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		<title>Spaceman, farewell</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Todos os adolescentes gostam de musica, especialmente aquela que vai contra a carneirice vigente, no meu caso o hard rock e o heavy metal.. E na musica, todos teem os seus favoritos. No meu caso, os KISS. E depois ha&#8217; aqueles que influenciam alguns adolescentes e os fazem sonhar em ser musicos. No meu caso, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<div dir="auto">Todos os adolescentes gostam de musica, especialmente aquela que vai contra a carneirice vigente, no meu caso o hard rock e o heavy metal..</div>
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<div dir="auto">E na musica, todos teem os seus favoritos. No meu caso, os KISS.</div>
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<div dir="auto">E depois ha&#8217; aqueles que influenciam alguns adolescentes e os fazem sonhar em ser musicos. No meu caso, Ace Frehley guitarrista original dos KISS.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Nao era especialmente tecnico, mas tinha um estilo que marcou geraçoes e multiplas bandas e guitarristas.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Morreu hoje aos 74 anos. Spaceman, farewell e boa viagem de volta para Jendell.</div>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions Soundtrack</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Owner of a Lonely Heart &#8220;Move yourselfYou always live your lifeNever thinking of the futureProve yourselfYou are the move you makeTake your chances, win or loserSee yourselfYou are the steps you takeYou and you, and that&#8217;s the only wayShake, shake yourselfYou&#8217;re every move you makeSo the story goes &#8211; You, lose yourselfNo [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Owner of a Lonely Heart</strong></p>
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<p>&#8220;Move yourself<br aria-hidden="true" />You always live your life<br aria-hidden="true" />Never thinking of the future<br aria-hidden="true" />Prove yourself<br aria-hidden="true" />You are the move you make<br aria-hidden="true" />Take your chances, win or loser<br aria-hidden="true" />See yourself<br aria-hidden="true" />You are the steps you take<br aria-hidden="true" />You and you, and that&#8217;s the only way<br aria-hidden="true" />Shake, shake yourself<br aria-hidden="true" />You&#8217;re every move you make<br aria-hidden="true" />So the story goes</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>You, lose yourself<br aria-hidden="true" />No not for pity&#8217;s sake<br aria-hidden="true" />There&#8217;s no real reason to be lonely<br aria-hidden="true" />Be yourself<br aria-hidden="true" />Give your free will a chance<br aria-hidden="true" />You&#8217;ve got to want to succeed</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>In the end you&#8217;ve got to go<br aria-hidden="true" />Look before you leap<br aria-hidden="true" />Owner of a lonely heart<br aria-hidden="true" />And don&#8217;t you hesitate at all, no no&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Hold On</strong></p>
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<p>&#8220;Hold on, hold on<br aria-hidden="true" />Wait, maybe the answer&#8217;s looking for you<br aria-hidden="true" />Hold on, hold on<br aria-hidden="true" />Wait, take your time think it through<br aria-hidden="true" />Yes, I can make it through</p>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<p class="ujudUb">Hold on, hold on<br aria-hidden="true" />Sunshine, shine on through<br aria-hidden="true" />Hold on, hold on<br aria-hidden="true" />Sunshine, shine on you, see it through&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>It Can Happen</strong></div>
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<p>&#8220;Look up<br aria-hidden="true" />Look down<br aria-hidden="true" />Look out<br aria-hidden="true" />Look around<br aria-hidden="true" />So look up<br aria-hidden="true" />Look down<br aria-hidden="true" />There&#8217;s a crazy world outside<br aria-hidden="true" />We&#8217;re not about to lose our pride</p>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<p class="ujudUb">It can happen to you<br aria-hidden="true" />It can happen to me<br aria-hidden="true" />It can happen to everyone eventually</p>
<p class="ujudUb">As you happen to say<br aria-hidden="true" />It can happen today<br aria-hidden="true" />As it happens<br aria-hidden="true" />It happens in every way</p>
<p class="ujudUb">As you happen to see<br aria-hidden="true" />It will happen to be<br aria-hidden="true" />Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>Changes</strong></div>
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<p>&#8220;One road to loneliness<br aria-hidden="true" />It&#8217;s always the same<br aria-hidden="true" />One road to happiness<br aria-hidden="true" />It&#8217;s calling your name<br aria-hidden="true" />Change, changing places, changes<br aria-hidden="true" />Root yourself to the ground<br aria-hidden="true" />Capitalize on this good fortune<br aria-hidden="true" />One word can bring you round<br aria-hidden="true" />Changes<br aria-hidden="true" />Change, changing places, changes<br aria-hidden="true" />Root yourself to the ground<br aria-hidden="true" />Word to the wise<br aria-hidden="true" />Well, you get what&#8217;s coming<br aria-hidden="true" />One word, one word can bring you round<br aria-hidden="true" />Changes&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>Hearts</strong></div>
<div>
<hr />
</div>
<p>&#8220;All the senses tuned discovery<br aria-hidden="true" />As and as and when our hearts decide<br aria-hidden="true" />Be ready now &#8211; Be ye circle<br aria-hidden="true" />Be the central force ye life<br aria-hidden="true" />As the game extends the cycle<br aria-hidden="true" />Be ready to move&#8221;</p>
<div></div>
<div><strong>Time Stand Still</strong></div>
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<hr />
