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What absolute nonsense. This is a list of countries just off the top of my head that has sued Google in the last decade: United States European Union

What absolute nonsense. This is a list of countries just off the top of my head that has sued Google in the last decade: United States European Union (which consists of multiple member states) Australia France Germany Italy Spain Russia India Brazil South Korea Turkey Canada

withinboredom 3y ago
My current country isn't on that list. Obviously, you're missing well over a hundred countries on that list.
- wtf_is_up 3y ago
  Goal posts: moved
- pb7 3y ago
  In today’s episode of “people from countries that create nothing whining about not having access to other countries’ technologies”…
  - withinboredom 3y ago
    I suspect you like watching DVDs and using your Bluetooth headphones while connected to your WiFi?
HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
The members of the EU are countries, not states (& the EU itself is a political/economic alliance, not a country).
- CptFribble 3y ago
  "State" in this context is the same as the state in "head of state," AKA "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government." Other examples of this usage are "nation-state" and "city-state." It is common to refer to the members of the EU as "member states."
  - HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
    So then why not just refer to the whole list as states rather than countries ? IMO it be weird to do so, but at least consistent. I'm curious what state you're from where it's normal to refer to EU members as "member states" ? USA perhaps ?
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- khazhoux 3y ago
  Of course they know that. How dumb would one have to be to not know France, Italy, Germany are countries? :-)
  - HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
    So then why not refer to them as countries - that's how they would refer to themselves (I'm ex-UK myself). Doesn't make any sense to say "I know they're countries but I'm just gonna call them states instead". The EU context doesn't make any difference.
    - khazhoux 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union > The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. "State" made perfect sense in context of the post.
- gpm 3y ago
  "State" refers to "any sovereign polity". The US is weird here in that it pretends it's internal political divisions are sovereigns and refers to them as states, but that doesn't make every other country in the world not a state. Definition from wikitionary (but nothing is special about this choice of dictionary, you should find a similar definition in any dictionary): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun
ajmurmann 3y ago
It's not only past incidents. At some point you've had enough trouble that you shift your stance from "we don't know about any issues in that region" to "we haven't gone through our approval process with legal for that region".

withinboredom 3y ago

My current country isn't on that list. Obviously, you're missing well over a hundred countries on that list.

wtf_is_up 3y ago
Goal posts: moved
pb7 3y ago
In today’s episode of “people from countries that create nothing whining about not having access to other countries’ technologies”…
- withinboredom 3y ago
  I suspect you like watching DVDs and using your Bluetooth headphones while connected to your WiFi?

HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago

The members of the EU are countries, not states (& the EU itself is a political/economic alliance, not a country).

CptFribble 3y ago
"State" in this context is the same as the state in "head of state," AKA "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government." Other examples of this usage are "nation-state" and "city-state." It is common to refer to the members of the EU as "member states."
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
  So then why not just refer to the whole list as states rather than countries ? IMO it be weird to do so, but at least consistent. I'm curious what state you're from where it's normal to refer to EU members as "member states" ? USA perhaps ?
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khazhoux 3y ago
Of course they know that. How dumb would one have to be to not know France, Italy, Germany are countries? :-)
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
  So then why not refer to them as countries - that's how they would refer to themselves (I'm ex-UK myself). Doesn't make any sense to say "I know they're countries but I'm just gonna call them states instead". The EU context doesn't make any difference.
  - khazhoux 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union > The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. "State" made perfect sense in context of the post.
gpm 3y ago
"State" refers to "any sovereign polity". The US is weird here in that it pretends it's internal political divisions are sovereigns and refers to them as states, but that doesn't make every other country in the world not a state. Definition from wikitionary (but nothing is special about this choice of dictionary, you should find a similar definition in any dictionary): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun

ajmurmann 3y ago

It's not only past incidents. At some point you've had enough trouble that you shift your stance from "we don't know about any issues in that region" to "we haven't gone through our approval process with legal for that region".