Doing this saves them a pretty large sum of cash. Now all repairs are full mainboard or nothing. Diagnostics is a simple pass/fail. So the question is why isnt all this integration saving the consumer any money? I could understand these moves if it made their computers much cheaper due to the much lower repair and warranty tail this brings.
First of all you are conflating Free Speech and the First Amendment. The ideal of Free Speech is not bounded by the First, they are distinct things. We can say that Twitter engaging in this kind of censorship is wrong, even if its not illegal. Life is bigger than the law.
And we are saying that maybe its time we revisit that stance and start applying common carrier rules to these services once they reach a certain threshold of users. AT&T was once a 'private' entity too, but We The People determined that their service was so necessary that common ground rules had to be put in place for the good of all.
We lived under the the tyrant King George's iron rule. Thats why we have such strong protections of free speech. I have the right to lie, no matter how offensive you find that. Your role is to ignore or refute me, not silence me with the State.
"One Person, One Vote is fundamental to democracy and would be best enacted by simply counting the popular vote rather than having a fiction that states"
We are a Constitutional Republic. Raw democracy is very bad, if you had studied at all, you would have learned that a long time ago. It needs to be tempered with the highest and noblest ideals, or its just glorified tribalism. Democracy deals with making sure everyone is able to participate in governance, but fundamental rights should never be up for a vote, which is why we have Constitutional safeguards in place to prevent the mob from forgetting that.
TL:DR - pick up a history book before you spout nonsense.
Historically, people are citizens of their state first and foremost. We have 330+ million ciitzens, spread across a VAST Continent. People who live in Maine dont know whats best for people in Oregon. I dont think most non-Americans really appreciate how big America really is. You are never going ot get 330 million people to combine into one voice, nor should you try.
Thank you. So i should set my computer's BIOS to UTC and then offset by 8 hours(West coast USA) What about mobiles? They pretty much exclusively rely on network time Protocol (NTP) of some form. What about non-cellular tablets? How do they get time? From Google/Apple?
There is nothing special about Greenwhich time. Why dont you guys take the midnight noon? Thats the whole problem here, no one wants to have midnight noon.
Both systems are arbitrary and easily converted between. You are arguing elegance should overcome ubiquity and inertia, and we see that is simply not the case.
Copyright maximalism has swung so hard the only sane option is to revoke all of it. THEY scorched the Earth, not us. Copyright today is utterly broken, there is NO valid moral defense for what it has become.
You do realize Stallman has been saying this stuff since the 70s right? Its been a known problem for a VERY long time and we fought the good fight for as long as we could, but pocket computers killed it.
The point is 'who controls my computer, MS or me?'. The problem is there are too many people like you who think its not a problem to have less than root on your own personal machine. In the end, I should be effectively God to the system.
You joke, but we are starting to see the spread of forcing 'true ID' to make things work. Twitter flat out requires a phone number now (so it gets tied to a real world person), as does CS:GO if you want to progress into the higher ranks.
Uber drivers dont get my real name, they get my handle. There is no reason for them to know my true full name. UBER, my WISP and CC company has the relevant info if a legal issue arises.
You are ignoring politics. These things arent made by one person, but by large groups of people, and funded by multitudes more. Politics doesn't give a shit about sunk cost fallacy, it wants efficient results.
That kind of just blew my mind a bit to realize where we are with tech. Completely ubiquitous computer penetration. If a human is present, odds are good that they have a computer, a camera and a means to transmit, or at least store. Not to mention the ability to edit in-the-field on even the cheapest pocket computers. Livin in the future.
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Doing this saves them a pretty large sum of cash. Now all repairs are full mainboard or nothing. Diagnostics is a simple pass/fail. So the question is why isnt all this integration saving the consumer any money? I could understand these moves if it made their computers much cheaper due to the much lower repair and warranty tail this brings.
First of all you are conflating Free Speech and the First Amendment. The ideal of Free Speech is not bounded by the First, they are distinct things. We can say that Twitter engaging in this kind of censorship is wrong, even if its not illegal. Life is bigger than the law.
