You can buy that wrench legally in a lot of places. If unsure, try Ebay and have it delivered from China. The car dealer is not really the right source for tools and replacement parts. The situation would be different, if a specific wrench was required and only the car manufacturer made them. Then it would be entirely reasonable to require the car manufacturer to sell it in some acceptable way at an acceptable price. That could well be mail-order, does not need to be the car dealer at all.
What you are apparently confused about is the distinction between general tools and information available on the open market from several sources and specialized tools that are not. This line is a pretty clear one.
That monopoly is ironically called the AMD64 architecture today. This comes with a number of problems. While Intel managed to keep AMD small after the last time AMD (not Intel, they did not have the skills) not only came up with the only viable 64 bit extension to the x86 architecture, for a while they also had the fastest CPUs. AMD engineering in the CPU space has basically always been significantly superior to Intel, except for raw speed. Meltdown and Spectre have now nicely illustrated what Intel did to get that speed. And AMDs weakness is over, with a brand-new architecture that is very well designed indeed while Intel has nothing. It helps to understand that Intel it not actually a CPU company, they are a memory company and have struggled with CPUs since they began making them. AMD, on the other hand, came from signal-processors to x86 and _is_ a CPU company. This nicely explains Intel's incompetence, incredible as it sounds. They do not have the right culture.
One other instance of that problem is also that while AMD can do extreme customization of their CPUs since the FX generation, Intel is completely incapable in this space. And just look how long it took Intel to get the memory controller into the CPU after AMD did it.
Now, Intel also did never manage to come up with anything x86 that was suitable for a smartphone. AMD did not even try, because they understand CPUs and knew this architecture is not suitable for that field. But they went one step farther: They have server processors that include ARM cores. So AMD has real experience in that field, but Intel is, again, lost. Yet AMD is far smaller and does not need the smartphone market to survive, while Intel likely does. And they messed it up.
My take is that finally Intel found out with much delay that they managed to screw themselves, in addition to their customers.
In the German legal system you do not get an automatic appeal. I am not sure what the conditions are on a case like this for the judge to allow an appeal.
So far the only larger thing I needed a license for was an FAQ, and I put that under a CC variant that allows derived works but requires attribution. For code I usually use what the surrounding system does, or the modified BSD license (i.e. requires attribution, but do with it what you like otherwise). I am not too sure the GPL actually achieves its purpose either. Time will tell. In some sense, requiring attribution solves a part of the problem, namely the availability of the original sources. Modifications are a problem in any commercial setting though, especially as people use copyright to nail down (sometimes extremely obvious) engineering ideas as "theirs". That is extremely bad as it hampers progress.
The judge indicated he thinks the Linux Kernel copyright for the whole Kernel is with Linus only. This guy then withdraw his suit. Yes, you need standing, but whether you have it or not is determined during the legal proceedings by the court. Of course, if they find you did not have standing, you pay the legal costs of the other side. There is an exception: if you obviously have no standing, then the court does refuse to hear your case.
There is. Stop using antibiotics when you have a simple cold. Restrict them to serious and life-threatening situations only. Stop using antibiotics for improving meat yields in farming. And start research again in finding more, if needed entirely on public money.
All that requires a little less greed and selfishness and more understanding of what is going on. Hence I am not hopeful. As a general rule, people are stupid, greedy and arrogant. Antibiotic resistances are just one of the symptoms of that.
Actually, "move fast and break things" is find if you are smart, experienced and understand what not to break. Average people cannot make that model work though and these are average people with delusions of greatness.
Indeed. Most poor women wit lots of children would have stopped early or not have had children at all if given the knowledge and the tools. But the deranged religiots need more believers, so contraception is evil.
There is a (large) class of people that do not understand what a "fact" is. I have no idea where that problem comes from. Mental defect? Previous life where wishes or talking could change reality? Not enough intelligence to understand how things work in reality?
Pathetic. First, a single-point-of-failure like that is not acceptable in anything except things that need a high security level. And second, if you put in something like that, then you make damn sure something like this does not happen. Obviously, these people are either completely incompetent or do not care at all about their customers once they have the money.
