Here you go. No doubt a native speaker could improve it, and maybe someone with a bit of time can find Spanish versions of the links I haven't replaced.
España ha vuelto a mostrarse mucho más sabia que Francia o el Reino Unido en cuanto a rendirse ante las presiones de los lobbys internacionales. Me explico: el gobierno español, como cualquier gobierno, ha sido sujeto a presiones políticas intensas. No hay premios para adivinar quién ha hecho el mayor esfuerzo para cambiar el sistema democrático aquí en España y por todo el mundo: sí, como siempre, EEUU. La demostración: aquí está el informe 301 anual del IIP de EEUU, que menciona España con China, Rusia, y varios otros países como los peores infractores por no ceder a las exigencias de propiedad intelectual de los "autores" estadounidenses. El resumen del informe 301: Metas de EEUU aquí y en otras partes del mundo:
Las prioridades principales de la Administración este año siguen ser tratar debilidades en protección de y de hacer respetar los derechos de propiedad intelectual [DPI]... Aunque el Informe Especial 301 de este año muestra progreso positivo en muchos países, problemas endémicos de falsificación y piratería han continuado... lo que indica la necesidad de regímenes más fuertes de [protegir] y hacer repetar los DPI en esos países.
Cómo crees que "ayudan" a países como España a implementar regímenes más fuertes de DPI? Por el proceso democrático y escuchar la voluntad de la gente? (Chantaje, extorsiones y corrupción son palabras más adecuadas). Ay, pero se me olvidé, aquí en EEUU llamamos al proceso "difundir la democracia", qué tonto soy.
Lo que tenemos es un país extremadamente poderoso que corre por este pequeño planeta con un palo político excepcionalmente grande, pegando hasta que se someta cualquier país que se atreva a escuchar la voluntad de su gente con respeto a su idea de lo que es hacer respetar la propiedad intelectual (o cualquier otra idea). No me creas así de fácil: intenta leer el "Informe Especial 2009 de la Alianza Internacional de Propiedad Intelectual (IIPA)" [inglés] sobre España. El resumen ejecutivo para los perezosos [o los que no leen el inglés]:
La piratería por Internet en España sigue empeorando, tanto que muchas de las industrias de copyright creen que España tiene el peor problema de piratería por Internet per capita en Europa y una de las tasas de conjunto de piratería por Internet en el mundo. Los altos niveles de piratería se agravan por las políticas del gobierno español de: (1) "despenalizar" la distribución P2P de archivos (reflejado en la Circular de 2006 de la Fiscalía General) y (2) fallar en establecer los requisitos mínimos a nivel de la UE en cuanto a las responsabilidades de los proveedores de servicios de Internet según el Directivo de E-Commercio para que los dueños de derechos tengan las herramientas necesarias para hacer respetar sus derechos en Internet. Por resultado, la policía ha dejado de tomar acciones en Internet por las incertezas legales, y la Fiscalía ha pedido que sobresean casos criminales actuales contra webs ilegales de portales y vínculos. Es i
Yes and no. The UK is ahead in video surveillance (although it's not as exaggerated as many people on/. seem to believe); the US has been giving a surprising amount of power to the DHS; but only in one of the three countries you mentioned do people have to register their address with the local police. "Police state" is less a spectrum and more a set of attributes, and comparing different subsets objectively isn't easy.
As an internaut, does anything the Spanish government has done sound bad to you?
Yes, although it's not mentioned by the IIPA for some strange reason: the blank media levy. I use CDRs to back up my photos, etc; and I don't appreciate paying on the assumption that I'm using them to pass around copies of La Oreja de Van Gogh's latest album.
I'm not a native hispanohablante, but I could translate the gist of your message if you want.
I'm pretty sure this is what is supposed to happen in the EU now, with the WEEE directive. I haven't noticed that it's affected pricing structures yet, though.
- What's the duty cycle? (number of pages before things like imaging drum and fuser need replacement)
- Does it use a toner cartridge that costs $80-90 for 6,000 pages, or like the current set of $100 piece-of-shit Sharps, a cartridge that costs $100-120 for a mere 1000 pages?
