Boy, that Chavez really must hate democracy. Imagine getting elected by 70 percent of the population in a ballot declared 'Free And Fair' by international observers, the nerve of that guy!
In fact, Chavez loves democracy, because when it doesn't work for him he can just twist it to his wishes.
In Venezuela you can't get a job in any of the state controlled companies if you have voted against Chavez. This is a serious problem in a country where the state controls the oil industry, electric companies, banks, telecommunications and most of the media, and where all the powers are subjugated to one man's desires. After such a precedent, how can anybody expect the people to participate freely in any elections against Chavez?
Now he's promoting Free And Fair elections in other countries too? Well, we just can't have that!
I take it you approve of the military coup in Honduras then, with its sham elections conducted in complete violation of the country's constitution? Maybe we should just let the Pentagon decide who gets to be president of the Latin American countries again, like in Reagan's reign of error. Those people can't be trusted to elect someone who supports the interests of the multi-national mega-corps over their own citizenry like the Americans do.
I never even mentioned Honduras, in fact, I don't approve the coup, so try to keep your current job, cause mind reading is not your thing.
I don't think the US should do anything outside their borders. We are fine as we are right now.
I assume you are not from Cuba or Venezuela, because they really are not fine right now. I'm sure if there was any way to conduct a clean poll, completely secret and without any fears of repercussion, the majority in these countries would favor a government change. Maybe not in the case of Cuba, because they have been brainwashed for so many years now. Sadly, this will also be the case in Venezuela if nobody does anything in the next few years.
Saying that Chavez can influence Argentina is an insult to Argentina as a regional power.
About Honduras... I don't know what you think about Honduras, but Chavez is very much in line about that issue with Brazil and the rest of Mercosur.
What I think about Honduras is that the supreme court of Honduras wanted to spare the country the dark reality that the people of Cuba and Venezuela are living right now. I'm not justifying their actions, I don't think the end justifies the means, but at least they did it for the right reasons.
I wonder when is the US going to do anything serious about the democracy deterioration in latin america. The list of countries where democracy is falling apart is growing year by year. First it was only Cuba, but then Venezuela's Chavez joined the club. Chavez is so determined in exporting his ideology that he has successfully used the country's wealth to build alliances and undermine democracy in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and in less measure Argentina, and now he is trying really hard in Honduras, Peru and Colombia.
1. As everybody suggested, KeePass is a good option. 2. text or html file encrypted with gnupg (use symmetric key encryption, and then remember a passphrase/password). This is what I use. 3. firefox has a built in password manager, so you only have to remember one password 4. KDE 3 has kwallet, a password manager that integrates to KDE applications. I don't know if KDE 4 has it, as I'm trying to stay away from that. 5. There are several applications for PDAs/mobiles for password management. Have a backup somewhere else in case you drop your cellphone in the toilet.
I don't know why, but one of the biggest obsessions in the US culture is underage porn / underage sex. And I call it underage porn, and not child porn, because most of the time the subject of the pictures are not children, but teenagers (15 - 17 years old) who know what they are doing.
Even when a 15 year old girl takes a nude picture of herself, or her boyfriend takes a pic of her, it is considered a crime in the US, I find that kind of strange.
Some other obsessions I've found so far in this species is: - political correctness - the "N" word (won't even dare to write it here) - immigration - coffee
The first thing that comes to my mind when I remember my trip to the UK is not the Buckingham Palace, the British Museum or the red buses. Its those freaking huge plugs together with their freaking huge power racks. Really, what where they thinking?
I've never had any problems with the US style plugs, after seeing the european, british and japanese plugs (which are like the US but with a small aberration), I don't know why people complain so much.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am getting damn sick and tired of devices that NEED firmware. Why does every little peripheral need to contain LOGIC!!! I want DUMB machines, damn it! Why can't an SSD simply be a "mass storage device"?? Let the OS worry about wear leveling, etc.
A firmware upgrade makes it possible to make improvements or fix any bug discovered after a product was shipped. It saves money to manufacturers (reducing RMA numbers), and time, and possibly downtime for clients.
I own a 32GB SLC Samsung SSD that as far as I know doesn't support firmware updating. That is terrible for me because I'm stuck with an expensive SSD that will never have TRIM support. If I had bought a different brand I could just get the firmware when they implement TRIM and I be happy.
I really don't know if TRIM is relevant with SLC drives, as everybody is talking about TRIM on MLC drives, anybody has the answer to this?
I'm wondering what will happen when they catch a terrorist smuggling some kind of explosive in his rectum. After all, they are on a suicide mission, so this is 100% possible.
