Well, I believe it is a matter of "scale". As usual, each tax is meant to be paid to city, state or federal govt. Currently, federal taxes make up for a large part of one's tax burden (not the majority, but still a larger-than-it-should part). This money is supposed to be invested for infrastructure that would help the country as a whole, but most of it goes to specific states (the ones with political power).
A sad instance of this problem is the public healthcare problem the city I live in is currently facing. Hospitals are built and managed by the municipality, but each appointment or procedure is paid by SUS (the Federal public healthcare system). SUS pays them regularly, but pays amounts that do not cover the costs (not even a fraction of it) the hospital had for said procedures. In the end, the city gets the to foot the bill, notwithstanding the fact that most healthcare-related taxes are paid do federal govt. As a result, the city is not able to keep a decent service. To top it off, none of the current candidates for mayor (we got elections in 2 weeks) has a real solution for this problem, mostly because they will never have enough power to revert the distortion of our tax system.
I beg to differ. Brazil is a "Federal Republic" only in its name. In practice, most of the power and tax revenues is kept by central government, which sucks when the state you live in doesn't get to see its tax money back as investments.
well, I actually like the idea of more countries, as means to split the power. If Google were to declare independence, they would need recognition and commerce treaties to successfully deal with another countries. Another cool scenario would be the Internet or parts of it declaring independence and starting to work as a (rather anarchic) country.
Yes, I've read too much Accelerando and am looking forward for automata corporation and countries =). The world is fuck'd up enough as it is... we could add some insanity just for the lulz.
I want to believe something is missing on your anecdote. The original owner should be free to decide if he wants to sell it and the price. Unless he is obviously squatting (think Pepsi squatting coke.com), which does not seem to be the case in both your anecdote and the blurb. Any price should be safe if the OP can prove that: a) he is actually using the domain, b) the domain is related to his activities/identity, c) the other part showed interest in buying before the his offer.
Wow, that's just stupid. And it is not like they don't know how to do it properly. I have a Creative Zen Micro, which is older than model V, that will charge happily on a PC without Creative Drivers. In fact, I've never installed them on my windows partition and just used gnomad on Linux. I'm glad I've never upgraded to the newer models then.
I am not sure about wall conectors thou. The one time I tried charging connecting to a friend's apple-wallplug-to-usb thingie, it did not work properly and left me without music for a whole 10-hour flight:/.
I can understand cheating in elementary and high school, but cheating in college/university, where exams are supposedly on stuff you like and have willfully chosen as career does not make sense.
there was a good amount of confusion that day. I remember hearing on the news that 4 other planes were hijacked, but it was dismissed afterwards as misinterpretation of their source. BBC's case could be simply confusion between "firefighters evacuate WTC7 due to imminent collapse" with "wtc7 has collapsed".
You just described Campus Party's modus operandi. People were required to tag everything and everything was meticulously checked at exit. It worked even in Brazil, where criminality is rampant.
Of course, this has some implications in emergency situations. I believe your local firefighting authority would not be happy with large concentration of people and no emergency exits.
No, this isn't taxation, which actually pays for services.
Even if you don't want to use such services.
This is protection money, plain and simple.
Pay the taxes or go to jail. Sounds like protection for me.
You sure? Wikipedia says they do have a standard collation:
All other nations marched in name order in the language of the host nation, which in this case is the Chinese language. The collation method used is based on the names as written in Simplified Chinese characters and is similar to that used in Chinese dictionaries. The names were sorted by the number of strokes in the first character of the name, then by the total number of strokes in each subsequent character.
my main gripe with Network Manager is precisely its simplicity. It doesn't tell me when a connection to some wifi network failed. E.g., I tell it to connect to a given network (clicking its entry in the applet's popup)... it then tries something (it doesn't tell me what it is doing) and fails silently. I just fucking hate this. I have switched to using just iwconfig, and having a couple of scripts for the networks I access the most. Just works.
So far, I haven't seen a perfect wifi network GUI. I'd go for a larger dialog, showing me the available networks in a list and a console-like box telling me what is going on when it attempts to connect.
True. Reading it more carefully, it looks like an sql engine is built-in in this framework, allowing for queries against a local cache/datastore. Not sure if it's a good idea in terms of performance, but surely programmers will like the familiarity.
