"So we voted No. Where are our additional new powers?"

"Yeah well, we introduced the legislation but, you know... Parliament..."

It's also unlikely simply because of the financial instability that is anticipated for the foreseeable future. I'm sure the last thing the EU wants right now is to admit another Greece into the union which they may have to bail out almost immediately.

That won't help them if it's the UK that invades and enslaves them :)

OK, that's a new one to me :)

*sigh* I guess I'm going to have to retrain my wife - "Honey, could you check the refrigerator computer and email me the shopping list?"

I agree that it's an odd argument.

But I think I would say that almost every electronic device has a computer, but not all devices are computers.

I don't think I could convince very many people (at least, not non-techies) that my dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine should be referred to as "computers".

You're right. It'll be the lower level employees who most likely pay.

I work for a company that got hit with a FCPA violation years ago. We couldn't send anything out of the country without explicit State Department approval for years. It pretty much drove us to bankruptcy until we got bought by a bigger company with enough pull to ease the restrictions. One of the conditions is that *every* employee now has to have annual training on the FCPA.

We dispense the finest justice that money can buy!

Addendum to the above

I went to the homepage of the German government (that makes me a customer, right?) and the only email address I can find is for media requests.

I think a lawsuit is merited here.

Everyone needs to send emails to the support address for the German government right now.

Let's see how they respond to 2 million requests that they aren't allowed to ignore.

Also send a request to the court that rendered the decision.

In that case /. should be collecting sales tax on my page views and remitting it to my state.

I don't think most states will accept payments in eyeballs.

The reason that dogs invariably alert to cash: 90% of bills are tainted by cocaine

Eat them like french fries instead.

You know. The stuff made of cream from venomous cows.

He tried putting her in the yard but the wind kept knocking her over. Also the pigeons were a real nuisance.

And then what? We send them a sternly worded letter threatening to send another sternly worded letter if they do it again?