Yeah, but with a bloody ton of things cut, a second movie that is a piece of shit (specially since the first is perfect and the third fantastic).

No we are discussing a UK Ruling. SO either now thy shit or shut the fuck off.

You can do taht??? Holy crap I didn't know! Damn, I was missing a lot of it. I have my 4 browsers pinned there (i'm a web developer) and damn, that is useful.

Ahhhh, a religous exempt. That is sooo funny. There goes the separation out of the window. Becuase, really, if that is there, either you discriminate aming religons, or it is just a case of creating the Church of I Hate Obamacare, and voila, you are exempt.

You are British, probably (I'm extrapolating here) caucasian, and clear not from a "poor" country, so it makes sense for you to have been so well treated. Race, unfortunately, plays an important role in the process.

As much as I despise bad parenting, and think that it is one of the worst problems we have in the "modern world", there is something that might be in case here. How clear it is that you are buying something on the app? I do not own an iPhone (Have a Driod 2), so I can't tell for sure. But, going through what I found on the web on adult games, some developers go out of their way to mascarade that you are buying stuff. IF, and that is a big IF, that is the case with this games, she might have something to pursue. Definitely not at that value, and also it should be not only Apple, but also the developers.

All this time, with such a new account, why does it look that you might be this stalker?

Starting last year, I begun paying US tax (I'm a non-resident Alien so I pay both the US tax and my home country taxes, in this case Brazil) and I find it mind boggling that there is not a government software for these. Specially since the US tax code is arcane and byzantine, and in some cases borderline ridiculous. It explains why there is such a huge industry behind tax filling there.

Here in Brazil we have had an official tool for the past 8 years IIRC. Done in Java also, so you can run pretty much everywhere. And also, unless you have a bloody ton of special cases, you really do not need a pro to help you do your taxes. Even on cases like mine, where I had to put what was payed on international taxes and calculate whatelse is left and possible discounts, I still do not need to deal with even a tenth than I have to deal with the US tax code. And that is because I'm simply barred for most of your discounts.

Although I graduated in computer science, I had a 1 year internship in the Optics Department on my university. I worked with some of the most successful projects we had. Every lab on my corridor was a multi million project, spanning tons of patents and great research. And yet, the researchers would talk with each other, would cross research or trying to use each other's contact in the industry to generate more research money. It was such an ego clash pushing everyone back that it was quite sad =(

We try to do what we can here to help with that. As the summary mentions, we had tons of problems during and after the military dictatorship in Brazil (payed by the US of course) in the 60s to 80s. On the early days of democracy, voting fraud was rampant, since it was the same basic politics of yore, now with a thin veil of democratic participation. Voting, before the fully e-vote system was rampant with fraud, and delays, Florida level of delays.

We tried our best to make the e-vote machines and the election system as secure and transparent as possible, among what was done we have.

• Voting registration is mandatory when you turn eighteen. When you do you receive a card and is assigned a voting station which is close to your home (if you move you can change). This allows every party to know, much ahead of time, how many votes are expected at each pooling station. To avoid extra votes.
• There is no touch screen to deal with it. The voting is done on a numeric keyboard. You know prior hand, during the campaign the number for each candidate. So no fiddling with positioning to mark it for the other candidate.
• The source code is open any political party has access to it. They recently ran a public audit\hacking of the system to search for flaws. They found one, which is getting fixed for the next election. And the bug was regarding anonymity( it was possible to de-scramble the vote order so i you have the order people voted you could know who voted for who. But you would have to breach in two fronts).
• Before the election in a public ceremony the code is uploaded, checksumed, and the machines locked. So we know which code is in there.

So yeah, not perfect, but it is so much better and safe than what we had on the paper ballot days, that noone wants to go back.

(stupid mouse with "back" button, lost the damn post, let's restart)

From the second link, emphasis mine

It seems to me that someone inside took the opportunity to grab power into the structure of OPERA. Shady politics as usual. You are right that erro'ing is part of the scientific process, but on the political, and "journalistic" spheres it is a sign of weakness. So, it seems, that a group who was antagonist to him decided to take the opportunity and strike him down. Even if the vote hasn't passed, the no confidence was already set in motion, and his presence became a burden on the team. Hooray for crook scientists\politicians.

Unfortunately, unless we have someone on the inside of the workshop coming forward, explaining what exactly transpired, it will be kept as speculation. What is a shame.

Yes, basically. Welcome to the real world of marketing. IT sucks, terribly, but unfortunately either you play this game or you lose.

Well, there is a great way to check that for sure. Someone with the tools should do an statistical analysis of how much paedophiles we have among priests, parents, teacher\school directors and other positions of power over children. If celibacy does not play a role, the distribution should be the same.

I can only speak for me, but I wage that it helps to a lot of other Brazilians. Your politics reflect on ours.

Recently, one of our center-right parties renamed themselves Democrats (yeah, you read right, center-right) and have tried to mirror the Democrats politics here. And even without taken them into considerations, a lot of politics and companies keep an eye on what is going on there to try to mirror it on national legislation. Thing about things like SOPA, had it passed, there would be a hard push to implement similar language here. So your politics directly influence ours indirectly. And also directly.

Let's say for example that Grinch becomes president and he works on his campaign promise to invade Iran. Suddenly it is a new Middle East war and again we are thrown on the Iraq war cycle of problems on the international scales. So yeah, we need to pay lots of attentions to your politics.

I will second this recommendation. There are also a couple of youtube seminaries with the author which are worth reading. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook