This is a post about some interesting events in dutch politics, particularly about the upcoming election. As it’s going to be frightfully boring to anyone who doesn’t live here, I’m going to write the rest of this post in dutch.
Het is algemeen bekend dat een (meerderheids)coalitie erg moeilijk gaat worden na de volgende verkiezingen, maar [...]
Reporting from the heart of San Francisco where its a bit like newyear’s, with massive crowds milling about partying on the street.
On the way back from an extremely busy schedule on the Deloitte Fast 50 tour to the hotel, we heard Barack’s historic speech on the radio. Our hotel is near Union Square, basically the [...]
Tagged obama, san franciscoI’m against a large number of frivolous laws, most easily observed in traffic law, that employ relatively small (below 1000 euros) fines to try and ‘fix’ the mindset of the people. If the money goes to ‘fixing’ externalities, sure, but that almost never happends.
Most importantly, the police hypocritically break these laws all the time and [...]
Here’s an article on a village in Kenya where just about every girl, from 10 and up, has at least one child already.
And it’s not just Kenya; most of the african nations (and pretty much all of the ones considered ‘poor’) have a culture which is totally incapable of stemming their flow of newborns. This [...]
Another article about dutch politics. More (in dutch) after the jump.
If you care about dutch politics but don’t know the language, a number of links to english analyses of the situation follow at the end of the article.
This ad really makes a statement. I rather dislike making droll comparisons to nazis, but at least its creative. For some reason it appears to be allowed, too.
A dutch post about internal politics. I’ll return to the normally scheduled visionary revelations on programming in the next one!
More after the jump.
Hier een artikel van Management Pro over de (gesuggereerde) negatieve smaak in ’s werelds hoogopgeleide vluchtelingen.
Dit is een heel zwaar probleem. Nederland heeft relatief weinig resources en is toch een zeer hoog luxe [...]
Two excellent pieces of news for you, my dear friends, readers, and random stumblers!
Today I have received word that I am, indeed, getting my engineering degree – &it’s been confirmed.
Another interesting piece of news:
You may remember my clash with the justice system regarding running a red light that I’m certain I never did.
The result of [...]
These days there are lots of waves about CEOs of big companies earning bizarrely large paychecks. This kind of thing has been going on for a very long time, but only now do people take notice.
Here’s a breakdown of why these large paychecks occur.
As many of my friends know, I’m not entirely happy with the dutch sanctions system for minor traffic infractions.
One of the problems I have with the system is the notification: It comes with sparse information, months after the infraction, by standard postal mail. Which can get lost and has no actual guarantee.
Turns out some [...]