> hello beuracrates Just in case you missed that class, taxes are determined by legislators
Also I believe there just isn't a constitutional mechanism in the UK for parliament to bind itself in such a way
I don't think there's an injunction mechanism like that at the EU level And even if there were I doubt the legal basis in EU law exists for such an injunction
> the right framing is strategic autonomy from an unreliable partner Yes but that's an uncomfortable framing for online-americans to use when they want some gotcha argument And not a useful one for US administrations in…
Would it be still a good idea if instead of being created / owned by google as an organization it was originally made by someone that didn't make billions by handling trillions of http requests over decades and you had…
I can think of a few reasons why a company built on profiling (and advertising to) user interests might be interested in the private conversations of their users
> pieces of legislation were enacted and around 2,000 resolutions I'm wondering if this includes regulatory agencies which in the US operate under the executive I would guess it's included but the wording (act,…
> this is adopted or not It's not. However from the speech it sounds like the commission is ready to put forward their proposal soon-ish After they do so the actual legislative process is going to start where the draft…
That's very much not the difference between common and civil law If the law is constitutional it can't be thrown out by a judge in common law and if it's not it can be declared so in civil law The difference between the…
> has that made any impact on the war in Ukraine The objective of the ICC is not to stop wars The objective of the ICC is to provide a framework to enable prosecuting and punishing the people ordering particularly…
There's no such flaw in most cases brought to the ICC The ICC is an international court but it administers trials (mostly) local to the members' jurisdiction so this point is moot. A warrant from the ICC doesn't ask the…
> the power to initiate legislation are completely immune to voter displeasure Completely immune is overstating it, and the power to initiate legislation is not that meaningful given that the EC initiates what the…
They're not complicated for anyone with above room temperature IQ. And they're almost identical to how it works in the member countries anyway And in a democracy if you don't know how your own laws are made the fault is…
Because it doesn't, people are just embarrassingly ignorant of how the EU legislative process works so when a vote to give first approval to a text is cancelled before it takes place journalists and reddit all over pull…
The council of the EU operates on a rotating chair model (which gets called Presidency, sometimes Presidency of the EU) It's currently held by Denmark so it's the Danish delegation that's mostly doing the brokering etc…
Yes, but have you considered US politicians don't like the ICC? What's a bit of truth in the face of that
The ICC in this case is investigating crimes committed in a party to the Rome treaty, that's not extraterritorial jurisdiction Even ignoring that one of these cases involves death and destruction and the other doesn't
No you don't, that's not how laws work, if you want society to look the way you want you need to actively work for it, you can't delegate that process to a law. It's not how participation in a free society works
They're realistically not preparing for a zombie apocalypse If power goes out really bad, there's some kind of major weather event in some part of the country etc 3 days is a reasonable time frame for emergency measures…
> would be slightly more complex than just introducing the backdor Not really, both things need to be done by a law. So it's the same signal and complexity as just rejecting the law when it's proposed And the second…
The fact you think that qualifies as a "clear" definition is fascinating. This feels like just a reflexive regurgitation of the distinction between positive and negative rights that has no relevance to the discussion at…
> Instead of discussing WHY "owned" mobile phones have a short lifespan and we can't truly do whatever we want with them (be at the hardware/software level) and forced to choose between the apple and google duopoly, we…
That's not how laws work. New laws always override old laws so an ECI (or any law) won't ever replace active participation in the res publica
> Yet in the current model that doesn't matter one bit It matters because if it's that important to you then you have a sovereign right to leave the EU and do away with all the rules you don't want Staying inside of it…
> I don't see how it is less clearly defined than any other human right Human rights are famously almost impossible to clearly define because they're an entirely abstract category relying very much on cultural consensus…
> hello beuracrates Just in case you missed that class, taxes are determined by legislators
Also I believe there just isn't a constitutional mechanism in the UK for parliament to bind itself in such a way
I don't think there's an injunction mechanism like that at the EU level And even if there were I doubt the legal basis in EU law exists for such an injunction
> the right framing is strategic autonomy from an unreliable partner Yes but that's an uncomfortable framing for online-americans to use when they want some gotcha argument And not a useful one for US administrations in…
Would it be still a good idea if instead of being created / owned by google as an organization it was originally made by someone that didn't make billions by handling trillions of http requests over decades and you had…
I can think of a few reasons why a company built on profiling (and advertising to) user interests might be interested in the private conversations of their users
> pieces of legislation were enacted and around 2,000 resolutions I'm wondering if this includes regulatory agencies which in the US operate under the executive I would guess it's included but the wording (act,…
> this is adopted or not It's not. However from the speech it sounds like the commission is ready to put forward their proposal soon-ish After they do so the actual legislative process is going to start where the draft…
That's very much not the difference between common and civil law If the law is constitutional it can't be thrown out by a judge in common law and if it's not it can be declared so in civil law The difference between the…
> has that made any impact on the war in Ukraine The objective of the ICC is not to stop wars The objective of the ICC is to provide a framework to enable prosecuting and punishing the people ordering particularly…
There's no such flaw in most cases brought to the ICC The ICC is an international court but it administers trials (mostly) local to the members' jurisdiction so this point is moot. A warrant from the ICC doesn't ask the…
> the power to initiate legislation are completely immune to voter displeasure Completely immune is overstating it, and the power to initiate legislation is not that meaningful given that the EC initiates what the…
They're not complicated for anyone with above room temperature IQ. And they're almost identical to how it works in the member countries anyway And in a democracy if you don't know how your own laws are made the fault is…
Because it doesn't, people are just embarrassingly ignorant of how the EU legislative process works so when a vote to give first approval to a text is cancelled before it takes place journalists and reddit all over pull…
The council of the EU operates on a rotating chair model (which gets called Presidency, sometimes Presidency of the EU) It's currently held by Denmark so it's the Danish delegation that's mostly doing the brokering etc…
Yes, but have you considered US politicians don't like the ICC? What's a bit of truth in the face of that
The ICC in this case is investigating crimes committed in a party to the Rome treaty, that's not extraterritorial jurisdiction Even ignoring that one of these cases involves death and destruction and the other doesn't
No you don't, that's not how laws work, if you want society to look the way you want you need to actively work for it, you can't delegate that process to a law. It's not how participation in a free society works
They're realistically not preparing for a zombie apocalypse If power goes out really bad, there's some kind of major weather event in some part of the country etc 3 days is a reasonable time frame for emergency measures…
> would be slightly more complex than just introducing the backdor Not really, both things need to be done by a law. So it's the same signal and complexity as just rejecting the law when it's proposed And the second…
The fact you think that qualifies as a "clear" definition is fascinating. This feels like just a reflexive regurgitation of the distinction between positive and negative rights that has no relevance to the discussion at…
> Instead of discussing WHY "owned" mobile phones have a short lifespan and we can't truly do whatever we want with them (be at the hardware/software level) and forced to choose between the apple and google duopoly, we…
That's not how laws work. New laws always override old laws so an ECI (or any law) won't ever replace active participation in the res publica
> Yet in the current model that doesn't matter one bit It matters because if it's that important to you then you have a sovereign right to leave the EU and do away with all the rules you don't want Staying inside of it…
> I don't see how it is less clearly defined than any other human right Human rights are famously almost impossible to clearly define because they're an entirely abstract category relying very much on cultural consensus…