I mean where will Microsoft stop with this ? So force people to create accounts, people create accounts, then remove them and only use local accounts or find some other loophole. Then what ? Lockdown windows usage until you have a Microsoft account with a real phone number, always connected and at least one up to date copy of birth certificate or passport ?
Isn't the money from selling microsoft products enough ? Or is the AI slop that nobody wants so expensive to develop?
Maybe AstraZeneca CEO should figure out where the massive windfall covid vaccine profits went and invest them wisely instead of filling the pockets of shareholders. Dude got massive taxpayer investments, spent the last 5 years acquiring smaller healthcare companies, snubbed a uk plant investment because they didn't get enough money from the taxpayers and bragged about how much money they were making about a year ago from the pipeline investments.
Clearly there isn't enough space here for AstraZeneca's shareholder greed and progress it seems, but it sure as hell isn't the job of the European taxpayers to prop these guys up. Honestly i find it embarassment that a company that has been all about bragging about growth these last 5 years now complains they aren't competitive enough because they aren't getting enough free money.
In my EU country you also get that co-op without getting together with anyone before the building is built. Some company builds the building and sells out the apartments. After purchase you are legally bound to your Condominium, which you have mandatory fees depending on the amenities, such as elevators, insurance, sometimes swimming pool maintenance. Residents are just expected to organize themselves. The building is considered cooperatively owned by the apartment owners and therefore you are cooperatively responsible for its maintenance and integrity.
You also have meetings to democratically decide on what to spend on, like electric chargers, which kind of insurance to get or hiring a new administration company to manage things. You can skip the meetings if you want, but legally, you must pay the Condominium dues they give you.
It's not just 3-4 story buildings either. I've been part of 11 story condominiums, with 3 apartments a floor. I never thought this would be something fascinating in some parts of the world. It's quite normal here. What changed recently is now many condominium meetings are online, because it's easier.
The problem with the Euro and why it's so stable is that its supply is tightly controlled. If there is to be any Euro vs USD to be widely used in world markets for trade, more Euros have to be made available worldwide for countries to use. Such an increase of supply will have destabilizing effects in the economy and will be more challenging to keep stable, as now the ECB must consider the trade happening with Euros wordwide and not just eurozone trade in its currency supply control.
Additionally, the EU would face less competitive exports, which is one issue currently faced by the US that Trump is trying to fix because he doesn't understand economics, but can't.
Overall the EU would require a much more robust financial asset trading and regulation infrastructure to handle being a world reserve currency.
It's not just whoever currency is the top dog, a world reserve currency requires a finely adjusted economic policy that the ECB must be prepared for.
The worst country on planet Earth. The lowest of the low. A nation of evil demons from hell.
Oh shoot the actual Nigerian King coming up to London to sue Shell.
Do you figure they ignored his messages thinking it was just spam the first time his administration contacted them ?
Ah yes, the appeasement strategy. Works every time, for whoever is on the receiving end of it of course. One would think Europeans would know better, but i guess life teaches you the same lesson until you're ready to learn.