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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.