</div>
<div>&#8220;I turn my back to the wind<br aria-hidden="true" />To catch my breath<br aria-hidden="true" />Before I start off again<br aria-hidden="true" />Driven on<br aria-hidden="true" />Without a moment to spend</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div>I let my skin get too thin<br aria-hidden="true" />I&#8217;d like to pause,<br aria-hidden="true" />No matter what I pretend<br aria-hidden="true" />Like some pilgrim<br aria-hidden="true" />Who learns to transcend<br aria-hidden="true" />Learns to live<br aria-hidden="true" />As if each step was the end</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div>
<div class="ujudUb">I turn my face to the sun<br aria-hidden="true" />Close my eyes<br aria-hidden="true" />Let my defenses down<br aria-hidden="true" />All those wounds<br aria-hidden="true" />That I can&#8217;t get unwound</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I let my past go too fast<br aria-hidden="true" />No time to pause<br aria-hidden="true" />If I could slow it all down<br aria-hidden="true" />Like some captain<br aria-hidden="true" />Whose ship runs aground<br aria-hidden="true" />I can wait until the tide comes around</div>
</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div>
<div class="ujudUb">Summer&#8217;s going fast<br aria-hidden="true" />Nights growing colder<br aria-hidden="true" />Children growing up<br aria-hidden="true" />Old friends growing older</div>
<div class="ujudUb">Freeze this moment<br aria-hidden="true" />A little bit longer<br aria-hidden="true" />Make each sensation<br aria-hidden="true" />A little bit stronger</div>
<div class="ujudUb WRZytc">Experience slips away<br aria-hidden="true" />Experience slips away<br aria-hidden="true" />The innocence slips away</div>
</div>
<div>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Time stand still<br aria-hidden="true" />I&#8217;m not looking back<br aria-hidden="true" />But I want to look around me now<br aria-hidden="true" />Time stands still<br aria-hidden="true" />See more of the people<br aria-hidden="true" />And the places that surround me now&#8221;</p>
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<div></div>
<div><strong>Open Secrets</strong></div>
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<hr />
</div>
<div>
<p>&#8220;I lie awake with my secrets<br aria-hidden="true" />Spinning &#8217;round my head<br aria-hidden="true" />Something that somehow escaped me<br aria-hidden="true" />Something you shouldn&#8217;t have said</p>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<p class="ujudUb">I was looking out the window<br aria-hidden="true" />I should have looked at your face instead</p>
<p class="ujudUb">Well, I guess we all have these feelings<br aria-hidden="true" />We can&#8217;t leave unreconciled<br aria-hidden="true" />Some of them burned on our ceilings<br aria-hidden="true" />Some of them learned as a child<br aria-hidden="true" />The things that we&#8217;re concealing<br aria-hidden="true" />Will never let us grow<br aria-hidden="true" />Time will do its healing<br aria-hidden="true" />You&#8217;ve got to let it go&#8221;</p>
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<div></div>
<div><strong>Second Nature</strong></div>
<div>
<hr />
</div>
<div>
<p>&#8220;Today is different<br aria-hidden="true" />And tomorrow the same<br aria-hidden="true" />It&#8217;s hard to take the world<br aria-hidden="true" />The way that it came</p>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div class="ujudUb">Too many rapids<br aria-hidden="true" />Keep us sweeping along<br aria-hidden="true" />Too many captains<br aria-hidden="true" />Keep on steering us wrong</div>
<div class="ujudUb">It&#8217;s hard to take the heat<br aria-hidden="true" />It&#8217;s hard to lay blame<br aria-hidden="true" />To fight the fire<br aria-hidden="true" />While we&#8217;re feeding the flames</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="ujudUb">I know you&#8217;re different<br aria-hidden="true" />You know I&#8217;m the same<br aria-hidden="true" />We&#8217;re both too busy<br aria-hidden="true" />To be taking the blame</p>
<p class="ujudUb">I&#8217;d like some changes<br aria-hidden="true" />But you don&#8217;t have the time<br aria-hidden="true" />We can&#8217;t go on thinking<br aria-hidden="true" />It&#8217;s a victimless crime.</p>
<p class="ujudUb">No one is blameless<br aria-hidden="true" />But we&#8217;re all without shame</p>
<p class="ujudUb">We fight the fire<br aria-hidden="true" />While we&#8217;re feeding the flames&#8221;</p>
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<div></div>
<div><strong>Prime Mover</strong></div>
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</div>
<div>
<p>&#8220;From the point of ignition<br aria-hidden="true" />To the final drive<br aria-hidden="true" />The point of the journey<br aria-hidden="true" />Is not to arrive<br aria-hidden="true" />Anything can happen</p>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div class="ujudUb">Basic temperamental<br aria-hidden="true" />Filters on our eyes<br aria-hidden="true" />Alter our perceptions<br aria-hidden="true" />Lenses polarize</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div class="ujudUb">Alternating currents<br aria-hidden="true" />Force a show of hands<br aria-hidden="true" />Rational responses<br aria-hidden="true" />Force a change of plans<br aria-hidden="true" />Anything can happen</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div class="ujudUb">From a point on the compass<br aria-hidden="true" />To magnetic north<br aria-hidden="true" />The point of the needle<br aria-hidden="true" />Moving back and forth</div>
