Frases

"las grandes mentes discuten ideas, las medianas discuten eventos, los ignorantes; critican"

"he sospechado alguna vez que la única cosa sin misterio es la felicidad, porque se justifica por si sola"
Jorge Luis Borges

La oveja negra.

En un lejano país existió hace muchos años una Oveja negra.

Fue fusilada.

Un siglo después, el rebaño arrepentido le levantó una estatua ecuestre que quedó muy bien en el parque.

Así, en los sucesivo, cada vez que aparecían ovejas negras eran rápidamente pasadas por las armas para que las futuras generaciones de ovejas comunes y corrientes pudieran ejercitarse también en la escultura.

Augusto Monterroso

The Everybody Somebody Anybody Nobody Story

This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did.
Somebody got angry (about that) because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody knew that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Somebody wouldn't do it.
And It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody because when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Simplified version of Charles Osgood's "Poem about responsability"

IF...

IF you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Escritor y poeta británico, nacido en India, autor de obras como "El libro de la Selva" y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1907(el ganador mas joven hasta hoy a los 42 años).

Pequeño test político...

Toma un pequeño test (en ingles) para saber en que parte del cuadrante político te encontras...
No es en todo caso un test óptimo.. sin embargo es divertido y te da una buena idea.

Aprender a ahorrar

no seas un analfabeto financiero...
juga con SAVINGS CALCULATOR

Claves del Exito. ..

Richard St. John resume 7 años de estudio acerca de porque hay personas que tienen éxito. Excelente presentación...

Solo 3:30 min!



Ver más Ted Talks en
http://www.ted.com/talks

Con razón siempre las veo pero nunca las encuentro...

Seguro le tomo horas hacerlo.... pero impresionante.
Y pensar que hace unos cuantos cientos de años el proceso hubiese sido inverso...



ya no le creo a ningun cartel!

Por si tu sueldo es demasiado bajo...

Capaz te sorprendas al saber que lugar ocupas en el ranking mundial de pobreza

¿Sabes atarte los cordones?

Si sos de ir a correr o simplemente queres darle un toque fachero a tu "champion" acá van unos buenos tips...

Tendencias del Desarrollo Humano 2005

Excelente presentación sobre las tendencias del desarrollo humano.

"Human development trends 2005"

El Liger

Que pasa su cruzas un león con un tigre?

Juan Carlos Galaverna...

de este video podemos extraer dos cosas positivas...

A- Que bueno que en el senado se hable en Guarani.
B- Que bueno que al ver este video la mayoria no entienda Guarani.

Historia de un padre increíble..

Rick Hoyt nació tetrapléjico, pero su incapacidad física no le imposibilita comunicarse. A la edad de 16, pidió a su papa participar en una carrera de 5km... unos anos mas tarde juntos logran algo increíble: terminar el Ironman de Hawaii.

Un video digno de ver..

Barstool Tax Policy

Una parábola acerca de los impuestos y la cerveza.. muy buena.

Barstool Tax Policy

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"

"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

Autor???

lo lei en..
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/03/barstool-tax-policy.html