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	<title>Adi Roiban</title>
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	<description>Who wipes ?</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Propaganda Adobe România</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2010/01/29/propaganda-adobe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Atenție: Azi e vineri!
Din categoria „haz de necaz”, astăzi am dat peste instrumentul de propagandă corporatistă de la Adobe România.
În general nu îmi plac textele propagandiste însă mai citesc una altă să nu fiu total rupt de ce se întâmplă în lumea asta. Însă în combinație cu lipsa diacriticelor și îmbinarea total neinspirată de română [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Atenție: Azi e vineri!</p>
<p>Din categoria „haz de necaz”, astăzi am dat peste instrumentul de propagandă corporatistă de la Adobe România.<br />
În general nu îmi plac textele propagandiste însă mai citesc una altă să nu fiu total rupt de ce se întâmplă în lumea asta. Însă în combinație cu lipsa diacriticelor și îmbinarea total neinspirată de română și engleză mi-a fost imposibil să acord atenție conținutului și m-am oprit la un articol trimis de un prieten.</p>
<p>Am rămas surprins să văd că Adobe se mândrește cu faptul că sunt piatra de temelie pentru jocurile Disney și Barbie cât și pentru siteurile cu conținut pornografic.<br />
Să nu o luați în nume de rău. Mă bucur că sunt atât de sinceri și îngrijorați de faptul că utilizatorii Ipad nu se vor putea bucura de tehnologia „FingerTouch porn” <img src='http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<div id="attachment_406" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 341px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17748937@N00/101220924/in/set-72057594066330093/"><img src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/101220924_f6a6ea58ca.jpg" alt="Il est beau tout de même.. by merlinprincesse" title="101220924_f6a6ea58ca" width="331" height="500" class="size-full wp-image-406" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Il est beau tout de même.. by merlinprincesse</p></div></p>
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		<title>Launchpad Translations Under the Hood</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2010/01/26/launchpad-translations-under-the-hood/</link>
		<comments>http://adi.roiban.ro/2010/01/26/launchpad-translations-under-the-hood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Developers Week is here and I am happy to announce the Launchpad Under the Hood session that will take place in #ubuntu-classroom from irc.freenode.net on Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010, starting 17.OO UTC.
This is a session dedicated mainly to developers wanting to contribute to Launchpad Translations (codename Rosetta) but who are not yet familiar with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/">Ubuntu Developers Week</a> is here and I am happy to announce the Launchpad Under the Hood session that will take place in #ubuntu-classroom from irc.freenode.net on <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=27&#038;month=1&#038;year=2010&#038;hour=17&#038;min=0&#038;sec=0&#038;p1=0">Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010, starting 17.OO UTC</a>.</p>
<p>This is a session dedicated mainly to developers wanting to contribute to Launchpad Translations (codename Rosetta) but who are not yet familiar with the internal structure of Rosetta.</p>
<p>We would like to make it an interactive session. If you plan to attend this session please follow the materials from <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/Sessions/LaunchpadTranslationsUnderTheHood">Launchpad Translations Under the Hood session wikipage</a>.</p>
<p>You are also encourage to try installing a Launchpad development on your computer, or use the provided Virtual Box hard disk image.</p>
<p>If you have any question or need help, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us or find more info on the <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net/Help">Launchpad Development Help page</a>.</p>
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		<title>We are doing fine&#8230; overall&#8230; I think</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2010/01/14/we-are-doing-fine-overall-i-think/</link>
		<comments>http://adi.roiban.ro/2010/01/14/we-are-doing-fine-overall-i-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short post about the status of Romanian free software translations.
According to Wikipedia, Romanian is ranked 40 by an estimation for number of speakers. To estimate the status of Romanian translations, I&#8217;m using the translations from Ubuntu 9.10 main repository and Gnome 2.28 .
