Of course its safe to assume that Switzerland and the UK will follow up with the same kind of monopoly-granting-laws as the EU, they've always done so before. Iceland however might not.
Mentioning these things and making a law that does honor them is not the same.
Rationale 70 states "Those exceptions and limitations should, therefore, be made mandatory in order to ensure that users receive uniform protection across the Union."
That's nearly nice, except it says "should" in there.
I hope the police department sent the surviving family members a receipt for the processing of the deceased B^HTuttle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
Read it, it features such juicy bits as "And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
"no deal" would actually help civil liberties. Because the one thing the puppy government really insisted on was continuing access for GCHQ to spy on communications.
I have no idea what you mean with "not safe for work". Which kind of "work" exactly?
As a sysadmin of a hosting company I actually sometimes had to look at pornographic sites -- because customers of ours had trouble with php errors and wanted help or somesuch. Plus there are people in the porn business, for which porn is obviously very much "safe for work".
On the other hand, my current job has nothing to do with customer hosting, so for me right now just about ANY non-technical page on the internet has nothing to do with work, and is therefore "not safe for work". And this includes facebook, most news-sites and techdirt.
So don't go around with useless euphemisms like NSFW when you actually mean "porn". Fucking puritan pukes, all.
I can't even see why you would need something like a voting register, or why you even would need people to register for it in the first place.
Here in Switzerland, all the citizens aged 18 automatically are voters. And you get your voting ID sent to you automatically for every vote or election.
Well, the free market won't fix this. It had decades, it didn't.
The questions are simple: Can I offload costs (like for security) onto somebody else? Or can I make a profit where somebody else has to pay the cost (like selling data). And if the answer is yes, it will be done, no matter whether it's amoral or not.
Actually, fraud and identity theft in the US is _massively_ the bigger problem than in Europe, where harder privacy laws existed for decades, not just since the GDPR. So that's actually proof these laws are needed, and also, they work.
A lot of the banned games are not banned because of the contents, but because of what else they do: - trojans, typically cryptocurrency-miners - handing out thousands of steam-achievements - doing bollocks with the DLC system - being completely non-functional
Actually, I mostly have problems with anti-globalists, like those guys building walls on borders, or the ones doing market segregation. And of course, the ones exporting their shitty protectionist monopoly-laws (anti-globalist and illiberal in nature, of course, like patent-systems and copyrights) all over the world.
No, globalism is a good thing. And it certainly doesn't mean "fascist Koch Brothers enact global surveillance state".
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The reasons he should not have been confirmed
> Name a better country or a better government.
OR? Well, that's easy. Here's a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States Most of them are better than the current government of the US. Some were really bad, yes, like Nixon, Bush Jr., Hoover, or Andrew Johnson; some were merely average bad, like Truman, Obama or Clinton, but I think the current government is the worst the US ever had.
The EU Parliament is indeed a democratically elected body, and would be the legislative body in a democracy. But it's NOT. It' can't make laws. Those are actually written by the executive body, whose members are placed there by the executive bodies of the member states.
Basically, the EU is a way for governments (executive bodies) to makes laws they couldn't make at home because their parliaments wouldn't have let them.
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Wouldn't have helped. Article 12 alone moves 50% of the income of artists to publishers.
if you needed any proof for who's benefiting from this directive
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Re: Blondie Supports Article 13
This one has gone over to the dark side, I fear: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/22/musician-shocked-opposition-eu-copyright-law-y outube-debbie-harry-blondie
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Only when it's honest
Or, more likely, block anyone from the EU from commenting.
But please refrain from doing stupid shit like lumping all of Europe (or even RIPE addresses) into the "EU", like some US newspapers do. Not everyone in Europe is in the EU http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/eu_member_states_map.jpg
Of course its safe to assume that Switzerland and the UK will follow up with the same kind of monopoly-granting-laws as the EU, they've always done so before. Iceland however might not.
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Re: 'Article 13? What's that? Nothing bad there...'
