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Comment Re:Policing based on need (Score 1) 140

It would help to reduce crime first, by declaring victimless crimes no longer to be a crime, e.g. the production, sales and use of marijuana and other harmless drugs. That would reduce crime and police brutality in an instant. True some criminals would move to other fields, I've even seen people justify this senseless prohibition kind of as a deflection policy to prevent criminals focussing on more severe activities (an insane logic if you ask me, in that case I would propose to make milk illegal, that will attract criminals to even less harmful activities).

Comment Re:The world did not miss anything (Score 1) 265

All of those got it under control after 2 months of strict lock-down.

They did not reopen before it was under control, unlike the USA.

Because the richest country of the world "cannot afford" not to work, i.e. because the country with oine of the least fair income distributions of the world, practically enslaves many of its citizens and they must work or perish.

Comment Re:Typical Nonsense (Score 1) 413

Are you sure that "white=good, black=bad" symbolism is limited to the west? I'm sure it is also present in India, and probably is univerally human.
Master and slave the same, the old chinese also had slaves, and those were not black. The same in the Arabic world, many slaves where lighter than their masters.

The US historical perspective seems to eradicate all others, it is horrible.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 284

All forms of advertisement are lying and trying to mislead you into doing things you would otherwise not do.

It is highly immoral, and I'm happy that it becomes a little bit harder to finance your website via deceipt, instead of openly letting your users know and pay for the cost.

Advertising, aka lying, has apparently become part of our culture. I hope we can roll that back a bit.

Comment Re:lucky girl (Score 5, Insightful) 431

I don't think so. The police in the UK don't even carry fire arms, the police in the Netherlands and tend to be more like social workers.

IMHO, aggression and violence generate more of the same.
The police should deescalate generally. If they become more harsh, crime will become more violent and dangerous too.

But North America seems to have a military mindset, and only believe that you can "control" the population with force.
It does not work very well, I read many reports about injustices and mistakes.

Comment Re:Per capita??? (Score 1) 227

The reasons are clear: slow response, not taking it seriously, bad state of the NHS due to years of conservative rule.
The excuses are predictable: things like popluation density, "better reporting" claiming Italy reported less, without proof.

In fact Italy had: less time to react, much less money in the past 20 years, older population, every reason to get hit much worse than the UK.
There is no denying, that the UK, with only the conservatives responsible, handled this worse than almost any other country.

Comment Re:Irrelevent (Score 1) 445

The longer you drag it out, the less people will get infected, and thus die, until a vaccine is available.
But it costs a lot.
It is a trade off. One that is legitimate, but should be discussed openly.

Herd immunity is not necessarily reachable, since immunity seems to expire, maybe after one year.

In countries that took strong measures, the amount of cases is low enough, that moderate restrictions are enough to wait for the vaccine.
If you have many cases, you'll have to have stronger measures for a while until you get down enough, to open up more while keeping the reproduction rate below 1.

Comment Re:Invest in the EU (Score 1) 233

France often is an image of anti-US sentiment in the US. You see that again in this article and in many of the reactions, write something about France, or even just about Europe, and you'll get a controversy, haters that come up with cliché's about France or the EU, such as regulations on the shape of bananas, and all the right wing conservative people are happy with the confirmation of their view of the world. In this case it is the French "beaurocrats" (fits nicely with the narrative that any regulation is bad, business should have freedom to act even when destroying the planet and human live at all cost) who oppose a fine US company.

Comment Re:It's in RedHat / CentOS 8 (Score 2) 97

Python 2->3 has had the longest transition period in history, and still people are complaining about it?
Anyone who packaged python 2 in the last few years is to blame, not the pytohn OSS developers.

In 2007 I had to do a small job in python, I looked at python 2 vs 3 and decided it would make no sense to use a version that would be "obsolete soon".

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