Monday, February 13, 2012

Why doesn't every website just give out very simple and brief privacy policies? Ideally, the gist should be there, just clear and straight.

An acquaintance of mine told me that in Portugal, some city people still have a live-in maid in their houses. And those maids are typically uneducated peasant girls from the countryside.

Essentially, it appears like Portugal still has some sort of two-tier system, the upper tier is its city residents, the lower one its country residents.

So it seems that in that aspect, that part of Europe is very much like China. And, the North America is more equitable than that part of Europe.

A young man may only encounter deaths and tragedies mainly through snatches of literature. And he should consider that as education.

Obama's hair has turned hoary since he, a personification of "change", went to Washington D.C.

See http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1034318--is-the-white-house-turning-obama-grey .

Music video - Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel ("Gretchen am Spinnrade" in German) - Sung by Barbara Bonney, music by Franz Schubert, and lyrics from text in Goethe's Faust







Goethe corresponds to “歌德” in Chinese.

Apple is a classic case of how a company can win girls' hearts. Take the example of its Macbook laptops, they are very thin, smooth, and maybe most importantly, free from the necessity for people to acquire technical knowledge about computers in order to maintain them.

You can see myriads and myriads of girls who bear Macbooks around. Many of those girls would rather pay premium prices for Mac computers and yet buy some other stuff from cheap dollar stores.