Monthly Archives: May 2014

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Come va? (140 risposte possibili)

“Come va?” 1. Icaro: “Uno schianto”2. Proserpina: “Mi sento giù”3. Prometeo: “Mi rode…”4. Teseo: “Finché mi danno corda…”5. Edipo: “La mamma è contenta”6. Damocle: “Potrebbe andar peggio”7. Priapo: “Cazzi miei”8. Ulisse: “Siamo a cavallo”9. Omero: “Me la vedo nera”10. Eraclito: “Va, va…”11. Parmenide: “Non va”12. Talete: “Ho l’acqua alla gola”13. Epimenide: “Mentirei se glielo dicessi”14. Gorgia: “Mah!”15. Demostene: “Difficile a dirsi”16. Pitagora: “Tutto quadra”17. Ippocrate: “Finché c’è la salute…”18. Socrate: “Non so”19. Diogene: “Da cani”20. Platone: “Idealmente”21. Aristotele: “Mi sento in forma”22. Plotino: “Da Dio”23. Catilina: “Finché dura…”24. Epicuro: “Di traverso”25. Muzio Scevola: “Se solo mi dessero una mano…”26. Attilio […]

The day the new computer went up (2nd time)

This morning I woke up early because of the delivery of my new pc, scheduled by courier between 8.00am and 14.00pm. This is the 2nd time this pc is delivered to me, since the first time, at the end of April,  was severely bent in the middle, and the computer was returned to the store to be changed. The merchant ByTecno, thought, was really correct and immediately proceeded to change it on my report basis. Now the baby is in the house! I’ve to install some good software… It’s a HP Envy 15, with a Full HD screen of 15,6″ […]

The Demise of Italy and the Rise of Chaos

Originally published by Roberto Orsi on London School of Economics and Political Science on October, 23th 2013 Future historians will probably regard Italy as the perfect showcase of a country which has managed to sink from the position of a prosperous, leading industrial nation just two decades ago to a condition of unchallenged economic desertification, total demographic mismanagement, rampant “thirdworldisation”, plummeting cultural production and a complete political-constitutional chaos. In a previous post on this very blog, the dire situation of Italy’s economy has been briefly sketched. A few months later, the scenario of a serious disruption of the Italian state’s […]