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China was the most blatant example I could think of, and it's a very current issue considering the ongoing Olympic games and the fact that much of the Western World outsources its …

That's pretty much it. Intent matters. A lot. Unless there's evidence suggesting they deliberately broke the law, the fine is going to be rather low. If they keep doing it, they ca…

You should read Jennifer Government, if you haven't already. :D

It's not really whataboutism; plenty of countries and businesses commit terrible crimes without ever facing actual concequences. The Twitter mob won't actually do anything, and in …

Yeah, just like how we started boycotting China when we found out about the human rights violations against their own majority population, and outright atrocities against their own…

Average iPhone users may be more valuable to the average advertiser when compared to the average Andoid user, but there are plenty of markets where I'd say there are plenty of adve…

Incidentally, Finland and Sweden constitute something like 20% of the EU's total area, and both have relatively small urban centres scattered all around the place. It's pretty natu…

If they're anything like Finns, they probably do. Why get the ashtray in the car dirty when you can just throw it out the window?

Alright, I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the tip!

Doesn't Apple Music require Apple devices? :/

Meanwhile, my Release Radar playlist has about 30% songs that are unavailable and the home screen is full of recommendations for podcasts I don't care about. Can anyone recommend a…

I don't think there are any businesses here who'd accept a check. Banks would probably do it for a fee, or at least require you deposit the money to your account. Bills here are pa…

Like the sibling commenter, I'm from Finland. The same applies to most of the Nordics though; I doubt my kids will ever see a check. People simply don't use them and cashing one wo…

Where do you still use checks? I don't think I've seen one since the 90's.

In most of Europe, depositing cash rarely happens unless you're a business owner depositing the day's earnings. Withdrawals is easier from an ATM. Many banks require you to call ah…

No matter what one's stance is on Israel, or the Palestine question, it's hard to blame the actions of one company on the Israeli government.

Both are valid points, but you did write that Linux is harder to install and maintain. I disagree on those two points. Pre-installed with a decent support plan is hard to beat rega…

Yeah, and that's why lots of IT jobs are outsourced to Eastern Europe; why pay 70k€ per year for people doing devops in the Nordics, Germany or the Benelux countries, when you can …

Installing Linux is often far easier than installing Windows nowadays, and multiple distributions offer long-time support. It's an excellent way of getting more life out of semi-ol…

I suspect they simply wouldn't care unless they actually fear repercussions from Canadian authorities. Whether those potential repercussions would be something to fear here and now…

Ironically, the new Edge update for Xbox one made the browser so slow it's nigh unusable; loading times, is almost a whole minute, it often crashes when streaming video, and it fee…