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Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by pvaldes »

elecbit wrote: post #549
pvaldes wrote: post #526

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At this moment, I don't see any tank. Maybe you are living in your own dark fascist fantasy? Beware and let us know if you spot any zombie

Check world news today and see the state violence against catalan people. More than 800 wounded in hospital. I think it is not a fantasy. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/01/dozens-injured...

798 of then fortunately with minor or moderate injuries including more than 30 policemen (updated, it seems that were more than 400 policemen in fact, but there is not still an impartial count), and sadly 2 people with serious injuries.

2 seriously injured == millions murdered?

If you want to bang your head repeatedly against the walls and trow chairs against policemen, please don't tell me that is my fault if you end the day with some scratches, a headache, a panic attack or something worst.

There is a great solution for this, avoid being deliberately (with your little kids not less!) in a place where something illegal is happening and was publicly announced. Avoid to participate in the scam and specially to mock and challenge the police in their faces (with the obvious goal to elicit a violent reaction for advertising purposes), and you will be OK. Take care of yourself and think twice before to act.

Independentists are irresponsably scalating their constant provocation and salivating since years with the idea of a militar intervention with shiny tanks and hundreds of people murdered (preferibly non-indepentendist people). Thus they could finally justify having their much dreamed war of secession, doing a little clean of the zone, and feeling like warfare heros in their neighborhood. This is not what happened yesterday, thanks to all deities.

And today the basques had also asked for a referendum to be recognised as nation. As expected. Great.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by mezod »

neoscott wrote: post #525
gotbeans wrote: post #495

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Not sure why constantly saying "u more!" is an argument at all to deny population voting. Childish if you ask me.

I didn't say you more. I said some examples to say that in all the country it's the same with the corruption. I said anything about the vote in this comment

it's a matter of magnitudes :-)

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by mezod »

MrDosu wrote: post #411
amelius wrote: post #112

As an outsider, it's strange that nobody here seems to question whether the referendum really makes sense. Forgetting about Catalonia for a moment, isn't it fundamentally amoral that a part of the country where prosperity has (by mere chance) concentrated suddenly wants to split off? Isn't this taking wealth-inequality to the next level? Of course the people in a prosperous part of the country want to split off. Abso…

As a german i find the economic reasons of "why should we pay for the poor people" highly ironic... That's what we all founded europe for... stronger together!

you don't find it so ironic when southern europe buys bmws :)

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by gediminas_ »

freshhawk wrote: post #128
mynewtb wrote: post #88

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You make it sound like if merely accessing a resource will make my ipfs node share it to others. Is that the case?

Yes, analogous to downloading a torrent. The GC is run pretty regularly by default so you generally want to pin anything you want to keep local.

As far as I remember GC isn't run by default - but it could have changed

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by Pica_soO »

faragon wrote: post #431
lottin wrote: post #206

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The war was between European powers and had many ramifications in different places. For Catalonia the net result was that it lost its political institutions and became a province in a centralised state.

Also, became a much richer region, because after the centralization got access to world-wide trade because of the Spanish Empire.

Getting rich as in- getting flooded with indio mined cheap silver, driving inflation of the currency ever onwards, while mercantilism ruins the competition ability of ones industry?

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by NetStrikeForce »

euyyn wrote: post #396
NetStrikeForce wrote: post #322

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That's the thing: The Andalusian hasn't been challenged, while the Catalan is scrutinized to the detail and the party that's now in government gathers 4 million signatures against it: https://elpais.com/elpais/2006/04/25/actualidad/1145953019_8... (They wanted all Spain to vote on the Catalan Estatut!!! Would they do that for all regions???)

Maybe no one has challenged it because they don't see a problem with it?

Of course there's no problem. There's no problem with the Catalan either, apart from the fact that it's Catalan.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by anthk »

petecox wrote: post #517
pm90 wrote: post #87

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While that's true, its only a small, mostly racist white minority that is really serious about secession. And don't forget that the Catalan people have their own cultural identity for hundreds of years. i.e. they have a legitimate claim of being different from other Spaniards and thus wishing for their independence.

> the Catalan people have their own cultural identity Spain is divided into 17 communities. Each has their own cultural identity. What I like about travelling around Spain (and I must do the Canaries and Balearics some day) is the microcosm of different regional flavours, e.g. Asturias and Galicia have bagpipes, the Basque country is a foodies delight, Andalucia has flamenco & Moorish palaces, the Canaries have a whi…

>Now I get the Catalans feel "different" but when I see the graffiti around the place saying "X is NOT Spain", I wonder which Spanish identity they're referring to.

Fake Spain, such Andalusian or Castillian identified both as proper Spanish.

"Hablame en castellano, polaco".

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by stale2002 »

pvaldes wrote: post #534
stale2002 wrote: post #528

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Correct. And because there are no tanks yet, the vote is moving ahead. There has certainly been some disruption, but the people are mostly still forging ahead on all fronts. The police have open fired on some of the pro independence people, sending a couple hundred to the hospital, but that is very minor in the vast scheme of things. A couple hundred pro independence people in the hospital isn't that big of a barrier…

Well played. You can exprime a lot of pro-independentist juice if you put a 80 years old lady in the position of being beaten and videotape all instead to try to defend her. Another point for the good guys. Another possibility could be separatists thinking last week or yesterday "this is stupid, some people could be hurt!, for nothing!, why we don't stop this farce before... dunno... a 80yo lady is beaten or so? I be…

If the spanish military are worried about people getting hurt, then they should stop hurting people.

The people voting know what they are doing. Many people throughout history have died for their right to do that.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by nunobrito »

lllllll wrote: post #500
nunobrito wrote: post #483

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This is true. Galicia has been continuously kept down since centuries so that Madrid could take the spotlight. Part of my family is Galician, I'm Portuguese myself. Still, instead of breaking Spain apart I would actually prefer to see the whole of Iberia working together as a union. The main problem seems to be where the capital would be placed since only Castilians would want Madrid. I only wish that we could agree…

I still think an Iberian federation is possible in the future. The main impediment IMHO is that the Castillian/Spanish political leaders - and hence probably their voters - never understood the multi-national nature of this gorgeous peninsula. Mediterranean greetings my fellow Iberian :)

Castella follows a model similar to France in regards to centralization, where Madrid should be central to Iberia. Other regions openly refuse (or reluctantly conform) to that location since they know that Madrid will mostly only serve its own interests.

This was the reason why Portugal split from a joint Spanish kingdom centuries ago.

Then we should see the foreign interests. France and UK profit from fragmentation in Iberia. Smaller countries are easier to place against each other instead of being an economical threat to them. Portugal remains a strong UK ally over the centuries while Spain sides with France, and now further fragmented as Madrid doesn't open the hand to a decentralized model.

Really sad. People in Iberia consider themselves more or less as part of the same family (which is true to large extent). We should be working together.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by NetStrikeForce »

StavrosK wrote: post #439
NetStrikeForce wrote: post #343

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That was very clear, thanks!

You can kind of think of it like seeding a torrent, and pinning ensures the seeding won't stop until you unpin.

So the service would be the equivalent of a seedbox?
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