Sorry, memory playing tricks, world trade is worth some 200 billion USD, of which at least 60% flows through Brazil, although Brazilians get a very small share, the potential for transportation price adjustments are off the scale.
Frankly, if you consider people's hysteria in regard to criminals "taking over" or their plans to take over Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, the Police death squads have been quite tame in recent years. I'm just pointing out a upwards of 1 trillion USD(Based on world consumption of 600,000+ kilos) coke trade flows through Brazil to the rest of the world, although statistically none of it is grown in Brazil. Sure, police doing what they learned during the military dictatorship in order to make their jobs relatively tenable is atrocious, Brazilian government should just legalize coke, but of course you may choose to stand on your soap box and enumerate the benefits of stopping the drug trade, how it should be done, and berate the police for not being composed of stoical suicidal saints, but surely you won't mind me pointing out the insanity of your logic.
Well, certainly you didn't think all that coke that flows through Brazil to USA and Europe was "duty free", did you? Political assassinations in Brazil are a thing from the past, from when Brazil was a "close" ally with the USA.
Bambi eyed indoctrinates need no reason, discussion is outside programming parameters, which, by the way, is beside the point, if you "need"(psychologically) to leave, you should leave, an epic struggle with yourself should never be taken lightly.
Have you tried either either Australia or Canada? Sure, it's not as flashy as say, San Francisco, but due to their minuscule demographic density, they're much more receptive to taking in strays. To my knowledge, US identities are a breeze to forge, and accents are just a fact of life in the US, don't let strict VISA rules keep you oppressed in unholy backwaters.
If the US loses the Brazilian presidential elections this year, we(Brazilians) will be in world of shit. I have already seen a few minor US news articles in which Brazil is is honored with the hip tag "enemy state", and grouped with Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Iran and Libya. It should be interesting observing a "crisis of democracy" first hand, notice how government had to contest to audit the Brazilian voting machines a while ago.
Funny, aren't the copyright freaks the same people who advocate Corporate efficiency? Except the FBI kicking down your door for copyright infringement is, surprisingly, even more American than being sued out of existence.
I for one believe there's no excuse for the FBI having a sizable enough DNA backlog, that it becomes news, or even worse, common knowledge. After all, this is a simple test, they aren't mapping an individual's whole genome to 4gb files.
That's quite impressive, if 19 per cent go so far as to hate it, at least double that must find it irksome, another large percentage is indifferent to it, I wonder who are the freaks who actually think it useful, or go so far as to enjoy it.
So you're saying US generals will idly sit on their hands while nuclear arsenal half-lifes itself out of service? I'm pretty sure even enlightened states like the US of A has laws against desertion.
So Russia retrofitting a large part of their nuclear arsenal to hair-trigger readiness in response to certain claims about the US's nuclear arsenal was what, a Microsoft ploy to sell Windows !@#$ Advanced Server?
Please, that's so unlikely as to be laughable. Obviously the US Ministry of Defense isn't content with its 1+ trillion USD budget, and is pushing for a couple extra hundred billions.
To my knowledge, less than 1/7 of the cores of uranium based warheads show any likelihood of not detonating properly, while virtually none of the cores of plutonium based warheads show any decreased potential for criticality. Not that it really matters, US government can always ask Israel to nuke whom it pleases, including Israel itself and US territory, I'm sure someone can think up a use for that.
These are the types of things that only happen to NASA, lost recipes of high temperature materials, inability to access data in old hardware, imperial/metric clusterfucks, ever decreasing budget, material shortages. All due to, what I hope, is their inability to impose dependable control on technocrats operating under a sacrosanct umbrella, the main trademark of NASA, although the expediency of funneling the money elsewhere, military space programs, nuclear shield research, while destroying the public image of NASA, is hardly negligible.
As it so happens, I'm only a lowly Brazilian, I would have a hell of a lot of inconveniences buying "big oil" stock.
