You maybe right for the dark areas, but for most red areas that's not true.
You can get government contracts on red areas without a bribe. As a Brazilian I can only speak for my country, but you can have very good information on contracts and spending from the Finance Ministry website and roughly half of it goes through a open website, where any contractor can place a offer for any item. Process is clean and transparent. I'm not saying corruption doesn't not exist, it does, but it's not obligatory for business.
As Transparency International Corruption Perception Index name says, it's a *perception* test. Corruption is perceived most from daily experiences (ie, paying a police offer to "forget" a speeding ticket) but that's doesn't give a real proportion of what's going on outside the eyesight of the common men. You can do business here without paying bribes - I never did it and I'm never going to do it.
Just my two cents. And for the grammar nazis, I know my english is quite bad.
Yes, because, obviously Syria and Sudan are almost the same country. Those muslins people, the same everywhere!
From the little hut I live - I'm South American - I've heard in the big country to the north people are SO civilized! Money from government budget is not diverted into big corporations, their foreign police aims at the noblest principles from international law. At least, the guys that founded it said so. Don't know how they're today, news come quite slowly here: Tom didn't go the city this week to bring in the news, you know.
Oh, get out off the bubble, man! Muslim people are not the same, as the western civilization isn't. There was nice Muslims societies in history - some of them got nice intellectual wonders, such as Averrois philosophy - but today they're stuck on their dark ages, specially with the surge of wasabanism lately. Just bombing them doesn't work. Just saying "oh Lord, they're BAD!" doesn't too. Understand the problem, solve the problem.
And no, I don't understand it as a whole. I'm not even western, if you follow american definition of the western society - how could my opinion count by your standards ? But get the humility to say you doesn't understand it too and, if you care, go study it. If you don't have it, at least keep your mouth shut.
8) The Brazilian government is far from perfect, but is much less corrupt than the U.S. government. How many Iraqi civilians has the president of each country killed? George W. Bush: 1,000,000. Lula: 0. How many countries has each country invaded or bombed for oil or weapons or other profits [krysstal.com] since the end of the 2nd World War: United States: 24. Brazil: 0. Just to warn you, reality is calling your at the door.
I'm brazilian , and IT is a overreaction from Federal Police, as most of it other operations. It's good for them, they get media time and well, are the most trusted institution in the country [citation needed - don't have the reference now =D].
So, take our noted good humour, and take it lightly. Don't bash the US, it's just ridiculous. It's a country with problems but Brazil has a nice share of problems too. And should learn many things from US. Being more business friendly is really one of them. People evaded taxes and should be punished. But don't make it a show, with almost live television coverage. That's not the right way to run a country.
Brazilian Federal Police is now for it's huge attention need - so, most operations end in many people being put in jail for a day or two, so they can get the newspapers. From what I heard from television, not all 60 people jailed where from Cisco Brazil, but most from the biggest Cisco distributor here (a local company). Also, some people from customs were jailed too (well, most probably from SRF, the local IRS).
But please, don't compare Brazil with Dominican Republic. I've been to Central America. I can buy a camera here from almost the same price I could in the US (well, Brazilians reading this, just calculate the prices from Casas Bahia to US Dollars). Brazil has a huge and well developed economy, and well, many, many tax benefits for eletronics imports - especially those used in business environment. Actually, there as a credit line from a major government owned development bank just for this, at least some year ago (from BNDES and Banco do Brasil, to brazilian readers again).
So, it's most the need for Federal Police to show up, some people will leave tomorrow and the rest, well, should be jailed anyway by brazilian law.
Actually, I played with it for a long time in school. We did some sort of small robotics projects for science classes, all in Logo. It as quite easy since (computer) language was translated for my native language (ie. "repita" instead of "while", and so on...). Was really amusing. Probably, that was a major force shaping my professional career. It's power is underestimated and underused by most teachers, although.
Well, there's already a very established technology for polymer currency. Already done in Brazil, probably in other countries too, but coast is still high.
Don't try to minimize the importance of formal education.
I can learn just as much (or more, actually) by reading a textbook as I can by listening to a professor summarize the information in a textbook. Remember, people in grad school not only listen to classes, but read the textbooks too. And doing research. And constant testing by a very qualified group of professor. And networking with other people in the same area of research.
Hands on experience is very important, but it's not, in any way, a substitute for a graduate degree. You may get better coding skills with hands on experience (or not) but don't think you know more on the subject than a grad student, at least, an average one.
Most people without a graduate degree (and I'm one of then, since I'm still a undergrad) is not important or may be equivalent to real world experience. Yes, it's important and in no, no way, it can be substituted by experience. It's different.
The experience of formal learning is different. The extensive testing. And so on...
PS: English is not my first language. I'm sorry for all the possible grammar/spelling errors. Corrections are welcome.
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Disclaimer: I'm Brazilian.
You maybe right for the dark areas, but for most red areas that's not true.
