Since when has anyone WITH that much valuable IP ever given it up freely?
This is not about owner giving their IP property, this is about setting up a legal framework to take their IP property in some particular situations, where the general interest is at stake.
Property is not a natural law, this is just something society enforces because it serves a general interest, and it can be revoked for just the same reason.
Only the European Parliament which is democratically elected can actually enact laws.
That is wrong. The council (that is, ministries from member countries) also play a role. There are subjects where council and parliament have to agree in order to enact a directive, but there are also subjects where the council trumps the parliament, and others where the parliament is not involved at all.
The council is the executive branches of member countries, and it acts as a legislative entity at the UE level. This is a huge issue for power separation.
Demand is low because we're in a world wide recession. They'll go back up when the economy recovers, but that could be a while because we're still coming down off the 90's bubble which knocked everything out of line.
But you will have more bubble bursts and more crises. The system is just instable since neoliberal policitians removed all the safeguards that were set up after the 1929 crisis: the, Glass-Steagall Act, an higher income tax for the wealthie...
Some people here seems to agree that 800 kUSD is a reasonable income. The problem is that excessivve income are hamrful to real economy. The sums required to pay such a salary are taken from real economy and are too big to return to it as good consumption or real economy investements. A lot of this money will end up in financial economy, feeding bubbles and preparing the next burst.
Moreover, who can claim his work cannot be done by someone else for less than 800 kUSD? Such an income is not necessary to get a tallented leader
Well, sure - in a European democracy that would not be good... they usually aren't supposed to have such powers. In the US, the President is also the head of the military
I am not sure this is an oddiity. The French president is also head of the military, for instance. In any democratic country, there should be an army oversight by persons representing the people.
As I understand, medical hardware was not the target. This is plain malware nesting in plain vulnerable software. The company happens to be in the medical field, the firmware for their product does not seems to have been infected.
The Finns may not be too keen to let it go to an American firm
The Finns cannot do anything about this, as these matters have been handed over to the European Union. The UE likes free trade (this is not a political choice of the people, this is carved in UE treaties), but it dislike trusts that may hamper competition, therefore I am not sure of the outcome.
Greece borrows a fuckton of money, pisses it up the wall and then throws a massive sulk when asked to pay it back.
Did you really expect Greece to have the capacity to pay back with interests at 18%? UE law creates an economic battlefield, where the strong (Germany) prevail, and the weaks sink. Greece failure is not a bug, it is a feature.
The interesting point is that Germany is strong because it sells to the weaks, therefore its own future may not be that bright once weak countries will not be able to afford buying german stuff anymore.
The tebagger interpretation of "free market" as a market without regulation is either a tautology or an oxymoron, but I'm not sure which.
UE is fond of free and undistorted competition. This is how free market must be understood in the UE context. This is almost unregulated: there are antitrust rules so that competition thrives
If you don't think governments (including the US) already have control over power generation then you're delusional.
I suspect you missed the point. I think free market just cannot solve this problem, and state planification and is required. But at the UE level, you just have a free-market obsessed bureaucracy that is not held accountable by citizen. UE member state cooperation is required here, but that can be done without UE bureaucracy.
You clearly have no idea how much of a reduction in revenue eliminating the export of all would impose on french farmers
As I said in previous comment: "If farmers activity is not profitable, then we can subsidies the farmers directly, instead of their exportation to third world countries". You failed to address that point.
Producing the food we need is a critical activity, and we must somehow pay for it. Export subsidies is not the only choice
So your stated goal is the impoverishment of a good part of the French population
I said "maintain food sovereignty in Europe" and for you it means "impoverishment of a good part of the French". The reasoning is not obvious, that needs at least some explanation.
ruining our export/import balance and bankrupt hundreds of thousands of paysans?
The goal is to maintain food sovereignty in Europe. Having a good export/import balance is of no interest, we should not pay for that. If farmers activity is not profitable, then we can subsidies the farmers directly, instead of their exportation to third world countries.
Like any club France is free to quit, but it won't because the benefits of being in are huge. Being in the club means playing by club rules as decided by the members.
Right, and as a member, France can also change the rules. The alternative is not just obey or quit.
