Creating 200k jobs is easy. Destroy 100k jobs that can actually sustain a family and create two separate jobs that can't. Presto job creation. Now pit the people who need those pittance jobs to make ends meet against each other and watch the race to the bottom unfold.
He molested some kids and didn't download child porn from some free source, depriving some hard working movie maker of his income. If he did the latter, he'd probably be punished harder.
I usually expect people to have a reason to break the law. As far as I know, I have not given you a reason to break the law to my disadvantage. What I am scared of is being sent to prison myself. For various reasons. One of them being that there is a nonzero chance that I'll meet someone in there that is in there because of me.
German is growing in importance in the east of Europe, mostly because lots of people from there want to work in Germany or Austria (where they also speak German). It's not only closer than France, Germans and (even more so) Austrians are still popular with their eastern neighbors, despite the more recent history. Germany gets lots of workers from Poland, Austria has many people from Hungary and now increasingly Romania going there to work. These people learn German, not English or French.
And now ponder how much you have to suck as a nation when other nations would rather willingly learn the language of a country that invaded and enslaved them not even a century ago than yours.
Every EU member state could nominate its "official" language when it joined. Of course, various countries nominated their most common language. France chose French, Germany German, Spain Spanish, you get the idea.
Ireland picked Irish because there was no reason to choose English with England already covering this. Malta chose Maltese because there was no reason to choose English because... yes.
Now, with England leaving, English will no longer be an official language of the EU. Yes, I'm not kidding. NO other member state named English an official language. Funny enough, a fair lot of representatives of various countries speak their own language and English, only. And a fair number of interpreters and translators, while required to speak more than just two languages, will have a hard time interpreting/translating when you can't use English as an intermediate anymore.
And while it is likely that this will at least be solvable by throwing more money at interpreters (it might be a bit tough finding someone with rare combos like Polish-Spanish), it doesn't solve another problem: With most delegates only really speaking their own language and English, in the near future, most talks between delegates will be held in a language that is officially not even spoken in the EU anymore. That alone makes the Brexit hilarious.
That and the fact that quite a few Irish delegates will soon no longer be able of even choosing a language from the interpreters that they can understand reasonably well.
My parents sure weren't my friends when I grew up. I only noticed very soon that I am not only smarter than them, they also had a tendency to lie to me to get me to comply with their wishes. Once I had this figured out, I stopped believing them.
Unfortunately it's rather difficult for a child to determine when they are lying to get you to behave the way they want to and when they are making a decision that is actually beneficial for you. From your point of view, there is not really any difference, and parents, especially when most of their rules are based on arbitrary decisions rather than logic, really loathe explaining their rules to you.
And to this day, I have a really hard time following rules that lack a logical reason for their existence. I have this problem understanding and even remembering things that lack an explanation...
Ask yourself: 2 years of prison. Imagine this, just for a moment.
Now imagine 10 years of prison.
Now answer me one question: Do 10 years of prison really scare you more than 2 years? Does it? If so, you probably already know what prison is like and only worry about losing more time of your life. For everyone how hasn't, probably the threat of spending a DAY with hardened criminals is already scary enough to make them ponder.
Does anyone honestly think that the average copyright infringer's train of thought goes "For 2 years I'll watch that show, but for 10, hell no!"?
Are you high on something? These people allegedly represent me, they are allegedly my employee. How stupid does one has to be to consider it a good thing that some employee essentially gets paid by a competing organization to work against the interests of his employer?
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Creating 200k jobs is easy. Destroy 100k jobs that can actually sustain a family and create two separate jobs that can't. Presto job creation. Now pit the people who need those pittance jobs to make ends meet against each other and watch the race to the bottom unfold.
He molested some kids and didn't download child porn from some free source, depriving some hard working movie maker of his income. If he did the latter, he'd probably be punished harder.
No. Why should you?
I usually expect people to have a reason to break the law. As far as I know, I have not given you a reason to break the law to my disadvantage. What I am scared of is being sent to prison myself. For various reasons. One of them being that there is a nonzero chance that I'll meet someone in there that is in there because of me.
German is growing in importance in the east of Europe, mostly because lots of people from there want to work in Germany or Austria (where they also speak German). It's not only closer than France, Germans and (even more so) Austrians are still popular with their eastern neighbors, despite the more recent history. Germany gets lots of workers from Poland, Austria has many people from Hungary and now increasingly Romania going there to work. These people learn German, not English or French.
