Pateira

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- Ó Roque, agora até os "The Who" voltam ao palco?

- É como o vinho do Porto...

- Dá-_ _! Só falta o José Cid!

Suponhamos que um polítco pede um conselho a um experimentado bloguer - no caso presente o italiano Luca de Biase - sobre o seguinte:

- Quero conhecer tudo sobre blogues, para criar um e fazer campanha política.

Esta é a resposta de Luca de Biase, em 5 pontos:

1. Internet non è la televisione: non trattarla come se lo fosse.

2. I blogger stanno conversando tra loro, non interrompere. Casomai impara a partecipare.

3. I network sociali esistono con o senza Internet: ma con i nuovi media si possono esprimere. E chi non lo capisce ha un problema.

4. I network sociali, la cultura, i creativi che si esprimono sono le forze che alimentano il pensiero. Non sono e non saranno mai strumenti della politica.

5. Le persone attive su Internet sono cittadini, immersi in un enorme groviglio di relazioni, di messaggi e di media, fanno cultura, fanno economia e, in democrazia, fanno politica. Se vuoi dire la tua in questo contesto il primo messaggio deve essere: sono in ascolto, parlatemi.

 ... bravo Luca, lei capisce de la.. poda !  

Já agora, quem era o político?

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- Roque, qual é a tua cor favorita?

- É uma palete muito variada, vai do branco ao preto, passa pelo amarelo... e a tua?

- É a cor do dinheiro!

Startups happen in clusters. There are a lot of them in Silicon Valley and Boston, and few in Chicago or Miami. A country that wants startups will probably also have to reproduce whatever makes these clusters form.

I've claimed that the recipe is a great university near a town smart people like...

[...] Here's a tip for governments that want to encourage startups: read the stories of existing startups, and then try to simulate what would have happened in your country. When you hit something that would have killed Apple, prune it off...

by Paul Graham

"Why Startups Condense in America" is an essay written by American Paul Graham last May and published in his site.  Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer.  He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

- Roque, tú que já deste tanta volta, como é que te orientas?

- Ao calhas, de trip em trip. E tú?

- Eu não consigo bazar da minha...

Ronald Dworkin (professor of Philosophy at NYU)'s equality of resources theory combines two key ideas. Broadly speaking, the first is that human beings are responsible for the life choices they make. The second is that natural endowments of intelligence and talent are morally arbitrary and ought not to affect the distribution of resources in society.

Like the rest of Dworkin's work, his theory of equality is underpinned by the core principle that every person is entitled to equal concern and respect in the design of the structure of society.

He proposed a compensation scheme, suggesting a model of fair distribution in which every person is given the same purchasing power and uses it to bid, in a fair auction, for resources that best fit that person's life plan, goals and preferences.  Having acquired these resources, people are permitted to use them as they see fit. No complains allowed, given the freedom of choice.

Dworkin assumes, that prior to the auction, people are unaware of their own natural endowments (talents, skills) but are willing and able to insure against being naturally disadvantaged. Their payments create an insurance pool to compensate the less fortunate for their misfortune. 

The question is, not all of us are unaware of our talents and skills, therefore not all of us want such insurance pool.  It is morally acceptable to engage in such trade, willingly, but immoral to make it compulsory.

viñeta de El Roto publicada en EL PAIS.es

Chinese proverb:

Dismantle the bridge shortly after crossing it.

hint: don't expect the Israeli army do the all the job for you|

- Roque, preocupa-te a pobreza no mundo?

- Só às vezes, quando trabalho "pro Bono".  E a ti?

- Preocupa-me a minha...

Caros e Incautos Leitores,

Isto hoje tem de ser muito rápido, por assim dizer.  Tenho a família à espera, porque vamos gozar as nossas merecidas férias até à minha querida Isla Cristina.

Pois ide seguindo pelo Pateira, com muita atenção, esta coisa da guerra entre Judeus e Muçulmanos.  Estas vinhetas são muito interessantes!  Muito humor, por Diós.  Como por cá, ora agora o Zapatero põe o pañuelo Palestino e zás ora lá vem o Aznar com aquela dos bombardeamentos... 

Tende é atenção nesta coisa da música moderna.  Tudo uma palhaçada...roque para cá, rape para lá.  Escutai mas é o Canto Gregoriano.  Isso é que é música celestial!

- Vengo, por Diós! 

Tenho mesmo de ir. Mas, por ora, não me escrevais, porque deixo o lápis azul por cá.

Santas vacaciones a todos.  

O Provedor do Pateira, Prof. Emerenciano Cuadrado

viñeta de Martín Favelis, publicada en SIGLO XXI diário digital

I have a dream:

That someday, mankind will have a bomb that kill all warriors and spare the innocents.

- General, did you hear that?

- Don't worry, be happy!

- Roque, tú es universalista?

- Isso é um exagero!  Digamos que estou em todas. E tú?

- Eu sou bairrista.

Basically, Robert Nozick (former Professor at Harvard)'s Entitlement Theory is a theory of justice, on how society ought or ought not regulate the distribution of goods (money, property, etc.).  Nozick's theory builds on three basic principles:

1. Transfer principle: Holdings freely acquired from others who acquired them in a just way are justly acquired.
2. Acquisition principle: Persons are entitled to holdings initially acquired in a just way.
3. Rectification principle: Rectify violations of 1 or 2 by restoring holdings to their rightful owners, or a "one time" redistribution according to the Difference Principle.

This theory does not demand that the distribution resulting from just acquisitions, transfers and rectifications be patterned, i.e. correlated with anything else (such as moral merit, need, usefulness to society); people may be entitled to things got by chance or gift.  Any distribution, irrespective of any pattern it may or may not have, is just provided it has the appropriate history, provided it did in fact come about in accordance with the rules of acquisition, transfer and rectification."

Nozick's theory argues against social and government policies that redistribute wealth via taxation and other programs. This would be in opposition to distributive theories of justice, where everyone, regardless of abilities should have their needs - food, shelter, clothing, education, health care - met.  It also justifies "free market economics" versus government regulated markets or central control economies such as those found in the former Soviet block states.

Nozick's thinking was "labelled" as libertarian.