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China was the most blatant example I could think of, and it's a very current issue considering the ongoing Olympic games and the fact that much of the Western World outsources its production to China. There are plenty of other examples. Most equally valid.

That's pretty much it. Intent matters. A lot. Unless there's evidence suggesting they deliberately broke the law, the fine is going to be rather low.

If they keep doing it, they can't say they intended to follow the law, and they'll be punished more severely.

You should read Jennifer Government, if you haven't already. :D

It's not really whataboutism; plenty of countries and businesses commit terrible crimes without ever facing actual concequences. The Twitter mob won't actually do anything, and in the real world business goes on as usual.

Yeah, just like how we started boycotting China when we found out about the human rights violations against their own majority population, and outright atrocities against their own people.

At worst, these sattellite images will cause an outrage on Twitter until the mob finds something else to be angry about. People are too dependent on their product to do something that would actually hurt these businesses.

Average iPhone users may be more valuable to the average advertiser when compared to the average Andoid user, but there are plenty of markets where I'd say there are plenty of advertisers who'd benefit from targetting the lower end of the income spectrum.

Incidentally, Finland and Sweden constitute something like 20% of the EU's total area, and both have relatively small urban centres scattered all around the place.

It's pretty natural both have somewhat differing regulations in regards to transportation.

If they're anything like Finns, they probably do. Why get the ashtray in the car dirty when you can just throw it out the window?

Alright, I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the tip!

Doesn't Apple Music require Apple devices? :/

Meanwhile, my Release Radar playlist has about 30% songs that are unavailable and the home screen is full of recommendations for podcasts I don't care about.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative? Preferably with a decent selection of obscure metal. I'd like to try some other paid sevices before reverting to piracy.

I don't think there are any businesses here who'd accept a check. Banks would probably do it for a fee, or at least require you deposit the money to your account.

Bills here are paid with bank transfer. It doesn't have to be done though online banking, but doing so is obviously easier.

Like the sibling commenter, I'm from Finland. The same applies to most of the Nordics though; I doubt my kids will ever see a check. People simply don't use them and cashing one would probably be quite difficult (not to mention expensive).

Where do you still use checks? I don't think I've seen one since the 90's.

In most of Europe, depositing cash rarely happens unless you're a business owner depositing the day's earnings. Withdrawals is easier from an ATM.

Many banks require you to call ahead if you want to make a large cash withdrawal, and if you make a large deposit you need to be able to document where you got the money from or had the authorities called on you.

No matter what one's stance is on Israel, or the Palestine question, it's hard to blame the actions of one company on the Israeli government.

Both are valid points, but you did write that Linux is harder to install and maintain. I disagree on those two points.

Pre-installed with a decent support plan is hard to beat regardless if it's Windows, MacOS or something like Linux Mint.

Yeah, and that's why lots of IT jobs are outsourced to Eastern Europe; why pay 70k€ per year for people doing devops in the Nordics, Germany or the Benelux countries, when you can get a Romanian to do it for 20k€?.

The situation in the EU is the same as in the US, and outside the local hubs, wages are lower.

Installing Linux is often far easier than installing Windows nowadays, and multiple distributions offer long-time support. It's an excellent way of getting more life out of semi-old systems.

I suspect they simply wouldn't care unless they actually fear repercussions from Canadian authorities. Whether those potential repercussions would be something to fear here and now, or if they simply want to keep the door open for potential future expansion, is not quite clear.

On the other hand, the scraping/facial recogniton they do would also violate European privacy regulations, and it could be they feel a win in a similar case would come in handy if they ever decide to offer their services to European customers.

Ironically, the new Edge update for Xbox one made the browser so slow it's nigh unusable; loading times, is almost a whole minute, it often crashes when streaming video, and it feels slower than the non-Chromium predecessor.

Before the Chromium update, on the other hand, Edge was an excellent browser considering it ran on a gaming console.