The correct portuguese is "rouba mas faz" ("robs but does"). Actually, the equivalent to the pork barrel are the "emendas do orçamento" ("ammendments to the budget"). The "rouba mas faz" thing is the blatantly illegal part, bribes and backstage dealings.
His main proposal is to reduce taxes, which may be the best thing a politician can do (and Brazil DESPERATELY needs); he intends to stimulate trading with rich countries, rather than third-world ones like Lula did; as governor of São Paulo, he reduced the state's payroll; and above all, as far as I know, he is a honest man.
About Heloísa Helena, let me tell you something. One of PSOL's founding members is a runaway italian convict named Achille Lollo. In 1973, he and two others set fire to the house of a political enemy, killing two children. Of course, Heloísa Helena doesn't care. For "the cause" (socialism), anything goes.
Lula is indeed a step forward, but toward the abyss! Geraldo Alckmin would be instead a major change of direction.
No candidate reached 50%+1 votes, so we will have a 2nd round with the two leading candidates.
Yet, the leading candidate is the current president, whose government was swamped by all sorts of scandals -- the most recent being that members of his campaign's staff were arrested while trying to buy a (probably forged) dossier against the main opposing party's candidates.
In any decent country, such a man would not have reached the end of his term. Compared to Lula, Nixon was a saint! But here, reached the point where tons of people seem to believe honesty is not relevant to a politician. Or maybe they don't bother looking for it because they believe it's impossible to find...
Just as Muslims are being tainted in the eyes of many people around the world by the fact that a pack of head-chopping misogynists claim to be Muslims
They ARE muslims. Religion is a belief in irrational, supernatural, non-existing things. Therefore, the sole standard is: if they BELIEVE that they are, they ARE.
Isn't the real problem that consumers don't like the music you're putting out?
If people don't like today's music, why are they illegally downloading literally billions of new songs each month?
Okay, I'll answer that one. I hardly ever download new stuff. Mostly it's old, hard to find music. By that I don't even mean VERY old stuff, I mean 70s/80s. For example... I couldn't find anything by Information Society at any store around here, so I got what I wanted from the net. Or Chris Isaak. Or Alphaville. Or videogame soundtracks. Hell, stores here don't even have Meat Loaf.
Maybe the true danger (for the MAFIAA) of file-sharing is that people will be more likely to check the old stuff, come to a realization - "hey, that's better than the crap they're churning out these days" - and refuse to buy the current trendy crap.
Maybe I'm being a romantic here, but could it be that someone at IBM made the decision with this in mind: "it'd be easier and cheaper to buy them out, but doing so would reward cheating scumbags"?
Sure, we've got... analog control sticks (Nintendo)
Self-centering analog sticks were used on the Vectrex, back in 82. Even in the late 70's, some dedicated game machines ("Pong-clones") had non-self-centering analog sticks. I know because I own one.
Another area ripe for development is Physics.... can you punch holes into walls?
Not punch, but with rocket launchers... Volition's Red Faction, 2001.
Upon recieving actually PS3 devkits they found out that the PS3 doesn't perform (at least in any easy way) on the level of Sony's theoritical numbers
Well, duh. They trusted Sony's specs? The same company that promised the PS2 would display 66 million polygons per second. That's true... for a monochrome wireframe! In-game, when you add textures, shading, effects, the whole rest of the game, it can actually do around 1/6th of that.
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The correct portuguese is "rouba mas faz" ("robs but does"). Actually, the equivalent to the pork barrel are the "emendas do orçamento" ("ammendments to the budget"). The "rouba mas faz" thing is the blatantly illegal part, bribes and backstage dealings.
Alckmin is definitely not Maluf-like.
His main proposal is to reduce taxes, which may be the best thing a politician can do (and Brazil DESPERATELY needs); he intends to stimulate trading with rich countries, rather than third-world ones like Lula did; as governor of São Paulo, he reduced the state's payroll; and above all, as far as I know, he is a honest man.
About Heloísa Helena, let me tell you something. One of PSOL's founding members is a runaway italian convict named Achille Lollo. In 1973, he and two others set fire to the house of a political enemy, killing two children. Of course, Heloísa Helena doesn't care. For "the cause" (socialism), anything goes.
Lula is indeed a step forward, but toward the abyss! Geraldo Alckmin would be instead a major change of direction.
No candidate reached 50%+1 votes, so we will have a 2nd round with the two leading candidates.
Yet, the leading candidate is the current president, whose government was swamped by all sorts of scandals -- the most recent being that members of his campaign's staff were arrested while trying to buy a (probably forged) dossier against the main opposing party's candidates.
In any decent country, such a man would not have reached the end of his term. Compared to Lula, Nixon was a saint! But here, reached the point where tons of people seem to believe honesty is not relevant to a politician. Or maybe they don't bother looking for it because they believe it's impossible to find...
Just how much R&D does it take to build a souped-up PC?
*shrugs*
You forgot Ma-ti, you insensitive clod!
It's you!!
Unicomp. The true one and only heir to the IBM Model M.
Okay, I'll answer that one. I hardly ever download new stuff. Mostly it's old, hard to find music. By that I don't even mean VERY old stuff, I mean 70s/80s. For example... I couldn't find anything by Information Society at any store around here, so I got what I wanted from the net. Or Chris Isaak. Or Alphaville. Or videogame soundtracks. Hell, stores here don't even have Meat Loaf.
Maybe the true danger (for the MAFIAA) of file-sharing is that people will be more likely to check the old stuff, come to a realization - "hey, that's better than the crap they're churning out these days" - and refuse to buy the current trendy crap.
Should be just ".mob"... because the mob rules!
Maybe I'm being a romantic here, but could it be that someone at IBM made the decision with this in mind: "it'd be easier and cheaper to buy them out, but doing so would reward cheating scumbags"?
Heinlein, is that you?!
Not punch, but with rocket launchers... Volition's Red Faction, 2001.
So you like After Burner? There's a sequel in the works: After Burner Climax.