Sun 6 Dec 2009
There is an interesting book “「捨てる!」技術”. The author website is in here
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Fri 2 Jan 2009
Israel’s Moral Hazard
Posted by arully under Economy , HumanRight , IT , Law&Ethics , Media , Way of LifeNo Comments
Charles Krauthammer & Benjamin Netanyahu should learn what is morality and fanatical ideology itself. Israel doesn’t have morality because it is:
- An entity with fanatical ideology who forced the occupants to flee 60 years ago (look at Irgun and injustice)
- An entity who teach their children to kill others because they are a better human than others (look at this report)
- An entity with its fanatical ideology who are racist (look at Israel Citizenship and Haaretz report)
- An entity who based on propaganda and lies
- An entity who blockade 1.5 million people and starved them (look at OCHA report on Gaza condition 2008/12/17, despite Israel FM Tzipi Livni said “There is no humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce“)
- An entity who have been doing war crime
Voice from Gaza :: Aid worker diary ::
From Haaretz:
“I keep the children away from the windows because the F-16s are in the air; I forbid them to play below because it’s dangerous. They’re bombing us from the sea and from the east, they’re bombing us from the air. When the telephone works, people tell us about relatives or friends who were killed. My wife cries all the time. At night she hugs the children and cries. It’s cold and the windows are open; there’s fire and smoke in open areas; at home there’s no water, no electricity, no heating gas. And you [the Israelis] say there’s no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Tell me, are you normal?“
Sat 27 Dec 2008
Seorang muslim hidupnya kaya? miskin? mewah? sederhana?
Posted by arully under Economy , Law&Ethics , Politics , Way of LifeNo Comments
Di Turki, “Muslims here used to be tested by poverty,” said Sehminur Aydin, an observant businesswoman and the daughter of a manufacturing magnate. “Now they’re being tested by wealth.”. Itu tadi sekelumit laporan IHT tentang kaum muslim Turki ditengah tekanan elit pendukung sekularisme yg kaya dan berkedudukan, serta dilema pilihan gaya hidup antara mewah atau sederhana.
Thu 11 Dec 2008
Pernah mendengar nama organisasi National Chauvinistic Husbands Association?
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Humor , Way of LifeNo Comments
National Chauvinistic Husbands Association dibentuk 9 tahun lalu di Jepang, dan mereka mengadakan World Husbands’ Summit hari Sabtu lalu.
Berikut profil organisasinya:
Tue 4 Nov 2008
Satu alasan lagi perlunya undang2 mengatur pornografi/pornoaksi
Posted by arully under Law&Ethics , Media , Way of LifeNo Comments
Times menurunkan artikel yang berjudul Sex on TV Increases Teen Pregnancy, Says Report – TIME
Wed 24 Sep 2008
Tue 16 Sep 2008
How the (just another) Black Monday unfolded
Posted by arully under Economy , Finance , Law&Ethics , Strategy , Way of LifeNo Comments
Amidst the biggest financial industry shake-up since the Great Depression, an article in Washington Post from The Associated Press, show the real culprit of what happening in Financial Market.
It’s been nearly a decade since Congress and President Clinton reshaped the financial landscape. That 1999 legislation removed Depression-era barriers between commercial banks and investment firms and allowed the creation of financial behemoths where years later the risks of underwriting subprime mortgages were somewhat hidden.
Former Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, until recently one of the McCain campaign’s top economic advisers, was a chief writer of that law.
McCain voted for a Senate version of the bill but did not vote on the final package. Biden voted against the Senate legislation but for the final compromise that Clinton signed. Obama was not in Congress at the time.
Meanwhile, the big 2 in Investment Banking category:
For Goldman, which is expected on Tuesday to report its worst quarterly results since going public in 1999, it was the stock’s biggest one-day drop in eight years.
Morgan Stanley, which has been shedding assets since an embarrassing fourth quarter loss last year, likewise will be under pressure to show its house is in order when it reports results on Thursday.
