Our best-selling cars since last year (Brasil here) are all "flex-fuel" cars that run on every mix from "pure" gasoline (gasoline in the pumps here is 20% ethanol) and 96-grade ethanol. Every single electronic-controlled-injection/ignition modern car can be made to adjust itself to new mixes automagically.
I know from experience that Europeans love Diesel motors, but I know (also from experience) that they are heavy, noisy, emit dirty byproducts, etc... While the burning of ethanol generates water and carbon dioxide. Besides, we in Brasil have a 25-years ongoing experience with ethanol-powered cars -- commercially available, and 96-grade ethanol available in the pumps of every gas station in the country.
The real question is: is there hydrogen in the pumps anywhere you know? If you buy this BMW you mentioned, where will you fuel it? Down here, there is ethanol in the pumps in 100% of the gas stations over a country that is larger than continental USofA, meaning you can travel the equivalent of the Route 66 and never get without fuel. Got it?
You must remember that the production of ethanol must be subsidized because otherwise sugar is more profitable for the big farmers and cane processing plant owners. In the late 80s and early 90s the federal government took out the subsides, and many stations were out of ethanol, for a long time.
This guy is almost on the mark... I, myself, keep the mldonkey daemon runnning in the background full-time. Then, I get KMLdonkey in my KDE desktop. When I log off, the daemon keeps running; when I finish some download, it keeps uploading for some time. It works in a lot of other protocols, but I mostly use it for bittorrent... HTH
Answer to your first question: YES, McCarthy and Hitler were exactly at the same level of scum. The difference between them being that Hitler was more successful in his goals, at least for some time. The fact that McCarthy trampled on the civil liberties of a lot of people (just like Hitler did) is not changed by the fact that some of his targets were really communists. The fact that McCarthy destroyed the life of a lot of people in the process is not changed, either. Every single witch-hunting season brings exactly the same, ultimately: don't like the way your neighbor parks his car near your driveway? He is a witch/jew/communist/terrorist... go deliver word of that to the authorities. Normally, no proof is needed before the poor guy loses his job/car/house/liberty/life, ie, before real damage is done to him.
But no good engineering would compensate for the heavy traffic. I was in Rodovia Fernao Dias (BR-381, the "highway"[***] connecting Belo Horizonte [*] to Sao Paulo [**]) this weekend (went halfway thru to Granny Saturday and back again Sunday == 2*350km) and I got loads of trucks on the road. [*] 3rd largest city in Brasil, ~ 4 million people in the metro area [**] largest city in Brasil, ~ 11 million people in the metropolitan area [***] the quotes are because: 1. the road is two lanes coming, two going most of the time; and 2. it's a mountain road at some points, with lots of curves and the fscking trucks passing one another while climbing!!
You are absolutely right. In the 20 minutes I take to commute, I could be reading something,/.ing, etc. In the 4 hours that takes to go to granny, I could be playing with my 7yo son, or tending my newborn daughter, or mellowing with the wife, or even taking a nap... instead of ducking trucks and potholes (*).
(*) Down here, there are practically ZERO cargo/passenger trains. As a result, and due to the fact that we are an enourmous country (bigger than continental USofA), all interstate cargo and passenger traffic is on the roads, on trucks and buses... and this causes an enourmous strain on our roads, that are horrible because of that.
Long answer: Absolutely not. And this (high-tech cars compensating for the lack of driving skill) is GOOD, because the average driver can spin a car on a safety test car even if the car has ABS and stuff. Actually, I think that if cars ever become fully automated, Minority Report style, we will have a lot less car accidents (*), and we'll take a lot less time to commute.
(*) And I'd take a bet that 99% of the car accidends would be caused by human failure (even if it's failure to properly maintain the vehicles.)
Lots of things are forbidden but are not criminal offenses. When you do something that is a criminal offense, you are subject to penalties determined by law (fines, jail time, community service, etc.) When you do something that is forbidden but is not a criminal offense, you are still subject to the civil liabilities (also known as "damages", indemnizatory or punitive.) Some jurisdictions consider copyright infringement as simply a civil offense, ie, something that is forbidden to do but will not land you in jail for doing -- if you're caught and taken to court, you'll still have to pay damages to compensate the copyright holder for their loss of income (and, where applicable, possibly punitive damages.) You are investigated by the copyright holder, and prosecuted by his lawyers (which are good) but the standard of evidence that must be held against you is somewhat low (which is bad.) Other jurisdictions (like Brasil, where I live) consider copyright infringement as a criminal offense, ie, in casu, you get to be investigated by the police, and prosecuted by the D.A., and you can land in jail for up two years "soft jail" in the case of music and for up to four years "hard jail" in the case of software (which are bad) and OTOH the standards of evidence that must be held against you are are high ("beyond reasonable doubt" mumbo-jumbo -- which is good.)
