Was, it's called SI now (Secretaria de Inteligencia, they dropped DE which meant Del Estado).
SI doesn't have the resources to spy on *all* americans, and doesn't even have te ability to (since the "internet pipes" go across the US, not through south america). So there is no way we can spy on you.
Budget for ALL intelligence services (Army, SIDE and Gendarmeria) in Argentina is 1.3B pesos (source), or roughly 200 million dollars.
So no. We definitely DO NOT spy on all american citizens like you do on us.
Italy and Ireland share a currency, so there's no need for any currency exchange to get it out.
Italy doesn't have foreign currency reserves, the European Central Bank does.
While Italy and Ireland share a currency, they don't share the "same" currency. That is: Italian euros are Italy's, and Ireland euros are Ireland's. Italy and Ireland have 2 accounts in the European central bank, and when they trade goods or services, money is sent from one account to another. Effectively, this works as if every Eurozone member has their own central bank BUT all banks have the same policy. This is why Greece is broke and Germany is fine, even though both share the same currency.
Unlike Argentina, most well governed countries don't intervene in their exchange markets on the minutest level. An Italian wanting to swap Euros for Dollars just has to keep waiting and/or lowering their price until someone with Dollars who wants Euros comes along. Reserves are not involved.
The difference is that Argentina is broke, and the politicians are corrupt and inept. Argentina's intervention in the currency market is a stupid stopgap measure, which started in 2011, to try to stop foreign currency bleeding (instead of, you know, making policies to allow foreign currency to come in). Also, it really doesn't quite work the way you describe it. Central banks are permanently fiddling with the market, selling reserves (or "printing" more money -not literally) when the currency is overvalued, or buying when the euro is undervalued. The trade of cash between 2 individuals is irrelevant in the macroeconomic scale. But when you up the game, to country- or Eurozone-wide levels, it's a bit different. If you're an European using your Visa to buy from USA, Visa needs to pay to the US with USD. The european central bank HAS to sell Visa as many USD as Visa needs, to cover their operation. When the operation is performed between two eurozone members, the european central bank simply transfer funds between country accounts.
GOOGLE ARGENTINA S.R.L. CITIBANK N.A. 10/13 1 1733,6 N/A - (means Google took a loan from Citi for ARS 1.73M or USD 300,000)
AFIP (federal tax agency) reports Google Argentina SRL has a few tens of employees.
So. Why should they NOT pay taxes in Argentina, if they are a registered company, with employees, who enjoy the benefits of being a company here (for example, they can take a loan). And they make their profits here and send them abroad completely untaxed.
I hate paying taxes as much as anyone else. But what google does is not fair game. It doesn't allow companies to develop within the country: I'm pretty sure the first ting Larry and Sergei did wasn't exactly to register their company in the Cayman Islands. That was later, when millions already poured in, and creative accountants took over. They are simply exploiting a loophole.
Lots of comments come here from americans, who are very loud about anti taxing, and yes, I fully agree that paying taxes sucks, but you have to understand this: the US prints the world's money. Italy doesn't. All international transactions are made in USD. Italy (and any other non-US country) loses money from their reserves to pay google. Google takes this money offshore. They do the same in the US, but it doesn't matter, as the US simply keeps printing more and more money to compensate (why do you think the USD is so devaluated?). Another thing to notice is that in most of the world, "technicalities", the really nitpicky details you see in police procedural dramas, don't apply. In most of the world, a cop doesn't have to read your rights. And laws are thorough and redundant, leaving little room for argument. And no, lawyers don't have a sexy job of sweet talking a judge. It seems most of you understand that judges rule according to how nicely a lawyer puts his arguments. That's complete bullshit, at least outside the US. A judge won't accept crap like "the suspect crossed the state line as he was firing so technically he fired from another state and his trial is null here".
Making really stupid observations such as "the physical servers aren't in Italy" is incredibly shortsighted. Google is providing a service, and making money. They should pay taxes *LIKE EVERYONE ELSE*. By no means i say google should pay more, or less. I'm simply saying they should. Along with amazon, and any other company that makes not millions, but billions a year and pays ridiculous sums. They get to subvert the system, make a country lose millions every year in both reserves and lost tax money, unemployment from local companies that go broke because of the unfair competition,etc.
