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One is easier and carries no risk.

Think of how crazy things are right now. With Spotify or Apple Music you can just make lists of all the music you want and record the output. You could do this with terrestrial radio(I did!) but you couldn't control what was played so it was quite different. The only thing stopping people from having every song they ever wanted for $10 is laziness.

VW fraud likely killed almost one hundred Americans but far more Europeans.

http://www.ibtimes.com/volkswagen-diesel-scandal-2015-emissi...

I am not sure of the point here. I think we have to help those that need help first, I mean what are we going to do start pushing for increased aid for those of Irish descent.

The police are the chemo and the cancer is crime.

That is probably the reason that you lose your license after three speeding tickets in a year.

>Could this be a coincidence

It could be aliens, but Occams razor. Criminals cannot commit crimes if they are in prison. It is quite revealing that people willfully deny that and the narrative is the cop is the perp and the perp is the victim.

Europe being larger and richer should be the center of the West.

Europeans seem to need to believe that Americans are horribly oppressed, but of course that is laughable in the same way as thinking they will be carjacked if they come to the US. Watching too many American movies maybe. Americans pay little attention to Europe while Europeans obsess over America, which sets an odd dynamic because Europe is larger and richer yet somehow ineffectual in comparison.

Well they can both be wrong.

So if you are poor enough you can speed with impunity? If you take away their license they could go hungry.

Well they could take the fine directly out of their government assistance and then the fine would not balloon.

More criminals behind bars, lower crime. It may not fit your narrative but it should not be hard to understand.

I've got nipples Faulker.

They are not looking for solutions, they are here for the hate.

Europeans will deny anything is wrong with diesels right up until their air pollution crisis forces action.

A good deal of this is to try to take the US down a notch because they are seen as too powerful. This is why it is rarely mentioned how close the entire West works together, hell what are you going to do hate the entire West? Recently they have had to concede the UK and eventually will have to concede the entire West and then the game is over unless you like actual authoritarianism like China and Russia.

It will be interesting to see how much cost companies will bear before they give up on Europe.

>effectively hiding it from US mass surveillance

How effective would it really be?

Nope, more useless EU bureaucracy (stupid cookie popup) just to pretend that the NSA won't get (be given) the data by EU governments. Everyone thinks the cookie law is dumb, but there it is, constantly reminding everyone of their folly.

> people don't do well with unpredictability

Neither do long term views, things are moving so fast that long term views are pretty meaningless.

> each generation of humans should have it easier and with more resources available to them.

That is clearly the trend, ups and downs aside. The current generation appears to feel they have it harder than the last few generations. Not even close.

Plumbers and electricians make as much if not more than 'educated' jobs and are impossible to outsource. Education is great and today you can learn virtually anything with an internet connection but family expectations mean you are expected to go the college. 'The government is oppressing me with student loans' is pretty weak sauce and is par for the course lack of personal responsibility. Don't run up debt to major in art history.

Yeah, and it's hard to get citizenship!

It always important in these type of arguments to make sure you speak of the US and not the West in general, that way the status quo is safe and nothing can be done.

Others?

You can certainly claim they are mixed, but they are all using capitalism, as much as it may bother some people to admit.

They are all capitalist economies, like it or not, that is where the money comes from. If Europeans think that their particular country is not capitalist they are confused.

And it is. How is it in the interest of TPTB to have weed legalized? Yet it is happening.

Apple is not blocking any ads. iAd makes little money and Apple is letting apps that block iAds into the app store. I know some people will oppose Apple no matter what they do but in this case they and the majority of users are right and you are wrong. People have a negative view of advertising for a very good reason.