You don't know if there are any tariffs to pay today until you try to pick up your order.

EU is currently investigating Amazon, too. I would expect them to be found liable, as well.

They explicitly starte if a product is available for purchase by a citizen living in a EU country, or not. For some products, they explicitly state the product is shipped from a warehouse located in the EU. It can't be more clear, they are conducting businesses in the EU.

The fine amounts to less than â1/$1 per order when smeared out over half a year. It's nothing compared to the yearly revenue. The fine should be 10x as large to make a difference.

Pfas are banned or limited in food in almost all western countries - except USA. Why is USA afraid of protecting its citizens?

I haven't heard of anyone using a check for 30 years. Do banks even accept or issue them?

Basically, yes. Most importantly, you (unless youre a foreigner) can give Google a takedown order for any page on which you are mentioned.

You are making it harder than it actually is.

Do the landlord record my Personally Identifiable Information? If so, I have the right to know what information they log about me. I also have the right to get that information removed. The PII is mine according to GDPR. I only license the data to the processor for the maximum duration needed for them to provide the service I use (unless there are a "legitimate reason" such as needing to comply with laws and regulations to keep the data on file for a longer period).

GDPR - just as any other EU regulation - isn't really that difficult to handle. It is grounded in the common sense of putting the consumer's right in the center. I guess that's why ToS geared towards Europeans are generally shorter than the ToS/EULAs written by American companies.

Side-note: I recently compared the EULA/ToS from Nintendo that applies to Europeans with the ones applying to US citizens. It was quite an eye-opener.

Independent of the Terms of Service, as a citizen I am entitled to know who processes my data, so I can exercise my GDPR right to be removed from whatever database that scrapes my data from LinkedIn. To do that, I need to know to whom LinkedIn sells my data.

I can understand that LinkedIn wants to protect their business by not making the information directly available through a single click, but that does not invalidate my rights, nor does my rights invalidate LinkedIn's "reasonable need" to process my data in the way they do.

From the perspective of "privacy of the other part" - if they do not consent to being exposed (but they actually do consent anyway), they probably shouldn't be using LinkedIn or any other social media at all.

I know the notion of freedom of information is new in the US and that US-based companies are having problems adapting to this reality, but for the rest of the industrial world, it has been around for ages; even hundreds of years in some countries.

This post frames the slackware update news as new - but it's 4 years old...

Ah, well.

On a geological scale, the earth is still recovering from the last ice-age. The water temperature (which doesn't fluctuate as much as air temperature) of the oceans are still approx 2 degree C below the temperature usually reached 20.000 years or so after the maximum reach of an ice-age. In fact, it has been unusually stable for the last 1500 years. It is therefore reasonable it increase faster for a couple of hundred years once the earth leaves the temporary plateau.

That said, yes, human activity might indeed contribute in some way to both the current stability and a potential bigger-than-usual increase in temperature.

No 3 years warranty is mandatory by law. Any optional warranty such as "extended" warranty, the US 30 day warranty, "optional" warranty or any other warranty stated in ads, packaging and what not kicks in AFTER the first 3 years.

But on the contrary, the drifference is due to Europe adds 20-25% state VAT to the customer prices.

. Without the VAT, the prices in the US would actually be higher than those in Europe. But I guess, VAT is a small price to pay for having universal healthcare and not having a constant budget deficit.

Hmmm.. USB is mandatory on phone chargers. That was EU. Much to the dislike of apple. Now it's going to be mandatory with USB-C on all kind of devices.

If there's a will, there's a way.

Exactly! I shouldn't really need to care about the EULA, because consumer law protects my rights. Which it does, in the EU.

Well, in Europe, law makers care.

It's not legal for a manufacturer to brick anything that's sold to you, especially without compensation.

If they do within the 3 year mandatory warranty, they've got to give the money back or a replacement. Simple as that.