In Ubuntu Romanian is 30, ranked by the number of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a short post about the status of Romanian free software translations.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers">Wikipedia</a>, Romanian is ranked 40 by an estimation for number of speakers. To estimate the status of Romanian translations, I&#8217;m using the translations from <a href="https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/">Ubuntu 9.10 main repository</a> and <a href="http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ro/gnome-2-28/ui/">Gnome 2.28 </a>.</p>
<p>In Ubuntu Romanian is 30, ranked by the number of completed translations and 17 by the number of contributors, and 50% of the total translations are completed. In GNOME, we have 93% and the only missing translations are Anjuta and Glade (they are developers tools with not to many person using the translated versions).</p>
<p>Those 300 contributors giving us a rank of 17 by contributors but only 30 by actual work done is telling that we succeed in promoting Ubuntu translations and having persons contributing to translations, but we failed to make them a long time contributors. We have only about 10 to 15 active contributors, where the others are past contributors but most of them are drive-by translators.</p>
<p>Still the rank 30 (while we should have been on 40) should be a sign that overall we are doing fine, but we must focus on helping drive-by translators   to be more involved in translations.</p>
<p>As a side note, I always admired the Swedish team, they are 78 by number of speakers and 4th by number of amount of completed translations.<br />
They must be all super heroes <img src='http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<div id="attachment_382" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristin-and-adam/320164699/"><img src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/320164699_8b111ecb78.jpg" alt="Photo by Kristin and Adam" title="320164699_8b111ecb78" width="500" height="375" class="size-full wp-image-382" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Kristin and Adam. Thanks!</p></div></p>
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		<title>Free software terminology translations</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2010/01/11/free-software-terminology-translations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce a set of words/terms that could be used as a common terminology for translation teams.
It is based on the terminology files used by Romanian translations teams, which was started (around 2005) from the GNOME glossary file. In the last year the Romanian translations teams have successfully used a common terminology [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am pleased to announce a set of words/terms that could be used as a common terminology for translation teams.</p>
<p>It is based on the terminology files used by Romanian translations teams, which was started (around 2005) from the GNOME glossary file. In the last year the Romanian translations teams have successfully used a common terminology translations to improve translations quality and consistency. The Romanian terminology is stored in a non standard format (<a href="http://i18n.ro/glosar/data/glosar.txt">tab separated plain text file</a>) and a <a href="http://i18n.ro/glosar/index.php">php and ajax search and edit interface</a>. I have converted it to PO format as it is common standard used in free software.</p>
<p>To make the distinction between verbs and nouns, instead of using contexts, I used the infinitive form for verbs.</p>
<p>They are sorted in alphabetical order, but where it make sense I tried to group them (ex accuracy and precision).</p>
<p>Comments and links were added to help translators understand the usage of some terms. Some terms need more comments/links.</p>
<p>I tried not to create an English dictionary, but only include terms relevant to IT domain. There are some exception and I am happy to discuss the removal or addition of terms.</p>
<p>The PO file is hosted and updated here <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~translation-standards-devel/translation-standards/terminology">https://code.launchpad.net/~translation-standards-devel/translation-standards/terminology</a> and it can be translated using <a href="https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/translation-standards">Launchpad Translations</a>.</p>
<p>Right now you can use the search function to retrieve e specific term, but we are looking forward for a better integration with Launchpad Translations  (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/translation-standards/+bug/501086">LP Bug #501086</a>).</p>
<p>It is released under BSD license. Feel free to download and translate it and integrate in your favorite tools.</p>
<p>I am happy to discuss any changes to this file. Feel free to create a merge proposal, to post a comment here or to discuss via <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators"> Launchpad</a> or <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n">GNOME</a> translations mailing list.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelvin255/2872042059/"><img src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2872042059_d34d4889c0.jpg" alt="2872042059_d34d4889c0" title="2872042059_d34d4889c0" width="500" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-376" /></a></p>
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		<title>Ca la 20 de ani&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/12/18/ca-la-20-de-ani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; am revenit la IRSSI și BitlBee.
Text pur. Atât de frumos!