Notice that copyright infringiment not being a criminal offense and being free of copyright are extremely different things. I, personally, don't think copyright infringement should ever be a criminal offense.
John Byrne's Superman (and its newest Smallville incarnation) powers developed this way: invulnerability (by forcefield) at age of four, strength at age 10-12 (IIRC), speed at age 15, heat vision, super-hearing, and x-ray vision at age 16, flight at age 17 (but it's psychologically blocked for now) -- and according to Smallville, Clark lost his virginity at age 18 to Lana Lang.:-)
check the facts before calling other people liars then? It's more or less the same argument, and here it goes: I post quite a lot on/. -- and yes, I did by mistake assume people know I'm not from the USofA because: I don't have an Anglo-saxon name; nor is my name an obvious alias (like CmdrTaco or LikiSkywalker);/. is not completely US-centric; I assumed people, reading my post, would care to read other posts of mine to see what I have to say in general (I do that a lot -- for instance, I know that you have a quite definite tendency of calling people liars) -- and I mention a lot that I'm from Brasil, that I lived for a year in Europe, that I am a public employee, 35, etc.
AND, to boot, I gave the salary in US$ because it's the only currency people all over the world know more or less how much represents without having to search.
Do you get the idea? People shouldn't have to search for nothing if they would accept my word for it; but they _do_ have to search for stuff if they want to debunk me. Notwithstanding that, I posted (in this same subthread, the "Again:" post I mentioned) a lot of info, and I quote:
""" Belo Horizonte, Brasil: 4.000.000 people population metropolitan region, 500.000 unemployed adults. minimum wage: US$ 150 / month ($1/hour or less) -- that is the standard salary of 1.000.000 people (janitors, construction workers, our equivalent of "burger flippers", etc): she is kind of priviledged, earning twice the minimum wage (she is approximately in estatistical Q3 on the general population income [meaning she earns more than 3.000.000 people in the same metro area]). Minimum wage workers normally live in the "favelas" [slums], or even further away in the rural outskirts of the metropolitan region. Her routine does not give her plenty of time to study. If she tries another job she either (a) won't find any or (b) will find a worse-paid job. Now, going to the subject: a Nokia 1100 phone costs (in stores here in Belo Horizonte) US$ 15 for a pre-paid plan. If the same phone with digital TV tuner costs US$ 40 (some year or two from now), she can afford it and entertain herself on her way home (our "novelas" [soap operas] are quite good, and are sold to lots of foreign countries) """
To which I'd add: "education on the bus, knitting, etc, are not really options because said person is already tired with her arduous routine."
To be fair, said post was an answer to an AC, and if you read it with threshold >= 0, it disappeared....
So, to close this subject: Yes, I apologize for not taking US-centrism of/. in account in every post on this subthread, aggravated by the fact that I normally state monetary values in US dollars. No, I don't lie on/.... I even post under my real-life name, although abbreviated.
If you don't do that, they will not start talking for many months. I know of a toddler that started talking at almost 2yo (as opposed to 8-18 months) because everytime the said "ah" and pointed to something, his parents gave it to him.
Babies don't usually get any tangible reward simply for saying a word or two. They may get some attention, but they could get that far more effectively just by crying. You should never do that. When a baby is starting to speak, you should ignore it most of the time it cries, and give him reward in attention when he speaks; that way, it'll develop speech faster.
I normally go ballistic when people call BS on me (I'm not a BS kind of guy...) But this should settle the issue. US$ 1 = R$ (BRL) 2.20, for reference.
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Our best-selling cars since last year (Brasil here) are all "flex-fuel" cars that run on every mix from "pure" gasoline (gasoline in the pumps here is 20% ethanol) and 96-grade ethanol. Every single electronic-controlled-injection/ignition modern car can be made to adjust itself to new mixes automagically.
