USA has its faults but its still the best thing out there.
One problem is probably the whole melting pot thing dosent really work.
Wheras you look at countrys with a more homogenous population and see them advancing faster, Japan, China, some scandinavian and european ones.
Another problem is the sensationalism of the media. A jerry springer type mentality, and political correctness out of control.
Country divided too much politcally. There used to be a time when people did the right thing and made the right choices, and not based on such partisan thinking.
The people that make 30 Bush threads a day will look the other way no matter what Kerry does. And a lot on the right will look the other way no matter what Bush does.
There desperately needs to be a legitimate independent candidate, and not just some kook like Nader.
Originally posted by cosis Okay let's see you promote a Brazilian sponsor, oh wait thats right there is no such thing
Seems like Brazilians would not need porn...? what with all the naked girls at the beach, live and in 3D. It is a carefree sexually open society (easy to get laid), and prostitution is legal... All bad for the porn biz, which relies on sexually-repressed customers inhibited in their homes alone at the computer.
Originally posted by tranza Well, I never said that, did I....
I knew that you guys would try to bash Brazil instead of standing for your countyr... That's just lousy and proves my point...
You've got a point there
Originally posted by rayadp05
I rebooted, deleted temp files, history, cookies and everything...still cannot view the news clip. All I see is that fucking gay ass music video from "Rick Roll". Anyone else have a different link to the news clip?
Originally posted by CamChicks Seems like Brazilians would not need porn... what with all the naked girls at the beach, live and in 3D. It is a carefree sexually open society (easy to get laid), and prostitution is legal... All bad for the porn biz, which relies on sexually-repressed customers inhibited in their homes alone at the computer.
I think they do especially with all those STDs running in mass around the country.
Won't be too long til they get to Africa's level in terms of amounts of STDs.
Originally posted by CamChicks Seems like Brazilians would not need porn... what with all the naked girls at the beach, live and in 3D. It is a carefree sexually open society (easy to get laid), and prostitution is legal... All bad for the porn biz, which relies on sexually-repressed customers inhibited in their homes alone at the computer.
Maybe a little to care free
"Brazil is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South America and accounts for 57 percent of all AIDS cases in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Originally posted by CamChicks Seems like Brazilians would not need porn...? what with all the naked girls at the beach, live and in 3D. It is a carefree sexually open society (easy to get laid), and prostitution is legal... All bad for the porn biz, which relies on sexually-repressed customers inhibited in their homes alone at the computer.
Brazilians love porn. The problem is that we don't have processors with affiliate programs like ibill/ccbill/epoch, so most of the sites used to run with merchant accounts.
You're right, the USA sucks and is full of idiots.
Now if we could just convince everyone standing in line to get in of that fact, maybe they'd all go away.
GDP Per Capita
1 Luxembourg $ 44,000 2002 est.
2 United States $ 37,600 2002 est. <----- me
3 Bermuda $ 35,200 2002 est.
4 Cayman Islands $ 35,000 2002 est.
5 San Marino $ 34,600 2001 est.
6 Norway $ 31,800 2002 est.
7 Switzerland $ 31,700 2002 est.
8 Ireland $ 30,500 2002 est.
9 Canada $ 29,400 2002 est.
10 Belgium $ 29,000 2002 est.
11 Denmark $ 29,000 2002 est.
12 Aruba $ 28,000 2002 est.
13 Japan $ 28,000 2002 est.
14 Austria $ 27,700 2002 est.
15 Australia $ 27,000 2002 est.
16 Monaco $ 27,000 1999 est.
17 Netherlands $ 26,900 2002 est.
18 Germany $ 26,600 2002 est.
19 Finland $ 26,200 2002 est.
20 Hong Kong $ 26,000 2002 est.
21 France $ 25,700 2002 est.
22 Sweden $ 25,400 2002 est.
23 United Kingdom $ 25,300 2002 est.
24 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) $ 25,000 2002 est.
