If these workers' coops are really so wonderfully productive, then why can't they compete with capitalist companies? Why do they always seem to fail and fade away, rather than prospering?
Because you can't "compete" against someone who had your kneecaps broken before the race even started.
Start to get close to cutting into their business and suddenly capitalist companies become distinctly mafia oriented. You get buried under lawsuits, their agents inside the government start auditing/investigating you, they buy up all the raw materials so none is available to you or they give away their product until you collapse.
Linux does NOT "just work", unless you're very lucky and using well supported hardware. One distro "might" install the closed source drivers for your wifi card, another probably won't or it'll tell you the name of the driver and leave you to figure out how to get it.
Then there's choosing exactly which linux you want to commit to. SuSE? RedHat? Ubuntu? Mint? Who knows, there's like 60 different ones. That's where the blog searching for opinions and information starts and where you learn some of the darker underside of "community" coding, ie. that the community is a dysfunctional group of crybabies who all want to be treated like special snowflakes.
As for updates, almost every distro I've used in the last 10 years has some form of updates are waiting notification on the taskbar demanding attention. Half the time their GUI update app crashes or just freezes and you have no idea if it's finished or not.
Don't even pretend that "Software Explorer" is something common to every distro, or that a new user wouldn't get freaked out that installing their app might require a bajillion dependencies to be installed first and having no clue what all those are won't just decide better not.
"Linux, it just kinda works, maybe, but once you've got it working it's pretty solid!" is not winning over anybody.
People don't use Linux on the desktop because people don't want to get involved in all the Linux developer b*tch fights. They don't want to use a program that has no manuals, you have to spend a week on Google reading blogs that may or may not be current to the version you have and when you start to feel you're really getting the hang of it some charismatic brogrammer bleeds off all the supporting devs into a fork that addresses the one aspect of the program HE felt was lacking.
They don't want to have to add repositories and hope they can trust some github build just to install an app.
They just want to turn it on, have it work and get things done. Which is what Windows does in most cases. For the few that can't stand Windows, they can already choose Apple.
Keep in mind that Qualcomm didn't file this suit until Apple switched to using Intel chips rather than Qualcomm's own chips. This is about revenge for not using them as their primary supplier.
That's okay, Apple switched to Intel as revenge for Qualcomm not bending over and cutting their patent fees for Apple. Also they possibly (probably) gave Intel Qualcomm's trade secrets to improve their crappy performance. The wheel of screw your business partner over keeps spinning.
A single judge can decide if someone lives or dies and you're shocked about how much power they have over a corporation? Perhaps you should check your priorities.
Besides, a jury usually decides guilt, the judge decides the penalty.
Yet they are free to reject the plea deal. In many cases the DA will throw a case out if they can't get a plea and the cost of trial is too high or risky.
You'd think a pastor would be able to trust that his word would be taken seriously and in good faith, but not even our pillars of the community get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Why? They're as capable of lying as the next guy, and probably have more to lose. Don't see them leaping to help the police catch pedophile ministers do you?
Do the work of developing the skills, building your parts supply chain, and learning the technology yourself. You want a law forcing Tesla to help you? Go fuck yourself.
Except when Tesla is the only source of service manuals, and Tesla is the only source of parts, and Tesla remote kills your car because you didn't have them repair it. Then what's left except turning to your lawyers or your legislature.
Access to a service manual is not the same as Tesla selling them parts. Also Tesla is rather notorious for disabling services on people's cars remotely with no warning (arguably illegal) whenever they perform a fix Tesla feels should have been done by them. Then charging them what they would have charged plus a recertification fee. Essentially holding their car hostage.
I've also seen several instances where Tesla's sold pre-owned cars but didn't have the titles, leaving owners unable to drive their cars after their temporary tags expire. Something a dealership routinely takes care of for a customer.
First you need to identify the problem. Which in this case seems to be corruption and not big government as you can have a really small government that does nothing but protect business interests.
