La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

Sur Catallaxia : Nous avons besoin de syndicats dans notre pays mais nous avons besoin de syndicats responsables. Le droit de manifester et de faire grève existe mais il n'exclue pas certains devoirs. Mes amis, nous sommes la majorité. Allons-nous souffrir indéfiniment qu'une minorité irresponsable  […]

Below is a copy of a comment I made on Keith weblog. In page 35/90 (page #38) of http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/0102071E.PDF , the column "Disposable income of average production worker" is interesting. It's not exactly the stat I was speaking about, but I think it demystifies  […]

Dans l'affaire de Lyon Mag et des producteurs de beaujolais, le Lyon Mag va peut-être un petit loin dans la mauvaise foi. Leur interviewé fait une descente en règle du beaujolais, dans le style à part les dix crus du beaujolais, tous les autres ne font qu'un jus chimique à partir de raisin pour  […]

Ca fait vraiment deux. Dédales de liens pour enfin arriver aux conditions tarifaires (quand elles existent), des noms imprononçables pour éviter de dire "compte courant avec assurance". Parlons en des assurances, quel que soit le compte, on vous en propose : pour créer l'insécurité, rien  […]

Georges W. Bush and his hawks (GWBAHH) gave yesterday their ultimatum. Colin Powell fought for disarmament at the UN, and it's not part of the ultimatum. GWBAHH never proved anything about weapon of mass destruction, it was just a rhetorical artifact. We know now they didn't need to. GWBAHH's  […]

Two days ago (I didn't manage to post before, freeroller.net was down when I tried), the departure of GI's for the gulf struck me. The weapons inspector say their work is far from finished, and they have not shown evidence yet. So why send people now? Is it urging? Has the security council more  […]

Keith Devins posted a link to an OECD Observer article regarding top marginal rates. What is the top marginal rate? I'll try with a simplified example. Paul earns 1000 units a year, he's among the top earners in his country. Regarding taxes, this income can be divided like this: 200400...100  […]

Cold week-end. Prague (Praha) is a very touristic place, with a really nice old city, and some less nice things like abandonned buildings and tagged buildings as soon as you leave the center. There are a lot of small and medium sized shops with overpriced typical items. What's impressive is there is  […]

... truck drivers soon on strike, farmers on strike, and in Spain, plenty of people starting to clean their littoral after the "Prestige" shipwreck.

Feedreader 2.3 is really crappy. The user is unable to say what this software is doing in the background, whether there is some network problem, or website problem, but most of the time this software is the problem. Every time I use it, I feel like I should write my own, and I think it's going to  […]