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Comment Re:And show what? (Score 1) 44

You simply missed the entire (sarcastic) point, as expected of you.

If they're making so much content then if it was any good wouldn't the locals buy it? So why is this law needed?

It seems like at least one of the three claims is untrue:
* That there is lots of local content
* That it is any good
* Or that the law is needed

Perhaps it is just an attempted money grab aimed at foreign companies?

Comment Re:And show what? (Score 1) 44

So you're saying it would be ideal if Disney was forced to push streamers specializing in local content out of business and become a local monopoly?

In your hypothetical, lots of families can in fact afford the $23/m, so Stan would still get a lot of business.

In your proposal they're mostly redundant.

Comment Re:Those who cannot remember history (Score 1) 175

Third, the US gets tremendous soft power and influence to shape foreign governments' policies in ways that are friendly to US interests.

Europe decided a couple decades ago this was no longer going to be true, and today it is just laughable to say that this deference exists at all.

That's why most Democrats also want Europe to increase their military spending to a self-supportive level.

Obviously there are political differences between how to achieve this goal. But the status quo is no longer sustainable.

Comment Re:Those who cannot remember history (Score 1) 175

Just a spoiler since so many people "forget," in the Budapest Memorandum each country agreed not to attack Ukraine, and agreed that if somebody else did they would raise the issue at the UN Security Council. Nobody offered any security guarantees regarding the behavior of other signatories.

Comment Re:Blaming a single cause (Score 2) 38

Here is how the researchers themselves say it:

We contend that reduced water availability, accompanied by substantially drier conditions, may have led to population dispersal from major Harappan centers, while acknowledging that societal transformation was shaped by a complex interplay of climatic, social, and economic pressures.

Don't conflate the arrogant headline with knowledgeable researchers.

Comment Re:Well, if you own it. (Score 3, Insightful) 26

“serious administrative shortcomings [that] threaten the continuity and safeguarding of crucial technological knowledge and capacity on Dutch and European soil,” the government said, with "fears of tech leakage, meaning property and know-how are transferred to China.'

https://www.politico.eu/articl...

I don't know enough about Dutch law to say much more than that, but I'm sure they had lawyers work it out.

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