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Comment Re:A hard fact. (Score 2) 368

unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system

As a matter of fact europeans consider drug overdoses as failures of the health care system and society. We do not declare war on drug adicts, we consider them to be sick and try to treat/cure them.

Comment Re:A hard fact. (Score 3, Interesting) 368

Europeans are basically freeloaders leeching off American R&D spending.

No we are not.

According to the economist the european union spent $275 billion in medical r&d compared to $366 billion spent by the USA in 2011. You would also need to add especially Switzerland, Norway and Russia spending if you are talking about europe as a continent. I do not think the magnitude of those numbers changed considerably in the last 7 years.

Concluding: Yes we thank the USA for spending more on R&D than we do, but we are also far from being freeloaders.

Comment Consequences with EU GDPR (Score 4, Interesting) 84

The General Data Protection Regulation will be enforced in the EU very soon. It is a regulation that is specifically aimed at protecting the data of natural persons. Here is the text in english if you want to read it
There will be enormous conflicts between the GDPR and this law passed by the US congress.
It might take a while to fight this out in courts but i think this will probably lead to a ban of personal data transfer from european companies to any USA owned entity in a few years.

Comment In accordance with goals of the .eu domain (Score 1) 461

From the official site of EURid:

Trustworthiness
A website with a .eu or . domain name extension tells your customers that you are a legal entity based in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway and are therefore, subject to EU law and other relevant trading standards.

I am sure the EU is willing to accomadate the UK if the UK agrees to the rules of the European Economic Area.
It is as simple as that.

Comment Re:Who voted to what? (Score 3, Insightful) 461

.eu domains are for members of the EU, end of. Not members and random whiny hangers on. Just members.

Actually that is not entirely correct. .eu domains are also usable by residents/entities in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. However these countries are EFTA members and abide by the rules of the EU.

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