It's not only past incidents. At some point you've had enough trouble that you shift your stance from "we don't know about any issues in that region" to "we haven't gone through our approval process with legal for that region".
Re:Google Bard now open to use
by withinboredom on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:59PM
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My current country isn't on that list. Obviously, you're missing well over a hundred countries on that list.
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In today’s episode of “people from countries that create nothing whining about not having access to other countries’ technologies”…
Re:Google Bard now open to use
by withinboredom on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:06AM
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I suspect you like watching DVDs and using your Bluetooth headphones while connected to your WiFi?
Re:Google Bard now open to use
by HarHarVeryFunny on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:02PM
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The members of the EU are countries, not states (& the EU itself is a political/economic alliance, not a country).
Re:Google Bard now open to use
by CptFribble on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:07PM
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"State" in this context is the same as the state in "head of state," AKA "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government." Other examples of this usage are "nation-state" and "city-state."
It is common to refer to the members of the EU as "member states."
Re:Google Bard now open to use
by HarHarVeryFunny on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:15PM
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So then why not just refer to the whole list as states rather than countries ? IMO it be weird to do so, but at least consistent.
I'm curious what state you're from where it's normal to refer to EU members as "member states" ? USA perhaps ?
"State" refers to "any sovereign polity". The US is weird here in that it pretends it's internal political divisions are sovereigns and refers to them as states, but that doesn't make every other country in the world not a state.
Definition from wikitionary (but nothing is special about this choice of dictionary, you should find a similar definition in any dictionary): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun
It would be exceedingly unlikely that the commenter was so ignorant as to not know France, Germany, Italy, and so on are countries.
Re:Google Bard now open to use
by HarHarVeryFunny on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:00PM
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So then why not refer to them as countries - that's how they would refer to themselves (I'm ex-UK myself). Doesn't make any sense to say "I know they're countries but I'm just gonna call them states instead". The EU context doesn't make any difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
> The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.
"State" made perfect sense in context of the post.
This is a list of countries just off the top of my head that has sued Google in the last decade: