Things like "everyone is required to have an id at all times" , being mandated under the law to report changes of residence to authorities - all that shit,which is reserved to sexual offenders only in the USA, is considered normal in EU.
Is it? We don't even have ID cards in the UK so that is over 1/10th of the entire population of the EU who don't have ID cards. I don't know of anyone in any of the EU countries I've spoken to who have ever mentioned anything about being forced to report changes of residence to the authorities - you're certainly not required to in the UK. You should stop believing everything you watch on Fox News because its making you look stupid.
These rules will apply to any firms that handle the data of EU residents, regardless of whether the firms have any presence in the EU or not. That is the EU forcing its laws on the rest of the world. Why is there tremendous negative backlash when the US attempts to impose its laws on other countries but the EU gets a free pass when they do the same thing. It sure seems like a double standard to me.
The USA tried to extradite Richard O'Dwyer from the UK because of a website he ran which was illegal under US law but perfectly legal under UK law. So when it comes to countries trying to force their laws on the rest of the world the USA is right up there leading the way.
The right to be forgotten is such BS.
I say this as a European.
Why does some murderer have the right to be forgotten?
And in that one sentence you've demonstrated you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. Its not designed to enable that. Its designed to enable you to remove things like posts of stupid shit you did when you were a kid.
The minimum wage rises every year in the UK, most of those working in restaurants are affected yet we don't pay through the nose for food and you don't see any massive price hikes. You're literally talking complete and utter shite.
If that were the case then there wouldn't be the number of security issues they've found, the number of exploits they've found, the show stopping bugs that exist.
If broadcasting on the shortwaves is dying why are the number of amateur radio operators at an all time high? There's more than AM broadcast stations on it.
You can communicate around the world on it, I have. When the Nepal disaster happened it was amateur radio ops on 14MHz who were communicating in and out of the country. Similar story where there have been other natural disasters and the phone and internet has gone down. Aircraft use it when out of range of VHF for example as do ships. For something that is supposedly limited there is a hell of a lot of activity on it.
Just this week in Vicksburg, MS, there was a gunshot death due to the Castle Doctrine. If the couple hadn't used their *unlocked* firearm, the alternative would likely have been 3 stabbing deaths (this guy had already raped a elderly lady, kidnapped and killed her, and had just escaped prison--pretty sure these folks were marked for death--he was in the process of raping the wife.)
Meanwhile since Sandy Hook there have been over 140 school shootings with almost one per week for most of the past several years.
Perhaps he just doesn't care for the dictionary like he does his guns.
And yes, I would be sitting here shooting police or anyone else trying to take my guns..
I can guarantee that you wouldn't have the fucking balls to. Its easy to post that as a keyboard warrior but I can guarantee 100% that you would not be shooting police if they came for your guns unless you had some kind of mental problem which meant you should be the last person to ever own one. You're what makes me laugh about the second amenders. You all bleat on about how you'd fight the man with your guns if they came for them but when you get an event like the Kent State massacre where the National Guard opened up on students at Kent State university during the Vietnam War where were you then? Running away and not shooting at the National Guard. The one time you would have had a legitimate reason to shoot at government forces under the Second Amendment you second amenders were nowhere to be seen. You're cowards the whole lot of you.
I was sitting in a BBQ joint minding my own business when someone decided to start beating the hell out of the woman who was with him. He didn't take kindly to me telling someone to call 911 and turned his attention to me. I never had to fire a shot but I did need to be prepared to do so.
Here in the UK we wouldn't feel the need to own a gun in that situation. Speaks volumes about you and your country that you do.
Indeed. It's especially wonderful when you see them comparing countries by gun murder rate. No shit Britain has a gun murder rate that's like...5% of ours, but their plain old murder rate is a lot closer, what does THAT tell you?
It tells me you'll believe any old shit and outright lies that the NRA tell you. Whenever you see any figures about violent crime and murder in the UK from the NRA take the figure and divide it by somewhere between 4 and 10 and you'll get a more true figure.
Comparing murder, rape, robbery, and total violent crime for the ten years before the UK gun ban vs the ten years after, we find that murder, rape, robbery, and total violent crime all doubled immediately after the ban..
No they didn't. What happened is that the recording of the statistics changed in 1998 and crimes were now recorded as per victim, not per perpetrator so for example if a credit card was stolen and used in 5 shops previously only one crime would have been recorded. When the change was implemented that was recorded as 5 separate crimes. As a result of the change in the way crimes were recorded, the offence of "Violence against the person" increased in numbers by 118% between 1997/8 and 1998/9. That doesn't mean that there was a more than doubling of violent crime in a year, just that because of the way the offences were recorded it resulted in a doubling.
