Unless Trump somehow increases trade protection, the long term backlash seems imminent.
Yeah, it'll actually be pretty funny if Trump and the GOP are able to set up big trade barriers for farm equipment, eliminating foreign competition and forcing smaller farmers to buy new JD equipment which they can't service themselves (and the GOP-run FTC and DoJ will make sure JD's anti-DIY policies hold up), and running most of them out of business. Because most of these small-time farmers and their rural buddies are the people who voted Trump and the GOP into office.
If you modify the tractor in a way that is unsupported by the manufacturer, you void the warranty and John Deere is released from responsibility. It's not at all unlike your TV, or your cell phone, or millions of other products on the market.
The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 disagrees with you. Go read it.
Here in America, where the only German cars we get are high-end Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, and the only economical German cars are butt-ugly (and highly polluting) VWs made in Mexico, from everything I've read German cars are not all that reliable, and worse are specifically engineered to be impossible for you to work on them, and have atrociously expensive parts and service. One guy I knew had a BMW 2-3 years old that somehow developed suspension trouble and needed $1500 in repairs for it. An economical Japanese car is easy for you to do most maintenance and simple repairs in your garage and the parts are cheap.
Japanese cars are the ones you get if you want reliability and relatively inexpensive parts and service (best are the Japanese cars made in Japan). And don't whine about me comparing a $18-30k Honda or Toyota or Mazda or Subaru to a $40-90k BMW; those are the choices we get here.
Al Franken for president in 2020 and Jill Stein as VP. The bumper stickers will say "Franken/Stein 2020"
Totally off-topic and I know you're not supposed to reply to peoples' signatures, but this is great. However, I can guarantee the Democratic Party won't do it; doing something catchy which would be popular with people, instead of picking the worst possible corporatist neo-liberal candidate they can find, is anathema to the Democrats. If they really did run a "Franken/Stein" ticket, they'd surely win, for many reasons, and the memorability of that phrase would be part of building enthusiasm. So there's just no way it'll happen because of this. My prediction: Hillary will be "given" the nomination yet again, with some other crappy right-wing religious VP pick, and she'll lose, yet again, and we'll have 4 more years of Trump.
Then JD should have the owner sign an agreement that says JD not responsible for repairs/accidents due to non-JD service.
They don't need any such agreement. They already have a federal law that says this: the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975. It basically says that for repairing or maintaining your car (or other consumer good), you're allowed to use 3rd-party repair parts and have an independent mechanic (or yourself) do it, unless the manufacturer does all this stuff for free for you, and that they can't "void" your warranty because of this, but that they *can* refuse warranty claims that are actually caused by the non-OEM part or repair.
Maybe there needs to be a law.
There is, the one I just pointed out. Somehow, after 42 years, everyone's forgotten about it even though almost everyone in America drives a car and is affected by it. Honestly, even on car-related message boards, full of car enthusiasts, I see this come up constantly, with people asking "will my warranty be void if I don't take my car to the dealer to change the oil?"
This JD/right to repair stuff has been coming up a lot lately on tech message boards, and I've asked the same question. The response seems to be that farmers are emotionally tied to a particular "color" of farm equipment, and refuse to buy anything else, much like some people always buy Fords or Chevys.
So basically they refuse to look at alternatives and whine that their chosen vendor keeps screwing them over.
Another response is that the dealers in their area only sell JD.
I disagree. While you do point out the very extremes, in my view there are very few moderates in this country. Most camps really are very extreme. It's an "alien concept" because moderates are so rare, and most people have allowed their camp's de-facto leaders to actually set their opinions. I've seen people I know go from pretty reasonable positions and opinions to very extreme ones (usually conservative) in the space of a few short years, because that's how the leaders in their chosen camp have gone.
So I think it's wrong to call these sides "loonie fringe groups"; they may have started out that way, but the bulk of the population has adopted these positions.
Almost no one is complaining about not being able to hack computer hardware; you still can really (it's much harder than before), but no one wants to because there's no need for it.
What they're complaining about is the software and firmware. That's the whole point of the RPi you pointed out: no one cares about modifying the base PCB, but they're having all kinds of fun messing with the open-source software, and also adding on hardware using the existing interface ports.
Do you have citations for these? The maze thing is especially interesting.
But your Middle Ages "ship tunnel" sounds like a canal tunnel to me, not a ship tunnel (capable of passing a modern seagoing ship). Canal tunnels have been around for centuries; Britain is full of them. Yours is certainly older than those, but no one said this proposed Norwegian tunnel was the first-ever tunnel for watercraft.
The only problem with this logic is that, as seen with many comments here, there's a lot of remote workers who've taken advantage of that to move to places where there's no other comparable jobs, and it really seems these days like remote work is drying up.
So yeah, if some company right in the middle of Silicon Valley does something dumb to piss off its high-performing employees, they'll just apply for jobs at companies across the street and be gone in a week or two. But remote workers aren't quite like that.
The problem is with the kinds of dysfunctional personalities that inevitably claw their way to the C-suites -- male or female. They're all narcissistic. Some are borderline psychopathic.
Some?
The other problem I think may exist with women in leadership positions is that they feel, subconsciously perhaps, that they have to be even more cut-throat than their male peers to succeed, so women in those positions end up being absolutely horrible people, moreso than the average male in such a position.
There's always some truth to stereotypes, unfortunately.
My ex-wife used to complain a lot about her female coworkers. As a legal secretary at the time, she had some male coworkers she didn't like either (namely, the stuck-up attorneys), but she didn't have problems actually getting along with them, and had no trouble maintaining a professional relationship with them. It was the other female secretaries who were a real problem, and acted insanely at times. Now mind you, it wasn't *all* women; she had plenty of female coworkers she got along with great, it was just certain women (and I do believe they were a clear minority, but not an insignificant one) that really ruined it for everyone, and gave all women a bad name.
The open floor plan isn't too awful; you just need a good set of (over-the-ear, noise-cancelling) headphones and a smartphone full of good tunes (or Spotify and a generous data plan).
This doesn't work. First, it doesn't eliminate visual distractions, meaning all the people walking by constantly. Secondly, it encourages people to walk up behind you and tap you on the shoulder, which is extremely jarring.
They didn't promise to support Win7 on brand-new hardware. Obviously, what they meant was to support Win7 on the hardware you're already using.
That may seem weasely to you, which is fine, but if you don't like a weasely vendor, then pick another one. They have every right to be weasely with their promises, and you have every right to take your business elsewhere.
If you had bought a 2014 model car with warranty coverage to 2020, and the manufacturer suddenly decided that since they're now selling 2017 models, they're going to renege on their warranty,, how would you feel?
Incorrect analogy. They haven't stopped supporting Win7 on the hardware it was already running on.
A better analogy is that you've bought a 2014 model car with warranty coverage to 2020. Now they've released a new engine in the 2017 models, and you want to transplant the new engine into your 2014 car and still get warranty support. That won't happen; the mfgr has no obligation to support that.
(Even this analogy has a problem in that in cars, the engine and the car come from the same company and are sold together as an integrated unit. The same is not true of OSes and the computer hardware and CPUs they run on. Perhaps a better analogy would be using a Kenworth truck with a Caterpillar engine, and wanting to install a new Caterpillar engine in it which Kenworth doesn't support.)
Yes, I would suggest the victim keep a better brand of lube around, if they're utterly refusing to leave "Rape City" where rape is actually legalized and an everyday occurrence for most residence.
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Unless Trump somehow increases trade protection, the long term backlash seems imminent.
Yeah, it'll actually be pretty funny if Trump and the GOP are able to set up big trade barriers for farm equipment, eliminating foreign competition and forcing smaller farmers to buy new JD equipment which they can't service themselves (and the GOP-run FTC and DoJ will make sure JD's anti-DIY policies hold up), and running most of them out of business. Because most of these small-time farmers and their rural buddies are the people who voted Trump and the GOP into office.