On a slightly off-topic note. This picture was taken on "Escondido Road". "Escondido" is Portuguese (and also Spanish?) for "hidden" - which they aren't anymore =)
It also means that I cannot go into those building if I have a relative in the hospital, for fear that I might miss an important call to their deathbed, for example
Non-sense. Unless you are a doctor too, instantly knowing of the aggravation of your relative's problem will be of no help. If the hospital is calling you, I suppose they have already had a doctor see it.
Besides, all on-call people I know (doctors, military officers, etc) I know are responsible and avoid becoming "unavailable" when they are on call: they don't travel too far, they will not drink, they will not go anywhere they can't be reached.
what if I'm posting from yet another country using a Brazilian proxy or a pwned windows box?
That reminds me of the "Cicarelli-gate". A famous model and TV host was filmed having sex on a public Spanish beach by a paparazzi. Multiple copies of the video ended up in Youtube (an US service). Cicarelli demanded Google to remove offending videos. Google complied as possible, but some copies still survived.
Cicarelli SUED Google Brazil (who did not hold the data) over some arcane Brazilian law regarding honor, and demanded Youtube (the whole service!) to be blocked in the whole country. An injunction was given on a friday night saying youtube was to be blocked by ISPs. Some ISPs proceeded do block it without being officially notified of the court order (youtube is a bandwidth hog for them) and were also sued by users for that. The court order was overruled two days later. By that time, the video was all over the Internet. I was in Germany at the time and promptly forwarded copies to all my contacts. Was I infringing any law? Clearly not. All the resources spent (both by Cicarelli and our Justice) were for nothing? Yes.
Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it. Unfortunately, this also works for pedophilia.
MS is physically selling stuff in the EU. Google's merely passing information that lives outside Brazil. When I connect to Orkut.com (i.e. do bussiness), who is serving me? Google Brazil? No! Google Inc. is serving me and they reside in the US, outside Brazilian jurisdiction.
Analogy time: If I, Brazilian, post "racist speech" (illegal in Brazil, legal in US) in a Orkut forum (which are hosted in the US), am I infringing Brazilian law? I don't think so.
I'm confused. If users in Brazil were the ones running a pedophilia community, and the Brazil government is going after people in Brazil, would they have any legal grounds to issue a subpoena in the US?
Of course, provided the Brazilian justice required it to US judicial system using proper diplomatic channels or Interpol structure. They didn't, because they are a Senate/Congress Investigation Commission (CPI), the greatest Brazilian joke.
And where in the Constitution does it say you have a clear right of privacy? Hint, hint, it doesn't. It merely says you can't be forced to self-incriminate. "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people,"
The constitution does not enumerate rights. It enumerates rights that cannot be revoked.
So... let's say you are a American and Google hands your data (which lives in the US) to US government without a proper US subpoena. It would be wrong and illegal. Now, change "American" to "Brazilian" and "US Govt" to "Brazilian Govt". It is still wrong and illegal.
People complained about DOJ's fishing expedictions in the past, for it violated the privacy of social networks users (mostly USians). I see no difference in this case: Brazilian users' data, if held in US, cannot be handed without a US subpoena. This subpoena would be granted by the US Justice, because paedophilia is also a crime in the US; but Brazilians refuse to do things the right away and prefer to strongarm google into giving data. Seriously, threatening to arrest employees? WTF mate.
Any Brazilian knows this Senate/Congress Investigation Commission (CPI) thingie is merely smokes and mirrors, a political thing. Nothing will come out of it. It will end up in "pizza" as we say. It is an absurd in and off itself: the legislative branch should be... legislating! Investigation and prosecution should be left for the courts. But our democracy/republic is a joke, and no one seems to care. Sigh
Still, there was no due process. The subpoena should have been issued in the US, not in Brazil. The subpoena'd data was in the US; Google violated the right to privacy (in US) of the users and the service's EULA by handing the information. In theory, this information is of no value as evidence. It may be useful as leads to suspects, thou.
Still won't change a thing. This is Brazil after all, no one is going to be arrested. Children will still be abused and pedophilia imagery will still be easy to find.
I'm also betting here the some hephebophilia (sp?) (14-18yr) cases will emerge on this, mostly the "piriguetes"; scantly clad girls who willingly post pictures online. Can you sue them?
