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Neminem pecunia divitem fecit.

Nobody has ever gotten rich through money.

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A computer lament

In Southest Europe, wich is enphemism for ”Balkan”, many things were consired to be the remains of a civil spirit. During the sixties and seventies, most parent were secretly bringing up their children in that way. Riding a bicycle and setting up a new TV antena were secret skills at the time. Additional and especially appreciated skill was swimming, wich they woud learn during regular union holidays an the Adriatic coast, but also a driving test and buying a domestic car, popularly called “fico”. There were nmany variation of those “special skkils”, but children ended up at a higer level then their parents. Public successes were acomploshment of “petoljetka”, brotherhood and unity, or some basketball achivement.

Public and secretly they all had extraordinary inteligent children.

They all wanted that thier children learn english, attend piano and ballet lessons, baut they would rather choose swimming inslead of ballet, Given that it was a socialistic province, ffencing and riding teachers existing only in fairy tales and memories.

At the begining of the eighties, the man subject at hairdressers were children wit excelent computer and hack skills. At the time, computers were considered to be some boxes full of space sounds, used only for fun, but parents didn’t know. Anyway, rarly do parents recogniye when children do something for pleasure.

But, at the end of eighties, the main wishes of the parents were that ther children learn english, playing tennis and now to use computwers. But, actually, they only learn what a “tie break” is, a few stanyas of “House of the rising soon”, and play “tetris” without hands.

Then happrnd what had to happen, and parents wishes were different in the ninties, they just wanted then to stay alive and of course to learn english.

Now, when we surivived all that, parents want from their children to learn english, to have exelent computer skills and to leave this country, but they also want them to come back.

Parents are not sure if it is clever, but children are clever, they will know. Perhaps. Unless they stimulate their parents.

- from a book “Racunarski sveznadar” - ”Omniscient computer” by Mihaljisin Miroslav -