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"Summary: Microsoft's covert efforts (lobbying with the help of public partners like NASSCOM) to eliminate an India-leaning software policy in India is finally paying off"

" Ernesto on October 15, 2016 C: 18 Breaking A ring of misleading websites is charging people to pay for copyright registrations in the UK, Australia and elsewhere, even though it's a free and automatic right. In India, where there's also an official registration office, the authorities are taking legal action to stop the "fraudulent" operation."

" Ernesto on October 15, 2016 C: 18 Breaking A ring of misleading websites is charging people to pay for copyright registrations in the UK, Australia and elsewhere, even though it's a free and automatic right. In India, where there's also an official registration office, the authorities are taking legal action to stop the "fraudulent" operation."

"Nassim Nicholas Taleb What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for."

"Al primer ministro Modi, al presidente Xi Jinping, a la presidenta Rousseff, al presidente Zuma, a sus ministros de Medio Ambiente, y a todos los líderes mundiales: Nosotros, los ciudadanos y ciudadanas de todos los países del mundo, les exigimos que se unan a las más de cien naciones que acaban de anunciar sus intenciones de lograr un resultado ambicioso en París para evitar la catástrofe del cambio climático. Esto requiere una transición mundial hacia las energías 100% limpias para 2050, junto con la financiación de la transición y adaptación de las naciones más pobres y unas normas estrictas que regulen e intensifiquen nuestros avances. Tienen en sus manos el éxito o el fracaso del acuerdo que asegurará a la humanidad un futuro seguro y limpio. El mundo entero cuenta con ustedes. "