It was, back at the time.
Now maybe it is time to have some more complex system where some decision need unanimity, some a qualified majority (2/3 for example) and some just a simple majority with clearly written rules about what need what majority.
Real time SEPA transfer are active in every EU state from the end of 2025, every EU bank offer it.
The only problem is sharing the IBAN: last time I tried, the bank’s app could not read the IBAN generated by itself on the phone of the receiver.
Is there any reason to pay subsidies for products produced outside the EU at all?
It depends on the objective: if you just want to force a switch from ICE cars to EV cars you simply subsidies EV cars, whereever they are built, it make sense. But it has its quirks
Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.
True, we need the Fediverse, but the Fediverse is only a little harder to knock down, not impossible.
Expecially in the US where fighting in court could simply (and often) bankrupt you. All it is needed to take down and instance is asking the provider the owner of the IP and then sue him for something. A company could fight, a private owner no.
Elections are run by the individual states (unless something egregiously unconstitutional is going on) which allows the governor and even local election officials to make decisions that affect how hard it is to vote almost down to a street level basis.
Same here, it does not seems to be a problem.
If you don’t want people from blue areas to vote, you just put in fewer polling stations, and make them in less convenient places for areas that skew blue on the map.
That assumes that you already know how people would vote. Yes, historical data could give a hint but not a certainty. It is some times that polls are spectacularly wrong.
So adding 30 seconds to the voting time doesn’t really matter for a rural station that might need to service 100 people in a day, but for an inner city location that might need to service 100 people a minute those 30 seconds per person really add up.
True, but think about who could spare more time when voting (hint, probably not the people you want to vote) and you will realize that it is a stupid idea.
I agree with you in principal, verifying your identity before voting is important because elections are important. We should be having a conversation about creating a system that is both comprehensive and also doesn’t impose a burden on people without means. For example, a lot of people don’t have an ID to satisfy the proposed requirements and would have a difficult time getting these credentials before election day.
That is your problem number 2…
In addition, in order to get these documents a person would have to jump through a lot of bureaucratic loopholes and pay fees. Many of these people are poorer and are more affected by the dire economic situation. The systems are complicated and despite being involved in this sphere for a few years I couldn’t tell you the steps and fees required to get all of the documents. This isn’t a simple system where a person can just walk into a government office and walk out with a working ID.
and that is you problem number 1.
It is inconceivable to me that a situation like this could even exist in the US.
I get that many US people would start crying about “freedom” and everything else but the basic line is that a ID should be mandated by law for everyone. And it should be easy to obtain, I mean how difficult could be to do it ? Seriously.
It seems to me that these are not real problem, other countries solved them dozens of years ago, it is just that you people (assuming you are from US) don’t want to solve them.
If we’re going to have a system requiring Secure IDs (I’m not sure the EU analog, but you guys have a similar secure identity scheme being pushed) then we need to make getting Secure IDs dead simple because the average citizen needs to be able to vote and also shouldn’t be subjected to heavy administrative burden in order to participate in the democratic system.
A card with a chip and all the information in that chip, to read it you need just a reader.
Or a qrcode with all the information encoded ?
Even the old Italian ID (made of paper) was secure, it does not seems to be a problem without solutions, just copy from someone who already did it.
As for the problem with electronic black box voting stations, yes, they are a problem per se irregardless of who propose or built them. They would be a problem for the exact same reasons if they were proposed by Biden. But I still belive that a selection of who can vote done as you suggest is impraticable, you have no way of knowing who vote what before. A massive refusal to allow a certain population to vote would be noted in the end.
And here you just admitted that you have no other arguments against them if not violence.
The check in the US is done when you register to vote. Once you are registered, a variety of proofs of ID can be used to vote at your polling location.
And why the double check ? It would not be better to just go to the polling station, show your id and then vote ?
(I undestand that it is a simplification, in the US people move way more often that here and this add some other problems)
Requiring a passport and birth cert or some other strong ID are unnecessary at the actual voting site. The main reason for doing this is to make voting take longer,
Considering that if I have no one before me to vote, it take about 30 seconds from the moment I enter the polling station and the moment I am handed the cards to cast the vote I would argue that saying that this way it will take longer is not really true.
And, btw, we do the check of the document against a printed list who containt all the names of the people who can vote at a polling station, splitted between man and women.
and be more strenuous, which means that you can have a greater effect on election results by manipulating the number of polling stations for an area.
Every difficulty you build to try to make harder for your enemy voters to cast their vote is a difficulty you set up also for your voters.
And simply manipulating the number of polling station in a certain area give you nothing: people who want to vote against you will come anyway and you cannot know if they will come before your voters of after and which voters eventually will lose their patience and just go home without casting a vote
Changing the system do not make it more secure by default. Here the SSN equivalent is calculated with your name, surname, date and place of birth and a check code, and it is not a secret how to calculate it (it was the very first program you write if you study IT at school for example).
The problem is not SSN number itself, but the fact that you need only it to do everything.
The Trump administration is building a computer system so that States can ‘verify’ a person’s citizenship prior to allowing them to vote.
As an Italian (but think most of EU citizens) who need to show my id card to vote, I don’t really see where is the problem if there is a check if the person could vote or not. I can agree that using the SSN maybe is not the right way but why should people who are not citizes allowed to vote ? For context, in Italy if I have my legal address (residenza) in Milan I cannot vote for the mayor of Rome, and btw, why should I ?
You clearly have a very restricted imagination about what ideas people could come up to use such hardware…
It is not this case, I agree, but to be honest it would not be the first time that some company create an artificial scarcity to keep the prices up.
I would say that the priority is to convince the entities (EU) that buy the US debit to not sell it. If EU (and the other buyers) start to dump US debt, US will have a way bigger problem than Trump.
What would you look for to decide we can be trusted again though?
A complete change in your mentality.
What system can truly protect against bad actors with power?
Education
These “feel good” Europe articles are exactly that, but you guys are a hair’s breath away from voting in nationalist right wingers. And getting closer by the day.
I don’t know a great solution, other than banning Big Tech; for the love of everything please ban US social media at least. But I’ll tell you what isn’t a solution: celebrating little moves such as this, as if the EU heading in a good direction. It is not.
True, but it is not a ban of US social media that would solve the problems.
In most of the EU countries people started to vote for the right wings becasuse the left wings failed hard, and people choose the alternative.
I mean, last week in Italy the left wings “justified” the fact that 3 people that attacked a policeman with a hammer during a demonstration are already free, they “justified” the fact that a man with a list of felony is still free om the streets and sucker punched a woman on the street. Do you really think that voters see this and think “Wow, these are the politicians I want to run my city/region/state” ?
And it is not a problem of immigrant vs Italians, in the first case the 3 guys where italians, in the second it was an immigrant.
I wonder where that influence is coming from?
The political suicide of the left in the last 10 years ?
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
No, this is just a company that is trying to rename the old leasing concept.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
In the enterprise world this is already a thing, companies already lease many devices (pc, laptop, copy machines, cars, phones etc), it not seems to be that much different.
In the private world, if you have the option to keep the laptop at the end the the rent period, you basically paid for the laptop in instalments, which again it nothing really new, it is already used for phones.
In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them
Wait, AfD, Reform and the like where not subsided by the Russian last week ?
True only if the resource hog process grows progressively, else the daemon is in the same situation and the kernel limits are the only way since it stops the process before.
But yes, a daemon could be an interesting solution
Or maybe people finally understand that it is useless to swap the phone every year.