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Comment Re:Minor quibble (Score 1) 304

You can see a word-by-word translation of the Greek:

And having made a whip of cords all He drove out from the temple the both sheep and the oxen and of the money changers He poured out the coins and the tables He overthrew. And to those the doves selling He said Take these things from here

I've reinserted the articles which that interlinear translation omits. On a grammatical level it's fairly clear that "both the sheep and the oxen" is expanding the "all" whom he drives out with the whip; and on a higher analytic level the fact that he tells the dove sellers to take their merchandise implies that they weren't driven out with the whip: to interpret that as saying that he used the whip on some merchants but not others according to what they were selling is a harder interpretation to defend than that the whip was used to drive the animals.

Comment Re:Computer crimes are over penalized (Score 1) 56

Blacks are far less common in Germany hence the ethnic question is quite different. "Migration background" is the closest German equivalent. And yes, the outcome can be different. For example in one such case - the perpetrator will probably be sent to Turkey after he was sentenced to 8 years for reckless driving murder (only 8 years for murder because people under 21 are not considered adults in the court) since he is a German born Turkish citizen.
Another thing that makes comparisons difficult is that Germany is a civil law country so legal precedence is not binding and it is difficult to say whether the judge declined to sentence a reckless driver for murder as the public prosecutor demanded due to the problem you mention or simply because the judge is old school which was much more lenient in this regard.

Comment Re:Computer crimes are over penalized (Score 1) 56

Germany used to be like that too until not too long ago. Nowadays this kind of reckless driving can result in it being considered a murder by the judge - and murder automatically means a life sentence with at least 15 years before parole becomes possible. Not always, unfortunately, but it happens and I hope it will happen more and more in the future.

Comment Re:Nice to have enough money... (Score 1) 25

Apple Messages isn't social media at all. It competes only with SMS. Same with WhatsApp. I can maybe understand a judge concluding that buying WhatsApp didn't meaningfully stifle competition, because no platform for basic point-to-point communication is ever going to prevent competition by apps that come on your phone (e.g. Messages).

WhatsApp isn't just point-to-point: it has groups, which is how it was able to create its own network effect. And Apple Messages doesn't come on your phone if you have an Android.

Submission + - NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.

This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for decades, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers.

The space agency's satellites and spacecraft are particularly vulnerable to the weakened magnetic field within the anomaly, and the resulting exposure to charged particles from the Sun.

Comment Re:US Crypto Acceptance (Score 1) 62

Note that not all of the businesses mentioned are about crypto. Wise is an international transfer service which AIUI works by matching people wanting to transfer in opposite directions and so minimising the actual currency exchange, which allows them to charge very low commissions. It's already registered as a bank in Europe. The application in the US is probably linked to its plan to move from the London Stock Exchange to the New York one, because the UK is less happy with founders having a different class of share which gives them disproportionately more voting power than their stake.

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