25 Italy $ 25,000 2002 est.
26 Iceland $ 25,000 2002 est.
27 Liechtenstein $ 25,000 1999 est.
28 Jersey $ 24,800 1999 est.
29 Singapore $ 24,000 2002 est.
30 Faroe Islands $ 22,000 2001 est.
31 United Arab Emirates $ 22,000 2002 est.
32 Qatar $ 21,500 2002 est.
33 Guam $ 21,000 2000 est.
34 Man, Isle of $ 21,000 2001 est.
35 Spain $ 20,700 2002 est.
36 New Zealand $ 20,200 2002 est.
37 Guernsey $ 20,000 1999 est.
38 Greenland $ 20,000 2001 est.
39 Korea, South $ 19,400 2002 est.
40 Andorra $ 19,000 2000 est.
41 Virgin Islands $ 19,000 2001 est.
42 Greece $ 19,000 2002 est.
43 Israel $ 19,000 2002 est.
44 Brunei $ 18,600 2002 est.
45 Macau $ 18,500 2002 est.
46 Portugal $ 18,000 2002 est.
47 Slovenia $ 18,000 2002 est.
48 Taiwan $ 18,000 2002 est.
49 Gibraltar $ 17,500 1997 est.
50 Bahamas, The $ 17,000 2002 est.
51 Malta $ 17,000 2002 est.
52 British Virgin Islands $ 16,000 2002 est.
53 Czech Republic $ 15,300 2002 est.
54 Cyprus $ 15,000 2002 est.
55 Kuwait $ 15,000 2002 est.
56 Barbados $ 14,500 2002 est.
57 Bahrain $ 14,000 2002 est.
58 New Caledonia $ 14,000 2002 est.
59 Hungary $ 13,300 2002 est.
60 Northern Mariana Islands $ 12,500 2000 est.
61 Slovakia $ 12,200 2002 est.
62 Puerto Rico $ 11,500 2002 est.
63 Netherlands Antilles $ 11,400 2002 est.
64 Antigua and Barbuda $ 11,000 2002 est.
65 Mauritius $ 11,000 2002 est.
66 Saint Pierre and Miquelon $ 11,000 1996 est.
67 Estonia $ 10,900 2002 est.
68 Martinique $ 10,700 2001 est.
69 Saudi Arabia $ 10,500 2002 est.
70 Argentina $ 10,200 2002 est.
71 Chile $ 10,000 2002 est.
72 South Africa $ 10,000 2002 est.
73 Turks and Caicos Islands $ 9,600 2000 est.
74 Botswana $ 9,500 2002 est.
75 Trinidad and Tobago $ 9,500 2002 est.
76 Poland $ 9,500 2002 est.
77 Malaysia $ 9,300 2002 est.
78 Russia $ 9,300 2002 est.
79 Guadeloupe $ 9,000 1997 est.
80 Mexico $ 9,000 2002 est.
81 Palau $ 9,000 2001 est.
82 Croatia $ 8,800 2002 est.
83 Saint Kitts and Nevis $ 8,800 2002 est.
84 Anguilla $ 8,600 2001 est.
85 Costa Rica $ 8,500 2002 est.
86 Lithuania $ 8,400 2002 est.
87 Latvia $ 8,300 2002 est.
88 Oman $ 8,300 2002 est.
89 Belarus $ 8,200 2002 est.
90 American Samoa $ 8,000 2000 est.
91 World $ 7,900 2002 est.
92 Seychelles $ 7,800 2002 est.
93 Uruguay $ 7,800 2002 est.
94 Brazil $ 7,600 2002 est. <----- you
I guess Luxemborg is a better place to live than the US. But Brazil is clearly a piece of shit.
