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It is fairly common for /.-ers to not bother reading TFA. But the answers to your "sarcastic" questions are right there in the write-up — you didn't have to click away to read them...

So if I "own" Venezuelan cryptocoin will I be hauled off to jail ???

The executive order bans transactions — not ownership. If you own it, you aren't subject to any punishment until you try to sell it.

If I leave the U.S., say go visit Canada, can I then "buy" Venezuelan cryptocoins?

If you are a US citizen, you will be violating the order — and become subject to whatever punishment prescribed. Not very different from the ban on travel to Cuba, for example — it was illegal, but people did manage to get away with it.

Perhaps more importantly is why would you seek to circumvent this one... Maduro's government is even more stupid and evil than Chavez' was — and Chavez managed to not only destroy Venezuela's economy, the rate of murders and rapes quadrupled during the first 15 years of his rein (even before oil price tanked). Are you just as critical about US sanctions against Russia?..

If, as I suspect, you are motivated simply by the desire to "stick it" to Trump, I urge you to move to Venezuela permanently...

but in the last 10 years the Spanish government has been restricting our autonomy, attempting to take over our institutions and instigating a wave of hate against Catalans and Catalonia in order to gain votes in the rest of Spain.

What are you smoking? That must be good shit. You got all that backwards.

Over the years, the Spanish government has been giving more and more autonomy to nationalist to get their support in the Congress.

The Spanish government has been transferring more and more competences to nationalist including those of education.

Meanwhile the Catalan Government using these competences in education. was instigating a wave of hate even in school children against the rest of Spaniards and Spain.

Children which weren't even allowed to learn in Spanish or speak Spanish in the school.

All in order to gain votes in Catalonia blaming Madrid of all their own ROBBING and bad mismanagement and poor spending.

And Russia has nothing to do with the hosting of the pages with the stolen census which had to be blocked at the national isp level?

You didn't get even one straight. Three centuries? Get an history book. One not published by the Catalan Government that is.

but in the last 10 years the Spanish government has been restricting our autonomy, attempting to take over our institutions and instigating a wave of hate against Catalans and Catalonia in order to gain votes in the rest of Spain.

What are you smoking? That must be good shit. You got all that backwards.

Over the years, the Spanish government has been giving more and more autonomy to nationalist to get their support in the Congress.

The Spanish government has been transferring more and more competences to nationalist including those of education.

Meanwhile the Catalan Government using these competences in education. was instigating a wave of hate even in school children against the rest of Spaniards and Spain.

Children which weren't even allowed to learn in Spanish or speak Spanish in the school.

All in order to gain votes in Catalonia blaming Madrid of all their own ROBBING and bad mismanagement and poor spending.

And Russia has nothing to do with the hosting of the pages with the stolen census which had to be blocked at the national isp level?

You didn't get even one straight. Three centuries? Get an history book. One not published by the Catalan Government that is.

At least one Spanish newspaper claimed a few days ago that this was happening. But as to the timing, this has been brewing for a few years. I think it's better explained by a comment I saw yesterday (and I wish I could remember where to credit it properly) that as a universal rule of thumb, nationalisms get a big popularity boost in times of economic difficulty.

Not only the meddling.

In fact now is the Catalan Government whom is using russian hostings to evade their own Catalonian High Court orders to shut down all the illegal referendum census pages. And are giving away publicly personal data of all Catalonian citizens.

In my view (not a lawyer) : Holding a referendum, even if it is non-binding by the Spanish goverment, would be the right of the people in the region.

Myths and falsehoods of the catalan independence movement

The Council of Europe assures that the referendum of 1-O "does not comply" with the legality

Why is this post moderated Flamebait?

The referendum pass sessions on the Parlamento de Cataluña violated all guarantees of parliamentary procedure and of deputies' rights, something without precedent.

Methods strongly criticized even among those explicitely supporting the referendum in the Parlamient, or those who presented it for approval admitting that they were not happy about the means employed.

Also https://elpais.com/diario/2007...

The Spanish brand SEAT, part of VW group, used some 500.000 of these tampered engines. Jürgen Stackmann, the CEO of SEAT is also leaving this company.

However, apparently he is not being fired, instead he will become the group worldwide sales chief (link in German).

