Much of the fuel that Europeans use will be imported from Brazil, where the Amazon is being burned to plant more sugar and soybeans
The "sugar" part on this statement is pure bullshit. Here is the Amazon Wikipedia article, check the map. Now, here there is a map with the a rough subdivision of the Brazilian hunger sub-regions. Check #2, "Nordeste Açucareiro" (translate roughly as "Sugar producing Northeast"). That's where sugar cane is successfully grown, in the coastal zone. Soybean can be grown in deforested areas, sugar cane cannot. There was a rainforest in that region, and it got deforested to plant sugar cane. You can blame our former masters, the 15th to 18th century portuguese overlords. But quit relaying the "they are killing amazon forest to produce ethanol" bullshit, that's pure FUD.
Hey man, seems like we went to the same schools tho, because I'm also a Brazilian:) Anyway, you may want to read the Helms-Burton Act, passed in 1996 by the U.S. congress, and that mandates, among other things:
* International Sanctions against the Castro Government. Economic embargo, any non-US company that deals economically with Cuba can be subjected to legal action and that company's leadership can be barred from entry into the United States. Sanctions may be applied to non-U.S. companies trading with Cuba. This means that internationally operating companies have to choose between Cuba and the US, which is a much larger market.
IF that is not enough an worldwide embargo, what is?
And I know they teach this on Brazilian schools, so, let's cut the "don't they teach this" thing and move on.
"Unless I'm missing something in translated translation, I looks to me that he is saying their soil is better for food and they won't be doing it."
No, he is saying, although their soil is appropriated for sugar cane (and I add, dutch, spanish and portuguese fought for it in the past exactly because of it), he believes the soil better use is for food, because people is more important that everything else. That's the point of the whole article.
Nothing about the GP's stating he wanted sugar cane used so his crops would be worth more.
GP implied that Fidel's interest on shifting the ethanol production from corn to sugar cane is benefitial to Cuba. Fidel's point is that everything ethanol is bad if land that could be used to produce food is used to produce fuel.
In case your wondering, taking the majority of the competitions product off the market makes your prices go up. It is the free market thing."
Yes. Except that there is no Free Market in Cuba. And that, even if there was, there is this little thing called U.S. mandated worldwide embargo on any Cuban export, so they couldn't benefit from it. Don't they teach those things there on history/geography classes?
It's all funny and ha ha, but cut either the summary is lying or TFA is. Here is the piece that mentions the 3.5 billion number, FTF editorial (in spanish), and he was talking about hunger and thirsty, a much more serious problem in the near future. People like to distort the opposing part statements, but at least have the facts from the original source and judge from yourselves.
Acudo en este caso a una agencia oficial de noticias, fundada en 1945 y generalmente bien informada sobre los problemas económicos y sociales del mundo: la TELAM. Textualmente, dijo:
"Cerca de 2 mil millones de personas habitarán dentro de apenas 18 años en países y regiones donde el agua sea un recuerdo lejano. Dos tercios de la población mundial podrían vivir en lugares donde esa escasez produzca tensiones sociales y económicas de tal magnitud que podrían llevar a los pueblos a guerras por el preciado 'oro azul'.
"Durante los últimos 100 años, el uso del agua ha aumentado a un ritmo más de dos veces superior a la tasa de crecimiento de la población.
"Según las estadísticas del Consejo Mundial del Agua (WWC, por sus siglas en inglés), se estima que para el 2015 el número de habitantes afectados por esta grave situación se eleve a 3 500 millones de personas.
And my (rough) translation:
I'll resort to an official news agency, founded in 1945 and generally well informed about the economic and social problems in the world: the TELAM. Textually, I say:
"About 2 billion people will live, in only 18 years, in countries and regions where water will be a distant memory. Two thirds of the world population may live in places where this scarcity will create social and economic unrest in such magnitude that could lead those people to wars on this precious 'blue gold'".
"From the last 100 years, the use of water has increased in a rate two times superior to the population growth rate.
"According with the World Water Council (WWC), it is estimated that in the year 2015 the number of people affected by this serious situation will increase to 3 500 billion people
Bullshit! Read the fucking editorial, it is in spanish, if you can't read get someone to translate it to you. I quote here:
"(...) independientemente de la excelente tecnología brasileña para producir alcohol, en Cuba el empleo de tal tecnología para la producción directa de alcohol a partir del jugo de caña no constituye más que un sueño o un desvarío de los que se ilusionan con esa idea. En nuestro país, las tierras dedicadas a la producción directa de alcohol pueden ser mucho más útiles en la producción de alimentos para el pueblo y en la protección del medio ambiente."
