The UK government has proposed a £20 levy on every household using broadband to help offset the costs of piracy, according to an article at TimesOnline. What amazes me is that the authorities do not seem to realise that such a levy is counterproductive. If someone has been a pirate, quitting now will not make… Read More: Presumed guilty »
From a post titled “Service Outage (a note from the USA)” by Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone: Dear World, The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located.… Read More: Uncle Sam says sorry »
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is developing a new space toilet that it hopes to roll out in the next five years. Worn like a diaper, a huge vacuum sucks the waste into a reusable container when the deed is done. Thankfully, soundproofing is included in the design. Related post:High-tech diapers
First, Singaporeans are labelled quitters and whiners. Now, it appears that the majority of us are lesser mortals. “Maybe it made lesser mortals envious and they thought maybe he was a bit boastful. Would people have taken offence if his wife (a senior investment counsellor at a bank) had paid for everything?” ~ PAP MP… Read More: So now we’re lesser mortals? »
Only in the overpaid Singapore civil service do we have an immediate superior (Peter Ho) eat humble pie on behalf of his subordinate (Tan Yong Soon) for blowing taxpayers’ money on a personal extravagance and further rubbed salt into the wound by highlighting that he could have shirked work longer than five weeks if he… Read More: Cooking up a perfect storm »
It’s the start of the new year and given the current economic climate, excesses (abundance) seem to be the call of the day. But not when your name is John Thain. The former Merrill Lynch chief executive reportedly spent US$1.2 million on his office renovation, of which US$87,784 went on a rug, US$68,179 on a… Read More: Corporate excesses »