"Israël houdt bij haar aanvallen onvoldoende rekening met de gevolgen voor de burgerbevolking", schrijven de rechters. "Het hof oordeelt dat er een duidelijk risico bestaat dat met de F-35-gevechtsvliegtuigen van Israël ernstige schendingen van het humanitaire oorlogsrecht worden gepleegd in de Gazastrook."
Translated:
"Israel, in its attacks, does not take enough consideration of the consequences for the civilian population," write the judges. "The court judges that there exists a clear risk that, using the F35 fighter jets, severe violations of the humanitarian rules of war are being committed in the Gaza Strip."
"Violating the humanitarian rules of war" doesn't mean the same as "genocide is being committed"
In my honest opinion, implying that the court has said anything along those lines is being dishonest.
Edit: The following paragraph is also worth noting:
"Dat op dit moment niet een definitief juridisch oordeel kan worden gegeven over de vraag of Israël het humanitair oorlogsrecht op ernstige wijze schendt, dat klopt op zichzelf", ging de rechter verder. "Dat oordeel geeft het hof ook niet. Maar daar gaat het in deze zaak niet om. Het gaat er in deze zaak alleen om of er een duidelijk risico is dat de naar Israël uitgevoerde F-35-onderdelen gebruikt worden bij het begaan van ernstige schendingen van het humanitair oorlogsrecht. Het hof oordeelt dat onmiskenbaar is dat dat een duidelijk risico is."
Translated:
"That at this moment there cannot be a definitive legal judgement on the question of whether Israel has violated the humanitarian rules of war in a serious manner, is correct on its face," continues the judge. "The court doesn't make that judgement. But that is also not what this case is about. This case it is only about whether there exists a clear risk that the F-35 parts which get exported to Israel get used in the committing of serious violations of the humanitarian rules of war. The court decides that it is unmistakable that that is a clear risk."
The court case did not look at whether Israel is definitely committing violations of the humanitarian rules of war, but rather whether there is a reasonable assumption of risk that the F35 planes get used in such violations.
And judging by the extent of the attacks on Gaza by Israel, it's probably fair to say that there is such a risk.
Thanks for adding the link to the article, but it might be more convenient if you also add the link to the post description.
Currently this comment is showing up at the bottom of the thread for me.
Yeah, I was hesitating between using "transgenders" or "transgender people" there.
In the end I chose "transgenders" because it fit better with "homosexuals" a paragraph prior. I didn't really mean anything more by it.
I'll be sure to edit the comment though :)
P.S. I also used the word "transgenderism" a few paragraphs prior, which I know is sometimes used as a dog whistle too.
In that case I specifically chose to use that word because of the context of that sentence being an example of hate.
It makes more sense if you look at this as them needing a scapegoat.
Most people don't (or until very recently didn't) really understand what being transgender actually is all about.
This makes it really easy to fearmonger the general population, by painting their "lifestyle" as everything that is wrong with society.
And if you want to solve this issue.. well clearly you have to vote for them, because the other guys don't see the inherent dangers of transgenderism, now do they?
This is not anything inherent to being transgender. The scapegoat before this were homosexuals.
However society has progressed to the point where most people understand what homosexuality is, and accept (or at the very least tolerate) homosexuals existing as a part of society. It turns out they weren't pedophilic devil worshipers after all..
That will happen with transgender people too. People will learn, acceptance will grow.
And when it does, these cretins move on to the next minority group.
Bonus round: Replace "transgender" with "Jew" in the things I mentioned above, and see what that reminds you of.
I don't want to make it sound like the NL is a terrible place to live. It's actually pretty good all things considered.
However, no place is perfect, and we should still point out the problems that do exist.
The most difficult part is that there is not really one solution to these problems..
The core issue is the nitrogen oxide emissions crisis, which we can't really get around.
Somehow we are going to have to lower these emissions, but how will we make sure that the burden of that is shared fairly?
I don't envy the politicians who are going to have to perform the balancing act between the various conflicting interests
Netherlands here. We're dealing with a couple of difficult problems, each of which making each other worse:
Nitrogen oxide emissions crisis
Nitrogen oxide emissions are a serious problem for biodiversity, and as a consequence the EU has put limits on how much nitrogen emissions can be emitted close to Natura2000 areas (which are a form of official nature reserve).
However, the Netherlands is a very densely populated country, and also has a lot of these Natura2000 areas.
Now it turns out that basically all human activity emits nitrogen oxide in some form, and it's completely paralyzing the ability for anything to get done.
This problem is core to a lot of the other problems my country is dealing with right now.
The government is trying to limit nitrogen emissions, for instance through means such as buying out animal farms, but this is not very popular.
Housing availability crisis
About a decade ago the government abolished the ministry of people's housing, because it was believed at the time that such a ministry was no longer necessary to provide enough housing. This coincided with the after effects of the 2008 housing crisis.
As a result, every year since too few houses have been built to meet demand, and now we are dealing with a crippling shortage in the housing supply.
The government has since realized the problem and is attempting to tackle it, but the aforementioned nitrogen oxide crisis also makes it very difficult for new housing development to obtain the necessary permits.
So instead the government tries to push hot-fixes like rent-caps, which ultimately just reduce the supply of rental properties even further. This is because land-lords cannot make a profit renting out these properties with the proposed rent-caps, so they just sell the property instead.
High inflation / High cost-of-living / High interest rates
Last year, like much of Europe, we were dealing with pretty high cost-of-living and inflation rates.
This is a direct result of our prior dependence on Russian gas, and the war in Ukraine disrupting the supply of that gas.
I stand with Ukraine, and I think it is good we quit cold turkey on our addiction to cheap Russian gas, but it had a lot of serious knock on-effects on the cost of living and the inflation rate.