This is just the beginning. Most countries will start applying restrictions like this to international companies once the volume becomes big enough. It's not a problem if a few thousand people across the country make purchases. But it is when millions do every day.
Well, not "producing more gridlock", but I mean, the people live there because of the perks of free transportation. I'm pretty sure most people there 1. don't make nearly as much as the google nerds, and 2. have to pay for their own means of transport. If they did, I'm sure they'd look for closer places to live (you now, nothing's more annoying to a techie than down time. and a 2-hour drive would kill them).
What I don't really get is why Google doesn't just build dorms and offer their employees to live there for free (or very cheap). They go out of their way to find the elitest of the elite nerds, who sometimes are really sheltered (almost autistic i'd say). Young programmers, fresh out of college, incredibly smart and with null social skills. Busing them like high school kids only reinforces this behavior. So, just offer them to live in-campus, with 10gbit ethernet to their dorm computers.
I mean, google practically does this: they have in-campus gourmet restaurants, free buses, a cool-hip young crowd, everything in a happy, clean (sterile) place in the beautiful sunny California, with the perfect weather year-round, with lots of beautiful young people from all over the world (did you see that new girl from India? She's a hottie!). Who wouldn't want to live there!
Except, of course, reality will hit these kids in the face like a bucket of cold water the moment they turn 35 and figure out they can no longer pull 16-hour marathons of coding every day. And will be fired soon after that, when their productivity falls, and they contribute to the aging of the employees (who would want to work in a place with an average age of 30? yuck! old people!). I wonder what they will do after that?
Will their believe their own bullshit motto of "retrain and move", "menial jobs should be automated", "if you're dumb and can only work with your muscles and not with your brain then fuck you"?
You are so cute. In my country we have a saying: "Pueblo chico, infierno grande". "Small town, big hell". It means that, in a small town, everything bad you do, everyone will know about it, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Don't be such a fool. When you're in disgrace, your neighbors won't help you. Your friends won't be there for you. There's just you and, if you're lucky, your immediate family. But don't even think for a minute that if you go bankrupt, your neighbor will let you "crash in their couch". Hell, they will not even let their children play with yours. You will be shunned, you'll be a disgrace to be around. And that guy, who used to invite you to a barbecue on a weekend, will quietly ask you to leave his property or he will call the police.
Stop pressing the phone so hard against your head that you hurt your ear.
How would I listen then? Most smartphones sound so bad you often hear people on the street with the phone in speaker mode with the speaker against their ear.
Stop dropping your phones.
That's a retard argument, coming from retard AC.
You might want to check with others to see how you sound on the phone. It's easy to think you have to be loud, when in reality you're coming through just fine. If this isn't the case then you either have a terrible phone or poor signal.
The phone is good. I can do nothing about poor signal. Thus, I stick with DECT.
If calling between rooms in your house is a priority, then by all means stick to your DECT phones. In my household we prefer to talk face to face when at home. But that may just be our geeky ways...
Nice troll. But I live in an insecure city, and my room is separated of the rest of the house. And I have to unlock the door, go out, lock again, walk down the stairs (bonus if it's raining), go to the main house, unlock the main house's door, go in, lock again... etc.
Am I paranoid? No. One saturday night at about 11PM I heard a noise, look out the window and there's a guy inside the property. He sees me and runs away.
So yeah. There's a number of reasons why we prefer calling.
Because cell phones suck. Because cell phone plans suck. Because I have 4 "cordless" DECT phones at home and I can dial INT 2 and connect to another room *immediately* instead of: * Unlock the phone * Go to the phone app * go to the directory app * Search for the right contact * click the contact * wait 5-10 seconds for the call to connect
Also, my home DECT phones: * have HOURS of talk time * don't get hot when i talk for more than 2 minutes * don't hurt my ear because it's designed to fit my ear, rather than to just look cool * have big buttons and a big display * sound really good and provide me with comfort noise and aural feedback * can survive more than a few drops * allow me to speak at a normal level since the microphone is right at my mouth level
There are a lot of reasons. I hate the geeky "works for me" approach Slashdotters have. Not everyone is a cool geek who doesn't even own a TV. I'm "only" 30 and I enjoy flipping through the channels. I don't have the time or will to "sit down and watch netflix", but i do enjoy the ability to turn the TV on and have a news channel on, or some old episode of Bones, in HD without sacrificing my internet bandwidth for it.
and beyond that it's back to "But the Spanish gave it to us!" - yes, except it wasn't Spain's to give
Pretty much the same as Gibraltar, no? The dutch gave it to England... except it wasn't theirs to give.
but every time Argentina gets into a crisis it's inept leadership
Corrupt leadership. FTFY.
