yesss i still have some VHS tapes with data...mmhh maybe its time to back up them to another media...

ahhh! this made me remember my old ( ancient?) amiga 500 computer... circa 1988. It was the day of 30 mb hard drives, so the idea to use video to store info was attractive, so it came the "Video BAck Up System". http://www.hugolyppens.com/VBS.html You connected the video output of you amiga to a VHS tape recorder (beta also could be used). The software let you selected which parts of your hard drive wish to back up, so when you were ready, the computer would record bands of black and white video to tape. The vhs tape could hold... errr 85MB per hour, and that was a lot!!! The interesting part was restoring the backup, it was connected to the serial port... so probably this was the main limitation of the system. It was a very interesting hack :) I still have some VHS tape with data...

Not only near a volcano, but in the middle of a Lake., and in an earthquake prone place... and without a proper supply of drinking water. arghhh!

According the tradition, after the Meshica (aztec) leave Aztlan, they wandered for two hundred years, seeking a signal sent by their god Huitzilopochtli: An eagle on the top of a Cactus. And finally they found it..

In the middle of a lake, in a small Island.!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CodexMendoza01.jpg

So, they built a great artificial Island around it.

http://abrahimappel.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/tenochtitlan.jpg

Now... the Texcoco lake is a system of Endorheic lakes.. which means, no only that the city suffered form periodic inundations, but that the water was a bit salty , so there was the problem of getting fresh water for the city. They built a system of dams to separate the water of the lake in salty and fresh water. and control the level of water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Texcoco

charming isn't it?

After the conquest, the Spaniards dried the lake, son now... Mexico City suffers form lack of water

Many Mexican Urbanists have confessed they have dream the travel to the past, with some stones at hand.. to sent that damn eagle to a better place.!!

no necesarily... most of the cell phones users I know, do not own a car... Cars are expensive, relative to our average income... I know a lot of people with incomes of 400 US a month, who has cell phones...

The "Hoy no circula" involves a sticker with a hologram, and is a bit hard to fake... but not imposible... Police oficers receive a percent of the penalty,.. so the are very motivated to spot the fakes..

Years ago.. there was a national system to register cars, but it became so corrupted that it became pointless and was shutdown, so each state had to create it own local registry... which was completelly independient of all... The RENAVE was supose to create a brand new registry system for all México, and people had to pay to register... not only that, but the goverment decided to offer it to a private company... There was a lot of money involved... so it was never clear how was decided which company won the contract... It was an scandal when it was found that the brand new dirctor of the RENAVE was an argentinian criminal... with a fake company... The main proponent of the RENAVE commit suicide after that...

ACtually is very easy to get someone CURP, you only need his name, place of birth, and birthday...then check at: http://www.fonatur.gob.mx/gobierno/Sec_Gob/CURP/CurpPS_HTML/jsp/curpTDP.html which is one of several places where you can check it. So today CAlderon and several famous people, have hundreds of cell phones registered to their names.. and also, there is no oficial way to knwo if someone has register a cell phone to your name. The point is how easily you can fake an identity...

When President Calderon started the "war against drugs", it was not becuase he wanted to stop drug cartels, but because he tought that it would be an easy way to legalize his goverment... today there still there is a lot of people that think his party stole the elections.. So he started without any particular plan ... Now, drug cartels know they are better armed that the mexican army (the probably have four or five more fire power in small and medium size arms), and know the power of money and terror. The truth is that the only way to stop them, is somthing the goverment would not dare to do... supervise the financial system, where the money is cleaned... That money... goes very high in the goverment... and the poilitical parties.. so nobody want it to stop...

You are forgeting something... the important drug market, is not Mexico, but the US.. The local market is just a tiny fraction of the money that come from the US. If you make drugs legal.... the export to the US would still be ilegal... And drug dealers would preffer to stay criminal, before expose their biggest earning to the goverment eyes...

Exactly... it wont work... people already have used fake names.... my daughter could not register with her full name... because the system did not allowed...so technically, she is using a fake identity... som emxican have really long names, that the systems seems unable to manage...

Most people in México buy time, in prepaid cards ( form 10 to 50 dollas) or trough a net of resellers, that buy time at good rate, and resell it at small quantities.. about 1 or 2 dollars. So it is very complex to follow who is selling to who. Even more, I just heard that SIMS with false ID can be bought in the streets... I just do not see how this measure can help to identify the owner of a cell phone...

Today the COFETEL (the goberment officd in charge of comunication) anounced that 25.2 millions of phones should have to be shut down. In my case, maybe my phone is in this case, since i tried several times but never got the confirmation message... The cell Phones companies are not happy to loose so many clients..

No, it is from Arabia, that is why the coffe plant is called "arabica"... But in Mexico we have good coffe...

Well, if we compare the actual number of deaths, the amount of people killed was actually lower than the victims of the inquisition and the witch hunt...

In the three hundred years of aztec ruling, the amount of deaths by sacrifice was lower than the death toll in just one day on hiroshima.

who is the mass murder?