Yeah, many students from south Italy move out to go study in another (better) University. It's the locals that don't have any incentive to do so, after all who in his/her right mind would pay 500EUR for a bed (just a bed) in an overcrowded apartment if they could avoid that. The problem in Italy is that social security for the older generations couldn't be cut so what the right wing establishment did was simply to cut back on the younger. Left without decent opportunities they ended up staying on family budget, effectively reducing social spending across all generations. By cutting back I'm not referring only to subsidy cheques but also to indirect damages inflicted upon them: a good part of the right constituency in Italy are professionals. These people often employ younger people on perpetually temp contracts or outright illegally, and are rich enough to own homes that are put for rent at exorbitant prices. A State that cared for all its citizens would repress and discourage these abuses but nothing has been done in the past 20 years. People are starting to call it "generational warfare"

Well, the reason is in your answer, "... as soon as we find a job..." which in many parts of Italy can often mean "never". I'm living in NL now and for what I can see, dutch kids are encouraged to move out by means of lavish (by IT standards) subsidies and a fairly inclusive and accessible job market. I'm pretty sure many Italians would be more than happy to carry their affairs away from their parents' home, if only they could...

LOL +1

Here's your awesomeness car sir... what a perfect synthesis.

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It's either a bad, bad, bad astroturf and brand crapfest or I just saw it pass by in a woosh: a generation of geeks replaced by one of geeky consumers. I am sitting in between, and I don't know who's the saddest of the lot :(

... and the language! oh boy, "experience" what is that, for $deity's sake...

that's why I consider keyboards and mice like underwear... very inconvenient to touch and share

I wonder if it ever really HAD to be a PC world in the first place. In the '80 and before that, the imaginarium was abundant with wristwatch computers, tricoerders, speaking and sentient machines, robots...
It became a "PC world" the moment wintel's suffocating embrace made everyone believe in the "end of history". It didn't happen, they're just realizing that... the bozos

You don't understand, what is going to become of all the contractors and tenders paid with the taxpayers' money? Have you thought about that, you insensitive clod!? It's the wrong commission that is going after Google; it shouldn't be the one for Privacy and Freedom but the one for Competition ;)

Listen guys, privacy is toast anyway... if anything Google is making us acknowledge this and move along.

Hats off. These days it's rather difficult to find reasonable, competent and professional people in the field; therefore I won't pass this occasion for a well deserved praise.
Definitely good advice, there would be so much more unnecessary stress and emotion if this attitude was more widespread.

+1

Heil Hitler then...

There's a setting for that: System Preferences > Personal > General | Show scroll bars : Always
Indeed it is annoying but you can change it...

Quick let's found a new startup! I have a name: "carify"
No? Doesn't it sound good?! No, wait a minute, don't just walk away like that... hey!

I used to work on an online product support team... ha, ha what a travesty. The foreman used to - among other things - bash me for "typing too slow" and "thinking too much" over my replies when the other team members were swiftly and productively typing away at our customers.

Oh yeah, pity that those touch typing heroes were constantly hitting the del key... metric morons.

In life, you get what you ask for... if not worse

send him a crate of beer ;)