If Argentina wants the Falklands there's a simple solution - stop being a bunch of dicks, be nice to the islanders and give them a reason to want to be Argentinian.
That's not true. Before the war, the islanders would come to Argentina and buy groceries and supplies here. They had a good relation with us. After the war, everything changed. The islanders are proud to be british. And if you think the UK, which has both economical (oil) and strategical (military bases) in the Malvinas would even think of letting the islanders have any real control over the islands, you're a fool. The fact that the islanders continue agreeing to being under UK control is because they're clever enough not to fall into the independentist revolutionarism mindset that Latin America has. The difference being that Spain never saw America as a territory to populate and extend. Spain was just a leech, sucking up all resources America had. Tremendous amounts of gold and silver were taken. Hundreds of thousands massacred. Spain never meant to negotiate or give people living there anything at all. They saw all the people living there as either slaves or tools to the empire. And that's why Latin America in general insists with the independentism. Because we've been looted by Spain. UK had a subtler approach. The main expression of this being Australia, a territory that was populated by the british and thrives now. The UK didn't go committing genocide against all natives and just taking everything they could, and load into ships to take to the queen. They had a naughty child, yes, one that dared to go in a war with them, and win it. But that child is now their biggest partner (as a side note: Spain is the largest investor in Argentina). At the time of independentist revolution in Latin America, the UK was under a different kind of revolution. The industrial one. The UK needed to export their production, and Latin America, the new, unpopulated territory, with no infrastructure, was an excellent candidate. So the UK supported the independence in Latin America, and built a LOT of infrastructure. If you pay attention, in the old parts of Buenos Aires, you can see "MADE IN ENGLAND" written in a lot of things. From the beautiful bronze door of what's now ICBC bank, to the subways of BA. Of course, the UK was clever enough to prevent Latin Americans from establishing their own trade routes, by building railroads that couldn't connect between countries (they made Argentina and Brazil different gauges).
we're not going to put up with them being bullied into it
I don't think any of you NATO members have a moral authority to call anyone else a "bully".
Also, you're obviously not even remotely an expert in international relationships. Let's make it easier for you: if Argentina "sits down to negotiate", that act itself would be considered defeat, and it would mean Argentina doubts its sovereignity over the islands. As a sovereign country, with a claim over a territory, Argentina can't and won't ever "negotiate" anything. As an example, look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputed_status_of_Gibraltar#British_position
The UK Government will never — 'never' is a seldom-used word in politics — enter into an agreement on sovereignty without the agreement of the Government of Gibraltar and their people. In fact, we will never even enter into a process without that agreement. The word 'never' sends a substantial and clear commitment and has been
I have a Nexus 7. Well, my dad does. Anyway, the nexus 7 is some "top of the line" tablet. With great spects, well built, etc.
It SUCKS for web browsing. Seriously. Why is android SO DAMN SLOW at browsing? Sure, my desktop is a Core i5 and firefox is really fast in it. But in both my phone (HTC Sensation) and the tablet, browsing is stupidly slow. And I tried Chrome, Firefox, Android Browser, Dolphin, Opera... I'm using to click-page opens. Android drives me crazy, taking 10-20 seconds to open a website (and this is over Wi-Fi, the same WiFI i use with an old Core 2 Duo laptop, which is still faster than the Nexus)
And now I'm reading about a tablet with a Core i5 larger than my desktop's, with 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD, running full Windows 8.1? That's got to be at least as fast as my desktop.
Ah, Surface. The tablet that "could", but won't. Not because it can't. No, because the Web 2.0 won't let it. It doesn't matter if it's good. It doesn't matter if its x86 and is able to run your programs. It doesn't matter if it has gobs of RAM and a ton of disk space, and it can do real multitasking. Oh yes, and it's faster than your silly android tablet which is mostly an Angry Birds or Candy Crush machine.
No.
