And they say that Italian bureaucracy is complicated

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Wi-Fi Tax - Let the bureaucracy begin

Wi-Fi Tax - Let the bureaucracy begin 07/23/2004 11:16 PM

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Various departments of Japan’s government are toying with the idea of a Wi-Fi tax. As insane as this sounds, their government believes that this makes sense because other wireless device manufacturers as well as users pay for spectrum licenses. With this in mind, the logic follows that the Wi-Fi equipment makers should also be taxed as well….

Marking Up Bureaucracy

Marking Up Bureaucracy 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Needing to cope with its enormous needs for document and data exchange, the United States is looking more and more to XML. Paul Ford explains what happens when Washington meets markup.

Instant Bureaucracy!

Instant Bureaucracy! 01/02/2004 02:34 PM
Instant Bureaucracy! "The Power of middle management is as close as your printer." Friday non-Flash fun.

How complicated can simple be?

How complicated can simple be? 06/06/2004 03:41 PM
This morning as sun flooded my room a million bizarre things flooded my head. I thought of life being reversed...

Between 2 First Families, a Complicated
Rapport

Between 2 First Families, a Complicated
Rapport 06/09/2004 12:08 PM
Like all relationships between American presidents and vice presidents, the truth about the Reagans and two generations of Bushes is complicated.

The Complicated Way to Turn on a
Flashlight

The Complicated Way to Turn on a
Flashlight 04/11/2005 05:59 PM

Diabetes websites too complicated

Diabetes websites too complicated 09/10/2004 08:00 PM
Online health advice for people with diabetes is often too complex to understand, research suggests.

Bureaucracy Pins Rocket to Earth

Bureaucracy Pins Rocket to Earth 08/27/2004 02:09 PM
The da Vinci Project, a Toronto group planning to launch a homemade, manned spacecraft in October, is having trouble getting its paperwork off the ground. Canadian regulators are leery of approving the launch. And then there's the matter of finding insurance. By Dan Brekke.

The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy

The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy 04/09/2005 06:23 PM
In the history of American intelligence failure, one chronic culprit is that "giant power wielded by pygmies," as Balzac put it: bureaucracy.

Dan Rather's Future a Complicated
Question (AP)

Dan Rather's Future a Complicated
Question (AP) 09/26/2004 02:43 PM
AP - In Kansas City, Mo., it's Kirk Black's job to answer for Dan Rather. The station manager of KCTV, like his colleagues at many other CBS affiliates, is facing a flood of calls and e-mails from viewers angry at Dan Rather for relying on apparently fake documents to suggest President Bush's National Guard service record was less than stellar.

uncovering patterns in complicated
networks

uncovering patterns in complicated
networks 02/16/2004 07:55 PM
a new approach .. press release

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Two new Microsoft holes more complicated
than deadly

Two new Microsoft holes more complicated
than deadly 09/16/2004 04:43 PM
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Vodafone, Verizon: Dial V for very
complicated

Vodafone, Verizon: Dial V for very
complicated 06/14/2004 04:19 PM
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY - It's not as if Vodafone Group PLC and Verizon Wireless Inc. have had a rocky relationship in the U.S. The two companies have actually enjoyed a successful partnership that has generated billions of sales and millions of customers.

The complicated world of ICANN part one

The complicated world of ICANN part one 05/03/2004 04:01 AM
Asian Age May 3 2004 8:48AM GMT

Poll: Americans Say Taxes Too
Complicated (AP)

Poll: Americans Say Taxes Too
Complicated (AP) 04/12/2005 02:31 AM
AP - Most Americans think federal income taxes are too complicated, but they're not eager to simplify tax preparation by getting rid of some deductions and tax credits, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.

Martin Luther King's kind of
bureaucracy: the FAA

Martin Luther King's kind of
bureaucracy: the FAA 06/22/2005 02:23 AM

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- MLK, August 28, 1963

In the last couple of weeks I applied for a National Science Foundation grant (to go to Antarctica as part of their artists and writers program) and an FAA flight instructor's certificate, both of which involved cumbersome Web-based application systems.  The NSF won't let you proceed with any application unless you tell them your race, your sex, and your "ethnicity" (Hispanic/non-Hispanic).  They say that they won't look at an application unless the cover sheet includes an explanation of how you are going to spend the money in a way that helps what they call "underrepresented groups" (i.e., you're supposed to say how you are going to hire people with particular skin colors or sex chromosomes).

In using the FAA system a few days later it struck me as odd that they didn't ask my race, sex, or ethnicity.  In fact this might be one of the last government agencies that handles applications for its services without regard to race, sex, or ethnicity.  The FAA doesn't say "We really like your skin color, Mr. Airline Transport Pilot certificate applicant, so for you we're going to cut the required number of hours of experience from 1500 to 500."

[In case you're curious, the NSF won't let me know for some weeks but folks who've gotten the grants say that one is almost always denied as a first-time applicant.  I passed my flight instructor test with the FAA examiner (3.5 hours of oral exam plus 1.7 hours of flying a rented Piper Arrow with retractable landing gear).]

Blood Treatment's Promise Mired in
Bureaucracy

Blood Treatment's Promise Mired in
Bureaucracy 05/28/2004 11:03 PM
People with leukemia and lymphoma could benefit from bone marrow transplants using umbilical cord blood, but the system of collecting and matching donations is flawed.

In Aftermath of Wildfires, Many Fault
Firefighters or Bureaucracy

In Aftermath of Wildfires, Many Fault
Firefighters or Bureaucracy 01/11/2004 02:41 PM
Residents of California's San Bernardino County and the eight other affected counties are growing increasingly frustrated with the process of recovering from the October wildfires.