We need a preventive action especially in Financial System, as said by Paul Krugman from NYT
The real answer to the current problem would, of course, have been to take preventive action before we reached this point. Even leaving aside the obvious need to regulate the shadow banking system — if institutions need to be rescued like banks, they should be regulated like banks — why were we so unprepared for this latest shock? When Bear went under, many people talked about the need for a mechanism for “orderly liquidation” of failing investment banks. Well, that was six months ago. Where’s the mechanism?
To better understand the financial problem, The Time has 2 good articles: How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street and Why the Government Wouldn’t Let AIG Fail.
And there is also a rumor about relations between AIG and China
(Updated 08/10/03)
Another good article from Reuters
(Updated 08/10/04)
Spheres of influences
(Updated 08/11/28) Thomas L. Friedman wrote after Citibank was bailed out more!
(Updated 08/12/27) Chinese Savings Helped Inflate American Bubble
Thu 10 Jul 2008
Rasa malu harus dibarengi dengan rasa tanggung jawab
Posted by arully under Law&Ethics , Way of Life1 Comment
Pengen nulis dalam bahasa Jepang, tp nanti pesan sebenarnya dari posting ini tidak kesampaian. Setelah mengubek-ubek Internet mencari berita dalam bahasa Inggris, akhirnya nemu juga berita dari Eropa di Guardian
Cerita yg ingin disampaikan sebenarnya sederhana, yaitu bagaimana sistem pendidikan di Jepang mengajarkan rasa malu DAN rasa tanggung jawab. Rasa malu biasanya membuat orang untuk minta maaf. Tapi minta maaf saja biasanya tidak cukup untuk mengajarkan diri sendiri agar tidak mengulangi kembali tindakan yang salah. Di sinilah letak kekuatan pendidikan Jepang. Tidak saja rasa malu yang diajarkan, tetapi juga rasa tanggung jawab.
Dalam kasus ini, para mahasiswa pelaku pencoretan ini datang ke Florence, Italia dg biaya sendiri, dan memberikan uang ganti rugi sekedarnya sebesar 600 euro. Di TV Jepang, walaupun wajah mahasiswa pelaku nya tidak muncul, tetapi terlihat bagaimana salah seorang pelaku wanita meminta maaf dan menangis, sampai2 kurator gereja harus menenangkan dan menghiburnya.
Kenapa bisa terjadi ‘drama’ seperti diatas? Sebab kelakuan para mahasiswa ini bukanlah satu-satunya pelaku pencoretan dinding dan tempat bersejarah di Gereja di Florence tersebut, seperti kutipan berita dibawah ini:
But so many Italians and other tourists do the same thing that, as a cathedral official, Paolo Bianchi, acknowledged: “We have staff whose sole job every day is to rub out pierced hearts, declarations of love and travel graffiti.”
Pengalaman mengajar di Jepang, menambah keyakinan bahwa sikap malu dan tanggung jawab hanya bisa lahir karena pendidikan. Walaupun banyak hal yang saya tidak setuju terkait sistem pendidikan Jepang, namun dalam hal ini, saya pikir banyak yang bisa kita ambil sebagai acuan.
Ngomong2, bagaimana rasa malu orang Indonesia? Mungkin lumayan. Lalu bagaimana rasa tanggung jawab nya? Nah, ini beda kayaknya. Para pembaca blog ini pasti bisa menjawabnya sendiri 
berharap suatu saat bangsa Indonesia menjadi bangsa yang punya rasa malu dan bertanggung jawab
Sat 19 Apr 2008
There is a study of five major personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism) related to nearsightedness or myopia. The conclusion is:
“The long-held view that myopic persons are introverted and conscientious may reflect intelligence-related stereotypes rather than real correlations. Furthermore, the predictive characteristic of intellect, subsumed in openness, appeared to be representative of a previously reported link between IQ and myopia rather than personality and myopia.” “We have literally busted the myth that people who wear glasses are introverted or have particular personality characteristics. They are more likely to be agreeable and open, rather than closed and introverted,” said Paul Baird of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Eye Research Australia in a release.
Wed 16 Apr 2008
According to this site from The University of Wisconsin Whitewater, the four functions of management are:
