DocTomoe

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811.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
And still, when I think 'low-quality and probably life-destroying yellow press', I do not think United States, I think United Kingdom. Fox News feels almost liberal compared to the likes of the Daily Mail or (shudder) the Express.
812.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
It is legitimate to tax consumption of goods and services, e.g. make gondolieres pay an extra 10 Euros of taxes per trip. It is not legitimate to tax people based on race, sex, or country of origin - in fact, the entry fee scheme probably v
813.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
So, with a movie, who is the "creator"? The studio? But those folks are the source of the problem with their licensing deals. The director? The screen writer? Camera crews? Actors? Props? It's easier with books, or music (wit
814.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Like stuff day tourists do. Those gondolieres? Standard Venetians usually don't use them. Entry to palazzos? Ferries? Street coffees? Raise the damn prices! (Offer a highly discounted year pass to not affect locals).
815.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
.. incidentally just around that time tourism became a problem, especially in places like Venice.
816.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Or instead of raising bureaucracy and locking out people (not everyone has a smartphone), you could do the more sensible approach and just make things more expensive overall until less people come.
817.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Given it's 9% for my cohort (1980), I'd say childhood mortality is mostly focussed on the first year.
818.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Copyright extension being flown through Congress in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
819.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Musk announced Twitter layoffs happening - and he hasn't even finalized the purchase of the company.
820.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
I don't get the "abandoned venues" line. There are successful post-olympic uses - for starters, the Munich olympic park is still a major meeting area, and is still used for sports. It's Olympic village is a great place t
821.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Yep, the subways, the streets, the parks, the new apartments, the sports venues, that all only benefits the rich and the connected. Calm your horses, Mr. Marx.
822.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
In my book, that only increases the trustworthiness of Kaspersky, in the same way that I tend to trust prosecutors whom the Mafia dislikes.
823.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
This is not the first attempt to set something like this up in the EU (in fact, the directive is some 10 years old), and it won't be the last. In the end, it will die like all the projects that come before it, because with 27 member st
824.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Disclaimer: I've gone to school in a much saner, and much cheaper system. I feel that only helping the subset of students who - with seeing eye - moved into an expensive course and then could not pay back later, while not somehow givin
825.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, the whole 'donation' thing was a plant, a mockup using then-current tech, to make people believe exactly that: that the NRO somehow was decades ahead in their sensors/mirrors game.
826.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
We are not, because he could also have had contact with particularly hot sauce, or an allergy, or an influenza infection, or covid, or early stages of worse things. There is a reason why we train medical doctors for years before they start
827.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
And of course, the reason why we stopped using hydrogen for airships in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
828.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
No career progression in eight years would imply that it might have been.
829.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
> The bigger and more bureaucratic a company is, the more certs tend to matter. Also: The more your role is "external consultant", the more certifications matter.
830.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
The idea is that right now, this is only for people in really bad shape, but with advances and experience, this may become a more standard thing for people in less bad shape. You first try the new, experimental drug on people who may die so
831.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Yes. And sometimes to the gallows. In fact, there were offenders still being convicted for this in 2018 [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/1...
832.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
> This is barbaric: Flogging -> "Flogging is employed as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations" I think it is a lot less barbaric than imprisoning people for smoking weed, for years, or have them a
833.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
See also: Wikipedia Foundation.
834.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Small area means less space to put large prisons on it - which means punishment moves to more corporeal and less incarceration. Especially with "morality" laws, where there is no real reason to protect society from a "crimina
835.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
"Just doing my job" hasn't been a valid excuse for accepting crimes against humanity ever since 1945. Sometimes doing the right thing comes with a cost, and sometimes, that cost is non-negotiable.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That massively depends on whom you ask. Karl-Heinz Stockhausen often is mentioned in this context - but that guy is an acquired taste, and the older I get, the more I like his work. Morton Feldman is also a household name, which I personall
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In the spirit of beneficial discussion: Nowhere I implied that that was a majority opinion with Jews. It was - however - a popular opinion of influential members of Jewish organisations within Munich, back when the ban was originally enacte
838.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
> nobody demanded that European (and for that matter, Canadian[1]) courts wanting stuff gone internationally is well-documented[2]. It is not unconceivable that German enforcement agencies would use similar tactics. Once you give them th
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Better a GRU-managed honey pot than a CIA-managed honey pot. My country is a vassal to the US, not the Russians, and GRU power over me is considerably less threatening.
840.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
I wonder if you would also claim "rule of law" when let's say North Korea tries banning the German news infrastructure world-wide, or Iran bans depiction of unveiled women on the internet, or China starts going against Wikipe

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