It's microsoft. It's not Android. And it's definitely not Apple.
It's a shame. It's a nice tablet. Too bad its destiny is decided by "geeky" douchebag-hipsters. Just like the Zune, which, regardless of how much the Zune store sucked, it was shot by iFans mostly because it was brown.
He started his comment by calling himself better than bricklayers and plumbers. You can almost guess what the rest of his comment would be after that. And most answers to him were back-patting me-too comments. You can see how "coders" see themselves. But they, sadly, can't see that.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we don't get any kind of respect in management. Because that's what they see in us: The computerized equivalent of plumbers and bricklayers.
no. THIS is why you don't get any respect from management. Because you're a pretentious douche who thinks you're better than anyone else. You think you have a god-given gift, and that the company works solely because of your "coding skills". You think you're better and more important to the company that Betty at accounting. That stupid bimbo that keeps breaking her printer (except betty is a CPA and she went to college and has a degree. She doesn't know how to fix her printer but she's much smarter than you when it comes to taxes, and she can do it a million times faster than you. And better. And she pays less taxes than you, because she's better than you at that). You also think you're better than your retard boss, that idiot, who the fuck does he think he is? He's a "boss" just because he's got an MBA, pfft... joke degrees (except your boss worked his ass of from nothing and now he owns a company. Because he knows a thing or two. And also, he drives a BMW and you drive a used toyota. Gee, if you're so much better than him, how come you don't have your own company?) And yes, you of course think you're better than a simple bricklayer (except you are a little wuss that wouldn't stand 1 hour of brick laying work. And you'd do it completely wrong). And plumbers? Pfft... you can google how to fix that leaky faucet. How hard can that be? I mean an idiot plumber with his asscrack showing can do it, why can't you? You're a million times smarter than him (except he can design and install all of a house's water system, with no problems, no leaks, and do it in a day, while you will still be googling what kind of pipe is better).
You are not special. You're a part of a company just like that stupid bimbo, just like the idiot boss, and just like the dumb janitor. Except: CPAs, Bosses and janitors have been in companies forever. And companies have worked without computers for centuries.
You know how you get respect from management? By doing your work right. By questioning them, and by not being a smug asshole when you do that. When asking for requirements, work with them, ask exactly what they need. Lead them to where you think their solution should be and see. Then make a small project, talk it over with management again, and only after they've approved that, code it. Ah yes... all of that is boring! It's stupid! You want to code! Release early, release often! WELL NO. Management doesn't appreciate half-baked solutions. They expect things to be working. They don't want a mockup or half the implementation. They want it to work when you present it to them. They are not technical. They don't want to be technical. They couldn't care less about how it works inside. They want it to WORK.
When you get all of that over your head, you'll understand a lot of things. The most important being: you're not as special as you think you are.
(You means "the reader". Not OP. But yeah, also OP in particular)
Also, I forgot, many of these books are published by small editors. In Argentina you have a ton of libraries in Corrientes street in Buenos Aires. Some are big chain stores, others are small independent. The independent ones are highly specialized. Some sell only used books, others only sell legal books. Some sell books in english, others sell only books about poetry, arts, comic books. There are even huge collections of vintage porn magazines. And if Buenos Aires has a lot of libraries, I don't want to imagine what it would be like in Paris, London or any other european capital.
Believe me, there is an impressive, just impressive collection of things out there that only exist in physical form because there's no manpower to catalog them. Let alone re-edit in digital form.
I forgot to say: Amazon's non-english catalog is a joke. Online shops in Argentina are huge compared to what Amazon has to offer. And that's another problem: amazon will only operate where it's profitable. Nothing keeps them from destroying a market somewhere, only to find it just doesn't work, and pack their things and leave.
Amazon doesn't sell used books. They have a marketplace of independent sellers who do that. For a minimum profit. They also bought the largest used books marketplace, Abebooks.
My last sentence is real and you're just blind if you don't believe it. Just look at all the muslim countries. Alcohol is prohibited. Pornography is prohibited. And they can easily ban anything they want. Stupid theocracies run by fanatics. I'd like it to be just a lie, or just a bad apple among the muslim countries. But it's not the case, all muslim countries have degenerated into the middle-aged shit you see today.
It's one thing to be preserved in a peer-to-peer, or non-profit archive.
