Didn't knew about both facts, thanks.

Not everything is money.
Median income is not such a bad indicator if you consider that services provided by the state can push up people living standard.
ie, a poor person in the U.S. won't have access to healthcare (at lest the segment not covered by obamacare) or third level education.

You realize that if a big chunk of the population are the ones that want that welfare, they might overthrow the government to impose a welfare state, turning you in...wait for it... Venezuela.

900 Euro... And you are right, it's a crappy board with shitty screen and stock Debian on top. BUT, there is no better offer in the market for that niche... The closest one is Jolla, I think.

For a lot of people internet = facebook.

Google's business model biggest enemy is Facebook because it's a closed.
That means there is a huge chunk of the internet that can't be indexed, and lots of eyeballs that won't ever be theirs.

Promoting "open" social networking is good for them.

2 years ago I told my nephew that I'd enlighten him about good old stuff (not that shitty Ben10 that he was watching), and streamed the fist Hellsing chapter from youtube only to remember that the first scene is a fellatio...

You must be tired of hitting that strawman.

Any source for this? (Really asking).

Nothing involving microelectronics is produced in Tierra del Fuego. Goods are brought from Asia but ensembled here.
Then raises Importations artificially raised to keep those "home build" products competitive.

The reason to do that is geopolitical (populate Tierra del Fuego, to keep it out of Chilean ( and UK?) hands.

TFTFU

The math is not so easy, you need to consider the risk of being robbed vs the chance of being seized by the government.
And the main reason people don't have their money in banks is not because they're afraid of the government ( people tend to forget about the pain ), but because tax evasion and informal economy.

Yes there is a helluva of Argentinians that don't agree, that's because Argentina is a big country.
But the voices of people that reach other countries are from the upper classes. They should at least speak english, have internet access/be able to travel outside of the country, and give some shit on the international view of Argentina's economy.
This people are the same subset affected by the dollar restriction, so you get biased sample pool...


To give you an scale, this news looks to me like someone saying that Tea Party represents 30% of US.

And, at some level, I believe the same thing happens with international news regarding Venezuela.

Slashdot seems to reject non ASCII URIS, this should fix that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Wow, you portrait this in an amazingly clear way for somebody that doesn't look Argentinian on a first glance.

Hi, Brilliant Anonymous Coward.
You are proposing your innovative idea 15 years too late.
We had that here in Argentina, it was called "Cupones de Trueque" (Barter cupons)... We used those when people were desperate (because they had no work, no pesos and nothing to eat)... It's something we don't want to go back to.
This is an example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...édito


Now people are "desperate" because they can't save their extra pesos at a rate they consider fair, It's a completely different situation, and really subjective because people freely buying dollars and taking them out of the country was what triggered (but no caused) our last crisis.