Seems like a good and fair punishment. The guy was actively and intentionally undermining democracy, spreading hatred and planning for creating conflict. He was and still is clearly a danger to society and people’s safety and should be punished accordingly.
Debian sid is in the middle of a transition to 64 bit timestamps on 32 bit architectures. This requires a bump in all packages and an inconsistent repository is to be expected during this migration. Don’t use dist-upgrade and always carefully read what apt is about to do.
See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg00005.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/msg00092.html
Also, consider the following best practices when using sid: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_practices_for_testing.2Fsid_users.3F
The audit report actually pleads the CEO free from pressuring or interfering with the hiring process. To the contrary, according to the audit she had emphasised that the process must be followed fairly and she only referred him as a candidate (which happens often enough but anyone).
It wasn’t corruption for once. Just the usual incompetence and/or laziness, or maybe they were trying to pander to the CEO which wouldn’t be a surprise in a bootlicker company atmosphere.
Isn’t the fine for the traffic violation? The compensation from a civil lawsuit will follow I presume.
This makes sense in my opinion. Violating traffic rules should result in the same fine regardless of whether you hit someone or not (like drunk driving isn’t more OK just because you got lucky and didn’t happen to hit anyone). But if you do hit someone, expect to compensate all costs and damages to that person or family on top of the fine (that goes to the state).
That said, I wish traffic violations would be fined much more harshly. Also if you didn’t hit anyone during your reckless behaviour.
And names, I always rename those “My Company” apps to just “Company” so I can find them back in the list. That “My …” stuff is so annoying.
And worse, they censored relevant paragraphs that had no reason to be censored at all to hide their corruption. It’s criminal in my opinion.
Yeah perhaps, but in the US it’s much more likely because of the FPTP election system. Splitting up the GOP would effectively wipe out any chances of getting elected for both sides so they stick together in the same party. No wonder BDW wants that system here as well, it would keep all the closet VB’ers in NVA.
I think the NVA is gonna tear itself apart between the VB’ers in disguise and the liberals. That party covers a way too wide spectrum to maintain.
For me it mostly gives a bad image of how hopeless the situation is. Absolute top politicians should at least be able to have a basic conversation in the other language but they often can’t even do that.
One of the reasons Flanders is so extremely sensitive about the language rules and the language communities is because they see frenchification happening everywhere they go, especially around Brussels (but also in other cities). And when even our top ministers cannot be bothered, it doesn’t exactly hint that people will adapt and speak Dutch rather than expecting others will accommodate them in French.
It would take the nationalists down a few notches if ministers were equally as fluent in Dutch as their Flemish counterparts are in French. Doesn’t have to be perfect, just comprehensible and showing effort.
Definitely not with MR in government. They’re also the single reason why the woonbonus is still a thing for second homes. Rather than discouraging it, all of us pay taxes so we can hand it to people who are rich enough to buy a second house in the first place for snatching that house away from us and driving up the prices.
That party is the most populist, anti-science and destructive to the social and financial wellbeing of this country I’ve seen. And that says a lot if you take a look at some other parties.
I think the solution is taxing second homes while controlling rent prices (so that it’s not renters who have to pay that cost) and also make it prohibitively expensive to own more than two places. Huisjesmelkers need to go out of business really fast.
Our fossil fuel consumption is also at an all time record high, despite EV growing in popularity. It’s mostly because a lot of ordinary cars are replaced by SUVs that eat a lot more fuel.
78 million is peanuts to the total budget. I don’t mind that money going to parties so that it’s more resistant to bribery/lobbying.
What I don’t like is that the money is being used to invest in non-political activities such as real estate and essentially compete with the private market with government money to get richer. Ironically it’s the most right wing parties doing that. So much for free market.
Indeed. Humour is subjective, but that also means we can completely ignore whether it’s humour or not because it’s not relevant. All that matters is intent, and here it was not part of some standup comedy where everybody knows it’s an act that can be taken with a big grain of salt and stops at the door. This was clearly a long time ongoing campaign meant to push an agenda of hatred and harassment.