occu
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Genuinely asking here because I’m not a farmer, but are these smaller independent farms profitable in your area? Where I’m at it seems from my viewpoint the older equipment is mostly for older farmers supplementing their income or as a secondary job as is the case with some of my coworkers.
I hope this passes and the laws are changed. It’s ridiculous that you don’t own something you bought.
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I smell some lobbyists here. This is like forcing you to take your Chevy to the GM Tech center for an oil change.
Years ago I worked for a manufacturer that supplied equipment to the defense dept. Typically components used in our design had to be reviewed by the purchaser (Dept of Defense engineers) so that they could be replaced or repaired by military/defense dept. people.
We had to supplied technical specs, calibration procedures, schematic diagrams of each component. And we provided training when new equipment was commissioned.
And this extra documentation and training was priced into the project sale price. 
Sometimes the end user needs access into a system to replace a sensor and calibrate it.
The end users are responsible to follow the procedure accurately.
(i.e. stall sensors on Boeing 737Max 8)
Although seems Boeing’s software has a small window in which it functions properly.
SixFoot
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The cattle auction is never lacking out here, and there’s never a low demand for red meats.
If you have a thousand acres of corn, you’re under contract with a business/corporation. If you have 300 head of cattle or so, its 50/50, depending on if it’s angus or dairy. If you’re subsisting/selling, you have absolutely no reason to get into that kind of debt. It’s pretty diverse, if you make it, they will buy it. You pay for what you produce.
If you decide to raise livestock, list the ones you want to sell about two days before your local cattle auction begins, and you’ll have farmers blowing up your phone to see if they can swing by and pick them up on the way.
If you’re canning and selling food stuffs, just set up a sign off the side of a small local highway outside the city limits. Preferably on a Sunday. They’ll come to you.
If you haven’t watched it, how do you know.
oh, thanks for the reminder the shrimp man is up the road today. Hopefully tamale lady is there too.
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WuWei
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Like a bakery? Think of it as a non-accommodation law.
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Jezcoe
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Here is a pretty good op ed about how the lack of a right to repair is affecting military readiness.
I first heard about the term from a fellow Marine interested in problems with monopoly power and technology. A few past experiences then snapped into focus. Besides the broken generator in South Korea, I remembered working at a maintenance unit in Okinawa, Japan, watching as engines were packed up and shipped back to contractors in the United States for repairs because “that’s what the contract says.” The process took months.
With every engine sent back, Marines lost the opportunity to practice the skills they might need one day on the battlefield, where contractor support is inordinately expensive, unreliable or nonexistent.
I also recalled how Marines have the ability to manufacture parts using water-jets, lathes and milling machines (as well as newer 3-D printers), but that these tools often sit idle in maintenance bays alongside broken-down military equipment. Although parts from the manufacturer aren’t available to repair the equipment, we aren’t allowed to make the parts ourselves “due to specifications.”
How pervasive is this issue for the most powerful military in the world? And what does it mean for a military that is expected to operate in the most austere and hostile environments to not possess the experience, training or tools to fix its own very technical equipment?
The effects of the right-to-repair paradigm will become only more significant and restrictive as older military vehicles and systems are replaced with equipment that is more complex and involving more electronics. Already complicated equipment designs lead to situations where the manufacturer is the only source for repairs.
Without the legal ability to open up and repair something that someone or some entity has bought, then it is never really owned. If someone buys something, they should have access to the tools it takes to repair such an item.
Just some food for thought
John Deere and Adobe … people who say they no longer sell you things you used to buy to own.
Photoshop, Microsoft Word…………
A blast from the past:
Nine-tenths of a gig,
Biggest ever seen,
Gosh, this program’s big-- MS Word 15!
Comes on ten CDs,
And requires–damn!
Word is fine, but jeez–
60 megs of RAM?!
Oh! Microsoft, Microsoft,
Bloatware all the way!
I’ve sat here installing Word
Since breakfast yesterday!
Oh! Microsoft, Microsoft,
Moderation, please.
Guess you hadn’t noticed:
Four-gig drives don’t grow on trees!
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LOL. People too cheap to update their computers.
No, the 90s.
I’ve actually got the Byte magazine this and others Computer Christmas Carols appeared in.
I got Word in 98 on one CD, though admittedly that was the tail end of the nineties. It was at least an hour to install it, I remember that much.
The song was at that point looking into the future. It is to laugh how much they underestimated bloatware: like Word could ever fit on 60MB of memory and 0.9 GB of storage these day.
I use Word 2007 now lol. It works fine and no subscription required. I don’t see any reason to ever change as long as the newer versions can read the documents. I send them all over the world and nobody seems to have any trouble with them.
When exactly didn’t consumers have the right to repair their own property? Have known my share of the men who did their own car repairs.
Jezcoe
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The DMCA was a push towards not owning what you bought.
Warren should go into the tractor business and offer this to her customers.
