Actually there is the Mercosul/Mercosur, which consists of only 5 countries, Brazil and Argentina are the biggest economies in South America are in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur

But anyway, manufactoring in Brazil is a lot more expensive than in China.

the articles at Slashdot. Oh, wait...

Yeah, slashdotters are getting stupider by the week.

That's what YOU think.

I believe that any person in the world, who's not a Nigerian, is forbidden of commiting such a crime.

So, no year of the linux on desktops? What about DNF?

I wouldn't be bothered that much for a developer. But for a company, that would be a no no.

I learnt C++ as my first language. I read a book and got it all wrong (writing code in .h files for instance).
By the time, information was scarce and the internet was just a sea of porn (wait, it still is, but you wouldn't find anything else useful).
Now I wish I learnt to program in Ruby.

My cousin was trying to program in Python. I answered a lot of his questions by IM. Thing is, he got confused by Python's identation.
I think it is a bad thing to new programmers. Also he doesn't speak english (we're brazilian) so there is few free material for him.
Ruby wouldn't solve this problem. But I think it is easier to understand the code in ruby.

Why name a machine that doesn't come when you call?

You should try wurm online (www.wurmonline.com).
It is a persistent rpg where users found cities and help each other.
Haven't played it since it came out of beta (i think it is out of beta now).

No mention to the Zeebo console being tested in Brazil.
Zeebo is a download only console, meant for 3rd world countries (where pirating is high).
Though in my opinion it is a bit expensive (US$250, which is more than the monthly minimum wage in Brazil). If they don't make the games really inexpensive, it will fail miserably. Another missing feature is browsing the internet.
You can learn more about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10252999-17.html

Well, there are human hair wigs, which are quite expensive.
True, you only sell your hair for a good price if it is long and shiny (or whatever).

Absolutely agree. Today's technology will be yesterday's in less than 24 hours.

Soon last.fm will charge for most non-US users. If the VPN gives me an american IP, I could listen to last.fm again. So it's 7 euros for VPN to listen to last.fm, which charges 3 euros... Well, I get to see all other goodies for americans only like Zulu and the like.