MONEY ROAD coffee temptation

MONEY ROAD coffee temptation

Jun 1, 2025 | WHO CARES

Money Road coffee temptation = 150 euro

We chatted about the price of coffee, dwelling on the more or less significant price increases.

We commented on the gold leaf coffee served in Dubai.

Now apparently coffee is a rather expensive temptation.

Have you had a chance to follow the new Money Road TV show?

I actually watched it by chance as a rerun was being broadcast on free-to-air channel, let’s say, not exactly prime time.

I found it interesting because some time ago I had responded to a survey on a shortlist of names for a new format.

I have already told you that I participate in polls and tests and well without divulging the details, the TV show was Sky’s latest product on temptation.

Twelve people have to go on a rather extreme and spartan trek through the jungle to win a group jackpot, but along the way they encounter very expensive temptations whose price is paid by everyone.

One of these temptations is coffee!

Sure, coffee in the jungle is comparable to a mirage, but would you accept to pay 150 euros for it with the money you share with eleven other people?

Temptation or sacrifice, communion or selfishness, sharing or prevarication?

How important can a coffee be?

Obviously this question is a provocation, and obviously also the casting of the participants was done in such a way as to represent a cross-section of the uneven mass that represents people today.

Anyone could then recognise the similar gender to some of their colleagues, or see the type that reflects a certain slice of the neighbourhood.

Do you think we can transpose the jungle, the group, the temptations into an unvarnished and perhaps even banal metaphor?

How do you relate to other people?

Would you give in to coffee temptation?

WHEN THE SURPRISE IS BITTER

WHEN THE SURPRISE IS BITTER

Feb 7, 2020 | TECHNOLOGY, WORLD

Sometimes it is nice to be able to say “ah but someone is still there!” … it’s like a breath, like a proof that hope really dies last, even if the cases of people countercurrent are like rainbows: rare.
So, I suppose that despite the fact they don’t have easy names, I will remember the French lawyers who prepared a lawsuit against EA Sport by equating the FUT mode of the FIFA video game with gambling.
A system very often illusory has been developed with the high risk of creating addiction, which pushes players, generally very young, to spend real money, to buy packages with random content that should contain rare and important players, or options to improve game results: the FUT Fifa Ultimate Team mode.
In fact, a loot box, that is, a virtual consumer object, and not a “surprise” comparable to those of eggs to be clear, as claimed by the company already convened before the United Kingdom Gambling Commission.
So esteem and solidarity with the lawyers, with the hope that they can represent a sort of forerunner for further dutiful cases against other giants that make good and bad weather in various areas.
Also the fact that teenagers profiles are hacked speaks volumes about how much what is acquired within the game has taken on a value that borders on the virtual.
Anyway not even this aspect seems to worry the EA.
Being able to make contact, and to obtain concrete help from customer support, is a challenge as difficult as being able to find the same precious players that some youtubers can easily show off.
So, in spite of the fact that it is theft, in addition to the damage there is the mockery of not being able to play anymore, because nobody cares to protect the legitimate owner of the profile.
Perhaps it would be appropriate to specify that the “surprise” in many cases turns out to be bitter …

TV YIN OR TV YANG?

TV YIN OR TV YANG?

Feb 3, 2020 | ITALY, TECHNOLOGY, TROUBLES AND BLOWS

According to the idea that we always should separate into two opposing factions, in Italy it seems to be back to the times of Guelfi and Ghibellini. If you are not on one side, it must mean that you are on the other, (and I wonder WHY), also TV’s are apparently dividing the roles … yes, I know, I’m talking about “dated” devices for the current average duration, even if in reality they aren’t that old.
So at home for example on a TV Mediaset channels are still visible but no longer La7 and others, and vice versa.
From 1st January 2020 DTT channels (digital terrestrial) are going to abandon the current MPEG-2 encoding standard to switch to MPEG-4 which is currently provided by HD channels i.e. in high definition.
But this will only be the first phase: the final transition will end by 2022 and involves the passage to new transmission technologies such as HEVC “High efficiency video coding” which offers better data compression, or DVB-T2 “Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial Second Generation ”or regulated to bring the HDTV signal on digital terrestrial.
Why all this?
Because the frequencies which we are using at present must be left free for the 5G network, therefore for mobile communication, ensuring a high connection speed for mobile phones.
What about disabled TVs? We will need a decoder. Again
At this point the question: does television still offer a useful and adequate service?
The programs that do not take sides neither with the Guelphs nor with the Ghibellines to be clear, the serious programs, the programs that make culture or even entertainment that is not the famous “copy of a thousand summaries” are perhaps used on the fingers of one hand .
Considering we already have to pay a tenancy tax by continuing to call it a fee, which is stuck in electricity bills, is it really worth spending more money?
The way we are used to advertise, and I’m not just talking about advertising, honestly, doesn’t it have to be them paying us?

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