Cu XMMP gateway merge și twitter și identi.ca. Nu mai pot primi emoticoane și audible-uri, dar m-oi descurca eu cumva. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; am revenit la <a href="http://irssi.org/">IRSSI</a> și <a href="http://www.bitlbee.org">BitlBee</a>.</p>
<p>Text pur. Atât de frumos!</p>
<p>Cu XMMP gateway merge și twitter și identi.ca. Nu mai pot primi emoticoane și audible-uri, dar m-oi descurca eu cumva. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kretyen/2455394920/"><img src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/2455394920_581da5627c.jpg" alt="2455394920_581da5627c" title="2455394920_581da5627c" width="500" height="333" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-369" /></a></p>
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		<title>Cursul Ubuntu Desktop la început de drum</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/12/16/cursul-ubuntu-desktop-la-inceput/</link>
		<comments>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/12/16/cursul-ubuntu-desktop-la-inceput/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[În primăvară am demarat acțiunea de traducerea a cursului Ubuntu Desktop.
Cursul Ubuntu Desktop se dorește un material ce poate fi folosit de profesori în vederea realizării unui curs de introducere în utilizarea sistemului de operare Ubuntu și a altor sisteme bazate pe Linux.
De curând am reușit să import traducerile în Launchpad, iar acum textul poate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>În primăvară am demarat acțiunea de traducerea a cursului Ubuntu Desktop.</p>
<p>Cursul Ubuntu Desktop se dorește un material ce poate fi folosit de profesori în vederea realizării unui curs de introducere în utilizarea sistemului de operare Ubuntu și a altor sisteme bazate pe Linux.</p>
<p>De curând am reușit să import traducerile în Launchpad, iar acum textul poate fi corectat și îmbunătățit folosind aplicația web Launchpad Translations.</p>
<p>Ele sunt găzduite la adresa<br />
<a href="https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-course/trunk/+lang/ro">translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-course/trunk/+lang/ro</a></p>
<p>Chiar dacă în Launchpad traducerile apar ca fiind făcute de mine, eu doar le-am importat. Ele au fost făcute de <strong>Doru Horisco, Marian Vasile, DoruBarbu și Vasile Iordache</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Carol Iulinszki</strong> a început să corecteze greșelile de ortografie și de exprimare.</p>
<p>Kyle Nitzsche s-a ocupat de randare traducerilor în format PDF iar acum PDF-urile sunt generate cu diacriticele corecte.<br />
PDF-urile sunt găzduite la adresa <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/PDFs">wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/PDFs</a> și pot fi folosite pentru a găsi greșeli și a vedea cum arată totul în pagină.</p>
<p>Mai este mult de lucru pentru finalizare cursului , în principal la uniformizarea textului și folosirea unei exprimări adecvate unui curs.</p>
<p>Proiectul de traducere nu necesită cunoștințe tehnice, ci doar cunoaștere limbii română. Chiar am fi foarte bucuroși să primim sugestii de la persoane care ar putea folosi acest curs.</p>
<p>În cazul în care doriți să ajutați, nu ezitați să mă contactați.</p>
<p>Dacă vă este mai ușor puteți folosi Forumul Ubuntu România pentru a discuta acest subiect: <a href="http://forum.ubuntu.ro/viewtopic.php?pid=52727">http://forum.ubuntu.ro/viewtopic.php?pid=52727</a></p>
<p>Cursul este disponibil sub licența Creative Commons: BY-NC-SA.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehiuomo/2983868368/"><img src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/2983868368_db778d394c.jpg" alt="2983868368_db778d394c" title="2983868368_db778d394c" width="500" height="333" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-363" /></a></p>
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		<title>GTK stock icon names in translations</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/12/07/gtk-stock-icon-names-in-translations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just an informative post in case someone is not aware of this issue.
Lucian Grijincu brings to our attention the issues of GTK stock icon names included in the translations.
In general the GTK stock icon strings should not be made available for translations.
