king_phil

They say "yes" a lot and when you want to sell it to these ssame people later, they don't want it anymore. Sell it to them instead.

Present it to potential customers. Ask them to buy it (not ask them if they would buy it, because they say "yes" a lot, but to actually buy it).

They even learn social competence for example when playing with random other people they talk about what characters there are, how you communicate with people effectively or give feedback/criticize effectively.

This ("there's no alternative") seems not to be true at all:

In Germany, 13% of our energy is nuclear energy. Only 13%. We're a net exporter of energy, big time, so we could (almost) disconnect nuclear power right now, if we didn't want to export energy to our neighbours. We're at 52 TWh (tera whatt hours) export per year right now.

In the last 18 years we've gone from 143 TWh (2000) to 92 TWh (2018) per year nulcear energy generation. In the same time, wind energy alone has added 160 TWh per year, so that alone is more than enough to compensate. There is another 105 TWh from water, sun & bio gas that we added. But wind energy alone is not even close to fully captured.

Thing is: each nuclear energy plant in Germany right now makes more than 1 million € per day in profits. Each plant. If you'd have that plant as an energy producer, would you take it offline?

I think the "very very very busy schedule" misses the point. Everbody has stuff to do, and things that are hard or (almost) impossible to reschedule. But everybody has a personal life, and can and will take time for it. One thing I sometimes say (not sure if it's from somewhere else, and I certainly failt to live up to it myself, sometimes): "You don't have time, you take it". Things just need to be more important than what's on your calendar.

I laid ot the legal situation above.

I don't see how that is true. I own a web hosting business (since 2003). This situation is EXTREMELY common (like 5%-10% of accounts).

I do not see how the payer is the account owner. At all. Can you clarify why that would be?

Legally speaking (in german law): The account owner is the person who opened the account, because that is the person who the provider has made the contract with (except the situation of a "Geschäftsbesorgungsvertrag" or a "Vollmacht" [ letter of authorization, power of authority, idk. whats the english term] where you make the contract for someone else). The payer may have a legal connection to the account owner (will, in 99% of the cases, but must not), but not to the provider.

So legally speaking Linode - at least in german law - Linode is providing unauthorized access to a tzhrid party and will be held accountable for all the damages the account owner suffers. That is a violation of GDPR, too. You'd propbably resolve that by a simple letter from your attorney or a court order if Linode does not comply (taking a few days only because of "emergency conditions").

It's not easy to translate all the legalese, I hope you can follow ;-)

You actually can opt out. There is a hidden online form, I saw it once.

How do you even buy a surprise gift for your wife? Or something she does not "need" to know about?

No craftsman of any kind would whine about a (good) tool that costs $29 and makes him more productive. I do not see why a progrommer should do that.

Which doesn't have anything to do with the problem decribed. He doesn't want to write "wor" but "working".

Not sure if angry birds would have made a great pen & paper game ;-)

Paywall. What does the article say?

Super-simple answer: it's the law (GDPR). Kopplungsverbot. Art. 7 (4) GDPR. End of story.

It says: "When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract. "

It's like a butcher shop saying "the meat could be free if we could only reduce our cost by not caring about hygiene".

Edit: oops, the methaphor doesn't work at all :-D

Your view includes only a fraction of the real world.

From a european ISP standpoint: the introduction of a systemic weakness is a violation of Art. 32 GDPR. We just can't do it.

Classic double-bind. GDPR is more important than Australia to us, so we just block all access from and to austrialia. We have 195.000 affected webhosting customers (domain, email, website, servers), btw.

Think public suffixes! It is long, so definitely not an edge case.

You can write a small script to look up all PSL domains and check if the www and APEX domain has the same dns records.

Our implementation (we control 15 or so) does not, have a www-subdomain for the domains. Anybody can register the www-subdomains.

The implementation will definitely need a up to date Public Suffix List. We control a bunch of public suffixes and it's a huge, huge difference if you browse to the address "www.com" or to "com" - or blogger.com and www.blogger.com, or dyndns.org vs. www.dyndns.org. In this case, there are different organizations/persons controlling these.

Should you not know which one you have connected to?

Is there any evidence that the crows are poisoned? Can you provide the source?

Source?

I don't see how there is going to be a market built (we are talking about a five or ten year timespan here to build a semiconductor factory) around a trade barrier created by a tariff where nobody knows how long it will be in effect. Would you bet dozens of millions of dollars to create a production of already existing, cheaper produced products to supply a market created by tariffs? How easy would it for the next administration (or the current) to drop these tariffs? What about your investment then?

Which sane person would make such an investment?

And at the same time, the Euro is fantastic. It is just a question of your viewpoint.

You did not mention that since the founding of the EU, there has not been a single war between member states. Compare that to european history and you see the most important thing about the EU. I can live with all the things there are rightfully to be criticized about the EU, in exchange for peace in continental europe.

Is that the professional opinion of IndieHive LLC as well?

They do, yes! I do!

Then you don't understand the most fundamental thing about the GDPR: "Kopplungsverbot" (german privacy law had that for ages before GDPR). You can't force someone to consent to marketing because he wants to use your service. Everything that is not part of the core service needs consent that can be withdrawn at every time. The core service of facebook is access to the network, not that my data is processed to show me better advertising. The advertising is in facebook's interest, not mine. "But we make our revenue from ads" is not a valid explanation. If your service was "sign up to see better ads", then that would be your core business and no consent needed. Best thing ever happend.

Exactly. I have been in contact with the regulation authority a few times to make sure we're compliant and in all cases we found that they are super-helpful. And the GDPR is - while being CEO of an ecommerce comppany for 15 years now - the easiest and most well-written ecommerce law I have seen. Everything in it makes sense if you just read the freaking law and the recitals included in the law. Period.

That's not correct. German Federal Constitutional Court already decided that you can't weigh the number of lifes. The decision was based on "can we shoot down a plane and kill 300 when the plane would crash into a stadium and kill 30.000". You can't shoot the plane down (legally).

"Fault" doesn't matter that much in an accident, saving lifes matters. "My wife and child died. But doesn't matter, it was someone elses fault" said no one ever

What does it matter? Pacta sunt servanda...?

If having a different opinion and stating it in a sarcastic way is a problem for you Americans, then net neutrality is not your biggest problem.