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> (we were broke kids and pirated everything back then) Why brag or joke about that? And why does it matter if you were 'broke kids'? > Take about crippling c

by gist 7y ago

> (we were broke kids and pirated everything back then) Why brag or joke about that? And why does it matter if you were 'broke kids'? > Take about crippling certain business in Venezuela. All this is going to do is encourage piracy (and potentially malware). Do you understand what is going on here? Adobe is complying with a government order. And the government issued it in order to achieve an objective in a country where I believe (I only know what I see and read) there are significant problems. > All this is going to do is encourage piracy (and potentially malware). Apparently they have no supplies in hospitals and rampant inflation. They have much bigger issue than piracy and malware.

canadaduane 7y ago
> Why brag or joke about that? And why does it matter if you were 'broke kids'? You may have been reading too far into this. It sounds to me like a statement of fact, not a brag or a joke. > Apparently they have no supplies in hospitals and rampant inflation. They have much bigger issue than piracy and malware. Having a job is part of the solution, and the use of software is part of many jobs that have international value (i.e. from countries whose currency is not inflating rampantly).
download13 7y ago
Don't pretend like the US government has a good justification for this. It's purely another attempt to destabilize the country even more. The entire purpose of these sort of sanctions is to hurt the public enough that they start putting pressure on their government to make a change that the sanctioning government wants. In this case the US wants Venezuela's government to be replaced with one who would be more friendly to US oil companies taking all of their oil and paying a small portion of it's value to the politicians who allowed them in. The main reason Venezuela has been solvent up til now is that they have a lot of oil, which the government sells and uses to pay for social programs. But since the price of oil went down they've been having some money trouble. Combine that with the fact that Maduro knows as much about monetary policy as Trump knows about tariffs and you've got a deflating economy that's only made worse by sanctions, which again, is their entire purpose. They are specifically trying to ensure that Venezuela's government collapses so that US companies can move in and rob the region of it's resources. Don't get me wrong, the best thing Venezuelans could do is probably throw Maduro out on his ass, but replacing him with some US-friendly bootlicker is worse than no solution.
- wolfgang000 7y ago
  As a Venezuelan I disagree, I can tell you that the people here dream of the day when a US military intervention takes place and the US(or really anyone not communist) take the country.
  - mijamo 7y ago
    Mh that is not really my experience of talking with Venezuelians in Colombia. At all. They sure want Maduro out but certainly don't want the US in, that would be the recipe for ending up like El Salvador in 10 years.
    - wolfgang000 7y ago
      What a coincidence I'm in Colombia too, Anyway I'm not saying that everybody wants to be a US colony but that is a better alternative than the status quo. I can tell when you don't have electricity, gasoline, water or food anything is an improvement.

by gist 7y ago

canadaduane 7y ago

> Why brag or joke about that? And why does it matter if you were 'broke kids'? You may have been reading too far into this. It sounds to me like a statement of fact, not a brag or a joke. > Apparently they have no supplies in hospitals and rampant inflation. They have much bigger issue than piracy and malware. Having a job is part of the solution, and the use of software is part of many jobs that have international value (i.e. from countries whose currency is not inflating rampantly).

download13 7y ago

Don't pretend like the US government has a good justification for this. It's purely another attempt to destabilize the country even more. The entire purpose of these sort of sanctions is to hurt the public enough that they start putting pressure on their government to make a change that the sanctioning government wants. In this case the US wants Venezuela's government to be replaced with one who would be more friendly to US oil companies taking all of their oil and paying a small portion of it's value to the politicians who allowed them in. The main reason Venezuela has been solvent up til now is that they have a lot of oil, which the government sells and uses to pay for social programs. But since the price of oil went down they've been having some money trouble. Combine that with the fact that Maduro knows as much about monetary policy as Trump knows about tariffs and you've got a deflating economy that's only made worse by sanctions, which again, is their entire purpose. They are specifically trying to ensure that Venezuela's government collapses so that US companies can move in and rob the region of it's resources. Don't get me wrong, the best thing Venezuelans could do is probably throw Maduro out on his ass, but replacing him with some US-friendly bootlicker is worse than no solution.

wolfgang000 7y ago
As a Venezuelan I disagree, I can tell you that the people here dream of the day when a US military intervention takes place and the US(or really anyone not communist) take the country.
- mijamo 7y ago
  Mh that is not really my experience of talking with Venezuelians in Colombia. At all. They sure want Maduro out but certainly don't want the US in, that would be the recipe for ending up like El Salvador in 10 years.
  - wolfgang000 7y ago
    What a coincidence I'm in Colombia too, Anyway I'm not saying that everybody wants to be a US colony but that is a better alternative than the status quo. I can tell when you don't have electricity, gasoline, water or food anything is an improvement.