Is the Venezuelan government shutting down the RCTV Station?
Contrary to some reports, the RCTV station is not being closed down. Rather, the Venezuelan government has chosen not to renew RCTV's licence to broadcast via Venezuela's Channel Two when this expires on 27 May. RCTV will continue to be able to operate freely in Venezuela on the public airwaves on cable and on satellite, as will the many TV and radio stations that RCTV owner Empresas 1BC runs across Venezuela[i].
Why has the government decided not to renew RCTV's licence?
As with other democracies, Venezuelan law allows the government the right to grant broadcast licences, renew them or let them expire. The government has made the decision not to renew because of RCTV's violation of numerous laws - most notably the active support it gave to a military coup in April 2002 to overthrow the democratically-elected Chávez government.
In addition to its violation of laws that prohibit the incitement of political violence, RCTV has not co-operated with tax laws and has failed to pay fines issued by the Telecommunications Commission.
RCTV's involvement in the 2002 coup
In April 2002, a violent military coup temporarily overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Hugo Chávez. At least 13 people were killed and in the 48 hours that the coup plotters held power there was violent repression against those protesting for Chávez's return and many were shot at by the police. The coup plotters overturned key components of Venezuela's democratic constitution - closing down the elected National Assembly, the Supreme Court and other state institutions.
Sections of Venezuela's private media - including RCTV - played an active role in supporting this coup which became known as the world's first 'media coup'. One of the coup leaders Vice-Admiral Victor Ramirez Perez, underlined the key role of the media in organising the coup, stating, "We had a deadly weapon - the media." The media's role is highlighted in the documentaries, The Revolution Will Not be Televised and the new John Pilger film The War on Democracy.[ii]
RCTV's specific involvement included running adverts encouraging the public to take to the streets and to overthrow the democratically elected president.[iii] As www.venezuelanalysis.com highlighted, RCTV was the first to broadcast the false claim that Chávez's supporters were shooting at opposition demonstrators, which then served as a justification for high level military generals to declare their disobedience to the government[iv] and RCTV also showed exclusive interviews with coup plotters.
RCTV's involvement was publicly highlighted on a television chat show the day after the coup, where journalists and military plotters boasted of their collaboration in creating a violent confrontation that could be used to justify the overthrow of the government. In this exchange, one conspirator says: "I must thank Venevision and RCTV" for the role it played[v]. RCTV's participation was so extensive that its production manager, Andrés Izarra, who opposed the coup, immediately resigned so as not to become an accomplice.
In addition to direct misrepresentation of events, RCTV also censored news reporting to try to stop the public from finding out what was really happening. RCTV's owner Marcel Granier ordered on the day of the coup and the following day that there was to be "No information on Chávez, his followers, his ministers, and all others" on the station. [vi] A managing producer of one of the station's news programmes affirmed this when testifying to the Venezuelan National Assembly. Instead, in the days of the coup, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the return of President Chavez, RCTV showed only cartoons[vii]. This is in clear violation of regulations contained in Arti
In Brazil, we have free dialup access in most of the cities, and is pretty popular, and as good as paid access, so no problem with this "15 hours allowed" crap. Chances are, the government made some agreement with AOL, or some other provider, that paid some money to include a CD in the pc's box.
You guys are lucky...
Thanks to the increase of violence between some stupid football fans, for some years now, in Brazil, we're not allowed to buy "real" beer in stadiums, just the non-alcohol crap.
Here in Brasil, since 1999 IIRC, every year our IRS releases a software to do our taxes.
The software calculates everything, and at the end, registers your taxes at the IRS server, and prints a receipt.
If you dont have a internet connection, you save the data in a 1.44 floppy disk and delivers it in a post office.
This year, for the first time, they released a java version, so you can run in any OS with a java VM.
They're just trying to ensure that the recording companies keep putting songs to sell in the itunes music store. That simple. If they drop DRM, or dont go after companies/individuals that try to strip the DRM from the songs, the recording companies could stop allowing the songs to be sold in the iTMS, or even sue apple.
How can the community fight when there's no consensus of a common goal, and there's such a lack of good faith and no respect for other people's projects and plans?
Besides all the pointed advantages, in less than a year, McDonalds will no more have to pay for support, since several (former)SCO folks will be around, flipping burgers.
Here, in Brasil, we had a couple more Lada models (Samara and Laika, both ugly pieces of crap). The Niva was the best of all. I had one, and was a really good car for the price I paid, at the time.
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Contrary to some reports, the RCTV station is not being closed down. Rather, the Venezuelan government has chosen not to renew RCTV's licence to broadcast via Venezuela's Channel Two when this expires on 27 May. RCTV will continue to be able to operate freely in Venezuela on the public airwaves on cable and on satellite, as will the many TV and radio stations that RCTV owner Empresas 1BC runs across Venezuela[i].
Why has the government decided not to renew RCTV's licence?
As with other democracies, Venezuelan law allows the government the right to grant broadcast licences, renew them or let them expire. The government has made the decision not to renew because of RCTV's violation of numerous laws - most notably the active support it gave to a military coup in April 2002 to overthrow the democratically-elected Chávez government.
