miercuri, 21 octombrie 2015

Movie review: Black mass

The new film starring Johny Depp talks is about an criminal Bulger, who infiltrates FBI using a friend John Connelly. It is like the movie Donnie Brasco but on the reverse. Gangster James Whitey Bulger infiltrates FBI.
John Connelly an ambitious and incompetent FBI agent, proposes his childhood friend Bulger, to help with informations for arresting the head of the italian Mafia in Boston, in exchange for immunity from the authorities. Bulger grows and grows till upsets the authorities and they react.

The movie doesn't have suspense,  Bulger acts as it is expected as psychopathic criminal.
This movie is far from the value of "Departed" which described the same subject and the same characters, but muck better, with more suspense.
If I have to compare the how the Jack Nicholson acted as Costello in the "Departed" versus how Johny Depp acted as Bulger I would say that Nicholson was possessed by the character of the gangster and Depp played as a gangster.
Depp gave his charisma to the character, while Nicholson became the character.
In both cases, you see the influence of previous characters in their play, Depp's gangster was a strange person as Edward the Scissor hands, Nicholson was more like Jack Torance from  Shining, or McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 

European office for migration

The EU bureaucrats have use their imagination to invent different committees, but they miss an office to handle the emigration towards Europe,
With imposed quota of emigrants, the  Eastern Europeans  are afraid that the Western states will dump all the unwanted refugees in their countries.
And the refugees that put their hopes in reaching Germany will arrive in Romania.
This will create tensions between locals wary of these emigrants that they were forced to accept and the grumpy refugees who see their hopes shattered.
Germany and Sweden cannot accept all the refugees and some of them must be distributed in all Europe, but how to make this without herding people into trains like Hitler and Stalin did?
You send some of the refugees in Poland for example but how you keep them there?
The solution is to distribute them directly from the refugee camps from Turkey or Liban.
You can make there an office for processing paper of refugees.
Each country, will specify a quota of refugees. Let's say Romania will accept 1000 and Germany 100000.
Many refugees will apply for Germany and in this case the process will be slow, and few of them will apply for Romania, in this case the process will be faster.
If you are sick and tired of a refugee camp and you will want to get out of there you will find appealing the faster route to Romania. So the humanitarian cases will arrive in Romania, and they will be supported by EU.
The economic migrants will arrive in Germany were they need workforce, and they will strengthen the economy.
After the refugee will be accepted he will be sent in destination country where he will have the right to work, in order to self sustained.
The paper work will be done by European functionaries from countries different from the destination.
Germans will process papers for Romania, and Romanians will process paper work for Germans. So neither country will slow down artificially the process.
The advantages are clear:
- we avoid human trafficking across
- we ease the burden on Lebanon and Turkey
- we distribute the refugees across Europe
- we have the agreement of the refugees for moving in respective countries.
To stop migration from East we must suspend also the Schengen treaty.

duminică, 11 octombrie 2015

Questions for Russian army from an accountant

Recently the Russian Army prided itself with hitting of 11 targets from Syria with 26 missiles launched from Caspain Sea. They bragged that they hit all the targets. There is no reason for them to brag.
They were 11 targets, if they were so good they would need only 11 missiles. Ok, maybe they wanted to  be safe and succeed , and they sent 2 missiles for each target, this means 22 missiles, not 26.
Where are the remaining 4 missiles?
They missed maybe 2 targets? And Kremlin readjusted the desired outcome?
Did they crashed somewhere? Maybe in Iran?
The were stolen and sold?

vineri, 9 octombrie 2015

I hope they will not invent teleportation soon

Image if you combine e-commerce  with teleportation,and the on-line stores will beam you up merchandise.
You buy a a vase, they beam it up. Cool
You buy a bed, a wardrobe and some carpets. Pretty nasty, if they don't materialize the items on you, you will be must likely stuck in the house by the furniture.
You buy a car on-line . you can die if they beam it in your bedroom, and your floor will collapse.