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  1. Re:So what? on Argentine Government Orders Major ISP To Close · · Score: 1

    You need a license to drive, a license to own a restaurant, and a license to do pretty much anything else in most any civilized country. Don't pretend now that requiring a license to provide internet is an unsurmountable requirement. Cablevision shot itself in the foot. It was cheap to keep Fibertel open, but they couldn't to that, because they are way too cheap. And I've been an employee on the other ISP of the group, so I know how really really cheap and clueless they are. On top of that, add the packet shaping, throttling, and spying your traffic (for legal reasons, mostly)

  2. Re:OK With Me on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 1

    Yes, they confiscated US property obtained by bribing the former Cuban dictators. And US had missile bases all around Russia during the cold war, why would you expect different? And, I'm from America, but not the US. ;)

  3. Re:"U.S. Enemies"? on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 1

    The Cubans living in Florida are very often the same families that benefitted from the US stronghold in Cuba. Again, the reasons are economical, not political.

  4. Re:OK With Me on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 1

    Hint: that one country had put the previous dictators in place, or you thought Cuba was a democracy before Castro?

  5. Re:OK With Me on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Free world. I guess that's why the US keeps the torture prisons outside of that fairy-tale free world of yours (Cuba, Irak, and outsourcing all over the world) And you trade with dictators every time it is good for your economy. China, and the rest of Latinamerica durind the cold war comes to mind. Your ideology is never as good as the health of your economy. Cuba, you are only angry at them because they closed your casinos and whorehouses.

  6. Re:Skypes Own Comment on More Skype Back Door Speculation · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a fragment of Orwell's 1984. http://www.orwelltoday.com/how.shtml

  7. Re:Unlimited Supply on eBay The Vote · · Score: 1

    Actually, the transport is free on election day, and for some provinces, if you live in another city, you can get a free bus-ride. I live in Buenos Aires, and I could get a free bus-ride back home (1600km), for that weekend to vote. But even so, this practice is pretty much extended all over the country. The caudillos in each province, and the political parties at a national level all do the same thing with poor people.

  8. Re:No compiler needed on Windows Genuine Advantage Servers Out · · Score: 1

    You really have no idea what you are talking about. Are you comparing make to installing Eclipse or VC++? Yep, you better stay away from compilers, for your own good.

  9. Re:Ubuntu drive partition on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to do the same thing in Windows? It doesnt look like it, because the windows installer screen, when it comes to partitioning, is far far behind Ubuntu or Debian, for the case. You can do things with it that you couldnt ever do in Windows. It just proves the GP point that OS-preinstalled PCs are the way to go to extend linux userbase (not sure if I would like that, but thats besides the point) Anyway, if you go to Ubuntu forums, someone will help you quickly. We have the same questions day in and day out, and we have several HowTos on how to do it, and we help ppl with the special quirks that show up along the way in certain cases. I would point them to you, but they are in Spanish.

  10. Re: Better Translation - World Lingo on OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay · · Score: 1

    In that school they have a great education, but only the foreign kids really learn something. And the sports program is decent, but they play sports that no other schools play. j/k BTW, if it were named America, it wouldnt refer to the USA, since Uruguay is in America too, but you must already know that.

  11. MOD PARENT FUNNY NOT INSIGHTFUL!! on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 1

    Whoever modded the parent as insightful has no sense of humour and certainly no fucking idea of the ways you can get AIDS. Ive had surgeries way long before having sex. Any of those times I could have got HIV no matter if I had had sex or not.

  12. Re:Price issues on Running Your Electric Meter Backwards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish I had mod points!! +1 Ironic LOL!!!!

  13. Re:Exaggeration on Report Says Patents Prevent New Drugs · · Score: 1

    "Hmmmm.... It would be a pity if something happened to that nice body"

  14. Re:Get ready, mate. on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    We also used to say "Johnnies", to describe the more Texan kind of guys.

  15. Re:There will be multiple "wars". on The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won · · Score: 1

    Yep, only when you have to read a 10-page sheet and click 10 times the next button will Linux be ready for the customer. Get up to date. With adept you only type the name of the program and you click apply changes. No lousy next buttons.

  16. Re:So When... on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1
    As soon as we, Canadian, finish perfecting and training our mighty armored seals and polar bear army.
    But... do they have lasers?
  17. Re:When I was a kid on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    That was the option for some, but under the "Plan Condor", many people were killed overseas. But you are right, a whole generation had to go the exile, coz they werent "humane and righteous", whatever that is.

  18. Re:Pardon me, but this is non-sense on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    And you think the amount of drug required to supply the American public is being carried over there by foot? As usual, this fence is only for poor people, who can only walk into the US, not for those with planes, boats, and all those other means acquired with the money of junkie US citizens *pun intended*

  19. Re:When I was a kid on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    One day Americans will be getting on rafts to cross to "free" Cuba and walking Texas desert to cross to Mexico. But then it will be too late, right? As a South American, I only wish you really dont get a taste of what your CIA and army can do when looking for "terrorists" and insurgents. We got that here (local ppl trained by your agencies) and a lot of atrocities were committed during that time.

  20. Re:wait, what? on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Given the recent development of events, I think you are looking at the fence from the wrong side. Its not to prevent people from walking, but to prevent American from leaving. The model you are looking for is the Berlin wall, not the Maginot Line. Both of them were useless, BTW. Not so long in the future, someone will stand in front of the wall and say: soy americano.* ;) * I'm American (remember those times of Ich bin ein Berliner?)

  21. Re:How quaint. on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 1

    Stop using the word "freedom", please. I dont think it means what you think it means. :p

  22. Re:Hm sounds like deja vu on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 1

    Im sure you are working on a desk next to mine. :)

  23. Re:No excuses on Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer · · Score: 1

    EULAs are not valid contracts. Not in most countries at least.

  24. Re:Indian proofreading? on Mistakes Found in 98% of US Patents · · Score: 1

    Actually, India is an English speaking country. English is one of the official languages there.

  25. Not a way suitable for everyone on Trauma Pill Might Help Ease Emotional Pain · · Score: 1

    Nice. But as you already know, Buddhism is not a road for everyone to take. Just one of the possible roads. I'm a Zen Buddhist, and though I'm very comfortable with it, I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. There is a road for every person and it might not be the same as ours. Just my 2 cents.