It's a completely different thing to be preserved in a centralized server, owned by a company that might as well go bankrupt tomorrow, and won't bother releasing all those books anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Was, it's called SI now (Secretaria de Inteligencia, they dropped DE which meant Del Estado).
SI doesn't have the resources to spy on *all* americans, and doesn't even have te ability to (since the "internet pipes" go across the US, not through south america). So there is no way we can spy on you.
Budget for ALL intelligence services (Army, SIDE and Gendarmeria) in Argentina is 1.3B pesos (source), or roughly 200 million dollars.
So no. We definitely DO NOT spy on all american citizens like you do on us.
I am from Argentina. My government is NOT spying in all your citizens.
Fuck you, yankee.
While Italy and Ireland share a currency, they don't share the "same" currency. That is: Italian euros are Italy's, and Ireland euros are Ireland's. Italy and Ireland have 2 accounts in the European central bank, and when they trade goods or services, money is sent from one account to another. Effectively, this works as if every Eurozone member has their own central bank BUT all banks have the same policy. This is why Greece is broke and Germany is fine, even though both share the same currency.
The difference is that Argentina is broke, and the politicians are corrupt and inept. Argentina's intervention in the currency market is a stupid stopgap measure, which started in 2011, to try to stop foreign currency bleeding (instead of, you know, making policies to allow foreign currency to come in).
Also, it really doesn't quite work the way you describe it. Central banks are permanently fiddling with the market, selling reserves (or "printing" more money -not literally) when the currency is overvalued, or buying when the euro is undervalued. The trade of cash between 2 individuals is irrelevant in the macroeconomic scale. But when you up the game, to country- or Eurozone-wide levels, it's a bit different. If you're an European using your Visa to buy from USA, Visa needs to pay to the US with USD. The european central bank HAS to sell Visa as many USD as Visa needs, to cover their operation. When the operation is performed between two eurozone members, the european central bank simply transfer funds between country accounts.
Agreed, as another example:
Google Argentina S.R.L. is an actual company. You can see their data here:
http://www.cuitonline.com/detalle/33709585229/google-argentina-s.r.l.html
Their credit status:
GOOGLE ARGENTINA S.R.L. CITIBANK N.A. 10/13 1 1733,6 N/A -
(means Google took a loan from Citi for ARS 1.73M or USD 300,000)
AFIP (federal tax agency) reports Google Argentina SRL has a few tens of employees.
So. Why should they NOT pay taxes in Argentina, if they are a registered company, with employees, who enjoy the benefits of being a company here (for example, they can take a loan). And they make their profits here and send them abroad completely untaxed.
I hate paying taxes as much as anyone else. But what google does is not fair game. It doesn't allow companies to develop within the country: I'm pretty sure the first ting Larry and Sergei did wasn't exactly to register their company in the Cayman Islands. That was later, when millions already poured in, and creative accountants took over. They are simply exploiting a loophole.
Lots of comments come here from americans, who are very loud about anti taxing, and yes, I fully agree that paying taxes sucks, but you have to understand this: the US prints the world's money. Italy doesn't. All international transactions are made in USD. Italy (and any other non-US country) loses money from their reserves to pay google. Google takes this money offshore. They do the same in the US, but it doesn't matter, as the US simply keeps printing more and more money to compensate (why do you think the USD is so devaluated?). Another thing to notice is that in most of the world, "technicalities", the really nitpicky details you see in police procedural dramas, don't apply. In most of the world, a cop doesn't have to read your rights. And laws are thorough and redundant, leaving little room for argument. And no, lawyers don't have a sexy job of sweet talking a judge. It seems most of you understand that judges rule according to how nicely a lawyer puts his arguments. That's complete bullshit, at least outside the US. A judge won't accept crap like "the suspect crossed the state line as he was firing so technically he fired from another state and his trial is null here".
Making really stupid observations such as "the physical servers aren't in Italy" is incredibly shortsighted. Google is providing a service, and making money. They should pay taxes *LIKE EVERYONE ELSE*. By no means i say google should pay more, or less. I'm simply saying they should. Along with amazon, and any other company that makes not millions, but billions a year and pays ridiculous sums. They get to subvert the system, make a country lose millions every year in both reserves and lost tax money, unemployment from local companies that go broke because of the unfair competition,etc.
