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Comment Re:How much?!?! (Score 4, Informative) 416

110 MW per train sounds like too much. The typical power output for a locomotive seems to be roughly 5000 HP (http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2008/05/23/ges-4500-hp-locomotive/). Even if we double that number, since it a high speed train, 10 000 HP = 7 456 998 watts. It is only 7.5 MW. You could power more than 10 of these suckers with 110MW

GNU is Not Unix

Free Software Law in Argentina 245

TrixX writes: "The following article is about a law that's being discussed at the Congress of Argentina." I've attached the summary of the law -- it'd essentially make it a law to migrate to free software. Pretty interesting proposal.

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