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  1. Re:Various kooks on International Bigfoot Symposium · · Score: 1

    On carbohydrates: I mentioned it before, but I lost 20kg in less then 2 months just reducing carb intake (while augmenting calories intake). Caveat emptor.

  2. Re:What's a PVR? on Nokia Enters PVR Market · · Score: 1

    in khtml 3.2beta it seems to work...

  3. Re:Ministry of love... on Cybersyn And Early Uniminds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the difference that Allende wanted a richer, democratic Cuba, and Pinochet is a father-of-the-people tradition-country-family do-what-I-say-or-else-i'll-throw-you-from-a-plane- above-the-Andes bloody murderer. Leandro, go talk to some chilean people. Every chilean person I met (righties, no less, I'm not talking lefties like if there was any alive today) feared Pinochet as much as the devil. They didn't like the lines to get toilet paper, too, but they wouldn't choose our friend el generalissimoAugusto.

  4. Shortcoming #1: on BSD Version Of Gentoo's Portage · · Score: 1

    USE flags. Gimme USE flags and I will concur that ports are OK.

  5. Back and forth, here we go... :) on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 1

    Brazil is a country riddled with resources and crime, it has lots of problems and lots of working to fixing them...I don't know, I'm either a bit choked up or just daunted
    so is US (the coutry with most convicted people in the world), so is Russia, Spain, ... just to cite countries I know for sure have lots of the same problems and many goodies.
    I understand the impulse to defend Brazil, the pride that comes with the sadly always soon-to-be-modern nation. I imagine its the same impulse that made the parent poster so passionate about Brazil's problems.
    I am not a nationalist, I lived abroad, but I think Brasil is a modern nation, with many infrastructure problems (US has infrastructure problems too, hence the recent blackout) and a big poverty problem, that is the greatest problem around here.
    the horrible corruption in the brazilian police is hardly a new topic...
    which police? we have 2 police corps for each of the 27 states: PM (military police, the ones who get the 911 calls) and Policia Civil (judiciary police, the ones who investigate crimes), plus the Federal Police. some of these corporations are better than others, varies from state to state, but most policemen I know and I worked with are good people, trying to do the best job they can with the infrastructure problems they have. Police here is not the criminal organization people tend to think it is.
    It's interesting, because we don't have the propaganda machine the USian state has (cops always heroes in movies and tv series). Worse, we have an anti-propaganda (I was living in Spain and in the "worlds wildest police videos" tv show they showed a 2-year old scene of the shooting of innocents in the Baixada Fluminense by PM's, as if it had just happened, and saying "this is Brasilian police!", when it's certainly not)
    Finally, I must say: come and visit us! Forget about Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo, come and stay in Fortaleza, Porto Seguro, Florianopolis, or if you are not a beach person, come visit our serras in Minas Gerais, the Pantanal, the Amazonia. I am not a nationalist, but we do have some beautiful places to visit, and in fact many foreigners don't leave because, ...
    It seems to me that you have saudade, the mixture of the sadness/melancholy, to quote your words, we have when we miss something, someone, or someplace :-)

  6. Insightful? Pipe dream. on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 1

    How can linux solutions, that encourage enterprises to develop in-house, fire programmers? OMG.
    Besides, we speak Portuguese here, no Pepes and no Pacos here.

  7. I think you made the wrong connection on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 1

    hey AC, yuri82 and the other AC were saying that, for example, teaching poor people that familiar planning is a sing, the Catholic Church is making the poverty problem worse, by (1) increasing the number of poor people and (2) decreasing the chances the currently-poor people get richer, because they must support their kids.
    No corruption was mentioned.
    I disagreed with the other AC, saying that people no matter how poor are not buying into the condom==sin thing and that at the present time.
    No corruption again.

  8. Re:From Brasil, too, but... on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 1

    Naah... They don't pull this one anymore (not that they don't try to pull it, just that not even the poor people can swallow it).
    People that don't use condoms is just plain stupid, not religious or uninformed.

  9. Re:beta testers on Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date · · Score: 1

    Patch them and send the patches to lkml.

