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Is happening.

You can start here:

http://grupocienciascriminais....

And then go from there. There is even the number of the investigation.

It depends on the kind of app. For GUI and web, it just fine. For high end computation of course native code will outperform. See http://beautynbits.blogspot.co...

The press started working for the government. Not sure when, but the media merged with the government at least during the Iraq invasion. They were all instrumental in starting the war. Once it got going, they fired anyone who dared question whether the war was a good idea.

The white house press corp pretty clearly works for the white house. They take the propaganda verbatim and publish it.

I think that mindset explains why the government thinks media leak legislation is appropriate. They see their employees as misbehaving. For that matter, the media masters are probably accepting it in exchange for goodies. "Tell you what, Obama, we'll accept more muzzling of our reporters. That will go for these online news source up and comers double, right? And you won't have a problem with Rupert Murdoch/whoever taking a complete monopoly over all news, right? He's promised us new mansions."

This doesn't bode well for any sense of social psychology they might have.

For example, here's a good discussion of some the adverse effects surveillance has on society: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/why-privacy-power-of-mind-over-mind.html?m=1

:then justify in some way the existence of both the cosmic microwave background,

Not taking too long on replying this - I am am AC, of course - :-) - but there is a lto of material on the Electric Universe theory, adn when one goes tdeeepr it is easy to find out that what failed to preview the "cosmic microwave background" is the current dominat theory that it is due to the big bang. Actually - what has been detected is wrong by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude - in some derivative measurements - compared to what was previewed under teh big bang theory. And it was considered a prevision. Under the E.U. there are enough hipothesis for C.M.B. - I don't care if any of them is conclusive - what is conclusive enoguh for me is the not needing of dark matter to hold galaxies togethers, and no fairy tales on commets being Ice balls from outer-solar system - just plain asteroids with a different electric charge than the surrounding space region due to the accentuated orbit.

As for the CMB - for example, check here: http://dealingwithcreationisminastronomy.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/electric-universe-peer-review-exercies.html

Greenwald was actually pretty libertarian/non political, but as a constitutional law litigator, he got sick of what he felt were a series of abuses by the prior and then current administration post 9/11.

I'd go more for "non-political" than "libertarian", based on his preface to "How Would A Patriot Act".

As for Greenwald's current political views, see his Frequently Told Lies" blog post, where he explicitly answers claims that he's a "right-wing libertarian" with some pretty good indications that he's not one (I suspect few "right-wing libertarians" would strongly advocate a "public option" for health insurance, for example).

The truth is that most whistleblowers are generally conservative.

"Conservative", or libertarian? "Conservative" is used in multiple different ways, few if any of which are equivalent to libertarian.

I used to be a Christian. I stopped at thought about it when I met other Christians who believed that crap - and came to the only rational conclusion when thinking about gods - there aren't any.

That's a bit silly. There are idiots in all fields of life. Just because you happened to be exposed to idiot Christians (hence idiot Christianity), or, for that matter, idiot Muslims/Islam, Jews/Judaism, Buddhists/Buddhism etc., it doesn't imply that either of those things themselves are idiotic, only that they have idiotic elements within them. That can be generalized to Theism as a whole: while there are clearly silly concepts of gods, there are some very clever ones that avoid all the typical attacks made against the former, and whose defenders/followers actually join the Atheist in attacking the former. The problem I see then is that Atheists and silly-theists both look at the question as if it had only two camps, when actually it has at least three.

An excellent example of the 3rd camp, which names itself "classical theism" (as opposed to the modern or non-classical variety which Atheists usually battle against) is Edward Feser's blog. It is a good starting point for one to see that in this, as in everything else, the world isn't structured in black and white, and not even in mere shades of gray, as the more sophisticated two-camp actors would like to think, but actually has many colors, and shades between all of them.

I apologize for (indirectly) criticizing inflation. I guess my anger blinded me to the fact that Alan Guth was among the winners, precisely for his work in inflation.

But as for SUSY, I disagree with you. To completely rule out a theory is very very hard (a "definitive" test of Bell's inequalities is still not done even today, and some more exotic models of hidden variables will never be ruled out). I think the experimental community agrees that "reasonable" SUSY has already been ruled out. See what Résonaances has to say about it. Tommaso Dorigo is already collecting bets on the failure of the LHC to deviate from the Standard Model. Peter Woit is, as usual, full of skepticism.

The particular link you sent me was written before the Higgs announcement, and even it admits that a 125 GeV Higgs creates serious problems for SUSY.

So, yes, I am of the strong opinion that SUSY -- as we know it -- is dead. Perhaps some of its offspring can survive and get some experimental evidence, perhaps something completely new will replace it. I don't know. But SUSY is no more.

Does not looks bad for me (but granted, eating this every day sucks).

Try eating this everyday however: http://bocalivre2009.blogspot.com.br/2010/08/urucuca-merenda-escolar-na-rota-da.html

(It's a whistler blow about lunch on one Brazil's state school in the country).