São Paulo has had car circulation restrictions based on plate number for years now (more than a decade, too lazy to check exactly when). Mon-Fri, each day a couple different numbers aren't allowed on the streets.
The streets are still clogged, still polluted as hell. Government says it improved things. I can only imagine what it would be like without this restriction, then.
and I'm back to college to study law. Because the only people who are really making money in those whole shameful mess are the lawyers. And why shouldn't they? This level of stupidity and greed should be taxed.
Leonard Nimoy is 82 and he probably has a few more years ahead of him. Was he planning on living to be 1000 years old?
Smoking has pluses and minuses.
If he didn't have COPD, he'd probably live another 5 or 10 years longer than whatever he's got.
COPD is one of the more painful ways to die. It's like breathing through a straw.
I will back this argument with a family case.
My grandfather is 91. Smoked for most of his life. He now has emphysema, and we fear he will not see another year. Except for his lungs his health is perfect. He could easily live another 10 years. Not even "normal" problems like cholesterol, blood pressure or anything. Perfect health at 91. Except for having lost 80% of his lung capacity because of smoking.
Watching him is one of the main reasons I quit smoking 2 years ago. Just in time, according to my pneumologist, to avoid lung damage (my long are still considered normal, but were closing in on borderline).
And still mostly civilized countries don't consider bigotry as "free speech".
Say you go on air and accuse someone publicly of having committed a crime. Not saying he "might have", saying he actually did. You are going to get sued for it. Are you going to argue "free speech"?
"Free speech" is not a carte blanche for "irresponsible speech", "bigotry" or "verbal assault". Racist is considered a "hate crime" is most civilized countries. The fact it isn't in the US tells more about the USA than about freedom.
First Amendment is the standard go-to bullshit everyone proclaims right now. I mean, seriously? If I threaten your life, it is ok because I have a first amendment right? How about if I'm being racist? What if I prank call 911? How about screaming 'FIRE!' inside a crowed theater? Hey, I was just expressing myself, and I have a first amendment right to do so.
Yeah, here is some free expression for you: FUCK YOU!
People should wake up and smell the times, and see that John Locke's idea of "rights" is dead and buried and, if you are still defending those views you are an ignorant self-centered narcissistic a-hole, that should never reproduce for the sake of humanity.
For me its a result of Monsanto patenting food staples and suing world + dog. I don't agree with a few multinationals owning patents of the world's food staples so I will do everything I can to avoid GMO products for this reason and this reason only. And I will continue to warn everyone I know against purchasing GMO products until they are no longer patented and the companies stop abusing the patents. THe End.
Ok, this is the first argument I've heard against GMO that I can support. And with that, I just joined the anti-GMO boat...
How about we stop trying to sweep shit under the rug, while sitting calmly in our homes and playing Candy Crush on facebook, and start acting like responsible citizens and taking steps to improve the government?
Hit the streets protesting, vote responsibly, gather signatures to force your representatives to take measures.
Okay, I'll do it when you do.
Then you should have started doing it 21 years ago, when I hit the streets protesting for the first time. What is taking you so long?
How about we stop trying to sweep shit under the rug, while sitting calmly in our homes and playing Candy Crush on facebook, and start acting like responsible citizens and taking steps to improve the government?
Hit the streets protesting, vote responsibly, gather signatures to force your representatives to take measures.
When you propose or implement things like this, you are sending them the mess it is ok to do it.
What we need is some serious effort into platform integration between desktop, tablet and cellphone. Apple offers, Microsoft wants to offer it. Why don't we have it with Linux/Android?
I guess you missed that whole Ubuntu Phone thing, huh?
Oh, I guess I did miss it hitting the shops and getting widespread acceptance and vendor support.
What we need is some serious effort into platform integration between desktop, tablet and cellphone. Apple offers, Microsoft wants to offer it. Why don't we have it with Linux/Android?
If not already, this kind of seamless integrations between their devices is something people will require soon and, unless you think android is going to take over on the desktop, Linux developers might want to get cracking here, otherwise Linux might soon start losing all the ground it conquered.
There is no way to defend an undersea cable from the submarine that will be splicing into it far out to sea after a ship accidently drags their anchor across it close to shore.
Oh, c'mon. Of course there is. Sharks with freaking laser beams attacked to their foreheads have been around for sometime now, and are the perfect line of defense.
Back then they didn't know they themselves had been spied on. But I agree. It didn't take a Kreskin to see the spying on Brazil revelations coming once they started. They should have stood up for it. In fairness to the region, other Latin American countries did.