You'd be wanting to go back to pre-industrial agriculture then, no? That risks dropping France's agricultural output by over 25%...
If that means dropping production we do not consume, and therefore sell to third world countries, then I am all for it. The UE uses export subsidies so that these product are competitive in poor countries, therefore it wastes UE taxpayer money in order to ruin third world farmers (and increase Mosanto profits, of course)
There is a growing consensus in the EU on increased powers for the EU institutions and towards federalisation to protect the monetary union.
The consensus you talk about is mostly among political leaders. European citizen, on their part, are more and more upset about this UE being working against the general interest. Have you noticed how political leaders now attempt to avoid referendums? Ask the people avout Lisbon Treaty, European Stability Mechanism, or Treaty on Stability, Coordonation and Governance, you will have a huge "no".
UE is getting more and more authoritarian an un-democratic. That will not stand that way forever, and current politiccal leaders will be shown the door. "Que se vayan todos"
Free market was supposed to make companies compete to bring the best service or product to clients, but it seems that now it makes citizen competing to offer the best profits to companies.
This is no more about having the invisible hand of market that matches offer and demand, this is just how to make the rich even richer
For now things are in the hand of ICANN (that is, USA), and it is illegitimate enough that it cannot make crazy moves, otherwise some states will start creating their alternative DNS roots. I wonder if a UN based organization would be more capable of wrecking the Internet without partionning it.
Note that whatever the governing body is, we have no chance of having democratic oversight no it, anyway.
You're against religion in schools? Just get a grip, religion in schools is here and is not going away.
At least for that point, you can get schools without religion by relocating (France forbids religion in public schools for instance). It is much harder to escape from Apple.
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Since when has anyone WITH that much valuable IP ever given it up freely?
This is not about owner giving their IP property, this is about setting up a legal framework to take their IP property in some particular situations, where the general interest is at stake.
Property is not a natural law, this is just something society enforces because it serves a general interest, and it can be revoked for just the same reason.
But the nanoparticles still have to be pumped in the body, so this will not remove the need for device like insulin pump.
Only the European Parliament which is democratically elected can actually enact laws.
That is wrong. The council (that is, ministries from member countries) also play a role. There are subjects where council and parliament have to agree in order to enact a directive, but there are also subjects where the council trumps the parliament, and others where the parliament is not involved at all.
The council is the executive branches of member countries, and it acts as a legislative entity at the UE level. This is a huge issue for power separation.
Demand is low because we're in a world wide recession. They'll go back up when the economy recovers, but that could be a while because we're still coming down off the 90's bubble which knocked everything out of line.
But you will have more bubble bursts and more crises. The system is just instable since neoliberal policitians removed all the safeguards that were set up after the 1929 crisis: the, Glass-Steagall Act, an higher income tax for the wealthie...
Excessive CEO salaries are primarily harmful to the companies that pay them; the "real economy" reacts by buying cheaper products (say, from China).
That runs small SMB out of business and destroy jobs, I think this is indeed a damage to real economy.
Some people here seems to agree that 800 kUSD is a reasonable income. The problem is that excessivve income are hamrful to real economy. The sums required to pay such a salary are taken from real economy and are too big to return to it as good consumption or real economy investements. A lot of this money will end up in financial economy, feeding bubbles and preparing the next burst.
Moreover, who can claim his work cannot be done by someone else for less than 800 kUSD? Such an income is not necessary to get a tallented leader
Well, sure - in a European democracy that would not be good... they usually aren't supposed to have such powers. In the US, the President is also the head of the military
I am not sure this is an oddiity. The French president is also head of the military, for instance. In any democratic country, there should be an army oversight by persons representing the people.
An astronaut is american. A cosmonaut is russian. A spationaut is french. And a chineese person in the sky is a taïkonaute.
As I understand, medical hardware was not the target. This is plain malware nesting in plain vulnerable software. The company happens to be in the medical field, the firmware for their product does not seems to have been infected.
Big Corp looks for another startup to buy.
That should be readen as "Big Corp looks for another project to wreck", right?
