O presidente da Comissão de Energia e Minas da Assembleia Nacional venezuelana, Ángel Rodríguez, anunciou que o Estado não vai nacionalizar as bombas de gasolina mas regulará 60 por cento da distribuição de combustível, escreve a «Lusa».
As bombas de gasolina, segundo explicou, vão continuar a ser dos seus actuais donos, mas sob a chancela do logótipo PDV (Petróleos de Venezuela).
Fascism is a matter of taste.
Os proprietários de terrenos na zona da Ota, que durante 10 anos não puderam fazer qualquer uso do solo por estar reservado ao aeroporto, podem reabrir os processos de construção na Câmara de Alenquer.
O autarca [presidente da Câmara de Alenquer, Álvaro Pedro] não quis para já adiantar quantos proprietários foram lesados pelas medidas preventivas afirmando que «também houve processos que não avançaram por estarem em zonas agrícolas».
.... I am one of the most dastardly scoundrels in the world simply because I think that drunk driving ought to be legalized.
The Argumentum ad Misericordiam Fallacy
"I sincerely hope that no one you know or love is killed by a drunk driver.... You might then change your mind about whether prevention is better than punishment."
The reason why these sorts of arguments are instances of the argumentum ad misericordiam fallacy, and are thus improper, is that they appeal to emotions that have absolutely nothing to do with the argument under discussion .... it is totally irrelevant whether or not I might change my mind if someone I know is killed by a drunk driver, or whether human life is irreplaceable. Either my arguments are sound, or they’re not – and appeals to irrelevant emotional responses cannot help us determine whether my argument is sound.
The The Ad Hominem Fallacy
"Your opinion matches every other drunk I've known, in that you think that you are able to handle yourself behind the wheel."
.... my personal character has absolutely nothing to do with my arguments. I might be a drunk, coke-head, hippie, serial killer, but these character traits have nothing to do with my arguments that drunk-driving laws have the exact opposite effect from what most people believe. Again, the arguments are either sound or they’re not – regardless of whether I am a "drunk." ....
The Circular Argument Fallacy
"We have laws in this country governing driving. Like stop signs. If you break the law by driving through a stop sign, you get a ticket. The same is, and ought to be, true of drunk drivers. They break the law, and should be punished for it."
.... If you want to demonstrate that drunk driving ought to be illegal, then you have to provide an argument to that effect. You cannot simply assume that ought to be illegal throughout your entire argument, because you will be committing a serious logical fallacy. Similarly, you cannot argue that "because it’s the law, that means it’s wrong," because you need to prove to us anti-prohibitionists that it ought to be the law in the first place!
Quod Nimis Probat, Nihil Probat (What Proves Too Much, Proves Nothing)
"Am I to understand that you support WAITING until someone DIES to object to another’s irresponsibility? I find that simplistic, foolish, and unacceptable. The reason I do is that the life lost is irreplaceable!"
The problem with this sort of argument is that it proves far, far too much (in addition to making an irrelevant appeal to emotion). For, this argument could be extended to all aspects of human life, and virtually everything people do would be punished by ruthless laws – regardless of whether people actually hurt anyone .... if the argument were taken to its logical conclusion, every single human action would be punished by draconian laws and jack-booted policemen, since people can, and do, negligently kill other people in virtually every situation where men encounter one another on this planet. ....
In 1979, persuaded that it contained something of the ‘Japanese miracle’ and keen to improve British management, Margaret Thatcher pushed the button on what was British Standard (BS) 5750. Despite vociferous complaints from managers about bureaucracy, value and relevance, by 1987 the British Standards Institute and UK government convinced the International Standards Organisation to adopt BS 5750 as an international standard. We wrought an economic disease across the world. We should be ashamed.
Without market-place coercion ISO 9000 would have withered long ago, for it has little inherent value ....
Toyota, the home of the ‘Japanese miracle’ tried ISO 9000 in one of its factories and promptly ceased its use for they found it to be of no value .... The Toyota system out-performs all other manufacturers on measures of market value, quality and efficiency.
The Toyota system represents a fundamentally different way of thinking about the design and management of work. It remains the first challenge to ‘command and control’ management thinking .... ISO 9000 has maintained and exacerbated management traditions that are the reason for our lagging behind. In spreading this disease around the world we have at least ensured others are dragged down to our level; but it is something of which we cannot be proud.
Strangebedfellows is a unique and diverse left--right coalition which has come together to put a stop to the eradication of civil liberties in America. Modeled on a similar group in Britain, the initial Strangebedfellows group encompasses Ron Paul supporters (BreakTheMatrix.com, Rick Williams and Trevor Lyman), leading bloggers from the left (Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com, Jane Hamsher of firedoglake.com) and many more who share the view that warrantless surveillance, telecom immunity and other such outrages of the lawless surveillance state MUST END—AND END NOW.
The Communist Party USA says that Barack Obama may not be the perfect Stalinist they’ve been hoping for, but he is a stepping stone to the new socialist utopia.
Wal-Mart should start a college. As with virtually all colleges, it would be called a university. Why? Because of higher perceived value by the consumers.
Why should Wal-Mart bother? Here is a good reason. The total expenditure in the United States on higher education is in the range of a third of a trillion dollars a year. That is a great deal of money. Wal-Mart is not a company to let a large profit opportunity drift by.
Metade deste blogue, aka eu, vai para férias, ali para os lados desta praia, em Bali. Espero regressar, claro está, que a coisa só sabe bem quando tem data de regresso. Até lá, fiquem com o António, que deve estar a acordar de um sono profundo. Encontramo-nos lá para o final de Agosto?General Motors lost a towering $15.5bn in the second quarter ....
Together with mounting evidence that the Detroit carmaker will lose its crown to Toyota this year as the world’s biggest vehicle manufacturer, the loss casts a long shadow over celebrations in coming weeks to mark GM’s 100th anniversary.