The article totally misses that science is a collaborative field that works by communication and working with differing mind sets. Travel makes this much easier.
So does the internet. Scientists would be high up on the list of people allowed to come to the UK so I don't see a problem. If anything being out of the EU and free to do things the EU bans, such as experimenting with GM food, the state of science could be much better in the UK being free to pursue more fields and free of the red tape being in the EU requires.
Hey BBC, I understand this loophole problem is costing you £150m a year. We'll look into it for you but you have to do something for us. We want you to shoulder the cost of seniors not having to pay the license fee (costing £750m a year). Glad we agreed on that!
That is already going to be happening. Please do keep up at the back.
The vast majority of open source software is just utter shite, much of it has been abandoned or has so little development it may as well be and even the good stuff usually has a shite GUI (GIMP anyone?).
The Pi has had the power of a desktop computer for some time. Even the first Pi was certainly more powerful than the desktop computers I owned in the first decade of having a PC and we had no problem surfing the web, editing photos/videos and gaming on those.
Because I'm really sick and tired of being forced to buy new phones every time I want to switch carriers.
Seems to be only a situation that exists in the USA. Here in Europe at most we just have to unlock the phone to work with all carriers assuming its locket at all, shove a new SIM card from the new provider in the phone and turn it on.
This seems to indicate that the alloying, casting, forging, cooling, or heat treatment just isn't up to snuff on some of the really cheap tools.
So actually the whole "buying USA" is a complete load of shite, it had nothing to do with the fact it was made in the USA and everything to do with the fact it was a cheap tool. As for Snap-On and Mac Tools they stopped doing their lifetime guarantees some years ago.
Thats because on the whole compared to what is available from the rest of the world they're quite crap, especially in the fuel economy, power per litre and quality of materials used for interiors. Mitsubishi/Toyota make better pickup trucks, Land Rover and Toyota make better 4x4s, almost everyone else including European arms of US manufacturers like Ford and GM make better cars.
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Things like "everyone is required to have an id at all times" , being mandated under the law to report changes of residence to authorities - all that shit ,which is reserved to sexual offenders only in the USA, is considered normal in EU.
Is it? We don't even have ID cards in the UK so that is over 1/10th of the entire population of the EU who don't have ID cards. I don't know of anyone in any of the EU countries I've spoken to who have ever mentioned anything about being forced to report changes of residence to the authorities - you're certainly not required to in the UK. You should stop believing everything you watch on Fox News because its making you look stupid.
These rules will apply to any firms that handle the data of EU residents, regardless of whether the firms have any presence in the EU or not. That is the EU forcing its laws on the rest of the world. Why is there tremendous negative backlash when the US attempts to impose its laws on other countries but the EU gets a free pass when they do the same thing. It sure seems like a double standard to me.
The USA tried to extradite Richard O'Dwyer from the UK because of a website he ran which was illegal under US law but perfectly legal under UK law. So when it comes to countries trying to force their laws on the rest of the world the USA is right up there leading the way.
I see why you posted as Anon because you clearly haven't done even basic research about the law.
The right to be forgotten is such BS. I say this as a European. Why does some murderer have the right to be forgotten?
And in that one sentence you've demonstrated you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. Its not designed to enable that. Its designed to enable you to remove things like posts of stupid shit you did when you were a kid.
The minimum wage rises every year in the UK, most of those working in restaurants are affected yet we don't pay through the nose for food and you don't see any massive price hikes. You're literally talking complete and utter shite.
No but other people have.
If that were the case then there wouldn't be the number of security issues they've found, the number of exploits they've found, the show stopping bugs that exist.
If broadcasting on the shortwaves is dying why are the number of amateur radio operators at an all time high? There's more than AM broadcast stations on it.
You can communicate around the world on it, I have. When the Nepal disaster happened it was amateur radio ops on 14MHz who were communicating in and out of the country. Similar story where there have been other natural disasters and the phone and internet has gone down. Aircraft use it when out of range of VHF for example as do ships. For something that is supposedly limited there is a hell of a lot of activity on it.
I'll just leave this disgusting list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just this week in Vicksburg, MS, there was a gunshot death due to the Castle Doctrine. If the couple hadn't used their *unlocked* firearm, the alternative would likely have been 3 stabbing deaths (this guy had already raped a elderly lady, kidnapped and killed her, and had just escaped prison--pretty sure these folks were marked for death--he was in the process of raping the wife.)
Meanwhile since Sandy Hook there have been over 140 school shootings with almost one per week for most of the past several years.
