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Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US
lpress writes In an effort to support Cuba's nascent private sector, the Treasury Department announced on Friday that Americans can now import goods and services produced by "independent Cuban entrepreneurs." Will the Cuban government allow that? Cuba is a communist nation, but they have a list of 201 job categories in which self-employment is permitted. Most of those jobs are goofy things like magician and pedal-taxi driver, but one is not – computer programmer. Will the Castro regime let private individuals and organizations export software and software services to the United States and the rest of the world?
Within a year or two (or maybe sooner), the price of a cuban cigar in the US will drop like a rock. I have friends who bring them in from Europe all the time.
Now... What's all this about cuban software? They have computers?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
In the past, charities were sending them our old computers.
Do they have any skills or products other than maintain Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 legacy systems?
... call centre.
Bad for Americans.
I have to say this? I am in Desktop and some server support now and I deeply regret following the advice of do not code as only Indians will do it by 2010 or so. Kicking myself!
Why? College grads make $60,000 with 0 experience in the US?? I know this opinion is unpopular on Slashdot but it does add credence to maybe their is a shortage of good developers as only MBAs make this out of school.
If Cubans can do it cheaper and add freedom and prosperity to end tyranny like what happened in China then why are we agaisn't it besides protecting our own self interests
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... I'll be forced to question their intelligence. Communism or no, exporting services means the country gets an intake of money, without this transaction resulting in the country having less resources as a result. Making additional copies of software is virtually free.
Why not just say it out loud? Call center...
Not a bad way to get the average Cuban into the 21st Century.
It worked for India, first call centers, now they OWN the US development market.
We will start seeing an influx of Cubans up here in Washington State on the Microsoft campas as soon as they can swing the politics...
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
American oligarchs will use you like the 99% of U.S population. Poor Americans are slaves without future. Mortgages for life, student loans for life, cops in kindergartens and enormous security forces to prevent any uprising.
Live your happy life. You don't need 5 cars and room in trailer park. When they come to your country, say to them - Fuck Off.
Because that's what Cuban "engineering" looks like. I worked with Cubans, besides the fact that they're universally nasty people, they just don't have the technical background.
How could they? They've had to make do with limited materials and knowledge. They can repair anything, but don't ask them to repeat that trick or explain what they did.
And as for the nastiness, they are on an island. They can't run away from people they don't get along with, so they have to be nasty just to survive.
You want backstabbing and unreliable work? Hire a Cuban.
There's a reason for the "Latin lover" stereotype. There's no German lover or Jewish playboy stereotype either, for a reason too.
Thus doing what little they can to help finance Castro's regime. Good job!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
where is, will pay
Will the Cuban government allow that? Cuba is a communist nation
So? After the US has totally sold themselves to the Communist thugs in Peking, I can't see see how this is objectionable...based on precedent.
The people here are myopic. Also on the list is 'care of the elderly and disabled', ie, doctors and personal aides. Do you know how much it costs to fight cancer in the United States? Software is pennies compared to that.
these portable computers. Their programmers should be able to help you with your R:Base project.
LOL That's "funny". So as of 2015 it is easier to sell software from Cuba to the US than it is to sell software from the EU to the EU. Praise the lord....
http://www.belastingdienst.nl/...
0x or or snor perron?!
that no one expected: http://www.homestead.afrc.af.m... ...
"For the individuals laying eyes on the base for the first time since the storm, reconciling what they were seeing seemed impossible.
"Those things that have been a part of your life for so long, I guess you take for granted that they're always going to be there," said Mr. Tom Miller, currently with the 482nd Maintenance Squadron and during Hurricane Andrew was the electrical shop chief with the 482nd Maintenance Squadron as an Air Reserve Technician. Mr. Miller was living in Cutler Bay at the time of the hurricane and weathered the storm in St. Petersburg. He's been a member of the base since 1968.
"The most vivid memories I have are when I first went back to where I lived and when I first went back to the base because that was where I lived and worked," he said. "Those are the things that you get some strength from, and then to come back and see that area was completely devastated, that really hits you. The devastation seemed insurmountable."
For those who've seen both the before and after of the storm, 20 years means different things to different people. "Sometimes it feels like it was 200 years ago and then other times it feels like it was last week," said Miller. "When I came back on base after the storm, a place where I had worked for 20 years, I just thought, 'what's the answer for this?'; 'where do we even start?' We learned a big lesson: these things can change people's lives overnight. The base has come back, and I'm glad it did.""
For another example, one week my mother was living in a nice house and was a smiling teenager. The next week, her home town looked like this due to WWII fighting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Or, as Howard Zinn said: ..."
http://www.thenation.com/artic...
"In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.
See also my other comment to a different story here on different sorts of existential societal risks and possible solutions: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Humans these days have been so blessed with so much including a relatively mild climate the past few centuries compared to the past. It is only because of that blessing that our thoughts can focus on internal conflicts of human vs. human instead of the greater eternal conflict of human vs. a capricious environment. We need to invest more in dealing with such environmental existential risks.
It is just foolish, even laughable, that the USA can, say, spend US$1 trillion a year or more on the US military including incurred future costs related to human political conflicts (many of which the USA helped create) while our infrastructure falls apart and we don't invest in, say, protecting our power grid from solar flares, or that we don't scale our medical systems to deal with possible pandemics, or we don't move to indoor or even underground agriculture faster to get it
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
enjoin - verb
* instruct or urge (someone) to do something.
"the code enjoined members to trade fairly"
synonyms: urge, encourage, admonish, press; More
* prescribe (an action or attitude) to be performed or adopted.
"the charitable deeds enjoined on him by religion"
LAW
* prohibit someone from performing (a particular action) by issuing an injunction.
synonyms: urge, encourage, admonish, press; instruct, direct, require, order, command, tell, call on, demand, charge; (formal)adjure; (literary)bid
Stop trying to use big words to sound smart. Everyone knows you're just a halfwitted fuckwad.
Russia -> Cuba -> USA
A disaster waiting to happen.