I understand part of your point of view, but taking the pedantic plunge, I would like to paraphrase Chomsky, who mentions how big business socializes costs(middle eastern wars) and privatizes profits. The only reason they can pump that oil so cheap(say, 5 USD a barrel) is because of all the public money funneled into keeping such volatile region stable. Although USA citizens are quite accustomed to cheap petroleum products, it doesn't fully reflect the tax burden laid upon them for that privileged, which in the words of Adam Smith, means they are paying the exorbitant profits of stock twice for the same commodity, but of course only "big oil" gets its share.
Judging by Brazil's exploits, by actually spending, as Brazil does, some 40 dollars per barrel in operational costs(deep sea exploration), I think peak oil might still be 100 years away. Hopefully big oil's addiction to their own criminal profiteering will lead them to cleaner(more profitable by a factor of 100) alternatives, unless they figure they are rich enough already, and decide to take a "moral" stand to us mere mortals.
It brings a smile to my face reading comments commending the inadequacy of the system for separating the grain from the sheaf, those who always felt smart enough for most tasks, and those who eventually succeeded in spite of everything. You see, you have 2 specially unprepared individuals, except for their respective pathologies, whereby the idolatry perpetuated by pathologically successful effectively creates the cesspool seen as required for the creation of more pathologically driven individuals. Perpetuation of the species?
Anyways, if we, as a society, can't agree upon on what is actually important, Practical Knowledge or Erudition, street smarts and books smarts, populism or elitism, perhaps it would be worthwhile to forgo both and invest in improving artistic, logical and semantical(or as defined by psychology, such as logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal and interpersonal) skills in the young, when they first went the education system. Replace kindergarten and first to fourth grade teachers with only the well spoken, unprejudiced, and emotionally mature. Perhaps a rotational system were teachers are forced out of their comfort level, and all teachers are at least high school level.
Who may tell the motives that lead Marx to his theories, be it reading too much Hegel, the appalling conditions of industrial workers, middle class quilt, or the liaison he had with one of his father's household maidservants. Be it as it may, I feel it is immaterial, we should look at Marxism as a set of living preferences, such as (very good)education for all, the use of machine to free man from menial labor, leisure time for the pursuit of artistic drives(however broad you want to make 'artistic' e.g. hacking:) ), the eradication of cities in favor of urbanized and industrialized rural living, all of which I believe sounds appealing to the most of geekdom. Marx was no reformer, and there is no need to apologize for it, certainly better men were reformers, for certainly conditions have changed.
If you give them something that does the job better (which is to say, with a higher profit margin) they'll be all over it.
Haha, I very much hope you're kidding, higher profit margin than oil? What are the cost of royalties, pumping and delivering middle eastern oil? Perhaps 5%, at most 10%? I very much doubt a 2nd generation fusion reactor would have higher profit margins than oil. Deep sea oil could be pumped at perhaps 30 dollars a barrel, injecting massive amounts of money in industry and research, nearly 100% safe from eventualities, and yet... they are not willing, because a 60% profit margin is an insult to their "abilities". These people don't sell energy, they sell magic, because if they sold something as ordinary as energy, prices would eventually and continuously drop. Even after the green/nuclear/collapse revolution, it is likely fossil fuels will still account for at least 10% of global energy consumption for a couple hundreds of years.
Biofuels without subsidies are entirely possible, look at Brazil's sugar cane industries.
But that's not really the issue, the issue is "food production". Fertile soil is hardly the most abundant thing around, and the fertilizing of soil certainly not an engineering feat that warrants the words "easy" nor "cheap".
Perhaps the scientific community should start minding the business opportunities they make possible...
The only difference is the impact each one has on sun light trapping, carbon dioxide being one that affects it the least on the list of gases we would rather weren't on the atmosphere. Methane for example is 20 time worse than CO2, and has a much longer cycle if I'm not mistaking, some gases can be even 200 times worse than CO2.
So each gas impacts global warming, each affects it in different exponential factors, and each has its own cycle(2 years, 5 years, 20 years). I just can't see how we would be better off not burning syngas, and if it can be made lucrative, all its issues could be theoretically easily solved. I for one welcome our acid rain overlords, if we can avert melted ice caps and global crop failure, and spike in cooling/heating consumption(order independent).
