clearly, they are underworked if they have time for this bullshit.

Seems to me that the kids are almost certainly having thanksgiving, just not inviting their father.

I was gonna go yachting in those feet!

The petitioners would need to collect signatures from registered voters equal to at least 10% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election.

I really hate that this is the standard. It means that the more votes we cast for governor, the less power we have to enact a referendum.

you can’t male a $12 US widget any more because widget juice now costs twice as much

At my job, I turn $20 of raw material into 25 pieces I sell for $16 each. Double my material costs, and to break even, I have to make another $20 from the sale of those 25 pieces. I have to charge $16.80 instead of $16.

“Effectively, what he’s saying is that even though there’s a guarantee of birthright citizenship,” explains Evan Bernick, an assistant professor of law at Northern Illinois University and co-author of The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit, “the president can kind of turn it off by declaring an invasion and try to remove whoever he says is invading…It’s not even a loophole, it swallows the entire guarantee.” The fact that Trump referred to a foreign invasion in his campaign video, he adds, suggests they might be anticipating litigation and trying to “boost as much as possible their very minimal odds.”

This is an extraordinarily dangerous approach. He’ll basically be declaring them to be enemy combatants. That means he can involve the military. That means he can declare protesters to be giving “aid and comfort” to enemies, and charge them with treason.

It’s a complex hydrocarbon. Shred it, heat it up, and feed it in the front end of a refinery.

Betteridge’s Law

And your privacy is not protected from Microsoft when you interact with anyone outside Europe.

Why are you going to so much effort to make Windows work?

I mean, is it really easier to adopt international law than use the command line once in awhile?

I think you missed my point…

I am not subject to the GDPR. I don’t have to abide by it. Even if my country adopted a GDPR-like regulation, that regulation would only apply to my privacy. Not yours.

Microsoft has proven themselves overtly hostile to privacy. Yours, mine, and everyone’s. The available options are:

1. Attempt to regulate them into behaving like decent human beings.

2. Avoid their business.

When my therapist is using a system that is overtly hostile to their privacy and mine, the solution is not to ask the government to chastise their attacker. The solution is to eliminate their reliance on their attacker, and get them in a system the attacker doesn’t control.

I’m not saying we should avoid GDPR-like regulation altogether. I’m saying that at the OS level, Linux is intrinsically compliant with the intent of such regulation but may not comply with the letter, if the letter requires some sort of affirmative confirmation or certification of compliance that would be complicated for the developer to implement.

Microsoft will be able to be technically compliant with the law, but will definitely subvert it’s intent and purpose however it can.

Regulation will likely have chilling effects on the better option, while promoting the worse.

I see.

So, a business who deliberately screws over its customers wherever, whenever, and however it wants, suddenly becomes perfectly trustworthy when you check a box.

Contrast, a system that just doesn’t screw over its customers.

GDPR has much the same problem: it can only actually be enforced against entities with a presence in Europe. When Europeans do international business, the GDPR only protects them if that foreign site has a business presence within Europe. When they have no bank accounts or business assets inside the EU, they are not subject to the GDPR.

Even though the GDPR covers your side, it doesn’t always cover the other side.

Sure, I’ll give it a shot:

Does Windows 11 meet European regulations?

Any answer other than “No” is a rebuttal against OP’s argument.

Demanding more regulation isn’t going to solve this problem. Demanding that your therapist and family members abide by some sort of “regulation” just ensures that will only use software that is formally “certified” to meet the regulator’s standards.

Microsoft has the lawyers and marketers to ensure that they can meet any regulation the government wants to throw at them.

Linux just solves it and distributes the solution, fast and free, to anyone who wants it. Nobody has time for regulators, so even though it is more broadly scrutinized and more secure than anything Microsoft will put out, it never gets “certified” by regulators.

You can best secure your privacy by pushing your therapist, your family away from Micoshit.

Colepiocephale.

Colepio = “Knuckle” Cephale = “Head”

(To be fair, “Knucklehead” is a fairly apt description…)

Perfect example of Betteridge’s Law.

The debt is in currency. The coin is not offered as a token of currency, but as a piece of silver. It’s not being offered as a bribe.

“I’ll give you this mystery box in exchange for discharge of all past debts I owed you”. If you accept the mystery box, you cannot claim the debts. If the bank knowingly accepts and deposits the “silver coin” under these conditions, the debt would theoretically be discharged.

Of course, making an offer in this way is explicitly prohibited under postal regulations: The recipient is under no obligation to abide by the terms of such an offer, and is free to keep the coin without it constituting acceptance. The bank is under no obligation to return the coin.

A thought that doesn’t include any consideration of the DMZ, or the hermit kingdom on the other side of it.

They are hoping some employee of the lender pockets the coin that they offered for discharge of the debt, thereby accepting the “offer”.