I'm not a professional interpreter (and my english kinda sucks) so it's likely I made some mistakes: feel free to correct me and suggest a better version. Nonetheless I got Danah's OK to publish it on my blog: probably she doesn't read italian so she can't realize how I ruined her piece, but still :)
Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing. Public water fountains are not dangerous (unless cooties are real). Tap water is safe, and the spigots are designed to prevent contamination. The rise of bottled water here in the States shows how a public institution can be demonized and replaced by a much more expensive privatized solution.
[...] Charter schools are like bottled water--they're believed to be superior, and their standards are less stringent that their more public counterparts.
[...] they (the policy makers) let the citizen face daily the fear of a very-rare [terrorist] attack and they manage to take your rights apart [because of that].
I ended with a
I just hope that no one will try to blow a plane with his underwear...
Oooops. I hope I will not be considered the mind behind the stupid ass who tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum.
Let's see if they will begin to search our asshole before boarding a plane just to be sure... this shit already happened, ya kno'
Best thing to do would be to have a fast internet connection at home (with simmetric speeds too, upstream and downstream) and some nice opensource software for webmail and for some documents writing and sharing. Mix that with IPV6 and we're all connected with our cloud, powered by us. The final ingredient could be some huge webservice where we could upload our nightly backup of our home server. And those backups should be encrypted too.
When it will be the time of some opensource gmail?
Cena dal Pano ieri. Abbiamo toccato livelli culturali mai immaginabili.
Ad un certo punto si parla di circoncisione; ci si sposta sul tema religioso. Pippo se ne esce con un "alla fine è un po' come il battesimo... è una violenza che comunque il bambino subisce senza poter realmente decidere"
E io: "beh, magari proprio uguale no. Da una parte ti tagliano un pezzo di cazzo e dall'altro ti bagnano la testa. vedi te".
Yeah, exactly. Their point is the virus is "pretty weak now" but it will be stronger next autumn. Obviously, because of their goal, people who contracted the virus are warmly welcomed and, possibly, will have free drinks.