May not one generalize in peace anymore? Well, with such stupid trains of thought by the audience, perhaps it should be discouraged altogether, I apologize. Are you perhaps a Reverend's heir?
(the following comment is wholly based on the musings of a deranged mind, and should in no way be used by the defense team)
Of course the kid is a sociopath, he's a Reverend's son in f'ing Ohio, we all have a vague idea of what's expected from a Reverend's son(Nietzsche comes to mind), and more importantly a Reverend's DAUGHTER(you know what I am talking about...), so either by inherently twisted conditions, or self fulfilling prophecies, not a pretty picture.
Now, Halo 3 was released in September 25,2007, and copy was confiscated in October 2007, I for one marvel at the stupidity of interrupting someone in the middle of "Halo fever" and would personally like to privy to the logic that lead to Master Chief's imprisonment. Moreover I would like to know the father's/mother's preference on how the boy should spend his time, their individual commitment level in order to make their wishes observed, and who actually paid for the Xbox360, the Halo 3 copy, and (perhaps) Xbox Live subscription.
To those wondering, I'm not trying to justify the crime(at least not consciously), and here I take the tangential high road, but the "glorious" economic imperative of trying to make leaders out of children despite all costs, is wholly depriving said children of the love for semantics, and logic, moreover of aesthetics, knowledge, metaphysics(ie: the certain level of religiosity/spirituality most would be willing to have if they weren't force-fed the dried crap of old) and ethics. I feel the begetting of heirs for its own sake is wholly outmoded, and should be throughly reevaluated.
The numbers for solar cells are, if I remember correctly, around 1000watts per mÂ(meters squared). Now what matters is efficiency, (in relation of those 1000 watts per m of possible production), durability, production decay(along the years of the cell's life), and price. The process sounds simple enough, glass plates are cheap, durable, environment friendly enough, but the relevant is unfortunately information is missing...
I have purchased a prs-500 almost a year ago, and despite its many flaws(I think a open-source firmware replacement would do wonders), I think it was one of the best purchases I made in a long time. Although I must confess I have read most of what interests me from the tiny local library, I find it an immense improvement keeping my nose out of aged paper, even when comparing with book I own, and that are kept at pristine conditions.
I certainly had to learn a few lessons, like, you can forget about reading your A4 pdfs on it, I have tried many approaches, and even the best results are wholly unsatisfactory, I wouldn't recommend reading plain text, landscape mode is horrible, always either find a properly formated lrf file on a site like Mobileread.com , or format a lrf yourself using tools like pielrf(extemely easy, no pictures/hyperlinks though), or other more adavanced tools(automated is not a key word here).
It is quite sad how capitalism is always most ardently propounded by such vicious dim wits, who don't even seem to read what others write, it is just as well, since they certainly can't get the upper hand on argumentation. This isn't society, you can't hide your deficiencies by shouting the loudest, and ascribing all possible derogatory adjectives that might stick when one lacks a backlog. But here there is a backlog, all that naming people as racist, authoritarian, rebellious youth, and typical US hater does is revel your desperation. Seriously, get a clue as befitting a man.
I don't know if your metal deficiencies are due to poor English, or poor Portuguese, or general poor general grasp of semantics. What I did say was something in the lines of "certainly you understand there's no way around the "preto safado"" which means you can't get rid or avoid the lazy/slippery black man, which from your previous post on the complexions(read generalization) that define poor Brazilians, I felt would paint an image more suitable to your neo-con rationale. Furthermore, what could I possible hope to attain by calling you a "fucking nigger"?
Oh, I could praise the US with the best of democrats, but I could never praise it for its faults, which is hardly the point since the only mention I made of the US was suggesting that you emigrate to your beloved empire, the cite an opinion on Puritan work ethics, which not even you could disagree, except for describing it as neurotic.
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Sorry, memory playing tricks, world trade is worth some 200 billion USD, of which at least 60% flows through Brazil, although Brazilians get a very small share, the potential for transportation price adjustments are off the scale.
