As soon as ad blocking goes mainstream then ad supported sites will start to actually care and start actively circumventing ad blocking via either embedded content
then they are responsible for the content and they are culpable if the ads contain malware
if you get your ads from a service, then you can just shrug and point if your customers get infected
>No. This is wrong. During the financial crisis, the bailouts, funded by American taxpayers, went to plenty of non-American companies. They just needed to have sizable American operations. One of the biggest recipients of American bailout money was Deutsch Bank.
these corporations are all members of the "do business in the USA" club, where the chairman happens to live is irrelevant
the story about how idiotic "libertarian" business managers thought the company would do better if it "competed with itself" has been all over the trade rags
But only if they have accurate real time inventory,
they would have to install sensors and continuously monitor every individual piece of produce to do that. produce goes bad in the truck, it goes bad in the back of the store, it goes bad on the shelf. Determining your actual produce inventory in real time is harder than determining the life status of schoedinger's cat.
Unfortunately, these days it'd be a fancy new laser printer with a binary driver, a EULA forbidding everything including running 'strings' against it, and a vendor hellbent on asserting that copyright, patent, or both, rights allow them eternal control over what consumables the device will deign to interact with(*cough* Lexmark *cough*). I don't know if that origin story is true or not; but it is practically edenic by comparison to the current situation.
unfortunately for you and your stupid argument, stallman and others managed to convince printer manufacturers to use public industry standard protocols for talking to printers, so today he would have been able to just print out his document without difficulty
the most energy efficient strategy for an old appliance is to scrap it and replace it with a new model that is much more efficient
especially if you take your own time into account, is it worth blowing off a weekend with the family so you can save a few bucks on an old crappy washing machine?
what are you talking about? the rubber seals and hoses and belts will die even if you're not using it. The plastic will degrade badly (yes they used plastic parts in 1960s washing machines). The shellac on the motor windings will be degraded and the motor will have poor performance and get very hot.
old appliances are shit. get new ones, they are made much better, they last much longer and they are much more efficient.
so what you are saying is that people really cannot fix their own cars, they need professionals with professional equipment to fix many crucial items
you can't manufacture your own half shafts or wheel bearings or brake rotors, you must rely on those who have the specifications and the ability to produce items of sufficiently high quality.
so your cries of "independence" are really ringing hollow
All of the giant tech companies (Google, M$, Amazon, etc) should all just buy a small island, call it the Republic of Tech, and then not have to listen to any gov't at all on how they run their business.
the whole island will catch fire and burn to a cinder and there won't be any fire equipment to stop it
what *are* benefits of being a "corporate citizen" of the US? It's not for the low taxes, as others have pointed out.
if you are a bank or a car manufacturer or an airline, you don't have to care about anything, you can just run your business into the ground and the taxpayer will be there to pick up the pieces
yes indeed the benefits of being a corporate citizen of the US is that you get to write the laws so you always win
Explain to me how a blob of epoxy on a chip increases battery life or makes the whole mess smaller?
gluing the parts together with thermally conductive glue is by far the cheapest and easiest way to ensure heat dissipation and achieve structural integrity
people want phones that are small and light with long battery life and a low price
they really don't give a shit about whether or not you can open and fix it
Batteries are consumable items. The EU should mandate that they be replaceable,
given that the battery is NOT replaced in the vast majority of phones, what you say would actually INCREASE the amount of waste because all phones would be bigger and use more materials to accomodate a battery access door that will never be used.
Congratulations, you found one example where it is difficult to repair something. Still, even turbochargers, can and do get rebuilt. While manufacturer would like you to spend thousands for a new part, the economical thing is to take old part and send it out to a specialized shop to rebuild. There are specialists rewinding alternators, machining heads, rebuilding compressors and turbos, recoring radiators (rare now), painting gas tanks, sleeving blocks and so on. Pretty much anything can be repaired, unless auto manufacturer took steps to make it impossible (or uneconomical).
Pretty much anything can be repaired,
brake rotors? bent turbocharger shaft? wheel bearings? axle half-shafts? exhaust components? none of these things are repairable and none of them are even replaceable without the explicit help of the manufacturer
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As soon as ad blocking goes mainstream then ad supported sites will start to actually care and start actively circumventing ad blocking via either embedded content
then they are responsible for the content and they are culpable if the ads contain malware
if you get your ads from a service, then you can just shrug and point if your customers get infected
Why?
If everyone is blocking ads, then there can be no ad supported web sites.
Why can't web sites run their own ads? Why do they HAVE to use a service?
