Your argument for weak government is along the lines of: We cannot allow our sons to be taken as slaves any longer. We shall sever their spines at birth since nobody will want a paraplegic slave.
But if a government is smaller and weaker than the various large corporations, who will enforce their contracts?
Since you are an expert on capitalism, you will surely be aware of Smith's warnings about handing out corporate charters and the importance of a well regulated market. You will also be aware of the need for all parties to have some reasonable parity of economic power in order for markets to work as they should.
Knowing that and being a supporter of capitalism, you should well understand the importance of limiting wealth accumulation and be all for it.
Sure, but since their software is utterly dependent on connectivity, you might want them to know at least enough to realize they needed to consult with someone for a big event.
Network neutrality doesn't mean they can't deliver VOIP with low latency or anything of the sort. It just means that they can't deliver VOIP from company A with better latency than that from company B (presumably because A paid their extortion demand).
It especially means they can't deliver their own VOIP service with better latency than a 3rd party's VOIP.
But yes, it would be best if they would just honor flags set on the packet. Especially now that a lot of traffic is encrypted and they can't tell what it might be.
The bottles I get from my pharmacy have double sided caps. turned one way, it is child proof. Turned the other it is easy opening.
Prior to that, you could just ask the pharmacist for the easy opening bottles when you picked up your prescription..
Pharmacies don't reuse bottles typically. Often people will peel the label off of a bottle and use it for something else. But to avoid confusion, the bottles I get describe the pills on the label so you can make sure you're getting the right thing.
Tried by most of the free world. Or hadn't you noticed?
It's easy to say eat less, but think about it. You are demanding that they defy the second most powerful biological drive consistently for the rest of their lives.
You might as well suggest skipping every other breath to maintain a constant state of mild dizziness to reduce oxidative stress. (go ahead and try that for a week. Let us know how many slip-ups you have).
At the same time, odds are at least some are being hit up for more than they owe, perhaps being double billed. There may even be some that actually don't owe any money. We can't tell how many because the paperwork is too screwed up to show that the loans even exist.
Since these loans were bought, it is safe to say that none of the debtors agreed to owe the current holder of the loan.
It's more interesting to pull back a level. There we see a financial industry so high on itself that it figured it didn't NEED proof of anything. Just point and say "He owes me money" and the courts would oblige. Sadly, they weren't wrong at the time. But after screwing around for 10 years soiling their own reputation at every turn, it is no longer true. Now judges want to see proof (like they should have all along).
But if you find anything you can easily read, you know you picked a lousy site to crib from, because a GOOD site will minify the JS, often into a single file.
OR you found that rare gem of a site that uses just enough JavaScript to get the job done rather than piling layer upon layer like a cargo cult just to call one function.
Sure. There are fake updates that get installed and real ones that don't. But it's not realistic to ask why average phone users don't do an expert analysis of each update and without error install the good updates and reject the bad. Half the world screeches in one ear "UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE", and the other hald screeches in the other ear "DON'T UPDATE DON'T UPDATE". Expect random behavior.
I might buy that if not for the second part about then looking to justify even more.
It's not just a random fluke that the U.S. leads the world in putting people in cages, then feeding them bad food and giving them the crappiest medical care we can get away with.
Actually, in the past few years it has been discovered that nicotine uniquely relieves the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
It is notable that cigarette smoke includes a MAO inhibitor. We used to use those for depression and still do in refractory cases.
Interestingly, it is the combination of nicotine and the MAOI that makes cigarettes so addictive. The nicotine alone really isn't that hard to taper down and then off (though it might take a while). The patch might actually work if it delivered enough nicotine to help cover the loss of the MAOI initially.
Yes, though where suffering has happened, we tend to go well out of our way to find some reason the person deserved it. Often then stretching further to find justification for even more.
Of course, a lot of that low value is because the batteries and other parts are likely worn out and not replaceable. If car engines were welded together and the hood welded closed, there'd be no resale value in a used car either.
IoT itself doesn't have a lot of legacy software that needs x86. It's all embedded stuff and it's fairly new. It's also common to have the source code and so no problem compiling for whatever architecture is convenient.
No, it really isn't. It's saying that buyers don't have sufficient information for the market to be healthy enough to drive repairability. There's plenty of demand, there's no willingness to supply.
Market failures like that are a good example of when intervention is called for.
I am generally in agreement with you. In this particular case, given government intervention to mandate repairability I do think competition will drive prices down to reasonability (at least to the extent it does now).
There does need to be some reasonability there. Sure, component level repair on a PCB is probably too much to ask. But consider the most common reasons consumer electronics need repair: broken screen, dead battery, burned out backlight, worn out/broken buttons and connectors. There is no good excuse for those things not being easily fixed.
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Your argument for weak government is along the lines of: We cannot allow our sons to be taken as slaves any longer. We shall sever their spines at birth since nobody will want a paraplegic slave.
But if a government is smaller and weaker than the various large corporations, who will enforce their contracts?
And?
Since you are an expert on capitalism, you will surely be aware of Smith's warnings about handing out corporate charters and the importance of a well regulated market. You will also be aware of the need for all parties to have some reasonable parity of economic power in order for markets to work as they should.