Wtf? Everybody knows the USA spies on everyone else. Saying she didn't know just makes her look dumb. The reason she didn't stand for Snowden is because of some economic disputes doing on with the USA right now. It is as simple as that.
What about the super secret nuclear plant at Recende which even the normally craven IAEA says is bizarrely inaccessible? What about Brazil's SNI and ABIN intelligence agencies which are literally only answerable to the person of the President and even that only nominally and that they had been caught wiretapping every single person in the Federal government in 2008?
Oh, please. SNI/ABIN couldn't find the brand of underwear the president uses, if they had to (it is Zorba, by the way). And the nuclear plant in Rezende is mostly for show, and decades behind most countries with nuclear technology.
The target is the deep sea oil exploration and the alternative fuel technologies. Those are valuable and a threat.
And to say she didn't know USA was spying other countries? WTF? Seriously? No one can be that dumb.
Right now, Brazil is the world leader in deep sea oil exploration/extraction (way, WAY ahead of any other). Also, it has the most successful alternative fuel program in the world (most successful by any measure you chose, be it price, adoption, w/e). Those two things alone paint a big target mark in the country's back, and make it a prime target for espionage. The USA tried to buy those technologies in the past, and was mostly refused, if I recall correctly.
Some people will say that Brazil once had a nuke program. Who cares? These fuel technologies are a bigger threat to the USA than any patched up nukes would be, by the simple fact Brazil is using them, and they are making a difference. See all the wars that are fought because of oil, and all the anti-ethanol lobbing always going on in the US.
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Because, you know, this is slashdot. We won't believe something is dead until netcraft reports it...
São Paulo has had car circulation restrictions based on plate number for years now (more than a decade, too lazy to check exactly when). Mon-Fri, each day a couple different numbers aren't allowed on the streets.
The streets are still clogged, still polluted as hell. Government says it improved things. I can only imagine what it would be like without this restriction, then.
and I'm back to college to study law. Because the only people who are really making money in those whole shameful mess are the lawyers. And why shouldn't they? This level of stupidity and greed should be taxed.
Leonard Nimoy is 82 and he probably has a few more years ahead of him. Was he planning on living to be 1000 years old?
Smoking has pluses and minuses.
If he didn't have COPD, he'd probably live another 5 or 10 years longer than whatever he's got.
COPD is one of the more painful ways to die. It's like breathing through a straw.
I will back this argument with a family case.
My grandfather is 91. Smoked for most of his life. He now has emphysema, and we fear he will not see another year.
Except for his lungs his health is perfect. He could easily live another 10 years. Not even "normal" problems like cholesterol, blood pressure or anything. Perfect health at 91. Except for having lost 80% of his lung capacity because of smoking.
Watching him is one of the main reasons I quit smoking 2 years ago. Just in time, according to my pneumologist, to avoid lung damage (my long are still considered normal, but were closing in on borderline).
And still mostly civilized countries don't consider bigotry as "free speech".
Say you go on air and accuse someone publicly of having committed a crime. Not saying he "might have", saying he actually did. You are going to get sued for it. Are you going to argue "free speech"?
"Free speech" is not a carte blanche for "irresponsible speech", "bigotry" or "verbal assault". Racist is considered a "hate crime" is most civilized countries. The fact it isn't in the US tells more about the USA than about freedom.
First Amendment is the standard go-to bullshit everyone proclaims right now.
I mean, seriously? If I threaten your life, it is ok because I have a first amendment right? How about if I'm being racist? What if I prank call 911? How about screaming 'FIRE!' inside a crowed theater? Hey, I was just expressing myself, and I have a first amendment right to do so.
Yeah, here is some free expression for you: FUCK YOU!
People should wake up and smell the times, and see that John Locke's idea of "rights" is dead and buried and, if you are still defending those views you are an ignorant self-centered narcissistic a-hole, that should never reproduce for the sake of humanity.
Because you can never have too many cores that you aren't using most of the time.
Install McAfee Antivírus, and problem solved: no more unused cores.
Are you also against books, movies and software because of non-sensible copyright laws? You sound confused at best.
Do you have any example regarding GMO that is not involved in non-sensible copyright laws?
What you should really be for is sensible patent laws ...
Or reading comprehension courses? One would hope you figured we are anti-GMO EXACTLY because of non-sensible patent laws.
