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I recently asked my (admittedly trashy and ignorant) neighbor why he thinks America is the land of the free. His response was something, that to be quite honest, I am not clever enough to have thought up in a million years.

"America is free because here I can buy any truck I want, any TV I want or eat out whenever I feel like. I can take my family to amusement parks, or to the movies and no one tries to stop me! No one here is telling me how to live my life!"

Sounds like Cuba is taking a page out of America's play book.
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(http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41452)

I don't care if their substandard housing is free; their medical is free (bring your own sheets though and look for your doctor driving cabs in the off hours); their education is free (all the way up to a PhD as long as you don't contradict the party doctrine)----these people are treading water!

IMHO the only positive to all this is that, hopefully, those in Florida will be able to somehow coordinate with refugees better and that perhaps we're seeing the dismantling of this tragically extreme socialist state.]]>Mar 28th 2008 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 29th 2008 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
Grammar, boys. That should be "have", not "has". "Cellphones" is plural...]]>Mar 28th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
Cubans make $20 a month and the cell service cost $120 CUC (1 CUC = 1.20 USD) to activate and 45 cents/min RX AND TX. So sorry for exploding your bubble :)]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
Notice the "/sarcasm" just above your post.

But thanks for the info, how much would 'housing' be? Geez..]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
Your Spanish REALLY sucks :) (can you hear me know = ¿ me escuchas ahora ?)]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Cuba ... Cuba ?]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
where u at? = a'onde tas?]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
I also suppose Apple won't bother to be rolling out any iPhones there for quite a while.]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Viva La Anytime Minutes!]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
http://www.aaronkimbrough.com/images/bagphone.jpg]]>Mar 28th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/]]>Mar 28th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/Mar 28th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
The point everyone is missing....people piss and moan about the Patriot act here, and they fail to realize that that is PRECISELY how people on that island have been living for the last 49 years. Now, besides being watch by the "neighborhood watch" ( nee, party "block captain" ), their cellphone communications will now be listened into as desired, whenever desired, just like any regular phone calls to the island.

Matt: Here's how the F--k they can have US technology over there, if our companies can't directly import them. Shell companies in places like Mexico ( or just about any place ) purchase products at wholesale for sale "within" their countries, and instead, sell them to other shell companies owned by the Cuban government who simply pack them up and ship them there.

]]>Mar 30th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/cuba-lifts-restrictions-on-cellphone-use/
¿Me escuchas ahora?= Are you listenining to me now ?

¿Me puedes oir? = Can you hear me (now) ?

"Oir" holds double use as the verb both in passive and perfect tenses. Adding "ahora" would be UNDERSTOOD to be the case, and would be grammatically incorrect if it were included.

The use of "eschucas" is incorrect because it assumes that the other person is in the act of listening, which is obviously different than hearing. ]]>Mar 30th 2008 9:32PM