Unless the CDU decides to do a Macron, i.e. campaign alongside SPD and turn around after the elections because they’re ideologically much closer to AfD.

You offended a bunch of Germans here. Don’t forget the Americans are sitting in Germany mostly to bomb Syrian kids though, they’re not defending Europe from anything.

If anything reverse engineering is more permissible in the USA than many other places, IIRC

If you know their name, they are probably a celebrity. That’s kind of the definition

GDPR applies regardless of where headquarters are located

Oh we got a bunch of leeches in Europe, Ireland is not the only one

It is easily provable that there is an infinite number of prime numbers.

Then why are the sanctions still in place? If the US stopped pirating maybe we would be able to tell bow shitty the government is. But all anyone can see here is a cruel government getting off oppressing smaller nations. It’s not even about political blackmail, given how Puerto Rico and Hawaii are treated, only gratuitous violence.

Better have your info shared with one government, rather than have it shared with every government

Impressive how people misunderstand this stuff. You don’t open a research lab for technology transfer, kinda the opposite. This is Apple saying they don’t see the USA as the best place to do research. The tech is already transferred

What’s yours? This whole “pirates are also buyers” is just a cop-out, but sure your anecdotic experience is valid proof against the more logical alternative

Is mint slower than Ubuntu? A bit surprised to hear an Ubuntu derivative called slow