No. Maduro’s party, PSUV, relies heavily on state resources to fund and execute their campaigns"
Does not looks any worse than the US president election, where those who can get the most money from their followers (who expect something in return) gets elected. At least Maduro got the majority of votes, unlike required in some other "democratic" systems.
And whose fault are those empty shelves? The US and the powerfull rich in Venezuele are actively sabotaging the country. Kilobug explains it nicely here: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
And for other examples, look at the economic blockade of Cuba by the US. The country is not threatening at all to the US but they have a different economic religion than the US has so the regime has to go.
They'renot American cowboy-capitalists. That's something else as being communists, althoug it might be difficult to see for some rednecks who can only think one-digit binary.
Because those economic policies are dictated by different premises. Not "maximise the profit for the big companies and their managers" but "maximise the living standard for the poor". Not everyone likes that of course, perhaps he has underestimated the way the rich and the US are trying to sabotage his policy.
The magic buttons of the US are $$$$ and the promise of lucrative contracts (read: more bribes) for a new ruling caste when the old one, which is not US friendly, has been removed. That's the same since the 1950's in Latin America so why should it be dufferent now (or why would the Venezuelan government think it would be different now)?
The US POV is probably: the current Venezuelan government offered Snowden asylum soit has to be destroyed.
More and more bright foreign students will choose a country with a friendlier climate to study. Let the US continue like this and remember how THEY got their leadership position in research: all those scientists who fled from Europe before, during and just after WW2. If the US becomes a country people don't want to travel to they can do the same for themselves when Germany did when it threw all Jewish scientists out.
You don't have this kind of problems if youy just ay cash. I prefer cash, it's anonymous too so companies can't track what you buy (and sell it to your insurance company who might increase your health insurance payments it they can find an excuse (smoker, buy's too much snacks,...)).
If those mails are only sent to double-verified addresses, why do you care about such statistics? And even if I would want to read the information, that does not mean I want to be tracked that way. That's one reason I have a ad-blocking hosts file besides adblock plus and ghostery: to prevent other applications than a browser from such behaviour too.
But even in countries where you can easily keep your number, the earlier example of somone called by debt collectors would probably deliberately change his/her number.
First demand would be that the company lies outside of the US and has no US representation the US can target. Currently I know only of Mega to fulfill those requirements. Added bonus is that Kim Dotcom, the owner, is now seriously pissed at the US government so he won't cooperate with them.
It will just result in better firewalls and antivirus for XP. Using it behind a NAT router helps too. And for installation media, I still have an iso image on USB stick in case windows 7 is too slow for the hardware.
An alternative would be running windows 2000. That is so old most exploits are died out in the wild.
It seems to me the US secret services have gone out of control; the president clearly does not control them anymore. Obama telling he didn't knwo basically meant "the NSA has gone rogue". The NSA and CIA strike back at Obama by leaking secrets.
The US has had such a period before, the FBI under J.E. Hoover. He knew enough dirt about politicians to be untouchable. With paper files this could be corrected, now the information gas gone digital with many backups I don't see how the US people could reestablish control over these agencies other than by violence - which will be quite difficult to organise with the NSA controlling every line of communication.
Breivik will probably be declared a danger for society and have his sentence extended. And some people are mentally ill and get treatment, often resulting in effectively a live sentence.
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They were not tossed out so now they're making trouble.
He was elected in a deeply divided country with 2 almost equal groups opposinbg each other. That's almost guaranteed to lead to instability.
So, that's some prejudiced site. To quote:
"Was Maduro fairly elected?
No. Maduro’s party, PSUV, relies heavily on state resources to fund and execute their campaigns"
Does not looks any worse than the US president election, where those who can get the most money from their followers (who expect something in return) gets elected. At least Maduro got the majority of votes, unlike required in some other "democratic" systems.
And whose fault are those empty shelves? The US and the powerfull rich in Venezuele are actively sabotaging the country. Kilobug explains it nicely here: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
And for other examples, look at the economic blockade of Cuba by the US. The country is not threatening at all to the US but they have a different economic religion than the US has so the regime has to go.
They'renot American cowboy-capitalists. That's something else as being communists, althoug it might be difficult to see for some rednecks who can only think one-digit binary.
Because those economic policies are dictated by different premises. Not "maximise the profit for the big companies and their managers" but "maximise the living standard for the poor". Not everyone likes that of course, perhaps he has underestimated the way the rich and the US are trying to sabotage his policy.
The Brits were discussing of blocking BBM when they had riots some time ago, but they ended before a decision could be made.
The magic buttons of the US are $$$$ and the promise of lucrative contracts (read: more bribes) for a new ruling caste when the old one, which is not US friendly, has been removed. That's the same since the 1950's in Latin America so why should it be dufferent now (or why would the Venezuelan government think it would be different now)?
The US POV is probably: the current Venezuelan government offered Snowden asylum soit has to be destroyed.
More and more bright foreign students will choose a country with a friendlier climate to study. Let the US continue like this and remember how THEY got their leadership position in research: all those scientists who fled from Europe before, during and just after WW2. If the US becomes a country people don't want to travel to they can do the same for themselves when Germany did when it threw all Jewish scientists out.
You don't have this kind of problems if youy just ay cash. I prefer cash, it's anonymous too so companies can't track what you buy (and sell it to your insurance company who might increase your health insurance payments it they can find an excuse (smoker, buy's too much snacks, ...)).
bit.ly will sometimes react funny on AdBlock or Ghostery.
More subtle than Noscript: Ghostery.
Doesn't matter much now, with dot42 you can program in C# for Android. And with Delphi XE you can even do it in Pascal.
An IT company discriminating Indians! I will recommend all their products to anyone from now on. IT companies should refuse to hire Indians.
If those mails are only sent to double-verified addresses, why do you care about such statistics? And even if I would want to read the information, that does not mean I want to be tracked that way. That's one reason I have a ad-blocking hosts file besides adblock plus and ghostery: to prevent other applications than a browser from such behaviour too.
So, after the adblocker we now also need the appblocker when browsing.
But even in countries where you can easily keep your number, the earlier example of somone called by debt collectors would probably deliberately change his/her number.
First demand would be that the company lies outside of the US and has no US representation the US can target. Currently I know only of Mega to fulfill those requirements. Added bonus is that Kim Dotcom, the owner, is now seriously pissed at the US government so he won't cooperate with them.
They don't have any mobile clients, so they're basically outdated today.
Jitsi? That only runs on PC's. That's not a very good use case today.
Well, you can switch to classic theme. Fortunately even windows 7 can do that. Now with tileOS 8, that's a different matter. :-(
It will just result in better firewalls and antivirus for XP. Using it behind a NAT router helps too. And for installation media, I still have an iso image on USB stick in case windows 7 is too slow for the hardware.
An alternative would be running windows 2000. That is so old most exploits are died out in the wild.
It seems to me the US secret services have gone out of control; the president clearly does not control them anymore. Obama telling he didn't knwo basically meant "the NSA has gone rogue". The NSA and CIA strike back at Obama by leaking secrets.
The US has had such a period before, the FBI under J.E. Hoover. He knew enough dirt about politicians to be untouchable. With paper files this could be corrected, now the information gas gone digital with many backups I don't see how the US people could reestablish control over these agencies other than by violence - which will be quite difficult to organise with the NSA controlling every line of communication.
Breivik will probably be declared a danger for society and have his sentence extended. And some people are mentally ill and get treatment, often resulting in effectively a live sentence.
Most prisons in the EU are more civilized than the "maximum security" torture centers in the US.