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Falklands' 'fk' domain battle at the ICANN Buenos Aires conference
The British government has stood up to Argentina in a battle over the Falkland Islands' right to exist in cyberspace at the ICANN conference in Buenos Aires. Argentina is furious that the disputed territory is allowed to give websites a “.fk” address - identifying them as hailing from the disputed territory and brought up the issue during the current conference. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI thought Argentina was determined to respect the way of life of the islanders, and this was written into their very Constitution. At least that's what Hector the Hortible has benn telling everybody recently. But does this move at ICANN mean the islanders wouldn't be allowed an .fk domain in the event of an anscluss by Argentina?
Jun 27th, 2015 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0God any organisation must shudder when it realises it is going to deal with Argentina.
Jun 27th, 2015 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's like primary school.
Some non-state entities with a code:
.ax Åland
.aq Antartica
.eus Basque Country
.bv Bouvet Island
.cx Christmas Island
.cc Cocos Island
.eh Western Sahara
.fo Faeroe Islands
.gb Gibraltar
.gl Greenland
.hk Hong Kong
.hm Heard and McDonald Islands
.nf Norfolk Island
.ps Palestine
.tf French Antartica
.tw Taiwan
That's not even half.
Build a bridge Argentina.... then jump off it.
And more on the same story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/falklands_online_land_grab/
Jun 27th, 2015 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I posted a link to the Register article yesterday and feel this is Argentina's systematic program of harassment.
Jun 27th, 2015 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's more Argentina's systematic program of making a fool of itself in every available forum.
Jun 27th, 2015 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Djeeezzzzz, the imagination, imagine!
Jun 27th, 2015 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0But I do not see their problem. The word Falklands does not exist for them. So why stumble over .fk?
Another attempt to bully a few thousand people, another failure.
Jun 27th, 2015 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0How many more times you Latino numbskulls -if you want the Falklands, either:
1/- Persuade the Islanders it's a great idea to be Argentine.
2/-Go to the ICJ.
3/- Invade again
The drip-drip bullying will not get you the Islands, it'll just make the Islanders more determined not to be Argentine.
A round of applause for Chicureo....we stand in awe of your talents...
Jun 27th, 2015 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Posting a link before Mercopress...truly awesome...
Finger on the pulse or what....
what's wrong with .sq (squat)....
Sometimes I'm sure the whole world just wishes that Argentina would shut the .fk up!
Jun 27th, 2015 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina please end all diplomatic ties with the United Kingdom, they are our sole existential enemy!
Jun 27th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentines stop the obsession with the Falklands and see the forest and not the tree! The tree are the Falklands, the poor tree did nothing. The problem is the forest. Time to get out of it.
End all cooperation and exchange with the United Kingdom, NOW!
Oh didums!
Jun 27th, 2015 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Did the nasty Falklanders stuff it up The Dark Country and the moron chair of AIUA and his stupid fairy tales.
What is it with this damnable country, can't the mind their own business AT ALL?
@8. Actually, what's wrong with “fku”?
Jun 27th, 2015 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10. Good idea. Can we give no warning and bomb you now? Let's go with 210 Tomahawk cruise missiles for a start. 8 Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Before more Typhoons arrive.
the question is, why the fuck the islets want a web address?
Jun 27th, 2015 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you cannot find proper computers there.
and if you find one, these not-too-bright-benny-hillbillies are not qualified to operate them.
stick to your shearing tools, you benny-hillbillies.
Yes the Falklands.... part of the country that invented computing and the World Wide Web...... why would they need web addresses?
Jun 27th, 2015 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentinean education at its finest.
P A U L C E D R O N
Jun 27th, 2015 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dearest and most admired contributor of Mercopress,
You have convinced most of our readers here that Argentina only desires through peaceful gentle persuasion and logic to eventually convince the world for its right to re-colonize with legal rightful Argentine native immigrants in order to de-colonize the colony of inserted illegal alien current residents.
The SIS-Vauxhall Cross Group is excited to hear your views in person and is anxiously awaiting your arrival to its all inclusive resort as an exclusive VIP guest.
Very truly yours, Chicureo
Bit of trivia for you Paul, did you know that although Yugoslavia no longer exists,the .yu domain does... In short: .FK - .YU
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Jun 27th, 2015 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but who told you that england invented computing ?
have you ever heard of the atanasoff- berry computer in your ill-informed life?
i guess not.
and have you ever heard of the galactic network?
i guess not.
isleteer education at its finest....
P A U L C E D R O N
Jun 27th, 2015 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(One of the most ignorant contributors of Mercopress)
Do us one favor, stop claiming that you have any shred of education, especially telling mistruths about architecture of any kind. We all know it's all delusional imaginary lies... It's getting a bit irritatingly repetitive...
