Actually, you have to install a package named Automatix. It fixes all missing multimedia stuff. Two or three mouse clicks and you're on the air. Of course to even know there is a package named Automatix that can fix all your multimedia problems in a matter of seconds you have to spend several hours googling for solutions to your multimedia problems.
Both of you guys are right. Mexico's educational system right up to the 70's was excellent. Mexico's economy was growing at 7-8% a year. Then, huge amounts of oil were found, contradictions in Mexico's political systems exploded, neoconservatives (neoliberals) took over, and the country started its slow slide into the cesspool it's in right now. I remember how we studied two foreign languages in high school, algebra, analytical geometry in 7th, 8th and 9th, Calculus in 10th, 11th and 12th. Latin and Greek ethymology, Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology, etc. The current educational level is just apalling, with most political education provided by TV networks. It should tell you something we have the (oficially) richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, in a country where the last 12 years has seen 6 million citizens move into the US.
It{s not as crazy as it sounds. For example the image of Mexican Guadalupe Virgin Mary was copyrighted by some enterprising chinese guy, and, at least in theory, everytime somebody manufactures the image outside of Mexico they have to pay royalties to this guy. Same for Mexico's national anthem. Everytime it's played outside of Mexico, like in international soccer matches for example, they have to pay royalties to some American company. I guess Mr. Hawass is just trying to avoid something like this. It's all pretty fucked up if you ask me.
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Actually, you have to install a package named Automatix. It fixes all missing multimedia stuff. Two or three mouse clicks and you're on the air. Of course to even know there is a package named Automatix that can fix all your multimedia problems in a matter of seconds you have to spend several hours googling for solutions to your multimedia problems.
Cthulu awakes. And he's pissed. You can follow his path on the map...
Both of you guys are right. Mexico's educational system right up to the 70's was excellent. Mexico's economy was growing at 7-8% a year. Then, huge amounts of oil were found, contradictions in Mexico's political systems exploded, neoconservatives (neoliberals) took over, and the country started its slow slide into the cesspool it's in right now. I remember how we studied two foreign languages in high school, algebra, analytical geometry in 7th, 8th and 9th, Calculus in 10th, 11th and 12th. Latin and Greek ethymology, Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology, etc. The current educational level is just apalling, with most political education provided by TV networks. It should tell you something we have the (oficially) richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, in a country where the last 12 years has seen 6 million citizens move into the US.
It{s not as crazy as it sounds. For example the image of Mexican Guadalupe Virgin Mary was copyrighted by some enterprising chinese guy, and, at least in theory, everytime somebody manufactures the image outside of Mexico they have to pay royalties to this guy. Same for Mexico's national anthem. Everytime it's played outside of Mexico, like in international soccer matches for example, they have to pay royalties to some American company. I guess Mr. Hawass is just trying to avoid something like this. It's all pretty fucked up if you ask me.