For me its a result of Monsanto patenting food staples and suing world + dog. I don't agree with a few multinationals owning patents of the world's food staples so I will do everything I can to avoid GMO products for this reason and this reason only. And I will continue to warn everyone I know against purchasing GMO products until they are no longer patented and the companies stop abusing the patents. THe End.
Ok, this is the first argument I've heard against GMO that I can support. And with that, I just joined the anti-GMO boat...
Goodreads.com will provide you with several recommendation reads, as well as several book clubs.
As for book clubs, if you are into SF/F, you might want to check Sword and Laser (www.swordandlaser.com), which is both a book club and a podcast.
As far as book lists, check this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12864.Novels_mentioned_in_Among_Others_by_Jo_Walton
hasn't seen my "business" during vacations since these shenanigans began?
Even my daughter goes to Canada instead of the US.
One would guess the "terrorist won".
No one in the data retention business ever stopped using tapes. See the numbers on LTO units being sold, if you need proof.
This is a shitty article.
How about we stop trying to sweep shit under the rug, while sitting calmly in our homes and playing Candy Crush on facebook, and start acting like responsible citizens and taking steps to improve the government?
Hit the streets protesting, vote responsibly, gather signatures to force your representatives to take measures.
Okay, I'll do it when you do.
Then you should have started doing it 21 years ago, when I hit the streets protesting for the first time. What is taking you so long?
How about we stop trying to sweep shit under the rug, while sitting calmly in our homes and playing Candy Crush on facebook, and start acting like responsible citizens and taking steps to improve the government?
Hit the streets protesting, vote responsibly, gather signatures to force your representatives to take measures.
When you propose or implement things like this, you are sending them the mess it is ok to do it.
Well, she is kinda genderless herself, so...
Using "he\she" when talking about the Brazilian president is oddly appropriate...
Not to mentioned 2.4 was iptables already.
Ipchains was 2.0, maybe 2.2, if I recall.
What we need is some serious effort into platform integration between desktop, tablet and cellphone. Apple offers, Microsoft wants to offer it. Why don't we have it with Linux/Android?
I guess you missed that whole Ubuntu Phone thing, huh?
Oh, I guess I did miss it hitting the shops and getting widespread acceptance and vendor support.
Sorry, my bad.
What we need is some serious effort into platform integration between desktop, tablet and cellphone. Apple offers, Microsoft wants to offer it. Why don't we have it with Linux/Android?
If not already, this kind of seamless integrations between their devices is something people will require soon and, unless you think android is going to take over on the desktop, Linux developers might want to get cracking here, otherwise Linux might soon start losing all the ground it conquered.
For what it's worth:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
There is no way to defend an undersea cable from the submarine that will be splicing into it far out to sea after a ship accidently drags their anchor across it close to shore.
Oh, c'mon. Of course there is. Sharks with freaking laser beams attacked to their foreheads have been around for sometime now, and are the perfect line of defense.
Back then they didn't know they themselves had been spied on. But I agree. It didn't take a Kreskin to see the spying on Brazil revelations coming once they started. They should have stood up for it. In fairness to the region, other Latin American countries did.
Wtf? Everybody knows the USA spies on everyone else. Saying she didn't know just makes her look dumb. The reason she didn't stand for Snowden is because of some economic disputes doing on with the USA right now. It is as simple as that.
What about the super secret nuclear plant at Recende which even the normally craven IAEA says is bizarrely inaccessible? What about Brazil's SNI and ABIN intelligence agencies which are literally only answerable to the person of the President and even that only nominally and that they had been caught wiretapping every single person in the Federal government in 2008?
Oh, please. SNI/ABIN couldn't find the brand of underwear the president uses, if they had to (it is Zorba, by the way). And the nuclear plant in Rezende is mostly for show, and decades behind most countries with nuclear technology.
The target is the deep sea oil exploration and the alternative fuel technologies. Those are valuable and a threat.
And to say she didn't know USA was spying other countries? WTF? Seriously? No one can be that dumb.
Right now, Brazil is the world leader in deep sea oil exploration/extraction (way, WAY ahead of any other). Also, it has the most successful alternative fuel program in the world (most successful by any measure you chose, be it price, adoption, w/e). Those two things alone paint a big target mark in the country's back, and make it a prime target for espionage. The USA tried to buy those technologies in the past, and was mostly refused, if I recall correctly.
Some people will say that Brazil once had a nuke program. Who cares? These fuel technologies are a bigger threat to the USA than any patched up nukes would be, by the simple fact Brazil is using them, and they are making a difference. See all the wars that are fought because of oil, and all the anti-ethanol lobbing always going on in the US.