Frankly, if you consider people's hysteria in regard to criminals "taking over" or their plans to take over Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, the Police death squads have been quite tame in recent years. I'm just pointing out a upwards of 1 trillion USD(Based on world consumption of 600,000+ kilos) coke trade flows through Brazil to the rest of the world, although statistically none of it is grown in Brazil. Sure, police doing what they learned during the military dictatorship in order to make their jobs relatively tenable is atrocious, Brazilian government should just legalize coke, but of course you may choose to stand on your soap box and enumerate the benefits of stopping the drug trade, how it should be done, and berate the police for not being composed of stoical suicidal saints, but surely you won't mind me pointing out the insanity of your logic.
Well, certainly you didn't think all that coke that flows through Brazil to USA and Europe was "duty free", did you? Political assassinations in Brazil are a thing from the past, from when Brazil was a "close" ally with the USA.
Bambi eyed indoctrinates need no reason, discussion is outside programming parameters, which, by the way, is beside the point, if you "need"(psychologically) to leave, you should leave, an epic struggle with yourself should never be taken lightly.
Have you tried either either Australia or Canada? Sure, it's not as flashy as say, San Francisco, but due to their minuscule demographic density, they're much more receptive to taking in strays. To my knowledge, US identities are a breeze to forge, and accents are just a fact of life in the US, don't let strict VISA rules keep you oppressed in unholy backwaters.
If the US loses the Brazilian presidential elections this year, we(Brazilians) will be in world of shit. I have already seen a few minor US news articles in which Brazil is is honored with the hip tag "enemy state", and grouped with Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Iran and Libya. It should be interesting observing a "crisis of democracy" first hand, notice how government had to contest to audit the Brazilian voting machines a while ago.
Funny, aren't the copyright freaks the same people who advocate Corporate efficiency? Except the FBI kicking down your door for copyright infringement is, surprisingly, even more American than being sued out of existence.
I for one believe there's no excuse for the FBI having a sizable enough DNA backlog, that it becomes news, or even worse, common knowledge. After all, this is a simple test, they aren't mapping an individual's whole genome to 4gb files.
It's O.K. to own Haliburton stock sonny, but perhaps you're advertising it in the wrong place.
That's quite impressive, if 19 per cent go so far as to hate it, at least double that must find it irksome, another large percentage is indifferent to it, I wonder who are the freaks who actually think it useful, or go so far as to enjoy it.
So you're saying US generals will idly sit on their hands while nuclear arsenal half-lifes itself out of service? I'm pretty sure even enlightened states like the US of A has laws against desertion.
So Russia retrofitting a large part of their nuclear arsenal to hair-trigger readiness in response to certain claims about the US's nuclear arsenal was what, a Microsoft ploy to sell Windows !@#$ Advanced Server?
Please, that's so unlikely as to be laughable. Obviously the US Ministry of Defense isn't content with its 1+ trillion USD budget, and is pushing for a couple extra hundred billions.
To my knowledge, less than 1/7 of the cores of uranium based warheads show any likelihood of not detonating properly, while virtually none of the cores of plutonium based warheads show any decreased potential for criticality. Not that it really matters, US government can always ask Israel to nuke whom it pleases, including Israel itself and US territory, I'm sure someone can think up a use for that.
These are the types of things that only happen to NASA, lost recipes of high temperature materials, inability to access data in old hardware, imperial/metric clusterfucks, ever decreasing budget, material shortages. All due to, what I hope, is their inability to impose dependable control on technocrats operating under a sacrosanct umbrella, the main trademark of NASA, although the expediency of funneling the money elsewhere, military space programs, nuclear shield research, while destroying the public image of NASA, is hardly negligible.
As it so happens, I'm only a lowly Brazilian, I would have a hell of a lot of inconveniences buying "big oil" stock.
