Rinox
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- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
Not a lawyer, so I’m not sure about the law, but generally speaking the perception I get (ie what people say) is that “it’s always your fault” when speaking to drivers. Btw, this doesn’t mean that streets are any safer for cyclists or people walking or that people driver any better. This is why I’m not always in favor of laws that just add more penalties, but fail to do any structural changes.
As for alcohol level, the law says under 0.5 g/l is fine, between 0.5 and 0.8 it’s a minor infraction (fine and possible license suspension), between 0.8 and 1.5 it becomes a criminal offense, with bigger fine, longer license suspension and jail up to 6 months, and over 1.5 g/l it’s still bigger fine, longer suspension, up to a year of jail etc. Then there are the aggravating circumstances, like if you also cause an accident, it’s doubled, if it’s a repeat offender there’s the revocation of the license etc.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
Generally speaking, here it’s often presumed that it’s the car’s fault, or at least that’s how I feel it’s perceived.
Still, negligent driving includes DUI, driving while on the phone, driving too fast, driving in the opposite lane, not stopping to a red light or yield, illegal passing of another car and failing to stop after the incident occurred.
Moreover, the law now specifies that DUI is a criminal offense even when no incident occurred and blood level of alcohol is above 0.8 g/l, with possible jail time from 6 months to a year.
It’s become quite strict. Although I’m not sure how much it will actually affect the number of incidents, I’m not always very pro to “just increase the penalties” kind of laws. We need a more comprehensive plan to reduce the likelihood of incidents as much as possible, especially deadly incidents.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
In Italy there’s been a big push against this in the last decade.
There’s now a law called “road murder” (omicidio stradale) which makes the penalties for killing someone while driving, especially if intoxicated, more similar to intentional murder (rather than manslaughter). It’s essentially aggravated manslaughter, when you cause the death of someone while driving recklessly.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
Btw, afaik we are now at a point where artists earn next to nothing from streaming and make the bulk of the money from tours, shows and the like.
Most of the money from your streaming subscription goes either to the service provider (Spotify, Apple etc) or to the major label.
- Comment on Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that you don’t own the right to use your own device the way you see fit, and are instead locked into systems you can’t escape from.
You should be able to freely install the software you like, be that an OS, a third party app or even your own program, and you should be able to use all the features of your devices, freely, without being locked out due to the app or accessory not being first party.
- Comment on Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat 4 weeks ago:
the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out
This has nothing to do with anything, really. It’s not like, because I don’t sell in the US I can’t use American made steel or something.
The actual reason why Apple, and every other company, doesn’t want to leave the EU (China for that matter) despite increasingly stringent regulations, it’s because the EU represents a huge portion of their revenue and leaving would mean losing billions upon billions, all in the hopes of saving millions.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 2 months ago:
Oh I feel you, I too think it’s overpriced, also I think it tastes like shit.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 2 months ago:
Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.
Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don’t know about honey flavored ones
- Comment on Prices are out of control 2 months ago:
It’s definitely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. As in, “you can die” kind of dangerous.
But if you know what you are doing, nah, it’s perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don’t blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there’s pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don’t know about it, and neither does anyone else.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 4 months ago:
sanctioned region
What’s that?
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 4 months ago:
Opera mini was also great when I had very little MBs of internet traffic in my plan. Nowadays I have pretty much infinite traffic, so I haven’t used it in ages
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 5 months ago:
I was thinking more about their history of being occupied for the last millennium, invaded by the mongols, then occupied and partitioned by many states, including the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, the Ottomans, the Austrians, then finally conquered by the Russian tzars, then having their independence dreams being shattered by the Soviets, then being invaded by the Nazis and now by Russian Federation, with the latest nail being Trump’s actions.
So yeah, superpowers plural
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 5 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Ukraine is already used to being invaded and picked apart by superpowers without any real say
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 5 months ago:
I bet you say the same regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, right? Trump’s plan to end that war and build villas in Gaza should totally be “welcomed and anyone preventing that from happening investigated” /s
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 7 months ago:
Wait, is Microsoft using Google’s copyrighted work on their page without authorization? This is going to get pulled so fast they’re gonna get whiplash.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 8 months ago:
EoL of anything should mean open source code. You don’t want to open source your code? Then you must keep servicing your products and must keep your servers up
- Comment on Magic Mineral 9 months ago:
Also known as cancer in a box
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 10 months ago:
Regardless of the legality of the action or the product itself, a video reviewing, showing or reporting on it shouldn’t be passable of a copyright claim.
Even if the video shows copyrighted material, it still shouldn’t be allowed for Nintendo to claim it, as that would fall under fair use. Just showing a few screenshots of a video game for the purposes of education in an otherwise unrelated video would never fall under copyright infringement.
The piracy argument has nothing to do with Nintendo claiming a video as their own, despite them having no rights to do so.