Posted: 3/13/2008 4:36:45 PM EDT
or ... DVDs are legal for sale now!! www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/cuba-ends-ban-on-dvd-player-computer-sales/ Cuba ends ban on DVD player, computer sales Posted Mar 13th 2008 3:03PM by Nilay Patel Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Man, Fidel's out and already the kids are getting crazy: the Cuban government is finally allowing general consumers to buy various electronics, including DVD players and computers, for the first time. Only companies and foreigners were previously able to buy computers, while the looming threat of terrible Hollywood movies had forced Cuban authorities to seize DVD players at the airport. The change is due to "the improved availability of electricity," and Cubans can look forward to also picking up microwaves, 24-inch televisions, and rice cookers to plug into the new juice. Of course, it's not all flip flops and high-fives: air conditioners will not be available until next year, and the deadly menace known as the toaster will be restricted until 2010. Hope you like plain bread with your
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This is great fuel. I was having a heated discussion with my very liberal grandparents tonight over Cuba. They pretty much quoted that one Micheal Moore video verbatim. I kept telling them, so why do they keep escaping? Why does no one ever move there to live? "Oh, it's only the rich people that leave that country". Yeah, like when Castro came into power. Now it's the average citizen that floats here on a raft made out of old tires. ETC. I had to tell them that communism = socialism = Marxism even. |