Last 12 of March i didn't go to the Manifestation of the "desperate youth". I feel sympathy for them but i believe they be asking the wrong people for the wrong concepts. Although i do not agreed with some of the motifs, like asking the government for more jobs, when the only actions governments have is to create rules and an excess of rules can constrain the job creating markets even more.
Maybe this manifestation is part of a greater scheme of things that will be needed in order to get a ordained change in society, without embarking into a dictatorship of the proletariat or some other property destruction phases.
Anyway, Portugal is the opposite of Sparta, "This is Portugal" is more like the government throwing the people into the pit than the opposite". Now prove me wrong.
They are asking for job security when they should be asking for lower taxes and more empowerment for themselves, but when all one can do is ask we are instead delegating power for others to act in our behalf, and when other have proven to be limited in achieving success before, and have shown signals of burnout, this protests only possible positive outcome will be a regime change.
For sympathy with the movement i gathered some resources that might turn out to be useful, and represent my views of a path towards a better society, which the people has the legitimacy to build, since or when the current system/paradigm fails the people, not delivering prosperity or happiness. But it takes will and an agile system that rewards risk and gives a complete safety net to accomplish those.
So here are some resources:
http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives
http://www.springwise.com enterpreneur ideas scanner
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Governance
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peerfunding
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Manufacturing
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Politics
http://pcuonline.org The Permaculture Credit Union
And Articles:
http://smarttaxes.org/2011/03/11/ireland-must-end-trust-me-banking/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/08/eco-farming-double-food-output
https://permatechie.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/the-ecoleviathan-and-an-abundant-state-of-nature/
http://transitionnetwork.org/patterns/ongoing-deepening/ensuring-land-access
And Software:
http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page lots of software for a meta-government.
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/home.xht a dynamic delegate vote system.
http://doku.candiwi.org a democratic wiki system
Khan Academy @ TED 2011
Ultimo post da AM neste blogue ? provavelmente. Pensei o que haveria de pôr e prescindi de conteudos originais por esta apresentação sobre o presente e uma visão do que é o futuro da educação na internet cloud. Não gostei de ver o bill gates que é um monopolista do software ao lado do mestre Khan. Espero que o futuro cilindre esses paradigmas corporativistas do passado como os sistemas operativos proprietários que fazem com que se tenha que pagar pelo software para usar um computador.
Como futurologista e individual espero tb que o futuro da tecnologia seja mais wiki e distribuido, sem haver poder de censura ou instituições/corporações para travar futuras vitórias civilizacionais.
Agradeço aos companheiros/as que me acompanharam ao longo do tempo de escrita, espero que vos tenha conseguido cogitar/agitar/surpreender/emocionar/alertar e outras coisas mais. Tenho pena que não tenha havido mais intervenção da parte da malta, isto de manter uma fogueira acesa é preciso mt material para queimar e tb atirar a lenha por turnos.
Para acabar a minha participação em grande ainda pensei fazer um grande final contra um big boss(como qualquer media de entertainment que se preze tem), género grande banqueiro ou politico ou qq figura malzona, mas seria dar demasiada importância a figuras do passado e sempre quis mais escrever sobre o futuro de qq forma. No video aparece o bill gaitas e pode ser que o khan meta lá na academia uns videos anti-MS o que já cumpria parte desse objectivo de derrotar um big boss (tb ele do passado) :)
AM over and out, jokinhas for all forever.
Edit afinal era o post 1110, porque havia um post duplicado de 2010.
Exércitos de 1
Exércitos de 1 coder, e alguns deles responsáveis pelas maiores maravilhas do mundo actual, como o Linux, o FFMPEG, a descodificação do genoma humano antes que companhias privadas o fizessem, entre outras.
Msg ao PR em nome do Renato Seabra
Um mail que mandei ao PR, exclui algumas partes mais pessoais, mas o core está aqui.
Já agora informo que estou a pensar abandonar o blogging no CDP ao post 1111, estamos no 1109 ou seja daqui a dois. Porque a experiência de blogar em PT no CDP está realizada e porque a repetição do numero 1 me é simbólica de partida em viagem. Espero que o destino não a interprete como um somatório (4, e 4 em chinês é mau) mas sim talvez como um código binário onde 1111 mostra complete, full, whatever.
Olá,
Estou-lhe a escrever para tentar que intervenha na repatriação do Renato Seabra.
Na minha opinião acho que o caso se passou entre dois portugueses a passar férias curtas na América, e como tal o caso deve ser julgado em solo Português, pois apesar de essa cultura de atalhos para a fama sem mérito ser uma exportação dos media americanos, os cidadãos ainda são portugueses e nós além de termos uma melhor capacidade para reflectir o que se possa ter passado, não temos um sistema de justiça tão desumanamente \\\"industrializado\\\" e tão caro como o de nova iorque.
