No, if that was true they'd just summons the head of Facebook UK, somebody who is under their jurisdiction, and who they can summon whenever they want.
The press don't care about that person, so it wouldn't make headlines, so they didn't do it. That's the gravitas that attaches to their activities in this matter.
The war was an attempt by the UK to take the United States back. They failed. That means, the US won.
And the US didn't win the Battle of New Orleans. We lost rather badly. However, the courage of our soldiers misled the British into believing that they were being led into a trap, and that there must be a whole bunch of reinforcements that are going to show up any time, and so while they won all the fighting, they failed to advance and gain access to the interior.
The point of the battle, and the point of remembering the battle, is that it was fought after the Treaty was signed to end the war; and the British were found to have orders instructing them to keep fighting even when they heard about the Treaty! Their intent was to back-stab us after signing the Treaty, which they did, and to therefore defeat us, which they didn't even come close to doing because Americans do not stop fighting when things look bad.
You know, as funny as that was on your end, we actually can't even see you and so we missed the entire physical comedy routine and only saw the word "huh?"
Sorry JarJar, internet is hard, I know. Keep trying, you'll get it.
It turns out, I actually am an American, so you'll have to moron-splain to somebody else.
And sure, the UK can have whatever privacy laws they want. As long as they apply it to all the companies, we won't care.
And if facebook hates a privacy law, that means facebook users in that place are gonna be unhappy! Don't expect Americans to cry for Facebook, or for their users that will be upsetting politics in the UK.
They can make whatever rules they want, but trade relations are not ad-hoc.
Feds regulate inter-state commerce. Official timekeeping is related to that.
Actually, this is America; if timekeeping wasn't necessary for the economy, we wouldn't even have official time zones, it would all just be a matter of opinion.
What happens if I don't even live in a megalopolis, and live in a place that has farmers?
Careful there making such wild guesses.
Probably none of the animals will notice either, right? I mean, they can't tell time, so they just do stuff whenever anyways, right?
And I mean, if you think somebody is going to go out and check equipment before dawn, naw, this is the future we're living in, who cares if you water at the wrong time and the plants get moldy or sunburnt.
I doubt you even believe food comes from the supermarket; you probably think food comes from mcdonalds!
Right, right, that's the whole point. The Commonwealth is a club, not a cartel. It has no powers other than something something having to do with cricket.
They'll try to call it PDT but then the computers will "fix" their clocks all the time.
In the end they're going to have to learn to call it UTC-7, and they'll beg and beg for websites to call it UTC-7 (California) so that they can, like, find it, brah.
It is unlikely that Oregon would do so unless the US Congress acts first.
It would require a vote, and we don't like to vote for shit that doesn't pass Federal muster.
Like with legalizing marijuana; we voted no on the first few plans, because they didn't match up with well enough with the State/Federal divisions of power. Voters waited for a scheme that can stand up.
Just the fact, "we can't actually do this yet" will cause many Oregonians who would otherwise support it to get pissed off that it is even on the ballot yet! We have very active Direct Democracy here, and before we changed the rules to make it harder we used to have to vote on an excess of stupid ideas. So there is some sensitivity to that.
OTOH, Oregonians do want to solve the problem. So probably, we'll just end up on PST all year, and if we're in a different time zone than California, it won't actually matter very often. And it will likely be temporary.
Which is exactly why she's not going to express disapproval! It would carry weight, which is a political act itself, and it would endanger the Royal Family's position in society. Their contemporary position in society is based on being outside of politics, that doesn't just mean not running for office, it means actually remaining outside of politics. There are different "sides" in politics, and so if you say something that carries weight, all the people that disagree know you were being political!
LMFAO you don't seem to understand how lawns work.
He is a billionaire. He has so many lawns, if he drove past yours he'd think it was a vacant lot.
He doesn't need to be big, bright, or courageous in your eyes. Your eyes don't even land on him, you only get to see pictures in the media.
It just amazes me how people on slashdot, people who otherwise might be considered intelligent, somehow feel like they have personal power over the powerful in this world. It is like the ultimate exercise in sniffing your own farts.
If you "regulate [foreign companies] out of existence [in your market]" even though you have trade agreements with that nation, you unfortunately regulate all the trade with that nation out of existence.
Do you think the UK is ready to play that game with the US? Is the Empire that strong? LOL
You're still not comprehending which government regulations apply to US companies.
It isn't hard. That would be US Government regulations.
Also, regarding UK regulations that affect US companies doing business there, that is regulated by the trade agreements between the US and the UK. It is not available to the UK to pass special laws to punish specific US companies. That would violate trade agreements.