I know from experience that Europeans love Diesel motors, but I know (also from experience) that they are heavy, noisy, emit dirty byproducts, etc... While the burning of ethanol generates water and carbon dioxide. Besides, we in Brasil have a 25-years ongoing experience with ethanol-powered cars -- commercially available, and 96-grade ethanol available in the pumps of every gas station in the country.
The real question is: is there hydrogen in the pumps anywhere you know? If you buy this BMW you mentioned, where will you fuel it? Down here, there is ethanol in the pumps in 100% of the gas stations over a country that is larger than continental USofA, meaning you can travel the equivalent of the Route 66 and never get without fuel. Got it?
You must remember that the production of ethanol must be subsidized because otherwise sugar is more profitable for the big farmers and cane processing plant owners.
In the late 80s and early 90s the federal government took out the subsides, and many stations were out of ethanol, for a long time.
> They haven't figured out memory sticks yet
This means that if any employee wants to run with their data, (s)he already did it, no?
Otherwise you would know this is already happening.
This guy is almost on the mark... I, myself, keep the mldonkey daemon runnning in the background full-time. Then, I get KMLdonkey in my KDE desktop. When I log off, the daemon keeps running; when I finish some download, it keeps uploading for some time. It works in a lot of other protocols, but I mostly use it for bittorrent...
HTH
Answer to your first question: YES, McCarthy and Hitler were exactly at the same level of scum. The difference between them being that Hitler was more successful in his goals, at least for some time.
The fact that McCarthy trampled on the civil liberties of a lot of people (just like Hitler did) is not changed by the fact that some of his targets were really communists.
The fact that McCarthy destroyed the life of a lot of people in the process is not changed, either.
Every single witch-hunting season brings exactly the same, ultimately: don't like the way your neighbor parks his car near your driveway? He is a witch/jew/communist/terrorist... go deliver word of that to the authorities. Normally, no proof is needed before the poor guy loses his job/car/house/liberty/life, ie, before real damage is done to him.
We still got all the letters in Unicode...
You hate perl because you don't know it very well...
The right answer is:
$ perl -l -MData::Dumper
$a = [[1,2],[3,4],5,[6,7,8]];
print Dumper $a
which yields:
$VAR1 = [ [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ], 5, [ 6, 7, 8 ] ];
(spaces trimmed to please slash's "postercomment" compression filter.)
But no good engineering would compensate for the heavy traffic. I was in Rodovia Fernao Dias (BR-381, the "highway"[***] connecting Belo Horizonte [*] to Sao Paulo [**]) this weekend (went halfway thru to Granny Saturday and back again Sunday == 2*350km) and I got loads of trucks on the road.
[*] 3rd largest city in Brasil, ~ 4 million people in the metro area
[**] largest city in Brasil, ~ 11 million people in the metropolitan area
[***] the quotes are because:
1. the road is two lanes coming, two going most of the time; and
2. it's a mountain road at some points, with lots of curves and the fscking trucks passing one another while climbing!!
You are absolutely right. /.ing, etc.
In the 20 minutes I take to commute, I could be reading something,
In the 4 hours that takes to go to granny, I could be playing with my 7yo son, or tending my newborn daughter, or mellowing with the wife, or even taking a nap... instead of ducking trucks and potholes (*).
(*) Down here, there are practically ZERO cargo/passenger trains. As a result, and due to the fact that we are an enourmous country (bigger than continental USofA), all interstate cargo and passenger traffic is on the roads, on trucks and buses... and this causes an enourmous strain on our roads, that are horrible because of that.
Long answer: Absolutely not. And this (high-tech cars compensating for the lack of driving skill) is GOOD, because the average driver can spin a car on a safety test car even if the car has ABS and stuff. Actually, I think that if cars ever become fully automated, Minority Report style, we will have a lot less car accidents (*), and we'll take a lot less time to commute.
(*) And I'd take a bet that 99% of the car accidends would be caused by human failure (even if it's failure to properly maintain the vehicles.)
Lots of things are forbidden but are not criminal offenses. When you do something that is a criminal offense, you are subject to penalties determined by law (fines, jail time, community service, etc.) When you do something that is forbidden but is not a criminal offense, you are still subject to the civil liabilities (also known as "damages", indemnizatory or punitive.)
Some jurisdictions consider copyright infringement as simply a civil offense, ie, something that is forbidden to do but will not land you in jail for doing -- if you're caught and taken to court, you'll still have to pay damages to compensate the copyright holder for their loss of income (and, where applicable, possibly punitive damages.) You are investigated by the copyright holder, and prosecuted by his lawyers (which are good) but the standard of evidence that must be held against you is somewhat low (which is bad.)
