nor costs. Revenue is great and all but how much was spent and what's the rentability? pertinent questions.

comfort zone, perhaps? we tend to get real lazy around well known environments.

not everybody here is american / british, and since for some of us english is the third or fourth language of choice (myself included), it's not that easy to spell correctly everytime. Ok, payed is a terrible mistake alright, but one I would make every now and then when I was first learning english.

but a fantastic nascar driver wouldn't need to fully understand algebra or calculus. that's the point. So you know calculus and physics? Great, but how does that help you when you are required to drive a F1 car at top speed with 20 competitors on your tail? Or talking in front of a huge audience? Or making a cork with a lathe? The conclusion: Inteligence AS WE CONCEIVE IT is over-rated and misguided.

exacly. if the job description includes being on call, there is your payment. Maybe the whole point is webmasters don't earn a nice paycheck anymore. Well, oh well, that's a entire new world of discussion.

GDP is a measure of wealth.

actually, it is: Y = family spending + gvnt spending + private investments + (exports - imports). in dollars.

the employer has the right to employ whoever he wants. that's bs. the worker can still post whatever crap he wants, but unemployed. there you go, his rights are well preserved, the employer's rights are preserved as well. I won't hire a nazi-white-supremacy freak, but he still has the right to believe his shit. that's his right and MY right. sod off.

ok, i'm brazilian as well and I agree with everything you said but the source; estadao is right-wing all the way.

a homebroker would be much more suitable for you. 20min is a lifetime.

yeah but if you can't see the color, it's kind of hard telling which one is lit at 11 am on a sunny day

Am I the only one that know "jocks" that exceled in science, math or eny other geek domain as well? I love sports; as a brazilian, soccer mostly. But I played rugby when I lived in australia, and I surf every other weekend. I was never a bully, by the way. I guess in america all jocks are dumb and bullies. Geek, jock, we are all just plain old "people" in Brazil. My closest friends are all sports-lovers and/or geeks. No segregation.

not quite so. Here in brazil (world's biggest roman catholic country) the pentecostal churches are all the rage. You actually can buy your way into heaven, and the owner of the bigger pentecostal church goes to the mass in a helicopter.

not really, but I try not to write half baked stuff. citations are always nice. I agree with your argument, by the way.

The only choice here is the "next best thing". You can try to adjust the results from a flawed experiment or just fabricate them from no experiment. My guess is that the former is bound to be closer to the expected true.