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yea, I am not really sure why that is. Do they not like us? I don't believe I or anyone else here has really done anything to discourage those types.

I did get chewed in an email by a guest member / lurker for shutting down the gun thread, but that really had nothing to do with guns as much as putting out the flame war. The funny thing is, that guy chewed me out like 2 months after the gun thread was locked.

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Charles, I'm posting a little off-topic as the relevant "Medinah Mining" threads are either deleted or locked.

I've a question: why are you so kind to obviously spamming posters? I'd label such folk something like "Invader" or "Intruder", not "Guest"!

That said, it's your forum and, of course, you can make and change the rules as seems best to you. I simply am concerned that the friendly, informative atmosphere of AllChile not be altered by these spammers, that they be discouraged in every way from posting here.

Yea, I entertained the guy for a while. He is just pushing junk stock, he is not even looking for any information. I banned him when he posted a link to the mining company.

He is using proxies to access the forum. I have him connecting the first times from the United States, and then most recently from Canada.

For those that don't understand what is going on I will explain the scam.

Someone picks a penny stock and buys up some shares. Typically anyone will do.

Then you start spamming the internet talking up the stock. Everyone has likely seen the emails that promote stocks with a stock symbol in them. If you haven't, just check your junk mail bin for several million examples in your email accounts.

Well, if you send sufficient email then suckers do buy the stock and the price goes up. If it even moves a penny or two, then the spammer made their money. They dump the stock, and the people that bought it get nothing.

It is a pyramid scheme.

Now, mining stocks are especially vulnerable to this because banks and other financial organizations do this all the time.

A company finds some cool looking rocks. They go to a big bank for a loan. The bank puts its name on the loan, receiving stock in return as collateral. Average joe blow investor see that a big bank has put their name on the deal, and buys stocks also. The bank sells the stocks along with the corporate shareholders, and joe blow investor is left with nothing. By the way, the rocks have never even been kicked at the mining site let alone anything mined.

So, you can see how these two sorts of scams go well together.

As for being friendly to spammers, it is more just being careful. Sometimes they turn out to be some of our better members, they just get off to a bad start.

This guy is not one of them.

Understood -- now.

Thanks, Charles.

i find this 'topic' to be quite interesting.. so i will share why i am in chile.. like Magnz i met a girl.. and the rest is history.. but what makes living here 'doable' is definitely related to the level of technology that is available/accessible now days.. i am no tech savvy IT person.. far from it.. in actual fact for someone my age i am quite tech-challenged.. but i am learning and experimenting with it all.. having Internet access makes me being here possible.. i can trade stocks online.. i can call my stockbroker when i have problems next to no cost thanks to skype.. and thanks to ALLCHILE.NET i have also found the transition process a lot less scary due to the high level of input by the members.. so again.. Muchas Gracias

Back to the internet TV, I tried JLC's Internet TV, with good results.
This little program allow you to sort by country, and in the case of the USA by tv stations, by state and name.
It also indicates which stations are Up , so it saves some time, preventing the guessing game.
Very easy UI,and uses WMP or Real Player and is a Freeware........

Thanks Zulu, I'll give it a try.

Lara and Zulu...

I am probably one of the least adept techno people on this forum. So, if you find the JLC Internet TV works well, let me know. We used itunes earlier this year when we were in Futa, and while it worked well, I don't have a DVD burner to back up anything and my computer became severly hampered with several seasons of shows. I don't want to make a massive DVD library, I would just like to watch some things (PBS, late-night comedy, etc) without the annoying buffering.

Vicki

I decided to brave the techno world out there and try the internet TV listed above...maybe it's my connection wi-fi on the balcony of our apartment, but the buffering was pretty bad. And maybe it was just the channels I chose. I will try it once we get set up with high-speed, or whatever it is called.

Vicki

p.s. me on the internet is kind of like a three-year old driving an Indy car.

vicki, test with utube and some of the radio stations like NPR. It will let you know that it is either your connection or the particular website.

Hi! Not sure if anyone is still interested in this topic, but my husband and I have been watching U.S. TV successfully for a few weeks now via a Slingbox. It's great little invention (and no, I don't sell these).

You have to have a bit of cooperation from someone in the states as it is a hardware and software thing. The hardware part is a box that sits unobtrusively on someone's (in our case, a good friend) television and connect to their cable. (No, this is not illegal in the U.S. - yet. And yes, I am a lawyer.) It doesn't affect this person at all - just sits on their tv.

The software part is a video player on your computer. You just log in one time, essentially (I'm simplifying here), and then you can "control" your friend's cable. Literally - you have a remote control on screen and everything. In our case, our friend has Direct TV (although I understand it works with anything) and we get all gazillion of his channels. The higher the internet speed, the better the resolution, but we have ours fine-tuned now and its good enough for my husband to sit in front of the tv on the couch all day long on Saturday watching U.S. football (the reason we HAD to have the Slingbox to begin with, sigh). I hear that Sony makes a similar product, but I don't know anyone who has tried it. We then have an S-video cable from the laptop to the actual TV, so we watch it on the TV and everything.

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Please have a look at the forum rules at the link below, your post again, and you will see why I had to trim the end of that message.
http://www.allchile.net/chileforum/viewtopic.php?t=724

I just got internet in my rented cabin here in Futa last week. So I've been playing with internet TV a bit. By far the least intrusive (possible spyware, malware, etc.) is JLC's Internet TV which was discussed earlier in this thread. It's also completely free, you don't have to sign up for anything. After surfing the hundreds and hundreds of channels available, I've created my favorite list and enjoy decent streams. It takes some time reviewing channels but once I got the search and filter thing down, I came up with some great channels. My husband is still searching for a good sports channel for Soccer, NFL Football, etc. And if any of you know of any free channels or sites for that - DON'T YOU DARE REVEAL THEM!

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:There are also the pay for options like on iTunes where you can buy a season pass to a show and download all the previous episodes and each new one as it is released.

I like this option and have used it many times. My favorite tv/movies site (tvlinks.co.uk) went down a month or so ago even though they technically hadn't broken any laws, last I checked.

We don't have a TV and we don't miss having one (even without my favorite site...). We watch DVDs on our computers as well.

~Betsy