1. United States 0.05 per 1000 people
2. Brazil 0.04 per 1000 people
"Recognized as a regional and worldwide leader in HIV/AIDS work, Brazil has been proactive since its first AIDS case, and, manufactures low-cost versions of antiretrovirals (ARV) within its borders. It has provided ARV therapies free of charge to all HIV infected patients who meet the national medical guidelines for treatment since 1996. Currently, an estimated 125,000 persons receive ARVs."
Originally posted by Alex From San Diego Maybe a little to care free
"Brazil is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South America and accounts for 57 percent of all AIDS cases in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Who the hell wants to take that chance.....
This is a typical (trained/taught) repressed american attitude.. They must have / deserve diseases... God will punish the fornicators, etc.
in reality the percent of the population infected is:
Brazil 0.7%
United States 0.6%
while statisitcally, that's basically the same. IMO even a +0.1% tradeoff is worth not having to deal with a bunch of fundamentalists screaming and crying all the way to congress over a nipple being shown in public.
Give me one economic reason why I should sell everything and move to Brazil.
Contrary to what our corporate/consumer culture tells us here, life isn't all about money and owning junk. There are 'quality of life' issues that have nothing to do with economic advantage. The community around you.. the type of people you interact with everyday... how they treat eachother and take care of eachother.. make life better/more enjoyable, or worse/more difficult .. are IMO more important than numbers displayed in your personal bank account.
Originally posted by Jer [url]
HIV AIDS - deaths (per capita)
1. United States 0.05 per 1000 people
2. Brazil 0.04 per 1000 people
"Recognized as a regional and worldwide leader in HIV/AIDS work, Brazil has been proactive since its first AIDS case, and, manufactures low-cost versions of antiretrovirals (ARV) within its borders. It has provided ARV therapies free of charge to all HIV infected patients who meet the national medical guidelines for treatment since 1996. Currently, an estimated 125,000 persons receive ARVs."
One of the reasons:
USA = England didn't find anything that could have been "extracted", so opted to develop the colony
BRAZIL = Portugal found "brazilwood" and other stuff here... why develop? Let's just sucky sucky
Originally posted by CamChicks
Contrary to what our corporate/consumer culture tells us here, life isn't all about money and owning junk. There are 'quality of life' issues that have nothing to do with economic advantage. The community around you.. the type of people you interact with everyday... how they treat eachother and take care of eachother.. make life better/more enjoyable, or worse/more difficult .. are IMO more important than numbers displayed in your personal bank account.
Originally posted by CamChicks Seems like Brazilians would not need porn...? what with all the naked girls at the beach, live and in 3D. It is a carefree sexually open society (easy to get laid), and prostitution is legal... All bad for the porn biz, which relies on sexually-repressed customers inhibited in their homes alone at the computer.
not true. i live here since i was born and i never seen anyone completly naked in public. as far as i know there are some nudity beachs but that's all. and oh... prostitution is not legal here, where did you get that info?
also, i dont think tranza had a nice move as i stated above so im not defending him..
Originally posted by Alvaro not true. i live here since i was born and i never seen anyone completly naked in public. as far as i know there are some nudity beachs but that's all. and oh... prostitution is not legal here, where did you get that info?
also, i dont think tranza had a nice move as i stated above so im not defending him..
Prostitution is legal. When the "First Congress of Prostitutes" was held in Rio in the eighties, it had the backing of the Ministry of Culture and of the Secretary of Culture of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Pimping and trading in women is illegal. Maintaining a "place for sexual liasons" is technically illegal, but the law is not enforced.
Prostitution is ubiquitous, both in rural areas and in the cities. There are street prostitutes, women working out of bars and hotels, massage parlors, mixed saunas and escort services, all advertised in the local papers.. Many of the encounters take place in so called "motels", which are nothing but "places for sexual liasons" and usually payed for by the hour (about US$ 20/hour).
from everything I've heard/read, your government does not jail women who sell sex (or the men who pay for it). Is that incorrect?
Maybe on the books it's not legal, but if noone gets punished then that's as good as legal IMO.
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