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Posted: 14:53 09/05/2008
That bookstore was a ripoff, with prices almost double of those in non-tourist bookstores elsewhere in Prague.
The clientele were not people looking for intelligent reading, but people looking to escape the rain and wait for their tour group to meet under the Madonna.
Good Riddance.

Posted: 14:44 09/05/2008
Sad and true.

Posted: 12:38 09/05/2008
I am surprised that thee is no mention of street advertising, the banners over Sokolska, every lamp post promoting a venue and let's not forget the never ending ads for Darling et al. This town is for sale to the highest bidder.

Posted: 14:38 09/05/2008
If this is an opinion piece please mark it as such. Otherwise, please remove all the comments which demonstrates the writer's obvious bias. I am not interested in his personal opinions.
(Editor's note: The piece is labeled "Reporter's Notebook" to allow commentary.)

Posted: 12:25 09/05/2008
The Panthers upcoming game this Sunday with the Danube Dragons will be the biggest American Football game played in the Czech Republic for years! For more info on the game go here:

http://www.americanfootball.cz

Posted: 09:07 09/05/2008
All the talk of the A line extension to the airport is, in my opinion, insane.
The route the trains will take won't shave much off the current Metro to Dejvicka/119 method.
The sensible thing to do would be to use the existing train line that runs from Mazarykovo Nadrazi to Ruzyne village and skirts the southern edge of the airport instead - a short tunnel beneath the airport would allow a much neater and cheaper solution to the getting to/from the airport problem.

Posted: 04:15 09/05/2008
I am thinking about buying this folding eagle claw bayonet knife from this Web site.
I would like to know if anyone has heard of this company before or seen this knife before.
The knife looks like it is made very well but I would like to find someone who may already have it to tell me more about it. I would also like to know how to find out if this LDU Company is trustworthy.
If anyone has bought them before please let me know.

Posted: 23:33 08/05/2008
I suspect that Philip Haskett is a little confused. According to his own government the radar base is supposed to prevent missiles from North Korea and Iran (of all places). At no point has there been any suggestion of these missiles coming from Russia.

In any case, the radar base is a complete nonsense since there is no country in the world which has any interest in attacking our country. The missile bases, of courst will change that, and make us a target.

Disgracefully, the Prague Post has made no attempt to determine the true function of these bases.

Posted: 23:28 08/05/2008
The gentleman from Houston seems to believe that the phrase "in the west" means "having American troops on your soil".

I wonder how he would feel if his country had foreign military bases in it.

Posted: 14:14 08/05/2008
It appears the Russian fifth column shills were unsuccessful in preventing the Czech Republic from joining the west. Bravo!

Posted: 20:50 08/05/2008
>> the ministry could strengthen periodic motor vehicle inspections to sort out those cars that do not conform to regulations governing safety and emissions.

They could also stop taking bribes, and actually examine the vehicles before giving out (or rather, selling) a certificate.

Posted: 18:03 08/05/2008
Let's hope that some of this IT work trickles down to Barclay's poor, long-suffering customers. The company's Internet banking facility is unintuitive, a nightmare to install and appears to have been created by a student in his spare time. It lacks all but the most basic and obvious features. Customer support is painful.

Rather than setting up "cutting-edge, front-office trading functions" Barclay's needs to find somebody who can create a simple Web site.
A few hints:

Don't use Active X: not everyone has or wants to use Internet Explorer. Amazing as it may seem, not everybody even uses Windows.

If you insist on using Active X, at least tell your customers, so they don't waste hours trying to get the system to work with Firefox.

Or: find somebody who understands how to use AJAX and do the job properly.

Let your users see more than the last three months' of transactions: ask around for 1,000 Kč to buy a new hard drive if you can't store all the data.

Look at a company that has done the job properly and copy them. Or maybe ask your poor wretched customers what *they* need.

Organize your menus logically, rather than at random.

Try not to create five steps when one would do the job better.

Read a book on basic Web site design.