Translates (roughly) as:
Independently of the excellent Brazilian ethanol production technology, in Cuba the use of such technology to direct production of ethanol from the sugar cane is nothing but a dream or a fantasy from the ones who have illusions with this idea. In our country, the soil dedicated to the direct production of ethanol can be much more useful in the food production for the people and for the protection of the environment.
Sugar cane ethanol is the viable alternative, if you are going to use biomass based fuel. Brazil is doing it since the seventies, it already works on most cars that use gas with little to no modification (Fiat, GM and other auto companies already produces them in quantities there) and it is almost a closed cycle, using barely to no fossil fuel on its production. This (warning, PDF) is a good summary on the benefits of sugar cane ethanol, of course we can wait for hydrogen or whatever is the technology of the future, just like we are waiting since the seventies, but if you want something that already works, sugar cane ethanol is the way to go.
Do you know that the only reason that makes U.S. not to get more ethanol from Brazil is protectionism via subsides and import quotas? Fidel got it right on this one, in order to protect the few (and rich) local corn farmers (not to mention the oil barons), U.S. impedes cheap sugar and ethanol to reach the U.S., artificially increasing the demand of corn for ethanol production, driving corn prices up and, this way, making things harder for poor people on U.S. itself and, indirectly, on Mexico too (thanks Nafta). Check this article and see, it is past the point of speculation and conspiracy theories.
Law of unintended consequences in action here. It could be different. Unfortunately, I'm not a citizen of U.S., so, I'm not part of the democratic process there. But a lot of you are, and only you could make the difference. You can wait for the Tesla electric car all your lives (maybe it will fly too, if you wait time enough) while complaining about dependence on fossil fuels and financing wars on it, or you can make the difference now and take a stand on it.
If only programmers had time enough to evaluate the code they written, and every now and then to refactor some parts. Every coder with a tight schedule will write anything that gets the manager ready-to-production-rubber-stamp and, if it turns out that it has a vulnerability, by the time it gets discovered either it is up to the maintenance team to fix or a new version of the software will already be out, so no fix will be necessary.
I agree. Despite of the fact of AMD market share growing in the past 3 years, the most recent products coming from AMD are headed to beat the AMD ones, unless AMD takes a shift in the current direction and starts to follow AMD example. Nowadays, when I order my processors from my retailer, I always ask for AMD first, and only if the AMD price is significantly lower, I order AMD. I remember back in the days when you could only buy AMD processors, while now you can choose between AMD and AMD (and some other minor producers), isn't competition marvelous?
That can be true, but in the other hand, Mario can kick ass on High and Long Jump. Although he will be most certainly disqualified by doping... errr... shouldn't have eaten that magic mushroom, dude!
Well, I officially suck. Should have read the article beforehand, before to post it here, I misinterpreted it (based on the title). Of course I believe that it is not possible to a closed system to survive doing each others laundry. U.S. is only doing this far because they control the world's supply of currency (dollar). Wasn't it for the dollar, who knows what place would U.S. rank.
Since the eighties, when Japan began to take over U.S. role on technology, and U.S. started to focus more on services, this was something predictable. Sometimes people forget that there is no way to be prosper doing each others laundry
So true. Not only that, but I configured Thunderbird to retrieve email from Gmail POP server, work like a charm for me and my miss. No more slow advertisement before to read my precious email, just one click on "Get" and voilà, it's all there for me.
1st) This is the third (or fourth, I lost the count) article that, albeit well written, touts Citizendium horn even if the final product is still in the vapor state (vaporware), taking advantage of Wikipedia's (well known and well publicized) weaknesses to push their marketing.
2nd) I'm hearing a lot about Citizendium advantages over Wikipedia lately. How come? Why? Can't one create a product without pigbacking in the success of another? This "just like, but better" strategy is despised when it is Microsoft doing (Java vs. C#), when it is NBC doing (their service vs. youtube), etc. When almost everyone is trying to pull such a stunt, why would Citizendium do better with this much talk and almost no walk?
3rd) Is OSTG planning to buy/incorporate Citizendium? Will we have an opinion section for Citizendium just like we have one for Intel?
I, for one, am tired of this. Bring the product to the judgment of the masses, as one wise guy said once, "a little less conversation a little more action".
