Take a look at this article in Wikipedia about the School of the Americas, an USA army institue that for decades taught torture, fear, bounties for enemy dead, false imprisonment, torture, execution, and kidnapping a target's family members to Latin America dictatorships in the 60's, 70's and 80's.
An excerpt:
The school has a controversial history of teaching the techniques of torture, and according to UN commissions, many of its graduates have been linked to the most egregious human rights crimes perpetrated in the western hemisphere, who were trained at the school at U.S. taxpayer expense.
It's not hard to figure out why some many people in Latin America hate the USA and its hipocrisy of allegedly spreading democracy while supporting dictatorships.
1) The Amazon rainforest land is not good for agriculture. 2) Brazil uses sugar cane, not corn, to produce ethanol. 3) Sugar cane is grown in places far from the Amazon forest. Get your facts right before writing horseshit here.;)
The rising demand for corn as a source of ethanol-blended fuel is largely to blame for increasing food costs around the world, and Canada is not immune, say industry experts.
Not all countries extract ethanol from corn. Nobody does that in Brazil. All ethanol here is made from sugar cane, which has a higher production rate than corn. And, here in Brazil, the use of ethanol never made any influence on the cost of food, just a little bit on alcoholic beverages.:)
There are a lot of cars here running on ethanol since the 70s. In 1986, more than 76% of all cars sold ran on ethanol. For a long time already, all gasoline sold here has 25% of ethanol. Many of the cars sold in Brazil now are flexible-fuel: they can run on any mixture of gasoline and ethanol. They are a huge selling hit. All all gasoline stations in Brazil sell both gasoline and ethanol
More information about ethanol in Brazil can be found at Wikipedia.
Bill Gates was never good at guessing what the future would be. Who would need more than 640K of RAM? Vista would not even run with good performance and all the bells and wistles with one thousand more RAM than that . . .
Most Brazilians cast doubt in everything the government does, while it looks like many (most?) Americans tend to believe in almost everything the government says. Here in Brazil government bashing is, just after football (soccer), our favorite sport.:)
That senator, Eduardo Azeredo, belongs to the PSDB party, and PSDB is now opposition, not government.
Eduardo Azeredo was the governor of my state, Minas Gerais. He was accused of receiving illegal donations to his last run for the Minas Gerais government. The sad thing is that he is a former sofware developer and, with this law, proves that most polititions forget all the good knowledge when they have some power. The bills he's proposing (not just one) will have 0% effectivity against cybercrimes. Unfortunately, this guy still has more 4 years in our Senate.:(
Have you ever lived in Belo Horizonte? I live there, oops, here.:) When I lived in the UK, nobody I talked to had ever heard of Belo Horizonte, just Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Our Judiciary is quite independent of the government. Election officials are appointed by the Judiciary, not by the government, so many of the US election problems would not happen here. The USA election system, as a whole, flabbergasts me of how bad and politically controlled it is.
The design and the source code of the Brazilian voting system belongs to the Judiciary power (the one who controls how elections are made, not politicians, like in the USA), not to the companies that developed them.
Opposite to what happens in most of the United States, people in jails now or people who were convicted before can vote. The advantage is that we don't have the disenfranchisement of anyone just like it happened in Florida. Other advantages of the Brazilian system is that elections are always on Sundays and that you need to be registered to vote, so 1) the election officials know exactly how many people will vote in any voting place and 2) it's almost impossible to vote twice without document forgery.
In not completely unrelated news, the US government supported at least a half dozen military coups and dictatorships in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela,...) during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
For those playing at home: we just learned why Google is hesitant to build data centers in countries that have weaker protection for freedomes than does the US.
In Brazil we don't have a president that does illegal wiretaps and even admits that publicly nor companies disclosing personal information about without permission nor Guantanamo, so I feel my freedoms are better respected here than in the USA.;)
When I first read "Opera Seeks Developer Input", I thought that Opera was seeking input from software developers, not from web ones. Well, I'm not a web developer, but I would suggest to Opera offer more Javascript debugging (specially XMLHTTPRequest) and some "Fit to width" tweakings. It works very well in most pages, but in a few of them it screws the page rendering completely.
Some people here asks for Firefox-style extensions. Unless the Opera people change their minds, this would never happen, as they think extensions are a security threat (you have to trust no just Opera ASA, but also the extension writer) and that tech-unsavvy users can confuse low-quality extensions with a low-quality browser.
Brazilians call their national football t-shirt "Verde-amarela" (green and yellow, in this order). And they do hate when players think that they can win matches only becaus of Brazil's accomplishments and history in football.
They applied statistical analysis to the less predictable of the modern team sports. Football (the English one) is one of the few sports at which a team that is playing worse than the opponent can win (and it does happen). In addition, somebody here said that Brazil's football style is remarkbly defined by creativity and unpredictability.
. . . does the USA fiscal year end in June??? Would it make more sense if the fiscal year was the same as the calendar year, as it is here in Brazil???
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I just don't get some Slashdot moderators sometimes . . .
Take a look at this article in Wikipedia about the School of the Americas, an USA army institue that for decades taught torture, fear, bounties for enemy dead, false imprisonment, torture, execution, and kidnapping a target's family members to Latin America dictatorships in the 60's, 70's and 80's.
