Brazilian Taxes I think most of the people in the world know that Brazil is the country that collects the highest quantity of money in taxes in the world. Everything that we buy and even everything that we sell takes more money than it should. Employees must pay part of their salaries and employers must pay a tax on the salary they give to their employees and, depending on the amount of money that this salary consists in, the taxes are very high. But the real problem is not that. The Constitution of 1988, which is used until now, says that the State is obliged to give the population good health system, good education, residence conditions and a lot of other things, without those people needing to pay for that. I'm not sure, but I believe that half the taxes that Brazilian people pay should be enough to make the Government comply with its obligation. But, even with all the taxes and all the money that is taken from people every year, we don't see anything good. People who have money pay for good education, good hospitals and safety, while people who don't have the same conditions have to see thair children study in awful schools, see their families die in terrible health centers and live every day of their lives scared about the criminality which the movies represent as something good. Cazuza was right and I dare repeat his verses: "Brazil! Show your face! I want to see who pays for us to live like that"

First week On Monday, I started having classes again at school. As some people should know, the school year starts in January or February here in Brazil, depending on the year. It's been a little tiring, because I'm coursing high scool third year and I'm preparing myself to the admission tests that we have here in my country. To be honest, I think this system is unsucsessful if it is looking for apt people to join the universities, because it requires thing that will be useless further. I know some people say that knowledge is great and I agree with it. More than that, I believe that knowledge is the only thing that we gain and that lasts as much as we want. Good night everyone.

Transhumanism

Has everyone ever listened about this movement? Is it common in other countries? In Brazil, it looks like nobody knows what it is.

Transhumanism seems to be a revolucionary movement, which consists in developing new technologies do increase the human condition. I mean, the life quality, the production, the ability to recreate the species...

Particularly, I have two distinct opinions about transhumanism. I believe all these technologies will be developed with a good purpose, to create immunity against diseases, cures to others and a very long life to humans and, I believe, our animal friends. Though, I also don't want to imagine what could happen if transhumanist technologies fall on the wrong hands.

So, what do you think about transhumanism? Is it creating a good future for humanity or is it creating powerful weapons that could destroy specific targets?

Boring Monday Today, the first day of the last week of my vacation, I didn't put the foot out of the apartment. If something happened at the city, I really don't know. Today, I decided to take complete vacation; from shool, from gym, from myself. I stayed the whole day at home, reading, watching movies and playing videogame... It's not fair saying that I stayed the whole day at home, since I woke up at ten. I have also tryied to play a new song on the guitar, but I'll finish it tomorrow. Good night, everyone!

Sunday night I can say this weekend was great. Though I haven't really gone out - with my friends -, I have gone to my grandma's and talked to her during the whole Saturday afternoon and evening and during the Sunday afternoon, too. She has great stories aboout when she was younger and I've realized that she likes when there is someone there, to listen to her stories. I hope that, next year, when I travel to iniciate my graduation, my cousins keep on doing that. I mean, keep on going to her house to listen to her stories and make her happy.