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by pluma 8y ago
The reason for Germany carrying that title at the time was the cost of reunification, not the economy itself. West Germany was still doing relatively fine but East Germany required massive investments. Germany was hit by the early 00s reces
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by pluma 8y ago
Determine the relevant data protection agency (usually at a national level -- if in doubt, it's your country's) and report it to them.
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by pluma 8y ago
Or just fine them if they try to assert rights they aren't legally allowed to assert. After all you're trying to trick consumers into thinking they are subject to a contract that's actually invalid.
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, considering the US now officially is a country that's using torture (on principle, even if we accept the wordplay around defining waterboarding and solitary confinement as "not torture"), I wouldn't be surprised.
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by pluma 8y ago
That's why most contracts contain a clause that specifically accounts for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability That said, under German consumer protection laws a ToS may also not contain anything that
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by pluma 8y ago
A lot of contracts (especially ToS) are just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks. I've yet to see a ToS or EULA that's 100% enforceable in the EU and I'd be surprised to hear they're 100% enforceable even in the
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm not sure about how this works in the US but in my country (Germany) "commercial use" does not actually require money to change hands or operating at a net profit. And last I checked copyright laws (if they apply to the co
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by pluma 8y ago
Also, it's a well-understood principle that soldiers are more comfortable actually killing the enemy if you actively dehumanize the enemy. Humans are generally very unwilling to actually kill other humans even in war so teaching them n
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by pluma 8y ago
You're right, I mixed up the SFE with Milgram. I always found the SFE a lot less interesting/remarkable so I'm not too surprised to find out it's sketchy at best.
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by pluma 8y ago
It hurts small startups trying to perpetuate the same blatant disregard for human rights as American startups have done in the past. It doesn't hurt small startups that are privacy-aware and treat their users with respect. Not giving u
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by pluma 8y ago
At least thanks to GDPR these companies now have to tell you and (in some cases) explicitly request your specific consent, rather than just doing it behind your back.
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by pluma 8y ago
Or Amazon's "Prime costs more now but it also includes Amazon Video which was so popular we couldn't get anyone to pay for it extra".
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by pluma 8y ago
So how does Abu Ghraib fit into this?
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by pluma 8y ago
Thanks for the link, but I don't think the raw legal document is the most readable form for a layperson. Here's a more structured version: https://gdpr-info.eu/ To elaborate on my original point: the GDPR establis
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by pluma 8y ago
To clarify, the injuries were not always related to the coal itself. There were a lot of heavy machinery and unstable tunnels, i.e. amputations, crushing and disfigurement. The area has a history of coal mining that goes back for almost a t
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by pluma 8y ago
My first reading of that headline was that "bombs" means unexploded ordnance (which is a regular problem for construction projects in my home town thanks to WW2 air raids). I'm not sure if this means I'm sheltered or lev
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by pluma 8y ago
I've been to Paris a few times and when people tell me they want to go there for romantic reasons, I just tell them to go to Bruges instead. The Old Town of Bruges is exactly the way most people seem to imagine Paris: old buildings, re
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by pluma 8y ago
I don't know about the history of plastic surgery in the US, but in Germany apparently a lot of the plastic surgery for veterans was based on experience treating coal miners. Due to the frequent and horrific injuries, some coal mines h
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by pluma 8y ago
Careful with the "we". This is very much just an American thing.
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by pluma 8y ago
You haven't read the GDPR, have you?
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by pluma 8y ago
If your business model can't be made GDPR compliant, your business model is abusive and defunct.
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by pluma 8y ago
Which is why it is illegal to market prescription medicine to consumers. Not in the US, of course.
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by pluma 8y ago
Facebook et al. make money by harvesting your data and using it so other people can try to sell you stuff. Apple makes money by holding your data hostage to convince you to buy expensive hardware. That said, Apple's business model does
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by pluma 8y ago
The reason Apple is so big is that they were clever enough not to create an anti-competitive monopoly. Ironically the way they did this was by creating a walled garden that doesn't actually allow for any competition. They produce their
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by pluma 8y ago
Paramount to achieving what exactly? And in whose best interest? This sounds a lot like post-hoc rationalization. Are you trying to argue that a Japanese SSR would have tipped the scales so significantly the Soviets could have succeeded (an
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by pluma 8y ago
My grandfather, a wine drinker all his life, suffered severe dementia in his final years. There is no magic bullet.
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by pluma 8y ago
Your POV only works if you assume that Soviet Union invading Japan is an undesirable outcome for the Allies. Japan had good reasons to want to avoid a Soviet occupation because they had only just recovered territory they had previously lost
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by pluma 8y ago
My point was that a phrase that might have meanings {A,B,C} when translated might end up having meanings {A,D,E} (keeping its primary intended meaning A but also gaining unintended meanings D and E while losing B and C) or, at best, {A,B} (
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by pluma 8y ago
As the other commenter pointed out, the distinction is that citizens of CCAA were citizens of Rome. You're right that Cologne was founded before "colonia" gained its distinctive meaning of status, though, but my statement abo
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by pluma 8y ago
As a fellow German: I don't think puns are very popular in German (except for intentionally cheesy dad jokes). The closest equivalent I can think of are sentences where the joke lies in using a different word at the end than the (likel

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