Miscellaneous Pictures of Spain

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		Atop any sizable ridge along a freeway, you'll spot one of the thousands of ubiquitous roadside black bull billboards. These were once advertising, and are now a beloved national icon.

		OK, it is a Unix fire extinguisher. Some serious brand confusion. :HCF: /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to {toggle} a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up. (From the Jargon Dictionary)

		Apparently political ideas are sometimes communicated via spray paint in rural areas of Spain -- this shot happens to be in Extremadura, but we saw this sort of thing in Toledo as well. Fascism may be ignorance, but what then is Anarchy? Hipster stupidity?

		A Guardia Civil headquarters in Ronda. The Guard acts as a rural police force. We were caught in a random roadblock -- a tool of choice for catching auto thieves.

		Another shot of a roadside bull billboard.

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