<div class="ujudUb">From the point of entry<br aria-hidden="true" />Until the candle is burned<br aria-hidden="true" />The point of departure<br aria-hidden="true" />Is not to return<br aria-hidden="true" />Anything can happen</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I set the wheels in motion<br aria-hidden="true" />Turn up all the machines<br aria-hidden="true" />Activate the programs<br aria-hidden="true" />And run behind the scene</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<p class="ujudUb">I set the clouds in motion<br aria-hidden="true" />Turn up light and sound<br aria-hidden="true" />Activate the window<br aria-hidden="true" />And watch the world go round</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p class="ujudUb WRZytc">Anything can happen&#8221;</p>
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<div></div>
<div><strong>Mission</strong></div>
<div>
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</div>
<div>&#8220;Hold your fire<br aria-hidden="true" />Keep it burning bright<br aria-hidden="true" />Hold the flame<br aria-hidden="true" />&#8216;Til the dream ignites<br aria-hidden="true" />A spirit with a vision<br aria-hidden="true" />Is a dream with a mission</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div>
<div class="ujudUb">When I feel the powerful visions<br aria-hidden="true" />Their fire has made alive<br aria-hidden="true" />I wish I had that instinct<br aria-hidden="true" />I wish I had that drive</div>
<div class="ujudUb">Spirits fly on dangerous missions<br aria-hidden="true" />Imaginations on fire<br aria-hidden="true" />Focused high on soaring ambitions<br aria-hidden="true" />Consumed in a single desire</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<p class="ujudUb">In the grip of<br aria-hidden="true" />A nameless possession<br aria-hidden="true" />A slave to the drive of obsession<br aria-hidden="true" />A spirit with a vision<br aria-hidden="true" />Is a dream with a mission</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="ujudUb">I watch their images flicker<br aria-hidden="true" />Bringing light to a lifeless screen<br aria-hidden="true" />I walk through<br aria-hidden="true" />Their beautiful buildings<br aria-hidden="true" />And I wish I had their dreams</p>
<p class="ujudUb">But dreams don&#8217;t need<br aria-hidden="true" />To have motion<br aria-hidden="true" />To keep their spark alive<br aria-hidden="true" />Obsession has to have action<br aria-hidden="true" />Pride turns on the drive</p>
<p class="ujudUb">It&#8217;s cold comfort<br aria-hidden="true" />To the ones without it<br aria-hidden="true" />To know how they struggled<br aria-hidden="true" />How they suffered about it</p>
<p class="ujudUb">If their lives were<br aria-hidden="true" />Exotic and strange<br aria-hidden="true" />They would likely have<br aria-hidden="true" />Gladly exchanged them<br aria-hidden="true" />For something a little more plain<br aria-hidden="true" />Maybe something a little more sane</p>
<p class="ujudUb WRZytc">We each pay a fabulous price<br aria-hidden="true" />For our visions of paradise<br aria-hidden="true" />But a spirit with a vision<br aria-hidden="true" />Is a dream with a mission&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>Heart of Lothian</strong></div>
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<div>&#8220;On the outskirts of nowhere<br aria-hidden="true" />On the ring road to somewhere<br aria-hidden="true" />On the verge of indecision<br aria-hidden="true" />I&#8217;ll always take the roundabout way<br aria-hidden="true" />Waiting on the rain<br aria-hidden="true" />For I was born with a habit, from a sign<br aria-hidden="true" />The habit of a windswept thumb<br aria-hidden="true" />And the sign of the rain</div>
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<p>I was born with a heart of Lothian<br aria-hidden="true" />With a heart of Lothian&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>Bitter Suite</strong></div>
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<div>
<div class="ujudUb">&#8220;Last night you said I was cold, untouchable<br aria-hidden="true" />A lonely piece of action from another town<br aria-hidden="true" />I just want to be free, I&#8217;m happy to be lonely<br aria-hidden="true" />Can&#8217;t you stay away?</div>
<div class="ujudUb">Just leave me alone with my thoughts<br aria-hidden="true" />Just a runaway<br aria-hidden="true" />Just a runaway<br aria-hidden="true" />I&#8217;m saving myself</div>
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<div>&#8211;</div>
<p>Some of us go down in a blaze of obscurity<br aria-hidden="true" />Some of us go down in a haze of publicity<br aria-hidden="true" />The price of infamy<br aria-hidden="true" />The edge of insanity&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>Childhoods End?</strong></div>
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<div>&#8220;And it was morning.<br aria-hidden="true" />And I found myself mourning,<br aria-hidden="true" />for a childhood that I thought had disappeared.<br aria-hidden="true" />I looked out the window,<br aria-hidden="true" />And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone<br aria-hidden="true" />I&#8217;m not alone, I turned to the mirror,<br aria-hidden="true" />I saw you, the child, that once loved.<br aria-hidden="true" />The child before they broke his heart,<br aria-hidden="true" />Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost.<br aria-hidden="true" />Hey you, surprised? More than surprised,<br aria-hidden="true" />To find the answers to the questions,<br aria-hidden="true" />Were always in your own eyes.</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div>So I see it&#8217;s me, I can do anything<br aria-hidden="true" />And still the child,<br aria-hidden="true" />Cause the only thing misplaced was direction<br aria-hidden="true" />And I found direction.<br aria-hidden="true" />There is no Childhood&#8217;s End.</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<p>Hey you, you&#8217;ve survived.<br aria-hidden="true" />Now you&#8217;ve arrived,<br aria-hidden="true" />To be reborn in the shadow of the magpie.<br aria-hidden="true" />Now you realize, that you&#8217;ve got to get out of here.<br aria-hidden="true" />You&#8217;ve found the leading light of destiny,<br aria-hidden="true" />Burning in the ashes of your memory.<br aria-hidden="true" />You want to change the world.<br aria-hidden="true" />You&#8217;d resigned yourself to die a broken rebel,<br aria-hidden="true" />But that was looking backward.<br aria-hidden="true" />Now you&#8217;ve found the light.<br aria-hidden="true" />You, the child that once loved,<br aria-hidden="true" />The child before they broke his heart.<br aria-hidden="true" />The heart, the heart that I believed was lost<br aria-hidden="true" />So it&#8217;s me I see, I can do anything.<br aria-hidden="true" />I&#8217;m still the child.<br aria-hidden="true" />Cause the only thing misplaced was direction, and I found direction.<br aria-hidden="true" />There is no childhood&#8217;s end.&#8221;</p>