They are strings like &#8220;gtk-ok&#8221;, &#8220;gtk-cancel&#8221; , &#8220;gtk-back&#8221; etc
If you are a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is just an informative post in case someone is not aware of this issue.</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493371">Lucian Grijincu brings to our attention</a> the issues of GTK stock icon names included in the translations.</p>
<p>In general the GTK stock icon strings should not be made available for translations.</p>
<p>They are strings like &#8220;gtk-ok&#8221;, &#8220;gtk-cancel&#8221; , &#8220;gtk-back&#8221; etc</p>
<p>If you are a translator, maybe you have encountered such strings while translating.<br />
I don&#8217;t recommend changing those strings, and if you see them in the original text please consider reporting them us bugs.<br />
Changing them will prevent the translated application from displaying GTK stock icons. </p>
<p><a href="http://kelemeng.blogspot.com/">Gabor Kelemen</a> informed us this is caused by  a <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352446">bug in Glade</a>.</p>
<p>If you are a developer, please check the POT file and don&#8217;t mark those strings for translation, unless there is a good reason for letting translators changing them. If this is the case, please add a comment just before that line, informing translators how they should change that string.</p>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 Release Parties in Romania</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/11/25/ubuntu-910-release-parties-in-romania/</link>
		<comments>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/11/25/ubuntu-910-release-parties-in-romania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This a post about Ubuntu Karmic Release Parties in Romania.
The wonderful people from ROSEDU have organized  just before the release the third edition of their, by now well known, Ubuntu Install Fest. More info and pictures on the event page. Below is just a sneak peak.


Thanks to ArLug, just in time for release, we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This a post about Ubuntu Karmic Release Parties in Romania.</p>
<p>The wonderful people from <a href="http://www.rosedu.org">ROSEDU</a> have organized  just before the release the third edition of their, by now well known, Ubuntu Install Fest. <a href="http://www.rosedu.org/UbuntuInstallFestv3">More info and pictures on the event page.</a> Below is just a sneak peak.</p>
<p><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/victor.carbune/UbuntuInstallFest#"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-351" title="img_00471" src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/img_00471.jpg" alt="img_00471" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/victor.carbune/UbuntuInstallFest#"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342" title="_img_0040" src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/_img_0040.jpg" alt="_img_0040" width="341" height="512" /></a></p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.arlug.ro">ArLug</a>, just in time for release, we had a great party in Arad. Beside the usual chat and drinks this event was highly connected to the latest online social sensation having a great Upstream.TV live streaming and a presentation on Slidecast&#8230; high-tech! <a href="http://www.arlug.ro/2009/11/poze-beerfest-ubuntu-9-10-release/">More info and pictures on the event page.</a> Below is just a sneak peak.</p>
<p><a href="http://poze.arlug.ro/main.php?g2_itemId=1489"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-345" title="beerfest-ubuntu910-106" src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/beerfest-ubuntu910-106.jpg" alt="beerfest-ubuntu910-106" width="640" height="429" /></a></p>
<p>Next in timeline was the greatest Ubuntu release party we had and all thanks to awesome boys and girls from <a href="http://sblug.ro">SBLug</a>. Kudos to all of you who make this thing happen. After the Ubuntu presentation there was also shown a nice video celebrating 5 years of <a href="http://mozilla.ro/">Firefox</a>. <a href="http://sblug.ro/stiri/ubuntu-release-party/">More info and pictures on the event page.</a> Below is just a sneak peak.</p>
<p><a href="http://poze.sblug.ro/ubuntu_koala_party/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-348" title="dscf1435_595" src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/dscf1435_595.jpg" alt="dscf1435_595" width="595" height="446" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://poze.sblug.ro/ubuntu_koala_party/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-347" title="dscf1451_595" src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/dscf1451_595.jpg" alt="dscf1451_595" width="595" height="446" /></a><br />
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<p>We also had a great event in Târgu-Mureș, organized by <a href="http://www.lug-mures.org">Mureș-Lug</a> and  <a href=" http://educatie.inmures.ro">educatie.inmures.ro</a>. The event was organized as a release party for Ubuntu Karmic but it was not all about Ubuntu. There was also a presentation about <a href="http://mandrivausers.ro/">Mandriva</a> and the <a href="http://mozilla.ro/">Firefox</a> anniversary video. I am very happy to see such a diverse event and a strong collaboration between local free software communities. Kudos to organizers. <a href="http://www.lug-mures.org/2009/11/10/party-de-lansare-ubuntu-karmic-9-10-la-teatru74-ro/">More info and pictures on the event page.</a> Here is a preview.<br />
<a href="http://www.lug-mures.org/gallery/karmic-release-beer-fest/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-344" title="dsc_0009_595" src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/dsc_0009_595.jpg" alt="dsc_0009_595" width="595" height="396" /></a></p>
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		<title>Partidul te vrea prost, tinere!</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/11/05/partidul-te-vrea-prost-tinere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[De zece ani încoace am luat parte atât ca participant, cât și ca spectator la degradarea educației din România.
