And a-w-a-a-a-a-y we go...

yeah, i know... argentina's gettin' a lotta space these days but it sure beats watchin' soap operas...

‘No way,’ says K

President nixes idea of reopening bond restructuring for holdouts.

BERLIN — President Néstor Kirchner, on the second day of a five-day visit to Germany, yesterday reaffirmed that his government "in no way" will make a new offer to creditors that rejected a "take-it-or-leave-it" bond swap proposal that cut Argentina’s debt from 191 to 125 billion dollars in February.

Kirchner says he ‘didn’t know’ e-control decree violated privacy

President Néstor Kirchner yesterday justified his decision to suspend a decree requiring telecommunication companies to monitor customers’ calls and Web-surfing habits, saying that he did not know when he signed it that it implied violation of privacy rights protected by Argentina’s Constitution.

yeah, ok, whatever... i'm just glad it's been dumped...

one of the reasons software is so extensively pirated is that the folks in developing economies just can't afford to pay the tariff for windows xp, etc... so microsoft is now releasing an "economy size" xp...

Microsoft’s XP Starter Edition

Low-cost Windows reaches Brazil

SAO PAULO — Microsoft Corp. launched a scaled-back version of its Windows operating system in Brazil yesterday, hoping to get more people using computers in Latin America’s largest country while cutting down on rampant software piracy.
Brazil becomes the first country in the western hemisphere to get the low-cost XP Starter.

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