Fine, let's assume the Netherlands has none of those. I was mostly concerned with high taxes.
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The lower tax rate for dividends, for example, is a carrot dangling in front of a would-be enterpreneur. The idea of having less of the fruits of your labor forcefully taken away from you is very appealing.
Of course, the alternative is to take your intelligence to a friendlier tax climate, and be milked less by that other government. That carrot is a pretty good idea, because in this case, your original government gets nothing.
Yes, and it's worth noting that this pushes food prices up, which, in turn, pushes poor people down.
.. Aaand you'd be right about France, Germany, Spain, England, The Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Italy (and Norway, Sweden, Finland).
In other words, you'd be right about "the countries that matter" (and some that don't).
Oh? And what addresses the NSA getting a copy of all traffic on the Internet?
Do you really think some silly rules on "unopened e-mail" matter at all?
No matter what hotel you're googling for, your search results will be chock-full of these bastards.
Yeah, you sure wouldn't want the purchasing power of your money to increase, would you now?
"Security protocols" to prevent misuse, huh? Why would you think they'd be concerned with something like that?
What do you think is the idea behind NSA's massive spy center in Utah? "Hey guys, let's capture all traffic on the Internet, and then make damn sure we'll never do anything with it that might compromise someone's privacy, ever!"
> robust court supervision of the use of the resulting evidence
As robust as the supervision on mortgages in the past few years, perhaps?
Case in point: With all those hundreds of thousands of mortgages the bank bought, it simply stopped filing basic paperwork – even the stuff required by law, like keeping chains of title. A blizzard of subsequent lawsuits from pissed-off localities reveals that the bank used this systematic scam to avoid paying local fees. Last year, a single county – Dallas County in Texas – sued Bank of America for ducking fees since 1997. "Our research shows it could be more than $100 million," Craig Watkins, the county's district attorney, told reporters. Think of that next time your county leaves a road unpaved, or is forced to raise property taxes to keep the schools open.
But the lack of paperwork also presented a problem for the bank: When it needed to foreclose on someone, it had no evidence to take to court. So Bank of America unleashed a practice called robo-signing, which essentially involved drawing up fake documents for court procedures. Two years ago, a Bank of America robo-signer named Renee Hertzler gave a deposition in which she admitted not only to creating as many as 8,000 legal affidavits a month, but also to signing documents with a fake title.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-to...
Well, he sure got bought fucking big time though.
You're assuming they'll all find productive employment, which is far from guaranteed.
Besides, a robot doesn't need to sleep or rest, it doesn't complain about working conditions, and it doesn't take days off. The incentive to replace manual labor with robots is huge.
What else would Amazon referrals be about, if not money?
Wow. I thought Eclipse would have gotten better along the years. Back when I switched to IDEA at version 4.x, the difference between them was like night and day - IDEA was so much better.
Could you tell me a bit about the pain of Eclipse? It's quite surprising if they haven't managed to produce a solid IDE yet.
I agree that IDEA's way of organizing things is kind of clunky. In a way, a "project" can be thought of as "metadata about stuff I'm working on", instead of the more intuitive "a project is a directory on my hard drive".
Once you set up a project, you can then bring stuff into it with "modules". For example, you may want to include source code trees and/or JARs from multiple locations.
That's only relevant if all those children died due to some specific form of government being in effect.
Supply emerges to meet demand. There are people out there who want child porn, and others who provide it to them.
Governments clamping down on Tor exit nodes doesn't affect that demand, but it does have a harmful effect on our means of private communication online.
There's practically no privacy left on the Internet anymore. Everything we do is logged and analyzed somewhere somehow (Google, Facebook, NSA, local ISPs and governments etc), and we're being gradually stripped of our rights everywhere.
It really is important that there's at least some privacy-providing tool available to all of us online. Child porn being transferred through the same tool is not really even a "price to pay" for that privacy, because as long as there is demand, it will get transferred somehow in any case.
I'm sure women all around the world are extremely interested in Ryan Gosling's personality.
As for the issue you're talking about, this guy here is obviously a flaming Microsoft-fanboy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706624 .. I wanted to call him one, but refrained from doing so, mostly because I thought it would be met with a negative reaction.
But you know, talking to fanboys is really frustrating. Their posts are full of such obvious, annoying bullshit/misdirection that it's just really difficult to ignore, but on the other hand, going through the effort of shutting them up is pointless too.
That's why it's tempting to just call a fanboy a fanboy, instead of wasting a lot of time and effort in a civil discussion with them.
Anything belongs to the front page by virtue of getting to it. You can argue that the community is broken because it upvotes stuff you don't want to see, but that's a battle you just can't win.
Basically, you're suggesting that in addition to there being a button for "I find this interesting!", there should be another button for "No, you fools! No!".