You know the drill. Right-click, save picture as…

That’s US$65.00 they’ll not see. I don’t give my money to people who don’t respect me, and Universal Pictures don’t give a frack to brazilian fans.

Both packs (1st and 2dn season) lack extras, and only the premiere episodes are widescreen. The rest of the seasons are fullscreen. Come on, we’re in 2007, who the frack watches (and likes) fullscreen?

Not Science Fiction geeks, I’m sure.

Oh, it gets worse. Sound. Remember, fracking lucky American fans? Those AMAZING sound FX, the heart-pounding score, Adama yelling “DO YOUR JOB!!!!” echoing around your lovely Dolby Extra Special 5.1 THX-Certified Sound System? Well, forget it.

The brazilian edition is Dolby Digital 2.0. BOTH Portuguese AND English soundtracks.

Ready to say “go frack yourself” to Universal? So let me ice your cake…

The last episode was cut, from all it’s 1h40min glory to a puny 42minutes.

What will I do?

Well, I’ll buy the imported version IF and WHEN I find it at a reasonable price, probably using a friend living in the USA, and mail a copy of the receipt to the local Universal Pictures office. “Better luck next time, motherfrackers”.

Complete with roadmaps. Near Savoonga, 63°41′44.89″N 170°27′46.58″W near Alaska.

OK, may be not Atlantis, but what about a secret underwater government facility, used to plot evil… goverment plans?

Google Earth KMZ file here.

As I always say, people can’t do that. They only read the title, they don’t have the superpowers required to assimilate a full text.

The research discovered that the amount of people who only read titles and the single phrases INCREASED in the last four years.

Monteiro Lobato, a great writer, once said: “A Country is made by men and books”. Looks like nobody paid him much attention.

Oh Well. Africa, here we go!

Even Argentina got one. Some countries without luxuries like tap water an paved roads did it, too. But not Brazil. Why? simple: our movie industry is poverty-oriented. We love our misery an are not afraid of showing it. Ok. A slum here and there is kosher, but to become a huge hit a Brazilian movie must show slums, social violence, black kids beaten by evil cops or a thousand miles of plain old fashioned rural poverty.

After a while it gets boring. Same old story with other characters. Even the actors are the same. And no, you can’t do it without a ‘denounce’ tone. A great little movie, Deus é Brasileiro (God is Brazilian) was ignored by the critics because it dared to be fun. To entertain and to show poor people being happy. Yes, Virginia, even poor people smile, love, have fun. They may be poor but they don’t feel miserable. At least not as miserable as the onnanist left-wing intellectuals believe they are.

We have a few pure-entertainment movies, but they’re not taken as seriously as the “real” movies.

Of course, American movies are allowed to be as fun and alienating as possible, because, well, that’s Hollywood. Point is: People love Hollywood-style movies, unless it’s a brazilian Hollywood-style movie. Our moviemakers are not allowed to be vain.

But there’s a small light of hope. Globo Filmes, a movie company tied to Brazil’s largest TV network release movie after movie, usually based on their own TV shows, or plain simple pure-entertainment movie. People are starting to react, and the public like what it see.

Maybe in one or two generations Brazil will have a great movie industry, like it used to have, back in the 40s/50s.

I’m not claiming we work all the time, but as a ProBlogger I can assure you: Our working hours are really weird. Worse, our work days never fit other people’s.

Here in Brazil we only have 100 or 200 holidays every year, and people get really eager in anticipation. Problem is: If you work at home, make your own schedule, can leave anytime for a beer, can say “screw you guys, I’m going home” or simply watch monkey porn the whole day, the very idea of a holiday makes no sense.

It’s like coming to Jenna Jameson with a friendly line “Hey’s, guess what! I’m getting laid tonight, isn’t it great?”

I know I shouldn’t, but sometimes I miss the whole “Next Friday is labour’s day! Thursday we drink until morning!” thing.

Guess I need 5 minutes of a 9-to-5 office environment, then I’ll stop my girlie complaining.

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From: “Google AdSense” adsense-pt@google.com
Subject: Important message about your AdSense payment

Hello;

We´d like to inform you that the delivery of your AdSense paycheck, from December, was aborted, unexpectedly, due to restrictions imposed by brazilian customs laws, related to courier-delivered checks.

be assured we are working to solve this impasse as soon as possible and we will contact you again as soon as we´ve further information.

So, after the Government tried to close Orkut, the Justice tried to close YouTube, now we´ve a classic Mexican standoff, Google at a side, brazilian government at the other?

What kind of government is stupid enough to block INCOMING money? there´s not even a single fracking tax advantage to people who BRING money to the country, but at least  we should´ve equal rights to people who make money in country.

No, looks like we´re the bad guys.

Well, guess what: If things are not solved very quickly Everybody will lose. Specially  Brazil´s IRS.

Use the Technorati adsenselock or sign this blog´s RSS if you want to keep up with further developments.

This is YouTube for most of Brazil. Telefonica is redirecting the  requests to a page explaining about the Court Order. It covers every company with international links and has no ending date in sight.

Brasil Telecom was the first, and others are following. Embratel, the largest brazilian backbone provider will close the traffic to and from YouTube in a few hours.

I think don´t even CHINA blocks youtube altogether.

Shame on you, Brazil, shame on you.