Perhaps moving to Prague will get Barclay's IT "skills" up to a more acceptable level.

Posted: 17:51 08/05/2008
>>Microsoft has performed checks on more than 4.5 million computers in the Czech Republic... The company says this helped to reduce software piracy in the country 1 percent last year.

They checked virtually every computer in the country and only 1 percent of the owners decided to pay up? It sounds as though their system for checking piracy is even more of a farce than Vista itself.

Posted: 02:15 08/05/2008
Ms. Winston confuses argument with opinion. The former is an interpretation of facts, while the latter does not require facts, and is all any of her comments ever consist of. Moreover, her repeated attacks on the US undermine her ability to persuade anyone that she is anything but an "America Basher" who accepts any excuse to engage in her favorite pastime.

Posted: 18:50 06/05/2008
What would you call any person who joined the political party of a foreign power that invaded and occupied your country for 50 years?
They call people like that traitors.
The Czech communists are exactly that, traitors to their own country. If they want to be communists and puppets of the Russians, they only need to move to Russia.
Otherwise, they belong on trial for trying to overthrow their elected constitutional government and promoting Russia's political agenda in the Czech Republic.

Posted: 11:02 07/05/2008
Really excellent article! I hope someone will take notice of the content where it matters.

Posted: 05:47 07/05/2008
I believe it's a fair assumption that those who still support the genocidal Communists are on par with the Neo-Nazi skinheads. They should march together hand in hand, like Stalin and Ribbentrop. No matter how much some people try to whitewash that evil tyranny that enslaved, impoverished and dehumanized half of Europe the naked truth now have come to light.
Yes, the memories of the nameless victims of Communism should be immortalized for the future and present generation.

Posted: 00:43 07/05/2008
To whom it may concern:
As a former resident of Prague in 2004 and 2005, and currently the director of a very well established contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico ( the second largest art market in the United States with over 300 galleries) I have to say that many of us in arts organizations around the world who are observing (and discussing!) the current threat to the non-profit arts establishment in Prague find the situation deplorable. Prague has enormous potential for becoming THE Art Center of Europe in the future, for so many practical reasons, including its central location for bridging the cultures of Central(Eastern) Europe with Western Europe, the fact that it is widely recognized as the MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE WORLD, and the powerful cultural traditions of theater, music, and the visual arts that have drawn so many sophisticated visitors from around the world.

Coming from Santa Fe, a city recognized by UNESCO for its leadership in the arts, I can safely say that without our many non-profit cultural institutions that are knit into the fabric of our collective artistic identity, there is no way that the multitude of highly profitable commercial enterprises would be able to exist.
Commercial theaters and other commercial art enterprises in Prague would be wise to heed a warning that their attempts to control market share by undercutting non-profits will only result in diminishing their own market substantially.
These two entities must find ways to work together, and there is plenty of common ground.
The solution lies in creating alliances between non-profit and commercial interests. Simply by placing members onto the boards of each respective entity, these alliances can and will evolve into mutually beneficial relationships that will then spread into larger cultural circles.
A cultural advisory board is only a small start. The city of Prague itself will suffer enormous revenue losses if it does not act responsibly in the interest of the vast arts interests it stands to alienate. Milan Richter could have used this opportunity to form alliances, but instead he demonstrated a complete lack of authority and leadership. He should either step down, or be defenestrated.

( P.S. Would someone please translate this letter for me and send it to the proper authorities at city hall! Thank You! )

Sincerely,
Joseph Morris

Posted: 18:39 06/05/2008
I must admit to being in a bit of a moral dilemma concerning the upcoming Lisbon Treaty vote here. On the one hand, I would like to see a Europe without borders, petty nationalities and tribalisms but I feel the EU will never be truly representative of its citizens until its parliament is truly elected by all of Europe's people.
I am not convinced we are heading in that direction with this treaty.

Posted: 16:41 06/05/2008
Unfortunately this survey limited itself to work issues. In the home Czech women have more than enough self-esteem, and often boss their husbands about.

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