THIS. I own a software company in Argentina. We used to design our own hardware too, and we manufactured overseas. We did some manufacturing and all of the assembling in Argentina. We were steadily moving towards more local manufacturing. The low Shenzhen prices made it hard, but we where making progress in that direction. All of a sudden, getting dollars and sending them overseas was more expensive and harder every month. Then the overreach of non-automatic licenses destroyed us (you have to request permission 90 days in advance to maybe get a limited import quota of certain items). In the meanwhile, the big hardware stores (Garbarino, Fravega, etc.) continued to bring all-chinese products into the country without issues, even those competing with our products. We had to shut down most of our hardware operations. We put more emphasis on our SAS products. We almost went bankrupt several times, in the end, we made it, but it left us weak and in debt. Some of that debt where taxes. They quickly froze our accounts and took their toll. We've paid most of it, and we're growing again. Well, until the government decides to change the rules in favor of the owners of this country again.

I hear people accusing the Kirschner administracion of being socialists. This isn't fucking socialism, this is a systematic plan to destroy what's left of our economy, while spending more and more money every day on free lunches for the unwashed masses that keep voting for this fucking stupid cunt.

I will be very fucking surprised if anything is left after this bastards are done with our country.

Now that's an article that doesn't slashvertise Disney's new show. It's informative, focuses on the Lego company instead of Disney, and was an enjoyable read.

It was the plug for the new show that had me thinking "slashvertisement".

How much did Disney pay for this blatant slashvertisement?

It sampled every 20 milliseconds, and sent that as a number. I think you could call it digital.

Where I am they often do that, but they also register the car for you. The fees are based on the state you are registering in (this is DE/PA, in DE we have no sales tax, but there is some type of fee based specifically on car price that they charge for registration), but I'm not disincentivized to shop in PA.

Don't most states collect the sales tax at registration?

Most I've seen do, but it passes after a year.

I mean, really. 386 is their standard build? Not 64 bit?

Let me know when they catch up with the century.

no, more the nagging issues that require actual care (e.g. shoulder that clicks and sends sharp pain when arm is elevated).

Links (elinks I think is the package name) is a console browser with some CSS layout support (unlike lynx when I replaced it).

The problem with a high-deductible plan is that it disincentives being healthy.

So much as looking at a scalpel is going to cost damned near 5 grand (1200 deductable, the 80% coverage to 5k out of pocket).

I may as well not have health insurance at that point. Or only emergency coverage. Yes the point is to save, and everyone wins, but in 15 -25 years, when my cohort reaches middle age, and we haven't been going to the doctor as things crop up, it's going to suck for those left with the bill.

Switching CPU architectures? I missed that.

The lack of backwards compatability is a death blow seeing as there are no "must have" features to drive people to buy the new system. I know many people who have acquired huge libraries of 360 games, and they're not going to want a machine that can't play them.

Given the backwards compatability of the Windows software stack for gaming, I'm absolutely baffled as to why they couldn't implement backwards compatability for the 360 in a trivial fashion.

Ah well. Looks like Windows 8 all over again. And Vista. And SE.

All rolled into one massive FAIL.