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- About everything.
- Mamma mia...

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Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer

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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.

Kompletne znenie publikovanej studie (Univerzita v Zurichu) tu

The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
27. Invesco plc
28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA
30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company
31. Aviva plc
32. Schroders plc
33. Dodge & Cox
34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
35. Sun Life Financial Inc
36. Standard Life plc
37. CNCE
38. Nomura Holdings Inc
39. The Depository Trust Company
40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
41. ING Groep NV
42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
43. Unicredito Italiano SPA
44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
45. Vereniging Aegon
46. BNP Paribas
47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
48. Resona Holdings Inc
49. Capital Group International Inc
50. China Petrochemical Group Company

* Lehman still existed in the 2007 dataset used

edit: in an unrelated news Recently the NYPD received “the largest donation in the history of the foundation” from JP Morgan as stated in a press release, a sum of $4.6 million.

Today during the “Solidarity March” protesters were kettled by the NYPD, and they’ve been (and still are) arresting people one by one, seemingly at random...

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When Patents Attack

Imagine an inventor out there — someone with a brilliant idea, a breakthrough. This inventor has a patent, but companies are stealing his idea. And this inventor doesn't have the money or legal savvy to stop them. That's where Intelectual Ventures comes in. It buys this inventor's patent, and it makes sure that companies who are using the idea pay for it.

When we asked for an example of an inventor in this situation, someone with a breakthrough, who wasn't getting paid for it, two separate people at Intellectual Ventures pointed us to a guy named Chris Crawford.

So we went to talk to Chris Crawford. But that turned out to be harder than we thought — and it led us on a five month journey, where things did not quite fit the story Intellectual Ventures was telling.

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Neprijemne, takze je tu situacia ze patenty uz pokryvaju vsetky vyrobky (minimalne v softwarovej oblasti) a pokial nepride revolucia tak kazdy vyrobca bude mat problemy s patentami?

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Nadej tu zrejme je - totiz ze patentovi trollovia dostatocne naseru dostatocne mnozstvo velkych hracov (Microsoft a pod.) a ti zatlacia na presadenie novej legislatury.

Bohuzial, momentalne z toho najviac profituju pravnici a sudy - to je velmi tazka politicka paka.

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http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-salesman.html

What are the tricks salespeople use to increase their profit and how can consumers protect themselves from overpaying?

These were the questions we, the editors at Edmunds.com, wanted to answer for our readers. But how could they really know that our information was accurate and up-to-date? Finally, we came up with the idea of hiring an investigative reporter to work in the industry and experience, firsthand, the life of a car salesman.

We hired Chandler Phillips, a veteran journalist, to go undercover by working at two new car dealerships in the Los Angeles area. First, he would work at a high-volume, high-pressure dealership selling Japanese cars. Then, he'd change over to a smaller car lot that sold domestic cars at "no haggle" prices.

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zaujimave citanie :-) Ten americky system predajcov 'idem sa opytat mojho veduceho co mozeme spravit s tou cenou' je mi ale doost odpudivy, dufam ze to tak nieje vo vsetkych bazaroch.

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ja som mal presne taky zazitok a gulal som pri tom ocami

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Moscow’s stray dogs

In Moscow, stray dogs have recovered their genetic wolf roots. They have also learned how to board subways and where to step off. All by themselves...

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hm, zaujimavy clanok

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Vospolok, asi trochu OT, ale neviem, kam s tym:

Hladam ilustracne zabery do nizkonakladoveho, ale kvalitneho (a o kvalitu sa snaziaceho) casopisu, venujuceho sa primarne zahranicnej politike (a pribuznym temam).
A neviem, koho oslovit.

Ak by ste mali niekto zaujem publikovat svoje fotky (alebo poznate vhodnych autorov), plz posta. Pripadne poslite linky na portfolio, ak sa povaluje po webe.

Vobec nemusi ist o zabery profesionalne, mali by vsak byt podla moznosti kvalitne. Vo vynimocnych pripadoch mozu byt spravene ak kompaktom :)
Tematicky moze takisto ist takmer o hocico, ak to budem vediet napasovat k clanku.
Preferovane su samozrejme fotky, ktore by boli k dispozicii zadara :) no na honorari sa pripadne mozeme dohodnut.

A co este... aktualne je to stale a dlhodobo, uzavierka najblizsieho cisla je cca 10. decembra, tematicky to bude o Neznej revolucii a o vsetkom, co sa za 20 rokov v strednej a vychodnej Europe ne/zmenilo.

Specialna odmena za vypisuje za foto tohto.

Velmi (ale naozaj velmi) dakujem.

