Many people don't know, but Brazil diplomacy works with reciprocity in all cases (that's why americans are required a visa to enter Brazil). About 3 years ago, the USA started to photograph every foreign citizen arriving to its territory. Based on diplomatic reciprocity, all americans citizen were also photographed and identified at entering. Then in January 24th, 2004, Dale Robbin Hersh, an American Airlines pilot decided to have some fun at the brazilian authorities expenses by discretly flipping his middle finger when photographed, as you can see in his pic. He was immediately arrested for disrespect towards authority and released after paying a US$15,000 fine. Back to the USA, he was suspended from his work for some time. Why did he do that? Because the identification of americans was slow, he was tired after a long trip and had to wait about 2 hours in a line to be identified. He thought this identification was bulsh*t (and it really was, the risk of an american terrorist trying to enter illegally in Brazil to do something wrong must be below zero), but the law is the law. And the americans were just getting here the same treatment brazilians were getting in the USA. If you want respect, you have to give respect back.
Here at work we say that the way to tell apart a programmer from an engineer is to ask him/her how much is 1K. If they say 1024, they are programmers, if they say 1000, they are engineers.
You should try Civilization III... you can declare war anytime even with democracy. Not that your population will back you to the end of it, of course...
I'm not a physicist either, but as far as I can remember, only infrared (or near infrared) light produces heat when it hits a body. Well, I might be wrong about this one.
Out of curiosity, does it save enough in heating during winter to compensate the excess cost of electricity during summer (specially if you have air conditioner at home)?
You can't import Brazilian ethanol, though. US won't allow it, because it endangers corn-based ethanol.
Thanks God! I'm from Brazil and I just bought a dual-fuel car (I can use either ethanol or gasoline, they can also be mixed in any proportion) and the a kilometer is at least 10% cheaper with ethanol than with gasoline and it polutes less. If the USA were going to import brazilian ethanol, the prices would skyrocket here and I would have to switch back to gasoline, polluting and spending more.
In Soviet Russia $1.65 TRILLION sues RIAA for AllOfMP3! No, wait...
In Soviet Russia RIAA sues YOU for $1.65 TRILLION! Nope, not good yet...
In Soviet Russia AllOfMP3 $1.65 TRILLION you! (Oh, my...)
In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind... I think I will never make a good "in Soviet Russia" joke...
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Many people don't know, but Brazil diplomacy works with reciprocity in all cases (that's why americans are required a visa to enter Brazil). About 3 years ago, the USA started to photograph every foreign citizen arriving to its territory. Based on diplomatic reciprocity, all americans citizen were also photographed and identified at entering. Then in January 24th, 2004, Dale Robbin Hersh, an American Airlines pilot decided to have some fun at the brazilian authorities expenses by discretly flipping his middle finger when photographed, as you can see in his pic. He was immediately arrested for disrespect towards authority and released after paying a US$15,000 fine. Back to the USA, he was suspended from his work for some time. Why did he do that? Because the identification of americans was slow, he was tired after a long trip and had to wait about 2 hours in a line to be identified. He thought this identification was bulsh*t (and it really was, the risk of an american terrorist trying to enter illegally in Brazil to do something wrong must be below zero), but the law is the law. And the americans were just getting here the same treatment brazilians were getting in the USA. If you want respect, you have to give respect back.
I thought that the roovers had landed on some and then runned over the rest.
Since when is 37.5 Tbytes enough for all the porn a man needs?
Here at work we say that the way to tell apart a programmer from an engineer is to ask him/her how much is 1K. If they say 1024, they are programmers, if they say 1000, they are engineers.
You should try Civilization III... you can declare war anytime even with democracy. Not that your population will back you to the end of it, of course...
"ManNAd, ManNAd, doo doo dee doo"...
You misunderstand. The article said, ".25 per song" -- not per dollar, not per copy.
Just 25 cents total, once and for all.
Then the rapper 50 Cent must be twice as successful as most artists!
They put the limit in the EULA of the movie. If you watch it more times than the limit, you should send them a check with the fine.
...that the way I would come to know that a place could be called Wyoming as by it being hit by a russian rocket! Imagine the odds!!!
I'm not a physicist either, but as far as I can remember, only infrared (or near infrared) light produces heat when it hits a body. Well, I might be wrong about this one.
Out of curiosity, does it save enough in heating during winter to compensate the excess cost of electricity during summer (specially if you have air conditioner at home)?
A heater designer would have to be pretty dumb not to get 100 percent efficiency out of an electric heater.
;-)
Believe it or not, some electric heaters waste a small part of the energy in form of light! Ironic, huh?
I just gave it a shot a few days ago. All I can say is WOW.
You can run World Of Warcraft on Ubuntu now?!?!?
You can't import Brazilian ethanol, though. US won't allow it, because it endangers corn-based ethanol.
Thanks God! I'm from Brazil and I just bought a dual-fuel car (I can use either ethanol or gasoline, they can also be mixed in any proportion) and the a kilometer is at least 10% cheaper with ethanol than with gasoline and it polutes less. If the USA were going to import brazilian ethanol, the prices would skyrocket here and I would have to switch back to gasoline, polluting and spending more.
Preventing checksum failure in high-latency communication isn't rocket science.
Even if it was, it's NASA we are talking about!
Why does Nasa refer to this as "revised flight software" these rovers don't fly.
When they install the Roover Control (R) SP2, they will...
In Soviet Russia $1.65 TRILLION sues RIAA for AllOfMP3! No, wait...
In Soviet Russia RIAA sues YOU for $1.65 TRILLION! Nope, not good yet...
In Soviet Russia AllOfMP3 $1.65 TRILLION you! (Oh, my...)
In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind... I think I will never make a good "in Soviet Russia" joke...
Why not to give RIAA a trillion rubbles at once? Oh, it's "rubles" with only one B... my bad!
Nice to see some bigots with moderation points.
"Flamebait" != "I disagree"
But it seems by the modding you got that "Troll" == "I disagree and STFU!"
I can't believe you got modded up for making such a shitty assumption on a "geek" website.
Maybe Slashdot's been attracting Digg's readers...
I've been feeling sleepy since I started reading Slashdot...
Nothing to see here, move along...
Oh, now I get it... how to photograph invisible objects? Dumb me!
DVD > rip yes
;-)
HD/DVD Blueray NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
Wasn't DVD unrippable (hey, I might just have made up a word!) at first until an encryption key leaked? Just give hackers some time!
Are we supposed to program the robot in Visual Basic?
(duck and cover)
"First they came for the white dolphin, but I didn't say a word because I'm not a white dolphin..."