South America population: 387.5 million (South America is part of Latin America)
Venezuela population: 27 million (the only South American country that's really into baseball)
Considering all Latin American countries baseball fans except South America but including Venezuela, that's gives us a rough estimate of only 37% of the Latin American population being baseball fans. You're not helping in your 'Americans aren't insular' campaing.;-)
The US really needs a legal overhaul - SOPA, PIPA and CIPA should be approved, put them through and let people live under this regime for 3-4 months, then people will start to notice how truly wrong the world has become.
My guess would be 3 or 4 years, or, more probably, 30 or 40.
A lot of us - even those in the city - still believe in a very "frontier" mindset. Protect your home and loved ones at all costs etc. But that doesn't mean we aren't responsible about it.
This seems to me (and I can be very wrong about it, of course) that mindset (the "all costs" part, which I guess includes shooting people) is something which could explains a lot about USA culture and even the government, specially the last wars. This isn't part of my culture, the Brazilian one, so you can see where do my questions come from. Many Brazilians, maybe most of us (me included) think we have a serious gun violence problem and a good part of the solution would be having less guns, not more.
Thanks for the examples and explanations.:-)
I'm not against killing as a last resort for self-defense (your own or people around you), but killing someone for protecting property, not life, is really something which I just can't agree. I'm not a Bible scholar by any means, but I do believe someone who does that (killing someone for protecting property, not life) will go to hell (if it exists, something I'm not sure). Matthew 19:24: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Harm criminals, even shoot them in the legs and knock them unconscious, but just enough harm to protect you and your friends and family.
I agree with you about death penalty for the same reason you stated: no justice system is perfect and sending an innocent to death row is, IMHO, something that should never ever happen.
First of all, yep, I don't live in the USA. Contrary to what you think, I never thought that USA has shooting sprees everywhere nor I said that.
My comments about death penalty and etc are unrelated rants about what I don't understand about the USA culture.
And I'm not lecturing anyone nor saying that Brazil is better than the USA. I'd just like to see someone explain something. And please point me where I've done this. I started my post with "As a Brazilian" parodying the way the original comment was started ("As a New Jerseyan").
Summary: you're accusing me of writing things I didn't, so I respectifully think you should keep your sactimonious feces to yourself.;-)
(For instance, in Florida, it's legal to kill someone who is putting the lives of your livestock at risk. A cow can run around $5,000 and farmers aren't exactly rich.)
As a Brazilian, I'm disgusted at how some (maybe most) Americans value and money property over life. In addition, I really don't get how a mostly Christian country likes death penalty and wars so much. "Thou shalt not kill." doesn't have exceptions I know of. Jesus never killed anyone and even healed someone he could connsider an enemy at least once.
Brazil's government/society isn't focused enough on the future (education)
As a Brazilian, unfortunately I need to agree with you. Our education system is improving, but too slowly for the problems and neglect we've had. On the other hand, many people who didn't valued education in the past has been valuing it now, due to the economic growth and the demand for more specialized and educated labor.
This goes against the very idea of Java: write once, run everywhere. And there is at least one compiler to native code: gcj
way to point and click on a java file and have it run without having to type java x
If vact, there is: executable JAR.. There's also Java Web Start, that allows running a Java window application in a single click from a webpage, using the sandbox security. For this two options, you need the Java runtime installed
As a result JavaFX was too little too late.
Sun didn't care for desktop Java for a long time, unfortunately.
The main issue with biofuels isn't really food or cost. It's about land use, energy efficiency and sustainability. Brazil is usually given as a great example, but they have only 8 million cars, which use a maximum of 25 percent biofuel, the rest is still gasoline or diesel.
You've got very wrong information here. Just 8 million cars in Brazil? The article said 8 million cars running on ethanol, not 8 million cars overall. There are almost 28 million cars running now. 25% is the amount of ethanol in the gas sold here. 85% of the current Brazilian car production is comprised of flex-fuel cars, that run on ethanol, gas or any mixture of them.
And Brazil is one of the countries that is deforesting the fastest in the world.
That's right, but most of the deforestation is done for wood and to open land to cattle, not agriculture. The Amazon land is not good for agriculture.
(Reposting as myself because I posted as anonymous by mistake)
Brazil has been using sugar cane ethanol since the 70s and we never had any food price surges because of it. Most of our car production comes with engines that can use any mixture of ethanol and gas, so you can choose the best one by cost or by ecofriendliness or any other reason. Even if the sugar price raised, we could see it as a good consequence: people would eat less sugar, less calories, maybe even eating more fruit!:-)
Corn-based ethanol and the US tax in Brazilian ethanol is a something completely anti-free-market in the land that people love to quote the "invisible hand of the market" as the solution to almost anything. Go figure.