And we are saying that maybe its time we revisit that stance and start applying common carrier rules to these services once they reach a certain threshold of users. AT&T was once a 'private' entity too, but We The People determined that their service was so necessary that common ground rules had to be put in place for the good of all.
We lived under the the tyrant King George's iron rule. Thats why we have such strong protections of free speech. I have the right to lie, no matter how offensive you find that. Your role is to ignore or refute me, not silence me with the State.
"One Person, One Vote is fundamental to democracy and would be best enacted by simply counting the popular vote rather than having a fiction that states"
We are a Constitutional Republic. Raw democracy is very bad, if you had studied at all, you would have learned that a long time ago. It needs to be tempered with the highest and noblest ideals, or its just glorified tribalism. Democracy deals with making sure everyone is able to participate in governance, but fundamental rights should never be up for a vote, which is why we have Constitutional safeguards in place to prevent the mob from forgetting that.
TL:DR - pick up a history book before you spout nonsense.
"Why is the combined voice of the entire country"
Historically, people are citizens of their state first and foremost. We have 330+ million ciitzens, spread across a VAST Continent. People who live in Maine dont know whats best for people in Oregon. I dont think most non-Americans really appreciate how big America really is. You are never going ot get 330 million people to combine into one voice, nor should you try.
Thank you. So i should set my computer's BIOS to UTC and then offset by 8 hours(West coast USA) What about mobiles? They pretty much exclusively rely on network time Protocol (NTP) of some form. What about non-cellular tablets? How do they get time? From Google/Apple?
You didnt give a reason why. Explain WHY this is a good practice.
There is nothing special about Greenwhich time. Why dont you guys take the midnight noon? Thats the whole problem here, no one wants to have midnight noon.
Both systems are arbitrary and easily converted between. You are arguing elegance should overcome ubiquity and inertia, and we see that is simply not the case.
Copyright maximalism has swung so hard the only sane option is to revoke all of it. THEY scorched the Earth, not us. Copyright today is utterly broken, there is NO valid moral defense for what it has become.
I grew up in Detroit, generations of my family worked at the Big Three. I will NEVER buy an American car ever again.
You do realize Stallman has been saying this stuff since the 70s right? Its been a known problem for a VERY long time and we fought the good fight for as long as we could, but pocket computers killed it.
O look another idiot who doesnt understand property rights or Liberty at all.
I fear a future where you have to have a cell phone to be a citizen. These are the first steps to that.
They lose that right once i PAY FOR IT. It is no longer their property, its mine.. Did people fucking forget about property rights?
The device can function without a battery......Allowing arbitrary killing of hardware by remote is incredibly distasteful.
Because on my devices, I AM SUPPOSED TO BE GOD, not the OEM.
The point is 'who controls my computer, MS or me?'. The problem is there are too many people like you who think its not a problem to have less than root on your own personal machine. In the end, I should be effectively God to the system.
You joke, but we are starting to see the spread of forcing 'true ID' to make things work. Twitter flat out requires a phone number now (so it gets tied to a real world person), as does CS:GO if you want to progress into the higher ranks.
" and I can't easily zoom"
ctrl+scroll wheel is too challenging?
Uber drivers dont get my real name, they get my handle. There is no reason for them to know my true full name. UBER, my WISP and CC company has the relevant info if a legal issue arises.
Doesnt the phone match up the number with your phones internal contact database?
You are ignoring politics. These things arent made by one person, but by large groups of people, and funded by multitudes more. Politics doesn't give a shit about sunk cost fallacy, it wants efficient results.
"citizens with smartphones certainly will. "
That kind of just blew my mind a bit to realize where we are with tech. Completely ubiquitous computer penetration. If a human is present, odds are good that they have a computer, a camera and a means to transmit, or at least store. Not to mention the ability to edit in-the-field on even the cheapest pocket computers. Livin in the future.