In addition to its violation of laws that prohibit the incitement of political violence, RCTV has not co-operated with tax laws and has failed to pay fines issued by the Telecommunications Commission.
RCTV's involvement in the 2002 coup
In April 2002, a violent military coup temporarily overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Hugo Chávez. At least 13 people were killed and in the 48 hours that the coup plotters held power there was violent repression against those protesting for Chávez's return and many were shot at by the police. The coup plotters overturned key components of Venezuela's democratic constitution - closing down the elected National Assembly, the Supreme Court and other state institutions.
Sections of Venezuela's private media - including RCTV - played an active role in supporting this coup which became known as the world's first 'media coup'. One of the coup leaders Vice-Admiral Victor Ramirez Perez, underlined the key role of the media in organising the coup, stating, "We had a deadly weapon - the media." The media's role is highlighted in the documentaries, The Revolution Will Not be Televised and the new John Pilger film The War on Democracy.[ii]
RCTV's specific involvement included running adverts encouraging the public to take to the streets and to overthrow the democratically elected president.[iii] As www.venezuelanalysis.com highlighted, RCTV was the first to broadcast the false claim that Chávez's supporters were shooting at opposition demonstrators, which then served as a justification for high level military generals to declare their disobedience to the government[iv] and RCTV also showed exclusive interviews with coup plotters.
RCTV's involvement was publicly highlighted on a television chat show the day after the coup, where journalists and military plotters boasted of their collaboration in creating a violent confrontation that could be used to justify the overthrow of the government. In this exchange, one conspirator says: "I must thank Venevision and RCTV" for the role it played[v]. RCTV's participation was so extensive that its production manager, Andrés Izarra, who opposed the coup, immediately resigned so as not to become an accomplice.
In addition to direct misrepresentation of events, RCTV also censored news reporting to try to stop the public from finding out what was really happening. RCTV's owner Marcel Granier ordered on the day of the coup and the following day that there was to be "No information on Chávez, his followers, his ministers, and all others" on the station. [vi] A managing producer of one of the station's news programmes affirmed this when testifying to the Venezuelan National Assembly. Instead, in the days of the coup, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the return of President Chavez, RCTV showed only cartoons[vii]. This is in clear violation of regulations contained in Arti
Actually, is quite easy to grasp the differences: When I rule you, that's democracy. When you rule me, it's a dictatorship.
(...)in 200 years, I will be either impressed or scared.
Really? I will be dead.
Are you this guy?
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In Brazil, we have free dialup access in most of the cities, and is pretty popular, and as good as paid access, so no problem with this "15 hours allowed" crap.
Chances are, the government made some agreement with AOL, or some other provider, that paid some money to include a CD in the pc's box.
* 151249 - [Mac] Middle click on link does nothing on Mac OS X (should open link in new tab).
I don't like this idea. My mouse have JUST THE MIDDLE BUTTON. All links will open in a new tab?
It's a unfunny joke. Do NOT laugh!
only old software is included in Debian
You guys are lucky... Thanks to the increase of violence between some stupid football fans, for some years now, in Brazil, we're not allowed to buy "real" beer in stadiums, just the non-alcohol crap.
Informative? Yeah, right.
Just read the sentence following the one you quoted:
Those legally-downloaded songs are encrypted, but iPod also plays un-encrypted music files that may have been illegally downloaded.
I guess the designer of this is the same giant guy that designed the original XBox controller.
Here in Brasil, since 1999 IIRC, every year our IRS releases a software to do our taxes.
The software calculates everything, and at the end, registers your taxes at the IRS server, and prints a receipt. If you dont have a internet connection, you save the data in a 1.44 floppy disk and delivers it in a post office.
This year, for the first time, they released a java version, so you can run in any OS with a java VM.
They're probably by now the largest contributors to the global warming.
They're just trying to ensure that the recording companies keep putting songs to sell in the itunes music store.
That simple. If they drop DRM, or dont go after companies/individuals that try to strip the DRM from the songs, the recording companies could stop allowing the songs to be sold in the iTMS, or even sue apple.
I'm brazilian, and "Pinto" is the portuguese word for dick, so everytime I see a reference to this car, is kinda funny.
I wonder why Ford didn't ever released this car here...
Who are the OSS's real enemies?
How can the community fight when there's no consensus of a common goal, and there's such a lack of good faith and no respect for other people's projects and plans?
Besides all the pointed advantages, in less than a year, McDonalds will no more have to pay for support, since several (former)SCO folks will be around, flipping burgers.
They made a special deal with 3DRealms to include the new linux version in the "Duke Nukem Forever" box.
So, stay tuned.
Here, in Brasil, we had a couple more Lada models (Samara and Laika, both ugly pieces of crap). The Niva was the best of all. I had one, and was a really good car for the price I paid, at the time.
...to play Duke Nukem Forever 12h/day. Man, I cant wait!! DNF will be released soon, right?
Understanding the cultural diferences between Windows and UNIX programmers.
Please fill with gasoline and apply this week's security patches, please
You can get it at submarino, brazilian's largest online store.
talk time with our new prepaid plans!
To solve the problem of heat in the cluster room, they just bought 5500 of this