This is just the beginning. Most countries will start applying restrictions like this to international companies once the volume becomes big enough. It's not a problem if a few thousand people across the country make purchases. But it is when millions do every day.
Hey, I'm only 30!
Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww dirty old man!
Oops... meant "a coder". I was going to put "an app developer" but changed my mind at the last minute...and forgot to fix the "an".
Silly programmer, you're not an "coder"! You don't know what's cool and what's not. Look at that UID. You must be like, 35! Yuck, old people!
Well, not "producing more gridlock", but I mean, the people live there because of the perks of free transportation. I'm pretty sure most people there 1. don't make nearly as much as the google nerds, and 2. have to pay for their own means of transport. If they did, I'm sure they'd look for closer places to live (you now, nothing's more annoying to a techie than down time. and a 2-hour drive would kill them).
What I don't really get is why Google doesn't just build dorms and offer their employees to live there for free (or very cheap). They go out of their way to find the elitest of the elite nerds, who sometimes are really sheltered (almost autistic i'd say). Young programmers, fresh out of college, incredibly smart and with null social skills. Busing them like high school kids only reinforces this behavior. So, just offer them to live in-campus, with 10gbit ethernet to their dorm computers.
I mean, google practically does this: they have in-campus gourmet restaurants, free buses, a cool-hip young crowd, everything in a happy, clean (sterile) place in the beautiful sunny California, with the perfect weather year-round, with lots of beautiful young people from all over the world (did you see that new girl from India? She's a hottie!). Who wouldn't want to live there!
Except, of course, reality will hit these kids in the face like a bucket of cold water the moment they turn 35 and figure out they can no longer pull 16-hour marathons of coding every day. And will be fired soon after that, when their productivity falls, and they contribute to the aging of the employees (who would want to work in a place with an average age of 30? yuck! old people!). I wonder what they will do after that?
Will their believe their own bullshit motto of "retrain and move", "menial jobs should be automated", "if you're dumb and can only work with your muscles and not with your brain then fuck you"?
inb4 sheldon cooper
You are so cute. In my country we have a saying: "Pueblo chico, infierno grande". "Small town, big hell". It means that, in a small town, everything bad you do, everyone will know about it, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Don't be such a fool. When you're in disgrace, your neighbors won't help you. Your friends won't be there for you. There's just you and, if you're lucky, your immediate family. But don't even think for a minute that if you go bankrupt, your neighbor will let you "crash in their couch". Hell, they will not even let their children play with yours. You will be shunned, you'll be a disgrace to be around. And that guy, who used to invite you to a barbecue on a weekend, will quietly ask you to leave his property or he will call the police.
I have an HTC Sensation. It's not a bad phone.
How would I listen then? Most smartphones sound so bad you often hear people on the street with the phone in speaker mode with the speaker against their ear.
That's a retard argument, coming from retard AC.
The phone is good. I can do nothing about poor signal. Thus, I stick with DECT.
Nice troll. But I live in an insecure city, and my room is separated of the rest of the house. And I have to unlock the door, go out, lock again, walk down the stairs (bonus if it's raining), go to the main house, unlock the main house's door, go in, lock again... etc.
Am I paranoid? No. One saturday night at about 11PM I heard a noise, look out the window and there's a guy inside the property. He sees me and runs away.
So yeah. There's a number of reasons why we prefer calling.
Because cell phones suck.
Because cell phone plans suck.
Because I have 4 "cordless" DECT phones at home and I can dial INT 2 and connect to another room *immediately* instead of:
* Unlock the phone
* Go to the phone app
* go to the directory app
* Search for the right contact
* click the contact
* wait 5-10 seconds for the call to connect
Also, my home DECT phones:
* have HOURS of talk time
* don't get hot when i talk for more than 2 minutes
* don't hurt my ear because it's designed to fit my ear, rather than to just look cool
* have big buttons and a big display
* sound really good and provide me with comfort noise and aural feedback
* can survive more than a few drops
* allow me to speak at a normal level since the microphone is right at my mouth level
There are a lot of reasons. I hate the geeky "works for me" approach Slashdotters have. Not everyone is a cool geek who doesn't even own a TV. I'm "only" 30 and I enjoy flipping through the channels. I don't have the time or will to "sit down and watch netflix", but i do enjoy the ability to turn the TV on and have a news channel on, or some old episode of Bones, in HD without sacrificing my internet bandwidth for it.
