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Today, in tis country, Argentina, was made effective a law that was announced yesterday (Sunday, March 26th), which impedes the free entrance of books in this land.

The official reasoning? Some countries use lead in their inks.

How is it applied? If you ordered a book, it will be detained, and eventually you may or may not receive a notification that will cost you $5. With that, you must go from wherever in the country you live to the single International Airport we have in tis country. Then to free it you will have to pay a fee that will be around $291 (€50 euros, or $66.63 dollars) per book.

This is for both the single buyer who orders a book from, say, Amazon, to the big importer who brings stock to sell at bookstores.

Our current governement still brags on the international scene about how they're parangons of democracy and human rights.

I once denounced fraud on last elections on a Deviant Art journal, and was deleted. I hope here I have some freedom.

What the hell?

This is some ethically shady stuff.

Be careful of being deleted in Argentina, they have form I believe.

Could it be that the Heath and Safety nazis are finally making a play for power and have chosen Argentina as the to start.

What about ebooks? Or audiobooks?

Importations are semi closed, even some meds (there was a denounce a week ago on how we have a national stock of insuline fer 6 months only).

If you didn't had a good device for e-books, you're fethed up.

Well, if your after sympathy from us Brits your gonna get heaps of it.

I hate that ill-tempered PM for starters!

On a serious note, it seems a fethed up idea... Just another way to extort money out of people.

I cannot fathom the logic in this.

Not just money, but there's a project that won't allow people to leave the country unless they have a credit card to their name (not all have) and can will only be able to spend a limited ammount of money there.

Seems like a plan to sever the average people's view of reallitiy, not different that what Chavez is doin' at Venezuela.

I think that is the problem, there is no logic. Sounds like a bunch of morons deciding something like this. Who needs education anyway?

Dark wrote:Today, in tis country, Argentina, was made effective a law that was announced yesterday (Sunday, March 26th), which impedes the free entrance of books in this land.

The official reasoning? Some countries use lead in their inks.

How is it applied? If you ordered a book, it will be detained, and eventually you may or may not receive a notification that will cost you $5. With that, you must go from wherever in the country you live to the single International Airport we have in tis country. Then to free it you will have to pay a fee that will be around $291 (€50 euros, or $66.63 dollars) per book.

This is for both the single buyer who orders a book from, say, Amazon, to the big importer who brings stock to sell at bookstores.

Our current governement still brags on the international scene about how they're parangons of democracy and human rights.

I once denounced fraud on last elections on a Deviant Art journal, and was deleted. I hope here I have some freedom.

Awesome. We should do the same for imports from every other country.

I was scared though. For a minute I thought they were outlawing telenovellas or something.

I better pay my visit to Argentina soon, before I risk being detained by the increasingly more dictatorial government there...

You know they were a Fascist state for a long while right? They're actually better now...

Yes I did Frazz, I chose my words carefully so as not to offend or remind anyone of past tragedy.

chaos0xomega wrote:Yes I did Frazz, I chose my words carefully so as not to offend or remind anyone of past tragedy.

Tragedy, without that we would have never had:

Oh well, one more reason Falklanders won't want to be Argentinian any time soon.

Here's another. Why trade in gorgeous Dave, for this...?

Argentina has been going down the gakker lately. Not surprised at all.

It's a shame. I had a friend who did a semester abroad down there and she absolutely loved it.

Wish there was something to be done. Tell you what; discover a huge oil reservoir, stick some gentlemen of Arabian descent near it, and you'll be liberated by us within a week.

Dark wrote:

Our current governement still brags on the international scene about how they're parangons of democracy and human rights.

Seriously? Wow. That's a harder sell than Ms Kirchner's facelift!

In all seriousness, and despite the, shall we say, 'fraught' history between our two countries, I bear no ill will whatsoever towards the Argentinian people, and wish them success in the fight for liberty. They deserve it after their turbulent history. Their politicians, however...

...Well, to paraphrase mattyrm: Give me the hammer and I'll do the job for free. They seem to be uniformly corrupt and illiberal scumbags.

Oh no! Lead! Because we haven't made gigantic leaps in the safe use and transportation of trace amounts of lead.

Sounds like the british need to kick their asses off the falkands, and then move to the mainland and teach them some parliamentary democracy!

It's not about kicking anyone's ass off anything, it's about respecting the right to self-determination of the people living on the Falklands. If they all woke up tomorrow and decided that they wanted to be Argentinian, then I think the UK government would be glad to be rid of the headache. As it is, they wish to remain British, and as such we should protect them.

Anything else isn't our business. How the Argentinians run their country is a matter for their people, and we should respect that.

Incidentally if you do have an ebook reader I highly recommend http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/tony+banks/storming+the+falklands+28ebook29/9080661/.