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by DominikR 11y ago
It doesn't matter to them how much Google earns, it is threatening the business model of EU media corporations. Therefore the framework of rules must be changed. This is protectionism.
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But once these plans apply to every single EU state Google will in effect have to choose between leaving the EU market or paying. That's at least the plan they have come up with. If they severely limit the Internet in the process doesn
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This is one of the reasons why the IT industry in the EU is so weak when compared to the US. As a citizen of an EU state I can't help but feel that we are here governed by complete morons.
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I'm not so sure about the high volume low cost part, considering that iPhones, Macs and all kinds of modern consumer electronics we love to use are imported from China.
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Many things can affect your reasoning, that is true. But the issue is how do you prove it, and if so, does it even matter what you prove if the person isn't harming anyone? Coercing someone into psychiatric treatment in some facility u
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> It isn't a choice between institutionalizing people or leaving them to fend for themselves entirely. I didn't say that it is a binary choice of either forcing them into a psychiatric ward or letting them rot on the streets. O
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Thank you for the link, I've never heard about Szaz before. But I must say that I agree with many points he makes although I disagree with some. In my naive view (this is not my profession) many persons that are just to some degree dif
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I overreacted here, I don't believe that taxing equals stealing. It's just how quickly people that have this wish for the nanny state will claim they have a right to your resources for their very well thought out plans. Plans like
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> A government has the duty to provide for the welfare of their people. You state this as if it is an universal principle. It is not. Why don't you and everybody else provide for your own welfare? > In a psychiatric institution y
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You can very objectively prove that a person is missing a limb but often you cannot prove that a person is mentally ill. Often persons will be categorized as mentally ill just because they deviate in their beliefs or lifestyle from the main
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Mentally ill persons enjoy the same rights that other citizens enjoy and have their own free will. As long as a person didn't commit any crime and is no risk to society or oneself you cannot institutionalize him or her. In any case I w
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by DominikR 11y ago
They deprecated the API for 3rd party developers. That doesn't mean they don't use it anymore. Facebook frequently deprecates APIs without providing any kind of replacement when they feel that 3rd parties abuse the APIs too much f
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by DominikR 11y ago
Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Weechat use XMPP. I wouldn't say it is dead.
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> ChromeOS can do most of the tasks that an everyday Internet user might want. Sure, if you say so it must be true. > How many insecure ChromeOS devices are there out there? How many ChromeOS devices in absolute numbers are out there
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I don't know what's so horrible about an OS that by default encrypts all data on the device, allows applications only to run in a sandbox and uses SELinux.
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Try building an email client that supports presence (online/offline/busy/custom state), subscriptions, group chat with different admin levels (owner, admin, member ...), message receipt and read notifications, chat state noti
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But aren't both the same?
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Regarding the hospital: I just noted that you jump conclusions on this issue even while investigation has not been finished yet. You just hope or want to believe that the US military didn't bomb the structure on purpose. > I find it
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I do not care if I'm a better person than someone else. I'll leave that to you.
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Why is it obvious that the attack on the hospital wasn't purposeful? This article by associated press indicates that they attacked the hospital on purpose. http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:5e20fcd92aee49e69...
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by DominikR 11y ago
One legitimate scenario is the US support for Jihadist organizations that operate all around the globe including in China. (Uyghur region) I think it is pretty clear who has the moral high ground on this one. For me this aspect of US foreig
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Media is in Russia overwhelmingly owned by private shareholders, so please get your facts straight.
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What is "blocking of religious freedom" even supposed to mean? Do you mean the freedom to be a Sunni Jihadist or following some other school of extremist indoctrination?
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Who or what prevented speaking your mind on the Internet while in Russia. I'd really like to know. It's not like they have a great firewall there where every foreign service is blocked. And yes, based on the sheer number of Russia
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Yes. Although I disagree with censorship where ever it happens, you can hardly argue that the blocked pages are political in nature. Wikipedia was blocked for drug and suicide related content and was since then unblocked. (after Wikipedia r
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> Take voting in North Caucasus, for example, where official turnover is 99% but tens of percents say in polls that they never go to elections. You know Chechens are the most fervent Russian nationalists today? They experienced the joys
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I see Russians everywhere on the Internet speaking their mind freely and hosting political Youtube channels. The government has nowhere near the grip on information it had during the USSR. Additionally Russians can access all Western media
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> Current regime in Russia has learned the lesson Why is it a "regime"? Putin was democratically elected and even Western opinion research institutes unequivocally attest that he is supported by 85 to 90 percent of the Russian
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He could take a nihilist, hedonistic position. It doesn't matter if he hurts someone through his acts if there is no one to judge him. Of course atheists are not devoid of morals and certainly not all religious people are acting in a m
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Yes, with the absence of god Stalin for example justified a whole lot of things. So did Mao. One shouldn't underestimate the effect of an authority (possibly imagined - I don't want to argue about this here) that might judge you n

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