"Full class C"? Allocated by InterNIC, right? :P
It's been 20 years since "IP classes" have been replaced with CIDR.
What ISP allocates a full /24 anyways?
Honest question: Who, other than an ISP or hosting/VPS provider, *needs* a /24 nowadays?
Pretty much the same as Gibraltar, no? The dutch gave it to England... except it wasn't theirs to give.
Corrupt leadership. FTFY.
That's not true. Before the war, the islanders would come to Argentina and buy groceries and supplies here. They had a good relation with us. After the war, everything changed. The islanders are proud to be british. And if you think the UK, which has both economical (oil) and strategical (military bases) in the Malvinas would even think of letting the islanders have any real control over the islands, you're a fool. The fact that the islanders continue agreeing to being under UK control is because they're clever enough not to fall into the independentist revolutionarism mindset that Latin America has. The difference being that Spain never saw America as a territory to populate and extend. Spain was just a leech, sucking up all resources America had. Tremendous amounts of gold and silver were taken. Hundreds of thousands massacred. Spain never meant to negotiate or give people living there anything at all. They saw all the people living there as either slaves or tools to the empire. And that's why Latin America in general insists with the independentism. Because we've been looted by Spain.
UK had a subtler approach. The main expression of this being Australia, a territory that was populated by the british and thrives now. The UK didn't go committing genocide against all natives and just taking everything they could, and load into ships to take to the queen. They had a naughty child, yes, one that dared to go in a war with them, and win it. But that child is now their biggest partner (as a side note: Spain is the largest investor in Argentina).
At the time of independentist revolution in Latin America, the UK was under a different kind of revolution. The industrial one. The UK needed to export their production, and Latin America, the new, unpopulated territory, with no infrastructure, was an excellent candidate. So the UK supported the independence in Latin America, and built a LOT of infrastructure. If you pay attention, in the old parts of Buenos Aires, you can see "MADE IN ENGLAND" written in a lot of things. From the beautiful bronze door of what's now ICBC bank, to the subways of BA. Of course, the UK was clever enough to prevent Latin Americans from establishing their own trade routes, by building railroads that couldn't connect between countries (they made Argentina and Brazil different gauges).
I don't think any of you NATO members have a moral authority to call anyone else a "bully".
Also, you're obviously not even remotely an expert in international relationships. Let's make it easier for you: if Argentina "sits down to negotiate", that act itself would be considered defeat, and it would mean Argentina doubts its sovereignity over the islands. As a sovereign country, with a claim over a territory, Argentina can't and won't ever "negotiate" anything. As an example, look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputed_status_of_Gibraltar#British_position
I have a Nexus 7. Well, my dad does. Anyway, the nexus 7 is some "top of the line" tablet. With great spects, well built, etc.
It SUCKS for web browsing. Seriously. Why is android SO DAMN SLOW at browsing? Sure, my desktop is a Core i5 and firefox is really fast in it. But in both my phone (HTC Sensation) and the tablet, browsing is stupidly slow. And I tried Chrome, Firefox, Android Browser, Dolphin, Opera... I'm using to click-page opens. Android drives me crazy, taking 10-20 seconds to open a website (and this is over Wi-Fi, the same WiFI i use with an old Core 2 Duo laptop, which is still faster than the Nexus)
And now I'm reading about a tablet with a Core i5 larger than my desktop's, with 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD, running full Windows 8.1? That's got to be at least as fast as my desktop.
Bonus: I'm not tied to Android either.
Ah, Surface. The tablet that "could", but won't.
Not because it can't. No, because the Web 2.0 won't let it. It doesn't matter if it's good. It doesn't matter if its x86 and is able to run your programs. It doesn't matter if it has gobs of RAM and a ton of disk space, and it can do real multitasking. Oh yes, and it's faster than your silly android tablet which is mostly an Angry Birds or Candy Crush machine.
No.
It's microsoft. It's not Android. And it's definitely not Apple.
It's a shame. It's a nice tablet. Too bad its destiny is decided by "geeky" douchebag-hipsters. Just like the Zune, which, regardless of how much the Zune store sucked, it was shot by iFans mostly because it was brown.
