I'm a Brazilian myself, so I cannot form a valid opinion about that.

The "masturbators" where punished, nonetheless. But that none were fired is quite surprising. Watching porn is one of the reasons to an employee be justifiably fired here in Brazil, but that is because unjustifiably firing here is quite costly. I think that you should push for harsher punishment for civil servants using state resources to watching porn.

Watching porn is not dangerous nor illicit activity.

That's why they can't and don't employ force to defend their IP rights. They are not literally slapping or punching anyone.

I've found this enlightening on the subject.

MySpace feels more like a place for artists, like a DeviantArt without a more up-to-date look. In my perception, the social network many people may have fled from was Orkut, after it become crowded with Brazilians.

It's not so well understood. It's too complicated and not quite predictable. Even the lowering of temperature in some areas may have been caused by climate change nonetheless. The main reason why climate change is scary is that we can't be sure of the actual consequences.

If I recollect right, the figure that 2014 was the warmest year in record appeared in /. already. An if I recollect one more thing right, the winter in the East Coast of US was deemed exceptionally chilling. I think it's hard to convince human-related climate change sceptics within this situation.
I have noticed that here in São Paulo the best time to talk about greenhouse effect is during the hottest days of the Summer, even though the rise in temperature downtown has more to do with deforestation and concrete than with greenhouse effect.

Thank you!

I've attended a Language & Literature course in Brazil, where people are more verbose--and the very words longer---, and my longer syllabus was 4 page long. So a 15 page syllabus is quite unusual.

It's a sad truth that too much people fail to perceive the fallacy in this train of reasoning: if scientists cannot explain, then it's beyond science; and if it's beyond science, then this esoteric explanation must be right. Now just because some aspects of quantum mechanics are counterintuitive, some folks think they can invocate "Quantum Physics" as if it was some kind of god that justify their theories.

If I've got my calculations right, to complete the downloading of that amount of data in a single day, it would need a 37,9259 Mib/s bandwidth -- 37,9255 Mib/s on last 6/30 --, which is quite trivial in some places.

That footage is more amazing than the ones that ended in explosions. :)
Thanks!

Terrorists. Because killing people is too high profile.