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<div><strong>The Whole of the Moon</strong></div>
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<div>&#8220;You were there at the turnstiles<br />
With the wind at your heels<br />
You stretched for the stars<br />
And you know how it feels<br />
To reach too high<br />
Too far, too soon<br />
You saw the whole of the Moon</div>
<div>&#8211;</div>
<div>
<p>With a torch in your pocket<br />
And the wind at your heels<br />
You climbed on the ladder<br />
And you know how it feels<br />
To get too high<br />
Too far, too soon<br />
You saw the whole of the Moon<br />
The whole of the Moon</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Unicorns and cannonballs<br />
Palaces and piers<br />
Trumpets, towers and tenements<br />
Wide oceans full of tears<br />
Flag, rags, ferry boats<br />
Scimitars and scarves<br />
Every precious dream and vision<br />
Underneath the stars</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Yes, you climbed on the ladder<br />
With the wind in your sails<br />
You came like a comet<br />
Blazing your trail<br />
Too high, too far, too soon<br />
You saw the whole of the Moon&#8221;</p>
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		<title>On Tornado.Cash Sanctions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[If you need to use Tornado.Cash legally, remember that you can access its uncensoreable unstoppable IPFS address using the Opera browser. Or any other browser by installing an IPFS extension/companion. ipfs://bafybeicu2anhh7cxbeeakzqjfy3pisok2nakyiemm3jxd66ng35ib6y5ri &#160; You cant stop smart contracts on decentralized blockchains, tornado.cash smart contracts are still running. You cant stop decentralized filesystems like IPFS, tornado.cash frontend [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<div dir="auto">You cant stop smart contracts on decentralized blockchains, tornado.cash smart contracts are still running. You cant stop decentralized filesystems like IPFS, tornado.cash frontend UI is still up and running.</div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>The blockchains interpret sanctions as invalid blocks and fork around them.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8212; MV (paraphrasing Gilmore)</p>
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		<title>There Is No Childhood&#8217;s End</title>
		<link>https://mvalente.eu/2020/07/22/there-is-no-childhoods-end/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Na segunda metade dos anos 80, teenager, comecei o meu percurso como hacker. Ja&#8217; desde o inicio dos anos 80, com 12 ou 13 anos, que &#8220;mexia&#8221; em computadores: ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, PC Amstrad. Mas foi a partir do momento que tive o primeiro modem (1200 baud) que comecei a fazer &#8220;asneiras&#8221;. Noites [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Na segunda metade dos anos 80, teenager, comecei o meu percurso como hacker.</p>
<p>Ja&#8217; desde o inicio dos anos 80, com 12 ou 13 anos, que &#8220;mexia&#8221; em computadores: ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, PC Amstrad. Mas foi a partir do momento que tive o primeiro modem (1200 baud) que comecei a fazer &#8220;asneiras&#8221;.</p>
<p>Noites longas a aceder ao pad X.25 da TAP para depois poder ligar &#8216;a borla para a PC Pursuit e para as BBS nos EUA, com o modem ligado &#8216;a ficha telefonica, algo ilegal na altura, e<span class="text_exposed_show"> com o telefone embrulhado num cobertor para que os rintintins que &#8216;as vezes soavam nao acordassem a familia, pais especialmente.</span></p>
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<p>Anyway&#8230;. Dos sentimentos e memorias que me ficaram foi a ideia de estar a usar algo revolucionario, para o que tambem contribuiu ler o Neuromancer de William Gibson, &#8220;inventor&#8221; da palavra cyberspace/ciberespaco. A ideia de que aquelas tecnologias iam mudar o mundo e eu, um puto de 16 anos num pais no cu da Europa, fazia parte de um grupo restrito de uns poucos milhares de pessoas, de varias partes do globo, ligadas entre si quando eram 4 da manha em Lisboa. Hoje sabemos ao que isso levou, nomeadamente ao que me permite escrever estas linhas.</p>
<p>Nos ultimos anos tinha vindo a sentir-me cada vez mais cansado, desiludido, insatisfeito e infeliz com o que andava a fazer, com as tecnologias, com o empreendedorismo, com a generalidade do &#8220;sistema&#8221; e com o malfadado país.</p>
<p>Nos ultimos 2 anos recuperei essas memorias e sentimentos de estar a participar em algo revolucionario, que vai mudar o mundo nos proximos 10/20/30 anos. Recuperei a satisfacao e contentamento de fazer parte de um grupo restrito de uns poucos milhares de pessoas em todo o mundo, ligadas entre si pelo metaverso das blockchain, independentes da sua localizacao geografica, do provincianismo daqueles que os rodeiam e dos sistemas sociais que os tolhem.</p>
<p>A unica diferenca e&#8217; que sou um puto de 50 e poucos anos.</p>
<p>Ou, nas palavras imortais de Dereck Dick:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;">Cause the only thing misplaced was direction<br />
