Did that ever stop the US when the government wanted to drag someone to the US?
jmcs
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It should be forbidden to even refer to it as buying (I think some places already have laws for that), and they should also be forced to put a big disclaimer every time stating the game might become unavailable at any moment if it has things like DRM or core online functions.
Everyone pays VAT that's the point of VAT. You might get away with paying a lower VAT if you buy something from a small store in another country but you are always suppose to pay the VAT of the country where you live - for example if you buy something from a German online store in Portugal you are supposed to pay the 23% rate to the Portuguese government not the 19% rate to the German government, and big online stores will do it for you automatically.
Since they are already in the EEA, not directly. The main benefit in that front is that they would get a vote in the rules they already need to follow.
But the EU is not just economy.
That sounds a very reactionary way to see Vulcan/Ni'Var on DIS.
Vulcan changed it wasn't destroyed. And it's implied that this change was what saved the outward facing outlook of their civilization - the romulan component of population becomes the more pro-federation side of Ni'Var.
There are some interesting things to explore there, since on one hand you have T'rina who acknowledges her emotions and moderates them with logic, and on the other there's Duvin who is clearly more conservative.
I don't know if there's an actual plan on the timeline of these cultural changes or if it's accidental but there's already some evidence of this cultural shift in Prodigy and Lower Decks with Maj'el and T'Lin. Even before that there's Saavik but at least non-canon novels assume she's half Romulan.
You realize that those are two symptoms of the same disease right?
When you stop caring if something is a childish thing or not. Some people never get there.
Do you think the bargain bin fascists running the US are capable of original thoughts?
In other news, Troy accepted Greece's gift horse statue, in a sign of the improving ilian-hellenic relationship.
It's exactly because we live in capitalism that, as consumers, we need to punish greedy behaviour.
The US is getting away with it on the middle east. Israel is a cautionary tale about why doing on your own doorstep puts your civilian population a risk of retaliation.
The US kidnapped people in broad daylight in the middle of Europe and negotiates the release of prisoners with dictatorships on a regular basis. So there's a wide range of options with precedents.