Phillip de Franco ngejek UU ITE Indonesia

Gue akhir2 ini banyak nonton acara phillip de franco…selain acaranya aneh banget…orangnya ngomong cepet banget…tapi acaranya yang selama 4 menit itu jadi informatif banget…dan menarik banget…

Well….acaranya kebanyakan nyela orang dan ngomongin artis…yang gue sama sekali gak ngerti…tapi jadi ngerti kalo ditonton…

Hari ini acaranya kocak banget…
Dia ngeledek UU ITE di Indonesia…
Dia ngebandinginnya bahwa di amerika ada First Amandement bahwa kebijakan untuk berbicara itu dimiliki oleh seluruh warga negara amerika…
Sedang di Indonesia orang bisa masuk penjara selama 45 hari karena ngeledek orang lain di facebook…(oh well, welcome sarcasme)…

Excitement of Fear

She is sophie…

Shots taken in Mikie Holiday, Brastagi, North Sumatera

Akerlof Lemons Part 2

Hari ini ada pertanyaan dari pembaca blog ini…glad someone actually reading this blog…

Question:
Arini (Today at 10:00pm)

Numpang nanya nih. tadi baru aja googling tentang market for lemmons. nah ketemu deh blognya mas Zhar. tapi saya kurang begitu paham tentang hal tersebut. apa market for lemmons di aplikasikan ke hal-hal lain selain jual beli mobil?
makasih sebelumnya loh mas.

Answer:
He3…glad some people read my random rant on the net…

Hm..bukannya aku baru aja nyontohinnya di perkawinan ya di blog itu?…

Basically akerlof lemon itu emang ngebahas banyak tentang asuransi dan mobil…segala sesuatu yang ngebuat seseorang bisa untung karena memiliki insider information dan membuat sebagian besar market memikirkan average dari kualitas sehingga menghancurkan market tersebut pada akhirnya…

Misal…
Jika pria perjaka hanya menginginkan untuk mendapatkan wanita perawan…pada kondisi ideal maka pria akan menjaga keperjakaannya…dengan harapan mendapatkan wanita yang perawan…

Namun keperawanan perempuan tidak dapat diketahui jika tidak menikah…

Sehingga asymmetric information karena tidak ada kesamaan informasi antara pria dan wanita terhadap keperawanan perempuan (siapa yang bakal pernah tau sih kalo gak beneran married)

Waktu berjalan…Dan pria tahu bahwa secara statistik dua dari tiga wanita tidak perawan (kasus mahasiswa jogja)…maka pria perjaka tidak lagi mengharapkan wanita jogja (harga turun) atau menjadi tidak perjaka dan menikmati banyak wanita

Dan wanita jogja yang perawan tidak akan kawin karena tidak mendapatkan pria yang perjaka…unless mereka melepas keperawanannya (turun harga)…

Akerlof lebih membahas kegagalan pasar yang ngebuat market tidak lagi seksi karena asumsi2 yang dibuat di market…agak2 game theory gitu sih sebenernya…

Intinya si akerlof mau ngebahas gimana akhirnya terdapat no-trade equilibrium…tidak terjadinya perdagangan karena si perjaka takut mendapatkan wanita tidak perawan…atau kualitas barang yang gak bagus…(Is it why people are less getting married in western country?)

Ada lho hukum lemon di US…mobil yang dianggap lemon dapat dikembalikan ke penjual jika pembeli menemukan mobil mengalami kerusakan yang sama secara berturut2…sayang di indonesia gak ada…

Jadinya seller terpaksa menjual second market carnya dengan harga rendah ke mobil88 meskipun mobil tersebut berkualitas bagus…

Faktanya mobil88 dua kali ngebeli mobil saya dan dua kali tidak melakukan pengecheckan yang perlu…mereka mengeluarkan harga dan sifatnya take it or leave it…dengan kata lain mereka tahu rata2 cost dari ngebenerin mobil lama…dan gak peduli apakah mobil itu bener baik atau gak…

Hope this could answer your couriousity…

Tak Bergeming

Tak Bergeming.

Trial with very slow shutter

This photo is taken with shutter 30 seconds.

Brothers & Sisters

Brothers & Sisters is the Three of many dome of Great Mosque (Mesjid Raya) Medan

Taken in Masjid Raya (Great Mosque) Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia.

Letih

Letih is the more poetic form of tired and exhausted in Indonesia.

Letih would means exhaustion after a work hard over something good.

Photo Taken in Masjid Raya (Great Mosque) Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia

Panutan

I can’t find the perfect word for panutan in english words…

Panutan is an Indonesian word that means to idolized someone because of your respect…to modelize someone senior, usually one of your family member…

Taken in Percut River, North sumatera, Indonesia

Frame, Crop and BW edit with Photoshop CS3

Surviving

This is some brackish water conch I’ve Found…with lots of eyes-look-alike sea thingy on it shell…

I sounded stupid…but it looks so fascinating…

Founded in some brackish water on the percut river, North Sumatera, Indonesia….

Work is Play

He have to dropped out school to help his brother operate their fisherman ships…

To him…Work is Play…

Taken in Percut River, North Sumatera, Indonesia

Edited heavily using Photoshop Lightroom for HDR look alike and Photoshop CS3 for bi-filter and frame…

Wild Goose Chase

Wild Goose Chase is actually a photomerge of two photo panning of the same White Egret

Photo Taken Percut River, North Sumatera, Indonesia

Better view of picture can be found here

http://an006.deviantart.com

End is Near

River rock ends in this place

Taken in the Estuary of Percut River, North Sumatera, Indonesia

With Bigger Screen Comes Bigger Responsibilities: iPad Negative Review

Yes, the new Apple self-claimed revolutionary device is announced yesterday….

The Apple iPad…

iPad starts as rumors (previously called iSlate or iTablet) that apple will launch a new device which is by concept the revolutionary Tablet device….no-one has ever been able to create such device that good…when hope of all mankind is lost apple start such rumors on creating the computer tablet….

We all (apple freak) are expecting the tablet to be working on Mac OS X (custom version)…it would work as complimentary pen mouse to other mac-line…it would have portable projector so it would be a revolutionary device for presentation….basically we all really want a revolutionary new device such as smartbook in tablet look alike gadget…

Apple Claims it to be revolutionary yet it is not as what we hopes it to be! (Reality Check)

This iPad is only the greater version of amazon’s kindle but the far much more stupid version of tablet PC or netbook. The iPad works on iPhone OS 3.2…So basically it is only the bigger version of iPod Touch or iPhone for that mattters…

Here’s are the Negative of iPad

1. It is basically a bigger version of iPhone or iPod Touch nothing else.

2. The OS cannot do multi tasking application. So you can’t hear music and write. You can’t do keynote and do numbers while googling and chatting. The iPhone OS is pretty dumb for a tablet PC!

3. No Camera so you can’t do any webcam chat

4. The Brand? They already start to mock the brand on youtube. iSlate or iTablet sounded far much better than the iPad that sounded like the iPod.

5. The Lack of port standards such as firewire, USB or even memory slots. and the adapter for this iPad is quite big.

6. Not a hi-def resolution. So watching on iPad is not as good as it to be on the commercial.

7. And it Doesn’t have flash in it. So it is not going to be, quote-by-quote from the steve jobs word, “It is the best browsing experience you’ve ever had”…

Usually, in apple launch we hear a lot of hand claps..this launching everyone just staring blankly everytime steve jobs says amazing after he shows the products…..(You are amazed steve…we are not!)

So there you have it.

Update 1:

This is really funny

Alone

HDR Picture, filtered with moss colour.

Shots taken in Percut River Bay, North Sumatera, Indonesia.

I Will Live Another Day

This Old Beggar try to survive another day from the food that pedestrian gave..

This picture is taken in Kesawan Street.

An Old District in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia.

Great White Egret (Ardea Alba)

Great White Egret (Ardea Alba) is actually a common egret

Shots taken in Percut River, North Sumatera, Indonesia