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mozno pomoze - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-commons-images-with-image.html

pripadne flickr.com - hladat pod cc

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flickr.com / cc pouzivame. Moje vedenie s tym vsak chce prestat, kedze si niesme na 100% isti, ci tie fotky vlastne pouzivame legalne alebo nie...

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pri uvedeni autora & zdroja ich pouzivate legalne. aj tak je vsak dobre si presne pozriet co za forma cc to je

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As Barriers Disappear, Some Gender Gaps Widen

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How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

Below is a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:
- Stages of Denial,
- Scientific Topics,
- Types of Argument, and
- Levels of Sophistication.

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The Eligible-Bachelor Paradox

How economics and game theory explain the shortage of available, appealing men.

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The Edge Annual Question — 2008: WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

(pre odpovede treba prescrollovat nizsie)

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Numbers Guy - Are our brains wired for math?

He has studied the numerical abilities of animals, of Amazon tribespeople, of top French mathematics students. He has used brain-scanning technology to investigate precisely where in the folds and crevices of the cerebral cortex our numerical faculties are nestled. And he has weighed the extent to which some languages make numbers more difficult than others. His work raises crucial issues about the way mathematics is taught. In Dehaene’s view, we are all born with an evolutionarily ancient mathematical instinct.

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Two CIA Prisoners in China, 1952–73

Málo známy príbeh dvoch agentov CIA, ktorý po zostrelení ich lietadla strávili dvadsať rokov v čínskych väzeniach

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The Mystery of Consciousness

Čo je to vlastne "vedomie", z vedeckého hľadiska?

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The Edge Annual Question — 2007

WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?

Tohtoročná otázka Edgeu pre popredných vedcov zo všetkých oblastí vedy. Desiatky výborných esejí na dlhé zimné večery...

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WHITE TRASH, FAST FOOD: How Globalization Is Creating a New European Underclass

White trash už nie je len doménou USA - zneužívanie sociálneho systému, alkoholizmus, dni zabité pred televízorom a úplný odpor k vzdelaniu hrozia rozkladom európskej ekonomiky.

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Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?

Je wikipedia dôveryhodná? Profesor Alexander M.C. Halavais implantoval niekoľko úmyselných chýb aby odsledoval, či (a za aký čas) budú odhalené a odstránené.

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Totalitarianism Revisited

Čo je to vlastne politická totalita? Čím sa líši napr. od despotizmu? Je správne týmto termínom označovať všetkých nepriateľov demokracie a liberalizmu?

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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer

Krátka história amerického pivovarníctva a mýty o dôvodoch, prečo v amerike slad vyrába z ryže a kukurice.

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Myths of British ancestry

Ukazuje sa, že anglo-sasské a keltské gény sú v britskej populácii len okrajové. Kto sú skutoční predkovia Angličanov, Írov, Škótov a Welshanov?

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I Was a Junket Whore

Eric Snider napísal (trochu obšírnejšiu) glosu o zákulisí promo-akcií veľkých filmových spoločností, za čo si vyslúžil od Paramountu ban na všetky svoje podujatia (vrátane novinárskych projekcií). Navyše Paramount tlačí aj na iné spoločnosti aby ho na svoje akcie nepúšťali a snaží sa Snidera donútiť, aby svoj článok stiahol z internetu.

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ten link nejde

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mne ide aj z domu aj z prace
ako alternativu skus vstupit na hlavnu stranku - ericsnider.com a k clanku sa preklikaj...

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Swedish Model

Vzostup a stagnácia švédskej ekonomiky. Odporúčané čítanie pre ľavicovo orientované osoby.

excerpt:
THE SOURCE of the problem was the fatal irony of the Swedish system: The model eroded the fundamental principles that had made the model viable in the first place.

The civil service is a powerful example of this phenomenon. The efficiency of the civil service meant that the government could expand, but this expansion began to undermine its efficiency. According to a European Central Bank study of 23 developed countries, Sweden now gets the least service per dollar spent by the government. Sweden still reports impressive results on living standards (just as it did before the introduction of the welfare state in the years following World War II), but not at all what you would expect from a country with the world's highest tax rates, currently at about 50 percent of GDP. If the public sector were as efficient as Ireland's or Britain's, for example, the expenditure could be reduced by a third for the same service. The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions reports that Swedish doctors see four patients a day on average, down from nine in 1975. It is less than in any other OECD country, and less than half of the average. One reason is that a Swedish doctor spends between 50 and 80 percent of his time on administration.

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The National Interest is a prominent quarterly conservative international affairs journal, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and currently published by the Nixon Center.

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