Yeah, except whose business interests, and what about the interests of the customer?
Tesla actively fights against any repairs done by non-Tesla workers and will disable features on what is presumably your car but honestly if they can decided you should have bought Tesla tires and disable your car until you do + pay a hefty recertification fee, is it ever really yours?
So sure, demanding that other dealerships should be able to repair Teslas might not be in Tesla's business interests, but is it in the customers interests? I think so. Tesla desperately wants to be the Apple of cars. They've got the cult, they've got the "We meant to do that" distortion field going thanks to the cult, now it's control, control, control.
What about every Texans right to repair what they own? Because right now there's a very good question on if you own your Tesla or if Tesla is leasing it to you. There are numerous YouTube videos and stories detailing how people have had their Tesla's fixed only for Tesla to remote disable Supercharging and other features later until the customer forks over massive "Recertification" payments plus the cost Tesla would have charged to fix their issue.
Tesla wants to be like Apple, never selling parts to 3rd party repair shops, never certifying anyone else to repair their products. But, like Apple, they should make it clear that you aren't "buying" something from them. It will never be yours. They will decided on some secret sliding scale every day whether they will ALLOW you to use it.
So yeah, the dealers are doing this for their own reasons, but don't act like it's killing off competition, because in the world of Tesla repair right now there IS no competition. It's pay Tesla or GTFO.
No, this has nothing to do with social policies, this is an example of countries that are starved of their tax base by companies that don't want to pay their share of the tax burden getting creative with avoiding the tax man. It's the equivalent of a county sheriff in the US putting up speed traps and then seizing any cash you have on you.
Perhaps if Google hadn't been so aggressive making Dutch Sandwiches they wouldn't be facing down all these pissed off politicians.
You start the day with 300+ miles of range and drive for 3-4 hours.
Assuming you had a full charge and you bought the 220w charger instead of the 120w. Also assuming it's a warm day and not too hot or too cold, in which case your battery will be draining itself to keep in operating temperature range.
Then you stop for lunch. Superchargers are very widespread, and almost always are next to food.
No, you do not. You spend 5 minutes in a drive through and get back on the road because you've got things to do. Also, 4 superchargers in this state per Google maps. No clue on other brands of chargers, presume none. Gas stations? Everywhere. Your EV is now dead, the Hybrid & ICE are still going.
No, all the "delays" and "missteps" by Tesla are from over promising, repeatedly training up crews to fire them and train all new crews who crunch to get production up but barely know how to install parts, using seals that can't keep out a light dew and spending a fortune to automate before learning something every car company already knew, automation is hard. But hey, they continue to have cultists willing to prepay for cars they have no idea when they'll receive to keep them afloat so whatever.
You're deliberately ignoring the 30 minute stop every 100 miles to recharge an EV, IF there's a supercharger available which is not even a sure bet in many cities, let alone a rural area. A 500 mile round trip (something I do for work every other day) would include 2.5 hours of just standing around waiting for a charge. The Hybrid can make the entire trip without stopping.
If Ford or any other automaker has a recall, they can send your car to any licensed dealer to have the fix made, which is typically a minor inconvenience.
If Tesla has a recall, EVERY SINGLE CAR has to be shipped back to Tesla's factory, depriving you of your car for MONTHS. Knowing Tesla, they'll make you pay for the shipping charges.
Or is this more along the lines of "political ambition" in the form of "lobbying", which is an excellent business practice when corporations do it, but horrifyingly evil when unions do it?
Didn't you read the memo? Anything that can be done without paying buckets of money to a corporation is automatically heresy and to be publicly scorned.
Sounds like every corporation I've ever worked for. "Those" people are after your jobs! Work harder and don't take vacation or we'll buy robots! It's your fault we're moving to China, why can't YOU live on $5 an hour? We're a team aren't we??
Or, just go on believing you're the next John Galt just waiting for your genius utopia. That's what your CEO wants anyway while he's burning the company down around himself and cashing in before having your cubicle packed up.
The game industry isn't any different from the film industry, movies can literally be made anywhere in the world, that hasn't gotten rid of Union representation in the film business though, as much as the Oligarch class would prefer it otherwise.
Been saying for a while now it's only a matter of time before Amazon starts offering to ship your packages through their network just like UPS & FedEx. Once you've built up all that backend, it only makes sense to use it to capacity, even if you're carrying packages that didn't originate at an Amazon facility.
Their whole banking system relies on ActiveX controls that require IE. How about Microsoft pay to fix the damage of 20 years of trying to embrace and extend through the web that's left governments and businesses stuck using abandoned plugins and Microsoft exclusive controls?
Majority of work sites I know that still use IE have some Java app allowing users to access some program who's native CLI app doesn't work anymore or cost a fortune to license per desktop. Apps you've never heard of but are mission critical for that business and migrating to something else would be both cost prohibitive and cause too much user disruption.
Fun story.. crime labs were seeing the same DNA strand all over various crime sites and authorities thought they had a massive serial killer case brewing before they tracked the traces back to a person who worked the machinery that makes the swabs the police use to collect evidence.
The problem with these sorts of drag nets isn't just the privacy implications, which are huge in their own right, but the inevitable false positives that will land people in prison facing DA's who will fight tooth and nail to prevent that conviction from being overturned. Police today aren't trained to have the skills to investigate past the first reasonable suspect and just keep banging on them until they cave and "confess" or are irrefutably ruled out.
We need police and prosecutorial reform as much as we need a tightening of privacy laws.
That's funny, RedHat with their paid support Enterprise edition built on open source and Amazon with their paid service based on open source projects seem to be eating quite a lot of cake.
How dare you be reasonable and informative??? Didn't you get the memo regarding SystemD being shat directly from the bowels of Satan upon the innocent?
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If these workers' coops are really so wonderfully productive, then why can't they compete with capitalist companies? Why do they always seem to fail and fade away, rather than prospering?
Because you can't "compete" against someone who had your kneecaps broken before the race even started.
Start to get close to cutting into their business and suddenly capitalist companies become distinctly mafia oriented. You get buried under lawsuits, their agents inside the government start auditing/investigating you, they buy up all the raw materials so none is available to you or they give away their product until you collapse.
What the hell are YOU on about?
Linux does NOT "just work", unless you're very lucky and using well supported hardware. One distro "might" install the closed source drivers for your wifi card, another probably won't or it'll tell you the name of the driver and leave you to figure out how to get it.
Then there's choosing exactly which linux you want to commit to. SuSE? RedHat? Ubuntu? Mint? Who knows, there's like 60 different ones. That's where the blog searching for opinions and information starts and where you learn some of the darker underside of "community" coding, ie. that the community is a dysfunctional group of crybabies who all want to be treated like special snowflakes.
As for updates, almost every distro I've used in the last 10 years has some form of updates are waiting notification on the taskbar demanding attention. Half the time their GUI update app crashes or just freezes and you have no idea if it's finished or not.
Don't even pretend that "Software Explorer" is something common to every distro, or that a new user wouldn't get freaked out that installing their app might require a bajillion dependencies to be installed first and having no clue what all those are won't just decide better not.
"Linux, it just kinda works, maybe, but once you've got it working it's pretty solid!" is not winning over anybody.
People don't use Linux on the desktop because people don't want to get involved in all the Linux developer b*tch fights. They don't want to use a program that has no manuals, you have to spend a week on Google reading blogs that may or may not be current to the version you have and when you start to feel you're really getting the hang of it some charismatic brogrammer bleeds off all the supporting devs into a fork that addresses the one aspect of the program HE felt was lacking.
They don't want to have to add repositories and hope they can trust some github build just to install an app.
