So, in Texas, police still can arrest you for, in the privacy of your own home, consensually sticking your dick in places that are considered perfectly normal in most developed countries. But at least they can't read your email. Wow!
Go to Germany. Their mass transit system kicks fucking ass.
Of course, nobody is ever happy with what they have.
People in Uganda complain about having to walk 10 Kms under the sun every day to get a bucket of dirty water. People in Manhattan throw a fit because the café they're in is out of strawberry-flavoured sparkling water and they have to settle for the blackberry-flavoured one.
Spanish native speakers: 400 millions
Portuguese native speakers: 250 millions
Romanian native speakers: 24 millions
Catalan native speakers: 11 millions
Galician native speakers: 3 million
Occitan native speakers: 2 millions
Mirandese native speakers: 15 000
Aragonese native speakers: 10 000
Source: Wikipedia
One assumes it's a more widely spoken language unless they have reason to believe otherwise.
The words "cota" (geezer) and "bué" (a lot) come from Angola, and were adopted by the Portuguese youth. The equivalents in Brazilian slang could be "coroa" (geezer) and "à beça" or "pa chuchu" (a lot).
Funny, this is all Portuguese. Languages are cool!
I'm just kidding:-) It's just some stupid stuff I wrote using the deepest slang I could come up with. How could you tell it was Portuguese?
English translation could be something like this:
Far out, these geezers can dig some pretty cool stuff, dude.
I wasn't digging people speak cave men stuff. I'm freaking out with all this stuff. I'm really losing my marbles with all this science stuff. Really cool.
Science dudes, go on giving it all you can, we're with you.
Não tava a mancar que o people dizia cenas do tempo das cavernas. Tou-me a passar bué com este endrominanço todo. Tou memo a flipar da marmita com esta cena da ciência. Bué da fixe.
Bacanos da ciência, continuem-lhe a dar bué, o people tá na vossa cena.
This is one of several news I got here on Slashdot today in which the summary has nothing to do with the subject. Lately, most of the subjects are simply made up, to attract views.
There will come a time when everything is illegal, and it will be left to the police or the government to decide who to prosecute.
This way we can have the illusion of living in a democracy but in fact we'll be under the paw of an arbitrary power. Of course the normal guy who doesn't stand out will never notice it, but those who bother the rich and powerful will be quickly and effectively silenced, in a completely legal way. It's already happening, for example with patents and copyright.
Wasn't this how Egypt was ruled for decades?
Isn't this a reality with illegal immigrants in Europe and the US? Everybody knows they exist, everybody pretends they don't, they don't have any rights or any political weight.
You may be right, but if the only solution is to force the employees into the office instead of slapping middle management real hard, it won't work. It will only scare away the best people and leave all the gunk behind, making things even worse.
Some of the things I hate the most are unwillingness to learn and resistance to change. In a previous job I had, I worked with several people who were terrible engineers. People like that attempt to compensate their lack of skills by working very long hours.
As an example, they'd spend days doing horribly repetitive tasks. I'd spend a few hours writing a script and then those tasks would complete in minutes. And doing it all over again was just a matter of re-running the script. A few more minutes.
Guess who management loved the most. I'll give you a clue, it wasn't me. I remember having a heated argument with my then manager about lack of methodology and tools, and then he replied to me: You don't need any of that fancy stuff, anything can be done if you work long and hard enough.
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I fail to understand your point.
Who said I oppose to anything soda-related? What is "16 ounce"?
80% of the Indians don't have a toilet to shit in, but the government is more worried about expensive war toys with no purpose at all.
Way to go, India. There's nothing like getting your priorities straight.
But hey, at least gay people can carry shotguns in public
That gives a renewed meaning to the expression "midnight cowboy".
So, in Texas, police still can arrest you for, in the privacy of your own home, consensually sticking your dick in places that are considered perfectly normal in most developed countries. But at least they can't read your email. Wow!
Go to Germany. Their mass transit system kicks fucking ass.
Of course, nobody is ever happy with what they have.
People in Uganda complain about having to walk 10 Kms under the sun every day to get a bucket of dirty water. People in Manhattan throw a fit because the café they're in is out of strawberry-flavoured sparkling water and they have to settle for the blackberry-flavoured one.
