Mr. F. Morales left an interesting [read: lame] comment on my post about MPAA/security stupidity down here in Guatemala (at the Miraflores / Cinepolis mall). The mall *banned* all cameras and recording equipment, and actually goes around enforcing this. (Although, this isn't any different than Disney does these days in the states.) Basically, he swears at me and tells me to put up with stupidity or get out of the country. I replied to him already, so we'll leave that alone.

What he did remind me of was a time I met another overzealous "Defender of the Republic". I was once driving home, only to find that some people had decided to park all over the road, completely blocking it off. They were all inside some little party; they weren't even thinking of moving their cars. We waited a few minutes.

Then I got out and found whoever was around there and asked them why they were such morons by parking their vehicles there, and if I should move them or if they were going to take care of it. I got a long flaming response about how I shouldn't insult people just cause they're from another country and things aren't as good as they are in the USA.

I started choking from laughter. I nicely explained to the person that being an idiot is a trans-gender, trans-racial, and international designation. I don't care if this guy is from Guatemala, Canada, Zimbabwe or Manchuria. If you park your car in the road blocking me from getting home without any reason besides laziness, I'll yell at you. Some people are so insecure or sensitive about their <whatever> (be it their OS, database engine (MySQL anyone? :)), religion, or country). Sometimes, just *sometimes*, it helps to think a bit before you get annoyed about a particular bit of criticism.