And I found direction<br />
There is no childhood&#8217;s end</p>
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		<title>Top Concept Albums Contribution</title>
		<link>https://mvalente.eu/2020/06/23/top-concept-albums-contribution/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Lots of lists around with &#8220;top X concept albums&#8221;. In all of them I have been unable to find some of my favorites. &#160; Here&#8217;s three of them: Phenomena &#8211; Phenomena Meat Loaf &#8211; Bat Out of Hell Saga &#8211; Generation 13]]></description>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/06/Rocks-Willdest-Concept-Albums1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2527 size-full" src="https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/06/Rocks-Willdest-Concept-Albums1-e1592939734405.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="202" /></a></p>
<p>Lots of lists around with &#8220;top X concept albums&#8221;. In all of them I have been unable to find some of my favorites.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here&#8217;s three of them:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://img.discogs.com/L463JrNZeiv-MhzKAFZLNw044g0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2272796-1344438140-1089.jpeg.jpg" alt="Phenomena - Phenomena (1985, Luminous sleeve, Vinyl) | Discogs" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3FabeiSTmOrCJ83MRPaMrd?si=swVPsyjQT6yYqE7LRQT82w">Phenomena &#8211; Phenomena</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://img.discogs.com/1ejnCp_TViWvWUR5SXgxEZBDI24=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6045725-1425133865-5261.jpeg.jpg" alt="Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Vinyl) | Discogs" /><br />
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6mvI80w5r78niBmwtu7RF9?si=da7owxezRaelyOd_DTvPBQ">Meat Loaf &#8211; Bat Out of Hell</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://img.discogs.com/3G87b8KmUw_Tk5-19Hj3CpVedSk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4155924-1397480579-4188.jpeg.jpg" alt="Saga - Generation 13 (1995, CD) | Discogs" /><br />
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/63L86PU0TMwXGVJrSOzxlk?si=_cKuEKmDQXOKiklCiFgQhA">Saga &#8211; Generation 13</a></p>
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		<title>Reino Maravilhoso</title>
		<link>https://mvalente.eu/2020/06/11/reino-maravilhoso/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Vou falar-lhes dum Reino Maravilhoso. Embora muitas pessoas digam que não, sempre houve e haverá reinos maravilhosos neste mundo. Incapazes de uma obediência imposta de fora, os habitantes da terra apenas consideram naturais e legítimos os imperativos da própria consciência. O eco duma ordem estranha à sua harmonia interior desliza pela crosta das almas sem [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Vou falar-lhes dum Reino Maravilhoso. Embora muitas pessoas digam que não, sempre houve e haverá reinos maravilhosos neste mundo.</p>
<p>Incapazes de uma obediência imposta de fora, os habitantes da terra apenas consideram naturais e legítimos os imperativos da própria consciência. O eco duma ordem estranha à sua harmonia interior desliza pela crosta das almas sem as perturbar.</p>
<p>Homens de uma só peça, inteiriços, altos e espadaúdos, que olham de frente e têm no rosto as mesmas rugas do chão.</p>
<p>Fiéis à palavra dada, amigos do seu amigo, valentes e leais, é movidos por altos sentimentos que matam ou morrem. Ufanos da alma que herdaram, querem-na sempre lavada, nem que seja com sangue. A lendária franqueza que vem nos livros é deles, realmente.</p>
<p>Nos códigos e no catecismo o pecado de orgulho é dos piores. Talvez que os códigos e o catecismo tenham razão. Resta saber se haverá coisa mais bela nesta vida do que o puro dom de se olhar um estranho como se ele fosse um irmão bem-vindo, embora o preço da desilusão seja às vezes uma facada.</p>
<p>Dentro ou fora do seu dólmen (maneira que eu tenho de chamar aos buracos onde vive a maioria) estes homens não têm medo senão da pequenez. Medo de ficarem aquém do estalão por onde, desde que o mundo é mundo, se mede à hora da morte o tamanho de uma criatura.</p>
<p>Na inquebrantável decisão de levar tudo ao fim, na teimosia que, uma vez segura da sua verdade, não cede a nenhum argumento, e no gosto inquieto de conhecer, podia ter sido um novo Fernão de Magalhães. a dar a volta aos mundos de agora. Mas infelizmente a pátria não convida os filhos para tais empresas.</p>
<p>Vive entre irmãos que não mudam de camisa para esbofetear o mais pintado, seja ele o autor do <em>Amor de Perdição, </em>mas que também lhe tiram o chapéu, caso o mereça.</p>
<p>Bateram-lhe realmente nas romarias, mas deram-lhe o maior bem que se pode ter:</p>
<p>O nome de Transmontano, que quer dizer filho de Trás-os-Montes, pois assim se chama Reino Maravilhoso de que vos falei.</p>
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		<title>APBC checkpoint</title>
		<link>https://mvalente.eu/2020/01/11/apbc-checkpoint/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 15:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[&#160; Nao sou um tipo que goste muito de grupos e de ajuntamentos. Sou individualista por natureza; disponivel para cooperar; renitente se a pertenca a este ou aquele grupo me for imposta. Sempre me fez muita impressao a tendencia q existe na Tugalandia para, quando confrontado com mudancas e oportunidades, em vez de criar empresas [&#8230;]]]></description>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/01/retina1.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2513" src="https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/01/retina1.png" alt="" width="370" height="122" srcset="https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/01/retina1.png 544w, https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/01/retina1-300x99.png 300w, https://mvalente.eu/files/2020/01/retina1-150x50.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px" /></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nao sou um tipo que goste muito de grupos e de ajuntamentos. Sou individualista por natureza; disponivel para cooperar; renitente se a pertenca a este ou aquele grupo me for imposta.</p>
