"In Latin America in general the lesson on geography is North America (canada, US and mexico) Central America (guatemala down to panama) South America (from panama border all the way down)"
The problem with that is confusion. It is fine to call a region Central America, as there is not already something with that name. However, there have been continents named North America and South America for a very long time (even before "Central America" was distinguished). Why call a region North America when this region is a mere subset of the continent that already has this name?
There is a region named used which is "Anglo America" which could be used for US and Canada, but as you can see it leaves out Mexico.
"has dissapeared I am glad I got rid of my school books, apparently they are all "wrong" now"
They were indeed wrong if the mistakenly included the region of Central America as a distinct continent. The word continent means something, and having a "distintive history" is not part of it. This is why Europe, more and more, is considered to be part of the continent of Eurasia.
Where do we find such a map that has CA as its own continent? Something that world geographers ignore? Do Iberians (Spain and Portugal) also have odd textbooks that make Iberia a separate continent even though no-one else recognizes it as such?
"I am a NORTH American..........next time I travel to the US I will say that to the INS agent and see what he says about that"
Go to images.google.com and find one of the many maps which shows what the continents are, and print it out. Flap it in his face. If he insists that you are not from North America, he is probably one of those dumb "United Statesians" who thinks that New Mexico is a separate country from the USA.
"List of countries that belong to North America: Mexico, USA and Canada"
When I checked many lists, they properly listed Costa Rica. Seems you have no idea what continent your country is in! Here is just one of many. You may wish you were not in North America, but unless you can find those wizards who moved Atlantis so they can move Costa Rica, you are out of luck.
You have not caught me on a weak spot. I know a lot about geography, and can even place the vast majority of countries, and I know what continents and regions they are in.
The Costa Rican army, which exists, is under the Ministry of Public Forces. The government spends nearly $70,000,000 on it each year. I suppose you were not aware of this, either.
How many maps and lists do you have to be shown before you know what continent your own country is in? 40? 100? 200?
What were you trying to show? The first map showed all of North America, including Central and part of South. The second only showed the Central American sub-region of North America.
All three of them have Costa Rica well within the confines of North America. Some people do not realize that "Central America" is a sub-region of North America just as Scandinavia is a sub-region of Europe. Apparently, you are included.
From the dictionary definition of Central America: "A region of southern North America extending from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia".
"We call them cops... Army? Yeah right... Nicaragua and Panama (Our neighbours) have tanks, bazookas and aircraft, we have at least 9mm caliber guns and shields for our cops..."
You call them cops, but they receive at least $64 million in military spending each year. Just because they don't stack up against neighboring armies does not mean they are not an army. Just because they are lightly armed does not mean they are not an army (try telling the British invaders in old South Africa that the Zulu armed with sticks and spears were not an army!).
"Costa Rica is NOT in North America... there's something between north and south america whether you want to believe it or not"
Do the research. Go to dictionary.com and look up north america. Go to images.google.com and look up map of north america. You are going to be surprised.
"Not Costa Rica, they don't have one. There was a coup in '48 and after some chaos, the folks on top decided that having an army was in their case doing more harm then good"
They have an army and other military, actually. It is just small an unobtrusive. The country spent $64 million on the military in 2003.
"Which could only mean one thing, their scientists reported breathlessly: back in 1005, South Africa had the best mobile telephone network the world had ever seen"
The South African system was made all the more robust by improvements that were forced on them just a few years before this by Y1K compliance.
They do indeed have an army. It is very small an unobtrusive, especially compared to countries nearby. They avoid calling it an army. However, it meets the definition of one.
"Any country that truly values freedom should find the thought of "criminalizing" any form of communication like this "criminal" in itself."
It has happened elsewhere in the continent. Pro "french culture" langauge nazis in Quebec for a time criminalized private communications that used the English language.
Costa Rica has always had an army. However, it is very small an unobtrusive compared that of other countries in the area. They don't even call it an army, but it is one anyway.
Costa Rica was colonized differently, compared to the other countries in the area: more by settlers looking to build a home rather than plantationers. This made it somewhat more civil than the other places.
As for imperialism, during the Soviet proxy wars against Central America during the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviets even created a rebel army to attack Costa Rica. It gained little ground, however.