Talks about cherry picking facts, claims everyone who breaks into your home wants to kill you.
Perhaps he just doesn't care for the dictionary like he does his guns.
And yes, I would be sitting here shooting police or anyone else trying to take my guns..
I can guarantee that you wouldn't have the fucking balls to. Its easy to post that as a keyboard warrior but I can guarantee 100% that you would not be shooting police if they came for your guns unless you had some kind of mental problem which meant you should be the last person to ever own one. You're what makes me laugh about the second amenders. You all bleat on about how you'd fight the man with your guns if they came for them but when you get an event like the Kent State massacre where the National Guard opened up on students at Kent State university during the Vietnam War where were you then? Running away and not shooting at the National Guard. The one time you would have had a legitimate reason to shoot at government forces under the Second Amendment you second amenders were nowhere to be seen. You're cowards the whole lot of you.
I was sitting in a BBQ joint minding my own business when someone decided to start beating the hell out of the woman who was with him. He didn't take kindly to me telling someone to call 911 and turned his attention to me. I never had to fire a shot but I did need to be prepared to do so.
Here in the UK we wouldn't feel the need to own a gun in that situation. Speaks volumes about you and your country that you do.
In particular, you can't predict what's going to happen if those laws were implemented.
You can because other countries have implemented those or similar laws and have massively lower gun deaths per capita.
Indeed. It's especially wonderful when you see them comparing countries by gun murder rate. No shit Britain has a gun murder rate that's like...5% of ours, but their plain old murder rate is a lot closer, what does THAT tell you?
It tells me you'll believe any old shit and outright lies that the NRA tell you. Whenever you see any figures about violent crime and murder in the UK from the NRA take the figure and divide it by somewhere between 4 and 10 and you'll get a more true figure.
Comparing murder, rape, robbery, and total violent crime for the ten years before the UK gun ban vs the ten years after, we find that murder, rape, robbery, and total violent crime all doubled immediately after the ban. .
No they didn't. What happened is that the recording of the statistics changed in 1998 and crimes were now recorded as per victim, not per perpetrator so for example if a credit card was stolen and used in 5 shops previously only one crime would have been recorded. When the change was implemented that was recorded as 5 separate crimes. As a result of the change in the way crimes were recorded, the offence of "Violence against the person" increased in numbers by 118% between 1997/8 and 1998/9. That doesn't mean that there was a more than doubling of violent crime in a year, just that because of the way the offences were recorded it resulted in a doubling.
If you're interested in learning the facts.... http://researchbriefings.files...
The article totally misses that science is a collaborative field that works by communication and working with differing mind sets. Travel makes this much easier.
So does the internet. Scientists would be high up on the list of people allowed to come to the UK so I don't see a problem. If anything being out of the EU and free to do things the EU bans, such as experimenting with GM food, the state of science could be much better in the UK being free to pursue more fields and free of the red tape being in the EU requires.
Hey BBC, I understand this loophole problem is costing you £150m a year. We'll look into it for you but you have to do something for us. We want you to shoulder the cost of seniors not having to pay the license fee (costing £750m a year). Glad we agreed on that!
That is already going to be happening. Please do keep up at the back.
Baloney. Open Source proves you wrong.
The vast majority of open source software is just utter shite, much of it has been abandoned or has so little development it may as well be and even the good stuff usually has a shite GUI (GIMP anyone?).
You only need one if you watch live TV, not just because you own a TV.
The Pi has had the power of a desktop computer for some time. Even the first Pi was certainly more powerful than the desktop computers I owned in the first decade of having a PC and we had no problem surfing the web, editing photos/videos and gaming on those.
Because I'm really sick and tired of being forced to buy new phones every time I want to switch carriers.
Seems to be only a situation that exists in the USA. Here in Europe at most we just have to unlock the phone to work with all carriers assuming its locket at all, shove a new SIM card from the new provider in the phone and turn it on.
Advertising, paying drivers to drive for them instead of taking commission...
This seems to indicate that the alloying, casting, forging, cooling, or heat treatment just isn't up to snuff on some of the really cheap tools.
So actually the whole "buying USA" is a complete load of shite, it had nothing to do with the fact it was made in the USA and everything to do with the fact it was a cheap tool. As for Snap-On and Mac Tools they stopped doing their lifetime guarantees some years ago.
they also won't buy any US cars.
Thats because on the whole compared to what is available from the rest of the world they're quite crap, especially in the fuel economy, power per litre and quality of materials used for interiors. Mitsubishi/Toyota make better pickup trucks, Land Rover and Toyota make better 4x4s, almost everyone else including European arms of US manufacturers like Ford and GM make better cars.