Sorry, no, they always do that, to get rid of stuff like article-numbers like 9b and such they inserted before.
The should have used basic-convention:
Article 10
Article 20
Article 30
Goto Article 10
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Re: Re: Only when it's honest
I slowly get the impression all the Pro-Uploadfilter posts here are done by the same outfit, namely astroturfer "Europe for Creators".
Apparently launched around 2018-08-18:
https://societe.sacem.fr/en/press-resources/per-publication/press-releases/europe-creato rs-launches-campaign-support-eu-copyright-directive
There is this lobbying-agency involved: https://elanedelman.com/
And it's probably run/commissioned by GESAC: http://authorsocieties.eu/
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The rationale is not the law
Mentioning these things and making a law that does honor them is not the same.
Rationale 70 states "Those exceptions and limitations should, therefore, be made mandatory in order to ensure that users receive uniform protection across the Union."
That's nearly nice, except it says "should" in there.
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Receipt
I hope the police department sent the surviving family members a receipt for the processing of the deceased B^HTuttle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
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Loose respect for copyright? Well, Thomas Babington Macaulay told you so in his Speeches to House of Commons in 1841(!)
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeche s.html
Read it, it features such juicy bits as "And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
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Re: When the penalties only go one way...
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Re: Paging Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Dear America
https://www.stopline.at/en/statistics
48.7% from the US. And what the most likely area is the complained-over content _really_ is: Adult Pornography.
What I can see here is that American puritan pukes are constantly complaining about Austrian porn sites.
This is a global problem. And these holier-than-thou postings are annoying.
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Not Safe for Work
As a sysadmin of a hosting company I actually sometimes had to look at pornographic sites -- because customers of ours had trouble with php errors and wanted help or somesuch. Plus there are people in the porn business, for which porn is obviously very much "safe for work".
On the other hand, my current job has nothing to do with customer hosting, so for me right now just about ANY non-technical page on the internet has nothing to do with work, and is therefore "not safe for work". And this includes facebook, most news-sites and techdirt.
So don't go around with useless euphemisms like NSFW when you actually mean "porn". Fucking puritan pukes, all.
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What we have is an overwhelming collection of authoritarian-right governments: https://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart
And the USA too:
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016 including Obama: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012 Canada also:
https://www.politicalcompass.org/canada2015
And the UK, look where Labour stands: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015
Also, this has nothing to do with "conservative", because https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/conservativism-isnt/
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Voting Register considered absurd
Here in Switzerland, all the citizens aged 18 automatically are voters. And you get your voting ID sent to you automatically for every vote or election.
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Re: Re:
The questions are simple: Can I offload costs (like for security) onto somebody else? Or can I make a profit where somebody else has to pay the cost (like selling data). And if the answer is yes, it will be done, no matter whether it's amoral or not.
Actually, fraud and identity theft in the US is _massively_ the bigger problem than in Europe, where harder privacy laws existed for decades, not just since the GDPR. So that's actually proof these laws are needed, and also, they work.
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Re:
- trojans, typically cryptocurrency-miners
- handing out thousands of steam-achievements
- doing bollocks with the DLC system
- being completely non-functional
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Re: Re: Globalist
No, globalism is a good thing. And it certainly doesn't mean "fascist Koch Brothers enact global surveillance state".
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The reasons he should not have been confirmed
OR? Well, that's easy. Here's a list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Most of them are better than the current government of the US. Some were really bad, yes, like Nixon, Bush Jr., Hoover, or Andrew Johnson; some were merely average bad, like Truman, Obama or Clinton, but I think the current government is the worst the US ever had.
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Re:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/04/14/map-these-are-the-worlds-leas t-religious-countries/
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Re: Ahh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
The EU Parliament is indeed a democratically elected body, and would be the legislative body in a democracy. But it's NOT. It' can't make laws. Those are actually written by the executive body, whose members are placed there by the executive bodies of the member states.
Basically, the EU is a way for governments (executive bodies) to makes laws they couldn't make at home because their parliaments wouldn't have let them.
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