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Well, I believe it is a matter of "scale". As usual, each tax is meant to be paid to city, state or federal govt. Currently, federal taxes make up for a large part of one's tax burden (not the majority, but still a larger-than-it-should part). This money is supposed to be invested for infrastructure that would help the country as a whole, but most of it goes to specific states (the ones with political power).
A sad instance of this problem is the public healthcare problem the city I live in is currently facing. Hospitals are built and managed by the municipality, but each appointment or procedure is paid by SUS (the Federal public healthcare system). SUS pays them regularly, but pays amounts that do not cover the costs (not even a fraction of it) the hospital had for said procedures. In the end, the city gets the to foot the bill, notwithstanding the fact that most healthcare-related taxes are paid do federal govt. As a result, the city is not able to keep a decent service. To top it off, none of the current candidates for mayor (we got elections in 2 weeks) has a real solution for this problem, mostly because they will never have enough power to revert the distortion of our tax system.
I beg to differ. Brazil is a "Federal Republic" only in its name. In practice, most of the power and tax revenues is kept by central government, which sucks when the state you live in doesn't get to see its tax money back as investments.
well, I actually like the idea of more countries, as means to split the power. If Google were to declare independence, they would need recognition and commerce treaties to successfully deal with another countries. Another cool scenario would be the Internet or parts of it declaring independence and starting to work as a (rather anarchic) country.
Yes, I've read too much Accelerando and am looking forward for automata corporation and countries =). The world is fuck'd up enough as it is... we could add some insanity just for the lulz.
well, they could use Creative Common nc-nd-sa
well, if someone comes with a non-official patch or plugin for that, noone could blame Google.
I want to believe something is missing on your anecdote. The original owner should be free to decide if he wants to sell it and the price. Unless he is obviously squatting (think Pepsi squatting coke.com), which does not seem to be the case in both your anecdote and the blurb. Any price should be safe if the OP can prove that: a) he is actually using the domain, b) the domain is related to his activities/identity, c) the other part showed interest in buying before the his offer.
Wow, that's just stupid. And it is not like they don't know how to do it properly. I have a Creative Zen Micro, which is older than model V, that will charge happily on a PC without Creative Drivers. In fact, I've never installed them on my windows partition and just used gnomad on Linux. I'm glad I've never upgraded to the newer models then.
I am not sure about wall conectors thou. The one time I tried charging connecting to a friend's apple-wallplug-to-usb thingie, it did not work properly and left me without music for a whole 10-hour flight :/.
I can understand cheating in elementary and high school, but cheating in college/university, where exams are supposedly on stuff you like and have willfully chosen as career does not make sense.
there was a good amount of confusion that day. I remember hearing on the news that 4 other planes were hijacked, but it was dismissed afterwards as misinterpretation of their source. BBC's case could be simply confusion between "firefighters evacuate WTC7 due to imminent collapse" with "wtc7 has collapsed".
Rule 34 says:
There is porn of it. No exceptions
Rule 35 says:
If no porn is found at the moment, it will be created.
You just described Campus Party's modus operandi. People were required to tag everything and everything was meticulously checked at exit. It worked even in Brazil, where criminality is rampant. Of course, this has some implications in emergency situations. I believe your local firefighting authority would not be happy with large concentration of people and no emergency exits.
No, this isn't taxation, which actually pays for services. Even if you don't want to use such services. This is protection money, plain and simple. Pay the taxes or go to jail. Sounds like protection for me.
So no, they didn't make anything up.
my main gripe with Network Manager is precisely its simplicity. It doesn't tell me when a connection to some wifi network failed. E.g., I tell it to connect to a given network (clicking its entry in the applet's popup)... it then tries something (it doesn't tell me what it is doing) and fails silently. I just fucking hate this. I have switched to using just iwconfig, and having a couple of scripts for the networks I access the most. Just works.
So far, I haven't seen a perfect wifi network GUI. I'd go for a larger dialog, showing me the available networks in a list and a console-like box telling me what is going on when it attempts to connect.
right quote is: "nuke it from orbit. Is the only way to be sure"
True. Reading it more carefully, it looks like an sql engine is built-in in this framework, allowing for queries against a local cache/datastore. Not sure if it's a good idea in terms of performance, but surely programmers will like the familiarity.
