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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vote-often dept.

New submitter mcmadman writes "In a bizarre turn of events, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament, voted to weaken a reform of the copyright monopoly for allowing re-publication and access to orphan works. What is surprising is that the voter turnout happened to be 113%. That there were three votes too many, and that these three votes determined the outcome, was pointed out to the committee. Unfortunately, when this was done, along with formally requesting a re-vote, the re-vote was denied."

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  1. Rubbish by Kupfernigk · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The main reasons for the negativity directed against the EU in the UK are:
    • Rupert Murdoch wanted the UK to be a low-cost production area for his newspapers with poor worker protection - the EU prevents that
    • If the EU survives its early problems - so far no Civil War like the one the USA had on its way to union - it will eventually have more power than the US, and the US doesn't like that
    • Most European countries have standards of journalism which embarrass the likes of the Sun and the Mail - even Bild is moving up market slowly - and UK media owners are afraid of EU regulation
    • Small Conservative businesses who don't see why they shouldn't exploit their workforces
    • People who still think there is a British Empire.

    Personally, I feel that the European parliament is far more likely to do the right thing than the British one, simply because (a) it is far more diverse and (b) it has members from countries who know that war is a really bad thing.

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    From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
  2. The choice for F has a lot of sense in it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The freezing point is that of Brine (IIRC) at saturation. Since small impurities in *pure* water make a huge difference in the freezing point, but bugger all difference in brine, brine water is a lot easier to see freezing reliably to calibrate your lowest temperature. And a saturated brine solution is easy: keep adding salt until it starts precipitating out, then decant off the top.

    Simple. You don't need a pristine chemistry lab to set that.

    And as for "boiling point of water", well, what pressure?