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Re: Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII

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Post by mantas » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 5:12 AM UTC

bkor wrote: post #55

mantas wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would make sense, but different countries have way too different historical experience, cultural ties and business interests. Hottest examples - Russia/Belarus/Ukraine, Greece/Turkey, Nordstream, the whole migrants-in-Mediteranean thing and so on.

Differences in culture are addressed by endless amount talking, compromises, etc. Previously Europe often resorted to war. I highly prefer the current attempt at trying to keep peace. Promoting peace is listed as a goal on https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en

And appeasement for the sake of technical peace is the problem.

What if Germany and France decides to go for endless talking and compromises to Russia, giving away parts of eastern europe as part of the deal to keep peace?

Re: Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII

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Post by jpzisme » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

redisman wrote: post #225

jpzisme wrote: post #208

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Why do you think this is (avoiding any anti-refugee sentiment in other comments on the thread)? I used to live in Europe and worked with many Europeans while living in the Bay Area. It seems like lots make the jump stateside. Having universal healthcare seems like it would be a big incentive to take entrepreneurial risk vs. our situation here in the U.S.

It’s a bit too simple to say the EU doesn’t create software startups. Some countries/cities do generate plenty of successful startups and some don’t. Just like most US states haven’t produced any successful startups

That makes sense. Sweden and some of the other Nordic countries seem to crank a lot of them out.

It is a bummer that a lot of startups, regardless of geography, feel the need to move once they hit a certain level. It produces brain drain and is a missed opportunity to bring economic growth to their home regions.

Re: Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII

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Post by codethief » Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 10:30 AM UTC

woodpanel wrote: post #277

johndrocky wrote: post #243

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He might be referring to Germanys beacons of good corporate governance and not corruption; Deutschebank and Wirecard 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.

still guilty of murder - so much for subtlety… Again: Although there were a parliamentary investigations, there was no crime. No conviction, no indictment, no charges pressed. 300M € was what was spent on all external consultancies combined. The yearly Bundeswehr budget is 42 bln € [1]. 300M is In 2018, the big four (KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte) extracted 650M € from the 30 DAX companies alone. And that is just the au…

> In 2018, the big four (KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte) extracted 650M € from the 30 DAX companies alone

Compared to 650M € and 30 DAX companies, 300M € spent by one single "company" do not sound like peanuts, especially since AFAIK the latter money was only meant for IT services & infrastructure(?)

> 2/3 of said 300M € "embazzled Bundeswehr money" were spent on it's own consultancy BDI.

I suppose you meant BWI, as in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWI_GmbH ?