Do you know what happens to people when they have political dissent in the USA? Ask General Lee and the "South". How about the people in Waco Texas? How about the students at Kent State University? Like I said in previous posts, there are plenty of examples.
What about the students at the Kent State University? Is this something that happened in my lifetime, or some 40 years ago? The difference is that if you want to find examples of censorship in China you can just read yesterday's news or ask a friend, no need to bring back historical references.
As for the claim of Chavez thugs shooting at peaceful protesters, there are other camera angles showing 3 guys trying to suppress fire from automatic rifles with handguns while women and children (Chavez's thugs remember) scurry for safety because the anti Chavez crowd thinks it's their right to shoot poor people.
I've seen the videos of the Chavez thugs shooters a thousand times. The cameraman that shot it even got a Prince of Asturias award. Even with all this evidence, these shooters are currently free. Venezuela's judicial system is a complete joke.
On the other hand, 11 people for which there is no proof of guilt were imprisoned without conviction, and are rotting in prison ever since. I'm talking about Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, Lazaro Forero, etc.
Buying support is an interesting way of saying he stops his population starving and gives them access to healthcare. It's almost as if his support comes from him doing things the majority want him to do, instead of sloganeering.
Really? Thats funny, I wonder if you've ever been to Venezuela, as healthcare is a joke, and we frequently have shortages of coffee, sugar, etc due to moronic goverment policies.
I remember in particular when we were 6 months without any milk, I had frequent business trips to Colombia and my luggage was full of milk all the time.
The other day my friend was showing off his iphone with some silly 3D games. Later when we tried to send mp3 files through bluetooth, his iphone couldn't do it, but I've done it many times with other phones. Either their bluetooth implementation is incomplete, or it is intentionally crippled.
If it had full working bluetooth, microSD slot, exchangeable batteries, and a better application distribution policy, I would think about buying one.
As the unhappy owner of a sony vaio VGN-FZ240, I was also a victim of sony's stupidity.
Not only I couldn't use the VT extension on my CPU; they also decided not to release hd controller drivers for Windows XP, which made it impossible to install XP instead of Vista.
I contacted their support staff for both issues, and of course, there was no solution from them.
After being in Japan for a few months, I don't think they eat a lot of fruits, they are incredibly expensive here, but high quality.
They also eat a lot of pork, pork is everywhere, and they never eat turkey, its impossible to find it in any supermarket.
Surprisingly, even with all this pork, most people are slim. I think because of the peer pressure, and also because people here ride bicycles and walk much more than in other countries.
Personally, I don't trust the carter center, and don't respect Jimmy Carter either.
Most people here believe that the elections were rigged, but there is nothing they can do about it.
The 2004 elections were a recall referendum after collecting millions of signatures (as the law requires) twice. The first collection was deemed invalid by the CNE (national electoral institution) controlled by Chavez people. This single decision gave him yet one more year in power.
The CNE's president of that time was rewarded by being appointed vice-president.
See, that's how it works here, if you help Chavez, you get a reward (for a period of time, nobody can become more powerful than Chavez himself). If you are against Chavez, you'll be imprisoned or be shot at.
There is the deliberate jamming of Venezuelan radio channels, the arrival of not one but two US vessels into Venezuelan territorial waters and complete diplomatic silence - in fact, I believe the State department may have issued a statement before it was known that Chavez survived the assassination attempt.
Do you have any sources for this information?
For all I know, you could be Chavez himself, except for the fact that you didn't make any orthographic errors, as is usual in Chavez.
Not that I deplore the actions you described, I really hope that the US was indeed behind the coup, that means that they could try to do it again, and maybe this time get rid of Chavez for good. At this point, there is really nothing venezuelans can do about it, we are as helpless as the cubans.
I agree completely, I can't stand my Japanese cellphone!
Sure, they have cute emoticons, hdtv, and whetever you can think of, but the UI is completely unbearable!
And I think SMS are artificially limited to less characters than the standard (don't remember the number). Maybe this limit is so that you use emails instead, which would be more expensive? Not sure.
I'm already looking into buying a Nokia E71-1 next time I go to Europe.
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Boy, that Chavez really must hate democracy. Imagine getting elected by 70 percent of the population in a ballot declared 'Free And Fair' by international observers, the nerve of that guy!
In fact, Chavez loves democracy, because when it doesn't work for him he can just twist it to his wishes.
See, at the beginning he was so popular that it was easy to win elections cleanly. But now that he lost support he rigs elections, politically persecutes his opponents, or simply disregards its outcome.
In Venezuela you can't get a job in any of the state controlled companies if you have voted against Chavez.