<p>Sempre me fez muita impressao a tendencia q existe na Tugalandia para, quando confrontado com mudancas e oportunidades, em vez de criar empresas o tuga trate logo de criar eventos, meetups, jantas, confs e associacoes.</p>
<p>No caso em apreco neste post: ha 2 anos atras nao tive problema em fazer parte do grupo de pessoas que criou a Associacao Portuguesa de Blockchain e Criptomoedas. Era obvio que era necessaria uma voz para responder &#8216;a ignorancia da comunicacao social e dos politicos. Nenhuma empresa sozinha teria alavancagem para interagir com esses intervenientes.</p>
<p>Isto mostra que, como individualista, estou mesmo assim disponivel para ser membro de coletivos que facam sentido. Nomeadamente, e em particular para mim, acho que faz sentido uma pessoa pertencer a um colectivo enquanto 1) retirar dessa participacao beneficios e/ou 2) com a sua participacao puder trazer beneficios ao colectivo. De preferencia as duas coisas ao mesmo tempo.</p>
<p>Serve isto para dizer que, apos 2 anos de disponibilidade na construcao da APBC, verifico que neste momento nao acontece nenhuma das 2 condicoes. Nem retiro beneficio de participar activamente na mesma (se calhar ate&#8217; terei prejuizo, mas nao entro em detalhes) e nem sinto que o meu conhecimento e participacao seja requerida e reconhecida (mais uma vez se calhar ate&#8217; acontece o contrario, mas nao vou entrar em detalhes).</p>
<p>Tendo um conjunto de iniciativas em arranque que exigem que eu clarifique a minha posicao e participacao na APBC, comuniquei ja&#8217; ao presidente da APBC a minha decisao de deixar de participar activamente na associacao. Manter-me-ei como socio, mas deixarei de participar nos corpos sociais ou de desempenhar qualquer papel activo.</p>
<p>Continuo a acreditar que a APBC e&#8217; uma organizacao necessaria e que tem um papel a desempenhar em Portugal no que diz respeito &#8216;a nascente industria da blockchain e dos criptoativos e desejo que futuramente esse papel seja cada vez mais concreto e proactivo.</p>
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		<title>Esoterica VIII &#8211; A Perspectiva do Oportunista</title>
		<link>https://mvalente.eu/2019/02/24/esoterica-viii-a-perspectiva-do-oportunista/</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Mostly true facts. A few wrong facts. Big wrong statement: &#8220;we were also lucky because every one of us was, we were nice guys, you know, and we could be trusted.&#8221; Nope, you were not a nice a guy and you shouldnt have been trusted. You were a fucking backstabber who betrayed all the other [&#8230;]]]></description>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="https://www.porto.ucp.pt/nonio/nonio/internet/imagens/isp_7.jpg" width="300" height="225" /> Mostly true facts. A few wrong facts.</p>
<p>Big wrong statement: &#8220;we were also lucky because every one of us was, we were nice guys, you know, and we could be trusted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nope, you were not a nice a guy and you shouldnt have been trusted. You were a fucking backstabber who betrayed all the other four founders.</p>
<p>[<a href="https://mixergy.com/interviews/antonio-ferreira-esoterica-interview/">https://mixergy.com/interviews/antonio-ferreira-esoterica-interview/</a>]</p>
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		<title>The Age of Metapreneurship: 21st Century Entrepreneurship&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://mvalente.eu/2018/11/02/the-age-of-metapreneurship-21st-century-entrepreneurship/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or &#8220;What Has Been Happening With Me in the Last 5 years&#8221;. &#8220;Entrepreneurs are surrounded by such institutions &#8211; economic development organizations, universities, incubators and accelerators, advisors and mentors. Like our union lady, they were once beautiful, attractive and effective. These institutions are teaching techniques and tools that are becoming duller and duller. Leaders [&#8230;]]]></description>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mvalente.eu/files/2018/11/safe_image.php_.jpeg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2474 size-full" src="http://mvalente.eu/files/2018/11/safe_image.php_.jpeg" alt="safe_image.php" width="235" height="349" srcset="https://mvalente.eu/files/2018/11/safe_image.php_.jpeg 235w, https://mvalente.eu/files/2018/11/safe_image.php_-202x300.jpeg 202w, https://mvalente.eu/files/2018/11/safe_image.php_-150x223.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px" /></a>&#8230; or &#8220;What Has Been Happening With Me in the Last 5 years&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Entrepreneurs are surrounded by such institutions &#8211; economic development organizations, universities, incubators and accelerators, advisors and mentors. Like our union lady, they were once beautiful, attractive and effective. These institutions are teaching techniques and tools that are becoming duller and duller. Leaders of these organizations are like our generals. They are intelligent and determined to win the next war &#8211; but the terrain is changing too fast. Being an entrepreneur in one of these institutions can be like being a soldier trained to defend the Maginot line.