"...and you're part of the reason prices are going up. Thanks a lot, asshole"
The parent is paying $0.00 for music. So is General Ulysses S. Grant. Why aren't you blaming the dead too? Are they causing music prices to go up because they are not buying music? Are you going to blame the Martians next?
"we used to do the same thing with floppy disks between cubicles. Write the name of the person on it, toss it out there into the field of cubes"
Wasn't the data window in the floppy pretty well smudged after a few rounds?
"Practice ended one day when a BOSS was beaned in the head with a flying disk."
Too bad you were not flinging one of these massive portable firewire hard drives instead. Dead men tell no tales, even if holes gashed in cubicle walls do tell tales.
Thief, thief, thief. By posting your insightful post, you STOLE mod points from me, since there is a chance that some moderator would have spent time modding me up instead of reading your message.
No matter how you try to rationalize your immorality, you, sir are a thief!
I was doing percentage of stations owned, regardless of station content.
However, to zero in on music, I looked here, and found about 15 Dallas music radio stations.
If you search for Dallas at www.clearchannel.com, you will find 5 music stations they own. That's a 33% ownership percentage of Dallas music radio stations by CC. You are familiar with Dallas radio, I am not. Was that first list accurate?
" In the meantime you are committing theft as it is defined under the legal code, no matter how you seek to rationalize it."
Gotcha there. It is defined in the legal code as copyright infringement.
"If I print my own money, I have hurt the rest of society"
There are a lot of things that hurt the rest of society. If you dump a pickup-truck load of dead skunks in the middle of Central Park, is the best thing to call you a thief because you have "stolen" the proper use of the park, and have indirectly wasted (stolen!) taxpayer dollars for the cleanup?
"It's along the lines of when someone 'steals' a db full of personal data from the bank. The bank still has the original copy, so nothing has been 'stolen', right?"
You raise a good point. However, to continue with the analogy: is it stealing when you get into someone's data files with permission and copy them? As in nabbing those Pantera files from "kewlKazUser4005"'s hard drive on a p2p service after he has shared them for your benefit?
"However, in most major markets, excluding talk radio, Clear Channel probably owns closer to 50-80% of the market."
I've spot checked several major markets. In all of them, CC ownership did not get anywhere near as high as 50% of stations. Can you name one where it does?
"When I use my printing press to print money, I am guilt of counterfeiting. However, I have stolen a microscopic amount of money from every person with that currency"
No you haven't. All you have done is commit the crime of counterfeiting. You are attempting to conflate the definition of theft beyond all meaning where any activity possible can be called theft.
"In the same way, when a portion of folks take someting they are not entitled to"
Now you are off-topic. Duplication and taking are very different things.
You are caught up in a fallacy that "if it is illegal, it is theft"
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The problem with that is confusion. It is fine to call a region Central America, as there is not already something with that name. However, there have been continents named North America and South America for a very long time (even before "Central America" was distinguished). Why call a region North America when this region is a mere subset of the continent that already has this name?
There is a region named used which is "Anglo America" which could be used for US and Canada, but as you can see it leaves out Mexico.
"has dissapeared I am glad I got rid of my school books, apparently they are all "wrong" now"
They were indeed wrong if the mistakenly included the region of Central America as a distinct continent. The word continent means something, and having a "distintive history" is not part of it. This is why Europe, more and more, is considered to be part of the continent of Eurasia.
Where do we find such a map that has CA as its own continent? Something that world geographers ignore? Do Iberians (Spain and Portugal) also have odd textbooks that make Iberia a separate continent even though no-one else recognizes it as such?
"I am a NORTH American..........next time I travel to the US I will say that to the INS agent and see what he says about that"
Go to images.google.com and find one of the many maps which shows what the continents are, and print it out. Flap it in his face. If he insists that you are not from North America, he is probably one of those dumb "United Statesians" who thinks that New Mexico is a separate country from the USA.
Here is yet another nice map of continents.
When I checked many lists, they properly listed Costa Rica. Seems you have no idea what continent your country is in! Here is just one of many. You may wish you were not in North America, but unless you can find those wizards who moved Atlantis so they can move Costa Rica, you are out of luck.
You have not caught me on a weak spot. I know a lot about geography, and can even place the vast majority of countries, and I know what continents and regions they are in.