The first thing I thought: "Gran Turismo" gamer becomes "Pro Race Driver". TOCA Race Driver (formerly known as Pro Race Driver in US) is a series of games that is a direct competitor of the Gran Turismo.
I feel that most people here is Slashdot didn't get Opera Unite:
It's not meant to replace traditional webservers. It's meant for average joes to be able to quickly and easily run some ephemeral services from their own computer, specially file sharing. If I want to send some file to a friend, I need to upload it to some place (via e-mail. FTP, whatever). With Unite, I just turn on the file sharing service and give the URL to my friend. No uploading needed.
Bandwidth issues are mostly moot, as Unite services are not meant to replace traditional Web servers (unless you share loads of files with doeload-hungry friends, of course:))
Regarding security: people talk about this issue as if Unite was a full-blown Web server. It's is not Apache nor IIS (God forbid), it's just an environment where simple applications written in HTML, CSS and Javascript are run. So Unite is as secure as Opera's Javascript security, and Opera has a very good security record to date.
The whole environment is sandboxed. All file access is only allowed in folders chosen by the user, and only when it runs some service that needs file access. Unite provides a file storage for services date, but the service doesn't know where its data is located.
Opera does not run Unite by default. No services are run by default, just the ones started by the user.
At least, here in Brazil, the election results always match the exit polls and no serious allegations of tampering were made. We've been using this system for 10 years without any major problems.
Something that the Americans could learn from the Brazilian system is the simplicity of its use: no touch screen, you just type the number of your candidate in a keyboard that is the same used in telephones and then press a huge green button.
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The subtler the humor, the better. Kudos to you.:)
I have Opera 9.5 running for 14 hours, checking both IMAP and POP mail accounts totalling tens of thounsands of mails and RSS posts, some 20 RSS feeds, various downloads during the day and it's consuming 111 megabytes (working set size given by Process Explorer) in Windows XP.
Conclusion: the patent law (at least the american one) is insane. Even the slightest possibility of being sued for buying some legal product is scary, specially in countries that hava software patents. The american patent system really needs some very serious debugging (that could be extended to the political system too with great benefits).
Let's suppose Linux really infringes Microsoft patents. I'm not a Linux vendor, I'm just an user. Why would I be held liable for patent infrigement for something I have not made? It's just like Ford infringing some Toyota patent and then Toyota sues me for owning a Ford car. That's insane.
I mean, while we're making non sequitur comments that have nothing to do with the parent post we may as well do something tasty, right?
Parent post title: CIA Just a Servant [of the government of the USA].
The government of the USA -> the ones that were elected to represent all the USA people.
The government of the USA has taken actions that make people from Latin America countries really pissed off.
QED.
Nice use of nice sequitur, tough.:)
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Beta isn't evolution. It's devolution, the opposite of evolution.
By the way, I really love the comments immutability and even the Slashdot explanation for it.
According to Wikipedia:
Considering all Latin American countries baseball fans except South America but including Venezuela, that's gives us a rough estimate of only 37% of the Latin American population being baseball fans. You're not helping in your 'Americans aren't insular' campaing. ;-)
The US really needs a legal overhaul - SOPA, PIPA and CIPA should be approved, put them through and let people live under this regime for 3-4 months, then people will start to notice how truly wrong the world has become.
My guess would be 3 or 4 years, or, more probably, 30 or 40.
A lot of us - even those in the city - still believe in a very "frontier" mindset. Protect your home and loved ones at all costs etc. But that doesn't mean we aren't responsible about it.
This seems to me (and I can be very wrong about it, of course) that mindset (the "all costs" part, which I guess includes shooting people) is something which could explains a lot about USA culture and even the government, specially the last wars. This isn't part of my culture, the Brazilian one, so you can see where do my questions come from. Many Brazilians, maybe most of us (me included) think we have a serious gun violence problem and a good part of the solution would be having less guns, not more.
Thanks for the examples and explanations. :-)
I'm not against killing as a last resort for self-defense (your own or people around you), but killing someone for protecting property, not life, is really something which I just can't agree. I'm not a Bible scholar by any means, but I do believe someone who does that (killing someone for protecting property, not life) will go to hell (if it exists, something I'm not sure). Matthew 19:24: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Harm criminals, even shoot them in the legs and knock them unconscious, but just enough harm to protect you and your friends and family.
I agree with you about death penalty for the same reason you stated: no justice system is perfect and sending an innocent to death row is, IMHO, something that should never ever happen.
First of all, yep, I don't live in the USA. Contrary to what you think, I never thought that USA has shooting sprees everywhere nor I said that. My comments about death penalty and etc are unrelated rants about what I don't understand about the USA culture. And I'm not lecturing anyone nor saying that Brazil is better than the USA. I'd just like to see someone explain something. And please point me where I've done this. I started my post with "As a Brazilian" parodying the way the original comment was started ("As a New Jerseyan"). Summary: you're accusing me of writing things I didn't, so I respectifully think you should keep your sactimonious feces to yourself. ;-)
(For instance, in Florida, it's legal to kill someone who is putting the lives of your livestock at risk. A cow can run around $5,000 and farmers aren't exactly rich.)