All they can do is loosen their upper lips and huff and puff. I thought that they had stiff upper lips precisely to avoid that particular embarrassment, but times do change.
I totally agree. If he goes, it would be shoild. But he won't, because all the legal reasons are for not going.
The consequences are, the meanies in the UK Parliament might loosen their upper lips and say something unbecoming of their position. Don't expect Americans to be impressed, though. Our own politicians say worse things about us before breakfast!
That's how bad the UK parliament wants a distraction from the reality that Brexit "negotiations" are only about the bill, and that they can demand no trade concessions.
It's a slippery slope. Next month, France wants him to appear, then Spain and Italy, then Angola and China.
So what? What if he ends up going to 20 different countries? He is operating a multinational company and he needs to respect them. If he is operating within a country and doesn't show respect to that ruling body, I hope he get's punished.
I hope when the UK next considers tax laws they do remember this. There's a lot of talk about how big companies like Facebook dodge paying taxes, I hope this event is considered when the UK next looks at how to change that.
The EU is talking about it to, but they're not going to do it because they'd need support from all EU countries and something like half have already pointed out that they would never agree to something that adversarial towards the United States. The only way that the tax issues they have get solved is by international agreement about the rules of where companies pay tax.
The UK has even less power to dictate that on their own, and with Brexit looming, they don't even get to take aggressive negotiating positions on matters of trade. The UK will do what the US tells them on these issues, because the US is only going to tell them to do the same things that we all agreed on in the past! They have no power to demand changes at all, to any part of the relationship.
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Even when I go 50 miles up into the mountains to pick wild mushrooms, there are still airplanes buzzing over.
But the US is a big place... maybe parts of north Alaska there wouldn't be anything flying low most of the year.
They already have that in Texas, but it's weird, they make them wear these giant hats and high-heel boots!
San Francisco people mostly stab each other. If you want shootings you should go to Berkeley.
No, if that was true they'd just summons the head of Facebook UK, somebody who is under their jurisdiction, and who they can summon whenever they want.
The press don't care about that person, so it wouldn't make headlines, so they didn't do it. That's the gravitas that attaches to their activities in this matter.
The war was an attempt by the UK to take the United States back. They failed. That means, the US won.
And the US didn't win the Battle of New Orleans. We lost rather badly. However, the courage of our soldiers misled the British into believing that they were being led into a trap, and that there must be a whole bunch of reinforcements that are going to show up any time, and so while they won all the fighting, they failed to advance and gain access to the interior.
The point of the battle, and the point of remembering the battle, is that it was fought after the Treaty was signed to end the war; and the British were found to have orders instructing them to keep fighting even when they heard about the Treaty! Their intent was to back-stab us after signing the Treaty, which they did, and to therefore defeat us, which they didn't even come close to doing because Americans do not stop fighting when things look bad.
LMFAO dude, he owns most of an island. Neither of us know him, so we have no idea about his non-monetary life.
Hating people while on the internet doesn't actually mean you have extra value compared to other human beings. It just means you're an asshole.
Your meds are somewhere out there in that lawn. No, I'm not even looking for them. You're welcome, grandpa.
You know, as funny as that was on your end, we actually can't even see you and so we missed the entire physical comedy routine and only saw the word "huh?"
Sorry JarJar, internet is hard, I know. Keep trying, you'll get it.
It turns out, I actually am an American, so you'll have to moron-splain to somebody else.
And sure, the UK can have whatever privacy laws they want. As long as they apply it to all the companies, we won't care.
And if facebook hates a privacy law, that means facebook users in that place are gonna be unhappy! Don't expect Americans to cry for Facebook, or for their users that will be upsetting politics in the UK.
They can make whatever rules they want, but trade relations are not ad-hoc.
Feds regulate inter-state commerce. Official timekeeping is related to that.
Actually, this is America; if timekeeping wasn't necessary for the economy, we wouldn't even have official time zones, it would all just be a matter of opinion.
Just don't accidentally look up and notice the headline, and you'll be fine.
Oh snap, good one!
What happens if I don't even live in a megalopolis, and live in a place that has farmers?
Careful there making such wild guesses.
Probably none of the animals will notice either, right? I mean, they can't tell time, so they just do stuff whenever anyways, right?
And I mean, if you think somebody is going to go out and check equipment before dawn, naw, this is the future we're living in, who cares if you water at the wrong time and the plants get moldy or sunburnt.
I doubt you even believe food comes from the supermarket; you probably think food comes from mcdonalds!
