I'm sure you haven't learned how to drive because it is a fad. I mean, who knows what we will be using for transportation in a few years? Sorry but if you can't see the trend I can't really help you.
Sorry to try so hard to wake you up, but it is not true. I agree that it should but it is not.
Point in: people day everyday trying to cross the border for in pursue of a better life and the government doesn't really take responsability/makes any changes while a single american is mistreated in another country and off the marines go with planes and ships for the rescue.
Point in: a foreigner cannot intervene in the politics of the USA but America didn't mind helping overthrowing a few south and central american countries in the 70's.
Do I need to keep going? Well, I understand that is hard for you to understand. Do you have any foreign friends living in your country? Ask them if they feel they are treated the same as americans. You might be amazed at the result.
Sorry to wake you up, but this country is based on freedom for americans, not for everyone. There is a double standard on freedom for americans and freedom for the rest of the world.
"There's no culture in Argentina of assigning value to software," says a Unisys unit president. (Wall Street Journal 6 Feb 98).
Well, let's see. I was born and raised in Argentina. I was fortunate enough that my father was an accountant and saw the role computers will play way ahead his time. He bought a Timex Sinclair way back in 1983. I typed my first lines of code in that thing and got hooked up. We would go and _buy_ tapes with games and commercial software and play with the computer for hours. My father kept investing and bought with time a Commodore 64, 128 and a PC.
My problem was when I started loving more to learn how to use programs than playing Commando. How could I get my hands on new software when software packages costed two or three times more than in the US and we earned half of what people earn in the US?
Yes, you are guessing right. I learned how to pirate software. I exchanged copies of software with my friends and soon I was learning how to use dBase, Quattro, Excel, etc. There was simply no other way.
I understand that is hard to comprehend for someone that has had access to computers and software at home, at school and everywhere. But how do you learn, how do you even know your choices when you/everybody can't get access to the hardware/software?
These days the gap between prices in the US and Argentina has fallen somewhat but the cost of living has increased and the wages are getting smaller relatively and unemployment keeps growing by the minute. How do you learn? How do you get a competitive advantage to enter the work force? Education.
I worked because I knew how to use Access, Excel, Word, etc. very well. Now go and tell a kid that he has to pay tons of money for the software he needs to earn a living. What happens if suddenly the software the government uses is open source? This kid can learn to use it without shelling out money he doesn't have without breaking any laws.
I'm not trying to exculpate myself. I'm just trying to make you aware of the whole situation people face in my country and how different is from here in the US.
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I'm sure you haven't learned how to drive because it is a fad. I mean, who knows what we will be using for transportation in a few years? Sorry but if you can't see the trend I can't really help you.
AEM
Obviously a naive american who can't see why a monopoly is a bad thing...
Don't you get it? You would be giving them exactly what they want... MONEY! I will not make them rich, you go ahead...
Sorry to try so hard to wake you up, but it is not true. I agree that it should but it is not.
Point in: people day everyday trying to cross the border for in pursue of a better life and the government doesn't really take responsability/makes any changes while a single american is mistreated in another country and off the marines go with planes and ships for the rescue.
Point in: a foreigner cannot intervene in the politics of the USA but America didn't mind helping overthrowing a few south and central american countries in the 70's.
Do I need to keep going? Well, I understand that is hard for you to understand. Do you have any foreign friends living in your country? Ask them if they feel they are treated the same as americans. You might be amazed at the result.
Sorry to wake you up, but this country is based on freedom for americans, not for everyone. There is a double standard on freedom for americans and freedom for the rest of the world.
Well, let's see. I was born and raised in Argentina. I was fortunate enough that my father was an accountant and saw the role computers will play way ahead his time. He bought a Timex Sinclair way back in 1983. I typed my first lines of code in that thing and got hooked up. We would go and _buy_ tapes with games and commercial software and play with the computer for hours. My father kept investing and bought with time a Commodore 64, 128 and a PC.
My problem was when I started loving more to learn how to use programs than playing Commando. How could I get my hands on new software when software packages costed two or three times more than in the US and we earned half of what people earn in the US?
Yes, you are guessing right. I learned how to pirate software. I exchanged copies of software with my friends and soon I was learning how to use dBase, Quattro, Excel, etc. There was simply no other way.
I understand that is hard to comprehend for someone that has had access to computers and software at home, at school and everywhere. But how do you learn, how do you even know your choices when you/everybody can't get access to the hardware/software?
These days the gap between prices in the US and Argentina has fallen somewhat but the cost of living has increased and the wages are getting smaller relatively and unemployment keeps growing by the minute. How do you learn? How do you get a competitive advantage to enter the work force? Education.
I worked because I knew how to use Access, Excel, Word, etc. very well. Now go and tell a kid that he has to pay tons of money for the software he needs to earn a living. What happens if suddenly the software the government uses is open source? This kid can learn to use it without shelling out money he doesn't have without breaking any laws.
I'm not trying to exculpate myself. I'm just trying to make you aware of the whole situation people face in my country and how different is from here in the US.