jmcs @ jmcs @discuss.tchncs.de

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The more logical choice would be to tax the distribution license sold by non American entities.

The thing that makes this unenforceable is that what he means is that he wants to tax movies not filmed fully in the US even if they are American movies.

When this was proposed the idea was that one of tank can replace two trees and it can be put in corners that are too small for trees (and cars). When you consider the space for roots you can get at least one parking space per tank at the cost of making car-centric cities even more of an hell hole.

They get in the way of parking spots. The steel cages must rule supreme.

Valnet websites are much worse.

The judge and prosecution in the first trial fucked up by including testimony for crimes Weinstein was not accused of, so the trial needs to be repeated. This is the kind of mistake they do in 90% of the cases but Weinstein can afford lawyers that care.

This is not even an American issue, prosecutors all over the world get used to steam rolling poor fool after poor fool so when they face someone that can afford an adequate defence team they are caught with their pants down more often than not.

As long as Google doesn't sell Chrome to OpenAI.

You can make a relatively tasty rice with beans with canned beans and bit of salt in 10 minutes - if you are feeling fancy adding parsley will even move it to tasting good. I'm starting to suspect all the corn syrup is damaging american's taste buds beyond repair.

Let's pretend for a second that the TSA is not a circus meant to appease people that are not paying too much attention being performed by an organisation that's effectively an employer of last resort.

The TSA will not even stop people from taking what they would need to make a Molotov cocktail with what they can buy in the airport shop. Their stated goal is not to reduce the risk of incidents to 0 is reducing it to reasonable level with the least disruption to the air travelers as possible - otherwise they would be trying to get people to fly naked and without luggage.

You are seriously misunderstanding TSA's purpose.

And the issue with wireless communications in airplanes was never that it was a huge risk by itself, it was always that there's a small chance that it could increase noise enough that some important communication might potentially be missed or misinterpreted. And there are lots of things that factor in the risk, like power, bands, and the amount of people not following the rules - it's very different to have one person forgetting to shut off the cellular signal on the phone or to have 200 phones on full blast mode trying to reach the nearest antenna.

All airplanes I've been in the last decade explicitly allow Bluetooth - and it's very easy for the staff to see the dozens of people wearing wireless head/earphones. For WiFi it's usually tied to the existence of on-board Internet.

You half answered your question. Different band and very different levels of signal strength.

And there are airplanes that allow wifi, just not all of them yet.

And the ones arriving are coming at a premium. And it's not only because of the value of the tariffs. There are plenty of people complaining that American companies are being required to pay imports up front because no one wants to take the risk of rejected deliveries due to surprise tariffs. This often means that American companies will need to get loans to pay for their orders, and those costs will be passed to the customers.

I also saw posts of people saying that hospitals aren't buying some medical equipment anymore because the sales price is locked by contracts with insurance companies and buying it from China would put them at a loss, so it's more profitable to refuse service to patients - hurray for private healthcare ! /s

Wikipedia has always been subject to EU laws regarding personal dignity rights, like the right to be forgotten for example. The GDPR is not even relevant for 99% of those cases, and they predate GDPR and even then web by decades. There have been court cases about it, and Wikipedia complies with court decisions. It's not an Achilles Heel it is the normal balancing act between the public's right to be informed and the individual's rights to a private life.

2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have proper "thick" handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.

You can keep personal data without consent for security and fraud detection. What Wikipedia does is perfectly compatible with GDPR.

Edit: case in point, Wikipedia is already subject to the GDPR, it's a very high profile website, and it hasn't been sued for violating it.

It's a bit different criticising a party for courting thinly disguised bribes from oligarchs and plutocrats, and wanting to remove all funding a party.

Given they don't actually need farms to produce wine, the federation might see Chateau Picard as personal (as opposed to private) property that supports Jean Luc's little hobby and preservation of traditional knowledge.

China's ability to mix and match the worst of communism and capitalism in a single dystopian package never ceases to amaze me.

Who said anything about Christianity? Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility, and [insert your favourite fertility goddess] will be worshipped.

Probably the only newspaper in the world that didn't have this article already written down and refined over the last few years.