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Forgot your password?  Comment Re:tit for tat (Score 1) 202
Yeah. Still perhaps the right thing to do at a moment in history
where corporations are quickly annihilating what's left of
democracy and state of right. For a case in point: does your
representative know what's being negotiated "in your name" in
some obscure international treaty (be it TTIP, CETA, TPP or
whatever the current abomination is called)?  Likely he doesn't
know. Which should be reason enough to reject the treaty come
ratification time. But somehow I doubt that my (or your)
representative has the balls to say "NO".  Comment Re:Another
Side Effect (Score 1) 202  Because the USA are more willing to
collect?  IMHO US fines are not too high, other countries' fines
are too low. If a company can make billions of profits by
breaking the law and is fined only a fraction of those billions,
it is the rational choice to continue doing so. Only if the
fines become higher than the illc