Despre școala primară și gimnaziu (1990-1998) am doar cuvinte de laudă. Din păcate nu același lucru pot spune despre ultimii ani de liceu și facultate (2000-2007).
O parte din vină o au părinții care vor să își vadă [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>De zece ani încoace am luat parte atât ca participant, cât și ca spectator la degradarea educației din România.</p>
<p>Despre școala primară și gimnaziu (1990-1998) am doar cuvinte de laudă. Din păcate nu același lucru pot spune despre ultimii ani de liceu și facultate (2000-2007).</p>
<p>O parte din vină o au părinții care vor să își vadă copii cât mai degrabă cu o diplomă de licențiat și dau bani pe șpăgi, taxe de admitere și de scolarizare, la tot felul de universițăți purtând tot felul de renume.</p>
<p>Însă principalul vinotat este universitatea și conducerea ei, care din lăcomie a scos examenul de admitere și au crescut fabulos numărul studenților admiși, suplimentând personalul didactic cu tot felul de persoane dubioase.</p>
<p>Am simțit asta pe pielea mea, în clasa a 12, când profesorii din liceu ne dădeau note mari, doar ca să nu ne aibă pe conțiință că nu am fi admiși la o facultate iar în acest astfel ne-am rata viața. Apoi urmează facultatea, unde profesorii trag de tine să te prezinți la examene ca să te poată treacă și nu cumvă să renunți la facultate și să nu le mai plătești taxa.</p>
<p>Povesteam cu tatăl meu despre sistemul de educație din anii 70-80 și am descoperit că și atunci conducătorii noștri controlau nivelul de educație al țării prin limitarea accesului la informație iar educația era îndreptată doar în direcția care le convenea lor.</p>
<p>Cu toate astea nu putem spune că învățământul din România a fost condus de niște tâmpiți. Nimic nu e întâmplător și în fond și la urma urmei, chiar asta s-a vrut. </p>
<p>Deci partidul ne vrea proști, fără educație, în acest fel fiindu-le mult mai ușor să profite de pe urma noastră.</p>
<p>În fond și la urma urmei asta merităm atât timp cât nu suntem în stare să gândim mai departe de ziua de mâine sau considerăm că e bine și așa.</p>
<p>Socialism, capitalism&#8230; nu știu cum putem răzbi, probail va fi nevoie de încă o revoluție.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/1sock/333979587/"><img src="http://adi.roiban.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/333979587_3132877a00.jpg" alt="333979587_3132877a00" title="333979587_3132877a00" width="500" height="385" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335" /></a></p>
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		<title>Internet without borders&#8230; an utopic goal?</title>
		<link>http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/11/03/internet-without-borders-an-utopic-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting to feel we are heading toward an Internet where an e-passport will be required for accessing websites outside our country.
Not being a big user of entertainment websites, it was only recently that I found out that countries borders are starting to take shape over Internet. First was the southpark.de website only available in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m starting to feel we are heading toward an Internet where an e-passport will be required for accessing websites outside our country.</p>
<p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Not being a big user of entertainment websites, it was only recently that I found out that countries borders are starting to take shape over Internet. First was the southpark.de website only available in Germany and then Last.fm radio subscription required for people living outside US, UK and Germany. It looks like there are many other similar video and music streaming websites. I&#8217;m not saying that access should be free of charge. I am OK with a monthly fee, as long as it is required for all users.</span></p>
<p>It is sad to see that such actions come from people living in what we call &#8220;free and democratic&#8221; societies.</p>
<p>I deleted my last.fm account. Feel free to contradict me. I will be happy to discover I am wrong!</p>
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