See you'd think that that's how it would work but in America we're uniquely good at charging people more for the same service. Everyone just puts it on their credit card, anyway. Hope you don't get a situation like this in EU.
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well ... the EU is often mistaken for something it's not ... unlike the US that got forged in blood and steal so to speak during the civil war, it actually got united, the EU is just a political and paper union and a lot of ants down here consider it nothing but an extra layer of taxes. Despite that they pass law after law and fine all countries who dont obey them (how they enforce that beats me since there is no such thing as a european military (there are joint efforts ofcourse but thats mostly to help clean up the american mess since Afghanistan and the bushwhackers family lol ... which doesnt mean i consider all americans methsmoking jarheads but the part where the politicians consider themselves "leaders of the free world" is more than often not really appreciated) and despite THAT they DO have a role that holds serious weight on global decision making.
In Europe last year (i think .. im a bit unstuck in time sometimes) Estonia tried to use the witchhunt on piracy to pass some laws that would allow the government almost absolute control over what content could be put online and what not so its not really a certainty and the lobby here might not be what it is there, but it certainly exists and actually
id think your senators and congressmen would have more pressing matters at hand like
https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated-e-passport-data-for-years/
... passing patriot acts and all that, then not installing software to check passports that probably cost billions to develop and distribute ... i'd say politics is politics much all over the globe, i like to refer to it as poly-ethics since they put on more faces before breakfast than most of us would wear in a week
its a never ending fight, almost Tolkien-esque, almost like fighting the actual terrorists globally, you just bat an eyelid or fall asleep for five seconds and they pass a law "behind closed doors" named a little differently with a little bit of the text revised but actually it does exactly the same as the one they "would never pass because they heard the voice of the people"
and so on xD
pardon my babble, its a topic that never cools
i hope you can beat the race there (and thx for the vote , much appreciated)
No one here deals with real issues. Some of our states just made it legal for teachers to carry guns in classrooms to fight off potential school shooters. Uhhh
8-O ... that should help with concentration lol ... talk back get shot hm ? i don't think real issues are considered politicians jobs, i think they all agree that's for activists ... but teachers carrying guns in school ? i'm already stuck on the fact that every traffic cop here carries a 9mm and full set of baton, mace and the works ... unlike england and such where imo chances at violent crime and bombings are a lot higher ... it all assumes that politicians, judges, cops (and in your case apperently teachers too) are super-human ... they won't snap while the students will ?
probably sounds reasonable too if they give the speech in their $10k suit ...
i dont think id let my kids attend a school where theres cowboys dissin out the order of the day ... what if one of them doesnt like mondays or didnt get laid last night or found his wife in bed with his neighbour ?
they're just supposed to be robocop about it ...
afaik judges are elected there, no ? here they're appointed for life, which means they can't actually make mistakes as such court decisions are never revoked
a court of law, not justice ...
teachers in school carrying guns ... i better not talk about that too much, its been evolving to a police state under the guise of democracy for years now, the right slowly taking over and i have no clue what they wanna do with it since this place with its 10mln people and three national languages and five governments cant do jack fkin shti by itself
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance .... watch for criminals and watch for cops ;-)
im still hoping to see some new tek that puts connectivity back in the hands of the populace, not government, some kind of node system whatever b/c i feel the way things are going they will grab more and more control (while blaming it on the russians and the chinese) ... encryption's one thing but if they got a total killswitch on the actual infrastructure they still can tear it out by the root
(owh im going off topic again xD but i guess thats what i doo, too much festering shit inside my brain ... used to be funky ... i think ... im not sure anymore)