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Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by troupo »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #111
ragebol wrote: post #68

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The cookie warnings are a result of companies not taking a pretty obvious hint: don't do tracking.

Any lawmaker with an ounce of foresight would have recognized the pervasive cookie banners as the logical consequence of the law. If you give companies an easy copy-and-paste way to get around a single regional law then they will do the quickest dumbest thing possible to get what they want no matter who the visitor is and where they're located. The EU laws are poorly conceived, poorly written, and now we all have to…

Since you seem to know so much about EU law, can you show me where exactly GDPR requires cookie banners. Or talks about cookies, banners, or even browsers?

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by lapcat »

ragebol wrote: post #68
paulsutter wrote: post #48

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Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

The cookie warnings are a result of companies not taking a pretty obvious hint: don't do tracking.

The European Commission's own announcement of the fine against Apple has a cookie banner:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

"This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience."

Which of course is total crap. There's no better experience, only a worse experience with the banner.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by screenobobeano »

overstay8930 wrote: post #137

You can say the EU is doing good or bad, but what is reality is that this blog post is ignoring is that the European economy is kind of just falling apart right now directly because of these types of regulations and reforms. German labor unions are the weakest they’ve been in decades, Europe as a whole is an incredibly undesirable place to run a business in 2024, and EU companies have rested on their laurels so long…

I’m an economist and the EU is clearly doing better than anyone right now and all my economist friends agree with me. I’m actually starting a business Europe right now and it’s going great.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by maxwell »

soco wrote: post #77
blitzar wrote: post #65

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Yet digital cash is seen by actual true patriots as the solution to free themselves from the enemy the government .

As an European I fail to see how I could call myself patriot and at the same time distrust my own government - elected by me . Even if I didn't like the government, I'd still go with it because it's representing my country, and I'd also try to change the aspects which I don't like, again because it's my country. Those "actual true patriots" sound to me more like actual true selfish people which only want things happe…

As a European, you almost certainly have better representation than most Americans. We haven't expanded the House of Representatives since 1929. We're approaching a million constituents per rep, an extreme outlier among OECD countries:

https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/enlarging-the-house/...

The reason Americans no longer trust Congress is because the Colonists had better representation per constituent (on paper) in British Parliament. Early U.S. representation was in line with Nordic countries today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by 7moritz7 »

overstay8930 wrote: post #145
7moritz7 wrote: post #135

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https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-netherlands-co...

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> rapidly declining

Source? I need it urgently because a lot of my money is on the stock market both in the US and EU and I seem to have missed something significant

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by hef19898 »

GuB-42 wrote: post #115
drooopy wrote: post #26

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Despite the rise of far right populist parties, Europe tends to lean more on the left side of the political spectrum compared to America, and corporate worship is a relatively new thing over here. People tend to have more faith in governments and treat companies with more distrust, compared to the US which seems to be the other way around.

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That the NSDAP put "socialist" in their namr was pure propagabda back then already. Intriguing how people still fall for it, almost 100 years later.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by bdd8f1df777b »

paulsutter wrote: post #48
mjburgess wrote: post #24

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It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". Since we have so many consumer protections, much of how we end up engaging with the law around business practices is to our benefit . We're always aware we can raise bad business practices with an ombudsman (etc.). So our lived experience of government regulation is, in large part, positive…

Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

The cookie warning regulation is bad, but only mildly so.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by kerkeslager »

paulsutter wrote: post #48
mjburgess wrote: post #24

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It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". Since we have so many consumer protections, much of how we end up engaging with the law around business practices is to our benefit . We're always aware we can raise bad business practices with an ombudsman (etc.). So our lived experience of government regulation is, in large part, positive…

Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

There are two systems at play when you see a cookie warning:

1. Businesses trying to violate your privacy. 2. A government trying to protect you from said businesses.

Either of these entities could avoid the cookie warning, but there are very different reasons why they do not.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by overstay8930 »

blitzar wrote: post #147
overstay8930 wrote: post #66

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I thought all the big banks and big companies were fleeing to the US for the same reason? The whole EU banking sector is worth as much as one big US bank.

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