Is VAT virtual?
I wonder: where is the remarkable part of the fact that European subscribers will be asked to pay the VAT when paying for an online service? Is it worth writing a newspaper article? Yes, if the service...
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The green network
We have always considered plants as mostly passive beings, able to perform just a small set of very simple and limited reactions to the most obvious changes in their environment. Light, darkness. Open,...
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Commonplace jokes
As a consequence of globalization, even clichés travel around the globe. Dumb blondes are not a popular stereotype here, but Antonio pointed out a credible candidate for the best blonde joke ever and...
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Blind date
It may be easy to dismiss this story with a laugh, but it would be unfair.A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the Internet are divorcing. Sana Klaric and husband Adnan,...
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War crimes
By citing Italy's colonial wars, Domiziana made me remember an article I read some time ago about the Lybia campaign. Citing an anthropological study of relations between nomads and sedentary people, the...
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A friend was lost
Ten years ago, professor and senator Darko Bratina died and left a great void in the cultural life of my home town.When our friendship began, I was just a self-conceited teenager and he was a professor...
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How to look suspicious
Just wear blue-jeans and a white t-shirt: it all depends on the context. I often cross the border by bike on saturday mornings (there is a small bakery just a couple of kilometers away, and the bread is...
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Michael Moore did not know
At least six people died last Tuesday as heavy rain caused floods in northwestern Slovenia. While expressing my regret for the loss of human lives, I also want to point out the destruction of a piece of...
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Relevant words
While writing a message with my phone, I discovered that the built-in vocabulary does not have the 'blog' word in it. It felt quite unnatural. ...
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New humanism
I remember, a long time ago, being horrified by the proclaim made by Silvio Berlusconi that the new, reformed school would put a lot of emphasis on the famous three 'i's: English, Informatics, Enterprise....
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V-Day reactions
Maybe it is depressing that the most relevant political event in these last weeks was driven by a comedian. It is curious indeed that the most profound political analysis of the same event has been written...