Doesn't matter. WIth the entire EU bureacracy involved in rolling out GDPR, you can bet your arse that those responsible for enforcing data protection directives are casting eyes at Facebook and Cambridge Analytics already.
It makes for such a nice test case: "Look, it is already illegal under the old rules, and under the new rules we can really put the hurt on them". And since CA is still an EU company (Brexit won't happen for another year), and Facebook does substantial business in the EU, I expect they are going to get in trouble.
Want to place bets on how quick the Zuck will run to Daddy Trump to ask for punitive trade regulations if the EU tries to fine him?
So, ESR found another project he can claim all the credit for. He even is as brazen as to mention it is other people doing the work and him doing minor things and claiming he invented it all.
He had some useful, if fairly obvious, things to say about the FLOSS ecosystem back in the nineties, and he's been riding that wave ever since, inflating his self-importance along the way.
The numbers are hard to find, but RFF (the infrastructure partner in the French HIgh Speed network) carries around a magnitude less of that $300B figure in debts incurred in construction.
That seems to be the operative sentence. If they manage to extend the local network in time it would be a fine idea.
Of course, rail planners everywhere seem to think only in terms of their prestige project and not about local connectivity, so I'm afraid that it will turn out to be another station to nowhere.
(As an example, the Netherlands insisted on a High Speed rail link going all the way to Amsterdam, for reasons of 'international prestige', instead of terminating at Rotterdam and spending the rest of the budget on local improvement. Now we have a fast connection to Paris, that terminates in an increasingly rickety local network in Amsterdam. Never mind that no-one seemed to mind at the time taking the Paris Metro to go from the Gare du Nord to the Gare du Lyon if they want to travel via TGV to the south)
You're missing the point: the article is basically the standard neo-Liberal (for US readers: Libertarian) propaganda piece you'd expect from The Economist.
While not as bad as Koch-funded think tanks, on economy their stance is virtually the same: take away all worker protections and let the owner class run Gilded Age style rampant.
Which ultimately doesn't solve the problems because licensed practitioners can and do regularly commit crimes too. It's as if licensing magically ridded us of crime!
Aka the Stupid Libertarian defense: "We still have murders, so laws against murder are useless!"
Scandals of officials turning out to have a Nazi past kept turning up until the 80s. The German Left was very right to protest in the 70s. Even if the RAF was a step too far. But then again, most of the Left was quite quick to deplore their violence (which didn't endear them to the radicals already shifting towards RAF-like standpoints).
What marked Germany as a mature democracy is that the radical Left did by and large forswear deadly violence and from the anarchist leaning activists and the Greens was able to create a third stream of Left politics (besides GDR style Marxist-Leninism and the Social Democrats).
How does Firefox get it right? That's completely a function of whatever system fonts you have installed and what the website specifies.
Are you quite sure you're not just used to Word's idiosyncracies, therefore seeing LibreOffice's treatment of text as an aberration? There is nothing wrong with that, after all. We always see deviations of what we're used to as 'wrong'.
You want decent typesetting, use a system designed for that, like a DTP package or a TeX variant. Don't complain about office suites doing it wrong, that is not their remit.
See, here is why we part ways, the alt-deluded and me. I'm not seeing offense in my posts, I'm seeing dismissal. It is you, the AC, who is so offended he has to spend massive screeds to validate himself.
Why don't you fuck off to your safe space at Stormfront or wherever your hugbox is?
Correction, it was not the MID which caused a scandal, it was the Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (Foreign Intelligence Service). As officially we were not supposed to have a spy agency doing Foreign Intelligence, having it turn out that, well, actually, we did, that was a bit of a scandal.
The IDB, MID and BVD were merged into a single intelligence service, the AIVD (Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, aka General Intelligence and Security Service).
Certain phrases make it clear that no matter the amount of verbiage a person produces, he (because 99 out of 100 times it is a he) has nothing to contribute. Stopping reading by that point is merely a matter of efficiency.
Examples: "fiat money", "warmists", "left-wing media bias". Alex the Parrot could do as much, and had a much better chance of actually adding something to the conversation.
the Dutch state television [...] a rather strong leftist slant to their reporting.
This is where I stopped reading, as it marks you as an alt-right crank. The NOS' correspondent in Germany, for example, is well known to push alt-right propaganda. Leftist slant my arse.
If I am not mistaken, this is the arm that used to be the Militaire Inlichtingendienst (Military Intelligence). They were pretty good, but also kept secret out of sight of Parliament. When they came to light they were merged with the existing counterintelligence agency BVD (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, Internal Security), which did have a Keystone Kops reputation.
So, take it with a grain of salt, indeed, but don't dismiss it outright.
Stable: You guys can't even fund the executive arm of the government.
Peaceful: The USA? Hah. Biggest military in the world, supporter of bloody dictatorships and prosecutor of countless proxy wars. Not to mention drone assassinations and special forces teams running around every war zone in the world, stoking the fires.
Democracy: Hardly. A plutocratic class ruling the nation by media manipulation and gerrymandering. Remember, even the Soviet Union held elections.
In short: fuck off with your American Exceptionalism. 'Keeping despots in check' while arming fucking Saudi Arabia? It is to laugh.
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Doesn't matter. WIth the entire EU bureacracy involved in rolling out GDPR, you can bet your arse that those responsible for enforcing data protection directives are casting eyes at Facebook and Cambridge Analytics already.
