This year the Vienna Staatsoper has a new ballet director Gyula Harangozó. A Hungarian, after a career in both the Hungarian National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, Mr. Harangozó had his last years as a well-known soloist at the Vienna State Opera from 1985 to 1991.
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It’s just 68 pages and large print so he might be able to get through it. Here’s the passage to bookmark and run the yellow highlighter over on page 30: Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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Leave a CommentIrish Times Article – Google saves millions in taxes thanks to its Irish operation: An effect of the arrangement is that Google Ireland, the operating company, made an after-tax profit of only €2.74 million on a turnover of €603 million…. Google Ireland paid Irish corporation tax of €1.6 million.Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that an Irish subsidiary of Microsoft was helping it reduce its tax bill by at least $500 million annually.
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I had the chance to hear Electric Indigo live again on Friday night at Flex where she played the Jugend Innovativ party…. What marks the outstanding DJ from the ordinary, is his or her ability to tap a room’s animus and move the people from where they are into the DJ’s world.
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3 Commentsan ethernet platform for remote computing whereby the software application paradigm is changed; from being screwed over by Microsoft for boxes of buggy operating systems, extortionately priced business applications, communications software that allows the world and their dog to play with your computer, proprietary lock-ins by changing an open programming language into a dot-netted version (XML-our-way, C-but-not-as-you-know-it, Java-remember-Krakatoa-hee-hee! etc.) all presented on a CD or DVD (now DRM’d) to a completely different collection, or not, of softwares that are offered on an ad hoc, per-user, basis on the WWW.This will allow everyone and their dog (again) to offer similar, but certainly non compatible, software platforms and business applications on the web at which point we can all be screwed by our ISP’s as well as Microsoft, the AV vendors, data warehousing and dedicated hosting companies for the pleasure of being able to work remotely with a thin client and not have cupboards full of DC’s/DVD’s and licenses.At at least if you suffer a BSoD you won’t be alone, everyone in your time zone using the system will be screaming at whoever is mad enough to offer a tech’ services department.
2 CommentsI’ve had enough of Fahrad Manjoo’s articles on the 2004 election. He is at again this week as the self-designated hatchet man for Mark Crispin Miller’s new book Fooled Again!
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