That's completely relevant, it is the only relevance there is. Of course no one will hold the NSA responsible in the U.S. for spying for instance on Brazil, but Brazil is entitled to the extradiction of every single person to Brazil that helped bugging the Brazilian president.
They are guilty of conspiracing with a foreign intelligence agency while being in a position of power, which doubles the penalties at least in Germany.
Spying was never legal. This is the main mistake you make in your assertion. Only your own spies had some legal cover in your own country. But in every other country, your spies are criminals.
It's not easy to do business in the EU without having a headquarter there. And if Facebook wants to offer ad space for EU based companies, it has to have an EU presence.
In this case, setting up their EU headquarters in any other EU state wouldn't have made a difference, because Data Protection laws are similar through the whole EU. Setting up country headquarters in each country they are operating in would have made it more easy for Max Schrems to go after them, as he would have filed the complaint in his home country.
We should rather say: "See, even your tax and judical review dodging schemes didn't help you."
There was one silent agreement to share data from the U.S. at least to Germany. In Germany, spying on its own citizens is much more verboten than in the U.S., where it has rather clumsily to be derived from the right to privacy, which can be nearly everytime be overturned by claiming that there was no expectation of privacy in the first place.
Thus, the Germans have allowed foreign spy agencies to set up operations in Germany while in turn they do the dirty work of spying on German citizens, which the German authorities have no right to without probable cause and judgemental review. This was one of the main reasons why Germany's goverment was very reluctant to act on the first revelations about the scope of the NSA's and GCHQ's spying and was even declaring the "NSA affair" to be over already in August -- they were fearing to lose a useful spying ability.
But the problem is that then the original task of the framework to provide a high level interface to often used tasks and to abstract from the actual platform is also limited to the moment the framework gets abandoned. Any later development, any necessary adaption to emerging new platforms or to changes in the current platform are out of reach with the framework. Thus you are stuck with more and more outdated platforms you are supporting.
It's the same reason some shops still have to support Windows 98 or WinNT 4.0, because some important software was developed using a framework whose development was abandoned around 1999, and there is no replacement yet.
Christians have it from their founder, that the Old Testament is superseded by the New one. So the ability to cherrypick the Septuaginta is actually built into the christian belief system.
Scientists won't never tell the government what to do. It's not their task. It's the task of the government to do something, and all scientists will do is analysing the consequences if certain actions are taken. A climate scientist does not tell you "drop your carbon dioxide emissions immediately", he will rather say: "if you emit this amount of carbon dioxide over the next x years, the average atmosphere temperature will increase between t1 and t2 degrees". And an oceanographer might then say: "An increase of atmospheric temperatures of t1 degrees will mean between m1 and m2 increase of sea levels, and a t2 increase will mean between m3 and m4 increase of sea levels." And a cartographer of a certain coastal area then can tell you how far into the land the sea will go, if m1 or m2 or m3 or m4 will happen.
But it's still up to the politics to decide which consequences government will accept, and which consequences it will try to avoid at what cost.
And yes, the answers of scientists will always be ranges of possible values, maybe with certain probabilities attached to those values. It has nothing to do with agreeing on a single value, there is simply none. There are just dozens of different scenarios, some more probable, others less.
Don't mess two different things up. There is reality, and there are our measurements, our convictions and our accounts of what reality is. Just because you almost never get the last ones to match doesn't mean there was no reality. Yes. There is reality. No. We will never know it completely.
Cold fjord is in reality Edward Snowden in disguise, trying to make it look as if the U.S. government uses paid shills for character assassination to make the U.S. look more bad and let him shine more brightly in contrast.
Cold fjord: Prove that you are not Edward Snowden or shut up forever!
Here is why: Deeply ingrained in the U.S. population is the conviction that a governmental program never will work. The U.S. is the only democracy I've ever seen where a candidate for a political position can actually run on a platform that politics in general can not work. (Then why is he a candidate anyway, if all he promises is wasting our tax money?)
But with that conviction, why should the electorate ever hold the elected accountable when it is convicted that the task it gave to the elected is unfulfillable anyway? You can only condemn people for not living up to the expectations if you expect something.
This is a claim founded by nothing except ideology. No other health care system is as expensive as free market health care. Sorry if that doesn't fit your imagination of a free market, but that are the provable facts of current life. No other country pays as much for health care per person than the U.S., and no other country has so much of a free market health care system.
If a free market health care system would at least be the best, then maybe one could talk about it, but the U.S. system is at best average (even included the noble exception of cancer and hearth stroke care, where the U.S. health care excels).
It's some remainings from Feudalism -- employees somehow belong to their employers, so the employers have to tend them like they are cattle, and that includes basic healthcare.
In Germany, the whole radical Right is infiltrated by the Verfassungsschutz (the german secret service for the interior affairs), so much, that legal means against an extreme right wing political party (the NPD) was impossible because there was no way to discern anymore which of the party's questionable actions were actually grown out of the party's radical members, and which of them were initiated by infiltrators trying to get street cred within the party.
But nevertheless, a chain of ten deadly terroristic attacks including one against two policemen remained unresolved and mysterious, until two members of the terroristic group committed suicide and the third one blew up their headquarters.
It's much more complicated than that. Myxogastria can be onecelled and mononuclear, and they can be multicelled and multinuclear, and they can even be onecelled and multinuclear - all within the same organism. A single plasmodium cell can contain up to 10 mio nuclei and span several square meters. Thus it would be better to call the plasmodium acellular, as it has no inner cell structure.
Actually, x+2=4, what is x? is "modern Algebra". And it is also classical Algebra. Lets say, it's just Algebra.