Coming next: mushrooms and... aw.... it's a snake, it's a snaaaaaake
Borland has died after Borland Delphi 7
on
Delphi For PHP Released
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
When Borland (then Inprise, then Borland again, then Codegear(?) ) stopped making sober RADs and decided to take a chance on expensive toys for code management, they lost in both fronts. The Turbo Series (Pascal, C and Assembler) and Delphi (the odd versions, 1, 3, 5 and 7) seriously competed against Microsoft products (Microsoft C, Assembler, Visual Series), even outselling them in a lot of places in the world (Brazil, for instance).
Two things made Borland wreck their scene: 1) losing their creative minds to Microsoft, specially Anders Hejlsberg, creator of nothing less than Turbo Pascal, Delphi and main architect of C#. 2) losing their focus (from useful RADs to expensive but totally good for nothing "Application Lifecycle Management" (whatever it is).
Had kept the focus and the creative minds, either.Net would not exist (and consequently, stole Borland's thunder) or the Borland tools would be better even than the Microsoft ones on that fronts (Delphi 8 almost got there, initially). Borland died a sad death, and what we see now is nothing but Post Morten flatulence.
If Microsoft was interested in interoperability, they could have it, anytime. They own the platform, for goodness sake, and if they wanted other their framework to work on other O.S., they would do it themselves. Microsoft strategy is not and will never be help to other platforms to run their applications, they prefer people locked in, with no choice. What is the main excuse for Mono? "To help people that are locked in.Net applications to migrate to Linux". (btw, if those people had plans to migrate to Linux, they would not choose.Net in the first place, as the technology is widely known as MS only. It is not as if it was a market standard, it is 6 years old, tops). Microsoft, on other hand, lists.Net as an advantage over "Unix". Why would they give up that advantage? On the goodness of their hearts?
I say it again: if MS wanted a fully functional port of the.Net framework for *nix, they would do it themselves (like the PS3 people ported linux to their console). The truth is that they don't want.
Err... read that people/representative ratio. While it could be good to have 30000 representative for every single person on the country, it would be expensive to buy all those gold plated toilet seats.
Where the elected representative and not the people are the ones that, in the end, make the decision. While it is a surprise that it happens in such a low level in the power hierarchy, it is not like it doesn't happens all the time on Washington. Switzerland has a democracy, it suits better to their needs. America has a republic, used to be good when the representative to people ratio was around 30000, but not anymore.
You can change who is in charge, but they are the ones who will decide for you.
If we did, we could lump all the porn sites together, making them both easier to find and easier to block.
1) Will it be voluntary or mandatory? If it is voluntary, it will not work on principle, because every porn operator out there knows that the so called "blocks" will not be implemented only for children, but for everyone that is under anti-porn zealots internet jurisdiction, even who wouldn't mind to access this kind of content. Just see what happens now, the whole bias the media already has (both ways, liberal and conservative). Imagine it being imposed ISP level too, if you have no choice of ISP and the owner is against porn, he can simply impose his view. Now, if it is mandatory, it could work, but...
2) How will you define porn? Is it sensual posing? Partial nudity? Full frontal nudity? Simulated sexual intercourse (softcore)? Pixelated sexual intercourse? Uncensored sexual intercourse? Is it only for pictures? Movies? Radio podcasts? Will it include foreign porn? Are written stories going to be censored? If so, only the online version or the good old printed book too? How will the foreign ones be translated? And, the most important question: Who will define porn? Who will catalog every internet content and create the blacklist and the whitelist? Who decides what is an acceptable expression of art and what is filthy debauchery?
People have to understand that you cannot both regulate artistic expressions (whatever kind it is) and have free speech at the same time. The judge that stroke down the COPA understood that you cannot deprive the whole society of its liberties in order to protect the children, specially because they will grow and become adults someday, and they will be entitled to those freedoms too, unless we take it away from them. If you are concerned about your children browsing habits, there are already software available out there. There is no reason to legislate everybody to suit to your personal needs.
