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> heck EU members don't really have a name do they? This is very funny assuming you are from the USA. What do you call yourselves?
Americans? Do you identify as solely as European?
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Patents are really the stupidest things ever. The idea that something or an idea can be limited to a particular chain of causality is irrational. The only reason someone likes the idea of saying only one chain of causality should exist for an idea or, better put an idea that makes money, is because they themselves like money or think they can gain access to that money. Even the Cornoavirus has been shown to innovate,…
FWIW patents cover inventions, not ideas. An invention is there implementation of an idea. They also require the submission of a workable embodiment in order to be granted. USA does blur the lines with its broad software patents and business method patents. But we in Europe have software patents to, they're just for inventions, not ideas. This post is my personal opinion and does not relate to my employment.
A true but useless statement. An idea is not patentable. An idea implemented in a computer program is.
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Being a consultant in Germany myself I can tell you that during the whole "Bundeswehr Berateraffäre" (an alledged scandal involving contracts given to consultancies when von der Leyen was Secretary of Defense), that at least all Blue Chip to Mid Cap Stock Index companies in Germany cringed in silence, as the 300M € von der Leyen supposedly embazzled look pathetic to the budgets these companies dump on consultants eac…
> the 300M € von der Leyen supposedly embazzled look pathetic to the budgets these companies dump on consultants each year Are you saying that Blue Chip to Mid Cap Stock Index companies regularly spend > 1B on consulting?
Either way using relativism to minimise a crime is sophistry
"I murdered a few people - the US government kills thousands of people a year in " - you're still guilty of murder, even if someone is better at the crime than you are.
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"zensursula" is quite well-known. "Accidently" erasing her phone and destroying files during an investigation. Several scandals and affairs in relation to the Bundeswehr. Not ten, but these immediately come to mind.
The introduction of her PhD didn't contain enough footnotes.
However, there was no evidence of fraud, merely sloppiness, and she got to keep her 'Dr. med'.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen#Plagiate_...
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It only became apparent to me yesterday on another forum how much central Europeans, especially Germans, seem to quite dislike von der Leyen!
Is Germany considered central Europe? I had always put them as Western, besides maybe the eastern most parts?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grossgliederung_Europas-e...
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Did you reply to the right comment? What do US political designations have to do with European and EU politics? In any case, "a lot of political labels" implies several, and I'm not sure there are more than one or two that fit this description.
GP had cast "conservative" and "liberal" as mutually exclusive descriptions of the political spectrum: parent clarified that in Europe, those 2 terms mean the same thing. Mostly.
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This isn't remotely an example of corruption unless there is a direct conflict of interest. If she hired her son directly, or as part of the team, if he was lobbying her, then it's a problem. But if her son worked at IBM and she, as Defence Minister hired IBM for some defence contract, then it's irrelevant. Edit: I should be clear, among the elite, specifically if there are central groups which exist especially withi…
Interestingly there was a similar case in Saudi Arabia a few years back, where McKinsey hired the sons of bureaucrats in Aramco and other government departments in exchange for all the lucrative consulting contracts. Goldman Sachs did the same with 1MDB and Libya and were caught. It's an open secret now that giving the kids the jobs is a foolproof route to getting contracts.
This is not corruption, it's just favours.
Nobody is awarding a major contract to get their kid an associate job at McKinsey.
The contract is awarded to McKinsey, if the person holding the purse has someone looking to get into such a role, then it's a nice thing that McKinsey can do in return.
My mother was a director of customer service and used to hire all of my friends in high school ... because they were my friends. It's normal.
It's technically not very above bar, but it's not necessarily corrupt. Most people get jobs through their networks, this is 'kind of' that.
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I don't consider her being in the conservative party the actual problem. In Germany she's well known for nepotism and corruptness, even if until this day she successfully evaded the punishment. Not long ago there's been a claim that her phone contains important evidence in support of the accusation, but it turned out that data on the phone had been "accidentally" wiped.
"In Germany she's well known for nepotism" As a German this is not "well known" to me, do you have a source? Until now I thought one Accenture manager was the godfather of a child of a deparment manager in the ministry of defence and Accenture got an consulting gig? I didn't know until now she was giving jobs to her relatives.
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I don't consider her being in the conservative party the actual problem. In Germany she's well known for nepotism and corruptness, even if until this day she successfully evaded the punishment. Not long ago there's been a claim that her phone contains important evidence in support of the accusation, but it turned out that data on the phone had been "accidentally" wiped.
I'm german and it's the first time I hear someone calling her corrupt or nepotistic.
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"In Germany she's well known for nepotism" As a German this is not "well known" to me, do you have a source? Until now I thought one Accenture manager was the godfather of a child of a deparment manager in the ministry of defence and Accenture got an consulting gig? I didn't know until now she was giving jobs to her relatives.
Even as an undergraduate polisci major, in my European Union courses she was discussed. Here is an interesting anecdote about her: the institution that granted her equivalent of an MD (she’s still a physician) acknowledged that more than 40% of her thesis was plagiarized, however because telepathic analysis does not exist and this it is not possible prove that she intended in her mind to cheat as she was engaged in t…
