They won't block websites using this words. They will turn this into some kind of euphemism. Like: "You exceeded your monthly quota of broadband". At the same time, they will give you a few websites where this quota doesn't apply. It's already happening - slowly and in a very polite way, but it's happening.
I'm from Brazil. Here we have companies that give you unlimited data on WhatsApp. But if you want to use Telegram or Signal or whatever-the-fuck-you-want, your data will be charged. Think about it: after 25 days on the month, it is very likely that a significant amount of people on such kind of plans won't have access to Telegram/WhatsApp-competitor. This IS a BLOCK. It's bad for business, it's bad for us and it is bad for free speech.
That's the thing I don't get when I hear workers (like coders, developers, and engineers) saying that gig economy is nice.
I mean, you really don't get what's happening? Nobody is really winning on this, except for a few wealthy people. When they fire you to subcontract you as a 'gig', the economy on this won't go to other workers, but for executives and the owners of the companies in the transaction. You will receive less, have fewer securities, fewer benefits, so you can raise your nose and say that you are not a worker, but a contractor.
Anyway, I find very sad this state of affairs when our jobs are becoming steam and we are saying 'what a lovely steam is coming from the companies!'.
Don't let your nationalism blinds you. They are in a position of inferior power towards the US gov. That's why they are in such defensive position.
And the news here are: "the us gov. is ACTUALLY spying on you and wikileaks knows how it is doing."
It's not defense, it's a rampage. Almost a genocide. You should remember that Israel (which have one of the best armies in the world) is fighting against a ethnical group without army. If anyone else in the world did that, We could call it a massacre, a butchery or even a genocide.
It's that true? (about the anatel backdoor)? If it's true, it's time to show this in the light. It's outrageous, absurd and ridiculous (specially from a government that said that is wrong when talking about NSA). Besides the 2 sources, there is anything wrote about it?:/
how in the hell a flamebait like this is modded +5 Informative?
And Chile is not a beacon of democracy: they had the worst dictatorship (and the longer) in the whole south america. Yes, they have a good rate of gdp/capita. But mostly because they are sitting on a giant copper mine.
You're right. Always some post catches my eye, I read most of the comments. And the comments are always better than the post itself (which, by the way, is usually submitted by someone from the community). The discussion at slashdot is (most of the time) high quality. Actually, I don't know any other site with such high quality discussion (yes, it could be better, but if you feel down about the quality here, go check the discussion on youtube).
Slashdot is all about it's contributors. Without you, people, this site would be a empty shithole.
that's a i thing I never quite understood. Here in Brazil, the fastest possible road is fixed at 110km/h (which is ridiculous, given that this kind of roads are the near perfect-ones). Usually a road have the speed limit of 80km/h (or 60km/h in urban areas). Why in the hell even 'economic' cars can go up to 160km/h? I would buy easily a car 10% cheaper for 40km/h less. And even if nobody else does, why the government don't enforce, let's say, 120km/h for cars?
Grippen WAS the frontrunner in the beggining. The technicians from the brazilian airforce always said the grippen was better (for some reasons I don't really know). In the last government, the french Rafale was the frontrunner. The reasons were not technical, but political: to get close to france and, maybe, get a chair at the UN backed by France. Then the president of Brazil changed (Lula -> Dilma) and the odds changed too. The f-18 was, then, the frontrunner with the new president. But after the NSA shit, things changed back again.
Brazilian here. Guns are common place where I live. The thing in Brazil is that the law do not allow you to use your gun outside your property, but it's very easy to have access to guns to 'keep at home'. Anyway, it's a stupid law: if you shoot someone on the streets, the last law you are concerned it's the law about the limits of your gun.
Don't know, but I Think USA is more comparable (GDP per capita, etc) to Germany than to Mexico. And, of course, if your neighbor (that you have 3k miles of borders) have easy access to guns, probably your country will have easy access to guns no matter what laws you implement.
I really can't see how GPS (or galileo) (or odometer checking) could be more usefull than taxing the gas/diesel, since both systems could be cheated, but you cannot drive without gas.
And there is another point of taxing gas (versus km driven): it estimulates people to buy more economic mileage cars.
So, why change a system that (a) works and (b) it's fair to a system that can be cheated and it's not so fair?
bonds and money are different things. specially when bonds are fixed in foreign currency - like this case. (still, there is a 'moral problem')
ow, yes, I'm an economist. Don't be arrogant.
The last time Brazil had inflation bigger than 6%/year was 20 years ago. So no, it's not 'sometimes'. It happened, not anymore.
About the auction: most of the countries pre-rate the interrest rates - mainly because this impacts the inflation.
And I don't really know the portuguese case in point. I think you're confusing 2 posters here.
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Again this bulshit-study where it is assumed that every pirated-material would be purchased if piracy wouldn't be on the table?
That's so 90's...
https://xkcd.com/882/
I need to say this: despite the fact that misoginy is a real problem in our society, this is just a spurious correlation.
I don't think you got the problem.
It is NOT 'buying something' that you know better and then 'selling it'.
It is buying something that NOBODY knows the value (actually, nobody knows what's inside) and, then, selling it.
When you buy, it can be LITERALLY nothing or something extremely rare and expensive. That is, by the very definition, gambling.
Of course we can all agree that gambling is just fine - but that doesn't make it less gambling.
I don't think things are black/or/white.