The Costa Rican army, which exists, is under the Ministry of Public Forces. The government spends nearly $70,000,000 on it each year. I suppose you were not aware of this, either.
How many maps and lists do you have to be shown before you know what continent your own country is in? 40? 100? 200?
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This shows it even better:
Dictionary def. of North America
This map clearly shows the continents
This one clearly shows what is North America.
All three of them have Costa Rica well within the confines of North America. Some people do not realize that "Central America" is a sub-region of North America just as Scandinavia is a sub-region of Europe. Apparently, you are included.
From the dictionary definition of Central America: "A region of southern North America extending from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia".
You call them cops, but they receive at least $64 million in military spending each year. Just because they don't stack up against neighboring armies does not mean they are not an army. Just because they are lightly armed does not mean they are not an army (try telling the British invaders in old South Africa that the Zulu armed with sticks and spears were not an army!).
Do the research. Go to dictionary.com and look up north america. Go to images.google.com and look up map of north america. You are going to be surprised.
They have an army and other military, actually. It is just small an unobtrusive. The country spent $64 million on the military in 2003.
The South African system was made all the more robust by improvements that were forced on them just a few years before this by Y1K compliance.
What is needless to you might be needed by someone else.
Another South American country? CR is on the North American continent, not South America.
They do indeed have an army. It is very small an unobtrusive, especially compared to countries nearby. They avoid calling it an army. However, it meets the definition of one.
It has happened elsewhere in the continent. Pro "french culture" langauge nazis in Quebec for a time criminalized private communications that used the English language.
Costa Rica has always had an army. However, it is very small an unobtrusive compared that of other countries in the area. They don't even call it an army, but it is one anyway. Costa Rica was colonized differently, compared to the other countries in the area: more by settlers looking to build a home rather than plantationers. This made it somewhat more civil than the other places. As for imperialism, during the Soviet proxy wars against Central America during the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviets even created a rebel army to attack Costa Rica. It gained little ground, however.
The parent is paying $0.00 for music. So is General Ulysses S. Grant. Why aren't you blaming the dead too? Are they causing music prices to go up because they are not buying music? Are you going to blame the Martians next?
Wasn't the data window in the floppy pretty well smudged after a few rounds?
"Practice ended one day when a BOSS was beaned in the head with a flying disk."
Too bad you were not flinging one of these massive portable firewire hard drives instead. Dead men tell no tales, even if holes gashed in cubicle walls do tell tales.
What about "Lawn Dart Mail?" Send your buddy a message and crack his skull at the same time. Whammo!
BAM!
Thief, thief, thief. By posting your insightful post, you STOLE mod points from me, since there is a chance that some moderator would have spent time modding me up instead of reading your message.
No matter how you try to rationalize your immorality, you, sir are a thief!
What are you talking about? Stealing or downloading music? The two are very different.
However, to zero in on music, I looked here, and found about 15 Dallas music radio stations.
If you search for Dallas at www.clearchannel.com, you will find 5 music stations they own. That's a 33% ownership percentage of Dallas music radio stations by CC. You are familiar with Dallas radio, I am not. Was that first list accurate?
" In the meantime you are committing theft as it is defined under the legal code, no matter how you seek to rationalize it." Gotcha there. It is defined in the legal code as copyright infringement.
There are a lot of things that hurt the rest of society. If you dump a pickup-truck load of dead skunks in the middle of Central Park, is the best thing to call you a thief because you have "stolen" the proper use of the park, and have indirectly wasted (stolen!) taxpayer dollars for the cleanup?
You raise a good point. However, to continue with the analogy: is it stealing when you get into someone's data files with permission and copy them? As in nabbing those Pantera files from "kewlKazUser4005"'s hard drive on a p2p service after he has shared them for your benefit?
I've spot checked several major markets. In all of them, CC ownership did not get anywhere near as high as 50% of stations. Can you name one where it does?
No you haven't. All you have done is commit the crime of counterfeiting. You are attempting to conflate the definition of theft beyond all meaning where any activity possible can be called theft.
"In the same way, when a portion of folks take someting they are not entitled to"
Now you are off-topic. Duplication and taking are very different things.
You are caught up in a fallacy that "if it is illegal, it is theft"