured, wearing sunglasses), co-founder of file-sharing site Megaupload. Last week police in New Zealand arrested Mr Dotcom at the request of American officials, who also shut down Megaupload, claiming it encouraged users to share copyrighted content (the firm says that the vast majority of its traffic is legitimate). The eccentric businessman, who changed his name from Schmitz, is reported to have enjoyed a lavish lifestyle: with a mansion in New Zealand, a fleet of luxury cars and a slight tendency to show off.(via This week’s caption competition: Caption competition 19 | The Economist)

January 25, 2012, 10:48pm

Scmitt Pál nyakon ütött

albertgazda:

egy bolti eladót

Nyilván imposztor, hiszen lehagyta a “doktort”!

January 25, 2012, 2:57pm

felvidek:

tallianmiklos:

Mondjuk már ki végre F. Géza nyomán, hogy a kommunista édesipar minden gyerekkori nosztalgia ellenére tiszta hulladékot termelt, és ezt a mai magyar édességgyártók többsége büszkén folytatja.

Mondjuk ezt pont nem akartam írni, az ipari hulladékok lelkes fogyasztójaként nagy híve vagyok rengeteg nosztalgikus, de gyenge minőségű édességnek :) Az Americana viszont az én, nem túlságosan magas követelményeimnek sem felel meg, sőt…

Az Americana a magyar Africana szlovák koppintása volt…?

(Source: dr-aliendelon)

January 24, 2012, 8:09pm

Ha nem sületlen tinédzserek lennének, akkor az Anonymousos hülyegyerekek nem a Megaupload miatt hisztiznének hihetetlenül kontraproduktívan, hanem mondjuk at iráni szervereket gyepálnák a programozó csávó ítélete miatt. 

January 23, 2012, 6:19pm

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com

 One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhonemanufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

January 23, 2012, 12:22am

Gabrielle Giffords posted a two-minute video to her website today in which she announced her decision to give up her congressional seat. In “A Message From Gabby,” the Democratic Congresswoman from Arizona said she would instead focus on her ongoing and miraculous recovery from grave injuries incurred during the horrific mass-shooting that killed six and injured 19 outside a supermarket in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Steps Down from Congress (by giffords2)

January 23, 2012, 12:01am

For the record: egymillió ember az ennyi. Amikor tömve van a Washington Mall. 

January 22, 2012, 11:57pm

sronti:

heymyfish:

ez mondjuk erős. profi lehet a yard. még szerencse, hogy legalább levédték jelszóval

(via FB)

Nekem is volt így elnevezve wi-fim, szóval ez inkább poén lesz., persze simán lehet a yard is ennyire hülye, de a poén valószínűbb. 

Nem akarok bitliszezni, de mégis.

January 22, 2012, 8:12pm

What America Can Learn From Hungary's Backsliding Democracy - Paul R. Pillar - The Atlantic

Democratization and liberalization are not necessarily one-way processes. To realize this goes against the tendency to think of them as a one-way process. Perhaps some of this tendency comes from interpretations of Francis Fukuyama’s end-of-history idea. Perhaps we should remember the ideas of an earlier big-think political philosopher, Plato, about how different forms of government degenerate into other forms. Democracy, as Plato saw it, was not the end state of this process. It was the penultimate state, degenerating into tyranny. Plato’s progression of political forms has not matched subsequent history very well, but it provides some food for thought about different possible types of political transformation. […]

What is going on in Hungary suggests that we should not be so smug. Some of what is involved in Hungary’s creeping authoritarianism has echoes in American politics. There is the use of brute legislative force or outright coercion to get one’s way, even if this in effect means a compromise of democratic values. And there is a hubristic belief that it is so important for one’s own party or movement to be in power that this takes precedence over all other interpretations of the national interest. Viktor Orban has a soulmate of sorts in Mitch McConnell when the latter says his top priority is to defeat the president of the opposing party.

January 22, 2012, 11:49am