Knowing that and being a supporter of capitalism, you should well understand the importance of limiting wealth accumulation and be all for it.
Sure, but since their software is utterly dependent on connectivity, you might want them to know at least enough to realize they needed to consult with someone for a big event.
Your copier doesn't claim to peer review the paper when it prints it.
Nonsense.
Network neutrality doesn't mean they can't deliver VOIP with low latency or anything of the sort. It just means that they can't deliver VOIP from company A with better latency than that from company B (presumably because A paid their extortion demand).
It especially means they can't deliver their own VOIP service with better latency than a 3rd party's VOIP.
But yes, it would be best if they would just honor flags set on the packet. Especially now that a lot of traffic is encrypted and they can't tell what it might be.
The bottles I get from my pharmacy have double sided caps. turned one way, it is child proof. Turned the other it is easy opening.
Prior to that, you could just ask the pharmacist for the easy opening bottles when you picked up your prescription..
Pharmacies don't reuse bottles typically. Often people will peel the label off of a bottle and use it for something else. But to avoid confusion, the bottles I get describe the pills on the label so you can make sure you're getting the right thing.
Tried by most of the free world. Or hadn't you noticed?
It's easy to say eat less, but think about it. You are demanding that they defy the second most powerful biological drive consistently for the rest of their lives.
You might as well suggest skipping every other breath to maintain a constant state of mild dizziness to reduce oxidative stress. (go ahead and try that for a week. Let us know how many slip-ups you have).
You mean follow the advice that has been tried and failed by millions of people around the world? Yeah, what could go wrong...
In other words, the artificial sweetener ramps up their appetite for carbs and they respond naturally to that appetite?
At the same time, odds are at least some are being hit up for more than they owe, perhaps being double billed. There may even be some that actually don't owe any money. We can't tell how many because the paperwork is too screwed up to show that the loans even exist.
Since these loans were bought, it is safe to say that none of the debtors agreed to owe the current holder of the loan.
It's more interesting to pull back a level. There we see a financial industry so high on itself that it figured it didn't NEED proof of anything. Just point and say "He owes me money" and the courts would oblige. Sadly, they weren't wrong at the time. But after screwing around for 10 years soiling their own reputation at every turn, it is no longer true. Now judges want to see proof (like they should have all along).
The exception is that any contract entered by the child is null and void.
But it can REFLECT a bias.
Put another way, train a neutral AI to emulate a racist and you get a racist AI.
Based on recent court rulings, I'd guess somewhere around the third tooth they drill out without anesthetic.
But if you find anything you can easily read, you know you picked a lousy site to crib from, because a GOOD site will minify the JS, often into a single file.
OR you found that rare gem of a site that uses just enough JavaScript to get the job done rather than piling layer upon layer like a cargo cult just to call one function.
Sure. There are fake updates that get installed and real ones that don't. But it's not realistic to ask why average phone users don't do an expert analysis of each update and without error install the good updates and reject the bad. Half the world screeches in one ear "UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE", and the other hald screeches in the other ear "DON'T UPDATE DON'T UPDATE". Expect random behavior.
I might buy that if not for the second part about then looking to justify even more.
It's not just a random fluke that the U.S. leads the world in putting people in cages, then feeding them bad food and giving them the crappiest medical care we can get away with.
When a nasty exploit goes around that could have been prevented if people had just let auto updates work, will you again ask why?
The real question is why don't phones (or systems in general) have a go back button for individual software "upgrades".
Actually, in the past few years it has been discovered that nicotine uniquely relieves the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
It is notable that cigarette smoke includes a MAO inhibitor. We used to use those for depression and still do in refractory cases.
Interestingly, it is the combination of nicotine and the MAOI that makes cigarettes so addictive. The nicotine alone really isn't that hard to taper down and then off (though it might take a while). The patch might actually work if it delivered enough nicotine to help cover the loss of the MAOI initially.
Yes, though where suffering has happened, we tend to go well out of our way to find some reason the person deserved it. Often then stretching further to find justification for even more.
Of course, a lot of that low value is because the batteries and other parts are likely worn out and not replaceable. If car engines were welded together and the hood welded closed, there'd be no resale value in a used car either.
IoT itself doesn't have a lot of legacy software that needs x86. It's all embedded stuff and it's fairly new. It's also common to have the source code and so no problem compiling for whatever architecture is convenient.
No, it really isn't. It's saying that buyers don't have sufficient information for the market to be healthy enough to drive repairability. There's plenty of demand, there's no willingness to supply.
Market failures like that are a good example of when intervention is called for.
I am generally in agreement with you. In this particular case, given government intervention to mandate repairability I do think competition will drive prices down to reasonability (at least to the extent it does now).
In other words, we have a punitive culture. We like to see others suffer.
There does need to be some reasonability there. Sure, component level repair on a PCB is probably too much to ask. But consider the most common reasons consumer electronics need repair: broken screen, dead battery, burned out backlight, worn out/broken buttons and connectors. There is no good excuse for those things not being easily fixed.