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Comment Re:Bruce66423 is delusional (Score 1) 96

The value of what one steals, has nothing to do with the sentence.

I steal your suitcase - I committed a crime called "theft", I get punished for theft. Not for what ever is in your suitcase. Or if the suitcase is empty.

Does not matter if I take your $2000 phone from your table in a cafeteria, or steal your $2,000,000 car in front of it: the crime is the same, and the punishment is the same.

At least in Germany.

On the other hand, if I wrangle an ice cream out of the hands of your little boy and run away with the $1 ice cream: it is robbery ... and not theft.

Comment Words matter ... (Score 1) 96

Did he rob the car? (Can you rob a car?)
Or did he burglar into a car?
Or did he steal from a car?

5 years for stealing is a bit harsh ...

5 years for robbery? ... in Germany minimum sentence for robbery is 6 years.

Why stealing and breaking into a car and damaging it is not the way ... robbery is a completely different caliber of a crime!

Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 1) 62

It is against the mod rules to mod down you disagree with.
I carefully take care not to fall into that trap.

Despite the fact that some idiots troll mod me - and make new fake accounts - which get mod rights removed instantly: I can mod nearly every day.

However I do not have anymore the 35 mod points I used to have 20 years ago.

Comment Re: It's all about definitions. (Score 0) 173

If every one "would pass" by answering everything correctly, then every one should pass.

Does not farking matter if everyone is 100% correct. What matters is if they are above the threshold to pass.

Actually from a teaching perspective: if you can not make a student pass, who managed to jump the inscription barrier, it is probably the teaching at fault.

Comment Re:Parents (Score 1) 62

Depends what you do with them.

On TikTok I watch martial arts or Thai/Indian dance.

On Facebook I am in science and energy forums and Martial Arts forums.

It is pretty convenient to get information about events via Facebook, and share it with "friends". After all, most of the information you get: is coming from friends, anyway.

However I learned that there are indeed people who use Facebook et. all. as news replacement. I actually have no idea how that works. I do not get any news via TikTok or Facebook.

Comment Re:Endless scrolling is not an issue (Score 1) 62

I think what they intend is a break of a minute with a banner: "you are scrolling mindlessly around here since 90 minutes, your GF called already 3 times and you tabbed her away ..." (pun intended :P )

It is not the scrolling per se. "Endless scrolling" is meant to be a metaphor of: being captured in the hamster wheel of scrolling.

Comment Re:Highest privacy standards? (Score 1) 62

Is the code open source and inspectable? If not, you are trusting the people who developed the code.

Obviously you trust the people developing the code.
Do you assume a company/some random people working on an EU project put in backdoors?

Most EU projects are open source, see https://code.europa.eu/

No idea about this one.

The general push in the EU is for "Once-Only Technical System (OOTS)", and open source is published under the European Union Public License (EUPL).

For further reading: https://commission.europa.eu/a...

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