Some people like to diss EFF here on Slashdot, specially when they don't win some cases, but forget to thank them for the victories that make our lives easier. To show your support and help them to help us all, shell in some cash. The digital world thanks you:)
Slashdot Mirror
Much of the fuel that Europeans use will be imported from Brazil, where the Amazon is being burned to plant more sugar and soybeans
The "sugar" part on this statement is pure bullshit. Here is the Amazon Wikipedia article, check the map. Now, here there is a map with the a rough subdivision of the Brazilian hunger sub-regions. Check #2, "Nordeste Açucareiro" (translate roughly as "Sugar producing Northeast"). That's where sugar cane is successfully grown, in the coastal zone. Soybean can be grown in deforested areas, sugar cane cannot. There was a rainforest in that region, and it got deforested to plant sugar cane. You can blame our former masters, the 15th to 18th century portuguese overlords. But quit relaying the "they are killing amazon forest to produce ethanol" bullshit, that's pure FUD.
Both of you responding me are right, I fucked up the translation, it is 3.500 million people.
Hey man, seems like we went to the same schools tho, because I'm also a Brazilian :) Anyway, you may want to read the Helms-Burton Act, passed in 1996 by the U.S. congress, and that mandates, among other things:
* International Sanctions against the Castro Government. Economic embargo, any non-US company that deals economically with Cuba can be subjected to legal action and that company's leadership can be barred from entry into the United States. Sanctions may be applied to non-U.S. companies trading with Cuba. This means that internationally operating companies have to choose between Cuba and the US, which is a much larger market.
IF that is not enough an worldwide embargo, what is?
And I know they teach this on Brazilian schools, so, let's cut the "don't they teach this" thing and move on.
"Unless I'm missing something in translated translation, I looks to me that he is saying their soil is better for food and they won't be doing it."
No, he is saying, although their soil is appropriated for sugar cane (and I add, dutch, spanish and portuguese fought for it in the past exactly because of it), he believes the soil better use is for food, because people is more important that everything else. That's the point of the whole article.
Nothing about the GP's stating he wanted sugar cane used so his crops would be worth more.
GP implied that Fidel's interest on shifting the ethanol production from corn to sugar cane is benefitial to Cuba. Fidel's point is that everything ethanol is bad if land that could be used to produce food is used to produce fuel.
In case your wondering, taking the majority of the competitions product off the market makes your prices go up. It is the free market thing."
Yes. Except that there is no Free Market in Cuba. And that, even if there was, there is this little thing called U.S. mandated worldwide embargo on any Cuban export, so they couldn't benefit from it. Don't they teach those things there on history/geography classes?
It's all funny and ha ha, but cut either the summary is lying or TFA is. Here is the piece that mentions the 3.5 billion number, FTF editorial (in spanish), and he was talking about hunger and thirsty, a much more serious problem in the near future. People like to distort the opposing part statements, but at least have the facts from the original source and judge from yourselves.
Acudo en este caso a una agencia oficial de noticias, fundada en 1945 y generalmente bien informada sobre los problemas económicos y sociales del mundo: la TELAM. Textualmente, dijo:
"Cerca de 2 mil millones de personas habitarán dentro de apenas 18 años en países y regiones donde el agua sea un recuerdo lejano. Dos tercios de la población mundial podrían vivir en lugares donde esa escasez produzca tensiones sociales y económicas de tal magnitud que podrían llevar a los pueblos a guerras por el preciado 'oro azul'.
"Durante los últimos 100 años, el uso del agua ha aumentado a un ritmo más de dos veces superior a la tasa de crecimiento de la población.
"Según las estadísticas del Consejo Mundial del Agua (WWC, por sus siglas en inglés), se estima que para el 2015 el número de habitantes afectados por esta grave situación se eleve a 3 500 millones de personas.
And my (rough) translation:
I'll resort to an official news agency, founded in 1945 and generally well informed about the economic and social problems in the world: the TELAM. Textually, I say:
"About 2 billion people will live, in only 18 years, in countries and regions where water will be a distant memory. Two thirds of the world population may live in places where this scarcity will create social and economic unrest in such magnitude that could lead those people to wars on this precious 'blue gold'".
"From the last 100 years, the use of water has increased in a rate two times superior to the population growth rate.
"According with the World Water Council (WWC), it is estimated that in the year 2015 the number of people affected by this serious situation will increase to 3 500 billion people
Bullshit! Read the fucking editorial, it is in spanish, if you can't read get someone to translate it to you. I quote here:
"(...) independientemente de la excelente tecnología brasileña para producir alcohol, en Cuba el empleo de tal tecnología para la producción directa de alcohol a partir del jugo de caña no constituye más que un sueño o un desvarío de los que se ilusionan con esa idea. En nuestro país, las tierras dedicadas a la producción directa de alcohol pueden ser mucho más útiles en la producción de alimentos para el pueblo y en la protección del medio ambiente."
