In fact, I started using LyX back in... 1997 or so?

Not only it is used and looks like a WYSIWYG editor, but actually frees your mind from actually caring how it will render on a page of a given size. Just write what you mean (they call it WYSIWYM — M for Mean), and when previewed/printed it will be beautiful. Why? Because it is LaTeX doing it.

Hey! My friend passed the Operating Systems class by disecting XINU, a lesser-know educational Unix-like system. And if he had XINU to learn from, maybe... He took the course on Operating Syscientology instead?

Because, in the late 1940s, it was basically the only industrial power not deeply into reconstructing their torn economy and infrastructure. Not because any other country recognized the moral supremacy of the USA's national definitions, not because the USA grants anybody guarantees to dissent.

The United Nations is juridically akin to the various embassies. It is international territory, not USA territory. It might be phisically located in Manhattan, New York, but is not because New York is (or ever was) the hippest place to talk freely about the evil bad guys.

Where do you want them deported to? What is their country of origin?

(tip: It would seem "In Soviet Russia..." would make use of it, but no, they had their own. Quite different.)

You are right, and you only missed a small but important point: As you said, everything of value (in Slashdot) is text. It may look old fashioned. Right. But it looks the way most of us, the UI-retrograds that make up most of the Slashdot demographics, prefer. I'd be happy to know the amount of /. readers who browse the site with Javascript to the minimum (or outright disabled), with ad blockers, and all that things that make modern website designers go mad.

"Biggest selling point"... Right — Probably that's right for us users. But not necessarily for what generates the revenue for Slashdot.

Slashdot's biggest selling point is the amount of eyeballs that, looking for that conversation, end up looking at their advertisements. And, of course, the site admins/redesigners will do their best to have as many eyeballs per ad as possible.

To see that the kind of discussion (and the depth of it, and the arguments raised, and all that yada-yada) are *so* similar to what I read for GNU's 20th anniversary. Or for the 15th anniversary. New kids learn our beloved traditions and repeat our same flames as if they were chanting ancient mantrams.

Now, get off my lawn!

I am deeply hurt by your baseless argument and demand a full-out war to be fought to solve this dispute.

Between Armenia and Zimbabwe.

Using an, umm, extension to the world-famous FUFME of yesterdecade.

(Oh, are you a newcomer? Well, their site is long gone, but you can start by reading http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/internet-sites/fufme-com/377859/ to see what it was all about)

Indigenous people are not offended by being called Mexican. More often than not, they will recognize themselves at least to be as Mexican as those of us living in urban areas are. Even the most vocal groups claiming for indigenous rights, recognition and differentiation recognize living in Mexico and being Mexicans — But demand a just, fitting government level more aligned to their shared culture than the Country/State/Municipality imposed from "Above"; this different organization level would not even amount to a fourth level, because it does not follow State borders (that were, in many cases explicitly, drawn to divide and weaken identities of the many peoples that form the Mexican nation).

Mountains.

This particular experience is in a small town in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is a very mountainous state, with a great cultural richness stemming precisely from its orography: It is so hard to move around Oaxaca that it went practically unconquered during the 300 years of Spanish rule.

Of course, when you look at the network coverage maps, you will immediately recognize our country is a mess full with mountains and areas where... Lets put it nicely, where people are not in the proper economic situation to enjoy the full benefits of cellular telephony. You can look at the GSM voice and SMS, 3G voice and SMS and 3G internet coverage maps for Telcel, Mexico's leading mobile operator. FWIW, Oaxaca is at the South-East of the map, but a similar argument could be pushed in many other regions of the map.

I doubt this little expereiment will cause even a "blip" in the radars of our regulatory bodies (no FCC has no say in how radio frequencies are handled in Mexico, but we have our own COFETEL), because of this same fact: The country is too complex, and nobody is claiming that bandwidth in that area. Of course, were the experience to start replicating along small communities enough to be noticed in a map, a crackdown would surely follow.

...Any other country in America?
I mean, any country that actually has a name?

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In a shitty suburb of Liverpool, perhaps? Or is all of Liverpool shit?

Do insects migrate to tastier shit once they have the means to, as the four of them did?

That us Mexicans are not a Western culture?

Yes, when I receive toursits here, a mandatory stop is at the local butcher store, to see the hanging pig head (from which delicious although extremely fatty food is made). And yes, some even agree to have "chapulines" (grasshoppers) sold in the market nearby.

Yummy :-)