Via DNA - Mauro Biani, vignette, comics, satira

La notizia sta qui, intanto ci si dimentica degli altri eventi.

Vodafone iPhone: 499€
AT&T iPhone: 199$ = 127€ (126,285062€ according to google calculator)

With the vodafone model you don't have any extra service you'd have to pay for, just a barebone iPhone, a sim and 5€ of phone traffic. So, at least, to compare both of them you'll have to jailbreak the AT&T iPhone, add 0$ (or 0€ if you prefer, the change is in our favor) to the total price of the AT&T model.

499€ or 127€? I can't really choose which one to buy...

Ok, I'm kidding: to buy an AT&T iPhone you'd have to fly over to the US but, seriously, do you really want to buy an iPhone here at that prices?!?

According to a Corriere della Sera article, it is possible to see on the government tax agency site all of the tax entries declared by Italians in 2005 (the site is currently offline). And you don't need any 1337 mad hax0rz skillz: no session mangling, no SQL injections, nothing! Just start browsing by region, city and citizens...

And now, for something completely different, the politicians carousel taken straight from the above article:

• Vincenzo Visco, economy minister of previous government, said it's all ok: "it's a matter of transparency, of democracy, I don't see any problems: it's used in all over the world, just take a look at any American TV series"


• Government own privacy organ said: "This Tax Agency initiative has never been submitted to our attention"


• The Tax Agency replied: "You said it's ok with official acts from 17th Jan 2001 and 2nd Jul 2003"

Those weeks were quite interesting for our government: Veltroni, actual Rome major, made a law during Marini temporary government to allow italian major to run for elections. You know, Rome is such a small city that it can really run on its legs and it's really sad you can't both take money from being a major and from running elections at the same time. Ad-personam laws. Deja-vu.
On the other side Berlusconi proposed the roadmap of the first 100 days of his government. Deja-vu, again.
Have you noticed that there's really no difference between left and right any more? During elections, they just talk about big interesting things they'll surely do during their government. Just for sitting in parliament once elected to grab as much money as they can.
Oh, by the way, we entered "par-condicio" elections period so fuck you, all.

This strike is quite interesting, haven't you noticed it? Italian tir drivers are striking for... for... for what exactly?
I haven't found any explanation for the current strike, there're no signs no protesting men, just lots of tirs stopped on our highways.
And in just one day all gasoline station are running out of fuel. Yeah, right, one day and every station in Italy is empty.
This strike is too fake: it's leaded by an ex under-minister of the last government, currently inside the opposition wing. Oh, don't mind the actual conflicts of interests: at the time he was inside the government he was also leader of the transportation workers association. Now that he's outside of the government, he screams out loudly that leading politicians are ignoring nation needs. He surely has a good leader.
I also don't believe that yesterday there was no fuel, probably today as the expected result of a fake alarm raised by newspapers and televisions.
I'm pissed off: both by current government, which is doing nothing, and by the opposition which is running a Fear, uncertainty and doubt campaign.

Fuck you all.

This night, italian police free the dissident's blocks in Val di Susa against the construction of the new high speed railway.
What really upsets me is Pisanu, one of our ministers, which has just said "there were no charge". I hate those stupid politicians. probably they're fine philosophers or pure mathematicians. in fact, a charge is a run followed by the action of beating the bad guys. yesterday night policemen didn't run. they just beat the people, so they didn't technically charge the dissidents.
he also said that the police acts this way because there were "violent anarchists" between the dissidents. I don't seen any of them. I see scared people, majors and injured people.

IHTFP
(foto taken from la repubblica)

pdf ahead: we're +3 points from freedom
I know that many italian comedians[1] have already extensively covered this topic, but I always want to take a closer look at it. Please read pages 116 and 117 (125 and 126 of the pdf).

btw: where is the link to that pdf? I found it digging and playing around with links...

[1] isn't it interesting that no media talk about it, but I've to discover this through banned italian comedians?

Yesterday our premier was acquitted of corruption charges as, the judge said, the charges never exist anymore. That's why our premier and his fellow have just made a new law before facing the court which erase most of corruption charges.

I feel like going back to the past, when this guy was causing lots of troubles, doing whatever he would do.