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;In many ways, he observes, it&#8217;s not that regional economic development organizations can&#8217;t do enough to foster entrepreneurial growth &#8211; it&#8217;s that they may be trying to do too much. Economic development agencies work with the only tools they have at their disposal: Taxes: Tax breaks, tax credits and other similar incentives. Real estate: Specially zoned buildings, office space, and manufacturing plants and incubators. Funding programs: Grants and contests; subsidizing t<span class="text_exposed_show">ech transfer [and in certain cases &#8211; investment in tech sectors] Marketing: advertising and branding of the region, designed to attract companies to relocate. These all are formidable initiatives, visible and high profile &#8211; complete with ribbon cuttings, speeches and handshakes. And the impact on the prestige of the participants and organizations is also significant. But for the entrepreneurs who create scalable, growth companies that produce jobs &#8211; the impact is minimal.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re an entrepreneur, the prospects of getting &#8220;no strings&#8221; attached money from the government can be alluring. Who cares if the government’s economic developed efforts are successful, as long as your start-up gets the cash it needs? The counterintuitive irony is that financial incentives can actually hurt startups. Pursuing grants, contests and participating in other funding programs can delay success. Those programs invariably move slowly and sometimes take years to complete &#8211; causing startups move at the speed of government, at the expense of other opportunities.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Most economic development agencies seem to rely overly on the relocation part of their toolkits. It&#8217;s not surprising, since there is relative instant-gratification for those running the program, and the formula is more tangible: advertise and market the benefits of your region, offer all the incentives you can to a prospect; get them to agree to relocation, and you&#8217;ll be able to announce 200 or 10,000 local jobs overnight. But this style of economic development alienates startups already in the region (whose founders presumably are taxpayers too). When their local government offers incentive resources to companies outside the region, it discourages local entrepreneurs from starting companies. The practice encourages local entrepreneurs to seek the same relocation incentives from other regions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a familiar meme: A large organization shovels money and resources in a misguided attempt to recreate success they&#8217;ve seen somewhere else. Outwardly everything looks like they&#8217;re achieving the outcome. But just like our cargo cults: when they try to recreate the successful ecosystems they have seen thrive elsewhere, they rarely succeed. They recreate all the same elements and components but something is different, something is missing. This &#8220;something missing, something d<span class="text_exposed_show">ifferent&#8221; is due an interesting dilemma: The skills and expertise it takes to create and run these economic development programs are almost the opposite of those required to be an entrepreneur. Like our cargo cult tribal leaders, administrators and government officials rarely have spent time as entrepreneurs themselves. Their main experience is in observing entrepreneurs. So, when they try to recreate a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem, the result is usually a surreal cargo cult recreation of Silicon Valley: Lots of appealing and well intentioned activities, but no cargo dropping from the sky.</span>&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Building startup communities isn&#8217;t easy, even with a blueprint. And Brad Feld observes something important: how startup communities fall into typical traps that can condemn them to mediocrity. He describes &#8216;classical problems&#8217; such as: The Patriarch Problem (&#8216;old white guys with money&#8217; still running the show); being too reliant on government; bias against newcomers, and attempts by a feeder to control the community.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;T-Ball Entrepreneurship happens when a startup community just tries too hard. They begin with the best of intentions. Participants and leaders want an encouraging, nurturing environment where everyone is included, and where everyone can be an entrepreneur. But these good intentions transform the startup community into a T-Ball game where everyone is a star, no one fails, and everyone feels good. Everyone gets a trophy &#8211; but no one is ever ready for the major leagues. Here are the four pillars of the T-Ball Entrepreneurship community: The Cult of Cheerleaders The Cult of Contests The Cult of Coaches The Burning of the Heretics See if any of these describe a startup community you know&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If an entrepreneurial community doesn&#8217;t have a concentration of seasoned professionals with intimate startup experience, then the pool of qualified contest judges is slim. Making matters worse, the sponsoring organization &#8211; usually a government agency, university or a large company &#8211; chooses the judges. Few inside these organizations have enough experience with entrepreneurship to judge a competition much less know how to identify a qualified judge.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In a T-Ball Entrepreneurship community, the most dangerous butterflies are feeders posing as entrepreneurial leaders. These are mentors and advisors who never started a successful venture nor have been directly involved with one. Again, these are usually people from other professions: services, large companies, institutions or those who have run a successful consulting or small business. They may have recently taken a Lean Startup class or a few workshops. Even more common are T-Ball cheerleaders, who end up running regional entrepreneurship organizations, by virtue of their ability to make everyone feel like a star.