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by Atropos 14y ago
The real reason why they are banned: Because the majority of the parliament wanted it that way and voted for the rule. I don't get the outrage at all, why shouldn't the parliament get to decide how they run their own sessions?
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by Atropos 14y ago
The regions debt is 27 billion euros, spending or saving 100.000 euros on tablets doesnt make any real difference. Incredible that I'm getting downvoted for this. So if you have 100,000 $ student debt, you should stop sending holiday cards
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by Atropos 14y ago
I'm not judging CleanIT at all, I'm merely pointing out that their connection to the EU or its legislative agenda is practically nonexistent at the moment. The article headline is clearly FUD.
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by Atropos 14y ago
Hyperbole bordering on propaganda again. The 27 EU countries elect their governments democratically. Then the council of these democratically elected governments appoints the EU commission for the specific time frame of 5 years and the appo
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by Atropos 14y ago
This is ridiculous and misinformed Anti-EU propaganda. If you look at the CleanIT website, you can see that this is just a project by the "Law Enforcement or Counter terrorism departments" of some European Countries. The project explicitly
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by Atropos 14y ago
Theoretically the EU privacy laws do not apply to you, the scope of the law concerns EU territory only. But of course I don't know how Facebook will handle its compliance, so maybe changing your country to an EU state might work.
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by Atropos 14y ago
The laws are "restrictive" in the sense that they don't like opt-out mechanisms. They place few if any restrictions what a company can do if the user actively opts in. If the personal data price is such a small to pay, convincing your user
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by Atropos 14y ago
That is really incredible work! I bet Codecademy is happy they already received their $10m round...
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by Atropos 14y ago
The asset freecing is one thing, but trying to prosecute a company without an US address under US criminal law is much more troubling. If I have a personal blog, should it be possible to hold me accountable according to the criminal laws of
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by Atropos 14y ago
That is true but not because of the "lawyer monopoly" because of the bar requirement. Google has their own legal department and if required they could easily find a 50$/hour attorney to file everything they write in court... In my opinion t
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by Atropos 14y ago
I only used the word "socialism" because the other commenter used it - in the original meaning of the word it doesn't exist anywhere in Europe. What I meant is simply bad regulation. You are correct that some of the nordish countries have
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by Atropos 14y ago
At the moment only Greece (2,65% of eurozone gdp), Portugal (1,83%) and Ireland (1,82%) have received bailouts - which makes 6,3% not "half the Eurozone melting down". Spanish banks may get a €100b bankout aswell - big deal. But I agree wit
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by Atropos 14y ago
Yeah Europe is stupid, if only our leaders were as wise as a random blogger! But please explain me this: EUR/USD started at 1,17 at inception and it is still at 1,26 now. US 10 year bond yield is 1,67420 and Germany's is 1,58100. US debt/gd
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by Atropos 14y ago
Interesting company / "press release". So their CTO is named "Nasser G", their contact is named "Nick W". They have venture capital funding by an unnamed "private equity group". According to their website, they are based in Kansas City, Mis
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by Atropos 14y ago
I disagree with all the negative comments here, if I understand the article correctly, they found a correlation like "IF you are depressed, THEN you might anxiously check your emails all the time'' They arent saying this internet use patter
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by Atropos 14y ago
Yeah the law really doesn't mean alot. I know for a fact that the usual suspects like bankers, lawyers, middle management work crazy hours like everywhere else. There was actually a high court decision not long ago, where a lawyer demanded
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by Atropos 14y ago
What would the world be like, if you could instantly buy every book as an ebook anywhere in the world, if ereaders were clearly more convenient to use than paperbooks and if they were so cheap, that everybody who now owns 1 book would own 1
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by Atropos 14y ago
I always find it very hard to grasp the value of software companies intuitively. If Facebook is worth $100b right now, it is already bigger than Amazon or Siemens! Of course a huge part of the value is an x% chance bet on future growth / fu
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by Atropos 15y ago
Page 15 of the complaint is fairly damming. Apparently "Campbells Biology" uses a bear eating a fish + running to explain thermodynamics and even this example appears in their version... It might possibly be legal, but I feel it shouldn't b
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by Atropos 15y ago
The problem with ACTA is that many of the clauses are very much open to interpretation and often times only understandable if you have all the protocols - which are not available to the public. However there is a petition by law professors
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by Atropos 15y ago
On the one hand this is a great result, congratulations to the Polish activists for acting and achieving this! However I'm a bit sad the protests happened so late and only in Poland. ACTA had been negotiated since 2008, the final draft bein
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by Atropos 15y ago
I do understand the debt spiral argument. However if you look at eurostat public debt graphs ( http://goo.gl/XX9f5 ) it seems to me that Italy,Spain,Finland "Debt to GDP" all went down from 1995 to 2008, of course then the financial crisis
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by Atropos 15y ago
I believe this "Cannot print their own money" argument is simply misdirection. I would guess 90% of all countries worldwide have their own currency and some are doing great and others are doing very badly. If you look at the world banks doi
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by Atropos 15y ago
I somewhat agree with you, however I do not know the US system very well. In Germany university admission is done by grades alone; however we don't really have elite universities like the ivies, but all universities are at a rather mediocre
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by Atropos 15y ago
Yes you are correct for company law, but not tax law, see the §§ 1, 2 of the german corporate income tax law. ("KStG" http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kstg_1977/BJNR025990976.ht... ). Unfortunately there is no official english version, bu
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by Atropos 15y ago
Regarding taxes the rule would probably be the same everywhere in Europe. However nothing would (legally) stop you to base your company in Ireland or Estonia etc... The EU flexibility rather concerns other aspects. For example in Germany if
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by Atropos 15y ago
Regarding payment gateways: The EU is already on it, see the SEPA project: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/sepa/html/index.en.html However like anything in the EU it moves very slow, I believe the target is to phase the first national syste
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by Atropos 15y ago
It will be interesting to see how stricter data protection laws play out. The EU will make a new data protection directive in 2012/2013, and other new laws like in Singapore or HongKong are more influenced by the EU standard than by US stan
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by Atropos 15y ago
If you believe that currency market are somewhat efficient, the chances of a catastrophe happening are already priced in. For example, the Eur vs. Swiss Francs historically hovered around the 1,50 mark for a long time; now it's at 1,23. The
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by Atropos 15y ago
The troubles are caused by overspending + bad policies. The Euro however makes the problem slightly worse, because they cant artificially devalue their currencies. If you look at the rankings in "World Bank Ease of Doing Business" and "Heri

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