The offender may be punished with financial harm, as may be punished with prison or community service. Usually is money because this way the offended receives some good from the offenders bad.

The problem is measuring the offended harm purely in money.

I have my own view of vengeance pleasure, I'd rather see my offender cleaning toilets on a public school than giving me some money. Money is a lot cheaper than time and self-respect

Financial harm?

Ok, lets have more suicides because of school bullying.

GOD SAVE THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH WITHOUT FINANCIAL HARM!

Some people have a serious trouble in telling apart freedom of speech and anarchy.

The ruling is about a post on Orkut that said something like "Priest John Doe is pedofile". Yes, a priest, in a small town, accused of pedofilism. If he is, the accuser should go to the police, not to Orkut.

In the analogies everybody likes, suppose your little town's printed newspaper receives an anonymous letter, to be printed in the reader's section, saying that. Does someone really think they would publish it? And, if they did, does anyone really think they would not be condenmed for defamation?

Google is not being charged directly for the saying, but for covering the identity of the criminal. Yes, defamation is a crime, maybe everywhere in the world.

The case is not even near freedom of speech, which, by the way, Brazil has a lot. Basically the only difference over the american law is that one cannot go out on the streets, or the internet, saying that people of some race or religion is inferior, for exemple. I mean, they can, nobody will stop them from doing that, but saying that is a crime, and will receive some kind of punishment.

Freedom of speech does not mean the right say anything without consequences, just the right to say, not being previously censored.

Being impossible does not mean the local law must be forgotten.

For example, this thread is defamming the whole country for bad written article.

Circa 100BC the world didn't had 7 bilion people and the "Grape Quality and Productivity" exigencies were certainly lower then today's

God Bless the American freedom to not follow fixed ru!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Flight_1907

a) "is the power of the future and always will be.
b) "five years later than what had been previously agreed to"
c) "will cost even more than the seven parties in the project first thought"

Have they never used Java...?

Brazilian Premium gas is not pure, it's the same 75/25 mix of Gasoline and Anydrous Alcohol

It's just better gas that goes in the mix, and only in some stations brands, and some premium premium gas.

Generally its normal gas with motor cleaning additives

Some maps

Red: Sugar Cane, Green: Amazon Forest
http://www.unica.com.br/userFiles/mapa-prod-port.jpg

pink, violet, whatever it is: land where sugar cane is viable:
http://www.funpar.ufpr.br:8080/funpar/boletim/novo2/images/Image/MAPA_BRASIL_CANA.jpg

Just a little bit of Rain Forest could produce sugar cane. About the same area that could produce any other food, except rice, maybe (anual floods!)

Of course, by viable we mean today: Maybe in 50 years when the Global Warming produce by stubborn gas-loving slashdotters make the Amazon Forest a desert, it may become viable!

In 2008 90% (figures about 89% and 92%, some manufactures are not researched) of the cars sold in Brazil are "Flex", runing on any proportion of Ethanol and Gasoline (which has itself 25% of Ethanol as stated above)

The other 10% are mostly imported by smallers companies or cars with big motors (3.0+ liters) that have no volume to viabilize the production.

Another important point in that about half of "flex" cars are legally ethanol cars and this way have lower federal taxes (pre-crisis it was 11% against 13% for gasoline)

The rest of the market is made of smaller cars that had a fixed 7% no matter the fuel.

About food prices.
Figures in Hectares

7.8 million - Sugar Cane
62 million - current plantations in Brazil(mainly Soy and Corn)
190 million - Total arable area in Brazil (include some areas in bovine cattle area)
220 million - Current Cattle areas
440 million - Amazon Forest, Pantanal , Atlantic Forest, Cerrado Savanas. Not include in any of the former areas.

History shows that cattle areas are being replaced by Sugar Cane. The Bovine Cattle density in Brazil is very lw, 1.2head/hectare. Increase this by 10% and you may free 3 times the current sugar cane area.

Long Story Short: FUD against ethanol.

USA should plant sugar cane, with the ridiculous energetic efficiency of corn ethanol, any poor producing sugar cane does better.

Windows?

But isn't the complaint about wasting money and FLOPS?