Fail again Pauly, Babbage got there more than 100 years before and Collossus the first electric programable computer helped us defeat the Nazis at Bletchley Park in WWII. Sir Tim Berners Lee recieved the Nobel prize for inventing html and the internet at CERN. Fail Fail Fail ignorant turnip whose only knowledge comes from British Inventions that allow the world to communicate. Add to that TV, the telephone, the light bulb, the electric motor and the steam engine and you get a good idea of what Britain is caoable of.
Jun 27th, 2015 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can seethe, whinge and cry like a baby with a foul mouth but you cant disprove facts. One of which is that your 4th class country will never get its hands on our islands.
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Jun 27th, 2015 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but my dear captainpelotudo, can you be more ignorant and brainwashed than what i thought?
yes, you are.
now lets see
1 the “colossus” was just an electric typewriter. the first computer was the atanasoff berry computer OR the Z1 designed by kinrad zuse.
the english have nothing to do with it, you captainpelotudo.
2 tv: “The earliest version of the CRT was invented by the German physicist Ferdinand Braun in 1897 and is also known as the Braun tube”.
now, since when a german physicist who was born in...GERMANY, is english, you captainpelotudo?
and it is the same with the rest.
you are very, very pelotudo, my dear captainpelotudo.
P A U L C E D R O N
Jun 27th, 2015 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(One of the most ignorant contributors of Mercopress)
You have no idea what you are ranting about. Like a drunken monkey with a keyboard, you don't have a shred of education, especially telling mistruths about architecture of any kind. We all know it's all delusional imaginary lies...
It's frankly getting a bit irritatingly repetitive...
POLLY POLLY (that's the equivalent of the II)
Jun 27th, 2015 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you are not careful a man will come along and remove the 'end flag' from your processor and you will cease to have an existence.
I bet you can't figure that one out, can you?
ChrisR
Jun 27th, 2015 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brilliant!
Are we saying that without ICANN permission or reconision the falklands are banned from the internet of just having those letters,
Jun 27th, 2015 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0cant we provide them with internet access and a domain letter,
just saying like.
Foul mother flea brain Paul (sorry fleas). That is all rubbish a TV isn't just a cathode ray tube you turnip :-! And, computers need to be programmed, which Collusus was, so you failed again which is why your job is washing up, flipping burgers in some 5th rate burger joint in a fourth rate country. Do you know what rating is, its the way the British rated their warships when we were sinking the Spanish and French. :-P:-D
Jun 27th, 2015 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0⬅
Jun 27th, 2015 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'fk' indeed!
Jun 28th, 2015 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina judge orders asset seizure of Falklands oil firms”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33301540#
captainpelotudo
Jun 28th, 2015 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0the english, as the whole fucking world knows, except you, you pelotudo, are just a bunch of good-for-nothing.
not by chance the worst pieces of engineering ever are...english.
as a little example you, pelotudo, have:
the gloster meteor, where the real enemy for the pilot was his own airplane.
the de havilland comet which had the weird habit of breaking through the middle.
and all the english cars.
the worst crap ever.
luckily the english car industry is now defunct. finita. muerta.
thousands of drivers thank god for that.
What's wrong with:
Jun 28th, 2015 - 05:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0.h982fkl ?
@26 Ho fking Hum...
Jun 28th, 2015 - 05:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see the usual 10 suspects are out there with not one but two banners...whacko
Haha it would be great to come up with failed Argentinean inventions..... but I can't come up with any successful ones anyway.
Jun 28th, 2015 - 06:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Paul, the Comet taught the whole world about metal fatigue, it was a pioneering aircraft. The Gloucester Meteor was the worlds first successful jet fighter aircraft. Frank Whittle was the inventor of Jet Engines. As for cars, we taught BMW and Datsun to build cars. You really are soo . Thick. You know nothing except what Google and Wiki tell you and have no knowledge of anything at all. Your country has descended into a revolutionary cesspit since the British left. What have you lot given to the world. The Tango, Corned Beef and Vivenza Criola and of course that celebrated cheating little creep Maradona. Bahahahahaha.. Enjoy your day flipping those burgers?
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I'm still waiting for a reply after two years.”
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tsk tsk, how dare the world keep Argentina waiting!
They should just invade cyberspace.
#17 Chicureo
Jun 28th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0paulcedron is the testament on this site of computer shorthand GIGO.
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Marcos= And an Argentine judge orders it????
Jun 28th, 2015 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what??
I can order my arse to fart over you --- sadly it does not mean it is going to happen either!!!
Tell your silly little judge she can order what she likes - but she might get better luck if she orders a beer in a bar instead.