An excerpt:
It's not hard to figure out why some many people in Latin America hate the USA and its hipocrisy of allegedly spreading democracy while supporting dictatorships.
1) The Amazon rainforest land is not good for agriculture. ;)
2) Brazil uses sugar cane, not corn, to produce ethanol.
3) Sugar cane is grown in places far from the Amazon forest.
Get your facts right before writing horseshit here.
Maybe USA would stop spending trillions on wars in the Middle East and leave Venezuela alone . . .
Not all countries extract ethanol from corn. Nobody does that in Brazil. All ethanol here is made from sugar cane, which has a higher production rate than corn. And, here in Brazil, the use of ethanol never made any influence on the cost of food, just a little bit on alcoholic beverages. :)
There are a lot of cars here running on ethanol since the 70s. In 1986, more than 76% of all cars sold ran on ethanol. For a long time already, all gasoline sold here has 25% of ethanol. Many of the cars sold in Brazil now are flexible-fuel: they can run on any mixture of gasoline and ethanol. They are a huge selling hit. All all gasoline stations in Brazil sell both gasoline and ethanol
More information about ethanol in Brazil can be found at Wikipedia.
We don't need to quote Bill Gates accurately in Slashdot as long as you're bashing him. ;)
PS: I looked at your URL and I thought of Vander Lee, a Brazilian singer, not VanDerLee. :P
Bill Gates was never good at guessing what the future would be. Who would need more than 640K of RAM? Vista would not even run with good performance and all the bells and wistles with one thousand more RAM than that . . .
Most Brazilians cast doubt in everything the government does, while it looks like many (most?) Americans tend to believe in almost everything the government says. Here in Brazil government bashing is, just after football (soccer), our favorite sport. :)
That senator, Eduardo Azeredo, belongs to the PSDB party, and PSDB is now opposition, not government.
Eduardo Azeredo was the governor of my state, Minas Gerais. He was accused of receiving illegal donations to his last run for the Minas Gerais government. The sad thing is that he is a former sofware developer and, with this law, proves that most polititions forget all the good knowledge when they have some power. The bills he's proposing (not just one) will have 0% effectivity against cybercrimes. Unfortunately, this guy still has more 4 years in our Senate.
Have you ever lived in Belo Horizonte? I live there, oops, here. :) When I lived in the UK, nobody I talked to had ever heard of Belo Horizonte, just Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
. . . bake a cake for me if I succesfully finish the course?
Our Judiciary is quite independent of the government. Election officials are appointed by the Judiciary, not by the government, so many of the US election problems would not happen here. The USA election system, as a whole, flabbergasts me of how bad and politically controlled it is.
The design and the source code of the Brazilian voting system belongs to the Judiciary power (the one who controls how elections are made, not politicians, like in the USA), not to the companies that developed them.
Opposite to what happens in most of the United States, people in jails now or people who were convicted before can vote. The advantage is that we don't have the disenfranchisement of anyone just like it happened in Florida. Other advantages of the Brazilian system is that elections are always on Sundays and that you need to be registered to vote, so 1) the election officials know exactly how many people will vote in any voting place and 2) it's almost impossible to vote twice without document forgery.
In not completely unrelated news, the US government supported at least a half dozen military coups and dictatorships in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, ...) during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Popeye knew of the powers of spinach many decades before. I just don't wanna know what Olive Oyl thinks about it.
Ooops, of course they are in the website, but it seems to me that just part 1 is available as a torrent: http://www.stealthisfilm.com/torrent/StealThisFilm .Part1.torrent.
Where's the .torrent?
In Brazil we don't have a president that does illegal wiretaps and even admits that publicly nor companies disclosing personal information about without permission nor Guantanamo, so I feel my freedoms are better respected here than in the USA.
. . . cause something like this: some people complaining about the lack of some features that actually exist in Opera 9!!!
When I first read "Opera Seeks Developer Input", I thought that Opera was seeking input from software developers, not from web ones. Well, I'm not a web developer, but I would suggest to Opera offer more Javascript debugging (specially XMLHTTPRequest) and some "Fit to width" tweakings. It works very well in most pages, but in a few of them it screws the page rendering completely.
Some people here asks for Firefox-style extensions. Unless the Opera people change their minds, this would never happen, as they think extensions are a security threat (you have to trust no just Opera ASA, but also the extension writer) and that tech-unsavvy users can confuse low-quality extensions with a low-quality browser.
Brazilians call their national football t-shirt "Verde-amarela" (green and yellow, in this order). And they do hate when players think that they can win matches only becaus of Brazil's accomplishments and history in football.
They applied statistical analysis to the less predictable of the modern team sports. Football (the English one) is one of the few sports at which a team that is playing worse than the opponent can win (and it does happen). In addition, somebody here said that Brazil's football style is remarkbly defined by creativity and unpredictability.
. . . does the USA fiscal year end in June??? Would it make more sense if the fiscal year was the same as the calendar year, as it is here in Brazil???
. . . to have the first edit war like the ones Wikipedia has?