You can get government contracts on red areas without a bribe. As a Brazilian I can only speak for my country, but you can have very good information on contracts and spending from the Finance Ministry website and roughly half of it goes through a open website, where any contractor can place a offer for any item. Process is clean and transparent. I'm not saying corruption doesn't not exist, it does, but it's not obligatory for business.
As Transparency International Corruption Perception Index name says, it's a *perception* test. Corruption is perceived most from daily experiences (ie, paying a police offer to "forget" a speeding ticket) but that's doesn't give a real proportion of what's going on outside the eyesight of the common men. You can do business here without paying bribes - I never did it and I'm never going to do it.
Just my two cents.
And for the grammar nazis, I know my english is quite bad.
Yes, because, obviously Syria and Sudan are almost the same country. Those muslins people, the same everywhere!
From the little hut I live - I'm South American - I've heard in the big country to the north people are SO civilized! Money from government budget is not diverted into big corporations, their foreign police aims at the noblest principles from international law. At least, the guys that founded it said so. Don't know how they're today, news come quite slowly here: Tom didn't go the city this week to bring in the news, you know.
Oh, get out off the bubble, man! Muslim people are not the same, as the western civilization isn't. There was nice Muslims societies in history - some of them got nice intellectual wonders, such as Averrois philosophy - but today they're stuck on their dark ages, specially with the surge of wasabanism lately. Just bombing them doesn't work. Just saying "oh Lord, they're BAD!" doesn't too. Understand the problem, solve the problem.
And no, I don't understand it as a whole. I'm not even western, if you follow american definition of the western society - how could my opinion count by your standards ? But get the humility to say you doesn't understand it too and, if you care, go study it. If you don't have it, at least keep your mouth shut.
Actually, N = 42.
It depends on the type of body. Think of goatse. Sunshine can reach inside it. Well, almost the whole Sun.
(Yes, I'm ashamed of thinking this...)
I'm brazilian , and IT is a overreaction from Federal Police, as most of it other operations. It's good for them, they get media time and well, are the most trusted institution in the country [citation needed - don't have the reference now =D].
So, take our noted good humour, and take it lightly. Don't bash the US, it's just ridiculous. It's a country with problems but Brazil has a nice share of problems too. And should learn many things from US. Being more business friendly is really one of them. People evaded taxes and should be punished. But don't make it a show, with almost live television coverage. That's not the right way to run a country.
Disclaimer: I'm brazilian.
Brazilian Federal Police is now for it's huge attention need - so, most operations end in many people being put in jail for a day or two, so they can get the newspapers. From what I heard from television, not all 60 people jailed where from Cisco Brazil, but most from the biggest Cisco distributor here (a local company). Also, some people from customs were jailed too (well, most probably from SRF, the local IRS).
But please, don't compare Brazil with Dominican Republic. I've been to Central America. I can buy a camera here from almost the same price I could in the US (well, Brazilians reading this, just calculate the prices from Casas Bahia to US Dollars). Brazil has a huge and well developed economy, and well, many, many tax benefits for eletronics imports - especially those used in business environment. Actually, there as a credit line from a major government owned development bank just for this, at least some year ago (from BNDES and Banco do Brasil, to brazilian readers again).
So, it's most the need for Federal Police to show up, some people will leave tomorrow and the rest, well, should be jailed anyway by brazilian law.
As stated above, take with a grain of salt.
Actually, I played with it for a long time in school. We did some sort of small robotics projects for science classes, all in Logo. It as quite easy since (computer) language was translated for my native language (ie. "repita" instead of "while", and so on...). Was really amusing. Probably, that was a major force shaping my professional career. It's power is underestimated and underused by most teachers, although.
I was exposed to logo when I was about six years old. Now, I'm a programmer. Keep your kids away from it ;)
[I'm a programmer but not an english speaking one. Sorry for the grammar mistakes]
Both.=, if you don't look at it.
Well, there's already a very established technology for polymer currency. Already done in Brazil, probably in other countries too, but coast is still high.
Sorry for the broken english.
Well, actually, you don't want the whole car to be that strong. It would transfer more energy to passengers in a crash. So, it's not all that simple.
;-)) language, so, I'm deeply sorry for errors.
PS: English is not my first (or my second
Hands on experience is very important, but it's not, in any way, a substitute for a graduate degree. You may get better coding skills with hands on experience (or not) but don't think you know more on the subject than a grad student, at least, an average one.
Most people without a graduate degree (and I'm one of then, since I'm still a undergrad) is not important or may be equivalent to real world experience. Yes, it's important and in no, no way, it can be substituted by experience. It's different.
The experience of formal learning is different. The extensive testing. And so on...
PS: English is not my first language. I'm sorry for all the possible grammar/spelling errors. Corrections are welcome.
Union of Burma, the last democratic government, was not a member of Commonwealth.
PS: english is not my first language, so, sorry for any grammar/spelling errors. Corrections are welcome =)
Good luck, rengav.
I thought they'd come for Paris Hilton.
You must be new here.
Only car analogies here please.
And in the end, you'll still prefer vi.