They just want to turn it on, have it work and get things done. Which is what Windows does in most cases. For the few that can't stand Windows, they can already choose Apple.
Keep in mind that Qualcomm didn't file this suit until Apple switched to using Intel chips rather than Qualcomm's own chips. This is about revenge for not using them as their primary supplier.
That's okay, Apple switched to Intel as revenge for Qualcomm not bending over and cutting their patent fees for Apple. Also they possibly (probably) gave Intel Qualcomm's trade secrets to improve their crappy performance. The wheel of screw your business partner over keeps spinning.
A single judge can decide if someone lives or dies and you're shocked about how much power they have over a corporation? Perhaps you should check your priorities.
Besides, a jury usually decides guilt, the judge decides the penalty.
Yet they are free to reject the plea deal. In many cases the DA will throw a case out if they can't get a plea and the cost of trial is too high or risky.
You'd think a pastor would be able to trust that his word would be taken seriously and in good faith, but not even our pillars of the community get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Why? They're as capable of lying as the next guy, and probably have more to lose. Don't see them leaping to help the police catch pedophile ministers do you?
Do the work of developing the skills, building your parts supply chain, and learning the technology yourself. You want a law forcing Tesla to help you? Go fuck yourself.
Except when Tesla is the only source of service manuals, and Tesla is the only source of parts, and Tesla remote kills your car because you didn't have them repair it. Then what's left except turning to your lawyers or your legislature.
Access to a service manual is not the same as Tesla selling them parts. Also Tesla is rather notorious for disabling services on people's cars remotely with no warning (arguably illegal) whenever they perform a fix Tesla feels should have been done by them. Then charging them what they would have charged plus a recertification fee. Essentially holding their car hostage.
I've also seen several instances where Tesla's sold pre-owned cars but didn't have the titles, leaving owners unable to drive their cars after their temporary tags expire. Something a dealership routinely takes care of for a customer.
First you need to identify the problem. Which in this case seems to be corruption and not big government as you can have a really small government that does nothing but protect business interests.
Yeah, except whose business interests, and what about the interests of the customer?
Tesla actively fights against any repairs done by non-Tesla workers and will disable features on what is presumably your car but honestly if they can decided you should have bought Tesla tires and disable your car until you do + pay a hefty recertification fee, is it ever really yours?
So sure, demanding that other dealerships should be able to repair Teslas might not be in Tesla's business interests, but is it in the customers interests? I think so. Tesla desperately wants to be the Apple of cars. They've got the cult, they've got the "We meant to do that" distortion field going thanks to the cult, now it's control, control, control.
What about every Texans right to repair what they own? Because right now there's a very good question on if you own your Tesla or if Tesla is leasing it to you. There are numerous YouTube videos and stories detailing how people have had their Tesla's fixed only for Tesla to remote disable Supercharging and other features later until the customer forks over massive "Recertification" payments plus the cost Tesla would have charged to fix their issue.
Tesla wants to be like Apple, never selling parts to 3rd party repair shops, never certifying anyone else to repair their products. But, like Apple, they should make it clear that you aren't "buying" something from them. It will never be yours. They will decided on some secret sliding scale every day whether they will ALLOW you to use it.
So yeah, the dealers are doing this for their own reasons, but don't act like it's killing off competition, because in the world of Tesla repair right now there IS no competition. It's pay Tesla or GTFO.
No, this has nothing to do with social policies, this is an example of countries that are starved of their tax base by companies that don't want to pay their share of the tax burden getting creative with avoiding the tax man. It's the equivalent of a county sheriff in the US putting up speed traps and then seizing any cash you have on you.
Perhaps if Google hadn't been so aggressive making Dutch Sandwiches they wouldn't be facing down all these pissed off politicians.
You start the day with 300+ miles of range and drive for 3-4 hours.
Assuming you had a full charge and you bought the 220w charger instead of the 120w. Also assuming it's a warm day and not too hot or too cold, in which case your battery will be draining itself to keep in operating temperature range.
