Y si, aca discutimos por el Colon, si le damos la silla, sino, etc, mientras tanto
Los cientificos estan informando que han hecho una celula viva de ADN que fue sintetizado en laboratorio, No es un organismo sintetico, aun, pero el resultado es un importante paso.......
Nota completa
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127010591#
martes, 25 de mayo de 2010
martes, 18 de mayo de 2010
et tu quoque Brute fili mi!
Uno piensa que las cosas pasan aca, que hay paises donde no pasan, que se yo, y hay paises casi insospechados en lides tales como corrupcion, uno se equivoca
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IN BRITAIN, after the Daily Telegraph broke the story last year that members of parliament had blatantly fiddled expenses, all the media had a field day. In Japan details are leaking out of a large secret fund kept in a black box near the prime minister’s office that for decades has been used to curry political favours, including, it is said, among journalists and television commentators. Tellingly, the Japanese media is reacting to the scandal like the three wise monkeys of Nikko: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
The existence of the slush fund has long been known to insiders. But details of its size and the way it was spent were unknown to the public until Hiromu Nonaka, a former chief cabinet secretary, revealed last month that from 1998-99 he spent up to ¥70m ($600,000 at the exchange rate of the time) a month from his secret little piggy bank. That included ¥10m to the prime minister, ¥10m to politicians in the then-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and more scattered among political commentators and opposition-party members, including those going on trips to North Korea.
Mr Nonaka, who is 84, says he made the confession because he did not want to carry the secret to the grave about what he rightly refers to as taxpayers' money. But he may also have been making mischief for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which drove the LDP from power last year. It has since come to light that the new government of Yukio Hatoyama, elected on a platform of transparency and accountability, has been dipping into the cabinet office’s slush fund as freely as its LDP predecessors.
On May 14th Hirofumi Hirano, Mr Hatoyama’s chief cabinet secretary, confirmed, in answer to a largely unreported parliamentary question by the Japanese Communist Party, that he had withdrawn ¥360m ($3.8m) from the fund between September and March, and spent all but ¥16m. He claimed to have returned the unused portion to the exchequer. But, he also said, for the time being he did not intend to disclose what the money was spent on, nor did he expect to stop using the pot.
Mr Hirano also appeared reluctant to investigate the outgoing LDP administration led by Taro Aso, which raided the fund last year just before it handed over power to Mr Hatoyama. Two days after the election, and two weeks before leaving office, it withdrew an impressive ¥250m.
Some people might shrug off the fund as part of the old Japanese tradition of gift-giving, admittedly involving some pretty generous presents. Mr Hirano says money is necessary to gather information “for the benefit of the nation”. But for a government that has long promised to dig up the “buried treasure” hidden in government accounts in order to improve shaky public finances, it is extraordinary that it, too, is taking such brazen advantage of this darkest of slush funds. Just as extraordinary, not to mention suspicious, is the impressive silence from most of the powerful mass media. More evidence, if it were needed, of its central role in Japan's longstanding political dysfunction.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan?source=features_box_main
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IN BRITAIN, after the Daily Telegraph broke the story last year that members of parliament had blatantly fiddled expenses, all the media had a field day. In Japan details are leaking out of a large secret fund kept in a black box near the prime minister’s office that for decades has been used to curry political favours, including, it is said, among journalists and television commentators. Tellingly, the Japanese media is reacting to the scandal like the three wise monkeys of Nikko: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
The existence of the slush fund has long been known to insiders. But details of its size and the way it was spent were unknown to the public until Hiromu Nonaka, a former chief cabinet secretary, revealed last month that from 1998-99 he spent up to ¥70m ($600,000 at the exchange rate of the time) a month from his secret little piggy bank. That included ¥10m to the prime minister, ¥10m to politicians in the then-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and more scattered among political commentators and opposition-party members, including those going on trips to North Korea.
Mr Nonaka, who is 84, says he made the confession because he did not want to carry the secret to the grave about what he rightly refers to as taxpayers' money. But he may also have been making mischief for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which drove the LDP from power last year. It has since come to light that the new government of Yukio Hatoyama, elected on a platform of transparency and accountability, has been dipping into the cabinet office’s slush fund as freely as its LDP predecessors.
On May 14th Hirofumi Hirano, Mr Hatoyama’s chief cabinet secretary, confirmed, in answer to a largely unreported parliamentary question by the Japanese Communist Party, that he had withdrawn ¥360m ($3.8m) from the fund between September and March, and spent all but ¥16m. He claimed to have returned the unused portion to the exchequer. But, he also said, for the time being he did not intend to disclose what the money was spent on, nor did he expect to stop using the pot.
Mr Hirano also appeared reluctant to investigate the outgoing LDP administration led by Taro Aso, which raided the fund last year just before it handed over power to Mr Hatoyama. Two days after the election, and two weeks before leaving office, it withdrew an impressive ¥250m.
Some people might shrug off the fund as part of the old Japanese tradition of gift-giving, admittedly involving some pretty generous presents. Mr Hirano says money is necessary to gather information “for the benefit of the nation”. But for a government that has long promised to dig up the “buried treasure” hidden in government accounts in order to improve shaky public finances, it is extraordinary that it, too, is taking such brazen advantage of this darkest of slush funds. Just as extraordinary, not to mention suspicious, is the impressive silence from most of the powerful mass media. More evidence, if it were needed, of its central role in Japan's longstanding political dysfunction.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan?source=features_box_main
viernes, 14 de mayo de 2010
Duda metafisica
En que año se instalo el pato de Punta Mogotes???????
Alguien lo sabe??
A ver, los habitues de ahi
yo me acuerdo de verlo desde siempre, pero, cuando lo pusieron? antes de Russak seguro
Alguien lo sabe??
A ver, los habitues de ahi
yo me acuerdo de verlo desde siempre, pero, cuando lo pusieron? antes de Russak seguro
viernes, 7 de mayo de 2010
1964 - Only for nerds
Paseando por Internet llegue al blog de este señor, que, contiene predicciones de 1984 hechas en 1964
solo la figura, hecha en 1964, que ilustra que deberia tenre una casa cualquiera
el link
http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/internet-64/
miércoles, 5 de mayo de 2010
Magnitud
Parece que la imagen esta mal, que quede al menos como referencia que Economist, que la saco de NYT, tambien esconde basura abajo de la alfombra
A veces una imagen vale por mucho (tampoco es Power Point fever) pero, uno escucha escucha de la deuda griega, de PIGS etc etc etc.
este grafico, afanado como corresponde, muestra el grado de lio con los griegos, los españoles y demas
Cliquear para ver grande
A veces una imagen vale por mucho (tampoco es Power Point fever) pero, uno escucha escucha de la deuda griega, de PIGS etc etc etc.
este grafico, afanado como corresponde, muestra el grado de lio con los griegos, los españoles y demas
Cliquear para ver grande
sábado, 1 de mayo de 2010
adonde vamos
titulos
One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite rising cable and satellite TV prices and easy access to streaming TV and movies on the Internet, few consumers have cut the cord. But that looks like it's about to change.
pero el mejor parrafo
"Just like with telephone land lines, it's going to become hard to sell pay TV to anyone under 30," Vittore said.
la fuente?
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/30/technology/dropping_cable_tv/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin
y, eso que no hay TDT
One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite rising cable and satellite TV prices and easy access to streaming TV and movies on the Internet, few consumers have cut the cord. But that looks like it's about to change.
pero el mejor parrafo
"Just like with telephone land lines, it's going to become hard to sell pay TV to anyone under 30," Vittore said.
la fuente?
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/30/technology/dropping_cable_tv/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin
y, eso que no hay TDT
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