And now ponder how much you have to suck as a nation when other nations would rather willingly learn the language of a country that invaded and enslaved them not even a century ago than yours.
This guy must be an idiot.
Wow. You realize something from just a statement that millions in the EU still don't get after years of having him as the EU figurehead.
With the French gone, basically what is left is Germany and "the rest".
75 years late, but finally The Great German Reich will be back!
The joke runs even deeper.
Every EU member state could nominate its "official" language when it joined. Of course, various countries nominated their most common language. France chose French, Germany German, Spain Spanish, you get the idea.
Ireland picked Irish because there was no reason to choose English with England already covering this. Malta chose Maltese because there was no reason to choose English because... yes.
Now, with England leaving, English will no longer be an official language of the EU. Yes, I'm not kidding. NO other member state named English an official language. Funny enough, a fair lot of representatives of various countries speak their own language and English, only. And a fair number of interpreters and translators, while required to speak more than just two languages, will have a hard time interpreting/translating when you can't use English as an intermediate anymore.
And while it is likely that this will at least be solvable by throwing more money at interpreters (it might be a bit tough finding someone with rare combos like Polish-Spanish), it doesn't solve another problem: With most delegates only really speaking their own language and English, in the near future, most talks between delegates will be held in a language that is officially not even spoken in the EU anymore. That alone makes the Brexit hilarious.
That and the fact that quite a few Irish delegates will soon no longer be able of even choosing a language from the interpreters that they can understand reasonably well.
Don't know if it's true, but I absolutely love it regardless.
Das ist grossartig!
He should have said "Obviously I want to be understood by the French, but it is equally important than I am understood by the rest of the world."
Junker is generally regarded increasingly as a clown. Even with people who are actually pro-EU (like myself).
The sooner this bozo goes the better.
The EU head honcho says English is losing importance after the UK leaves the EU.
It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine whether this message is backed by
a) reality
b) politics
There was a movie about this, kinda like a future documentary that has turned reality since.
My parents sure weren't my friends when I grew up. I only noticed very soon that I am not only smarter than them, they also had a tendency to lie to me to get me to comply with their wishes. Once I had this figured out, I stopped believing them.
Unfortunately it's rather difficult for a child to determine when they are lying to get you to behave the way they want to and when they are making a decision that is actually beneficial for you. From your point of view, there is not really any difference, and parents, especially when most of their rules are based on arbitrary decisions rather than logic, really loathe explaining their rules to you.
And to this day, I have a really hard time following rules that lack a logical reason for their existence. I have this problem understanding and even remembering things that lack an explanation...
For 10 years prison, I could beat someone into a pulp with lasting, permanently disfiguring and crippling injury.
Come to think of it... where does the idiot that initiated this law live?
Punishment for doing something illegal (which is illegal for what reason again, by the way?) is one thing.
Handing out ridiculously hard punishments for minor transgressions is another. That whole shit has a lot of chopping off limbs for stealing an apple.
Ask yourself: 2 years of prison. Imagine this, just for a moment.
Now imagine 10 years of prison.
Now answer me one question: Do 10 years of prison really scare you more than 2 years? Does it? If so, you probably already know what prison is like and only worry about losing more time of your life. For everyone how hasn't, probably the threat of spending a DAY with hardened criminals is already scary enough to make them ponder.
Does anyone honestly think that the average copyright infringer's train of thought goes "For 2 years I'll watch that show, but for 10, hell no!"?
Are you high on something? These people allegedly represent me, they are allegedly my employee. How stupid does one has to be to consider it a good thing that some employee essentially gets paid by a competing organization to work against the interests of his employer?
Such an employee should be fired.
Out of a cannon.
It doesn't really matter to the mouse which cat eats him. Why would it matter to you which politician gets to decide whose cronies get to fleece you?
Or it gives them a chance to eradicate us for good.
Either way, the world will be a better place, so what's to fear?
Every generation fucks up education more than the one that preceded it. Just wait what kind of monsters the Millennials will produce.
Really?
Folks? We found the person this treatment worked on! Stop looking!
It's a start. You have to start at one hole. Else you just lament that there's hundreds of holes without improving the situation in any way.
That's still not forcing, that's just "encouragement".
I am.
On YouTube.
Because cable doen't offer them.