Indeed. What they are doing is performing a show that keeps the average citizen believing that everything would go up in flames without them. They are applying the technique of the "Big Lie".
Law enforcement must be carefully limited in what they can do and also carefully monitored. Otherwise you end up in a police-state and eventually in full-blown fascism. It is not the purpose of law enforcement to be able to solve every crime or even most of them. It is also not their purpose to enforce morals or be able to access everything on computers. What is their purpose is to make sure crime does not pay on average. They are already failing at that task often enough, just think of how many banksters are in prison. An extension of that mandate is not healthy for society at all and when law enforcement becomes more of a show performed to keep up appearances (as is happening in the US), the state of affairs is dire indeed.
Every actual expert knows and understands that. These people are not experts in this field and they are not experts in any other field that has hard laws and realities. Hence they do not understand this is a statement of fact and think it is negotiable. Or in other words, these people are not only stupid, they are utterly disconnected from reality. That is why they keep asking for something that is impossible. And, of course, these people are dangerous, because they will continue to do damage as they think they are just being refused something that is their right and will eventually get it if they just push hard enough.
These people think _they_ define how reality works. They think that laws and power can change reality. They have no understanding that mathematics and engineering are far close to actual reality than their fantasy of how the world works will ever be. As such, once they think they have enough power to demand things, they become a serious problem.
... that they will get violent and try to stop it by force. This usually just reduced their capability to deal with change and does nothing to stop or delay change at all. At this time the only thing that can be reasonably expected to stop self-driving cars is the collapse of civilization.
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You can buy that wrench legally in a lot of places. If unsure, try Ebay and have it delivered from China. The car dealer is not really the right source for tools and replacement parts. The situation would be different, if a specific wrench was required and only the car manufacturer made them. Then it would be entirely reasonable to require the car manufacturer to sell it in some acceptable way at an acceptable price. That could well be mail-order, does not need to be the car dealer at all.
What you are apparently confused about is the distinction between general tools and information available on the open market from several sources and specialized tools that are not. This line is a pretty clear one.
AMD (not Intel, they did not have the skills) not only came up with the only viable 64 bit extension to the x86 architecture
And if you actually believe that, then you are stupid. Of course they tried. They just never had anything good enough to go public with.
That monopoly is ironically called the AMD64 architecture today. This comes with a number of problems. While Intel managed to keep AMD small after the last time AMD (not Intel, they did not have the skills) not only came up with the only viable 64 bit extension to the x86 architecture, for a while they also had the fastest CPUs. AMD engineering in the CPU space has basically always been significantly superior to Intel, except for raw speed. Meltdown and Spectre have now nicely illustrated what Intel did to get that speed. And AMDs weakness is over, with a brand-new architecture that is very well designed indeed while Intel has nothing. It helps to understand that Intel it not actually a CPU company, they are a memory company and have struggled with CPUs since they began making them. AMD, on the other hand, came from signal-processors to x86 and _is_ a CPU company. This nicely explains Intel's incompetence, incredible as it sounds. They do not have the right culture.
One other instance of that problem is also that while AMD can do extreme customization of their CPUs since the FX generation, Intel is completely incapable in this space. And just look how long it took Intel to get the memory controller into the CPU after AMD did it.
Now, Intel also did never manage to come up with anything x86 that was suitable for a smartphone. AMD did not even try, because they understand CPUs and knew this architecture is not suitable for that field. But they went one step farther: They have server processors that include ARM cores. So AMD has real experience in that field, but Intel is, again, lost. Yet AMD is far smaller and does not need the smartphone market to survive, while Intel likely does. And they messed it up.
My take is that finally Intel found out with much delay that they managed to screw themselves, in addition to their customers.
In the German legal system you do not get an automatic appeal. I am not sure what the conditions are on a case like this for the judge to allow an appeal.
