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11 Jan 2009, 3:37 am

I am really angry now. The only form of public assistance I have received until now has been a visit of the police to take away my little dog who lived with me for 15 months, and was a great consolation and meaningful value for me. I could walk her, feed and do anything she needed to be done. She was happy and loved me. Now my life has been transformed in a waste. I am so angry that I would like to smash some window of some public building (a police station?). That would not better much my situation , so I will refrain.

What should be done of old people? I have some proposals in mind. The municipalities who build public lavatories, parking lots, plays for kids in parks, and other public facilities for the enjoyment and the needs of the populations should build public guillotines, in same areas of the cities, where old people who still have enough forces to pull a flush chain in a toilet, might put their head in and pull a chain o push a button to get a decent end to their life. This is a provocation of the kind of Swift’s “Modest proposal”. But what public authorities really do? They push old people in lagers, called “rest homes” where they agonize for years, treated by the staff like rebellious objects. No love, no affection, just some bad meal and some periodic cleaning when the inmates cannot do these businesses any more by themselves. In some case there are periodic perfunctory embarassed visits of some relative. To cite two names Nietzsche and the great Russian writer Salamov spent their last days in their feces and in absolute loneliness. Is this the right way to solve the “problem”? As love for old people cannot be produced in a factory, wouldn’t be the self-service guillotine better?

No not a police station: policemen are often much better that other people, they know what life is. Judges and bureaucrats don't.

A blog of mine (Kind of monologue):

http://paolo189.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ ... dit&post=3


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11 Jan 2009, 8:20 am

Paolo you need assistance with the blog.

http://support.wordpress.com/getting-started/

http://support.wordpress.com/posts/

There doesn't appear to be a really basic step by step tutorial. If I was I beginner I might be happier with google blogger as they have a better beginner’s tutorial last time I checked for someone.

There is a wordpress forum:

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/



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11 Jan 2009, 10:08 am

Yes thank you I am a newbie inn the field: I will learn.I will try to fail better.


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11 Jan 2009, 10:29 am

paolo wrote:
Yes thank you I am a newbie inn the field: I will learn.I will try to fail better.

Actually I am really interested in interface design, and it is not as if we are ever free from problems in that area. We also tend to get stuck on one track like Windowed systems for operating systems. This can be very excluding for many people.