They won't block websites using this words. They will turn this into some kind of euphemism. Like: "You exceeded your monthly quota of broadband". At the same time, they will give you a few websites where this quota doesn't apply. It's already happening - slowly and in a very polite way, but it's happening.
I'm from Brazil. Here we have companies that give you unlimited data on WhatsApp. But if you want to use Telegram or Signal or whatever-the-fuck-you-want, your data will be charged. Think about it: after 25 days on the month, it is very likely that a significant amount of people on such kind of plans won't have access to Telegram/WhatsApp-competitor. This IS a BLOCK. It's bad for business, it's bad for us and it is bad for free speech.
That's the thing I don't get when I hear workers (like coders, developers, and engineers) saying that gig economy is nice.
I mean, you really don't get what's happening? Nobody is really winning on this, except for a few wealthy people. When they fire you to subcontract you as a 'gig', the economy on this won't go to other workers, but for executives and the owners of the companies in the transaction. You will receive less, have fewer securities, fewer benefits, so you can raise your nose and say that you are not a worker, but a contractor.
Anyway, I find very sad this state of affairs when our jobs are becoming steam and we are saying 'what a lovely steam is coming from the companies!'.
I always assumed that name as a synonym of 'assassin'. (blade runner = making the blade to run on someone's skin)
I don't really understand why Google bought Motorola to, then, sell it to Lenovo.
But it appears that if there was a good reason, this same reason was remembered again.
BTW, I think it was the only moment when Motorola did something really nice. Hope it happens again with HTC.
Don't let your nationalism blinds you.
They are in a position of inferior power towards the US gov. That's why they are in such defensive position.
And the news here are: "the us gov. is ACTUALLY spying on you and wikileaks knows how it is doing."
It's not defense, it's a rampage. Almost a genocide.
You should remember that Israel (which have one of the best armies in the world) is fighting against a ethnical group without army.
If anyone else in the world did that, We could call it a massacre, a butchery or even a genocide.
It's that true? (about the anatel backdoor)? :/
If it's true, it's time to show this in the light. It's outrageous, absurd and ridiculous (specially from a government that said that is wrong when talking about NSA).
Besides the 2 sources, there is anything wrote about it?
how in the hell a flamebait like this is modded +5 Informative?
And Chile is not a beacon of democracy: they had the worst dictatorship (and the longer) in the whole south america.
Yes, they have a good rate of gdp/capita. But mostly because they are sitting on a giant copper mine.
Sorry about the stupid question, but who the hell is DICE?
I'm using copy.com . It's good, reliable and the price is fine.
You're right. Always some post catches my eye, I read most of the comments. And the comments are always better than the post itself (which, by the way, is usually submitted by someone from the community). The discussion at slashdot is (most of the time) high quality. Actually, I don't know any other site with such high quality discussion (yes, it could be better, but if you feel down about the quality here, go check the discussion on youtube).
Slashdot is all about it's contributors. Without you, people, this site would be a empty shithole.
that's a i thing I never quite understood.
Here in Brazil, the fastest possible road is fixed at 110km/h (which is ridiculous, given that this kind of roads are the near perfect-ones). Usually a road have the speed limit of 80km/h (or 60km/h in urban areas). Why in the hell even 'economic' cars can go up to 160km/h? I would buy easily a car 10% cheaper for 40km/h less. And even if nobody else does, why the government don't enforce, let's say, 120km/h for cars?
That's quite right. The airforce voted for grippen MANY times. It was always the 'best' for their technical views.
Grippen WAS the frontrunner in the beggining. The technicians from the brazilian airforce always said the grippen was better (for some reasons I don't really know).
In the last government, the french Rafale was the frontrunner. The reasons were not technical, but political: to get close to france and, maybe, get a chair at the UN backed by France.
Then the president of Brazil changed (Lula -> Dilma) and the odds changed too. The f-18 was, then, the frontrunner with the new president. But after the NSA shit, things changed back again.
Brazilian here.
Guns are common place where I live. The thing in Brazil is that the law do not allow you to use your gun outside your property, but it's very easy to have access to guns to 'keep at home'. Anyway, it's a stupid law: if you shoot someone on the streets, the last law you are concerned it's the law about the limits of your gun.
Don't know, but I Think USA is more comparable (GDP per capita, etc) to Germany than to Mexico.
And, of course, if your neighbor (that you have 3k miles of borders) have easy access to guns, probably your country will have easy access to guns no matter what laws you implement.
I really can't see how GPS (or galileo) (or odometer checking) could be more usefull than taxing the gas/diesel, since both systems could be cheated, but you cannot drive without gas.
And there is another point of taxing gas (versus km driven): it estimulates people to buy more economic mileage cars.
So, why change a system that (a) works and (b) it's fair to a system that can be cheated and it's not so fair?
So the source used wikileaks to remain anonymous? heh
60k hours my led says in the box. and it's not the half-life, but the life itself. plasma last longer.
bonds and money are different things. specially when bonds are fixed in foreign currency - like this case. (still, there is a 'moral problem') ow, yes, I'm an economist. Don't be arrogant.
Still, there wasn't a "constant state of default for years", despite the inflation.
The last time Brazil had inflation bigger than 6%/year was 20 years ago. So no, it's not 'sometimes'. It happened, not anymore. About the auction: most of the countries pre-rate the interrest rates - mainly because this impacts the inflation. And I don't really know the portuguese case in point. I think you're confusing 2 posters here.