No, they would simply lobby to make it illegal for people to drink milk and force them to drink oil instead.
It's called "morcela", here in Portugal. Great with fava beans.
We also eat other yucky stuff like testicles, guts, snails and basically anything that swims and is not poisonous.
With enough garlic, anything is edible.
Because chicken and pigs are such clean animals?
Taking into account that Portuguese writing is a lot more complex than Spanish, I'd say the opposite would be more accurate.
Spanish native speakers: 400 millions
Portuguese native speakers: 250 millions
Romanian native speakers: 24 millions
Catalan native speakers: 11 millions
Galician native speakers: 3 million
Occitan native speakers: 2 millions
Mirandese native speakers: 15 000
Aragonese native speakers: 10 000
Source: Wikipedia
One assumes it's a more widely spoken language unless they have reason to believe otherwise.
Makes perfect sense.
if it looks like Spanish, but doesn't have many Spanish words, it's probably Portuguese.
It could be Gallician, Catalan, Aragonese, Barranquenho, Mirandese, or even Occitan, Romanian, etc.
The words "cota" (geezer) and "bué" (a lot) come from Angola, and were adopted by the Portuguese youth. The equivalents in Brazilian slang could be "coroa" (geezer) and "à beça" or "pa chuchu" (a lot).
Funny, this is all Portuguese. Languages are cool!
OK. Cumprimentos de Lisboa.
I'm just kidding :-) It's just some stupid stuff I wrote using the deepest slang I could come up with. How could you tell it was Portuguese?
English translation could be something like this:
Far out, these geezers can dig some pretty cool stuff, dude.
I wasn't digging people speak cave men stuff. I'm freaking out with all this stuff. I'm really losing my marbles with all this science stuff. Really cool.
Science dudes, go on giving it all you can, we're with you.
"Chichi" means "pee" in Portuguese.
A bunch of Japanese words come from Portuguese. I hope this one is unrelated.
Fónix, estes cotas topam cenas altamente, meu.
Não tava a mancar que o people dizia cenas do tempo das cavernas. Tou-me a passar bué com este endrominanço todo. Tou memo a flipar da marmita com esta cena da ciência. Bué da fixe.
Bacanos da ciência, continuem-lhe a dar bué, o people tá na vossa cena.
This is one of several news I got here on Slashdot today in which the summary has nothing to do with the subject. Lately, most of the subjects are simply made up, to attract views.
I've had enough with Slashdot.
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Frankly, I don't think most folks outside of the U.S. pay much attention to us or cares...unless Obama is shooting a missile up their butts.
Actually, you're quite wrong. The rest of the world is a lot more aware of what happens in the US than the opposite.
There will come a time when everything is illegal, and it will be left to the police or the government to decide who to prosecute.
This way we can have the illusion of living in a democracy but in fact we'll be under the paw of an arbitrary power. Of course the normal guy who doesn't stand out will never notice it, but those who bother the rich and powerful will be quickly and effectively silenced, in a completely legal way. It's already happening, for example with patents and copyright.
Wasn't this how Egypt was ruled for decades?
Isn't this a reality with illegal immigrants in Europe and the US? Everybody knows they exist, everybody pretends they don't, they don't have any rights or any political weight.
Has anybody watched Lars Von Trier's "Dogville"?
Whoooooooooosh!
Why, oh why do you hate America?
All wrong. Russia is not "embracing democracy". The Soviet Union and China never tried (or wanted) to conquer the world. Unlike the US, by the way.
Don't project your own perversions unto others.
You may be right, but if the only solution is to force the employees into the office instead of slapping middle management real hard, it won't work. It will only scare away the best people and leave all the gunk behind, making things even worse.
That's one way of looking at it.
Some of the things I hate the most are unwillingness to learn and resistance to change. In a previous job I had, I worked with several people who were terrible engineers. People like that attempt to compensate their lack of skills by working very long hours.
As an example, they'd spend days doing horribly repetitive tasks. I'd spend a few hours writing a script and then those tasks would complete in minutes. And doing it all over again was just a matter of re-running the script. A few more minutes.
Guess who management loved the most. I'll give you a clue, it wasn't me. I remember having a heated argument with my then manager about lack of methodology and tools, and then he replied to me: You don't need any of that fancy stuff, anything can be done if you work long and hard enough.