I don't think those are independent questions. The expensive cartridges for cheap printers seem to include a drum (and possibly the fuser too - printers aren't my area of expertise).
Sure, people talk about the Blue Sky Of Death, but it wasn't really the sky that killed you. The problem was that if you could see a blue sky it meant that there were no clouds to protect you from the evil daystar. That's why all security-minded geeks had Curtains on our Windows.
Ubuntu's auto-partitioner gets this absolutely right
I'm really not convinced that Ubuntu's auto-partitioner needed to give me an 11GB swap partition. If I'd expected that I would have partitioned manually.
At some point in time you are going to have more linux users than those that are interested in attending your LUG.
I've been using Linux for 10 years now and I've never even looked up contact details for a LUG. Why would I? None of the distros I've installed has ever pushed them, and although I know they exist I have been given no reason to believe that they serve any purpose beyond socialising. I'm quite happy to be considered nerdy, but unless people publicise benefits of attending a LUG only hardcore fanboys are going to look into them.
Politicised. I think the reason climate science is being held to a higher standard is that the economic effect of the policy that it influences is much higher than most research.
If you were auditing the code for errors it would take someone with a very high level of meteorological education (PhD with years of experience and who has read all the relevant literature) as well as a lot of programming and computer experience.
Isn't the main criticism leveled by serious critics (as opposed to knee-jerk reaction critics) about misuse of statistics? It may be that the criticisms I've seen have been unrepresentative, but that's certainly the impression I've formed. In that light it's interesting that you don't mention statistics in the list of skills, and it's worth considering that a statistician could potentially find flaws without understanding the details of the meteorological processes modelled.
Climate change is being held to a different standard (expectations of every piece of "raw data" ever collected being made publicly available) because it's so controversial
Losing model-generated data isn't too big an issue, especially given that you would probably call it superseded by the data generated by your more recent models.
However, I don't think anyone would call the output of a model "raw data". I would understand the term to mean measurements obtained by instruments plus metadata describing those instruments and the way they were set up.
Why does this matter? Reproducibility. No-one can reproduce someone else's temperature measurements from the 1980s. The best they can do is reproduce the analysis, and the "rawer" the data, the more accurately they can reproduce it and check for flaws.
He is also saying there is zero eveidence in the scientific litrature to dispute the OBSERVATION that pumping half a trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere over the last 150yrs has already fucked up the climate.
That's a conclusion*, not an observation. In the context of scientific research, observations are measurements; while there is a general usage of the word meaning "remark", it's unhelpful to use it in this context.
* Or an assertion without evidence, but I'm giving benefit of the doubt.
Backing up your digital pics isn't that hard anyway. Any city will have loads of shops where you can get the contents of your SD card burned to CD while you wait. Get two copies and you can post one home (or to parents or a friend) as a precaution against physical loss.
What I did when travelling and using Internet cafés was to take a USB drive with Putty and an RSA key which required a passphrase. About 50% of the places I tried it* allowed me to run Putty from the drive, and a keylogger would have to also copy the key from the drive or from memory. Not perfect, but better than relying solely on passwords.
If you want to be fancy you could also use a cron script to change your authorized_keys every 12 hours - just make sure to take the time zone into account when working out which key to use.
* This was in Ecuador in 2005, so it can't necessarily be extrapolated
You were in no danger: the bus driver would have been used to the locals ignoring him. Driving in Liverpool terrifies me because the pedestrians have no sense of self-preservation.
The national unemployment rate exceeds 10 percent. In some states, the rate exceeds 12%.
By contrast, Japanese companies (for cultural reasons) and European companies (for both cultural reasons and legal reasons) make every effort to avoid firing workers during an economic recession.
Depends. Europe isn't a monoculture. Here in Spain many companies' first instinct is to fire people, and we currently have 18% unemployment.
Which definition of "violent" are you using? It seems to me that raping someone who's in a coma or killing a sleeping person by anaesthetic overdose could probably qualify as non-violent.
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Here you go. No doubt a native speaker could improve it, and maybe someone with a bit of time can find Spanish versions of the links I haven't replaced.
