Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 94
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A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to travel to Colombia, where I delivered a talk at III Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad Informática in the city of Manizales (photos available, of course. I travelled with Colombia’s nacional airline, Avianca. On completely unrelated news, today I entered Avianca’s website to check my miles. To my biggest amusement… Turns out I am now a resident of Bamiyan, Afghanistan! (I swear I didn’t select that) …Seems they do beard-based georeferentiation? NP: Hey, mister Taliban, tally me bananas daylight come and me wanna go home! Comments Anonymous 2009-10-29 09:58:57 Presumably you already know...
Copied from http://www.sciencehumor.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sign_brain.jpg — Had to do it :) I should fix this to every computer in my workplace.
There has been a lot of buzz recently in Mexico after a tax increase that has been announced for next year. The two main points I have seen criticized are: Value Added Tax (IVA) increase from 15% to 16%There was a great improvement regarding the original proposal by our de-facto ruler (why de-facto? Because it is still unclear whether he won the popular vote. He has about the same legitimacy as George Bush during his first term: Legal but illegitimate): In Mexico, there is a category of items regarded as fundamental, which are exempt of IVA (tasa cero). This category...
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Every now and then, people ask me why Debian? Why, among so many projects to choose from, I first liked, then got into, and finally I got committed into Debian, and not anything else? Of course, one of the main points —back in 2000-2001 when I started using it, and still to this very day— is a strong identification with the ideological side. Yes, I am a strong Free Software believer, and Debian is what best suites my ideology. Still, I did not only get into Debian because of this — And I was reminded about this by an article...
…And in front of Jimmy, and his camera
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