As a Brazilian, I'm disgusted at how some (maybe most) Americans value and money property over life. In addition, I really don't get how a mostly Christian country likes death penalty and wars so much. "Thou shalt not kill." doesn't have exceptions I know of. Jesus never killed anyone and even healed someone he could connsider an enemy at least once.
Brazil's government/society isn't focused enough on the future (education)
As a Brazilian, unfortunately I need to agree with you. Our education system is improving, but too slowly for the problems and neglect we've had. On the other hand, many people who didn't valued education in the past has been valuing it now, due to the economic growth and the demand for more specialized and educated labor.
Sun never made native executables
This goes against the very idea of Java: write once, run everywhere. And there is at least one compiler to native code: gcj
way to point and click on a java file and have it run without having to type java x
If vact, there is: executable JAR.. There's also Java Web Start, that allows running a Java window application in a single click from a webpage, using the sandbox security. For this two options, you need the Java runtime installed
As a result JavaFX was too little too late.
Sun didn't care for desktop Java for a long time, unfortunately.
They could have said "X by Y by Z", where X is the length, Y is the width, and Z is the depth.
Then someone would use imperial units, which are less useful to almost anyone outside the USA than Mini Cooper measures. ;)
Sergey or Gary Gaylord can't be worse names than Bonner Gaylord.
In Portuguese, "Sergey" is pronounced exactly like "ser gay", which means "to be gay". Sergey Gaylord would be quite amusing. :P
The main issue with biofuels isn't really food or cost. It's about land use, energy efficiency and sustainability. Brazil is usually given as a great example, but they have only 8 million cars, which use a maximum of 25 percent biofuel, the rest is still gasoline or diesel.
You've got very wrong information here. Just 8 million cars in Brazil? The article said 8 million cars running on ethanol, not 8 million cars overall. There are almost 28 million cars running now. 25% is the amount of ethanol in the gas sold here. 85% of the current Brazilian car production is comprised of flex-fuel cars, that run on ethanol, gas or any mixture of them.
And Brazil is one of the countries that is deforesting the fastest in the world.
That's right, but most of the deforestation is done for wood and to open land to cattle, not agriculture. The Amazon land is not good for agriculture.
(Reposting as myself because I posted as anonymous by mistake)
I was the anonymous coward by mistake. In Brazil, raising cattle ("pecuária") is not considered agriculture, which just includes growing vegetables).
Brazil has been using sugar cane ethanol since the 70s and we never had any food price surges because of it. Most of our car production comes with engines that can use any mixture of ethanol and gas, so you can choose the best one by cost or by ecofriendliness or any other reason. Even if the sugar price raised, we could see it as a good consequence: people would eat less sugar, less calories, maybe even eating more fruit! :-)
Corn-based ethanol and the US tax in Brazilian ethanol is a something completely anti-free-market in the land that people love to quote the "invisible hand of the market" as the solution to almost anything. Go figure.
The first thing I thought: "Gran Turismo" gamer becomes "Pro Race Driver". TOCA Race Driver (formerly known as Pro Race Driver in US) is a series of games that is a direct competitor of the Gran Turismo.
Allah is the name of God in Arabic, so you're saying that God will see himself eye to eye.
I feel that most people here is Slashdot didn't get Opera Unite:
address most issues people discusss here and elsewhere.
No. Opera Unite supports UPnP (enabled by default) so that users can bypass Opera's proxy service. More details here
At least, here in Brazil, the election results always match the exit polls and no serious allegations of tampering were made. We've been using this system for 10 years without any major problems.
Something that the Americans could learn from the Brazilian system is the simplicity of its use: no touch screen, you just type the number of your candidate in a keyboard that is the same used in telephones and then press a huge green button.
The subtler the humor, the better. Kudos to you. :)
Dijkstra would never ever be the goto guy because Goto Considered Harmful.
I have Opera 9.5 running for 14 hours, checking both IMAP and POP mail accounts totalling tens of thounsands of mails and RSS posts, some 20 RSS feeds, various downloads during the day and it's consuming 111 megabytes (working set size given by Process Explorer) in Windows XP.
Conclusion: the patent law (at least the american one) is insane. Even the slightest possibility of being sued for buying some legal product is scary, specially in countries that hava software patents. The american patent system really needs some very serious debugging (that could be extended to the political system too with great benefits).
Let's suppose Linux really infringes Microsoft patents. I'm not a Linux vendor, I'm just an user. Why would I be held liable for patent infrigement for something I have not made? It's just like Ford infringing some Toyota patent and then Toyota sues me for owning a Ford car. That's insane.