It makes for such a nice test case: "Look, it is already illegal under the old rules, and under the new rules we can really put the hurt on them". And since CA is still an EU company (Brexit won't happen for another year), and Facebook does substantial business in the EU, I expect they are going to get in trouble.
Want to place bets on how quick the Zuck will run to Daddy Trump to ask for punitive trade regulations if the EU tries to fine him?
So, ESR found another project he can claim all the credit for. He even is as brazen as to mention it is other people doing the work and him doing minor things and claiming he invented it all.
He had some useful, if fairly obvious, things to say about the FLOSS ecosystem back in the nineties, and he's been riding that wave ever since, inflating his self-importance along the way.
You conveniently overlooked the second parenthetical remark. Try visiting Amsterdam less, the dope is not helping your brain.
The numbers are hard to find, but RFF (the infrastructure partner in the French HIgh Speed network) carries around a magnitude less of that $300B figure in debts incurred in construction.
That seems to be the operative sentence. If they manage to extend the local network in time it would be a fine idea.
Of course, rail planners everywhere seem to think only in terms of their prestige project and not about local connectivity, so I'm afraid that it will turn out to be another station to nowhere.
(As an example, the Netherlands insisted on a High Speed rail link going all the way to Amsterdam, for reasons of 'international prestige', instead of terminating at Rotterdam and spending the rest of the budget on local improvement. Now we have a fast connection to Paris, that terminates in an increasingly rickety local network in Amsterdam. Never mind that no-one seemed to mind at the time taking the Paris Metro to go from the Gare du Nord to the Gare du Lyon if they want to travel via TGV to the south)
You're missing the point: the article is basically the standard neo-Liberal (for US readers: Libertarian) propaganda piece you'd expect from The Economist.
While not as bad as Koch-funded think tanks, on economy their stance is virtually the same: take away all worker protections and let the owner class run Gilded Age style rampant.
Aka the Stupid Libertarian defense: "We still have murders, so laws against murder are useless!"
Scandals of officials turning out to have a Nazi past kept turning up until the 80s. The German Left was very right to protest in the 70s. Even if the RAF was a step too far. But then again, most of the Left was quite quick to deplore their violence (which didn't endear them to the radicals already shifting towards RAF-like standpoints).
What marked Germany as a mature democracy is that the radical Left did by and large forswear deadly violence and from the anarchist leaning activists and the Greens was able to create a third stream of Left politics (besides GDR style Marxist-Leninism and the Social Democrats).
You have a strange term for "trying to get rid of the Nazis the Allies overlooked"
Not quite. The current Bremen class is being built by their neighbours to the West (Royal Scheldt in Vlissingen, the Netherlands)
Yeah totally without a fight.
Note that that number of 1.5 million prisoners is basically the Germans rounding up all men of military age after the armistice.
How does Firefox get it right? That's completely a function of whatever system fonts you have installed and what the website specifies. Are you quite sure you're not just used to Word's idiosyncracies, therefore seeing LibreOffice's treatment of text as an aberration? There is nothing wrong with that, after all. We always see deviations of what we're used to as 'wrong'.
You want decent typesetting, use a system designed for that, like a DTP package or a TeX variant. Don't complain about office suites doing it wrong, that is not their remit.
Apparently I misremembered that bit. I was going from memory.
Bringing arguments implies there is someone to argue against, not just a parrot.
See, here is why we part ways, the alt-deluded and me. I'm not seeing offense in my posts, I'm seeing dismissal. It is you, the AC, who is so offended he has to spend massive screeds to validate himself.
Why don't you fuck off to your safe space at Stormfront or wherever your hugbox is?
Correction, it was not the MID which caused a scandal, it was the Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (Foreign Intelligence Service). As officially we were not supposed to have a spy agency doing Foreign Intelligence, having it turn out that, well, actually, we did, that was a bit of a scandal.
The IDB, MID and BVD were merged into a single intelligence service, the AIVD (Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, aka General Intelligence and Security Service).
Certain phrases make it clear that no matter the amount of verbiage a person produces, he (because 99 out of 100 times it is a he) has nothing to contribute. Stopping reading by that point is merely a matter of efficiency.
Examples: "fiat money", "warmists", "left-wing media bias". Alex the Parrot could do as much, and had a much better chance of actually adding something to the conversation.
This is where I stopped reading, as it marks you as an alt-right crank. The NOS' correspondent in Germany, for example, is well known to push alt-right propaganda. Leftist slant my arse.
Confirm this is true. The AIVD has a bit of a reputation of publishing dossiers to serve political ends.
On the other hand, they do have decent counterintelligence operatives, so after taking the bias into account do take this seriously.
If I am not mistaken, this is the arm that used to be the Militaire Inlichtingendienst (Military Intelligence). They were pretty good, but also kept secret out of sight of Parliament. When they came to light they were merged with the existing counterintelligence agency BVD (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, Internal Security), which did have a Keystone Kops reputation.
So, take it with a grain of salt, indeed, but don't dismiss it outright.
The nice thing about deploying a 'tu quoque' fallacy? You have just admitted your side is wrong.
Simply re-asserting your some empty bullshit is not a refutation. Now fuck off.
Let's see your original statement:
In short: fuck off with your American Exceptionalism. 'Keeping despots in check' while arming fucking Saudi Arabia? It is to laugh.
Yes, but we're talking about the USA here.