So far the only larger thing I needed a license for was an FAQ, and I put that under a CC variant that allows derived works but requires attribution. For code I usually use what the surrounding system does, or the modified BSD license (i.e. requires attribution, but do with it what you like otherwise). I am not too sure the GPL actually achieves its purpose either. Time will tell. In some sense, requiring attribution solves a part of the problem, namely the availability of the original sources. Modifications are a problem in any commercial setting though, especially as people use copyright to nail down (sometimes extremely obvious) engineering ideas as "theirs". That is extremely bad as it hampers progress.
Indeed. About the most extremely stupid state a citizen can be in.
While everybody is asleep, evil seeps back into the world and takes over. China is just a bit ahead of the others.
Since GRSecurity is a snake-oil vendor these days, probably nobody cares enough.
The judge indicated he thinks the Linux Kernel copyright for the whole Kernel is with Linus only. This guy then withdraw his suit. Yes, you need standing, but whether you have it or not is determined during the legal proceedings by the court. Of course, if they find you did not have standing, you pay the legal costs of the other side. There is an exception: if you obviously have no standing, then the court does refuse to hear your case.
Indeed. The cretinization is continuing. The one cretin here that gave this lie is just a symptom.
There is. Stop using antibiotics when you have a simple cold. Restrict them to serious and life-threatening situations only. Stop using antibiotics for improving meat yields in farming. And start research again in finding more, if needed entirely on public money.
All that requires a little less greed and selfishness and more understanding of what is going on. Hence I am not hopeful. As a general rule, people are stupid, greedy and arrogant. Antibiotic resistances are just one of the symptoms of that.
Actually, "move fast and break things" is find if you are smart, experienced and understand what not to break. Average people cannot make that model work though and these are average people with delusions of greatness.
Indeed. Most poor women wit lots of children would have stopped early or not have had children at all if given the knowledge and the tools. But the deranged religiots need more believers, so contraception is evil.
Of if you have no real threats to keep up the pretense that you are useful, just create a fake one.
There is a (large) class of people that do not understand what a "fact" is. I have no idea where that problem comes from. Mental defect? Previous life where wishes or talking could change reality? Not enough intelligence to understand how things work in reality?
Ah, yes. I have had that even from people that should know better.
Pathetic. First, a single-point-of-failure like that is not acceptable in anything except things that need a high security level. And second, if you put in something like that, then you make damn sure something like this does not happen. Obviously, these people are either completely incompetent or do not care at all about their customers once they have the money.
And that is exactly it. They cannot stand that somebody tells them "no" and actually can get away with it (because facts).
Indeed. What they are doing is performing a show that keeps the average citizen believing that everything would go up in flames without them. They are applying the technique of the "Big Lie".
Biometrics can be stolen. And when they are stolen, there is no way to change them. Has been known to any actual expert for decades.
Law enforcement must be carefully limited in what they can do and also carefully monitored. Otherwise you end up in a police-state and eventually in full-blown fascism. It is not the purpose of law enforcement to be able to solve every crime or even most of them. It is also not their purpose to enforce morals or be able to access everything on computers. What is their purpose is to make sure crime does not pay on average. They are already failing at that task often enough, just think of how many banksters are in prison. An extension of that mandate is not healthy for society at all and when law enforcement becomes more of a show performed to keep up appearances (as is happening in the US), the state of affairs is dire indeed.
Every actual expert knows and understands that. These people are not experts in this field and they are not experts in any other field that has hard laws and realities. Hence they do not understand this is a statement of fact and think it is negotiable. Or in other words, these people are not only stupid, they are utterly disconnected from reality. That is why they keep asking for something that is impossible. And, of course, these people are dangerous, because they will continue to do damage as they think they are just being refused something that is their right and will eventually get it if they just push hard enough.
These people think _they_ define how reality works. They think that laws and power can change reality. They have no understanding that mathematics and engineering are far close to actual reality than their fantasy of how the world works will ever be. As such, once they think they have enough power to demand things, they become a serious problem.
Sad as that is, I think you entirely correct in this analysis.
These people are not rational. They try to attack what scares them. Not that this has any chance of working in the situation at hand.
... that they will get violent and try to stop it by force. This usually just reduced their capability to deal with change and does nothing to stop or delay change at all.
At this time the only thing that can be reasonably expected to stop self-driving cars is the collapse of civilization.