O papel do presidente da republica neste caso que trata de um \\\"burn out\\\" extraordinário num ser humano que não tem mais de 18 anos de memórias e ainda nem tinha acabado a sua formação académica não pode ser indiferente. O PR não é o equivalente actual aos antigos Reis, um ser que se fosse eleito democraticamente seria uma pessoa justa e defensora dos mais fracos, não se conformando em ficar do lado da injustiça invocando a sua impotência a uma verdade superiora que só está ao seu alcance e por tal não a revela. Não se deveria andar a debater por valores mesquinhos que estão no fundo da pirâmide de Maslow, mas sim por valores como um tratamento justo dos seus protegidos e seres vivos em geral sem que estes sejam sujeitos a abusos ou injustiças.
Gostaria portanto que invocasse o \\\"habeas corpus\\\" e todos os poderes que lhe são delegados pela constituição e nos inspire a todos nesse gesto que é ter o Renato a ser julgado em Portugal onde pode ter todo o apoio dos familiares, amigos, e todos os que simpatizam com a sua situação.
Em nome dos jovens que gostavam de ver mais acções e menos palavras vindas de cima, obrigado.
Já agora informo que estou a pensar abandonar o blogging no CDP ao post 1111, estamos no 1109 ou seja daqui a dois. Porque a experiência de blogar em PT no CDP está realizada e porque a repetição do numero 1 me é simbólica de partida em viagem. Espero que o destino não a interprete como um somatório (4, e 4 em chinês é mau) mas sim talvez como um código binário onde 1111 mostra complete, full, whatever.
Olá,
Estou-lhe a escrever para tentar que intervenha na repatriação do Renato Seabra.
Na minha opinião acho que o caso se passou entre dois portugueses a passar férias curtas na América, e como tal o caso deve ser julgado em solo Português, pois apesar de essa cultura de atalhos para a fama sem mérito ser uma exportação dos media americanos, os cidadãos ainda são portugueses e nós além de termos uma melhor capacidade para reflectir o que se possa ter passado, não temos um sistema de justiça tão desumanamente \\\"industrializado\\\" e tão caro como o de nova iorque.
O papel do presidente da republica neste caso que trata de um \\\"burn out\\\" extraordinário num ser humano que não tem mais de 18 anos de memórias e ainda nem tinha acabado a sua formação académica não pode ser indiferente. O PR não é o equivalente actual aos antigos Reis, um ser que se fosse eleito democraticamente seria uma pessoa justa e defensora dos mais fracos, não se conformando em ficar do lado da injustiça invocando a sua impotência a uma verdade superiora que só está ao seu alcance e por tal não a revela. Não se deveria andar a debater por valores mesquinhos que estão no fundo da pirâmide de Maslow, mas sim por valores como um tratamento justo dos seus protegidos e seres vivos em geral sem que estes sejam sujeitos a abusos ou injustiças.
Gostaria portanto que invocasse o \\\"habeas corpus\\\" e todos os poderes que lhe são delegados pela constituição e nos inspire a todos nesse gesto que é ter o Renato a ser julgado em Portugal onde pode ter todo o apoio dos familiares, amigos, e todos os que simpatizam com a sua situação.
Em nome dos jovens que gostavam de ver mais acções e menos palavras vindas de cima, obrigado.
Cubo de Rubik
Cubo de Rubik. Nunca me fascinou. Parece que recentemente alguém descobriu/inventou o algoritmo que resolve o cubo em um maximo de 20 jogadas.
A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand
Artigo copiado do theglobeandmail.com sobre a modificação de bactérias E.Coli. para produção de todos os tipos de bio-combustiveis.
E ainda recentemente um qq sujeito na tv tinha dito que a era dos combustiveis a 30$ já era passado. Era bom é que libertassem isto em opensource.
In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”
More related to this story
We’re not talking “biofuels” – not, at any rate, in the usual sense of the word. The Joule technology requires no “feedstock,” no corn, no wood, no garbage, no algae. Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, it requires only carbon dioxide and sunshine to manufacture crude. And water: whether fresh, brackish or salt. With these “inputs,” it mimics photosynthesis, the process by which green leaves use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. Indeed, the company describes its manufacture of fossil fuels as “artificial photosynthesis.”
Joule says it now has “a library” of fossil-fuel organisms at work in its Massachusetts labs, each engineered to produce a different fuel. It has “proven the process,” has produced ethanol (for example) at a rate equivalent to 10,000 U.S. gallons an acre a year. It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year.
By way of comparison, Cornell University’s David Pimentel, an authority on ethanol, says that one acre of corn produces less than half as much energy, equivalent to only 328 barrels. If a few hundred barrels of crude sounds modest, recall that millions of acres of prime U.S. farmland are now used to make corn ethanol.
Joule says its “solar converter” technology makes the manufacture of liquid fossil fuels 50 times as efficient as conventional biofuel production – and eliminates as much as 90 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions. “Requiring only sunlight and waste C0{-2},” it says, “[this] technology can produce virtually unlimited quantities of fossil fuels with zero dependence on raw materials, agricultural land, crops or fresh water. It ends the hazards of oil exploration and oil production. It takes us to the unthinkable: liquid hydrocarbons on demand.”
