120€ (fine) for 20 minutes skiing and becoming an international star. Sounds like a good deal :)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Un chinezism romanesc
Originalul (spuneti-i "PUMA", "Adidas", "Reebok", cum vreti):
si chinezismul ("PLIMA", "Adidos", "Reobek"):
si chinezismul ("PLIMA", "Adidos", "Reobek"):
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Facebook - show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are
The title of this post may not be the most relevant. It could well be "Facebook - the perfect tool for revealing stupidity" or "Tell me how many friends you have on Facebook and I'll tell you what kind of an idiot you are".
The facts:
These days, Romanians have been shocked by one of the most atrocious criminal facts in decades: at least 4 persons have been tortured, beaten and buried alive or thrown in canals, after having been used as legal administrators of a number of companies who's only creation purpose was extensive frauds by various means.
The suspected mastermind of the atrocities, Sergiu Bahaian, had 1.634 friends on Facebook, at the time of his arrest, among whom:
- Gheorghe Hagi (Maradona from the Carpathians) - 3.369 Friends on Facebook
- Tudor Chiuariu, former Minister of Justice - unknown nb. of friends on Facebook
- Honorius Prigoana, son of Romanian Parliament Deputy and business magnate Silviu Prigoana - 3.830 friends on Facebook
- Prince Radu Duda of Hohenzollern-Veringen, son in law of King Michael of Romania - 5.000 friends on Facebook
- Sorin Oprescu, major of Bucharest - 76 friends on Facebook
- many other famous or less famous people, not worth being mentioned, as the principle is the same.
Q: What do all these "friends" of such a character have in common?
A: They are stupid or for the least, naive.
In search for popularity or votes, these guys are ready to link their name to as many as thousands of so called "friends", with absolutely no selection criteria.
Apart from the obvious fact that nobody is able to have more than, let's say, 2.000 acquaintances, not to say friends, that one could remember of, the main question is:
"Why the heck would they need to be "Facebook friend" with so many people?"
If you are a public person and looking for fans or followers, then create your website, keep a blog and stay in touch with your followers, but don't f...ing invite criminals at your table.
I'm wondering how would these guys explain their friendship link with Sergiu Bahaian otherwise than "I'm a true peacock and I usually accept everybody as a Friend on Facebook" or, in other words: "I'm an idiot...".
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The facts:
These days, Romanians have been shocked by one of the most atrocious criminal facts in decades: at least 4 persons have been tortured, beaten and buried alive or thrown in canals, after having been used as legal administrators of a number of companies who's only creation purpose was extensive frauds by various means.
The suspected mastermind of the atrocities, Sergiu Bahaian, had 1.634 friends on Facebook, at the time of his arrest, among whom:
- Gheorghe Hagi (Maradona from the Carpathians) - 3.369 Friends on Facebook
- Tudor Chiuariu, former Minister of Justice - unknown nb. of friends on Facebook
- Honorius Prigoana, son of Romanian Parliament Deputy and business magnate Silviu Prigoana - 3.830 friends on Facebook
- Prince Radu Duda of Hohenzollern-Veringen, son in law of King Michael of Romania - 5.000 friends on Facebook
- Sorin Oprescu, major of Bucharest - 76 friends on Facebook
- many other famous or less famous people, not worth being mentioned, as the principle is the same.
Q: What do all these "friends" of such a character have in common?
A: They are stupid or for the least, naive.
In search for popularity or votes, these guys are ready to link their name to as many as thousands of so called "friends", with absolutely no selection criteria.
Apart from the obvious fact that nobody is able to have more than, let's say, 2.000 acquaintances, not to say friends, that one could remember of, the main question is:
"Why the heck would they need to be "Facebook friend" with so many people?"
If you are a public person and looking for fans or followers, then create your website, keep a blog and stay in touch with your followers, but don't f...ing invite criminals at your table.
I'm wondering how would these guys explain their friendship link with Sergiu Bahaian otherwise than "I'm a true peacock and I usually accept everybody as a Friend on Facebook" or, in other words: "I'm an idiot...".
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Revolutia bunului simt...
Revolutia bunului simt a inceput!
Cu Mircea Badea. Care a refuzat invitatia sa-si ridice premiul de la gala "Zece pentru Romania" pe motiv ca el nu e ziarist.
Bravo baiatu'! Asta nu iti amelioreaza cu nimic prestatiile zilnice de pe Antena3 cand, intre noi fie vorba - ma simt nevoit sa schimb postul, dar cel putin ai dat un exemplu de bun simt.
Fiecare "gura-sparta" sa-si vada de locul lui si de nisa lui.
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Cu Mircea Badea. Care a refuzat invitatia sa-si ridice premiul de la gala "Zece pentru Romania" pe motiv ca el nu e ziarist.
Bravo baiatu'! Asta nu iti amelioreaza cu nimic prestatiile zilnice de pe Antena3 cand, intre noi fie vorba - ma simt nevoit sa schimb postul, dar cel putin ai dat un exemplu de bun simt.
Fiecare "gura-sparta" sa-si vada de locul lui si de nisa lui.