Translates (roughly) as:
Independently of the excellent Brazilian ethanol production technology, in Cuba the use of such technology to direct production of ethanol from the sugar cane is nothing but a dream or a fantasy from the ones who have illusions with this idea. In our country, the soil dedicated to the direct production of ethanol can be much more useful in the food production for the people and for the protection of the environment.
So, stop spreading lies and RTF Editorial.
The editorial, straight from cuba.cu website. In spanish, of course, but at least the exact words, without anything lost in translation.
Sugar cane ethanol is the viable alternative, if you are going to use biomass based fuel. Brazil is doing it since the seventies, it already works on most cars that use gas with little to no modification (Fiat, GM and other auto companies already produces them in quantities there) and it is almost a closed cycle, using barely to no fossil fuel on its production. This (warning, PDF) is a good summary on the benefits of sugar cane ethanol, of course we can wait for hydrogen or whatever is the technology of the future, just like we are waiting since the seventies, but if you want something that already works, sugar cane ethanol is the way to go.
Do you know that the only reason that makes U.S. not to get more ethanol from Brazil is protectionism via subsides and import quotas? Fidel got it right on this one, in order to protect the few (and rich) local corn farmers (not to mention the oil barons), U.S. impedes cheap sugar and ethanol to reach the U.S., artificially increasing the demand of corn for ethanol production, driving corn prices up and, this way, making things harder for poor people on U.S. itself and, indirectly, on Mexico too (thanks Nafta). Check this article and see, it is past the point of speculation and conspiracy theories.
Law of unintended consequences in action here. It could be different. Unfortunately, I'm not a citizen of U.S., so, I'm not part of the democratic process there. But a lot of you are, and only you could make the difference. You can wait for the Tesla electric car all your lives (maybe it will fly too, if you wait time enough) while complaining about dependence on fossil fuels and financing wars on it, or you can make the difference now and take a stand on it.
If only programmers had time enough to evaluate the code they written, and every now and then to refactor some parts. Every coder with a tight schedule will write anything that gets the manager ready-to-production-rubber-stamp and, if it turns out that it has a vulnerability, by the time it gets discovered either it is up to the maintenance team to fix or a new version of the software will already be out, so no fix will be necessary.
Big. On schedule. Bugless. Pick 2.
I agree. Despite of the fact of AMD market share growing in the past 3 years, the most recent products coming from AMD are headed to beat the AMD ones, unless AMD takes a shift in the current direction and starts to follow AMD example. Nowadays, when I order my processors from my retailer, I always ask for AMD first, and only if the AMD price is significantly lower, I order AMD. I remember back in the days when you could only buy AMD processors, while now you can choose between AMD and AMD (and some other minor producers), isn't competition marvelous?
From your truly,
Marklar
Did you got the patents? If so, what are the products/patent numbers?
That can be true, but in the other hand, Mario can kick ass on High and Long Jump. Although he will be most certainly disqualified by doping ... errr ... shouldn't have eaten that magic mushroom, dude!
Well, I officially suck. Should have read the article beforehand, before to post it here, I misinterpreted it (based on the title). Of course I believe that it is not possible to a closed system to survive doing each others laundry. U.S. is only doing this far because they control the world's supply of currency (dollar). Wasn't it for the dollar, who knows what place would U.S. rank.
Since the eighties, when Japan began to take over U.S. role on technology, and U.S. started to focus more on services, this was something predictable. Sometimes people forget that there is no way to be prosper doing each others laundry
So true. Not only that, but I configured Thunderbird to retrieve email from Gmail POP server, work like a charm for me and my miss. No more slow advertisement before to read my precious email, just one click on "Get" and voilà, it's all there for me.
Three things:
1st) This is the third (or fourth, I lost the count) article that, albeit well written, touts Citizendium horn even if the final product is still in the vapor state (vaporware), taking advantage of Wikipedia's (well known and well publicized) weaknesses to push their marketing.
2nd) I'm hearing a lot about Citizendium advantages over Wikipedia lately. How come? Why? Can't one create a product without pigbacking in the success of another? This "just like, but better" strategy is despised when it is Microsoft doing (Java vs. C#), when it is NBC doing (their service vs. youtube), etc. When almost everyone is trying to pull such a stunt, why would Citizendium do better with this much talk and almost no walk?
3rd) Is OSTG planning to buy/incorporate Citizendium? Will we have an opinion section for Citizendium just like we have one for Intel?
