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Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge)
NewsForge covers
a campaign in Brazil, spearheaded by the Free Software Foundation - Latin
America. " The Free Software Foundation - Latin America (FSFLA) is
campaigning against the Brazilian government's regulations that some
citizens must use non-free software for paying taxes. Referring to the
software as "Softwares Impostos," a term that puns in Portuguese on "taxes"
and "imposed," FSFLA has launched a letter-writing campaign against the
requirement, arguing that it is both contrary to current social policies
and a violation of the Brazilian constitution."
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Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Oct 28, 2006 19:53 UTC (Sat) by wildman27283 (guest, #18993) [Link] Constitution ?? I didn't know they had one, "Dictators" make up their ownrules as they need them, and They certainly have a Dictator!! If in doubt, read the newspapers...:)
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Oct 28, 2006 20:36 UTC (Sat) by lxoliva (subscriber, #40702) [Link] Brazil left behind the military dictatorship more than 2 decades ago, and even before that we had a constitution.
Brazil is turning into as much of a democracy as you can get, considering that with a lot of money you can go all the way from legal lobbying to owning influential media and press, and even purchasing election results. Sounds familiar?
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Oct 28, 2006 22:57 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] The Yes Men would say so. :)
(I think it was their first major jape, the talk from the `chairman of the
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Oct 30, 2006 13:04 UTC (Mon) by anonymous21 (guest, #30106) [Link] One thing that really annoys me is the fact that most Americans are incredibly stupid regarding other cultures.
No, Latin America is not composed entirely of Mexico. We do not use sombreros and we do not have "siestas" around here. We don't speak Spanish, we speak Portuguese. You're talking about a country that's as big as yours, with a whole different culture. We don't have a dictatorship. Just corrupt politicians, like most countries, including yours. Are you forgetting your own country's flaws? May I remind you that we've been using eletronic voting for the last 10 years while you're still dealing with flawed Diebold machines, PUNCHED CARDS and LEVERS? Just yesterday we had a national election for president, and the results were in after just a few hours.
Please, educate yourself before posting stupid comments. And you guys wonder why there's so much anti-americanism in the world...
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Nov 1, 2006 9:15 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] It's because people don't trust electronic voting machines. They don't trust the government. They don't trust the people who would be in charge of machines. Having paper records is reasuring.
Oh, and BTW America isn't the only country that has it's share of morons or trolls. It's quite telling that you assume he is American, maybe you need to reassess your own biases and stereotypes?
He used the word 'jape'. That's not realy in the American-style english vocabulary. In fact I have _never_ heard it used in popular media or books or in conversation.
I've heard 'jab', which is probably close to equivalent.. But unless he is one of those anglophiles that try to adopt British mannerisms he is more then likely British himself.
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Nov 14, 2006 20:43 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Indeed, Hertfordshire born and bred, that's me, with an annoying squeakyhigh-pitched Received Pronunciation voice that you're lucky you can't hear. (But I like to hope I'm neither a moron nor a troll...)
The Yes Men's siesta jab wasn't aimed at Latin America at all: the
(FWIW `jape' is a fairly rare word in UK English as well, but it fits a
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Oct 28, 2006 21:16 UTC (Sat) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link] Not to get political or to thrash the bleeding obvious but newspapers I read tell me that there is a Presidential election going on in which the incumbent (daSilva) failed to be elected in the first round and leads in the second. Both things imply a constitution and a non-dictator.
Stop watching Faux News.
Don't just trust what you hear Posted Oct 30, 2006 17:12 UTC (Mon) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link] Stop watching Faux News. Interesting. Back in my England days, I used to zap between CNN, Fox, BBC and TV5 (the French news). You wouldn't believe how distorted the same information can become, depending who reports it. I was always especially astonished at the amount of BS Fox could get through in only one news flash.
Don't just trust what you hear Posted Oct 30, 2006 18:49 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link] For the best examples of news reporting distortion, wait until "the news" reports on an event that you have personal knowledge about. They will miss or leave out important facts, present one person interviewed as representative of everyone there, and otherwise pick and choose the "interesting" bits, which aren't really what happened.
It's good to have several news sources. Between Fox and CNN and BBC and CBS, and whatever else, you can probably come up with a better approximation to the truth than from any one of them.
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) Posted Oct 30, 2006 8:02 UTC (Mon) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] Thank you. Now please go back to Slashdot.
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