19 Pablo the bleating tewe
Jun 28th, 2015 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”2 tv: “The earliest version of the CRT was invented by the German physicist Ferdinand Braun in 1897 and is also known as the Braun tube”.
Sorry, grasping Argie, a CRT is NOT television. Television, was devised by the Englishman, Mr. Baird, using a more advanced version of the CRT as only one component.
By the 1930's, the British were using television, but it took so much power, and the transmitters got so hot they could only broadcast for 2 hours a day.
The Germans used Television very effectively, to broadcast Nazi propaganda in Germany, before WWII.
All this while your country was still violently subduing the indigenous and inconvenient Indian population for their entertainment.
CFK has recently made very good use of TV the brainwash your masses and drug them with state-funded football broadcasts!
Viva Argentina!!
Read and weep:
Jun 28th, 2015 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[
@35 Baird was British = but not Engish but Scottish.
Jun 28th, 2015 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why not a fair judgement?.. :) unless Argentina as a sign of progress has started calling the islands Falklands, they shouldn't be such cretins as to ask for the .fk domain. Argentina should ask and get the .ml or mv. domain if someone hasn't got it already somewhere else.. They could give it to the capital of the Malvinas .. Ushuaia founded by the British .. so that all in Tierra del Fuego could be on the mv. or ml or whatever domain so that they can be proud and show off and play their silly games with that.
Jun 28th, 2015 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 36 Mendoza Canadian
Jun 28th, 2015 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are correct to say weep.
This brilliant mind was hounded to death by a government who abhorred homosexuals.
Unable / unwilling to stand the hypocrisy of a government who tolerated extra-marital affairs within their midst AND, without a doubt, some clandestine homosexual relationships, he killed himself by eating a poisoned apple.
What a damnable waste all because some sexual midgets couldn't accept him for what he was.
Even The Cunt Brown © Jeremy Clarkson 2010 decided enough was enough and expunged his criminal record. This was probably the only honourable thing TCB did in his life.
@16. I've heard of what you call the “atanasoff- berry computer”. I thought it was designed by an argie and was actually the “at an arse off- bury computer?”Wasn't programmable was it? Could only “compute” linear equations. Not really a computer. Even one of the very first computers I ever used could do more than that. But then argies like to claim that a stone axe found in the Casa Rosada is evidence that argieland invented space travel. Actually, it's evidence that Kirchner has to be shattered and rebuilt every day.
Jun 28th, 2015 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19. But the Colossus computer was “the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer”. The “at an arse off- bury computer” couldn't say the same, could it?
@26. “Royal Navy destroys argie Tierra del Fuego. Now sailing north toward Buenos Aires. Underway replenishment in progress. Another 25 cruise missiles being transferred to each submarine as they surface in turn”.
@27. Gloster Meteor. 100 purchased by argieland when it had money.
de Havilland Comet. 6 purchased by argieland. When it was running out of money.
@38. The important thing to remember is that The Dark Country has been shortchanged. All it got was .ar. What was wrong with giving it .ar.se? Does it have a problem with its fingers getting stuck to its keyboards. The little wankers.
Off to the UN with a list of all the articles of the UN Charter that argieland is breaching. So much better than silly, resolutions that aren't binding. But argieland signed and ratified the UN Charter. Amazing to think we can destroy states that fail to comply with the Charter they signed and ratified.
40 Conqueror
Jun 28th, 2015 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Royal Navy Now sailing north toward Buenos Aires. Underway replenishment in progress”
What's your Estimated Time of Arrival? Hurry up please!
There is always a good time to celebrate English defeats in Buenos Aires...and have a good laugh.
Even the Yanks make fun of you...
“Dumb British Submarine Stuck In Mud
Our former colonial masters, the British, used to be renowned for their terrifying navy, which would obliterate rival fleets and bombard barbarian cities from the sea in order to pave the way for colonial conquest. Unfortunately, the Brits are stone cold broke now, having spent all their Pounds Sterling on booze, and so their navy sucks. CASE IN POINT: the HMS Astute, a fancy new submarine that is supposed to be invisible to sonar because of fancy British technology, not-so-astutely got itself stuck in the mud off the coast of Scotland. Is there video? Oh, you bet there’s video. Was this video shot by someone who works for some kind of otter rescue group? BELIEVE IT”
Read more at http://wonkette.com/427479/dumb-british-submarine-stuck-in-mud#p4WVBqIeRCmyhHwe.99
@ 41 Marcos Alejandro
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think it must be a close run thing for the title “Dumbest Fucker In Argentina” with so may dumb fuckers in the country but guess what?
YOU HAVE WON!
A story from 2010 about a brand-new British submarine, one of the most complex mechanisms on the planet, and it had a slight control malfunction due to a faulty part which was replaced easily and cost (if memory serves me well) about U$D 37!