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But what if you do have the talent to be a successful entrepreneur? What if you&#8217;ve already been a successful entrepreneur? What&#8217;s it like to be a &#8220;pro&#8221; and walk into T-Ball game? Would you immediately be a star and a role model to everyone else? Probably not. If a pro-baseball player joined a T-Ball game he&#8217;d probably be kicked off the field after hitting the ball over the fence every time. His presence would be highly disruptive <span class="text_exposed_show">to the other players. His knowledge and talent would be a threat the T-Ball coaches. His advice would be ignored, since everyone is playing a much simpler game with different objectives. Eventually the pro-baseball player would be relegated to the bleachers. This is what it&#8217;s like for experienced, accomplished entrepreneurs in a T-ball Entrepreneurship community. Alienated because they are playing a different level of game, they are drowned out and silenced by the cheerleaders: Ostracized.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Qualquer semelhanca entre isto, eu e Portugal nos ultimos 5 anos nao e&#8217; pura coincidencia. Talvez escreva algo em Portugues sobre isso.</p>
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		<title>Quando o Circo Laurisilva Pegou Fogo (ou A PT e o PS Pirómano)</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Longe de mim ser defensor da PT (aka Altice). Pela opinião expressa no artigo atrás (e verbalmente em alguns eventos públicos), fui banido de ser convidado para eventos patrocinados pela PT. Em 97 chateou-me ser arguido em processo crime (com potencial pena de prisão de 3 anos) por causa das práticas anticoncorrênciais dessa organização mafiosa. [&#8230;]]]></description>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-2456 size-full" src="http://mvalente.eu/files/2017/08/C6AFB0EC-E17D-4B2C-B2B3-4D70608EFE94.jpg" width="379" height="284" srcset="https://mvalente.eu/files/2017/08/C6AFB0EC-E17D-4B2C-B2B3-4D70608EFE94.jpg 379w, https://mvalente.eu/files/2017/08/C6AFB0EC-E17D-4B2C-B2B3-4D70608EFE94-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mvalente.eu/files/2017/08/C6AFB0EC-E17D-4B2C-B2B3-4D70608EFE94-150x112.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px" /> <a href="http://mvalente.eu/2010/05/28/as-arvores-tambem-se-abatem/">Longe de mim</a> ser defensor da PT (aka Altice). Pela opinião expressa no artigo atrás (e verbalmente em alguns eventos públicos), fui banido de ser convidado para eventos patrocinados pela PT. Em 97 chateou-me ser arguido em processo crime (com potencial pena de prisão de 3 anos) por causa das práticas anticoncorrênciais dessa organização mafiosa. E nem hoje em dia tenho grande simpatia pela mesma, uma vez que não tenho as melhores memórias de interagir com o seu falso e hipócrita CEO quando trabalhava na Oni (o homem que em 2000 recusou uma <a href="http://mvalente.eu/files/2017/08/Projecto-Portal-NG-short.pdf">proposta minha para criar o YouTube</a>; Altice Labs Inovação my ass&#8230;).</p>
<p>Mas há algo que precisa de ser dito; se há merdas que não suporto são hipocrisias e falta de honestidade intelectual.</p>
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<p>O Partido Socialista, e sucessivos governos socialistas (incluindo António Costa), usaram a PT como sua <strong>coutada pessoal</strong>. Para empregos para si. Para empregos para os filhos. Para negócios seus. E para negócios com o BES e com Ricardo Salgado e com mihões em subornos.</p>
<p>Para engordar a coutada e aumentar a gamela de onde iam eventualmente comer, o Partido Socialista e sucessivos governos socialistas (que incluiram António Costa):</p>
<ul>
<li>alongaram o período de monopólio da PT para além de 1998, permitindo que a mesma continuasse a extrair rendas injustas dos cidadãos e empresas portuguesas</li>
<li>durante e depois disso, continuaram a entregar à PT todos os negócios do Estado, ignorando não só as regras da concorrência mas as regras de bom cuidado do erário público</li>
<li>entregaram à PT a rede nacional de comunicações, por ajuste directo, sem qualquer método de concurso, leilão ou venda pública que considerasse ofertas vantajosas de outros operadores</li>
<li>permitiram que a PT extorquisse milhões aos outros operadores de telecomunicações para poderem usar a rede da PT (muitas vezes obrigados porque não podiam construir infraestrutura própria, impedidos pelo Estado)</li>
<li>permitiram à PT e aos municipios cobrar milhões pelo uso das condutas de telecomunicações que estão enterradas junto às estradas e autoestradas</li>
<li>criaram um pseudo-operador de telecomunicações, nomeado SIRESP, a quem obrigaram que pagasse milhões à PT para usar a rede e condutas da mesma</li>
<li>tecnicamente escolheram um sistema de comunicações de emergência (SIRESP) arquitectado para depender de uma infraestrutura com partes em que os cabos de telecomunicações estão suspensos em postes e não estão enterrados</li>
<li>entregaram por ajuste directo a operação desse sistema a um pseudo-operador obrigado a depender de outro operador que se propôs suportar um sistema de comunicação de emergência, usado durante incêndios, em cima de cabos aéreos amarrados em postes junto às árvores</li>
<li>entregaram esse negócio (o das linhas do SIRESP) à PT por ajuste directo, sem qualquer concurso público</li>
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<p>E agora a culpa dos problemas do SIRESP é da PT? Agora é que os cabos em postes são um problema num sistema de comunicações de emergência? Agora é que as condutas estão caras e vão já baixar 50% na 2a feira? Agora é que se calhar é uma ideia falar com outros operadores? Quem fez essas escolhas? Agora já não são boa ideia? Ou já não há gamela para filhos, primos e amigos?</p>
<p>Vão para o caralho. O Partido Socialista (e António Costa) estão a colher a monocultura que semearam (para além da do eucalipto) e que agora lhes pegou fogo à floresta laurisilva. Eu estou tipo Nero, sentado de bancada a comer pipocas e a ver o circo PT a arder, divertidissimo. Com sorte, antes de morrer, ainda vejo a Microsoft a pegar fogo também.</p>
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