Interesting and sad to see how some people are being blamed and fired, while others (in the same position in other company of the group) manage to leave unpunished and even use this opportunity to climb in the group.

Anon, because I forgot my PW: I like to add this little gallery of pictures: Spain, Barcelona 3/5/2012

I am Spanish and I live in the city in which this has happened (Cartagena). I know some people working there and I have laughed with them about that. The thing is that this happened some time ago, nearly a month or 2 ago (Don't know why the press took that long to publish it: http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2013/05/08/actualidad/1368033966_797022.html Spanish press, 3 weeks ago). One big thing that you should take into account is that all the engineers working there never had assembled a submarine... because here in Cartagena all the ones who built a submarine retired some years ago. So no one had experience. The problem was partly a piece of steel they bought that didn't fit and also was overweighed (Not really sure, the cleaners told me that), and (this is true, sure) that they put extra metal plates in the final assemble that caused more overweight. They will swap it and remove the extra plates. But that's a lot of work, as they told me. PD: And you don't know the part when they dropped the submarine into the water and, as it was sinking, and without explanation, the submarine escaped with no one inside it.. but they didn't published it ;)... it appeared near the zone, but was a funny that the submarine escaped.

Actually the contract was signed 24 March 2004. http://elpais.com/diario/2004/04/02/espana/1080856821_850215.html (Spanish)

The design started long before the contract was signed.

It is partially because of working ethos I guess...

Which is why the Americans have returned to the Moon already and the F-35s have been dominating the sky for years. Oh, wait...

Well, duh, what could you expect from a group called "gaffe"?

Now, I don't see what's particularly embarassing about the number "422". And the rumor about some (or all) of the founding Zetas having been trained in the US is just that, as no source that claims it can provide a single name, not even Wikipedia's (omg!): US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico. The Embassy in México is much more credible in this respect:

The Embassy conducted an extensive
cross-check of our database of Mexican military officials who
participated in U.S.-funded training programs against lists
of known members of Los ZETAS. The comparison of databases
did not produce any hits. However, intelligence from other
sources yielded the name of one individual was reportedly
trained by U.S. forces, retired from the Mexican Military,
was forcibly recruited into Los ZETAS

It's not even surprising to find some tabloids that use this same cable as proof that "several US trained soldiers switched to the ZETAS."

So I would tell you to leave the flag burning aside and stick to the facts, lest you end like Michael Moore. But fact is, we don't have enough. Yes, we know that the cartels could not grow so big without being in direct collusion with the government. Heck, some of them are demanding equal treatment, as it seems they are envious of the high connections of the Sinaloa's cartel! (which seem to be working, if you're to believe the pretty maps in the NYT or BBC News, which show it controlling the whole west half of México)

We know that corruption reaches on every level of government and military. Just look at Raúl Salinas, brother of former president Carlos, which ended up in jail, not for his crimes, but for political vendettas. And it was also politics what eventually led to his acquittal. We know he's guilty, we know where his hundreds of millions came from. But the people that could provide the proof won't, if they value their life style, or life itself.

And that's the real problem, me thinks: values. When we're bombarded from every angle with the idea that the only life worth living is in the numb comfort of expensive stuff, wild sex, hip drugs and sugary rock, then it just follows that you will have lots of people trying to obtain money by the easiest means available so they can fill their emptiness with shiny things and/or get wasted in style every weekend, be it on Tijuana or New Jersey. The common good can't compete with a 20mil house, honesty is just another commodity (on a sharp downward trend), and why read a boring poem when you can freaken hallucinate your own. "It was the envy of virtue, what made of Cain a criminal / Glory to him as it's vice, what is envied most today!"

But daydreaming aside, the only way to have truth and justice right now, is to buy them. And as long as the rich kids keep paying with fat wads and big guns, the drug and political cartels will outbid the rest of us. Still, outgunned as we are, we should aim for the truth and search for the facts, however tempting it is to brandish rumors and propaganda.

Big news for nerds in Spain today has got Spanish "internautas"riled: The US pressured all major political parties to change Spanish laws regarding P2P downloads.

Specifically: these two cables (248887 and 213345) are revealing the backroom pressure to ignore the wishes of the Spanish people and slip the laws in without any debate. Even going as far as to tell elected representatives not to meet with the internet community to debate the issue.

