The point being that this law has nothing to do with "sanctioned individuals".
Spain and Italy: you're most likely correct.
When US is involved: there are special rules. Every country in Europe has an agreement with US that they'll write their own law that compels all local banks (not only banks which does business in US) to tell US authorities about any customer that US considers to have some form of connection with US. This case appears to be about the Belgian edition of this set of laws.
Huh, Wikipedia has a blurb about the Belgian process of implementing this law, back in 2014-2015: "the Belgian Ministry of Finance orally confirmed that the IRS agreed to delay the FATCA reporting deadline. Belgian financial institutions now will have until the 10th day following the publication of the Belgian FATCA law into the Belgian official gazette to report their 2014 FATCA information to the Belgian tax authorities. The Belgian FATCA law is expected to be voted on before 2015 year-end." [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act], the section about 'Delays in implementation of IGAs'.
There might be different implementations of these laws in different countries, but i can mention at least one country where "know your customer"applies to every single person they deal with, no exceptions.
Not sure why the downvotes.
Without getting into details, this is a bank that has already been in hot water for having closed customers' accounts because the bank didn't approve of the customers' new addresses. Some of those cases didn't even involve US.
Given all the various "know your customer" rules, I suspect that argument wouldn't fly.
A subsidiary in US, or a subsidiary in any non-EU country that doesn't feel bound by this verdict to remove any domestic laws compelling banks to report on their customers.
I don't know the method by which my bank (which is European, indeed) could be punished by US if they didn't share the data that IRS and FINCEN wants, true, at least if they don't have any official activities in the US. I think I recall the was something about US strongarming every other country into effectively making FATCA reporting into local law? (Maybe that'll change?) What else could US do? Designate officers of the non-cooperative bank as "money laundrers" and make their private lives hell on the international arena?
What I do know is that they (my bank) already is unhappy about the fact that I'm a "US person" and they've told me as much in person. They do not allow me to open new accounts. They do not allow me to do any trades beyond moving money between the savings accounts and use their bank card (which I do use when I'm in Europe). They would however allow me to close my accounts! Half their internet banking site is off-limits to me - it's sometimes difficult to access documents like annual statements because the logical path to that part of the site got roped off!
I'm pretty sure they're already looking for an excuse to cut me off.
As a European living in the US, this might also mean that my European bank (that I intentionally didn't leave when I moved, for reasons) will close my account.
I guess my knowledge of cars must have atrophied...
Not so sure about that, given that I'm pretty sure there's a full sized Mercedes in the back row, and what to me looks like a Volvo in the middle slot, facing the camera.
You assume I'm ever "about in public"?
My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.
Rough guess works be 20cm diameter, so 16% of the force required.
And as opposed to the Magdebutger hemispheres, these objects don't come with handles for good grip.
My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.
@FreeBeard separates evacuated Magdeburger hemispheres by hand.
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Swedish. Of course, these all lack three letters. And I don't think this tool counts special characters?
Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Netherlands also has constant eleventy mph winds that try to blow you back to where you started, so there's that.
I still run a fairly old dell laptop with 4k screen, and fedora 41.
My experience is that i needed to set dpi, scaling, and font sizes separately for kde and gnome apps, Firefox is a story in itself, and one app that I quickly stopped using - partly because I could never get it to listen to dpi settings no matter what I did - well, I recently learned that it could be used on a 4k monitor if one first were to set the right environmental variable. Tough luck, I already went with a replacement app.
Right now I only have one app that needs further custom tweaking to be legible, but since that's only running in the background anyway, I haven't bothered. So in short, for most apps it's possible to configure them, but it is a pain point.
Will not buy another 4k laptop.
Is anybody still using mailspring? I remember trying it back in '16 or '17 or so, liked it, but didn't really feel the need for a standalone client at the time.
Now I'm looking forward to creating more email addresses, and multiple tabs of webmail are getting gradually less appealing. Sure, Thunderbird works...
There are two schools of thought:
Those who want as good life as possible, and Those who want to have a better life than everyone else, no matter what.
I hope I don't duplicate any...
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Guy walks into a bar...
...and asks the bartender for the WiFi password.
The bartender replies, "you need to buy a beer first."
So the guy buys a beer, and asks again, "what's the WiFi password?"
The bartender replies, "you need to buy a beer first, all lowercase, no spaces or punctuation"