Then you stop for lunch. Superchargers are very widespread, and almost always are next to food.
No, you do not. You spend 5 minutes in a drive through and get back on the road because you've got things to do. Also, 4 superchargers in this state per Google maps. No clue on other brands of chargers, presume none. Gas stations? Everywhere. Your EV is now dead, the Hybrid & ICE are still going.
No, all the "delays" and "missteps" by Tesla are from over promising, repeatedly training up crews to fire them and train all new crews who crunch to get production up but barely know how to install parts, using seals that can't keep out a light dew and spending a fortune to automate before learning something every car company already knew, automation is hard. But hey, they continue to have cultists willing to prepay for cars they have no idea when they'll receive to keep them afloat so whatever.
You're deliberately ignoring the 30 minute stop every 100 miles to recharge an EV, IF there's a supercharger available which is not even a sure bet in many cities, let alone a rural area. A 500 mile round trip (something I do for work every other day) would include 2.5 hours of just standing around waiting for a charge. The Hybrid can make the entire trip without stopping.
If Ford or any other automaker has a recall, they can send your car to any licensed dealer to have the fix made, which is typically a minor inconvenience.
If Tesla has a recall, EVERY SINGLE CAR has to be shipped back to Tesla's factory, depriving you of your car for MONTHS. Knowing Tesla, they'll make you pay for the shipping charges.
Or is this more along the lines of "political ambition" in the form of "lobbying", which is an excellent business practice when corporations do it, but horrifyingly evil when unions do it?
Didn't you read the memo? Anything that can be done without paying buckets of money to a corporation is automatically heresy and to be publicly scorned.
Sounds like every corporation I've ever worked for. "Those" people are after your jobs! Work harder and don't take vacation or we'll buy robots! It's your fault we're moving to China, why can't YOU live on $5 an hour? We're a team aren't we??
Or, just go on believing you're the next John Galt just waiting for your genius utopia. That's what your CEO wants anyway while he's burning the company down around himself and cashing in before having your cubicle packed up.
The game industry isn't any different from the film industry, movies can literally be made anywhere in the world, that hasn't gotten rid of Union representation in the film business though, as much as the Oligarch class would prefer it otherwise.
Been saying for a while now it's only a matter of time before Amazon starts offering to ship your packages through their network just like UPS & FedEx. Once you've built up all that backend, it only makes sense to use it to capacity, even if you're carrying packages that didn't originate at an Amazon facility.
Their whole banking system relies on ActiveX controls that require IE. How about Microsoft pay to fix the damage of 20 years of trying to embrace and extend through the web that's left governments and businesses stuck using abandoned plugins and Microsoft exclusive controls?
Majority of work sites I know that still use IE have some Java app allowing users to access some program who's native CLI app doesn't work anymore or cost a fortune to license per desktop. Apps you've never heard of but are mission critical for that business and migrating to something else would be both cost prohibitive and cause too much user disruption.
Fun story.. crime labs were seeing the same DNA strand all over various crime sites and authorities thought they had a massive serial killer case brewing before they tracked the traces back to a person who worked the machinery that makes the swabs the police use to collect evidence.
The problem with these sorts of drag nets isn't just the privacy implications, which are huge in their own right, but the inevitable false positives that will land people in prison facing DA's who will fight tooth and nail to prevent that conviction from being overturned. Police today aren't trained to have the skills to investigate past the first reasonable suspect and just keep banging on them until they cave and "confess" or are irrefutably ruled out.
We need police and prosecutorial reform as much as we need a tightening of privacy laws.
That's funny, RedHat with their paid support Enterprise edition built on open source and Amazon with their paid service based on open source projects seem to be eating quite a lot of cake.
How dare you be reasonable and informative??? Didn't you get the memo regarding SystemD being shat directly from the bowels of Satan upon the innocent?