  10. From Brasil, too, but... on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 3, Informative
    1. Rich and poor, very defined.
      Not different from US, UK, Spain...
    2. Kids huffing gas, and police squads killing kids.
      Didn't look up what "huffing gas" means, but it has being some time now since last killing squads (rogue police groups) made a hit on minors here.
    3. Hospitals going defunct, and leaving medical equipment that is radioactive on the streets up for grabs.
      This, like the last one, happened in the 1980's. More care is being taken, now.
    4. No one knowing any better putting stuff in thier mouths cause it looks cool.
      I seriously doubt this would be different in any USian or EUian ghetto and, believe me, I know some pretty hard EU ghettos.
    5. I hope it saves them some money, then I hope they help thier people. (sic)
      Someone else in this thread pointed out: renew licenses Vs. feed people is an easy decision to make, right?
      And it is about feeding the people, cause we are in a deep recession; if you start developing free software, knowledge is formed and stays in the country, the money goes to people that has the knowledge here and pumps the economy up.
    6. in my opinion and experience the country doesnt grow because of the catholic church and what it does to poor people...
      I didn't get quite what you mean, yuri82. What exactly the CC does, that hinders the country growth?
  11. Reverse reverse psicology on P2P Spam? · · Score: 1

    But now they think we think they'll act in any other manner, so they'll attack 9.11 to fool us...

  12. Re:What if you are already efficient? on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 1

    You ought stop bathing (water heating is mostly electrical down here), ironing your clothes, or something...
    Some people unplugged from the wall every single stand-by appliance they had (TVs, stereos, microwave ovens, and such), and began using less lights at night.

  13. Re:Guys, this is history..! on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 3, Funny

    Down here in Brasil we're all doing the same for two years now... we had an electricity rationing... you had to lower your bill in 20% or pay a hefty fine. And then, to cover the lowering in the electricity companies' income, the fees went up 25% :(

  14. The SPEWS attitude (I use, I approve) on NZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference · · Score: 2, Informative

    is that you become pissed because of the bounced e-mail, you go after your ISP and piss him off, and if it's not its fault it will go after his upstream and pass the piss on, and until the problem is fixed, rinse and repeat.

  15. So, what the PP meant is .... on WIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source · · Score: 1

    that USians can't have a working Free Software DVD player.

  16. Re:Aha! Taste my Super-Final Termination Attack! on SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't let my 4yo kid watch Dragonball... Men, I would be the target of the "human extermination" punch :-)

  17. Don't forget ... on Iceman Otzi was a Fighter · · Score: 1

    The eaten genitals.

  18. compact disc X floppy disk on Flavor vs. Flavour · · Score: 1

    both discs are round; CDs can be put in a protective (square) tray and FDs can be removed from the tray, showing their disCy roundness. ;-)
    more seriously, hard disc or hard disk? devfs says /dev/disc ...

  19. Re:Show the parents on Webcams Watching The Classrooms? · · Score: 1

    No you are not. You are a smart jock. It's a rare breed, but it exists.

  20. Re:Either way it's a good thing on GPL in Court - Good or Bad? · · Score: 1

    I agree even more, since it's IBM paying for it.

  21. Vague? on FSF's Opinion of the Apple Public Source License · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you ever gone to the GPL FAQ? and found anything you think is vague not clarified there?

  22. Wrong, ... on FSF's Opinion of the Apple Public Source License · · Score: 1

    It is not recomended because it is incompatible with the GPL. Because you can't take GPL'd code and integrate with, e.g., the Darwin kernel. (so with some bridging you could use e.g. some linux device drivers...)

  23. Now I'll have to ask it on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    What exactly is the amiga way of dealing with removable media?

  24. Moderators, heads up. Informative!! on Programming Accessible Software on Java Phones? · · Score: 1

    The Alva MPO seems to be exactly what this guy's mom wants.

  25. Re:No need for that on Bent Fibers Put Networks At Risk · · Score: 1

    I don't want to make the same mistake you did (insulting me). If I wasn't clear enough, that's exactly what I said: there is no need traveling near a black hole just to witnessing gravitational bending of the light... just watch the sun while a eclipse is ocurring... ohboy.