I am reading the news, about the extent that the rich evade taxes. Paradise papers, Lagarde list, tax heavens etc.
I wonder, what is the moral legitimacy to demand simple people to stop piracy of music and digital media in general?
The rich have the means to hide their money and not pay taxes through lobbying and laws made specificaly for them but the poor, must suck it up and pay.

In 2006 when "an inconvenient truth" came to be, I remember it draw a fair amount of criticism about the cgi scene with the Polar bear not being real and hence manipulating the audience. Well, I got news for all of you. A bear is documented starving to death in a baren landscape devoid of snow and food. Perhaps the inconvenient truth took the poetic liberty to show a drowning bear but real life shows that death due to climate change don't come swiftly like drowning for those affected. It will be a slow and agonizing death.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oiC_HG3u-nk
 

Trip into memory lane

I was checking out the newer versions of Wolfenstein and somehow this "dog" photo looked familiar...

but it couldn't be, it was totaly alien to me, and yet so familiar. And after a bit of memory strugling, it hit me!
The "dog's" teeth and Doom's font is eerily similar

Το κατεστημένο η διαπλοκή και το σύστημα

Οι λέξεις του τίτλου είναι λέξεις που εκφέρονται εύκολα αλλά δεν έχουν ποτέ πρόσωπο.

Τον κυρ Μπάμπη το μανάβη, θα τον έχετε ακούσει πολλές φορές να εκφέρεται κατά του συστήματος και πως φταίει πχ ο Τσίπρας. Ο Τσίπρας όμως δεν είναι το σύστημα ούτε το κατεστημένο. Αν ο Τσίπρας και ο κάθε Τσίπρας είναι κάτι, είναι το ανδρείκελο, ο αχυράνθρωπος, ο αποδιοπομπαίος τράγος που χρησιμοποιεί το σύστημα. Και που πιθανόν να μην ήξερε και σε τι έμπλεκε όντας μάλλον outsider της πολιτικής.

Διάβαζα στο documentonews.gr για τη διαπλοκή SALLAS και Bgeno καλή του ώρα. Και είχα την επιφοίτηση. Να κάποια από τα πρόσωπα του συστήματος! Σύμφωνα με το documentonews ο mr Marfin έγινε απο δικηγόρος τραπεζίτης με τη βοήθεια του SALLAS και του έδωσε δάνειο από χρήματα που δεν είχε η MARFIN για να αγοράσει ουσιαστικά την Πειραιώς. Και στη συνέχεια το ξεπλήρωσε δεν το ξεπλήρωσε το δάνειο αφού αγόρασε τη Marfin, μόνο ο θεός και οι φίλοι τους ξέρουν.

Ενώ αναφέρεται και το όνομα του πεθερού του Ελ. Βελ.

"Με τη βοήθεια του Αλέξανδρου Μπακατσέλου, πεθερού του Ευάγγελου Βενιζέλου, ο Βγενόπουλος επεκτείνεται και στην Εγνατία Τράπεζα."

Στην άλλη όψη της δημοσιογραφίας, ο Πρετεντέρης διακοπές με σκάφος με τον Άιδωνη Γεωργιάδη.

Στην ίδια όχθη της δημοσιογραφίας, η Σία Κοσιώνη έχει παντρευτεί τον Κώστα Μπακογιάννη, της γνωστής οικογένειας του παππού Μητσοτάκη,καλή του ώρα.

Δηλαδή περιμένουμε από δημοσιογράφους να αποκαλύψουν τα φαινόμενα διαπλοκής και κρατικής κακοδιαχείρισης των φίλων και συγγενών τους...

Να λοιπόν μερικά από τα πρόσωπα του συστήματος στην Ελλάδα.

I read all that crap about going to mars and colonising and teraforming it. Well, unless we are able to do just that here on earth on Australia and sahara were we have all the resources available  I don't see how we will be able to do that on mars. All that is just wishful thinking

How to clean old yellow plastics

So I found myself in the position to need to return to former white glory some old plastic bits that had become yellow over time, even though didn't sit in the sun.

So thanks to the following write up I managed to do just that.
I bought some Hydrogen peroxide 12%. "Cream Peroxide 40Vol" from a hair saloon supplier for about 12 euros delivered, put the gel on the plastic bit wearing a glove, put it in a sealed transparent plastic bag and let it steam under the heat of an IR lamp.

Since it is winter and the sun is at a premium this time of year, and not wanting to wait till summer to do it, I used a Blacklight lamp, which for some reason blew up within 30 minutes from the start of the experiment and didn't do much during that time. Afterwards I let the item all night under a fluorescent lamp, which also didn't seem to do much about it. Eventually I tried the heat IR lamp and within 3 hours, the item was becoming visibly white. Since the gel in the bag was visibly evaporating on the surfaces of the bag as droplets, I don't know if the heat is more of a catalyst than UV radiation.

All I know is that it worked!!!

1st application.

Although the difference is striking, in close inspection, there was some residual colouring almost as camouflage patterns. Not very obvious, but it was there. In any case the end product was much better.

About fake power tools

I have been looking for some cheap power tools, and was surprised by some Makita prices on ebay. So I was sceptical about the quality of such tools. I was also looking at some Bosch hammers and after seeing some genuine ones

I spotted this obviously fake tool

To the seller's credit, he didn't try to pass it as a BOSCH Hammer tool, however its almost identical !

Unfortunately on Ebay, most sellers selling cheap makita drillhammers do not have an actual photo of the item, but generic ones not allowing to make a judgement about authenticity before actually buying and receiving said tools.