This is a serious problem in a country where the state controls the oil industry, electric companies, banks, telecommunications and most of the media, and where all the powers are subjugated to one man's desires. After such a precedent, how can anybody expect the people to participate freely in any elections against Chavez?
Now he's promoting Free And Fair elections in other countries too? Well, we just can't have that!
I don't think that sneaking suitcases with millions of dolars of Venezuelan money to his favorite candidates in Latin America counts as promoting Free And Fair elections.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654511,00.html
http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/11/26/en_pol_art_venezuelan-businessm_26A3120691.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maletinazo
I take it you approve of the military coup in Honduras then, with its sham elections conducted in complete violation of the country's constitution? Maybe we should just let the Pentagon decide who gets to be president of the Latin American countries again, like in Reagan's reign of error. Those people can't be trusted to elect someone who supports the interests of the multi-national mega-corps over their own citizenry like the Americans do.
I never even mentioned Honduras, in fact, I don't approve the coup, so try to keep your current job, cause mind reading is not your thing.
I don't think the US should do anything outside their borders. We are fine as we are right now.
I assume you are not from Cuba or Venezuela, because they really are not fine right now.
I'm sure if there was any way to conduct a clean poll, completely secret and without any fears of repercussion, the majority in these countries would favor a government change.
Maybe not in the case of Cuba, because they have been brainwashed for so many years now. Sadly, this will also be the case in Venezuela if nobody does anything in the next few years.
Saying that Chavez can influence Argentina is an insult to Argentina as a regional power.
Chavez financed Argentina's president campaign using Venezuela's state owned oil company money:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654511,00.html
http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/11/26/en_pol_art_venezuelan-businessm_26A3120691.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maletinazo
About Honduras... I don't know what you think about Honduras, but Chavez is very much in line about that issue with Brazil and the rest of Mercosur.
What I think about Honduras is that the supreme court of Honduras wanted to spare the country the dark reality that the people of Cuba and Venezuela are living right now. I'm not justifying their actions, I don't think the end justifies the means, but at least they did it for the right reasons.
I wonder when is the US going to do anything serious about the democracy deterioration in latin america.
The list of countries where democracy is falling apart is growing year by year. First it was only Cuba, but then Venezuela's Chavez joined the club. Chavez is so determined in exporting his ideology that he has successfully used the country's wealth to build alliances and undermine democracy in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and in less measure Argentina, and now he is trying really hard in Honduras, Peru and Colombia.
I hope this is a joke.
1. As everybody suggested, KeePass is a good option.
2. text or html file encrypted with gnupg (use symmetric key encryption, and then remember a passphrase/password). This is what I use.
3. firefox has a built in password manager, so you only have to remember one password
4. KDE 3 has kwallet, a password manager that integrates to KDE applications. I don't know if KDE 4 has it, as I'm trying to stay away from that.
5. There are several applications for PDAs/mobiles for password management. Have a backup somewhere else in case you drop your cellphone in the toilet.
I don't know why, but one of the biggest obsessions in the US culture is underage porn / underage sex.
And I call it underage porn, and not child porn, because most of the time the subject of the pictures are not children, but teenagers (15 - 17 years old) who know what they are doing.
Even when a 15 year old girl takes a nude picture of herself, or her boyfriend takes a pic of her, it is considered a crime in the US, I find that kind of strange.
Some other obsessions I've found so far in this species is:
- political correctness
- the "N" word (won't even dare to write it here)
- immigration
- coffee
The first thing that comes to my mind when I remember my trip to the UK is not the Buckingham Palace, the British Museum or the red buses.
Its those freaking huge plugs together with their freaking huge power racks.
Really, what where they thinking?
I've never had any problems with the US style plugs, after seeing the european, british and japanese plugs (which are like the US but with a small aberration), I don't know why people complain so much.
Ahmadinejad? Is that you?
I don't know about anyone else, but I am getting damn sick and tired of devices that NEED firmware. Why does every little peripheral need to contain LOGIC!!! I want DUMB machines, damn it! Why can't an SSD simply be a "mass storage device"?? Let the OS worry about wear leveling, etc.
A firmware upgrade makes it possible to make improvements or fix any bug discovered after a product was shipped.
It saves money to manufacturers (reducing RMA numbers), and time, and possibly downtime for clients.
I own a 32GB SLC Samsung SSD that as far as I know doesn't support firmware updating. That is terrible for me because I'm stuck with an expensive SSD that will never have TRIM support. If I had bought a different brand I could just get the firmware when they implement TRIM and I be happy.
I really don't know if TRIM is relevant with SLC drives, as everybody is talking about TRIM on MLC drives, anybody has the answer to this?
