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Egg and chicken – tax and expenses

After decades of funding the most fancy and unproductives aspects of the welfare state by raising taxes, politicians have discovered that too much is too much. So cutting taxes has become the mantra of right- and left-wing politicians alike. There is one problem, though. Citizens have become unresponsive (i.e. they don't believe anymore to "tax cuts" promises). One suggestion to politicians in need of recovering citizens' confidence: instead of saying "I will cut this tax", say "I will cut this…

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Getting out of the mess

The Christian religion explains the mess of the world we live in with the Original Sin that has destroyed the good nature that would otherwise be in us. The Original Sin cannot be undone but Baptism and adherence to the Religion's precepts promise to make us reborn people. How can this help sorting out the European mess experienced of these days? Here, too, we have an original sin: greedy Greek politicians bent on lighting new debts from greedier bankers bent…

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Leonardo’s views on European Parliament’s “Google’s vote”

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It is hard to legislate when the matter at hand is constantly changing. This is the case of the recent recommendation of the European Parliament  (EP) to introduce regulation of internet search and break up Google. It is not the first time public authorities break up companies: they did it in 1911 with Standard Oil Co. Inc. But that decision was more than a century ago and was about a company that was controlling too many “atoms” (actually molecules) that…

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Leonardo closes the 39th DMP meeting, Strasbourg (FR) – 2014/10/25

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The 39th DMP meeting reviewed the Web TVOS Framework API and produced v1.1 of the specification. For GA40 the following contributions are expected A drawing explaining operation of the specification in a client-server mode A rationale and a list of changes/extensions effected to the TVAnytime specification to produce this specification A study on what makes this specification different from other specifications. In case the differences are small metadata schema identification will be supported, if they are large a revised version…

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Leonardo closes the 38th DMP meeting, Sapporo (JP) – 2014/07//10

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The 38th DMP meeting reviewed submissions and created a workplan for its 3rd series of DMP specifications that aims to define a comprehensive system view of media services that are based on a main broadcasting service supplemented by interactive and personalised services delivered via the internet. The specification will include a general model of Hybrid-Delivery Media Services (HDMS) and their stakeholders, HDMS requirements, system-wide interfaces and user application interfaces.

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