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Comment · 13 years ago
did you fucking read it?
Comment · 13 years ago
makes note "no hire, insubordinance."

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Comment · 13 years ago
I was waiting for the part of story where she would describe how the developer had an actual drug habit or something, so much she talked about it. I wonder if she's ever really met someone who 'uses drugs', this mockery seems incredibly infantile.
Comment · 13 years ago
and what a great civilization!

Anyway... I think this analysis is shortsighted, for a start, you can't forgo the modern civilization because you can't have a home and you can't leave it, and if you're in it, there's a cost... And it's understood that the right to have somewhere to live is essential but you can't leave the city and get to a piece of land, land is not produced anymore and it belongs to the rich, you can't buy it, you can't raise cattle or chicken and you can't plant, so, you'll die.

And then everything else comes after this. Also, lets be honest, the level of education you need to even start pondering this you can't get either, because by then you'd already have had to have eaten and lived somewhere, and maybe you have bills and you can be arrested.. Not such a viable option. Then it's also probably a big fallacy that people can really live off of welfare policy goods, I don't know how it is in the USA, but here in Brazil I'm pretty sure what you get is barely enough for you not to live like a wild animal in middle of 'modern civilization'

Comment · 13 years ago
I hear ya.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comic Book drawer.

Then into adolescence: tattooer, anthropologist/teacher, coder(coders 'can be different' and coding felt like a game)

Now: I'm a developer and I'd like to get free to be creative in coding, writing, drawing

What sucks about being a dev is that when you're learning it you just feel like creating and the work is nothing like it.. I guess I'm somewhat good at it because I'm good with abstractions, have always been very logic and like learning(thus 'teacher'). So, I'm still far but the spirit is the same... Seeking your passions is hard as fuck, no wonder people give up.

Comment · 13 years ago
I think the impact will be bigger in the long term, I myself, as a brasilian, atheist, bit fair skinned, know I'm probably not a 'target'(although the left-leaning probably makes me a potential, cause I'm not sheep), but it still doesn't feel right that my data and privacy is free-to-snoop because it violates rights I have here, I had this right since birth according to my constituition and this is a fact. It is absolutely and completely indecent, it doesn't matter any analogies made like 'intelligence have always done this in every country', this is just distorting and repositioning and obviously The Internet is a whole different thing and should be treated as such, no explanation or justification will make this right ever.

I've not moved out of a lot of services YET, but people around the world are certainly moving their sticks to provide options, it's now also a market, not just idealism, political positioning.. they'll arrive and I'll certainly and happily go, and maybe try taking the opportunity myself, why not? Think of a good leader, he's respected and followed because people trust him, trust him to that position, but it's a fragile thing and after it's broken, it's broken. There's a vacuum.. and naturally it's got to be filled

Comment · 13 years ago
No, people absolutely take the hot sun all the time when they have to go out, they need it because their homes are dark even in the day and there's stuff you want to do inside the house in the day, like cooking, cleaning, studying...
Comment · 13 years ago
That explains why the guy who made the Facebook Event of 'spook spotting walk' in Brittain after the news that there was NSA personnel working there got inquired about his intentions! Idiots.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yeah, I didn't mean it like Brazil would be anything near 'an example to follow', I was just trying to illustrate how the landscape can be different everywhere else, also to the scope of how the population interacts with their state, for which Brazil definitely has a long way to go...

The picture I was going for would more of how it would not be so simple to have this elsewhere in the same manner, the starting point being that, I'd think, without a good Boogeyman, most peaceful countries do not have especial exception laws to walk over the basics of democracy, without secret laws, secret courts, secret interpretations, it's way harder, possibly impossible in some countries to get to this situation, not to mention technical limitations, budget(imagine the disparity between Inteligence and Military spending around the world x US), media, 'political temperature'(most of Europe and Latin-America are liberal/libertarian-leaning, currently, no?), public and judiciary scrutinity... Basically the framework of democracy is meant to prevent this kind of thing, there may be holes, but still.

Comment · 13 years ago
Host in Brazil, we're never at war so spying, national security and etc budgets are always low, besides, we can barely handle basic stuff like education, security, public transport, so if there's a BRPrism, part of the money probably goes to some corrupt, and then it must be shitty!

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