Right, right, that's the whole point. The Commonwealth is a club, not a cartel. It has no powers other than something something having to do with cricket.
Youâ(TM)re is Microsoftâ(TM)s
OK JarJar, when Naboo gets a Microsoft Store, get back to us.
It doesn't even matter if it works, only if Chinese people believe that it works.
They'll try to call it PDT but then the computers will "fix" their clocks all the time.
In the end they're going to have to learn to call it UTC-7, and they'll beg and beg for websites to call it UTC-7 (California) so that they can, like, find it, brah.
It is unlikely that Oregon would do so unless the US Congress acts first.
It would require a vote, and we don't like to vote for shit that doesn't pass Federal muster.
Like with legalizing marijuana; we voted no on the first few plans, because they didn't match up with well enough with the State/Federal divisions of power. Voters waited for a scheme that can stand up.
Just the fact, "we can't actually do this yet" will cause many Oregonians who would otherwise support it to get pissed off that it is even on the ballot yet! We have very active Direct Democracy here, and before we changed the rules to make it harder we used to have to vote on an excess of stupid ideas. So there is some sensitivity to that.
OTOH, Oregonians do want to solve the problem. So probably, we'll just end up on PST all year, and if we're in a different time zone than California, it won't actually matter very often. And it will likely be temporary.
Which is exactly why she's not going to express disapproval! It would carry weight, which is a political act itself, and it would endanger the Royal Family's position in society. Their contemporary position in society is based on being outside of politics, that doesn't just mean not running for office, it means actually remaining outside of politics. There are different "sides" in politics, and so if you say something that carries weight, all the people that disagree know you were being political!
And he can get off my lawn.
LMFAO you don't seem to understand how lawns work.
He is a billionaire. He has so many lawns, if he drove past yours he'd think it was a vacant lot.
He doesn't need to be big, bright, or courageous in your eyes. Your eyes don't even land on him, you only get to see pictures in the media.
It just amazes me how people on slashdot, people who otherwise might be considered intelligent, somehow feel like they have personal power over the powerful in this world. It is like the ultimate exercise in sniffing your own farts.
If you "regulate [foreign companies] out of existence [in your market]" even though you have trade agreements with that nation, you unfortunately regulate all the trade with that nation out of existence.
Do you think the UK is ready to play that game with the US? Is the Empire that strong? LOL
You're still not comprehending which government regulations apply to US companies.
It isn't hard. That would be US Government regulations.
Also, regarding UK regulations that affect US companies doing business there, that is regulated by the trade agreements between the US and the UK. It is not available to the UK to pass special laws to punish specific US companies. That would violate trade agreements.
All they can do is loosen their upper lips and huff and puff. I thought that they had stiff upper lips precisely to avoid that particular embarrassment, but times do change.
I totally agree. If he goes, it would be shoild. But he won't, because all the legal reasons are for not going.
The consequences are, the meanies in the UK Parliament might loosen their upper lips and say something unbecoming of their position. Don't expect Americans to be impressed, though. Our own politicians say worse things about us before breakfast!
He's already appeared before 100% of the countries that have jurisdiction to summon him.
Coming up with some numbers that purport to add up to some percentage of something, doesn't make any of those numbers relevant.
That's how bad the UK parliament wants a distraction from the reality that Brexit "negotiations" are only about the bill, and that they can demand no trade concessions.
He had the time to basically wander across America on his apologia tour
You didn't know this, but it turns out he's actually an American who lives in America!
You're welcome.
I wander around all the time, usually in America, no, I won't answer foreign "summons" either.
If you want it in writing, send Lord Cornwallis for the paperwork!
It's a slippery slope. Next month, France wants him to appear, then Spain and Italy, then Angola and China.
So what? What if he ends up going to 20 different countries? He is operating a multinational company and he needs to respect them. If he is operating within a country and doesn't show respect to that ruling body, I hope he get's punished.
I hope when the UK next considers tax laws they do remember this. There's a lot of talk about how big companies like Facebook dodge paying taxes, I hope this event is considered when the UK next looks at how to change that.
The EU is talking about it to, but they're not going to do it because they'd need support from all EU countries and something like half have already pointed out that they would never agree to something that adversarial towards the United States. The only way that the tax issues they have get solved is by international agreement about the rules of where companies pay tax.
The UK has even less power to dictate that on their own, and with Brexit looming, they don't even get to take aggressive negotiating positions on matters of trade. The UK will do what the US tells them on these issues, because the US is only going to tell them to do the same things that we all agreed on in the past! They have no power to demand changes at all, to any part of the relationship.