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Really? And which party does not support TPP? And how about CETA, do they all support that too?
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To be fair, it is worse if you spy on your own people compared to spying on people in foreign countries. I'd rather have e.g. China spy on me than my own government, since China has no real power over...
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That is true, but then why doesn't America see ISDS as a court that makes binding rulings for them?
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No, measuring total data usage is easy. The problem is not that those users use too many data, but that they use them for things that T-Mobile doesn't like. If they used 2 TB of data only on their...
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But perhaps, while still supporting TPP in general, they will strongly object to many clauses, making it much harder to reach agreement with other countries?
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Well, that is exactly what I was saying. There is no direction relation between data caps and congestion, and data caps are by no means proportional to the carrier's costs. To quote myself: "just stop...
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At your first point: that may be true, but then it is in direct contravention of Internet neutrality. If you buy electric power from me, you should be allowed to use it for whichever device you prefer,...
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Perhaps people are talking about different kinds of "finished"? First the text was to be finished in English (suggested to be July this year), and then it had to be translated into 24 languages,...
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I thought they, too, supported CETA? (What do the polls say about Harper's government anyway: will he win or lose?)
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Nexus is of the 4th declension, which is why the plural is "nexus", identical to the singular.Most words on -us are of the 2nd declension and have a plural on -i. So "nexi" is plain wrong; "nexus" is...
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Perhaps that is true on some phones, but certainly not on my Galaxy Nexus. The Google bar could me removed from the stock launcher. I had to install Nova.
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Central to this problem is the network effect. This does not apply to all big companies, but it does apply to Google and Facebook. The result is that it's hard for users to switch to a different...
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How about Play Music, Books, Games, etc. etc.? I don't know anyone who uses those apps (although I'm sure there are some who do), but they usually can't be uninstalled on unrooted phones, I believe.
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I've never heard of laws "running out" in Europe. Funding normally doesn't run out if parliament is slow to act or something. It's just harder to change anything if parliament does nothing.
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Mmm that's not entirely true: the Commission is officially appointed by the European Parliament. Otherwise I agree with you: the problem is that they are too far removed from any electorate to listen...
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I mostly agree with the article, but Reda is a member of the German Pirate Party, not of the German Green Party. It's just that the Pirate Party is coöperating with other parties, amongst which the...
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I think the main reason is that students attend university to learn, and the faculty sees writing papers from beginning to end as an important part of that process, both as an instrument of research...
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Hyves wasn't geographically restricted. I believe it was even fairly large in a few other countries before Facebook.The problem with these kinds of sites is that everyone wants to be on the site that...
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What it does do is make everyone aware of how pervasive the use of cookies is, and of privacy as an issue in general. It makes people have a negative association with cookies (cookies = annoying...
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