Avril Worm May Makes Things Complicated

Avril Worm May Makes Things Complicated 01/08/2003 04:08 PM
Canadian musician Avril Lavigne is the latest celebrity name being used as bait by virus writers.

Radical Revamp of State Bureaucracy (Los
Angeles Times)

Radical Revamp of State Bureaucracy (Los
Angeles Times) 07/30/2004 05:13 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — A panel created by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing a top-to-bottom overhaul of state government that would leave virtually no piece of the state's sprawling bureaucracy intact.

Bureaucracy, Graft Hamper Thai Tsunami
Recovery (Reuters)

Bureaucracy, Graft Hamper Thai Tsunami
Recovery (Reuters) 03/26/2005 05:36 AM

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Italian provinces

Italian provinces 09/23/2002 01:24 AM
Utility to generate, with three lines of code, a drop down menu with 7821 Italian provinces.

Italian TV bl0g

Italian TV bl0g 02/05/2005 09:53 PM
Marco Montemagno has a show on Sk TG 24 (Sky's all news channel) about the Internet blogging. He writes that it's the first time in Italy that a news channel has: Run a blog Made videos of the show freely available (via Coral CDN p2p and blogtorrent) Made the audio available via podcasting (Feedburner enclosure) "Asked users to send material, participating in the news creation, so that we'll try to realize a sort of "Gillmor grassroots jornalism" principle." Sounds very cool. Good luck, Marco!...

Italian mummies

Italian mummies 07/12/2004 02:25 AM
Long ago in the town of Palermo in Sicily some monks got together and decided that they wanted to start praying to one of their own after he had passed to the Great Beyond so they embalmed him. Four hundred years and 8,000 corpses later you can see the Capuchin Catacombs for yourself.

Another Italian translation of my DRM
talk

Another Italian translation of my DRM
talk 07/06/2004 01:33 PM
Domenico Della Side has posted another Italian translation of my DRM talk. Link (Thanks, Nico!)

Iona does an Italian job for 3G player

Iona does an Italian job for 3G player 08/18/2004 09:14 AM
Silicon Republic Aug 18 2004 11:24AM GMT

"has blocked two Italian policemen"

"has blocked two Italian policemen" 03/24/2005 11:32 PM

The Face (Italian) Is Familiar, Yet . .
.

The Face (Italian) Is Familiar, Yet . .
. 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that during a period of uncharacteristic invisibility he had made efforts to get into better physical shape.

An Italian Cyclist's Descent From All to
Nothing

An Italian Cyclist's Descent From All to
Nothing 02/15/2004 06:22 PM
Marco Pantani, the wayward champion of bicycle racing, was found dead on Saturday.

Sweet Italian Flash

Sweet Italian Flash 04/14/2004 06:18 AM
Naive is a beautifully-presented site featuring some cool games and cartoons. Note: Flash. Via akihi.

Italian PM to form new government

Italian PM to form new government 04/18/2005 11:12 AM
Italy's Silvio Berlusconi will resign his position in order to form a new government, ending a political crisis.

The Italian squat scene

The Italian squat scene 03/14/2005 05:53 PM
Yesterday, I had a meeting with some of the Italian Indymedia community at a squat. In most countries squatters are considered criminals and local law has very little tolerance for them. In Italy, the squat scene is the center of a lot of the sub-culture and alternative media. After years of resistance, many of the squats on property which was owned by the local government have been officially recognized by the municipalities in various degrees. The squats have events including debates and parties. They have kitchens, living quarters, and in the case of the squat I went to last night, a computer lab (called "hacks" this one named "bugs") that teaches people how to switch from Microsoft to Linux and allows free Internet access to anyone who wants to drop by.

After the chat in the bugs hack, we went to dinner at a centro sociale called Casale Podere Rosa. It was similar to a squat except the people don't live there. The place we went to was on the upscale end. The food was excellent and they had lots of posters and pamphlets describing the organic farming methods they used to grow their produce.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. On the other hand, the left wing are fighting hand and fist (literally) with the right wing radicals. Free speech was something that people were fighting for, in many cases outside of the law. At a tactical level, my discussion about freedom of expression and our "Infrastructure of Democracy" idea of fighting bad speech with more good speech sounded a bit idealistic. What was interesting to me was the power and the energy of the alternative media movement. It reminds me of my theory on good alternative music. When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

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Second Italian Perl Workshop

Second Italian Perl Workshop 04/12/2005 08:19 AM
dakkar writes "The Italian Perl Mongers and Pisa.pm are proud to announce the Second Italian Perl Workshop. It is aimed at Perl users, professionals and hobbyists alike, to aid in the exchange of experiences and in the building of a stronger Perl...

Italian Delivery For Space Station

Italian Delivery For Space Station 04/17/2005 06:59 PM
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Italian stud seeks US sugarmamma

Italian stud seeks US sugarmamma 06/18/2004 08:17 AM
Eterosexual, bisexual or eventual overweight - it makes no difference

Furio: "Being Italian, of course I love
women!"

Furio: "Being Italian, of course I love
women!" 08/31/2004 09:52 AM
W stands for women. And wrestling. And weird, if Monday's "Salute to W Stands for Women" late-night fete at the downtown Manhattan bar Pressure is any measure.

Linux in Italian Schools, Part 1

Linux in Italian Schools, Part 1 06/05/2005 11:10 PM
Following the gradual path Linux took at one school in Italy

Translating my talk into Italian on a
Wiki

Translating my talk into Italian on a
Wiki 06/22/2004 09:21 AM
Luca Lizzeri is working to translate my DRM talk into Italian -- there's a Wiki where you can contribute! Link (Thanks, Luca!)

Migrants swamp Italian island

Migrants swamp Italian island 09/12/2004 11:03 AM
Over 650 illegal immigrants, most thought to be African, arrive on tiny Lampedusa in a single weekend.
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