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In Topic: Puerto Rico and it's Olympic Future

01 May 2012 - 02:47 PM

View PostAlexDS69, on 01 May 2012 - 12:04 PM, said:

I'd be happy with Puerto Rico as an independent country or maintaining the status quo. I see no reason why Puerto Rico can't be a sovereign nation. There are countries with weaker economies and smaller numbers of people, and no one is saying that their sovereignty should be taken away from them or that they shouldn't have sovereignty in the first place.

For each of the referendum's up until now the vote for statehood has been growing. The New Progressive Party (PNP in Spanish, also the statehood party) has controlled both the Puerto Rican House & Senate since 2004, and in 2008 the people elected the PNP candidate's to Governor and Resident Commissioner. So, the PNP now controls both houses of Legislature and the Executive. It would appear the people are leaning towards statehood.

View PostShrek201, on 01 May 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

They will NOT become a state because: 1. they will have to pay their share of federal taxes; and 2. they will lose their Miss Universe, World and International franchises--i.e., they cannot enter those pageants as a "sovereign state" which they sort of do as a Commonwealth.

Ohh I forgot the super mega importance of the Miss Universe contestant how could I have been so silly, of course you're right the people will never want to lose that.

In Topic: Puerto Rico and it's Olympic Future

27 April 2012 - 03:30 PM

View PostIkarus360, on 27 April 2012 - 02:15 PM, said:

Don't worry. They will not become part of the United States, because a lot of people in PR are still very patriotic and are resentful of them (remember when Romero Barcelo got booed by all the stadium at the 1979 Pan Am Games because of his pro-anexation position?).

But at the same time, they don't want to become fully independent because politicians in Puerto Rico, just like in most of Latin America, are the worst of the worst. So, because of convenience, they always wanted to keep being a Commonwealth.

I think this situation will be the same for this year.

I'm interested in this, so each preceeding referendum the yes vote has grown higher and higher, will they really change to vote no? Also, do you think the PNP be beaten by the PDP then?

In Topic: A world without the Olympics?

26 April 2012 - 12:30 PM

It's a nice idea, well it was a nice idea, I'd have to agree with olympikfan they have now sold their soul to corporation's. The regulation's the IOC is forcing LOCOG and forced VANOC to implement, it's just a bastardization of the whole original idea of bringing people together through sports to peace. Guerilla marketing, copyright on photograph's taken in venue's, suing people who use the O word or the word games, or happen to mention a city name and the current year, it's all a big farce, the Olympics is all about big business now, so if it went away now, no real big loss.

In Topic: London 2012 Olympic Media Updates

21 April 2012 - 10:43 PM

So many excuses, it's a dying model digitally border's are disappearing, in some place's governments are actively working to erase borders. Alas I have no faith in the bonehead's running the media company's of the world, so I agree and fully expect more "authentication" systems in the future, I can predict alongside that 100's maybe even thousand's of illicit free stream's will pop up more than they can shutdown definitely.

People don't want logging in, password's, account number's, they want easy click and watch, when they want where they want and whatever they want, eventually we'll get it, but first we'll have to go through this BS with useless "authentication" signing in over and over again for stuff that should be broadcast OTA. In 20 years, maybe even 10 years we will look back and laugh at how stupid it all was.

In Topic: London 2012 Olympic Media Updates

21 April 2012 - 02:17 PM

Well last time DirecTV wasn't part of their authentication system. The thing is it shouldn't be an issue anyway, they can tell what my IP address is and if someone is in the US or not, if you can get NBC over the air (excluding Canadian and Mexican side border areas) why shouldn't you just be able to click and view?

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