If you modify the tractor in a way that is unsupported by the manufacturer, you void the warranty and John Deere is released from responsibility. It's not at all unlike your TV, or your cell phone, or millions of other products on the market.
The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 disagrees with you. Go read it.
Here in America, where the only German cars we get are high-end Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, and the only economical German cars are butt-ugly (and highly polluting) VWs made in Mexico, from everything I've read German cars are not all that reliable, and worse are specifically engineered to be impossible for you to work on them, and have atrociously expensive parts and service. One guy I knew had a BMW 2-3 years old that somehow developed suspension trouble and needed $1500 in repairs for it. An economical Japanese car is easy for you to do most maintenance and simple repairs in your garage and the parts are cheap.
Japanese cars are the ones you get if you want reliability and relatively inexpensive parts and service (best are the Japanese cars made in Japan). And don't whine about me comparing a $18-30k Honda or Toyota or Mazda or Subaru to a $40-90k BMW; those are the choices we get here.
Al Franken for president in 2020 and Jill Stein as VP. The bumper stickers will say "Franken/Stein 2020"
Totally off-topic and I know you're not supposed to reply to peoples' signatures, but this is great. However, I can guarantee the Democratic Party won't do it; doing something catchy which would be popular with people, instead of picking the worst possible corporatist neo-liberal candidate they can find, is anathema to the Democrats. If they really did run a "Franken/Stein" ticket, they'd surely win, for many reasons, and the memorability of that phrase would be part of building enthusiasm. So there's just no way it'll happen because of this. My prediction: Hillary will be "given" the nomination yet again, with some other crappy right-wing religious VP pick, and she'll lose, yet again, and we'll have 4 more years of Trump.
Then JD should have the owner sign an agreement that says JD not responsible for repairs/accidents due to non-JD service.
They don't need any such agreement. They already have a federal law that says this: the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975. It basically says that for repairing or maintaining your car (or other consumer good), you're allowed to use 3rd-party repair parts and have an independent mechanic (or yourself) do it, unless the manufacturer does all this stuff for free for you, and that they can't "void" your warranty because of this, but that they *can* refuse warranty claims that are actually caused by the non-OEM part or repair.
Maybe there needs to be a law.
There is, the one I just pointed out. Somehow, after 42 years, everyone's forgotten about it even though almost everyone in America drives a car and is affected by it. Honestly, even on car-related message boards, full of car enthusiasts, I see this come up constantly, with people asking "will my warranty be void if I don't take my car to the dealer to change the oil?"
If the JD tractors have firmware that cheats emissions tests and pollutes like crazy in the field the EPA would come down hard on them.
No, it won't. Trump will make sure of that. A year ago, you would have been correct.
This JD/right to repair stuff has been coming up a lot lately on tech message boards, and I've asked the same question. The response seems to be that farmers are emotionally tied to a particular "color" of farm equipment, and refuse to buy anything else, much like some people always buy Fords or Chevys.
So basically they refuse to look at alternatives and whine that their chosen vendor keeps screwing them over.
Another response is that the dealers in their area only sell JD.
Nope. If you disagree, you're free to take it up in court with John Deere/Microsoft/etc. Good luck with that.
The better alternative is to simply not buy from these companies.
I disagree. While you do point out the very extremes, in my view there are very few moderates in this country. Most camps really are very extreme. It's an "alien concept" because moderates are so rare, and most people have allowed their camp's de-facto leaders to actually set their opinions. I've seen people I know go from pretty reasonable positions and opinions to very extreme ones (usually conservative) in the space of a few short years, because that's how the leaders in their chosen camp have gone.
So I think it's wrong to call these sides "loonie fringe groups"; they may have started out that way, but the bulk of the population has adopted these positions.
Almost no one is complaining about not being able to hack computer hardware; you still can really (it's much harder than before), but no one wants to because there's no need for it.
What they're complaining about is the software and firmware. That's the whole point of the RPi you pointed out: no one cares about modifying the base PCB, but they're having all kinds of fun messing with the open-source software, and also adding on hardware using the existing interface ports.
The problem is obvious: the US needs to hire Norwegian companies to do this work.
