Rodrigo Severo <rodrigo.lists@fabricadeideias.com> writes:
On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing obviously-broken regulations like this.
I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm brazilian ;)
I was referring to the common misperception in the US that Brazil has a bureaucracy that is less efficient than ours. Please see, for example, <http://www.infobrazil.com/Conteudo/Front_Page/Analysis/Conteudo.asp?ID_Notic...> and look for "inefficient government bureaucracy". (Since you're in Brazil, you know better, which explains why the joke didn't make sense to you. :-) This is getting a bit off-topic, but I felt I should try to explain my attempt at a joke that in retrospect was poorly worded. Sorry about that.