Algebra is the part of Mathematics that covers the properties of calculating operations. And in this example, we need the properties of the Addition operation of the Natural Numbers, to know x. As a computer's fundamental strength is the ability to perform many operations deterministically and really fast, knowledge of the properties of operations (vulgo: Algebra) is fundamental.
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That's completely relevant, it is the only relevance there is. Of course no one will hold the NSA responsible in the U.S. for spying for instance on Brazil, but Brazil is entitled to the extradiction of every single person to Brazil that helped bugging the Brazilian president.
They are guilty of conspiracing with a foreign intelligence agency while being in a position of power, which doubles the penalties at least in Germany.
Spying was never legal. This is the main mistake you make in your assertion. Only your own spies had some legal cover in your own country. But in every other country, your spies are criminals.
It's not easy to do business in the EU without having a headquarter there. And if Facebook wants to offer ad space for EU based companies, it has to have an EU presence.
We should rather say: "See, even your tax and judical review dodging schemes didn't help you."
Thus, the Germans have allowed foreign spy agencies to set up operations in Germany while in turn they do the dirty work of spying on German citizens, which the German authorities have no right to without probable cause and judgemental review. This was one of the main reasons why Germany's goverment was very reluctant to act on the first revelations about the scope of the NSA's and GCHQ's spying and was even declaring the "NSA affair" to be over already in August -- they were fearing to lose a useful spying ability.
It's the same reason some shops still have to support Windows 98 or WinNT 4.0, because some important software was developed using a framework whose development was abandoned around 1999, and there is no replacement yet.
Christians have it from their founder, that the Old Testament is superseded by the New one. So the ability to cherrypick the Septuaginta is actually built into the christian belief system.
But bashing Slashdot for allegedly bashing Microsoft might be more fun, right?
Then they do it not as scientists, but in this case (as a director of a governmental institute) as counsellors of the government.
Scientists won't never tell the government what to do. It's not their task. It's the task of the government to do something, and all scientists will do is analysing the consequences if certain actions are taken. A climate scientist does not tell you "drop your carbon dioxide emissions immediately", he will rather say: "if you emit this amount of carbon dioxide over the next x years, the average atmosphere temperature will increase between t1 and t2 degrees". And an oceanographer might then say: "An increase of atmospheric temperatures of t1 degrees will mean between m1 and m2 increase of sea levels, and a t2 increase will mean between m3 and m4 increase of sea levels." And a cartographer of a certain coastal area then can tell you how far into the land the sea will go, if m1 or m2 or m3 or m4 will happen.
But it's still up to the politics to decide which consequences government will accept, and which consequences it will try to avoid at what cost.
And yes, the answers of scientists will always be ranges of possible values, maybe with certain probabilities attached to those values. It has nothing to do with agreeing on a single value, there is simply none. There are just dozens of different scenarios, some more probable, others less.
You started so good, and then you turned into a blurbing rant.
Don't mess two different things up. There is reality, and there are our measurements, our convictions and our accounts of what reality is. Just because you almost never get the last ones to match doesn't mean there was no reality. Yes. There is reality. No. We will never know it completely.
Cold fjord is in reality Edward Snowden in disguise, trying to make it look as if the U.S. government uses paid shills for character assassination to make the U.S. look more bad and let him shine more brightly in contrast. Cold fjord: Prove that you are not Edward Snowden or shut up forever!
And there is equal proof that cold fjord didn't make them available in some fashion.
Whoosh.
But with that conviction, why should the electorate ever hold the elected accountable when it is convicted that the task it gave to the elected is unfulfillable anyway? You can only condemn people for not living up to the expectations if you expect something.
And private charity works so great in the U.S. that 40 mio are without any care?
This is a claim founded by nothing except ideology. No other health care system is as expensive as free market health care. Sorry if that doesn't fit your imagination of a free market, but that are the provable facts of current life. No other country pays as much for health care per person than the U.S., and no other country has so much of a free market health care system. If a free market health care system would at least be the best, then maybe one could talk about it, but the U.S. system is at best average (even included the noble exception of cancer and hearth stroke care, where the U.S. health care excels).
It's some remainings from Feudalism -- employees somehow belong to their employers, so the employers have to tend them like they are cattle, and that includes basic healthcare.
You can always short the waiting lists if you reduce the number of people entitled to wait.
In Germany, the whole radical Right is infiltrated by the Verfassungsschutz (the german secret service for the interior affairs), so much, that legal means against an extreme right wing political party (the NPD) was impossible because there was no way to discern anymore which of the party's questionable actions were actually grown out of the party's radical members, and which of them were initiated by infiltrators trying to get street cred within the party.
But nevertheless, a chain of ten deadly terroristic attacks including one against two policemen remained unresolved and mysterious, until two members of the terroristic group committed suicide and the third one blew up their headquarters.
It's much more complicated than that. Myxogastria can be onecelled and mononuclear, and they can be multicelled and multinuclear, and they can even be onecelled and multinuclear - all within the same organism. A single plasmodium cell can contain up to 10 mio nuclei and span several square meters. Thus it would be better to call the plasmodium acellular, as it has no inner cell structure.
Algebra is the part of Mathematics that covers the properties of calculating operations. And in this example, we need the properties of the Addition operation of the Natural Numbers, to know x. As a computer's fundamental strength is the ability to perform many operations deterministically and really fast, knowledge of the properties of operations (vulgo: Algebra) is fundamental.
Actually, it's not tidal locking. It's more complicated. Mercury makes three turns while rotating twice around the Sun. And exactly so.