Docket No. 2005-22114
Paul Eggert
eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Tue Jan 24 17:58:29 UTC 2006
Rodrigo Severo <rodrigo.lists at fabricadeideias.com> writes:
> On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert <eggert at 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_Noticias=985&ID_Area=2&ID_Grupo=8>
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.
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