In their Photos example, I see SQL queries embebbed in javascript source. Not sure this is a good idea... http://sproutcore.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/clients/photos/main.js
just registered some domains for it http://www.hotprinterporn.com/ http://www.2printers1toner.com/
On a slightly off-topic note. This picture was taken on "Escondido Road". "Escondido" is Portuguese (and also Spanish?) for "hidden" - which they aren't anymore =)
Funny with a realistic and sad twist. Brillant post. Thread over, you may all go home.
Non-sense. Unless you are a doctor too, instantly knowing of the aggravation of your relative's problem will be of no help. If the hospital is calling you, I suppose they have already had a doctor see it.
Besides, all on-call people I know (doctors, military officers, etc) I know are responsible and avoid becoming "unavailable" when they are on call: they don't travel too far, they will not drink, they will not go anywhere they can't be reached.
what if I'm posting from yet another country using a Brazilian proxy or a pwned windows box?
That reminds me of the "Cicarelli-gate". A famous model and TV host was filmed having sex on a public Spanish beach by a paparazzi. Multiple copies of the video ended up in Youtube (an US service). Cicarelli demanded Google to remove offending videos. Google complied as possible, but some copies still survived.
Cicarelli SUED Google Brazil (who did not hold the data) over some arcane Brazilian law regarding honor, and demanded Youtube (the whole service!) to be blocked in the whole country. An injunction was given on a friday night saying youtube was to be blocked by ISPs. Some ISPs proceeded do block it without being officially notified of the court order (youtube is a bandwidth hog for them) and were also sued by users for that. The court order was overruled two days later. By that time, the video was all over the Internet. I was in Germany at the time and promptly forwarded copies to all my contacts. Was I infringing any law? Clearly not. All the resources spent (both by Cicarelli and our Justice) were for nothing? Yes.
Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it. Unfortunately, this also works for pedophilia.
MS is physically selling stuff in the EU. Google's merely passing information that lives outside Brazil. When I connect to Orkut.com (i.e. do bussiness), who is serving me? Google Brazil? No! Google Inc. is serving me and they reside in the US, outside Brazilian jurisdiction.
Analogy time: If I, Brazilian, post "racist speech" (illegal in Brazil, legal in US) in a Orkut forum (which are hosted in the US), am I infringing Brazilian law? I don't think so.
Of course, provided the Brazilian justice required it to US judicial system using proper diplomatic channels or Interpol structure. They didn't, because they are a Senate/Congress Investigation Commission (CPI), the greatest Brazilian joke.
And where in the Constitution does it say you have a clear right of privacy? Hint, hint, it doesn't. It merely says you can't be forced to self-incriminate. "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people," The constitution does not enumerate rights. It enumerates rights that cannot be revoked.So... let's say you are a American and Google hands your data (which lives in the US) to US government without a proper US subpoena. It would be wrong and illegal. Now, change "American" to "Brazilian" and "US Govt" to "Brazilian Govt". It is still wrong and illegal.
People complained about DOJ's fishing expedictions in the past, for it violated the privacy of social networks users (mostly USians). I see no difference in this case: Brazilian users' data, if held in US, cannot be handed without a US subpoena. This subpoena would be granted by the US Justice, because paedophilia is also a crime in the US; but Brazilians refuse to do things the right away and prefer to strongarm google into giving data. Seriously, threatening to arrest employees? WTF mate.
Any Brazilian knows this Senate/Congress Investigation Commission (CPI) thingie is merely smokes and mirrors, a political thing. Nothing will come out of it. It will end up in "pizza" as we say. It is an absurd in and off itself: the legislative branch should be... legislating! Investigation and prosecution should be left for the courts. But our democracy/republic is a joke, and no one seems to care. Sigh
Still, there was no due process. The subpoena should have been issued in the US, not in Brazil. The subpoena'd data was in the US; Google violated the right to privacy (in US) of the users and the service's EULA by handing the information. In theory, this information is of no value as evidence. It may be useful as leads to suspects, thou.
Still won't change a thing. This is Brazil after all, no one is going to be arrested. Children will still be abused and pedophilia imagery will still be easy to find.
I'm also betting here the some hephebophilia (sp?) (14-18yr) cases will emerge on this, mostly the "piriguetes"; scantly clad girls who willingly post pictures online. Can you sue them?