This, right on the heels of a votation without public debate going on right now in congress to force through new laws giving the Spanish Gov the right to shutdown websites at will without so much as a court order...

Big news for nerds in Spain today has got Spanish "internautas"riled: The US pressured all major political parties to change Spanish laws regarding P2P downloads.

Specifically: these two cables (248887 and 213345) are revealing the backroom pressure to ignore the wishes of the Spanish people and slip the laws in without any debate. Even going as far as to tell elected representatives not to meet with the internet community to debate the issue.

This, right on the heels of a votation without public debate going on right now in congress to force through new laws giving the Spanish Gov the right to shutdown websites at will without so much as a court order...

I was honestly just thinking of this article from El Pais. Is El Pais any good?

Sorry, by "boy sex toy", I meant a young male sex-slave. A "sex toy" that is a boy.
Also, if it were simply biometrics, I'd honestly understand that. You know, from a simply verification standpoint. Gotta fight off the pod people somehow. But they were instructed to get PASSWORDS and ENCRYPTION KEYS. So the biometric part is that much more wrong.

The Spanish system is too lax in many aspects, even terrorists that have killed dozens of people can get out of jail in maybe 20 years. By the way, there's also a recent case of a teenager who raped and burned alive a retarded girl, and he's now (like ~6 years later) out of prison and commiting crimes like car theft, just because he was underage he is now out of prison. The maximum time you can spend in prison is 30 years (or 40 for terrorism), and the reductions apply to that time, not the time you were sentenced to (so for instance you can be sentenced to 200 years, but reductions apply to a 30-year period so you'll probably be out of jail even sooner than 30 years).

Boy, that Chavez really must hate democracy. Imagine getting elected by 70 percent of the population in a ballot declared 'Free And Fair' by international observers, the nerve of that guy!

In fact, Chavez loves democracy, because when it doesn't work for him he can just twist it to his wishes.

See, at the beginning he was so popular that it was easy to win elections cleanly. But now that he lost support he rigs elections, politically persecutes his opponents, or simply disregards its outcome.

In Venezuela you can't get a job in any of the state controlled companies if you have voted against Chavez.
This is a serious problem in a country where the state controls the oil industry, electric companies, banks, telecommunications and most of the media, and where all the powers are subjugated to one man's desires. After such a precedent, how can anybody expect the people to participate freely in any elections against Chavez?

Now he's promoting Free And Fair elections in other countries too? Well, we just can't have that!

I don't think that sneaking suitcases with millions of dolars of Venezuelan money to his favorite candidates in Latin America counts as promoting Free And Fair elections.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654511,00.html
http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/11/26/en_pol_art_venezuelan-businessm_26A3120691.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maletinazo

I take it you approve of the military coup in Honduras then, with its sham elections conducted in complete violation of the country's constitution? Maybe we should just let the Pentagon decide who gets to be president of the Latin American countries again, like in Reagan's reign of error. Those people can't be trusted to elect someone who supports the interests of the multi-national mega-corps over their own citizenry like the Americans do.

I never even mentioned Honduras, in fact, I don't approve the coup, so try to keep your current job, cause mind reading is not your thing.

They're cutting off service to people using pre-paid cards if they do not identify themselves. Link in Spanish: Los clientes de móvil de prepago tendrán seis meses más para identificarse

1) The 20% I was talking about was about green energy (wind/solar), not nuclear.

2) The low price you point is because it is subsidized, so in the end, paid by the taxpayers. Do you know the debt because of subsidizing the electricity? About 30 billion USD (19 euro billions), for a country of 45 million people, that's 666.66 USD/citizen of debt, growing and paying interest year by year (!)

Coincidence. This very same week scientists from SPANISH INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY IEO have succeed in getting millions of Red tuna eggs from same "generation" (I don't know the exact term in english, sorry) Difference between previous attemps being in the low number of eggs til now.

Aprox. translation from El Pais news

"A team of scientifics from IEO has gotten several red tuna (Thunnus thynnus) lays of about 5 million eggs each...

... Scientists have inducted hormones to the tuna and have gotten those 5 million eggs between monday and wednesday this week. They are starting the next phase of the project wich is about developing those larva...

Very very good news for sushi lovers (me myself!!) but BETTER news for one of the most overexploitted fish on the sea.

... Marissa Mayer is HOT!