The ECB (European Central Bank) has tried to fight the inflation rate with interest rate hikes (and it would appear they are succesfull at doing that).
But by raising inflation rates, they do slow down the ability to invest in the economy. This in turn affects things like the ability for property investors to build housing, which worsens the housing crisis again.
Full electricity net
On top of all this, we are also running out of capacity on the electricity net.
This is going on at the same time that we are trying to eliminate our natural gas consumption for environmental reasons, as well as the need to reduce our reliance on potentially hostile foreign powers (see Russia).
This is causing numerous issues with regards to businesses switching away from gas, new businesses opening, new housing construction, etc..
Severe employee shortages
Despite everything, the Dutch economy has been running pretty well, and as a result there has been very low rates of unemployment. It's gotten to the point that there are significantly more jobs available in basically every field, than there are people to work those jobs. That is causing other serious problems in turn.
As an example, public transit cannot find the necessary workers to get all the trains to run reliably on time.
Another example is a shortage of workers in the construction industry, which worsens the aforementioned housing availability crisis, and the electricity net being at capacity.
Another example is a shortage of engineers able to plan out extensions for the electricity net
This shortage can pretty much be extended to every industry right now.
Asylum crisis
On top of the other stuff going on, we also have a large amount of asylum seekers trying to obtain refugee status in the Netherlands.
Under normal circumstances these asylum seekers would apply for asylum in Ter Apel, which is an asylum processing center. They would stay there until they obtain refugee status, after which they would find a regular place to live elsewhere in the country.
However, the severe housing shortage is making that last step impossible, which is causing refugees to stay in Ter Apel for far longer than they reasonably should be. This is clogging up the system with people to the point where Ter Apel has long since exceeded capacity.
This causes numerous problems, and politically it's very difficult to get other parts of the country to carry their weight in dealing with this crisis.
The main concern is that refugees take away houses from the Dutch people who are also unable to find housing.
14 years of a mainly liberal-conservative government (VVD), and a future mainly populist government (PVV)
While I think the VVD (liberal conservatives) is not as bad as some people make the party out to be, they are liberals.. And liberals seem to be allergic to interfering with market forces, even if those market forces are actively making things worse.
Because of this, government action on all of these crises over these past 14 years has largely been too little, too late.
The people are fed up with the inability of the government to solve these issues, and have voiced their displeasure in last year's general election.
But instead of voting for a party which will tackle the fundamental issues mentioned above, they largely voted for the PVV (populists) who blames all problems on the refugees and migrants.
They propose to significantly reduce the number of people coming into the country.
However, they seem to ignore that our economy is highly dependent on skilled migrants coming in to work for companies such as ASML. They also seem to ignore that reducing the number of people coming into the country will worsen the general employee crisis we are already dealing with.
So while I hold out hope that they might be more effective than the VVD, I'm not holding out hope for any meaningful change in the next term.
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I probably forgot a few things, but these are the main issues my country is dealing with right now.
Sorry for the long post, but there is just a lot we are dealing with.
While I agree with most of what you said, I don't think it's a great idea to recommend Linux to someone who appears to be out of his depth in terms of computers.
If consuming media with integer scaling is the main concern, then 120Hz would be better than 144Hz, because it can be divided by 5 to make 24Hz (for movies) and divided by 2 or 4 to make 30/60Hz (for TV shows).
144Hz only cleanly divides into 24Hz by dividing it by 6. In order to get to 60Hz you need to divide by 2.4, which is not an integer.
And with either refresh rate 25/50Hz PAL content is still not dividable by a nice round integer value
It's odd to me that there are places that would consider that piracy
In my country (the Netherlands), to my knowledge, you have the right to do whatever you like with your copy of a movie as long as you don't distribute it.
That includes ripping it, and putting the mkv on your personal server. That is precisely what the home-copy tax is for afterall..
Regardless of your stance on what is going on in Gaza, I don't think unions should be picking a side either way.
The point of a union is to represent the worker toward their employer. This is most effective if all workers stand together.
Taking a stance on a matter that is so politically controversial as the situation in Gaza/Israel, only serves to divide workers, reducing the effectiveness of unions to achieve their core purpose.
If individuals (or groups of individuals) want to support or denounce either Israel or Palestine that should be their choice, but I don't think a union should get involved in that.
Short answer: It's because of binary.
Computers are very good at calculating with powers of two, and because of that a lot of computer concepts use powers of two to make calculations easier.
Great that it seems to work for you, but I've been experiencing this bug for months now if not longer.
I made the changes OP suggested, and now it seems to work correctly.
The problem is not that it gives a download prompt, but rather that it tosses the PDF file into your downloads folder unrequested.
It opens the PDF in the internal PDF viewer as well, but that is not the thing people are having issues with.
I don't know whether they fixed it since, but last I checked that option was broken.
No matter what you select, half the time it still downloads the PDF to your drive.
I can mostly find myself agreeing (or at least not having big issues with) with all of the points, except for that one.
Let's just hope they mean requiring a best effort, rather than outright preventing it in the first place.
The court did not use the term genocide (or at least that is not how it is being reported on here in the Netherlands)
https://nos.nl/l/2508537
Translated:
"Violating the humanitarian rules of war" doesn't mean the same as "genocide is being committed"
In my honest opinion, implying that the court has said anything along those lines is being dishonest.
Edit: The following paragraph is also worth noting:
Translated:
The court case did not look at whether Israel is definitely committing violations of the humanitarian rules of war, but rather whether there is a reasonable assumption of risk that the F35 planes get used in such violations.
And judging by the extent of the attacks on Gaza by Israel, it's probably fair to say that there is such a risk.
Edit 2: Some tweaks to the translations.