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• dculberson commented on Steampunk MAME cabinet
  Ian, certainly you mean to emphasize that Omega Race was a -=vector=- game, right? Because MAME is always running on machines with raster graphics, unless you're outputting XY over the sound card and hooking that up to an oscilloscope... And sure, using an Xarcade seems like a cop-out, but really piecing together a control panel is both a pain in the ass and not really "from scratch" as you're just putting together pieces that someone else has made anyway... It's a beautiful machine.. just let it be beautiful....
• issa commented on Mexico: 'net advocates protest internet tax with #internetnecesario
  the taxes were approved early today: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/634706.html they will affect internet, cable, beer and tobacco, among other products....
• tinoj3 commented on Mexico: 'net advocates protest internet tax with #internetnecesario
  This tax is really very bad! I am retired living in Mexico, and I have a 16 yr going to school, and 90% of her homework is done on a computer! Most children here don't have a computer, so they have to go to cyber cafes that charge minimum $10.00 pesos an hour, not counting paper, printing cost, and this tax will be passed on to them! This is a real hardship for most people in this country!!!...
• monosylabik commented on Mexico: 'net advocates protest internet tax with #internetnecesario
  How can you say it's overblown when Mexico already has some of the highest internet prices in the world. For the monthly cost of a 4Mbps up DSL connection in Mexico, you could get a 15Mbps connection in the US and still have some money to spare. And consider the US isn't one of the cheapest places to get internet access either. Also, it's not just the 3% increase in cost, don't forget the 1% increase to IVA (the European VAT equivalent) and the 2% increase to the ISR, which means workers will get much less money and everything, not...
• dhchongcuy commented on Mexico: 'net advocates protest internet tax with #internetnecesario
  Hola from México! It's good to see it's finally getting attention not only in mexican sites :) We started a project at http://www.internetnecesario.info/ where we talk about about the cultural/educative, political, rights-related and economic consequences passing the tax bill will have in a country like ours. The debate on the tax issue has originated a "metadebate" (the twitter #internetnecesario phenomenon, for example) that's getting more attention than the problem itself. And that's the thing in Mexico, that's probably why the legislators didn't pay attention to the real consequences themselves. So well, check out the site. @dhchongcuy @_rec @aliviane @demomilton @reginapuma...