Politics

Brasileiros caras de pau!

17/08/2010

Todos os dias eu saio do trabalho e está um transito infernal na boca da minha garagem. Não consigo andar cinco metros e lá esta aquela fila enorme de carros. Não é novidade que todas as pessoas estão estressadas, ninguém quer dar passagem e tentar um lugarzinho na fila, é um desafio. Tem que ter muita paciência e um certo jeitinho, porque se você aguardar alguém te dar passagem como um gentleman inglês, ficará vendo carros passar por muito tempo. Depois que eu embico o carro na garagem, aguardo o primeiro carro me dar passagem, o que nunca acontece, o…

Grátis custa caro

28/12/2009

Maldita invenção de Nizan Guanaes, Aleksandar Mandic e Matinas Suzuki quando fundaram o iG, com a idéia de dar internet discada grátis para todos. Lembro-me bem, janeiro de dois mil, o grupo inicia suas atividades de forma gritante, um cachorrinho branco se torna celebridade instantânea e cativa a todos. O iG não foi o primeiro a ter essa idéia de internet grátis, mas certamente foi o primeiro a abalar o mercado. Em uma época onde a banda larga só estava engatinhando, o iG atingiu de forma meteórica, grande popularidade. Os usuários davam saltos de alegria, por outro lado, os diretores…

How can someone trust IEEE?

26/12/2008

“Check out the paper Towards the Simulation of E-commerce by Herbert Schlangemann, which is available in the IEEEXplor database (full article available only to IEEE members). This generated paper has been accepted with review by the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE). According to the organizers, ‘CSSE is one of the important conferences sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, which serves as a forum for scientists and engineers in the latest development of artificial intelligence, grid computing, computer graphics, database technology, and software engineering.’ Even better, fake author Herbert Schlangemann has been selected as session chair (PDF)…

Sicko

16/02/2008

Better late, then never. In my vacations I watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s movie about heath care in the United States. He shows a number of situations where it simply doesn’t work. People that has a private plan and got rejected when a serious decease like cancer appeared, or even people that were pretty well, but had their lungs burned because they wanted to save lives after the 09/11 accident. A comparison is made to a different health care system applied in countries like, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Cuba. The idea is simple, everybody pays taxes and this includes health…

Brazilian Political Model and the CPMF

12/12/2007

It’s very interesting how the Brazilian political model works, anyone is legitimate to create a party, an interesting project with enough people interested and you might be approved, today we have around 26 parties in Brazil. Generally speaking the objective of the politicians is to represent the population and take decisions in their benefits. Unfortunately what you see and hear from them it’s not it, once they need you to put them upstairs they do anything for you, when they are there, they forget you. Today is happening something very interesting that clearly shows it, we have a temporary tax…