It's a 1000-foot high mountain. That's a lot of rock.
Do you have citations for these? The maze thing is especially interesting.
But your Middle Ages "ship tunnel" sounds like a canal tunnel to me, not a ship tunnel (capable of passing a modern seagoing ship). Canal tunnels have been around for centuries; Britain is full of them. Yours is certainly older than those, but no one said this proposed Norwegian tunnel was the first-ever tunnel for watercraft.
Yes, but was this a bad decision by management? If the CEO walked away with a huge payout, then the answer is no.
This is why it's best to not have any dogs or kids, and have a wife who has a professional job at an office, plus a couple of cats.
This just reinforces my theory that "every group of people is its own worst enemy".
The only problem with this logic is that, as seen with many comments here, there's a lot of remote workers who've taken advantage of that to move to places where there's no other comparable jobs, and it really seems these days like remote work is drying up.
So yeah, if some company right in the middle of Silicon Valley does something dumb to piss off its high-performing employees, they'll just apply for jobs at companies across the street and be gone in a week or two. But remote workers aren't quite like that.
The problem is with the kinds of dysfunctional personalities that inevitably claw their way to the C-suites -- male or female. They're all narcissistic. Some are borderline psychopathic.
Some?
The other problem I think may exist with women in leadership positions is that they feel, subconsciously perhaps, that they have to be even more cut-throat than their male peers to succeed, so women in those positions end up being absolutely horrible people, moreso than the average male in such a position.
There's always some truth to stereotypes, unfortunately.
My ex-wife used to complain a lot about her female coworkers. As a legal secretary at the time, she had some male coworkers she didn't like either (namely, the stuck-up attorneys), but she didn't have problems actually getting along with them, and had no trouble maintaining a professional relationship with them. It was the other female secretaries who were a real problem, and acted insanely at times. Now mind you, it wasn't *all* women; she had plenty of female coworkers she got along with great, it was just certain women (and I do believe they were a clear minority, but not an insignificant one) that really ruined it for everyone, and gave all women a bad name.
The open floor plan isn't too awful; you just need a good set of (over-the-ear, noise-cancelling) headphones and a smartphone full of good tunes (or Spotify and a generous data plan).
This doesn't work. First, it doesn't eliminate visual distractions, meaning all the people walking by constantly. Secondly, it encourages people to walk up behind you and tap you on the shoulder, which is extremely jarring.
But, you know. I'm old, cranky, successful, independent, and can say these things with no fear my supervisor will see them. :)
You know things are really backwards when the old farts are reminiscing about the good old days when they could work remotely.
Why he (and them) complied? Because he's near retirement age and doing anything else would be end-of-life economic suicide.
He should start stealing lots of office supplies.
Sounds like you should be looking for a new job.
They didn't promise to support Win7 on brand-new hardware. Obviously, what they meant was to support Win7 on the hardware you're already using.
That may seem weasely to you, which is fine, but if you don't like a weasely vendor, then pick another one. They have every right to be weasely with their promises, and you have every right to take your business elsewhere.
If you had bought a 2014 model car with warranty coverage to 2020, and the manufacturer suddenly decided that since they're now selling 2017 models, they're going to renege on their warranty,, how would you feel?
Incorrect analogy. They haven't stopped supporting Win7 on the hardware it was already running on.
A better analogy is that you've bought a 2014 model car with warranty coverage to 2020. Now they've released a new engine in the 2017 models, and you want to transplant the new engine into your 2014 car and still get warranty support. That won't happen; the mfgr has no obligation to support that.
(Even this analogy has a problem in that in cars, the engine and the car come from the same company and are sold together as an integrated unit. The same is not true of OSes and the computer hardware and CPUs they run on. Perhaps a better analogy would be using a Kenworth truck with a Caterpillar engine, and wanting to install a new Caterpillar engine in it which Kenworth doesn't support.)
Yes, I would suggest the victim keep a better brand of lube around, if they're utterly refusing to leave "Rape City" where rape is actually legalized and an everyday occurrence for most residence.