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Comment: Re:Hypocrites (Score 2) 162  by 15Bit (#46022015)
Attached to: EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in
Data Privacy Laws Acually, the EU was a fairly logical evolution
of the EEC (European Economic Community), which itself was an
evolution of the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community). The
foundation of these earlier unions was not so much to compete as
a block with the US, but more to avert another world war. The
premise for this being that if you are trading actively with
your neighbour and have easy immigration back and forth between
the countries, your incentive to go to war with them is somewhat
reduced/impeded. That the first agreement was for coal and steel
is extremely significant, what with coal and steel being
important raw materials for waging war.  Comment: Re:That's
$1350 too much. (Score 2) 166  by 15Bit (#43309815) Attached to:
What Does It Actually Cost To Publish a Scientific Paper? Paying
to publish is not inhere