You can also find "coders" by the dozen...
He started his comment by calling himself better than bricklayers and plumbers. You can almost guess what the rest of his comment would be after that. And most answers to him were back-patting me-too comments. You can see how "coders" see themselves. But they, sadly, can't see that.
no. THIS is why you don't get any respect from management. Because you're a pretentious douche who thinks you're better than anyone else. You think you have a god-given gift, and that the company works solely because of your "coding skills". You think you're better and more important to the company that Betty at accounting. That stupid bimbo that keeps breaking her printer (except betty is a CPA and she went to college and has a degree. She doesn't know how to fix her printer but she's much smarter than you when it comes to taxes, and she can do it a million times faster than you. And better. And she pays less taxes than you, because she's better than you at that). You also think you're better than your retard boss, that idiot, who the fuck does he think he is? He's a "boss" just because he's got an MBA, pfft... joke degrees (except your boss worked his ass of from nothing and now he owns a company. Because he knows a thing or two. And also, he drives a BMW and you drive a used toyota. Gee, if you're so much better than him, how come you don't have your own company?)
And yes, you of course think you're better than a simple bricklayer (except you are a little wuss that wouldn't stand 1 hour of brick laying work. And you'd do it completely wrong). And plumbers? Pfft... you can google how to fix that leaky faucet. How hard can that be? I mean an idiot plumber with his asscrack showing can do it, why can't you? You're a million times smarter than him (except he can design and install all of a house's water system, with no problems, no leaks, and do it in a day, while you will still be googling what kind of pipe is better).
You are not special. You're a part of a company just like that stupid bimbo, just like the idiot boss, and just like the dumb janitor. Except: CPAs, Bosses and janitors have been in companies forever. And companies have worked without computers for centuries.
You know how you get respect from management? By doing your work right. By questioning them, and by not being a smug asshole when you do that. When asking for requirements, work with them, ask exactly what they need. Lead them to where you think their solution should be and see. Then make a small project, talk it over with management again, and only after they've approved that, code it. Ah yes... all of that is boring! It's stupid! You want to code! Release early, release often! WELL NO. Management doesn't appreciate half-baked solutions. They expect things to be working. They don't want a mockup or half the implementation. They want it to work when you present it to them. They are not technical. They don't want to be technical. They couldn't care less about how it works inside. They want it to WORK.
When you get all of that over your head, you'll understand a lot of things. The most important being: you're not as special as you think you are.
(You means "the reader". Not OP. But yeah, also OP in particular)
Also, I forgot, many of these books are published by small editors. In Argentina you have a ton of libraries in Corrientes street in Buenos Aires. Some are big chain stores, others are small independent. The independent ones are highly specialized. Some sell only used books, others only sell legal books. Some sell books in english, others sell only books about poetry, arts, comic books. There are even huge collections of vintage porn magazines. And if Buenos Aires has a lot of libraries, I don't want to imagine what it would be like in Paris, London or any other european capital.
Believe me, there is an impressive, just impressive collection of things out there that only exist in physical form because there's no manpower to catalog them. Let alone re-edit in digital form.
I forgot to say: Amazon's non-english catalog is a joke. Online shops in Argentina are huge compared to what Amazon has to offer. And that's another problem: amazon will only operate where it's profitable. Nothing keeps them from destroying a market somewhere, only to find it just doesn't work, and pack their things and leave.
Amazon doesn't sell used books. They have a marketplace of independent sellers who do that. For a minimum profit. They also bought the largest used books marketplace, Abebooks.
My last sentence is real and you're just blind if you don't believe it. Just look at all the muslim countries. Alcohol is prohibited. Pornography is prohibited. And they can easily ban anything they want. Stupid theocracies run by fanatics. I'd like it to be just a lie, or just a bad apple among the muslim countries. But it's not the case, all muslim countries have degenerated into the middle-aged shit you see today.
It's one thing to be preserved in a peer-to-peer, or non-profit archive.
It's a completely different thing to be preserved in a centralized server, owned by a company that might as well go bankrupt tomorrow, and won't bother releasing all those books anyway.
Sure. "Racism". Because muslim countries are truly "free" and literature of all kinds is readily available for both men and women alike.
Malala Yousafzai is a liar.