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I just received the following email: ‘This makes my poor free market heart sad. But I have to tell you that, as of right now, the safest and best ISP is to one owned by the government. Adam Smith, Forgive me!’ LOL. Welcome to the real world.

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It is not often I manage to work two cheesy expressions into the title of one blog post, but today you are lucky. (Please note I didn’t say what kind of luck).

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I want you to know about one more–and hopefully the last–change in the UruguayLiving.com website. We have grown so fast that we have just not been able to keep up technologically–largely because I am getting slow and stupid in my senescence. When we changed blog providers, many of the subscriptions got changed from subscriptions to [...]

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It may not be a tough as giving birth, but it sure was a lot of work. The file was created on 22 July 2006, at 11:25:02. The last modification was made this morning (I hope). In just a few days less than 100, The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay has been written.

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A young man who had just moved here from Novsibirsk in Russian Siberia me told me that he found the Internet in Uruguay to be “inexpensive, reliable and fast”…

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A short time ago Enzo wrote to me and proposed the creation of a bulletin board as a vehicle for more open and free wheeling exchange within our nascent community.
http:// www.sociedadsouthron.net/

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When we first moved here we were given very bad advice: to get our initial ADSL line from a private provider named Netgate. Boy are we sorry.

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Afraid moving abroad will deny you of TvLand's all-night Benson marathon?
Well, you don't have to miss that or any of your other favorite shows.

Everyday Life, International Living, Internet, Technology | 5 Comments »

CAVEAT EMPTOR! Let the buyer beware!

This maxim applies to the privately owned side of internet industry here in spades. The people that run at least two of these companies make the carpetbaggers look like philanthropists.

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