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How to map in Windows, a HDD connected to Airport Extreme
After spending some frustrating hours trying to map my hard drive (connected by USB to an Airport Extreme router) in Windows, here is the solution:
Airport Extreme doesn't support NTSF partitions. The disk has to be formatted in FAT32 or HFS.
Hope this helps frustration-fellows as here-below:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/airport-networking-wireless-technology/107084-how-connect-windows-pc-external-hard-drive-via-airport-extreme.html
http://forums.techguy.org/apple-macos/557743-connecting-external-hard-drive-airport.html
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Airport Extreme doesn't support NTSF partitions. The disk has to be formatted in FAT32 or HFS.
Hope this helps frustration-fellows as here-below:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/airport-networking-wireless-technology/107084-how-connect-windows-pc-external-hard-drive-via-airport-extreme.html
http://forums.techguy.org/apple-macos/557743-connecting-external-hard-drive-airport.html
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Doi ratati
Base refacut2
Vezi mai multe video din Blog
Cand se intalneste intaiul marinar al tarii cu intaiul postac al tarii, rezultatul este un surogat de interviu, de o calitate demna de lumea a treia.
La aceasta ora ambii se felicita ca au dat lovitura.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Malev steals from luggage ?
I decided to write this post following a sad incident with Malev, the Hungarian national air company, that has never been addressed or follown up by them.
I hope this will be indexed as good as a previous post related to the Hungarian motorway vignette and make enough people aware of what they could get exposed to, when travelling with Malev.
The introduction:
Some two weeks ago, my mother in law took the airplane back to Cluj, via Budapest, after a wonderful week spent with us in Brussels. The Malev offer (about 140€ and five hours from Cluj to Zaventem - return ticket) was very appealing, especially when you know how difficult it is to fly on the route Cluj-Belgium.
She gets to Budapest, she goes for the transfer and while boarding in, she is literally obliged not to take any hand luggage. Not very happy, but, fine... what can she do? In the rush, she forgets to remove the valuables from her hand luggage.
She gets to Cluj and, you guessed, money is missing from the luggage.
Development:
She goes over to the Cluj Airport authorities to fill-in a complaint and there she mets another person in the same situation. The reaction of the airport staff: "No, not on the Malev-Budapest route, again!". It looks like this kind of incident is as common as the flight itself.
In the next days, she follows the story up with the Malev office in Romania while I wrote them an e-mail.
Result: no reaction.
Conclusion:
Despite the very often occurence of theft from luggage on the Malev flights, as described here or here, the company doesn't take any action.
Moreover, they don't reply to customer complaints.
It is of course a frustrating situation, but let's not underestimate the power of information, these days. See Dave Carroll case and the United Breaks Guitars song :).
Now, I wouldn't like to spend my time writting a song or poetry about Malev stealing from luggage, but nobody will keep me from suspecting the involvment of the company in these facts, for as long as not only they don't cover any damage or don't get back to their complaining customers, but they even push people to giving away their hand luggage in a rush, just like in a dirty pick-pocket trick.
Suggestion:
If you were victim of a similar situation, don't hesitate to refer this post on your own blog. This will increase the awarness of internet surfers and hopefully the situation will somehow get fixed, sooner or later.
If you think of taking a Malev flight, think twice. Your end cost for the travel may well end-up being more expensive than any other business class trip.
Good luck!
I hope this will be indexed as good as a previous post related to the Hungarian motorway vignette and make enough people aware of what they could get exposed to, when travelling with Malev.
The introduction:
Some two weeks ago, my mother in law took the airplane back to Cluj, via Budapest, after a wonderful week spent with us in Brussels. The Malev offer (about 140€ and five hours from Cluj to Zaventem - return ticket) was very appealing, especially when you know how difficult it is to fly on the route Cluj-Belgium.
She gets to Budapest, she goes for the transfer and while boarding in, she is literally obliged not to take any hand luggage. Not very happy, but, fine... what can she do? In the rush, she forgets to remove the valuables from her hand luggage.
She gets to Cluj and, you guessed, money is missing from the luggage.
Development:
She goes over to the Cluj Airport authorities to fill-in a complaint and there she mets another person in the same situation. The reaction of the airport staff: "No, not on the Malev-Budapest route, again!". It looks like this kind of incident is as common as the flight itself.
In the next days, she follows the story up with the Malev office in Romania while I wrote them an e-mail.
Result: no reaction.
Conclusion:
Despite the very often occurence of theft from luggage on the Malev flights, as described here or here, the company doesn't take any action.
Moreover, they don't reply to customer complaints.
It is of course a frustrating situation, but let's not underestimate the power of information, these days. See Dave Carroll case and the United Breaks Guitars song :).
Now, I wouldn't like to spend my time writting a song or poetry about Malev stealing from luggage, but nobody will keep me from suspecting the involvment of the company in these facts, for as long as not only they don't cover any damage or don't get back to their complaining customers, but they even push people to giving away their hand luggage in a rush, just like in a dirty pick-pocket trick.
Suggestion:
If you were victim of a similar situation, don't hesitate to refer this post on your own blog. This will increase the awarness of internet surfers and hopefully the situation will somehow get fixed, sooner or later.
If you think of taking a Malev flight, think twice. Your end cost for the travel may well end-up being more expensive than any other business class trip.
Good luck!
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