I, for one, am tired of this. Bring the product to the judgment of the masses, as one wise guy said once, "a little less conversation a little more action".
Coming next: mushrooms and ... aw .... it's a snake, it's a snaaaaaake
When Borland (then Inprise, then Borland again, then Codegear(?) ) stopped making sober RADs and decided to take a chance on expensive toys for code management, they lost in both fronts. The Turbo Series (Pascal, C and Assembler) and Delphi (the odd versions, 1, 3, 5 and 7) seriously competed against Microsoft products (Microsoft C, Assembler, Visual Series), even outselling them in a lot of places in the world (Brazil, for instance).
.Net would not exist (and consequently, stole Borland's thunder) or the Borland tools would be better even than the Microsoft ones on that fronts (Delphi 8 almost got there, initially). Borland died a sad death, and what we see now is nothing but Post Morten flatulence.
Two things made Borland wreck their scene: 1) losing their creative minds to Microsoft, specially Anders Hejlsberg, creator of nothing less than Turbo Pascal, Delphi and main architect of C#. 2) losing their focus (from useful RADs to expensive but totally good for nothing "Application Lifecycle Management" (whatever it is).
Had kept the focus and the creative minds, either
If Microsoft was interested in interoperability, they could have it, anytime. They own the platform, for goodness sake, and if they wanted other their framework to work on other O.S., they would do it themselves. Microsoft strategy is not and will never be help to other platforms to run their applications, they prefer people locked in, with no choice. What is the main excuse for Mono? "To help people that are locked in .Net applications to migrate to Linux". (btw, if those people had plans to migrate to Linux, they would not choose .Net in the first place, as the technology is widely known as MS only. It is not as if it was a market standard, it is 6 years old, tops). Microsoft, on other hand, lists .Net as an advantage over "Unix". Why would they give up that advantage? On the goodness of their hearts?
.Net framework for *nix, they would do it themselves (like the PS3 people ported linux to their console). The truth is that they don't want.
I say it again: if MS wanted a fully functional port of the
Err ... read that people/representative ratio. While it could be good to have 30000 representative for every single person on the country, it would be expensive to buy all those gold plated toilet seats.
Where the elected representative and not the people are the ones that, in the end, make the decision. While it is a surprise that it happens in such a low level in the power hierarchy, it is not like it doesn't happens all the time on Washington. Switzerland has a democracy, it suits better to their needs. America has a republic, used to be good when the representative to people ratio was around 30000, but not anymore.
You can change who is in charge, but they are the ones who will decide for you.
If we did, we could lump all the porn sites together, making them both easier to find and easier to block.
...
1) Will it be voluntary or mandatory? If it is voluntary, it will not work on principle, because every porn operator out there knows that the so called "blocks" will not be implemented only for children, but for everyone that is under anti-porn zealots internet jurisdiction, even who wouldn't mind to access this kind of content. Just see what happens now, the whole bias the media already has (both ways, liberal and conservative). Imagine it being imposed ISP level too, if you have no choice of ISP and the owner is against porn, he can simply impose his view. Now, if it is mandatory, it could work, but
2) How will you define porn? Is it sensual posing? Partial nudity? Full frontal nudity? Simulated sexual intercourse (softcore)? Pixelated sexual intercourse? Uncensored sexual intercourse? Is it only for pictures? Movies? Radio podcasts? Will it include foreign porn? Are written stories going to be censored? If so, only the online version or the good old printed book too? How will the foreign ones be translated? And, the most important question: Who will define porn? Who will catalog every internet content and create the blacklist and the whitelist? Who decides what is an acceptable expression of art and what is filthy debauchery?
People have to understand that you cannot both regulate artistic expressions (whatever kind it is) and have free speech at the same time. The judge that stroke down the COPA understood that you cannot deprive the whole society of its liberties in order to protect the children, specially because they will grow and become adults someday, and they will be entitled to those freedoms too, unless we take it away from them. If you are concerned about your children browsing habits, there are already software available out there. There is no reason to legislate everybody to suit to your personal needs.
I would go for Carmageddon, the father of all gore car games :D
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
Doing nothing. That may be the case of a lot of people, but certainly not the case of EFF, they fight hard for what they believe.
Some people like to diss EFF here on Slashdot, specially when they don't win some cases, but forget to thank them for the victories that make our lives easier. To show your support and help them to help us all, shell in some cash. The digital world thanks you :)