They handed one to Obama for less than that, so why not?
I'm wondering what will happen when they catch a terrorist smuggling some kind of explosive in his rectum.
After all, they are on a suicide mission, so this is 100% possible.
Do you know what happens to people when they have political dissent in the USA? Ask General Lee and the "South". How about the people in Waco Texas? How about the students at Kent State University? Like I said in previous posts, there are plenty of examples.
What about the students at the Kent State University? Is this something that happened in my lifetime, or some 40 years ago?
The difference is that if you want to find examples of censorship in China you can just read yesterday's news or ask a friend, no need to bring back historical references.
I agree completely with you, its just a name thing. What was he smoking when he thought about calling it GNU?
As for the claim of Chavez thugs shooting at peaceful protesters, there are other camera angles showing 3 guys trying to suppress fire from automatic rifles with handguns while women and children (Chavez's thugs remember) scurry for safety because the anti Chavez crowd thinks it's their right to shoot poor people.
I've seen the videos of the Chavez thugs shooters a thousand times. The cameraman that shot it even got a Prince of Asturias award.
Even with all this evidence, these shooters are currently free. Venezuela's judicial system is a complete joke.
On the other hand, 11 people for which there is no proof of guilt were imprisoned without conviction, and are rotting in prison ever since.
I'm talking about Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, Lazaro Forero, etc.
Buying support is an interesting way of saying he stops his population starving and gives them access to healthcare. It's almost as if his support comes from him doing things the majority want him to do, instead of sloganeering.
Really? Thats funny, I wonder if you've ever been to Venezuela, as healthcare is a joke, and we frequently have shortages of coffee, sugar, etc due to moronic goverment policies.
I remember in particular when we were 6 months without any milk, I had frequent business trips to Colombia and my luggage was full of milk all the time.
The other day my friend was showing off his iphone with some silly 3D games.
Later when we tried to send mp3 files through bluetooth, his iphone couldn't do it, but I've done it many times with other phones.
Either their bluetooth implementation is incomplete, or it is intentionally crippled.
If it had full working bluetooth, microSD slot, exchangeable batteries, and a better application distribution policy, I would think about buying one.
Softbank to Softbank SMS works, its even free.
However, there is no SMS between operators, you can send them but they are silently ignored.
Most japanese phones don't even have an SMS menu item anymore.
As the unhappy owner of a sony vaio VGN-FZ240, I was also a victim of sony's stupidity.
Not only I couldn't use the VT extension on my CPU; they also decided not to release hd controller drivers for Windows XP, which made it impossible to install XP instead of Vista.
I contacted their support staff for both issues, and of course, there was no solution from them.
After some yahooing I found how to enable VT:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=189228
If you own a Sony Vaio Z series laptop just follow the instructions in the thread and you will be able to use VT.
I was also able to install XP by creating a custom install CD with the drivers from a similar model.
You mean 1 in 400 chance of viewing the video.
After being in Japan for a few months, I don't think they eat a lot of fruits, they are incredibly expensive here, but high quality.
They also eat a lot of pork, pork is everywhere, and they never eat turkey, its impossible to find it in any supermarket.
Surprisingly, even with all this pork, most people are slim. I think because of the peer pressure, and also because people here ride bicycles and walk much more than in other countries.
Personally, I don't trust the carter center, and don't respect Jimmy Carter either. Most people here believe that the elections were rigged, but there is nothing they can do about it.
The 2004 elections were a recall referendum after collecting millions of signatures (as the law requires) twice. The first collection was deemed invalid by the CNE (national electoral institution) controlled by Chavez people. This single decision gave him yet one more year in power.
The CNE's president of that time was rewarded by being appointed vice-president.
See, that's how it works here, if you help Chavez, you get a reward (for a period of time, nobody can become more powerful than Chavez himself). If you are against Chavez, you'll be imprisoned or be shot at.
Do you have any sources for this information?
For all I know, you could be Chavez himself, except for the fact that you didn't make any orthographic errors, as is usual in Chavez.
Not that I deplore the actions you described, I really hope that the US was indeed behind the coup, that means that they could try to do it again, and maybe this time get rid of Chavez for good. At this point, there is really nothing venezuelans can do about it, we are as helpless as the cubans.
I agree completely, I can't stand my Japanese cellphone!
Sure, they have cute emoticons, hdtv, and whetever you can think of, but the UI is completely unbearable!
And I think SMS are artificially limited to less characters than the standard (don't remember the number). Maybe this limit is so that you use emails instead, which would be more expensive? Not sure.
I'm already looking into buying a Nokia E71-1 next time I go to Europe.