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Yesterday I've made a subscription to Hacker Monthly for the first time :)
The selected news (they're the most-voted articles found on hacker news) seem very interesting, but unluckily on my Cybook Odyssey there is a bad rendering of 80% of images.
I definitely agree with you. There are some pages written better than more "real" encyclopedias would do. Ok, other pages could be made better, but the most part of "arguments" have been already treated.
Not asking questions may also mean that we're losing our contact with teachers (in this case specifically), not meant as those trying to teach you how to do something, but as people who can teach something that's not written inside a book.
You're right.
Some people don't understand the importance of Mafia in all the world - maybe 100 years ago it was limited to Italy, then it moved to USA, to East-Europe and so on, but mass-media still say it's limited to Italy. Ok, keep on living in the wonderland, I can't say any more..
They're "using" what they've earned in decades of selling drugs, prostitution and so on. Now they're honest employers recycling money. That's it.
I suggest you to read some books from Salvatore Lupo (Giovanni Falcone's "Cose di Cosa Nostra" too is a good introduction, ...), an Italian historian, whose activity is centered to study mafia and its origins.