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It would probably kill gifts. I guess you could allow the usual steam gift feature, but that again would allow scalpers. The method they're using to attempt to limit it to one per household is a good idea, but it's difficult and still susceptible to people finding ways around it. There is just no easy way to fight them effectively.

The only thing that would truly work is for nobody to buy off them, leaving them sitting on a pile of investment with no returns until they drop to retail prices or send it back to Valve for a refund. But boycotts aren't exactly easy or reliable. We know how hard it can be to hold off on something you really want.

Another case of a shitty few fucking over everyone else.

AFAIK, it doesn't ship with docker. You can install it if you want it, or not if you don't, just like most distros.

It ships with various drivers and libraries for gaming, because that's the focus.

Open war is a dangerous thing. So easy to begin, yet impossible to end. Once the missiles start flying and the tempers rise, enormous amounts of death, destruction and military spending are inevitable.

There has to be some threshold of escalation, but it can't be "two people we suspect may be linked to the Russian government set fire to a municipal government building".

Ukraines government is either so backed against the wall

Probably this. They can start worrying about morality and integrity once their existence is no longer on the line. I don't blame them for prioritising their own survival.

Godspeed to you, all of you.

The other comment is definitely far too simplicistic in its proposition, but I'll point out that Communism doesn't have to be authoritarian. That's just the result of violent revolution, necessarily carried out by people so convinced that their ideology is right that they'll use violence to assert it. Revolution requires unity, so dissidents present a real risk to a nascent movement.

Combine those two and you have a recipe for authoritarian suppression of all who disagree with the dominant ideology, or the dominant leader figure supposedly best representing it. What they might initially see as a necessary step to a better world then becomes a feedback loop: Anyone who argues that they're past the point where this policy is still necessary and justified is a dissident by definition.

Conversely, authoritarian policy also doesn't require communism. It's perfectly possible to have a non-communist ideology in power that suppresses all opposition. The problem isn't communism, it's violence: once started, it's hard to reign in again and keep on the right track.

Yeah, there's a blurry line between hatred against foreigners and fighting back against displacement, and it's vaguely parallel to the line between immigrants trying to integrate and invaders trying to overtake.

The tourists may have no malicious intent, so things aren't quite as straightforward, but if the end result is that they're contributing to a destructive trend, non-violently bringing attention to that is the best response I could think of.

If anything, their employees should have gotten more

Intersex is a biological rarity wherein a person exhibits sexual characteristics of both sexes. They're neither strictly biologically male nor strictly female. Hence, if they're supposed to use the bathroom matching their sex, they'll need a separate bathroom.

(There's a lot of complexity and unpleasantness I'm omitting for brevity, but the point is that they don't fit into simple binary assumptions like the one underlying the headline)

You have a point. It was a joke to redirect the bull metaphor to a different animal, force of habit.

On the other hand, the term "pig" for Cops has become rather detached from the animal, just like Motherfucker doesn't actually imply incestuous sexual relations.

But you have a point all the same.

Well, the German government has. It's just that some people think "It won't happen to me" until it does.

Also, it's not bulls. It's pigs, but the RPG kind of murder-pig with metal plating and steel-tipped tusks.

I'd use it as toilet paper, but it wouldn't actually make my butt cleaner.

the country's last factory able to make steel from scratch

Daft cunts. If you neither have any redundancy, nor the bloody sense to guard your single point of failure, you deserve the pain.

The people probably don't though. That's always the tragedy with these things.

That's probably the point: "Nobody forces us to recognise them, so we don't"

Eurydike I was a boss *removed*. Not only was she unusually prominent in politics for a queen, she also engaged in foreign policy on her own, successfully negotiationg with a foreign general to have him protect her late husband's throne against a pretender, apparently without any participation from her son-in-law, who served as regent at the time.

The youngest of her sons, Phillip II, would go on to reform the military and secure hegemony over Greece, laying the groundwork for the invasion of Persia that he never got to carry out. After his assassination, that invasion was instead performed by his son, Alexander III, later dubbed "The Great" for this feat.

It should be noted that, with Alexander being on campaign for basically all of his reign and generally not too interested in domestic rulership, his mother Olympias of Epirus was the de facto ruler of Macedonia. Behind the successful general are two powerful women that first protected his father's throne, then took care of the actual ruling so that he would be free to hunt glory.

Das war eher als Korrelation gemeint. Wer Amerika verlässt hat eine gewisse Vernunft, was meiner Meinung nach eher gegen Dummheit spricht. Trifft natürlich auch nicht auf alle zu.

Unfortunately, the German bureaucratic clusterfuck does tend to hamstring good intention with stupid regulations carried out to the pedantic letter. It's a bit of a lottery at times whether you'll find yourself dealing with a human or with a relentless rule fetishist, and the more complex a process is, the more people it involves and the greater the chance someone will obstruct.

I'd hope things have improved and I hope they'll improve further. Shame that it's too late for you.

Ich spreche nicht für alle, aber ein "dummer einsprachiger Amerikaner" der nach Europa abhaut verliert (meiner Meinung nach) zumindest das erste Attribut und mit dem zweiten kann ich ganz gut leben.

I don't speak for everyone, but a "dumb monolingual American" that to Europe runs off loses (in my opinion) at least the first attribute and with the second I can quite well live.

The awkward word order of the translation is intentional to more closely mirror the German word order. I promise you, I can also good English speak ;-)

The detailed and nuanced answer would take into account the exact crime, but the short answer: No.

A democracy must guard itself against usurpation by demagogues that rally people through deceitful rhetorics and appeals to passion with the intent to break the order of that democracy. That order, among other things, contains laws restraining what politicians are and aren't allowed to do. A candidate with clear disregard for these laws is a threat to that order, such that this democracy must protect itself by not allowing them to hold powers they are likely to use irresponsibly.

Put differently, someone who shows clear contempt for democratic rules is no longer entitled to democratic rights either. Note the distinction: _democratic_ rights doesn't mean _human_ rights.