I do agree with you that Brazil has no problem at all with freedom of religion... The state is no coercive at all regarding that, nor the people in general have any prejudice against someone else's religion.
But freedom of speech does mean that you can speak whatever you want without ANY legal consequences (of course there should be civil lawsuits, but these are not state sponsored). We do agree that hate speeches are bad, but where to draw the line between hate and no-hate speeches? And mostly, who's gonna draw this line? So, people should be free to say whatever they want... But physical violence should never be allowed. period. That's where we should draw the line.
And no, private property is not respected as it is in other less socialist countries... The MST (land-less moviment) which invades private properties at will, and it is backed by the government is a proof of that.
A progressive legal system is usually a bad thing, as there are no real breakthrough in the legal studies in the past 200 years. Respect for other peoples opinions, the right not to be harassed by the government, and the right to own the things you earned with your hardwork are quite old... Any "progression" or change on these basic rights
is actually a regression.
Your statements about "imported" culture, and how the laws are not respected are not really in the scope of the subject of this thread, and to what I said, so I won't comment on them this time.
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I really don't know about this US law where suspicion is enough proof to seize private property. If you have a link to where I can read more, I'd be grateful.
Regardless... The US is probably the country where its people is more conscious about their basic rights, and the government's intromission in people's life is not a rule, but an exception (for example, fingeprints are mandatory to everyone in Brazil, not just suspected criminals. We have no privacy at all).
If this law really exists, this is bad thing, but it is not enough to make the US legal system inferior then the Brazilian, because this is an exception to the rule... although I agree it is a very dangerous precedent. Plus, the United States is much ahead of other countries concerning freedom of speech and religion, even with this politically correctness plague around (PC is not really a government thing, but something from the organized "minorities")
So, no... even with this, I don't think US system is inferior than the Brazilian.
Cheers
An inferior legal system is one that among other things doesn't respect freedom of speech, religion and private property. And people that agree with this lack of respect in their basics rights have indeed lower morals compared to people that do.
I'm brazilian, and I'm ashamed of the stupid laws, congressmen, and judges we have. The racism law in Brazil is a blatant proof that the legal system is contradictory, and therefore inferior than the American, for example.
actually, DC is much better for long power lines (1000+ KM) than AC. For long distances, even the low 60Hz frequencies of AC impose a HUGE loss in the transmission. This is the reason in AC we need substations to raise the voltage to its nominal transmission value every certain amount of kilometers (depending on the voltage).
In DC, we can have 5000+ KM power lines without any substations between the endpoints, given the diameter of the cables are big enough to avoid the resistive loss. This kind of circuit is good for very remote locations, where the substations cannot be built (or operated)
Of course, we have these losses in short-haul circuits too, but because of the length of the cables compared to the frequency, the capacitive properties of this circuit, can pretty much be disconsidered from the equation.
The same capacitive properties can be observed in CPUs... For high frequencies, they behave the same as power lines. When the frequency grows, the capacitor effect grows (that's the reason we are reaching the limit of clocks for this size of circuits, and going towards multi-core CPUs)... the closest to zero hertz, the closest to zero capacitance, so not much loss because of the capacitance effect (the diameter of the cable is responsible for the losses related to resistance)
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I do agree with you that Brazil has no problem at all with freedom of religion... The state is no coercive at all regarding that, nor the people in general have any prejudice against someone else's religion. But freedom of speech does mean that you can speak whatever you want without ANY legal consequences (of course there should be civil lawsuits, but these are not state sponsored). We do agree that hate speeches are bad, but where to draw the line between hate and no-hate speeches? And mostly, who's gonna draw this line? So, people should be free to say whatever they want... But physical violence should never be allowed. period. That's where we should draw the line. And no, private property is not respected as it is in other less socialist countries... The MST (land-less moviment) which invades private properties at will, and it is backed by the government is a proof of that. A progressive legal system is usually a bad thing, as there are no real breakthrough in the legal studies in the past 200 years. Respect for other peoples opinions, the right not to be harassed by the government, and the right to own the things you earned with your hardwork are quite old... Any "progression" or change on these basic rights is actually a regression. Your statements about "imported" culture, and how the laws are not respected are not really in the scope of the subject of this thread, and to what I said, so I won't comment on them this time. Cheers
I really don't know about this US law where suspicion is enough proof to seize private property. If you have a link to where I can read more, I'd be grateful. Regardless... The US is probably the country where its people is more conscious about their basic rights, and the government's intromission in people's life is not a rule, but an exception (for example, fingeprints are mandatory to everyone in Brazil, not just suspected criminals. We have no privacy at all). If this law really exists, this is bad thing, but it is not enough to make the US legal system inferior then the Brazilian, because this is an exception to the rule... although I agree it is a very dangerous precedent. Plus, the United States is much ahead of other countries concerning freedom of speech and religion, even with this politically correctness plague around (PC is not really a government thing, but something from the organized "minorities") So, no... even with this, I don't think US system is inferior than the Brazilian. Cheers
An inferior legal system is one that among other things doesn't respect freedom of speech, religion and private property. And people that agree with this lack of respect in their basics rights have indeed lower morals compared to people that do.
I'm brazilian, and I'm ashamed of the stupid laws, congressmen, and judges we have. The racism law in Brazil is a blatant proof that the legal system is contradictory, and therefore inferior than the American, for example.
Cheers
> DC is good for short-haul power distribution
actually, DC is much better for long power lines (1000+ KM) than AC.
For long distances, even the low 60Hz frequencies of AC impose a HUGE loss in the transmission.
This is the reason in AC we need substations to raise the voltage to its nominal transmission value every certain amount of kilometers (depending on the voltage).
In DC, we can have 5000+ KM power lines without any substations between the endpoints, given the diameter of the cables are big enough to avoid the resistive loss. This kind of circuit is good for very remote locations, where the substations cannot be built (or operated)
Of course, we have these losses in short-haul circuits too, but because of the length of the cables compared to the frequency, the capacitive properties of this circuit, can pretty much be disconsidered from the equation.
The same capacitive properties can be observed in CPUs... For high frequencies, they behave the same as power lines. When the frequency grows, the capacitor effect grows (that's the reason we are reaching the limit of clocks for this size of circuits, and going towards multi-core CPUs)... the closest to zero hertz, the closest to zero capacitance, so not much loss because of the capacitance effect (the diameter of the cable is responsible for the losses related to resistance)
Cheers