The company name honours James Prescott Joule, the 19th-century British scientist. Founded only four years ago, it has begun pilot-project production in Leander, Tex. Using modular solar panels (imagine an array of conventional panels in a one-acre field), it says it will quickly ramp up production this year toward small-scale commercial production in 2012.
Joule acknowledges its reluctance to fully explain its “solar converter.” CEO Bill Sims told Biofuels Digest, an online biofuels news service, that secrecy has been essential for competitive reasons. “Some time soon,” he said, “what we are doing will become clear.” Although astonishing in its assertions, Joule gains credibility from its co-founder: George Church, the Harvard Medical School geneticist who helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984.
Joule began to generate buzz toward the end of 2010. When U.S. Senator John Kerry toured the company’s labs in October, he called the technology “a potential game-changer.” He noted, ironically, that the company’s science is so advanced that it can’t qualify for federal grants or subsidies: The government’s definition of biofuels requires the use of raw-material feedstock.
In December, the World Technology Network named the company the world’s top corporate player in bio-energy research. Biofuels Digest named it one of the world’s “50 hottest” bio-energy enterprises, moving it ahead 10 places in the past year (from 32nd to 22nd). Selected from 1,000 eligible companies around the world, 37 of the “50 hottest” are American-based – another reason not to count out the U.S. just yet.
Conventional fossil fuels are formed from solar energy, too – in a process that takes zillions of bugs and millions of years. Joule’s technology ostensibly produces the same products in less time. In other energy-producing roles, vast quantities of microbes are already hard at work underground, loosening hard-to-recover crude oil. It could be time for science to bring these bugs up into the light of day.
E ainda recentemente um qq sujeito na tv tinha dito que a era dos combustiveis a 30$ já era passado. Era bom é que libertassem isto em opensource.
In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”
More related to this story
We’re not talking “biofuels” – not, at any rate, in the usual sense of the word. The Joule technology requires no “feedstock,” no corn, no wood, no garbage, no algae. Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, it requires only carbon dioxide and sunshine to manufacture crude. And water: whether fresh, brackish or salt. With these “inputs,” it mimics photosynthesis, the process by which green leaves use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. Indeed, the company describes its manufacture of fossil fuels as “artificial photosynthesis.”
Joule says it now has “a library” of fossil-fuel organisms at work in its Massachusetts labs, each engineered to produce a different fuel. It has “proven the process,” has produced ethanol (for example) at a rate equivalent to 10,000 U.S. gallons an acre a year. It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year.
By way of comparison, Cornell University’s David Pimentel, an authority on ethanol, says that one acre of corn produces less than half as much energy, equivalent to only 328 barrels. If a few hundred barrels of crude sounds modest, recall that millions of acres of prime U.S. farmland are now used to make corn ethanol.
Joule says its “solar converter” technology makes the manufacture of liquid fossil fuels 50 times as efficient as conventional biofuel production – and eliminates as much as 90 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions. “Requiring only sunlight and waste C0{-2},” it says, “[this] technology can produce virtually unlimited quantities of fossil fuels with zero dependence on raw materials, agricultural land, crops or fresh water. It ends the hazards of oil exploration and oil production. It takes us to the unthinkable: liquid hydrocarbons on demand.”
The company name honours James Prescott Joule, the 19th-century British scientist. Founded only four years ago, it has begun pilot-project production in Leander, Tex. Using modular solar panels (imagine an array of conventional panels in a one-acre field), it says it will quickly ramp up production this year toward small-scale commercial production in 2012.
Joule acknowledges its reluctance to fully explain its “solar converter.” CEO Bill Sims told Biofuels Digest, an online biofuels news service, that secrecy has been essential for competitive reasons. “Some time soon,” he said, “what we are doing will become clear.” Although astonishing in its assertions, Joule gains credibility from its co-founder: George Church, the Harvard Medical School geneticist who helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984.
Joule began to generate buzz toward the end of 2010. When U.S. Senator John Kerry toured the company’s labs in October, he called the technology “a potential game-changer.” He noted, ironically, that the company’s science is so advanced that it can’t qualify for federal grants or subsidies: The government’s definition of biofuels requires the use of raw-material feedstock.
In December, the World Technology Network named the company the world’s top corporate player in bio-energy research. Biofuels Digest named it one of the world’s “50 hottest” bio-energy enterprises, moving it ahead 10 places in the past year (from 32nd to 22nd). Selected from 1,000 eligible companies around the world, 37 of the “50 hottest” are American-based – another reason not to count out the U.S. just yet.
Conventional fossil fuels are formed from solar energy, too – in a process that takes zillions of bugs and millions of years. Joule’s technology ostensibly produces the same products in less time. In other energy-producing roles, vast quantities of microbes are already hard at work underground, loosening hard-to-recover crude oil. It could be time for science to bring these bugs up into the light of day.
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