The Finns may not be too keen to let it go to an American firm
The Finns cannot do anything about this, as these matters have been handed over to the European Union. The UE likes free trade (this is not a political choice of the people, this is carved in UE treaties), but it dislike trusts that may hamper competition, therefore I am not sure of the outcome.
Greece borrows a fuckton of money, pisses it up the wall and then throws a massive sulk when asked to pay it back.
Did you really expect Greece to have the capacity to pay back with interests at 18%? UE law creates an economic battlefield, where the strong (Germany) prevail, and the weaks sink. Greece failure is not a bug, it is a feature.
The interesting point is that Germany is strong because it sells to the weaks, therefore its own future may not be that bright once weak countries will not be able to afford buying german stuff anymore.
The tebagger interpretation of "free market" as a market without regulation is either a tautology or an oxymoron, but I'm not sure which.
UE is fond of free and undistorted competition. This is how free market must be understood in the UE context. This is almost unregulated: there are antitrust rules so that competition thrives
If you don't think governments (including the US) already have control over power generation then you're delusional.
I suspect you missed the point. I think free market just cannot solve this problem, and state planification and is required. But at the UE level, you just have a free-market obsessed bureaucracy that is not held accountable by citizen. UE member state cooperation is required here, but that can be done without UE bureaucracy.
You clearly have no idea how much of a reduction in revenue eliminating the export of all would impose on french farmers
As I said in previous comment: "If farmers activity is not profitable, then we can subsidies the farmers directly, instead of their exportation to third world countries". You failed to address that point.
Producing the food we need is a critical activity, and we must somehow pay for it. Export subsidies is not the only choice
So your stated goal is the impoverishment of a good part of the French population
I said "maintain food sovereignty in Europe" and for you it means "impoverishment of a good part of the French". The reasoning is not obvious, that needs at least some explanation.
ruining our export/import balance and bankrupt hundreds of thousands of paysans?
The goal is to maintain food sovereignty in Europe. Having a good export/import balance is of no interest, we should not pay for that. If farmers activity is not profitable, then we can subsidies the farmers directly, instead of their exportation to third world countries.
Like any club France is free to quit, but it won't because the benefits of being in are huge. Being in the club means playing by club rules as decided by the members.
Right, and as a member, France can also change the rules. The alternative is not just obey or quit.
You'd be wanting to go back to pre-industrial agriculture then, no? That risks dropping France's agricultural output by over 25%...
If that means dropping production we do not consume, and therefore sell to third world countries, then I am all for it. The UE uses export subsidies so that these product are competitive in poor countries, therefore it wastes UE taxpayer money in order to ruin third world farmers (and increase Mosanto profits, of course)
There is a growing consensus in the EU on increased powers for the EU institutions and towards federalisation to protect the monetary union.
The consensus you talk about is mostly among political leaders. European citizen, on their part, are more and more upset about this UE being working against the general interest. Have you noticed how political leaders now attempt to avoid referendums? Ask the people avout Lisbon Treaty, European Stability Mechanism, or Treaty on Stability, Coordonation and Governance, you will have a huge "no".
UE is getting more and more authoritarian an un-democratic. That will not stand that way forever, and current politiccal leaders will be shown the door. "Que se vayan todos"
Free market was supposed to make companies compete to bring the best service or product to clients, but it seems that now it makes citizen competing to offer the best profits to companies.
This is no more about having the invisible hand of market that matches offer and demand, this is just how to make the rich even richer
^Zkill -9 %1
And what the hell is the G-Cloud ?
Since "cloud" is a marketing term that contains no meaning, you can make press releases easier to understand if you substitute it with 'stuff".
UK home office talks agout G--stuff frameworks and StuffStore. It immediatly looks that something not worth a news
For now things are in the hand of ICANN (that is, USA), and it is illegitimate enough that it cannot make crazy moves, otherwise some states will start creating their alternative DNS roots. I wonder if a UN based organization would be more capable of wrecking the Internet without partionning it.
Note that whatever the governing body is, we have no chance of having democratic oversight no it, anyway.
You're against religion in schools? Just get a grip, religion in schools is here and is not going away.
At least for that point, you can get schools without religion by relocating (France forbids religion in public schools for instance). It is much harder to escape from Apple.