California Becomes 18th State To Consider Right To Repair Legislation (vice.com)

Jason Koebler shares a report from Motherboard: The right to repair battle has come to Silicon Valley's home state: Wednesday, a state assembly member announced that California would become the 18th state in the country to consider legislation that would make it easier to repair your electronics. "The Right to Repair Act will provide consumers with the freedom to have their electronic products and appliances fixed by a repair shop or service provider of their choice, a practice that was taken for granted a generation ago but is now becoming increasingly rare in a world of planned obsolescence," Susan Talamantes Engman, a Democrat from Stockton who introduced the bill, said in a statement. The announcement had been rumored for about a week but became official Wednesday. The bill would require electronics manufacturers to make repair guides and repair parts available to the public and independent repair professionals and would also would make diagnostic software and tools that are available to authorized and first-party repair technicians available to independent companies.

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Re:Nope

[PopeRatzo]

Your AR-15 doesn't have a full auto mode.

You can modify an AR-15 to be full auto, but it's tricky and probably won't work. The AR-15 tends to jam when fired at full-auto rates.

The "AR" in AR-15 stands for "The Actually Rifle 15" because any time someone gets some inconsequential fact wrong about it, 15 idiots will appear out of thin air to "actually,,," you with some boring nonsense about their stupid murder machine.

Nobody really cares except other potential school shooters.

Re:Nope

[PopeRatzo]

If you're participating in a debate/conversation, you should care about facts.

And if you're participating in a debate about preventing school kids from being shot up, you should care at least as much about the school kids as you do about whether someone is using the proper terminology for the killing appliance that was used to slaughter them.

Re:can they repair their state first?

[PopeRatzo]

My sig refers to ideas and ideology, not people.

What's that now? You have found ideologies that exist in the absence of people?

And in California men marry men and women marry women

You may not have seen the news, but same-sex marriage is now the law of the land in all 50 states. Men marry men and women marry women in every one of them.

Besides, that's not really fair as few places still have laws allowing marriage that young, and many are old laws left over from as far back as the Reconstruction era.

And the places that allowed marriage that young still had cases of families giving away child brides. When you say these are "old laws", why do you think those "old laws" have been changed in other places but places liike Kentucky held on to them so fiercely?

The States you referenced were also States for many decades prior to many of the more liberal Western States

That's a weak excuse. Massachusetts and New York have been states at least as long as Kentucky, but don't allow 13 year olds to be "given away" by their families.

Can't we find things, like this proposed Act where we share common ground, that we can come together on and stop demonizing each other on and trying to "win" by any means, even destroying innocent people's lives?

The irony is thick when a conservative in the Age of Trump asks for civility and "common ground".