I understand part of your point of view, but taking the pedantic plunge, I would like to paraphrase Chomsky, who mentions how big business socializes costs(middle eastern wars) and privatizes profits. The only reason they can pump that oil so cheap(say, 5 USD a barrel) is because of all the public money funneled into keeping such volatile region stable. Although USA citizens are quite accustomed to cheap petroleum products, it doesn't fully reflect the tax burden laid upon them for that privileged, which in the words of Adam Smith, means they are paying the exorbitant profits of stock twice for the same commodity, but of course only "big oil" gets its share.
Judging by Brazil's exploits, by actually spending, as Brazil does, some 40 dollars per barrel in operational costs(deep sea exploration), I think peak oil might still be 100 years away. Hopefully big oil's addiction to their own criminal profiteering will lead them to cleaner(more profitable by a factor of 100) alternatives, unless they figure they are rich enough already, and decide to take a "moral" stand to us mere mortals.
"A feign within a feign, within a feign" Dune
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Perhaps he just wanted to be rid of your company.
Unless you know him to be really fixed on your wife, of course.
It brings a smile to my face reading comments commending the inadequacy of the system for separating the grain from the sheaf, those who always felt smart enough for most tasks, and those who eventually succeeded in spite of everything. You see, you have 2 specially unprepared individuals, except for their respective pathologies, whereby the idolatry perpetuated by pathologically successful effectively creates the cesspool seen as required for the creation of more pathologically driven individuals. Perpetuation of the species?
Anyways, if we, as a society, can't agree upon on what is actually important, Practical Knowledge or Erudition, street smarts and books smarts, populism or elitism, perhaps it would be worthwhile to forgo both and invest in improving artistic, logical and semantical(or as defined by psychology, such as logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal and interpersonal) skills in the young, when they first went the education system. Replace kindergarten and first to fourth grade teachers with only the well spoken, unprejudiced, and emotionally mature. Perhaps a rotational system were teachers are forced out of their comfort level, and all teachers are at least high school level.
La Morte e il Nulla. E vecchia fola il Ciel.
Who may tell the motives that lead Marx to his theories, be it reading too much Hegel, the appalling conditions of industrial workers, middle class quilt, or the liaison he had with one of his father's household maidservants. Be it as it may, I feel it is immaterial, we should look at Marxism as a set of living preferences, such as (very good)education for all, the use of machine to free man from menial labor, leisure time for the pursuit of artistic drives(however broad you want to make 'artistic' e.g. hacking :) ), the eradication of cities in favor of urbanized and industrialized rural living, all of which I believe sounds appealing to the most of geekdom. Marx was no reformer, and there is no need to apologize for it, certainly better men were reformers, for certainly conditions have changed.
If you give them something that does the job better (which is to say, with a higher profit margin) they'll be all over it.
Haha, I very much hope you're kidding, higher profit margin than oil? What are the cost of royalties, pumping and delivering middle eastern oil? Perhaps 5%, at most 10%? I very much doubt a 2nd generation fusion reactor would have higher profit margins than oil. Deep sea oil could be pumped at perhaps 30 dollars a barrel, injecting massive amounts of money in industry and research, nearly 100% safe from eventualities, and yet... they are not willing, because a 60% profit margin is an insult to their "abilities". These people don't sell energy, they sell magic, because if they sold something as ordinary as energy, prices would eventually and continuously drop. Even after the green/nuclear/collapse revolution, it is likely fossil fuels will still account for at least 10% of global energy consumption for a couple hundreds of years.
Biofuels without subsidies are entirely possible, look at Brazil's sugar cane industries.
But that's not really the issue, the issue is "food production". Fertile soil is hardly the most abundant thing around, and the fertilizing of soil certainly not an engineering feat that warrants the words "easy" nor "cheap".
Perhaps the scientific community should start minding the business opportunities they make possible...
The only difference is the impact each one has on sun light trapping, carbon dioxide being one that affects it the least on the list of gases we would rather weren't on the atmosphere. Methane for example is 20 time worse than CO2, and has a much longer cycle if I'm not mistaking, some gases can be even 200 times worse than CO2.