Contrast that with your old TR1700's that lie in your docks unable to set to sea nevermind dive: well not if they want to surface again anyway. AND the cost of repairs for this old, obsolete junk AND the fact that your country never pays it's bills has made Blohm & Voss wash their hands of them.
Meanwhile, your worst nightmare, a British submarine MIGHT be sitting 200 miles off the coast with cruise missiles already targeted to take The Pink Whorehouse out. Let us hope so anyway.
How about that “Dumbest Fucker In Argentina”?
39 Chris....I agree. But, that was then, this is now. Things have changed even here in Argentina.
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From the Independent:
The theme of this year’s event is Pride Heroes and Alan Turing has been selected as one of the LGBT figures which is being celebrated.
Family members including his great-niece Clare Dowling are representing the legacy of the revolutionary computer scientist. She marched alongside Japanese technology company Fujitsu who have chosen Turing as their Pride Hero for his contribution to technology.
41@
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0never let the truth go by without at least one correction,
[-- There is always a good time to celebrate English defeats in Buenos Aires -]
please correct me if im wrong, but ARGENTINA under any name, has Never , ever beaten the English Army,
now like all liars, prove me wrong.
“Britain's 'forgotten' invasion of Argentina”
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“A second, better-resourced invasion followed in May 1807, under Lieutenant-General John Whitelock, attacking Buenos Aires in July. After a couple of days of intense street fighting, the British surrendered to an army it had considered no more than a rabble.
After losing more than half his force, the British signed a ceasefire on 7 July and left for home, where Whitelock was court-martialled and discharged”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4779479.stm
Soon after Spain was sent back to Europe as well.
And they were not all British soldiers ,
Jun 28th, 2015 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and the enemy was not all Argentinians, , as Argentina did not exist at this time,
so yes a defeat, and he was court-martialled and discharged,
still, it proves you cant win them all...
Marcos, would Argieland be happy with the suffix .arse ? We know you like Lamas while Paul prefers Guanacos, but .arse seems to suit you fine. BTW when you next spot Cretina let her know we still have a few Gloucester Meteors for sale. :-lll
Jun 28th, 2015 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You should be proud of your country, no other nation has roll over destroyers!
@26
Jun 28th, 2015 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina judge orders asset seizure of Falklands oil firms”
Another impotent release of bullshit. I hear that Singer is waiting for the Argentine Navy to send a ship (one still floating) to the Falklands. Once the Argy ship (the Liberturd?) docks-it will be impounded and Singer will be on the first flight to MPA to make sure NML grab it.
So an Argentine judge will enable another judge to seize Argentine assets-suck that up, Marcos.
@45
“Britain's 'forgotten' invasion of Argentina”
So as Argentina/Spain did so well in 1807, what went wrong in 1982 when you had all the advantages, including that of hindsight and still had your arses handed to you on a plate?
Don't you learn from the past? That makes what the UK did in 1982 even more impressive.
@41
“Dumb British Submarine Stuck In Mud”
Is it still stuck after 5 years then?
CaptainSilver
Jun 28th, 2015 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How are your “destroyers” doing against ISIS?
It's easy to suffer no losses when you choose not to fight ISIS!
Jun 29th, 2015 - 03:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't mean they will treat you any better. It is better to fight now rather than hide behind someone else doing all the hard work. Very reminiscent of WW2 for most of Latin America.
@49
Jun 29th, 2015 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Have ISIS come out in support of Argetna's legtimate rights to the Malvinas, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime spaces yet? What's keeping them?
2. skip
Jun 29th, 2015 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0a new non-state entities code may be : .mv, the new governor in Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica & South Atlantic Islands have to upload the project to the province legislature.
How are your “destroyers” doing against ISIS
Jun 29th, 2015 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never actually see a destroyer in the desert or outside Baghdad,
but the RAF are doing just fine, and our military trainers are doing ok,
how abt your destroyers...lol
@49
Jun 29th, 2015 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How are your “destroyers” doing ”
Fine, they are still afloat and traversing the world's oceans.
Impress us. How many of yours are still floating and how many foreign ports have they visited since the Liberturd escaped being impounded?
For those that watched the last Top Gear, did anyone notice that Jeremy Clarkson's 4x4 was flying 'Desire the Right'! Good on ya, Clarkson!
Jun 29th, 2015 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.falklands.gov.fk/our-people/
Proud, resourceful and self sufficient, the Falkland Islanders are a people who have lived in their home for nearly 200 years.
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/our-people/
.fk Modern with history.
.ar Backward with a lot less history, didn't Timerman, Filmus & CFK families only turn up in 1920's & 1930's! Full of lying claims, ending up where?
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