To exclude certain Semites from the definition of "antisemitism" based on religion...

The definition of antisemitism is anti Semite.

As long as we come across people playing language games while excusing a genocide.

It' could be reasoned it's not accurate to call Israel's actions "antisemitic" as that has been chosen as meaning only Jewish related hatred.

It can also be reasoned that it's perfect valid to call Israel's actions "anti Semitic" as this is a genocide against an Arabic speaking Semitic population.

And Hollywood profits aren't from movies, honestly you've fallen for basic accounting tricks..

A franchise that doesn't make money devalues the retail space. McDonald's model links rents to sales so they take maximum value at all times.

Royalty fee: 4% of gross revenues

Brand marketing and promotion fee: 4% of gross revenues

Location rent: Unlike most other franchises, McDonald’s owns the land and buildings at its locations and franchisees pay rent that can be based on a percentage of sales or as a fixed amount. Percentage rents are 31.75% of sales. Fixed rents are typically £100,000 to £225,000 per month.

So Corporately it looks like they make their money from rent. But that rent is directly linked to sales and labour in most cases.

Without sales they don't get rent unless they've agreed a fixed rent and that's increasingly rare. Usually only the highest value sites.

The real estate value of the property is linked to business revenue as well. If a franchise fails and doesn't get another investor then the empty building is worth a lot less.

By picking McDonald's you're actually about as wrong as possible. Everything of value is linked back to labour, even the value of the land.

It might work differently in other countries but I doubt it. Economics work the same everywhere and McDonalds didn't like to standardise when they find a winning model for themselves.

He's a prosecutor who apparently can't be bought.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/13/tax-authorities-should-prosecute-evaders-keir-starmer

That's far more dangerous to a billionaire than a firebrand.

If Starner only delivers a non-corrupt legal system it'll be an incredible win for the Country. But I do think he needs 10 years in office so he should focus on actually winning the next election.

It's based on Hamlet. So Shakespeare, not the bible.

You're not wrong they literally have a scene talking about his test scores showing his mentally deficiency on a written test.

In the film he's a diagnosed retard.

When they ditched the headphone jack fairphone ditched environmentalism.

The fairphone 3+ was their last fair phone.

It's just another cheap phone now. Made in the same place from the same stuff as other makers, with maybe a year of extra security updates.

They started by doing stuff differently, now they do things the same as everyone else and want to pretend they're different.

The counter culture was called a counter culture because it was a minority. Even of the boomers.

The intergenerational fight is dumb, but if you're talking generalisation and joining in, most boomers weren't hippies.

They conformed and are still complaining about those who don't conform. Just as they complained about hippies then they complain about zoomers now.

As a public, we've gone back to the days when the internet was a techies platform.

The difference now is it's a techies platform Vs. a corporate platform.

The more convenient FOSS social media is, the less techie it will be, and the closer we'll get back to the more open internet for all.

Until then we have an open internet for techies alone.

You're talking about a proportionally representative parliamentary system.

The UK has a parliamentary system and it's still just as possible for the opposition to be entirely powerless for 5 years at a time.

First past the post voting. That's the problem.

Parliamentary or not. The actual voting system is the problem.

He supported a book banning law. He's in the wrong.

Now he's not gone back on that, he's complaining the law he supported is applying to his books.

He wants to be above the law while others are not.

For context.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft/

Under French law DVD and Blu-ray codecs aren't patentable and VLC is based in France. The organisation isn't breaking any laws.

Whether using VLC in the US is the legal grey area.

So it's not VideoLAN who might be breaking a law, it's you by circumventing the anti piracy keys in DVDs and Blurays. Millennium copyright act and anywhere that signs up to a treaty containing reciprocal copyright law might have an issue.

Patent infringements might also be possible in the US if you edited that open source code in that country, but US to EU patent treaties don't cover software France deems unpatentable so distributing the codec is probably fine as long as it's of French origin (and non-commercial use as per the GPL licence)

In the UK, the codec might be patentable now after Brexit interestingly but we haven't yet diverged on patent treaties with the EU yet as far as I know and we're part of the US patent treaty still.

Similar things happened with MP3 codecs in Linux before it was also made free. You'd either be prompted to make the choice to install yourself during or after the install. Or perhaps 2 downloads offered, one with and one without.

All to show you as an individual made the choice to use those codecs. If there were any possible damages from an individual download is would be less than $40 in licencing. So a lawyer would have to submit a case for each individual for that as a possible settlement, not even guaranteed.

As long as a large organisation isn't liable for the codec install, it falls into "de minimis" legal territory.

I remember a Live CD install of Ubuntu required some hoops to get codecs at one point in the distant past. I looked it up then out of curiosity.

An example of a corporation doing the bare minimum required by law.

Laws which they've lobbied and used regulatory capture to slow any updates.

Regulations are important.

These regulations were written a long time ago when physical tape was used. Boeing has since captured the American regulatory system.