So each gas impacts global warming, each affects it in different exponential factors, and each has its own cycle(2 years, 5 years, 20 years). I just can't see how we would be better off not burning syngas, and if it can be made lucrative, all its issues could be theoretically easily solved. I for one welcome our acid rain overlords, if we can avert melted ice caps and global crop failure, and spike in cooling/heating consumption(order independent).
May not one generalize in peace anymore? Well, with such stupid trains of thought by the audience, perhaps it should be discouraged altogether, I apologize. Are you perhaps a Reverend's heir?
(the following comment is wholly based on the musings of a deranged mind, and should in no way be used by the defense team)
Of course the kid is a sociopath, he's a Reverend's son in f'ing Ohio, we all have a vague idea of what's expected from a Reverend's son(Nietzsche comes to mind), and more importantly a Reverend's DAUGHTER(you know what I am talking about...), so either by inherently twisted conditions, or self fulfilling prophecies, not a pretty picture.
Now, Halo 3 was released in September 25,2007, and copy was confiscated in October 2007, I for one marvel at the stupidity of interrupting someone in the middle of "Halo fever" and would personally like to privy to the logic that lead to Master Chief's imprisonment. Moreover I would like to know the father's/mother's preference on how the boy should spend his time, their individual commitment level in order to make their wishes observed, and who actually paid for the Xbox360, the Halo 3 copy, and (perhaps) Xbox Live subscription.
To those wondering, I'm not trying to justify the crime(at least not consciously), and here I take the tangential high road, but the "glorious" economic imperative of trying to make leaders out of children despite all costs, is wholly depriving said children of the love for semantics, and logic, moreover of aesthetics, knowledge, metaphysics(ie: the certain level of religiosity/spirituality most would be willing to have if they weren't force-fed the dried crap of old) and ethics. I feel the begetting of heirs for its own sake is wholly outmoded, and should be throughly reevaluated.
The numbers for solar cells are, if I remember correctly, around 1000watts per mÂ(meters squared). Now what matters is efficiency, (in relation of those 1000 watts per m of possible production), durability, production decay(along the years of the cell's life), and price. The process sounds simple enough, glass plates are cheap, durable, environment friendly enough, but the relevant is unfortunately information is missing...
I have purchased a prs-500 almost a year ago, and despite its many flaws(I think a open-source firmware replacement would do wonders), I think it was one of the best purchases I made in a long time. Although I must confess I have read most of what interests me from the tiny local library, I find it an immense improvement keeping my nose out of aged paper, even when comparing with book I own, and that are kept at pristine conditions.
I certainly had to learn a few lessons, like, you can forget about reading your A4 pdfs on it, I have tried many approaches, and even the best results are wholly unsatisfactory, I wouldn't recommend reading plain text, landscape mode is horrible, always either find a properly formated lrf file on a site like Mobileread.com , or format a lrf yourself using tools like pielrf(extemely easy, no pictures/hyperlinks though), or other more adavanced tools(automated is not a key word here).
It is quite sad how capitalism is always most ardently propounded by such vicious dim wits, who don't even seem to read what others write, it is just as well, since they certainly can't get the upper hand on argumentation. This isn't society, you can't hide your deficiencies by shouting the loudest, and ascribing all possible derogatory adjectives that might stick when one lacks a backlog. But here there is a backlog, all that naming people as racist, authoritarian, rebellious youth, and typical US hater does is revel your desperation. Seriously, get a clue as befitting a man.
I don't know if your metal deficiencies are due to poor English, or poor Portuguese, or general poor general grasp of semantics. What I did say was something in the lines of "certainly you understand there's no way around the "preto safado"" which means you can't get rid or avoid the lazy/slippery black man, which from your previous post on the complexions(read generalization) that define poor Brazilians, I felt would paint an image more suitable to your neo-con rationale. Furthermore, what could I possible hope to attain by calling you a "fucking nigger"?
Oh, I could praise the US with the best of democrats, but I could never praise it for its faults, which is hardly the point since the only mention I made of the US was suggesting that you emigrate to your beloved empire, the cite an opinion on Puritan work ethics, which not even you could disagree, except for describing it as neurotic.