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by ionised 8y ago
> Indeed they can impose the maximum fines for a first offense, and are fully incentivized to do so). The EU has had the capacity to levy fines far greater than they typically have for a whole spectrum of violations of its laws and regul
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by ionised 8y ago
Don't worry, poor people will still age and die.
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by ionised 8y ago
So, you would prefer never to hear or even know about events for which you can not directly affect change?
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by ionised 8y ago
Absolutely.
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by ionised 8y ago
Better to just let people get away with whatever they want, right? I mean, as long as the crime made a lot of money, it can't really be a crime, surely?
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by ionised 8y ago
Fines are absorbed as a cost of doing business and are not a disincentive. Jail. Jail for a looooong time. Only in negatively and significantly affecting the life or lives of those responsible will there be adequate justice. Better question
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by ionised 8y ago
You don't. Though I suppose a dumb phone would do, or maybe a LineageOS/MicroG-based smartphone.
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by ionised 8y ago
> those with innate capacities for violence Pretty sure that's everybody.
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by ionised 8y ago
We deny that basic premise every day by building and maintaining a civilisation.
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by ionised 8y ago
> or me, having a voice interface for music and calls is enough justification for such a device, and I assume this is true for others as well. I wouldn't assume anything like that.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Video games, for example, have been trying to move to the cloud Trying and failing for a decade or more, because people like low latency and being able to customise things.
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by ionised 8y ago
Shit that works is a niche market now?
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by ionised 8y ago
Yes it matters that the third party you are talking about is not actually a third party at all.
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by ionised 8y ago
There is plenty of human or mammalian behaviour that we don't view as axiomatic virtues in the way you do, and take steps to curb or change them. This is one we can and should change.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Facebook's earnings/advertiser's spend coupled with demonstrated user behavior very quickly put your logic to rest I don't follow your leap of logic. I could just as easily say those earnings reports proof how effec
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by ionised 8y ago
I took it as a thinly veiled attempt to paint advertising as axiomatically good. If the poster didn't intend the post to come across that way, he may be experiencing an inherent bias in his opinion, in that he believes advertising is s
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by ionised 8y ago
How can you possibly prove this? The observations I have made tell me that for some stuff people will buy because it's a good deal (usually non-essential luxury stuff) but for things they actually need in their day-to-day, they pay ext
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by ionised 8y ago
> You do realize the CIA was responsible for the Snowden NSA leaks You'll have to provide proof to back up that claim, otherwise there's no reason to believe it.
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by ionised 8y ago
Great. So nobody learned anything, back to business as usual. Boom. Bust. Bailout. Boom. Bust. Bailout. And the tax payer will get the shaft, every time.
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by ionised 8y ago
> FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome. False. It's faster and lighter than Chrome on my machine.
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by ionised 8y ago
That's the Electron way isn't it? Cut corners and offload the trade-offs onto your end users.
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by ionised 8y ago
No, but I'm not ignorant or hostile enough to believe that everyone who didn't go to college is a Trump supporter.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Are taxi services suddenly bad, and driving a taxi for a living something to frown upon? Nowhere did he say or even suggest that. You are making a deliberately uncharitable interpretation of his post in order to weaken the point he was
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by ionised 8y ago
Whatever makes the most money.
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by ionised 8y ago
This is argumentum ad verecundiam , an appeal to authority (a logical fallacy that in no way backs up what you are saying), and not a very good one.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Except the wide open southern border is an easy point of insertion for Daesh and AQ operatives. > Therefore, it can be claimed as warzone under the AUMF. How delightfully convenient and simultaneously nonsensical. If you are going t
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by ionised 8y ago
> people should realise that forgein powers demotivate them against their own government, and now these demotivated people are the ones complaining about this kind of shit, preventing their own government from functioning normally. Oh t
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by ionised 8y ago
Nope.
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by ionised 8y ago
Browsing in full screen is just a waste of space on my preferred devices.
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by ionised 8y ago
Reviews are typically dated, so yes, they should stick around.

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