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Brussels is planning to force Chinese companies to transfer intellectual property to European businesses in return for EU subsidies as part of a tougher trade regime for clean technologies.

This read less like forcing and more like an offer to buy it.

Trump is going to derail this, it's basically "Microsoft Antitrust 2 - The googliest-orangest Boogaloo"

It depends on the exact definition of wet.

According to theWebster dictionary and the OED water is wet:

consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)

Consisting of moisture, liquid. Chiefly as a pleonastic rhetorical epithet of water or tears.

According to the Cambridge dictionary it's not.

That would only work until some oligarchic asshole decided that moon's orbit deserves it's own dose of the tragedy of the commons.

Yes or at least they didn't cook them well enough. E. Coli dies at temperatures over 70°C/160°F. .

You are talking about "they" like the party is run by lizard people ruling by the divine right of kings. The "they" in the republican party also didn't an obviously extreme right candidate and their base gave "them" the boot.

That's because there are only a handful of "Bernies". A party is not a monolithical block, it's the sum of it's members, and the centrists end up being in charge because they are the ones that end up representing the party at most levels. If you want to shift the balance you need leftists to run for school boards, and city halls, and build from there by starting taking over the state committees and DNC members elected by each state (which in turn control the DNC).

If even the most extreme of the extreme right managed to do it in the republican party, there's no reason why a moderate left movement couldn't do it in the democratic party - if anything I would expect it to be easier.

There's also the choice of doing what Bernie did, and build up an alternative from the local level, but that would require people to realise that politics aren't restricted to TV-level races nor snooze for 4 years.

If Americans did that in large scale they could to the democratic party the reverse of what the tea party did to the republican party.

It's about it happening to you once every 10 years or once an hour.

I believe this is what he wants. I even believe he's doing everything to convince his bosses that Xbox consoles have a future. I also would suggest everyone working on the Xbox hardware team to keep their CV updated, because when your boss starts talking about your team "definitely" having a future there's at least a 50% chance of layoffs not being far behind.

Article 5 doesn't have exceptions if the agressor is a member country. By the letter of the treaty whoever fires first would be fucked.

After putting an unrepentant pedophile in the Department of Justice, naming a Russian spy for National Director of Intelligence is just keeping with the theme.