Other jurisdictions (like Brasil, where I live) consider copyright infringement as a criminal offense, ie, in casu, you get to be investigated by the police, and prosecuted by the D.A., and you can land in jail for up two years "soft jail" in the case of music and for up to four years "hard jail" in the case of software (which are bad) and OTOH the standards of evidence that must be held against you are are high ("beyond reasonable doubt" mumbo-jumbo -- which is good.)
Notice that copyright infringiment not being a criminal offense and being free of copyright are extremely different things. I, personally, don't think copyright infringement should ever be a criminal offense.
AFAICR copyright infringement is _not_ a crime in Sweden.
John Byrne's Superman (and its newest Smallville incarnation) powers developed this way: invulnerability (by forcefield) at age of four, strength at age 10-12 (IIRC), speed at age 15, heat vision, super-hearing, and x-ray vision at age 16, flight at age 17 (but it's psychologically blocked for now) -- and according to Smallville, Clark lost his virginity at age 18 to Lana Lang. :-)
I didn't get the country? He, he.
The parent post is not Funny (even if it tries to be), but it's really INFORMATIVE!!!!
PXPerl is cooler :-)
check the facts before calling other people liars then? /. -- and yes, I did by mistake assume people know I'm not from the USofA because: I don't have an Anglo-saxon name; nor is my name an obvious alias (like CmdrTaco or LikiSkywalker); /. is not completely US-centric; I assumed people, reading my post, would care to read other posts of mine to see what I have to say in general (I do that a lot -- for instance, I know that you have a quite definite tendency of calling people liars) -- and I mention a lot that I'm from Brasil, that I lived for a year in Europe, that I am a public employee, 35, etc.
/. in account in every post on this subthread, aggravated by the fact that I normally state monetary values in US dollars. No, I don't lie on /. ... I even post under my real-life name, although abbreviated.
It's more or less the same argument, and here it goes:
I post quite a lot on
AND, to boot, I gave the salary in US$ because it's the only currency people all over the world know more or less how much represents without having to search.
Do you get the idea? People shouldn't have to search for nothing if they would accept my word for it; but they _do_ have to search for stuff if they want to debunk me. Notwithstanding that, I posted (in this same subthread, the "Again:" post I mentioned) a lot of info, and I quote:
"""
Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
4.000.000 people population metropolitan region, 500.000 unemployed adults.
minimum wage: US$ 150 / month ($1/hour or less) -- that is the standard salary of 1.000.000 people (janitors, construction workers, our equivalent of "burger flippers", etc): she is kind of priviledged, earning twice the minimum wage (she is approximately in estatistical Q3 on the general population income [meaning she earns more than 3.000.000 people in the same metro area]). Minimum wage workers normally live in the "favelas" [slums], or even further away in the rural outskirts of the metropolitan region.
Her routine does not give her plenty of time to study.
If she tries another job she either (a) won't find any or (b) will find a worse-paid job.
Now, going to the subject: a Nokia 1100 phone costs (in stores here in Belo Horizonte) US$ 15 for a pre-paid plan. If the same phone with digital TV tuner costs US$ 40 (some year or two from now), she can afford it and entertain herself on her way home (our "novelas" [soap operas] are quite good, and are sold to lots of foreign countries)
"""
To which I'd add: "education on the bus, knitting, etc, are not really options because said person is already tired with her arduous routine."
To be fair, said post was an answer to an AC, and if you read it with threshold >= 0, it disappeared....
So, to close this subject: Yes, I apologize for not taking US-centrism of
Ok?
HTH,
Humberto Massa
If you don't do that, they will not start talking for many months. I know of a toddler that started talking at almost 2yo (as opposed to 8-18 months) because everytime the said "ah" and pointed to something, his parents gave it to him.
Babies don't usually get any tangible reward simply for saying a word or two. They may get some attention, but they could get that far more effectively just by crying. You should never do that. When a baby is starting to speak, you should ignore it most of the time it cries, and give him reward in attention when he speaks; that way, it'll develop speech faster.
We are out of new, good, music ! We only have pasteurized pop-successes ! Oh no !
--
Nothing to see here, move along...
I normally go ballistic when people call BS on me (I'm not a BS kind of guy...)
But this should settle the issue. US$ 1 = R$ (BRL) 2.20, for reference.