España ha vuelto a mostrarse mucho más sabia que Francia o el Reino Unido en cuanto a rendirse ante las presiones de los lobbys internacionales. Me explico: el gobierno español, como cualquier gobierno, ha sido sujeto a presiones políticas intensas. No hay premios para adivinar quién ha hecho el mayor esfuerzo para cambiar el sistema democrático aquí en España y por todo el mundo: sí, como siempre, EEUU. La demostración: aquí está el informe 301 anual del IIP de EEUU, que menciona España con China, Rusia, y varios otros países como los peores infractores por no ceder a las exigencias de propiedad intelectual de los "autores" estadounidenses. El resumen del informe 301: Metas de EEUU aquí y en otras partes del mundo:
Las prioridades principales de la Administración este año siguen ser tratar debilidades en protección de y de hacer respetar los derechos de propiedad intelectual [DPI]... Aunque el Informe Especial 301 de este año muestra progreso positivo en muchos países, problemas endémicos de falsificación y piratería han continuado... lo que indica la necesidad de regímenes más fuertes de [protegir] y hacer repetar los DPI en esos países.
Cómo crees que "ayudan" a países como España a implementar regímenes más fuertes de DPI? Por el proceso democrático y escuchar la voluntad de la gente? (Chantaje, extorsiones y corrupción son palabras más adecuadas). Ay, pero se me olvidé, aquí en EEUU llamamos al proceso "difundir la democracia", qué tonto soy.
Lo que tenemos es un país extremadamente poderoso que corre por este pequeño planeta con un palo político excepcionalmente grande, pegando hasta que se someta cualquier país que se atreva a escuchar la voluntad de su gente con respeto a su idea de lo que es hacer respetar la propiedad intelectual (o cualquier otra idea). No me creas así de fácil: intenta leer el "Informe Especial 2009 de la Alianza Internacional de Propiedad Intelectual (IIPA)" [inglés] sobre España. El resumen ejecutivo para los perezosos [o los que no leen el inglés]:
La piratería por Internet en España sigue empeorando, tanto que muchas de las industrias de copyright creen que España tiene el peor problema de piratería por Internet per capita en Europa y una de las tasas de conjunto de piratería por Internet en el mundo. Los altos niveles de piratería se agravan por las políticas del gobierno español de: (1) "despenalizar" la distribución P2P de archivos (reflejado en la Circular de 2006 de la Fiscalía General) y (2) fallar en establecer los requisitos mínimos a nivel de la UE en cuanto a las responsabilidades de los proveedores de servicios de Internet según el Directivo de E-Commercio para que los dueños de derechos tengan las herramientas necesarias para hacer respetar sus derechos en Internet. Por resultado, la policía ha dejado de tomar acciones en Internet por las incertezas legales, y la Fiscalía ha pedido que sobresean casos criminales actuales contra webs ilegales de portales y vínculos. Es i
It is not so strange
Sorry, I'm British. That was an example of British sarcasm.
Could you imagine the political backlash if Spanish government decided to be the first country in the first world not to levy the tax?
I hope there would be an even greater backlash in the UK, because they'd have to introduce one before this could happen.
Yes and no. The UK is ahead in video surveillance (although it's not as exaggerated as many people on /. seem to believe); the US has been giving a surprising amount of power to the DHS; but only in one of the three countries you mentioned do people have to register their address with the local police. "Police state" is less a spectrum and more a set of attributes, and comparing different subsets objectively isn't easy.
As an internaut, does anything the Spanish government has done sound bad to you?
Yes, although it's not mentioned by the IIPA for some strange reason: the blank media levy. I use CDRs to back up my photos, etc; and I don't appreciate paying on the assumption that I'm using them to pass around copies of La Oreja de Van Gogh's latest album.
I'm not a native hispanohablante, but I could translate the gist of your message if you want.
I'm pretty sure this is what is supposed to happen in the EU now, with the WEEE directive. I haven't noticed that it's affected pricing structures yet, though.
- What's the duty cycle? (number of pages before things like imaging drum and fuser need replacement)
- Does it use a toner cartridge that costs $80-90 for 6,000 pages, or like the current set of $100 piece-of-shit Sharps, a cartridge that costs $100-120 for a mere 1000 pages?
