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Neutralizing enemy servers, if on foreign soil, runs afoul of Article 5. A constitutional amendment would be needed. It's not just a privacy concern.

YouTube may be free in Japan, but in the US it isn't.

Its free in both places. There is a paid version, but I just use the free ad-supported one. Gonna get ads one way or the other (YouTube ads and/or in-video sponsor ads).

Just wish they would let the creators choose where the commercials go so its not so jarring.

we see that American textbooks are just as biased as Japanese textbooks towards their country and its justifications for suffering.

The Aug. 23 knife attack in the western city of Solingen in which a suspected extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people helped push the issue back to the top of Germany's political agenda, and prompted Scholz's government to announce new restrictions on knives and new measures to ease deportations.

Perhaps you put the restrictions on the wrong thing? Perhaps restrictions on the immigrants causing issues?

Underworld:

That's not how democracy works. Any party can form or be a part of a coalition that has a majority. Oc course, you aren't going to form a coalition with a party whose values are opposed to yours.

Thank you for your reply. I did say "should" when referring to the president stepping in if they couldn't work together to do a part of their job as politicians (pick a government). Further, cdu and sdp have worked together countless times, despite different values. Anyway, just my opinion.

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Yrral:

Might want to check your autocorrect. I don't want to quote you as it could be seen as...wrong :)

I hope the family of the woman who was killed, as well as her friends who no doubt received an unspeakable shock, sue the killer's famliy

I'm still a believer in individual responsibility. I believe (and think some jurisdictions agree with me) that the parents aren't responsible for the crimes of their offspring. Some western Countries had this concept but it seems to be falling away. There was even a conviction against a mother who's kid killed others recently in the us, I believe.

But even if the AfD does come out on top in the elections, it is unlikely to come to power because other parties have ruled out working with the far right to form a government.

Refusing to work with others should be grounds for revoking political party license. Politics is all about compromise and negotiation. If a party Refuses to negotiate, they're not a political party, but instead a religion.

The president should be authorized to force parties to act like grown-ups and negotiate with everyone. And if not, then to put parties in govt by percentage of vote (eg SDP 20%, Cdu 18%, Afd 10%, greens 5% = 53% for presidential mandated govt).

Mocheake: You also don't need to keep referring to his country of birth and ethnicity.

It helps drive data analytics for lawmakers and other groups. Suppression is not the answer...in some european countries they refuse to say the ethnicity and nationality of the criminal, but many can deduce from either name (if posted), from the neighborhood, or from the crime. People aren't powerless except when they cannot band together to stop the silliness of their govt censorship on such.

Mocheake: You also don't need to keep referring to his country of birth and ethnicity.

It helps drive data analytics for lawmakers and other groups. Suppression is not the answer...in some european countries they refuse to say the ethnicity and nationality of the criminal, but many can deduce from either name (if posted), from the neighborhood, or from the crime. People aren't stupid except when they cannot band together to stop the silliness of their govt censorship on such.

That window allowed the man to steal, he said, a total of around 3,000 pears between the early morning hours of August 1 and the early morning of August 2...

Farmers, give this man a job. Thats pretty good picking for 2 days.

Oasis issued a warning, saying tickets could only be resold at face value through authorized sites.

“Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters,” it said in a statement.

That's not how capitalism works. Supply and demand. If there's more demand, people should be able to charge more. If the original seller can, so to should the original buyer turned seller. Imagine if the law prevented stockbrokers from reselling stock they just bought. Global economic collapse would ensue.

Arrest the guy who gives people funeral money, turn blind eye on bigwig corruption .

And doesn't Spotify have ads? Why pay for a subscription and still need to see ads? Old television and YouTube offer shows for free, paid via ads.

YouTube offers music for free without even signing up. And many are from the artists themselves on their own free channels. Skip the middleman...well, somewhat

Once he gets the power, he may not give it up.

Party president and prime minister should be filled by different people, imho. Bit of a conflict of interest. I know many countries don't, but it would be better. Extra checks and balances.

Did the "ghost" grab him? Otherwise, I fail to see any reason to attack/defend oneself.

Flights were cancelled...

Wouldn't in the sky be the best place to be for a megaquake? Higher than tsunamis, off the shaking and subducting ground, above any volcanic clouds...

More candy to ban for Halloween.

Instead of having to debase herself, can she not self-manage and be famous without her Idol company that has those strict no dating policies?

carpslidy

Today 08:47 am JST

An able body athlete can't compete in the paralympics , so why can a biological male compete in a female event?

What if the athlete identifies as disabled (Transabled)? Should be Good to go then, based on precedent with transgender.

The "live" Olympics on YouTube only shows crowds looking around but not actual Olympics. The few sites that allow rewinding don't show anything except the French president at the beginning in his residence. This is not the Olympic footage

The International Olympic Committee however was forced to apologize however for a gaffe during the ceremony that saw South Korea's athletes incorrectly introduced as North Korean.

Searched but no footage is released. Unable to verify as only reports with still frames and not video evidence. Why is there no video coverage of the Olympics to view? Come on, IOC. free broadcast, free live on YouTube

Violent drunks need a warning "do not give me alcohol" on their forehead or a number ... 2 or 4 or 6 which is the limit for the number of drinks before they become agitated

Not a fan of a tattoo, but requiring an alcohol ID that can be taken away for excessive drunkenness or acting violent when drunk would help.

they use the term 'dwarf planet' now

Should they use "planets with dwarfism" now so they are not offensive?

nandakandamanda

Today 01:13 am JST

“The ghost pepper (aka the Bhut Jolokia) is one of the hottest peppers in the world, topping over 1 Million Scoville Heat Units.”

Chips usually use more salt than they do the actual spice. It's like calling american cheese as cheese, or margarine as butter.

the company "forbids" those under 18 from consuming the chips

Are store clerks supposed to card people for spicy food too now?

"First they came for our alcohol, but I was not an alcoholic. Then they came for our cigarettes, but I was not a chain smoker, then they came for our vapes, but I wasn't a darth vaper, now they've come for our spicy chips and there's no one left to stand up for me."

To those nitpicking about America being a constitutional federal republic. Sure. But its also a democracy. Canada is a constitutional federal monarchy but nobody would really say that.

Republic has an elected head of state (president), monarchy has a hereditary head of state (king/queen/emperor/empress/sultan). Some republics and most monarchies separate the symbolic head of state from the political leader head of govt (prime minister/chancellor), while others do not (US, Syria, Nigeria).

A democracy can be either. Do you vote? Then it's a democracy of some sort, even if a failed democracy. And don't say, "well I only vote for representatives, so it's not a democracy." Come off it. Republic is not contigent on representatives, just on the status of the head of state (as stated above). All modern democracies are representative, but some may have some direct democratic components (recall, referenda).

If they were lined up horizontally, it would be equivalent to eight times the distance between Earth and the Moon...

How many banknotes would it take to get to mars?