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by gonvaled 8y ago
No, I prefer to talk US bullying to anybody willing to swap the dollar for euros for example (Iranian Oil Bourse). And it is quite rich to say "we have reduced military affairs": the EU is suffering a massive migration crisis caus
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by gonvaled 8y ago
> But they are not mine Well, trade war it is then. And it might not be so easy to win against 95% of the world. Specially seeing how unfairly the US has been acting internationally: trade disputes are minor issues compared to the milita
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Maybe, but why would the EU do that? China is a reliable trading partner.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Nicer yes, but not nice at all: fake wars, dollar bullying and rules ownership (global IP and trade laws are made by US for US) has given the US a tilted playing field. The US is still by far the richest country. If it has blue collar probl
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by gonvaled 8y ago
That is how you reduce the deficit: americans consume a lot, so the US borrows, and the deficit is high. Put another way: one way, the easiest for the US, to reduce the deficit is to reduce consumption. This will happen more or less automat
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Ideology is not pure, it is just a tool to further one's position. Whenever the US considers that communism is to its advantage, it will turn communist. Unfortunately, it has the military might to impose its will.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
And the EU would not be dealing with a migration crisis. While the US refuses to take Sirian migrants.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Don't worry, the rest of the world carries the cost - more so now that the US is out of Paris. Then the US likes to point out how "unfairly" they are being treated on trade ...
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by gonvaled 8y ago
There you have it. The motivation for this new legislation is to change those facts: correct tax "avoidance" and prevent powerful foreign corporations to spy and steal assets (i.e. news snippets). It seems the US is very sensitive
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by gonvaled 8y ago
He only beats the improved one once, as far as I can recall - the last time, the one that matters, when they go all out.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Maybe europeans are ruining it because (insert here giant US Corp) has been stealing tax revenue, and because the US gov is spying on europeans.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
By trying to make governments irrelevant, the big internet companies will end up in the bin of history. I would say that it is understandable that China or the EU are not happy to see how their tax revenue is siphoned out to the US (in the
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Not only american companies: the american government does it in a regular basis. Here is one example: https://www.facts-are-facts.com/news/iranian-oil-bourse It is not paranoia if they are really after you.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Most countries would not be signatories of such an accord, so there would be little to withdraw from. Paris was a hard-fought compromise, involving concessions from all involved. A difficult negotiation, achieved with great effort and time
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by gonvaled 8y ago
The world does not care about the minutiae of US's internal political system. In the case of Paris, an agreement was signed and not respected.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Indeed. And by leading with that example, the US will find itself tasting its own medicine when (not if ) power ratios change. Same thing happened with cold war: once the US abused russia's weakness to increse its area of influence, a
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by gonvaled 8y ago
You are right, but my plane is taking off an I need to be brief: These all check: - iran - TTIP - NAFTA - Paris accord And more
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Corrected, thanks!
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Not op, but pretty much, yes. GDP per capita is still way lower for China compared to US. China is perfectly justified in playing a system built by the winners for the winners. Much luck to them in making the hypocrisy of the system more cl
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Every time they buy one lab and crush it down, they are losing money. The amount they lose depends on two things: 1 - how much profit the lab owners are making (otherwise, why sell it to DeBeers) 2 - how many labs per year they need to buy
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by gonvaled 8y ago
> The raw materials themselves, I think. After all, you have to supply the basic building blocks to replicate objects. That's why there is the feed in The Diamond Age, bringing the raw materials, plus vacuum and power. In the True S
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Reputation is misleading. The Special Theory of Relativity is not good because Einstein wrote it. It stands on its own. We could even argue that a purely meritocratic system of publishing will accelerate good quality research as opposed to
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by gonvaled 8y ago
> As such it's a natural unit of measure As natural as the number 360, and 60. I would argue the meter seems more natural, since it is related to 10 fingers ...
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by gonvaled 8y ago
M$ was fighting the GPL, which was a license that users were freely choosing. And it was fighting it, in great part, by actively lying.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
I do not blame M$ for competing. I blame them for FUDding. It could perfectly be that M$ had the better product or better TCO, or better support, or better whatever. But advancing their cause by FUDding was not ok.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
It is too easy to say "those persons are no longer responsible". I do not care who was responsible, I do not care how the company was structured or who was calling the shots. The company reaped the rewards, they get to keep the re
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by gonvaled 8y ago
They FUDed the market out of existence. The workpower left was not enough to produce a competitive product. Linus on Desktop is improving, but the damage is done. It happened long ago, but tbe ripples will be felt for centuries. They bear a
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by gonvaled 8y ago
In this context, Cops are not State, but a tool, used by Capital.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Somebody bears responsibility for past actions. That Somebody is M$. You say they are a better company now. We'll see. It is probably just a strategy. What they did had a huge cost: putting back computing science for decades, and proba
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Is the "size" of the economic groups given in population or income/wealth?

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