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Comment Re:The bandwidth is as unlimited as your money (Score 1) 129

It seems to me that the UK has a very pragmatic bandwidth provision. Its main problem is reaching the zones with less population density. But speeds? I am at a point where I literally use whatever is the cheapest "fibre broadband" service. I'm not going to go back to DSL, but 50 Mbps is enough for me to never notice I have a speed limit.
500 Mbps or 10 Gbps... who cares? In 20 years I may have a 16K TV and Netflix will offer that on its basic service... and in 20 years the cheapest speed offered by BT will be enough to handle that.

Comment Re: As an American immigrating to Europe... (Score 1) 556

The main problem is not really "native" EU immigration, turns out most British like to live in Britain, the French in France, the Germans in Germany and so on. A few friends of mine work in construction and even though it's a very high degree of Eastern Europeans they still mostly get along fine and it's nothing like an invasion on a demographic scale. Those that stay tend to integrate well anyway.

The problem is that the UK didn't put restrictions on free movement during the 2004 expansion (and mostly everybody else did). From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...: "Welfare restrictions only, need to register though. This decision was controversial: politicians later admitted that they had only decided against barring freedom of movement under the assumption that all of the other EU countries would also impose no restrictions on freedom of movement: in fact only Ireland and Sweden followed suit.[9][10] This decision led to a rise of anti-migrant sentiment, and is credited with inspiring Brexit.[11][12][13]"

Obviously they were going to get a lot of Polish immigrants if the only option Polish people had for a couple of years was the UK!!

So basically the British Government fuck it up, which led to mass immigration from the EU. And then in the referendum the British people decided the problem was being a member of the EU, not an incompetent British Government.

Comment Re:Seriously, who are these people? (Score 2) 123

They are paedophiles (a mental disorder) which have sucumbed to the temptation and become child abusers (a criminal act), or people seeking power/control over somebody else (so not all child abusers are paedophiles).

There are online communities of paedophiles in which they support each other to not become child abusers.
There are online communities of paedophiles in which they justify abusing children. They rationalize it, making other paedophiles become child abusers.

Paedophiles demonisation by the general population makes them hide instead of seeking help. Sooner or later they end up in one of those online communities, whether it's of the first of second type is basically luck.
In some places things are so crazy that doctors are legally required to report paedophiles to the police, making it impossible for those paedophiles to seek medical help.

Here you have the story of a former paedophile who was treated by medical profesionals and is now happily married (this one was only attracted to children, some paedophiles can be attracted to both adults and children): https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree...

According to https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41... (where a younger paedophile tells his story) "There's some debate about the numbers, but it's estimated that between 1% and 5% of men have some form of sexual interest in children". One study, by Professor Tamara Turner-Moore at Leeds Beckett University, suggests up to 10% of men have sexual thoughts about children at some stage in their lives. So paedophilia is relativelly common, but as a society we have branded it repulsive so clearly that even paedophiles usually don't act on their feelings (and you would not know if your best friend is a paedophile). But being so many, and without access to help, quite a few are going to become child abusers.

There _are_ people trying to stop potential future paedophile child abusers from acting by helping them before the fact: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mag...

You have to take care in checking how you treat that people, though. You can even end up making it MORE likely they will reoffend: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-... if you get it wrong.

There are also some which are having an impressive success https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mag...: "According to Saunders, their re-offending rate is surprisingly low - 6% compared with 50% for the general prison population"

The BBC (so not some kind of pro-children-rape website) has more articles about the topic, e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mag..., https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-....

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