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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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