Argentina Debt Default Inevitable
Postado por caio em Wednesday August 29 2001 @ 02:53AM CDT |
Do pessoal da Stratfor:
Summary
The International Monetary Fund's latest $8 billion aid package for Argentina fails to address the country's fundamental economic problems, including an unsustainable debt burden, overvalued currency and a stagnant economy in its fourth consecutive year of recession. Government efforts to eliminate the budget deficit will help the Peronist opposition party take control of Congress, and the country will still likely default on its debts by early next year.
Analysis
The International Monetary Fund announced last week it will provide an $8 billion emergency aid package to Argentina, raising the IMF's total outlays to the country since last December to $22 billion. The funds may enable the country to limp along financially until congressional elections on Oct.14, after which the government likely will seek to initiate debt-restructuring talks with its foreign creditors.
Although the aid package has calmed global financial markets momentarily, it fails to address Argentina's fundamental problems, and it will not keep the country from defaulting on its foreign debts by next year, if not sooner.
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Viva o churrasco!
Postado por caio em Saturday August 25 2001 @ 06:25AM CDT |
Drauzio Varella mandou bem na Folha de hoje:
"A política de convencer a população a cortar carne vermelha da dieta, adotada a 30 anos por diversos países, inclusive pelo Brasil, precisa ser revista. Não só por falta de comprovação de suas vantagens, mas pela possibilidade de causar o estrago de ajudar a engordar a população"
http://www.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq2508200123.htm só para assinantes =^(
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Today we're going to explore the world of hiku.
Postado por caio em Sunday August 19 2001 @ 07:56PM CDT |
We're going to explore the world of getting high? Cool!
No, beavis, not *high* *cool*, hiku--the haunting japanese form of 3 line poetry.
That was cool, huh huh
when we killed that frog, huh huh
it won't croak again. | | Butthead's Hiku for class |
| Huh huh, huh huh huh
huh huh mmm, uh huh huh huh
huh huh, huh huh huh. | | Beavis' Hiku for class |
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Very good! You both get A's for the day.
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The thing that will kill the Internet!
Postado por caio em Sunday August 12 2001 @ 09:33PM CDT |
Do alt.religion.kibology:
I have invented the thing that will make the Internet obsolete! A year from now, people will say "The Internet" and you'll say "What's that?" because you won't remember because you will be using this thing instead. It's dead, it's kaput, it's wrongthink! The Web? Amateur hour! Idiocy! It's a bunch of words with underlines! Usenet? Usenet? It ought to have been put out of its misery in 1990! Ridiculous! It's a bunch of words with no underlines! Where's the interest? Where's the buzz? Where's the heat? E-mail? Half the time it's got a virus in it! Won't anybody think of the children? Instead you will use this thing! It's scalable, it's converged, it's synergetic, it's synergistic, it's all media rolled into a better thing than any one of them! It's like Ginger only without the plastic balls that pop up and down! It's like Java only with a Quake interface. We're going to leverage that knowledge, that instinct for how people interact with computers, but, more importantly, with other people. The Internet isolates us; this will bring us together at long last. Goodbye to bowling alone! It will rework the way we build cities and cut our hair! It's the next big thing! It's the next little thing! It does 3D in a hologram-like way. It's already inside of you! What I have in mind... It's completely modular, object-oriented. It's a solution built for Extreme Programming from the ground up. It's better than the Web because it is fully interactive. It's nothing like TV because it puts you in the picture! It's going to educate our children! The Internet is anathema to good business models; we're going to do it right! Dot-com gone dot-bomb? Not this time because there's no com. There's no dot!
BOW DOWN BEFORE MY PRESS RELEASE!
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Matt McIrvin
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Agrippa
Postado por caio em Thursday August 09 2001 @ 05:25PM CDT |
Em 1992 teve o Agrippa do William Gibson, foram produzidos apenas 455 cópias que custavam de $450 a $7500 e se destruiam após uma leitura:
http://www.textfiles.com/sf/cyberlit.txt
O mais classe da historia é que o plano original do Gibson era que o bagulho fosse quebrado por hackers e distribuido pela rede, o que naturalmente aconteceu =^)
And it went all over the world and then when the thing was finally released, the code was cracked almost immediately by a hacker who promptly posted it on the Internet, where it remains today. So you can get it. Just go in there and figure out where it is. People are always bringing me copies of it when I do book signings - kind of 'desktop' editions of it, which I kind of like because it's a poem to my father, who I didn't have much chance to get to know, because he died when I was quite young. So I kinda love this monument to my father in some respects. Who knows how long it will be the. Might stay for a long time . It turned out to be this perverse sort of Trojan Horse. I sort of tricked, or teased them into cracking it and they made it into a monument. Largely it was a matter of putting it into motion and then not attempting to control it.
http://www.razorwings.com/Gibson.html
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