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Comment Why should they have special protection? (Score -1, Flamebait) 147

What makes you so special that you should be shielded from the risks that peoples whose jobs cannot be done remotely face? Is it fair that if you are a soldier a group of soldiers never get sent to the frontline or in combat? Is it fair that doctors can't escape this everyday or first responders when they help society but a marketing agent on the phone who actually poison everyone existence shouldn't share that risk? Is it fair that the grocery store clerk should have to face you because we have to eat or the farmer on their farm with unskilled laborers who come to help with harvest ?

Even country leaders have to be near peoples and can't work remotely. Who the hell do you think you are ?

Comment Tips for where to start business to avoid DOJ (Score 1) 30

I don't understand that peoples starts a business that the DOJ may dislike in the US facing the full wrath of the DOJ instead of researching where they could start one with no extradition treaty with the US, that the US has no beef with and access to US capital markets and where the US has never sent drones(ie: not in iraq/afghanistan) or military forces(ie: not in Australia) or compelled the country to use military forces(ie: Sweden/NATO countries) to execute a DOJ warrant.

As for the UN, make sure that your business benefits a security council veto country so they will block any attempt to punish you at the UN level.

Djibouti fill all these criteria, especially the Hodan District. 2 minutes drive to go into the China/Russia embassy or military bases if you need to escape the DOJ quickly.

Comment The court documents reveals some interesting thing (Score 2, Informative) 381

Apparently, they have ordered these large fines thanks to the attitude of Google.

For example, google wasn't present in court and they didn't collaborate at all in the investigation.

So the newspapers won by default. Google "indifferent" attitude apparently annoyed the court, so they basically granted the demands of the newspaper.

For some reason that part isn't translated in the english version of the court document, but here it is (in French - quoted from the court documents) and a rough translation, done by myself, follows each quotes:

1."Attendu que le tribunal de céans ne manque pas d'être
surpris par l'attitude de la défenderesse qui n'a pas jugé utile
de participer à' la mission d'expertise, malgré les invitations
qui lui avaient été adressées par l'expert judiciaire, et qui ne
comparaît pas ;"
Translation:
The court is surprised by the attitude of the defendant which hasn't
found useful to participate in the expert evaluation[...]and who
aren't present in court.

2."Attendu que cette attitude constitue une indication de ce que
les craintes que nourrit la demanderesse sur la mauvaise
volontk que mettra à la d4fenderesse à s'exécuter pourraient
être fondées ;"
Translation:
This attitude is an indication that the fears of the plaintiff
about the bad faith of the defendant might be justified.

3."Que l'attitude de la défenderesse est d'autant plus
surprenante que dans d'autres pays, cettes plus importants
que la Belgique, la défenderesse s'est engagée dans des
négociations avec les 4diteurs de journaux pour résoudre la
question du respect des droits d'auteur ;"
Translation:
That the attitude of the defendant is more so surprising
that in other countries, certainly bigger than Belgium,
the defendant had been negociating with newspapers editors to
solves the copyrights and intellectual properties issues.

Also, the court order isn't just about the Soir Libre newspaper, but about all newspapers editors, journalists, etc represented by cafepresse.

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