Federal: "A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government."
Republic: "A republic (from Latin res publica 'public affair') is a form of government in which "supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives"."
So yes. The US is a federal republic.
To be a true democracy we would have one vote per person per issue. On every issue.
False (why do so many conservatives insist on denying the concept of representative democracy?).
It's actually so-so since democracy implies some basically equal representation.
I have not been able to find a definition that specifies equal representation.
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
"a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so ("representative democracy")."
"Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives."
"a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting"
"a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections"
It's more like to me that the copyright regime is about ensuring ideas and information can not spread in order to maximize business profits from ideas and information they allow to spread.
That depends on whether you're talking about the purpose of copyright as outlined in the constitution, or the purpose(s) of the actual copyright legislation we are currently stuck with.
The persons family and loved ones are also victims of the event.
When someone is murdered, the family and friends are not murder victims. Similarly, these people are not suicide victims, regardless of how much they are suffering.
No one said, and I certainly didn't intend to mean, that parenting is easy, but it's all a matter of degree - some children need more attention paid to their behavior than others. Some parents are simply better equipped to provide that attention, and execute corrective action, others aren't up to speed.
We have no idea how much attention, or what kind, these parents paid to their daughter. Depression is a serious psychiatric illness, and paying more attention to someone doesn't make it go away.
As to my presumptions.... I didn't just presume that a solution is possible, I know that at least one is possible, and likely more than one would've worked out with good results. Experience, history, and the entire "child psychology" field have ample proof of that.
Proof that 100% of suicides could have been prevented if the person's family had done something different? I would be interested in seeing that proof.
I spoke of "tough love" as being a way to redirect misbehavior, but that's not assigning blame.
If "being an ineffective parent" and "she just didn't try hard enough" were not intended to blame the mother, what did you mean by them?
My thought is that this was written by two lawyers who didn't talk to each other. And sure enough, I was correct - one's in SF, the other is in Seattle.
There's a vast difference between mobile games and using a browser to stream a game, so I suggest you ditch that silly analogy.
I think you may have misunderstood, because it's not an analogy. When you're playing cloud games on a mobile device, you're comparing them to native mobile games, so that's where the bar is set. When you're playing them on a console, you'll compare them to native console games, so it has to perform better to be acceptable (to a lot of people anyway). I haven't played them so maybe xCloud is just great and gamers don't notice any difference.
You're suggesting Playstation users open a web browser to play Microsoft games? I don't see that taking off. Have you ever used a browser on a game console? It sucks. It's also not clear how that experience would compare to native games. People aren't very demanding of mobile games (where xCloud is used via browser to my knowledge) compared to console.
the 'I'm crazy/a liar so you can't charge me with defamation' would likely rather undermine the grift he's aiming at Trump cultists
Not even a little bit. "He had to say that to protect himself from the George Soros funded commie lawsuit," they'll tell Jordan Klepper in a few months. The cult will believe any old contradictory thing, and the only way he could turn them against himself is by denouncing Trump or promoting public health measures.
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And where is the part where it says it must be absolutely equal in representation? Because I don't see it.
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You have yet to provide a citation for this claim.
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Out of a total population of 1.4 billion? I'd like to see a citation for that.
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Why, so there's less competition in gaming?
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Can you find any dictionary or encyclopedia that defines representative democracy in that way?
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Federal: "A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government."
Republic: "A republic (from Latin res publica 'public affair') is a form of government in which "supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives"."
So yes. The US is a federal republic.
False (why do so many conservatives insist on denying the concept of representative democracy?).
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What he said was "This post might have been better..." But please, continue overreacting to gentle suggestions! It's entertaining.
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I have not been able to find a definition that specifies equal representation.
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
"a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so ("representative democracy")."
"Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives."
"a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting"
"a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections"
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That depends on whether you're talking about the purpose of copyright as outlined in the constitution, or the purpose(s) of the actual copyright legislation we are currently stuck with.
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When someone is murdered, the family and friends are not murder victims. Similarly, these people are not suicide victims, regardless of how much they are suffering.
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We have no idea how much attention, or what kind, these parents paid to their daughter. Depression is a serious psychiatric illness, and paying more attention to someone doesn't make it go away.
Proof that 100% of suicides could have been prevented if the person's family had done something different? I would be interested in seeing that proof.
If "being an ineffective parent" and "she just didn't try hard enough" were not intended to blame the mother, what did you mean by them?
I have seen phones in both of those cities.
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These are European regulators, not known for being fans of large US companies.
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It's a very, very old joke. I guess you got to be one of the 10,000 yesterday (I can explain that one too if you don't know what it is)!
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/08/deja-vu-again/
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I think you may have misunderstood, because it's not an analogy. When you're playing cloud games on a mobile device, you're comparing them to native mobile games, so that's where the bar is set. When you're playing them on a console, you'll compare them to native console games, so it has to perform better to be acceptable (to a lot of people anyway). I haven't played them so maybe xCloud is just great and gamers don't notice any difference.
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My guess is he just made it up on the spot, without thinking about the fact that 300 million is a ridiculously large number.
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You're suggesting Playstation users open a web browser to play Microsoft games? I don't see that taking off. Have you ever used a browser on a game console? It sucks. It's also not clear how that experience would compare to native games. People aren't very demanding of mobile games (where xCloud is used via browser to my knowledge) compared to console.
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I missed the part where Tim said Microsoft isn't allowed to do this, can you quote it for me?
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And if Microsoft wants to spend the money to port the games to Playstation.
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Not even a little bit. "He had to say that to protect himself from the George Soros funded commie lawsuit," they'll tell Jordan Klepper in a few months. The cult will believe any old contradictory thing, and the only way he could turn them against himself is by denouncing Trump or promoting public health measures.
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