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Já ouvi casos de mortos levantarem do caixão por bem menos.

 

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I’m not fat, I’m hot…

Literally…

The only thing worse than poopshame is being proud of the turds you birth. The “Kama Pootra” is guilty of this shitpride, not least of all in the “About The Author” section, where the author proudly states that he graduated from the University of California at Davis. We can only wonder if UC Davis is equally proud of having pushed this spicy meatball through their hallowed passages.

This fork, the kind of fork you eat with, connects to your computer via Bluetooth. You eat all of your food with the fork, and it measures how you ate with the fork. Of course, for this to actually work, you’d have to take your gigantic Bluetooth fork everywhere you go, and eat all your food with it. The lone customer review suggests that it doesn’t really work, though, and when contacted, the company told the user that they were “eating wrong.”

I view this as a companion piece to the internet-enabled scale I wrote about last year. Broadcast your weight-shame to the internet and then have your bluetooth fork vibrate your skull when it determines you are eating too fast. It’s the future of weight-loss, and that’s why none of us are overweight anymore, in 2013.

A rare example of what architectural historians refer to as a “fertility window”.

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The Fair Labor Association has published a final status report on the working conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn, finding that Foxconn successfully reduced working hours to comply with the Fair Labor Association's standard 60 hour work week, but failed to meet the Chinese legal limit of 49 hours per week and at times, exceeded the legal limit of 36 hours of overtime per month.

Today's report follows an initial audit that took place in February of 2012 and a later agreement in March where Foxconn agreed to examine worker pay and implement stricter control over working hours while also improving working conditions.


Over the course of 2013, the Fair Labor Association visited three Foxconn facilities in Longhua, Guanlan, and Chengdu, with Foxconn providing full cooperation and unrestricted access to both facilities and workers during the verification process. Along with improving working hours, Foxconn also made moves to install additional exits and bathroom facilities.

FLA assessors verified that workers at the Longhua and Chengdu facilities worked no more than 60 hours every week between March and October; the same was true in the Guanlan facility with the exception of seven weeks during this period when working hours exceeded 60 hours. The assessment found that between March and October 2013, on average more than half of the workforce had worked beyond the Chinese legal limit of 36 overtime hours per month in all three facilities.

FLA assessors found that no interns had been engaged at any of the three facilities since the January 2013 verification visits and that the internship programs had been concluded at all three facilities. Assessors also verified that construction of additional exits and toilets was underway at the three facilities, with completion slated for the end of the year.

The Fair Labor Association expects Foxconn to continue to monitor its employee working hours to ensure compliance with the 60 hour work week while also making progress towards reaching a 49 hour work week. While the FLA will no longer be monitoring Foxconn, Apple is required to continue monitoring labor compliance, reporting back to the FLA each year.

Apple tracks working hours for its supply chain employees and also maintains a Supplier Responsibility section on its website, publishing yearly reports. The company has pledged to prevent excessive work hours, unethical hiring policies, and the hiring of underage workers at the factories that supply Apple with parts.

Throughout the year, various Apple suppliers have been continually accused of poor working conditions. In July, Pegatron was accused of having poor living conditions, and unethically holding worker pay. Pegatron was further accused of labor violations earlier this week, following the death of a fifteen-year-old factory worker in October.

Along with working with the Fair Labor Association to ensure safe working practices at factories, Apple also formed an academic advisory board for its Supplier Responsibility program in July, tasked with studying Apple policies and conducting research on labor standards in Apple's supply chain.

Apple takes violations to its policies seriously, and in January, the company dropped Pingzhou Electronics as a supplier after it was found to be hiring multiple underage workers.

websocketd:

websocketd is a small command line tool that will wrap an existing command line interface program, and allow it to be accessed via a WebSocket.

WebSocket capable applications can now be built very easily. So long as you can write an executable program that reads STDIN and writes STDOUT, you can build a WebSocket server. Do it in Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, .NET, C, Go, PHP, Java, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, Expect, Awk, VBScript, Haskell, Lua, R, whatever! No networking libraries necessary.

German shipper DHL one-upped Jeff Bezos by making a real drone delivery to real people. What's more, the cargo on board was reportedly something you can't order from Amazon: prescription drugs.

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Mental health problems are, y’know, health problems. Treat them the same way, or shut up.

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Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Suzanne Goldenberg writes at The Guardian that researchers at the University of Toronto's department of chemistry have identified a newly discovered greenhouse gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century, that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth. 'We claim that PFTBA has the highest radiative efficiency of any molecule detected in the atmosphere to date,' says Angela Hong. Concentrations of PFTBA in the atmosphere are low – 0.18 parts per trillion in the Toronto area – compared to 400 parts per million for carbon dioxide but PFTBA is long-lived. There are no known processes that would destroy or remove PFTBA in the lower atmosphere so it has a very long lifetime, possibly hundreds of years, and is destroyed in the upper atmosphere. 'It is so much less than carbon dioxide, but the important thing is on a per molecule basis, it is very very effective in interacting with heat from the Earth.' PFTBA has been in use since the mid-20th century for various applications in electrical equipment, such as transistors and capacitors. 'PFTBA is just one example of an industrial chemical that is produced but there are no policies that control its production, use or emission,' says Hong. 'It is not being regulated by any type of climate policy.'"

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Uma medida provisória deverá ser divulgada pelo governo federal na próxima semana, contendo regras que permitirão a manutenção da produção de carros sem airbag e ABS por mais dois anos, segundo o sindicato dos metalúrgicos do ABC.

