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Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com)
A leaked internal document outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right to repair legislation that has been proposed in 20 states. From a report: As Apple continues to fight legislation that would make it easier for consumers to repair their iPhones, MacBooks, and other electronics, the company appears to be able to implement many of the requirements of the legislation, according to an internal presentation obtained by Motherboard. According to the presentation, titled "Apple Genuine Parts Repair" and dated April 2018, the company has begun to give some repair companies access to Apple diagnostic software, a wide variety of genuine Apple repair parts, repair training, and notably places no restrictions on the types of repairs that independent companies are allowed to do. The presentation notes that repair companies can "keep doing what you're doing, with ... Apple genuine parts, reliable parts supply, and Apple process and training."
This is, broadly speaking, what right to repair activists have been asking state legislators to require companies to offer for years. "This looks to me like a framework for complying with right to repair legislation," Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit and a prominent member of the right to repair movement, told me on the phone. "Right now, they are only offering it to a few megachains, but it seems clear to me that it would be totally possible to comply with right to repair."
This is, broadly speaking, what right to repair activists have been asking state legislators to require companies to offer for years. "This looks to me like a framework for complying with right to repair legislation," Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit and a prominent member of the right to repair movement, told me on the phone. "Right now, they are only offering it to a few megachains, but it seems clear to me that it would be totally possible to comply with right to repair."
Umadbro? In reality what probably happened is Russia and Trump were both willing to collude. There was evidence the Russians were gearing up to interfere in the election and sow discord before Trump declared anyway, but when Trump saw the chance Russia figured why not? I would bet at some point Putin or one of his close operatives met Trump and realized that he is a complete moron loose cannon that he couldn't actually manipulate effectively (because hes stupid) and just figured, an idiot is better than Hillary Clinton. At that point I don't think they actively colluded, but Russia just ran their own interference because Trump's campaign was such a mess they couldn't have coordinated effectively with them anyway.
As much as I dislike Trump, Mueller probably did not find evidence of collusion that would meet the prosecution standard to indict him. Doesn't really change the fact that we have a moron in office that is woefully unqualified for the position he holds, but is surprisingly effective at what amounts to misdirection from the things the GOP wants to happen under the radar. The media has been in a near frenzy like state since he became a serious contender for the nomination, and it just plays into the GOPs hands. They don't need an effective president to do what they want. Since when do they care about Democracy in action with the massive amount of gerrymandering and other bullshit tactics they have totally embraced to shove their ideas on everyone else?
The base problem is that the media executives only care about ratings and profits and the journalists have fallen for his trap. Trump's idiotic clickbait worthy headlines serve to drive traffic and engagement to these sites even though most of the shit is the same old grand-standing crap that really doesn't matter. The journalists become outraged at the mere idea of many of these things and then get drawn in to a pointless fight while the GOP proceeds to gut thousands of other regulations that do matter.
Bottom line, they basically backed their way into a situation that is actually beneficial to them much like Trump's campaign backed into a situation where the Russians clearly did help them, but not as a coordinated effort. Oh and by the way, there was evidence on at least 9 different state voting systems that they were breached. Georgia even went so far as to 'accidentally' delete the system backups after the main system crashed after the security and forensics teams confirmed they had been breached by a nation state actor (it was near unanimous that Russia was that nation state). Due to the poor security auditing of the systems however, they have no idea if any votes were actually changed and my suspicion is they said they weren't to avoid eroding confidence in the election outcomes.