Cuba's Flying Pizzas

Ever since the Cuban government expanded private enterprise in 2010 and legalized small and medium-sized businesses in 2016, people all over Cuba have been coming up with clever ways to make a buck.

Since most of these businesses involve creating and/or selling wares out of an individual's home budding entrepreneurs have to come up with creative ways to deliver products to their customers.

At A Mi Manera pizzeria creative delivery involves "flying pizzas", because owner Marta Castaeda cooks the pizzas on the roof of her apartment building and sends them "flying" down on a rope.

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This Great Big Story video showcases the neighborhood success story of A Mi Manera pizzeria, a shining example of the entrepreneurial spirit sweeping through Cuba.

We dish up more neat food posts at the Neatolicious blog

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My wife just rolls her eyes and shakes her head when I tell her there are corporations like this in the world. She just thinks it's all a big conspiracy theory. "No corporation could be THAT powerful," is her logic.
This kind of thing started with the freakin' Hanseatic League. RAND is but the latest - and most successful - incarnation of such a monster. Any corporation that is so powerful that it can actually drive, not merely influence, government decisions is too powerful for any democracy.
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"RAND is directly responsible for packet switching, the technology that made the Internet possible. It all started in the 1960s, when the military asked RAND researchers to solve a hypothetical question: If the Soviet Union destroyed all of our communication systems with a nuclear bomb, how could we fight back?"

This is a myth, the originators of the Internet have stated that surviving a nuclear strike, never came into the design.

"It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started, claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
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In the film, Strangelove referred a study as having commissioned "by the Bland Corporation" to study the idea of a Doomsday Machine, but having rejected it "for reasons which at this moment are all too obvious."
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I worked at Rand as a administrative assistant for over 5 years. To me, the culture appeared to encourage collaboration - but at the end of the day, highly competitive and back-stabbing. Who is writing the best paper and who is getting kudos and listed in references. Very high stress for us - keeping over ten researchers happy. Still recovering from the militant atmosphere and horrible supervisor.
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