Segundo a entidade, que fez a declaração durante assembleia no pátio da Volkswagen, a medida deverá beneficiar todos os fabricantes nacionais e até divulgou o percentual de carros com os itens de segurança até 2016. A liderança trabalhista falou em 60% em 2013, 70% em 2014 e “índice ainda maior” em 2015. Em 2016, todos os veículos deverão ter airbag duplo e ABS.

Com a MP, veículos como Kombi, Gol G4, Mille, Ka, entre outros, deverão permanecer em produção sem as bolsas infláveis e os freios antitravamento. A medida seria o fruto de uma negociação entre o sindicato e o governo Dilma, já que as lideranças do ABC apontaram demissão de 4.000 empregados na VW e nos fornecedores por conta do fim da Kombi e do Gol G4. Enfim, vamos aguardar um pronunciamento oficial do governo sobre o assunto.

[Fonte: Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC]

A noticia Carros sem ABS e airbag podem permanecer em produção por mais dois anos foi publicada no site Notícias Automotivas - Carros.

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pesti éjszakákra

Solda, perfuração de metais e alvenaria… 

Eu nunca estudei isso na faculdade, nem em qualquer outro curso que eu já tenha feito. É, acho que eu devo ser um péssimo profissional, mesmo.

Eu deveria ter feito FAFUPI (FAculdade de FUnilaria e PIntura) para ser um grande profissional de TI, pelo visto.

A comissão da verdade da Câmara Municipal de São Paulo divulgou hoje uma de suas conclusões: o ex-presidente JK foi morto pela ditadura militar. Até então, a versão oficial é de que ele havia morrido em uma acidente de carro. Pelo jeito, descobriram que o carro foi sabotado. Ao ver a notícia, alguns fãs de quadrinhos lembraram da graphic novel Manticore, que escrevi em 1999. Nela, o personagem Coronel manda sabotar os freios do carro de Juscelino. Confira abaixo a imagem da HQ.
Em tempo: a Manticore contou com os desenhos de Antonio Eder, José Aguiar, Márcio Freire e Luciano Lagares.

Programador é aquele cara que instala linha telefônica, né?

Depois eu falo de RH e me criticam…

In an achievement that takes our "Map Porn" tag to its ultimate limit, the scholars/gentlemen of Porn MD have composed a completely SFW interactive map that displays the top 10 pornographic search terms of many, many countries. The results are both informative, terrifying and hilarious.

For instance:

• USA's #1 term is "MILF," which I think says a lot about us.

• Russia is oddly fixed on ex-porn star Sasha Grey, whose name ranks #5 on their list.

• Spain's #4 term is "cumlouder," which I absolutely refuse to Google myself.

• India keeps it in the family and keeps it extremely specific with their #4, "Indian Aunty."

• Libya's #1 is "Silver Daddies" and #3 is "American anal sluts," proving that the U.S. is still producing the world's best anal sluts, at least.

• The #1 search term in China is "Japanese," which is its own political nightmare, I think.

And that's not all! If you aren't feeling international, they also have the Top 10 XXX search terms for each U.S. state! I have to warn you, though, it's mostly "Teen" and "MILF" until you get to my home state of Kentucky, whose #1 is "Free Gay Porn," possibly the only geographic area on the planet that requests for its porn be free. Are we cheap? Or are we just savvy economists? Time will tell.

You check out the full map here at (again, the totally SFW) PornMD.

Dedicated to chicken and philosophy fan, Pierre W.

Here’s more philosophy.

My wish…

Nature: F**k this place particularly

Eis uma questão que também já poderia ser considerada no Brasil, afinal, se não temos tantos carros elétricos assim, pelo menos existem muitas bicicletas e motonetas movidas por baterias circulando pelo Brasil.

Kaveh Kamooneh foi até a escola deixar seu filho com um Nissan Leaf. Ele estacionou o carro em uma vaga dentro da instituição – localizada em Atlanta, Geórgia – e plugou o carro na tomada do local. Ao retornar, foi abordado por um policial, que disse que ele havia roubado energia elétrica ao conectar o veículo dentro do estabelecimento de ensino. Um BO foi feito, mas 11 dias depois, a polícia bateu em sua porta.

Kamooneh foi levado até a delegacia e permaneceu preso por 15 horas… Finalmente, depois de esclarecido o caso, ele foi libertado. A quantidade de energia elétrica que o Nissan Leaf de Kaveh consumiu enquanto estava parado na escola foi calculada em somente US$ 0,05 ou R$ 0,11. Sim, o dono do modelo nipônico foi preso por uma quantia que não compra nem uma bala no Brasil.

Mas a questão envolvida não está relacionada com dinheiro ou quantidade de energia consumida pelo carro. Kaveh Kamooneh foi preso por utilizar algo que não era seu e sem consentimento da escola, por isso foi acusado de roubo.

A questão é polêmica, pois o mesmo poderia ser aplicado à quem carrega celular, smartphone ou tablet, por exemplo, nas dependências de uma escola? Hoje muitos alunos fazem isso. Da mesma forma, funcionários de empresas e por aí vai. Enfim, até que ponto é considerado roubo? Nos dois casos, a energia seria utilizada para benefício próprio: deslocamento e comunicação pessoal.

[Fonte: Tecmundo]

A noticia Homem pluga seu carro elétrico em escola e é preso nos EUA foi publicada no site Notícias Automotivas - Carros.