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steadily heading towards the final goal of computers being composed of pluggable crystals as stargate intended

That's only partially true In this case my understanding is that they determined vpn-s as a tool to fall outside the scope of the law and so they struck down an attempt to enforce …

There's some level of difference to be fair Hacking is a concern in both but the bigger issue is potential for abuse of power. In the case of border checks the target is by necessi…

> 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…

Would it be still a good idea if instead of being created / owned by google as an organization it was originally made by someone that didn't make billions by handling trillions of …

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 …

> 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 pro…

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 …

> 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…

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.…

> 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 giv…

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 …

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 pla…

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…

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 …

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 partic…

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 reaso…

> 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 la…