>No. This is wrong. During the financial crisis, the bailouts, funded by American taxpayers, went to plenty of non-American companies. They just needed to have sizable American operations. One of the biggest recipients of American bailout money was Deutsch Bank.
these corporations are all members of the "do business in the USA" club, where the chairman happens to live is irrelevant
Unlike every other hip thing, ever, this service actually includes my middle-of-nowhere town in Ohio.
grocery delivery was hip 100 years ago, it's good to see you are catching up
There's also the notion that some people like shopping in person.
because maybe today's produce sucks and you can decide on the spot to have something different for dinner instead of eating stale vegetables
That's a really interesting point.
the story about how idiotic "libertarian" business managers thought the company would do better if it "competed with itself" has been all over the trade rags
Would you feel better if you paid extra for your shipping if was shipped with some guy driving a Rolls-Royce
if his fancy rolls royce keeps the groceries properly refrigerated on his rounds, then yes
how do they remove rotten fruit and vegetables from the real time inventory? do they put sensors on them?
peapod is just a grocery store, paying someone to shop in the grocery store for you.
they have been providing this service for decades in various forms
But only if they have accurate real time inventory,
they would have to install sensors and continuously monitor every individual piece of produce to do that. produce goes bad in the truck, it goes bad in the back of the store, it goes bad on the shelf. Determining your actual produce inventory in real time is harder than determining the life status of schoedinger's cat.
- They usually don't design the machines to be repaired in the first place,
they are designed to be repaired, by people with the right tools and the right experience
they are not designed to be repaired by joe blow with a wal-mart screwdriver and pliers
Unfortunately, these days it'd be a fancy new laser printer with a binary driver, a EULA forbidding everything including running 'strings' against it, and a vendor hellbent on asserting that copyright, patent, or both, rights allow them eternal control over what consumables the device will deign to interact with(*cough* Lexmark *cough*). I don't know if that origin story is true or not; but it is practically edenic by comparison to the current situation.
unfortunately for you and your stupid argument, stallman and others managed to convince printer manufacturers to use public industry standard protocols for talking to printers, so today he would have been able to just print out his document without difficulty
the most energy efficient strategy for an old appliance is to scrap it and replace it with a new model that is much more efficient
especially if you take your own time into account, is it worth blowing off a weekend with the family so you can save a few bucks on an old crappy washing machine?
Except those washing machines won't ever die..
what are you talking about? the rubber seals and hoses and belts will die even if you're not using it. The plastic will degrade badly (yes they used plastic parts in 1960s washing machines). The shellac on the motor windings will be degraded and the motor will have poor performance and get very hot.
old appliances are shit. get new ones, they are made much better, they last much longer and they are much more efficient.
so what you are saying is that people really cannot fix their own cars, they need professionals with professional equipment to fix many crucial items
you can't manufacture your own half shafts or wheel bearings or brake rotors, you must rely on those who have the specifications and the ability to produce items of sufficiently high quality.
so your cries of "independence" are really ringing hollow
remind me to open a branch office in a country where murder is legal
All of the giant tech companies (Google, M$, Amazon, etc) should all just buy a small island, call it the Republic of Tech, and then not have to listen to any gov't at all on how they run their business.
the whole island will catch fire and burn to a cinder and there won't be any fire equipment to stop it
what *are* benefits of being a "corporate citizen" of the US? It's not for the low taxes, as others have pointed out.
if you are a bank or a car manufacturer or an airline, you don't have to care about anything, you can just run your business into the ground and the taxpayer will be there to pick up the pieces
yes indeed the benefits of being a corporate citizen of the US is that you get to write the laws so you always win
Capitalism is good, the corporatism that America has spawned is bad.
somehow capitalists become angels and good citizens when they do it to other people
what will you say when they move overseas and start violating US law in the US?
nobody cares about fixing cheap electronic gear
you can argue about whether or not this is right, but statistically speaking, nobody cares
Explain to me how a blob of epoxy on a chip increases battery life or makes the whole mess smaller?
gluing the parts together with thermally conductive glue is by far the cheapest and easiest way to ensure heat dissipation and achieve structural integrity
people want phones that are small and light with long battery life and a low price
they really don't give a shit about whether or not you can open and fix it
Batteries are consumable items. The EU should mandate that they be replaceable,
given that the battery is NOT replaced in the vast majority of phones, what you say would actually INCREASE the amount of waste because all phones would be bigger and use more materials to accomodate a battery access door that will never be used.
Congratulations, you found one example where it is difficult to repair something. Still, even turbochargers, can and do get rebuilt. While manufacturer would like you to spend thousands for a new part, the economical thing is to take old part and send it out to a specialized shop to rebuild. There are specialists rewinding alternators, machining heads, rebuilding compressors and turbos, recoring radiators (rare now), painting gas tanks, sleeving blocks and so on. Pretty much anything can be repaired, unless auto manufacturer took steps to make it impossible (or uneconomical).
Pretty much anything can be repaired,
brake rotors? bent turbocharger shaft? wheel bearings? axle half-shafts? exhaust components? none of these things are repairable and none of them are even replaceable without the explicit help of the manufacturer
What I do blame them for is pointlessly gluing parts together,
consumers say "I want my battery to last longer" and so they mercilessly reduce the size of the other components to fit in more batteries
so you prefer consumer electronic companies that don't make the products their consumers want?