I don't think those are independent questions. The expensive cartridges for cheap printers seem to include a drum (and possibly the fuser too - printers aren't my area of expertise).
Sure, people talk about the Blue Sky Of Death, but it wasn't really the sky that killed you. The problem was that if you could see a blue sky it meant that there were no clouds to protect you from the evil daystar. That's why all security-minded geeks had Curtains on our Windows.
Ubuntu's auto-partitioner gets this absolutely right
I'm really not convinced that Ubuntu's auto-partitioner needed to give me an 11GB swap partition. If I'd expected that I would have partitioned manually.
The Bourne Identity?
So he's not really a politician but he likes to think that he is?
At some point in time you are going to have more linux users than those that are interested in attending your LUG.
I've been using Linux for 10 years now and I've never even looked up contact details for a LUG. Why would I? None of the distros I've installed has ever pushed them, and although I know they exist I have been given no reason to believe that they serve any purpose beyond socialising. I'm quite happy to be considered nerdy, but unless people publicise benefits of attending a LUG only hardcore fanboys are going to look into them.
Not consistently.
A euphemism for what?
Politicised. I think the reason climate science is being held to a higher standard is that the economic effect of the policy that it influences is much higher than most research.
If you were auditing the code for errors it would take someone with a very high level of meteorological education (PhD with years of experience and who has read all the relevant literature) as well as a lot of programming and computer experience.
Isn't the main criticism leveled by serious critics (as opposed to knee-jerk reaction critics) about misuse of statistics? It may be that the criticisms I've seen have been unrepresentative, but that's certainly the impression I've formed. In that light it's interesting that you don't mention statistics in the list of skills, and it's worth considering that a statistician could potentially find flaws without understanding the details of the meteorological processes modelled.
Climate change is being held to a different standard (expectations of every piece of "raw data" ever collected being made publicly available) because it's so controversial
That looks like a pretty bold euphemism.
Losing model-generated data isn't too big an issue, especially given that you would probably call it superseded by the data generated by your more recent models.
However, I don't think anyone would call the output of a model "raw data". I would understand the term to mean measurements obtained by instruments plus metadata describing those instruments and the way they were set up.
Why does this matter? Reproducibility. No-one can reproduce someone else's temperature measurements from the 1980s. The best they can do is reproduce the analysis, and the "rawer" the data, the more accurately they can reproduce it and check for flaws.
He is also saying there is zero eveidence in the scientific litrature to dispute the OBSERVATION that pumping half a trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere over the last 150yrs has already fucked up the climate.
That's a conclusion*, not an observation. In the context of scientific research, observations are measurements; while there is a general usage of the word meaning "remark", it's unhelpful to use it in this context.
* Or an assertion without evidence, but I'm giving benefit of the doubt.
Backing up your digital pics isn't that hard anyway. Any city will have loads of shops where you can get the contents of your SD card burned to CD while you wait. Get two copies and you can post one home (or to parents or a friend) as a precaution against physical loss.
I rather suspect that the portmanteau Republicrat was intended to refer to both of your major parties.
What I did when travelling and using Internet cafés was to take a USB drive with Putty and an RSA key which required a passphrase. About 50% of the places I tried it* allowed me to run Putty from the drive, and a keylogger would have to also copy the key from the drive or from memory. Not perfect, but better than relying solely on passwords.
If you want to be fancy you could also use a cron script to change your authorized_keys every 12 hours - just make sure to take the time zone into account when working out which key to use.
* This was in Ecuador in 2005, so it can't necessarily be extrapolated
I've heard that the black snot is caused by street-level exhaust fumes.
Netbooks aren't hassle to carry around everywhere. A full-sized laptop is.
You were in no danger: the bus driver would have been used to the locals ignoring him. Driving in Liverpool terrifies me because the pedestrians have no sense of self-preservation.
Depends. Europe isn't a monoculture. Here in Spain many companies' first instinct is to fire people, and we currently have 18% unemployment.
I think the point of the story isn't that eating mislabelled raw fish might cause disease but that a lot of raw fish is mislabelled.
Which definition of "violent" are you using? It seems to me that raping someone who's in a coma or killing a sleeping person by anaesthetic overdose could probably qualify as non-violent.