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  1. That may cause it to rise more slowly. But it won't be enough to make it drop.

  2. Re:this is all a losing battle on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The far right wants to make it so that the companies that lobby them (i.e. bribes them) wins out.

    As such, the ONLY way to win at this, is to push local govs to add fiber utilities.

    Firstly, you need to go learn what ONLY means. You use it quite a lot but it obviously doesn't mean what you think it means.

    Secondly, How does your ONLY solution help people with 'far right' local governments?

  3. I already asked nicely... on Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What did you say here Windy...

    Where did you get your 9% number? Your ass?

  4. Re:If I were China on Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    China can shut down 9% of their economy and it will not impact them

    Where did you get this number from Windy?

  5. Re:But for how long? on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have American CPUs doing exactly what you describe.

    Yes. Thats the reason I said it.
    You personally may not care. But your government might. If you see the fuss being made already with China being banned for 5G telecom tenders. It will only be worse for CPU's with backdoors as well.

  6. Re:If it's one thing I've learned about prisoners on $11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    They presumably let you vote. So how much worse could it be?

  7. Hands up everyone who is surprised on Apple Says New China Tariffs Would Boost Prices On Some Products (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly did you think tariffs would do?
    Raise tariffs, raise taxes, increase regulation, they all get passed on to the consumer.

  8. Re:Because China is more capitalist. on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Read it again slowly a couple times, you'll get it eventually.

  9. Re:Obvious troll is obvious... on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And you still haven't done your homework or read any of the required reading.
    If you even read just 1 of those 4 things you would know the answer already.

  10. Re:Why aren't they made in Africa? on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It might. If you also happen to breath the air above that land mass.

  11. Re:Because China is more capitalist. on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is a reason the US is the worlds number one destination when it comes to people trying to enter the US.

    Is that reason simple logic?

  12. Obvious troll is obvious... on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You expect anyone to believe you hadn't commented for weeks, but this topic was so important to you you just had to say something.

    But you didn't bother to read the summary...
    You clearly didn't read the article...
    You didn't understand or read my comment properly...
    You didn't read the comment I was responding to either...

    And now you want me to explain to you why you don't understand anything?

    Do your homework. Come back with a sensible question. And maybe you can have a sensible answer.

  13. Re:But for how long? on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    But who will people trust to make their CPU's. Intel with their "management engine" and AMD etc all with the same is already freaking enough people out.

    Who is going to want a Chinese CPU with who knows what running on it that you will never be able to see, has access to everything, and can do anything it wants to "your computer" and "your data".
    Most countries would probably just ban them like they are doing for 5G telecom equipment already.

  14. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just note again that a lot of people are trolling me lately 'for some reason'.
    Anybody the slightest bit serious would have just read the articles by now, instead of asking some random person on the Internet to explain it to them.

    You are the one who is trying to make up some other alternative explanation anyway. Why aren't you explaining it?

  15. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Checks id, yes I must be.

    I'm using the English version of 'each', which one are you using?

    For example. Each low id person trolling me is just being silly.
    Collectively they are all being silly. But each one is still silly in his own right.

  16. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could just say it in English like I already did.
    I like my French car, it never brakes down.
    My car doesn't speak French, it comes from France.

  17. Re: Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    The metal tariffs aren't really retaliatory, they are protectionist.

    Exactly.
    That's why I said this

    Says the Trump voter putting up trade barriers against the whole world...

    In direct response to this

    Can't compete? Legislate. It's the European way. Must be sad.

    Whoever replied after that was clearly not paying attention to the discussion and just trolling away.

  18. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't read the linked articles did you.

  19. Re:Actually I read the projected rule differentely on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%).

    It could just be sloppy wording, and you may be right. But to me, why use the phrase 'original productions made in each EU country' if they just meant '30% EU original productions to provide services in the EU'. Why mention countries at all?

    Also seems unlikely Germany would be happy with 30% French TV and vice versa. Germany already has a quota for German content, and they probably don't want that changed over to French under the new rules.

  20. Re: Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    So explain why the US put up barriers on steel and aluminum against *'the whole world' then. What are you retaliating against in this example?
    The WTO explicitly allows you to do exactly what you want with retaliatory tariffs already. So why exactly do you want to leave it again?

    (* not quite)

  21. Re:Third, not first on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    can anyone think of a single benefit?

    Godzilla.

  22. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt there would be, and certainly didn't say this was a good idea.
    Just correcting an error.

    It's not just films but video. So tv series would be included. Do those places make soap operas and local dramas etc? What is their current system of quotas?

    Seems they can 'just pay a small fee' instead, if they can't do enough of the other qualifying things. You knew that obviously because you read the article before jumping in.

    Netflix, Amazon and other streamers will be required to fund TV series and films produced in Europe by commissioning content, acquiring it or paying into national film funds through a small surcharge added to their subscription fee, something which is already happening in Germany.

    Just in case you didn't.

  23. Re: Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What are you smoking? Who has trade barriers against US steel and aluminum?
    Who wants to drop out of the WTO so they can get away with putting up even more tariffs?

    How the hell you were upvoted doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Ignorance is upvoted around here if it fits the groupthink.

  24. Re:Catalogue reductions on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    In today's episode of watching the grass grow in Germany...quick change to the French grass channel and see who is winning.

  25. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only in that country though. Germany, 30% German 70% anything else. France, 30% French 70% anything else. Italy, 30% Italian 70% anything else. Spain 30% Spanish 70% anything else.
    You can't have Sweden 30% Swedish + 30% German + 30% French + 30% Italian + 30% Spanish +...+
    Just logically there are more than 4 countries in Europe, so the total would be over 100%.
    Even EU bureaucracy isn't quite that bad,
    yet.