The new law will establish an “obligation for the manufacturer to repair common household products ..."
This isn't what "right to repair" typically means. I've only ever heard that phrase used to describe the right of the owner to repair the devices they own themselves and to not be required to bring them to the manufacturer for repair.
That kind of system existed in post-WWII USA, when a high school graduate could work full time to afford a house while being the single income for a big family.
That's true for a culturally conservative Russian state that claims to be "communist" the way North Korea claims to be "democratic".
The USSR sucked ass because it was made of the same kind of Russians that we're still fighting against today. The label they wear as a disguise, communist, capitalist, kleptocracy, or whatever "the commies" are calling themselves these days is irrelevant.
Tran's attempt to force Underwood out of their shared enterprise, while still dependent on his supply, was clearly a lapse in judgement. The results speak for themselves in this case.
I wonder if Tran and Underwood ever had a conversation about the precariousness of both of their positions - one having a single source for product, and the other having a single buyer? Was there an attempt to find a win-win solution? Or did Tran simply think he could leverage Underwood into competing with slave labor imports?
IDK what games are actually compatible with your device, but I do have opinions about cool older games.
turn based:
Civilization
Master of Magic
Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Dark Queen of Krynn
Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura
ditto rdr2 - its less a video game than it is a graphic novel read by a semi-literate slow talker
the entire dark souls series is also ruined by clunky controls. give me a Doom, Quake, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Skyrim, etc . . . fps controls pls.
X4 fails because of its controls too. Imagine making a flight sim where you can't invert the Y axis, or an FPS where the shift key can't be bound to sprint.
The fundamentals of how to wage information/cognitive warfare should be part of public schools' curriculum so our kids will recognize when its happening.
That's double the cost per page versus a good laser printer even when it works right, but inkjet cartridges will dry out and clog if you don't use them for a few days so they rarely work right.
OkiData makes good business class printers too. The upfront cost is high, but the cost per page is low, so if you're printing high volume then it's cheaper overall.
Nothing works without extended fiddling. While fiddling, nothing works the way the manual says it should. Googling for solutions gets results that are terminal commands than don't do what the poster says they should.
Microsoft sucks, but Windows programs work as expected 95% of the time. Linux programs don't work at all 75% of the time, even after extensive reading and extended periods of time wasted fucking around with fixes proposed by the internet.
If a Mexican dude tells me his gang will refloor my living room for $5/hr. per man, I’m all in because I can’t afford to pay “real” labor prices.
IDK if that's really the general case. Everyone in my social circles tips well and pays decent wages when they need help, even though we're all kinda poor. I'm sure there are some people who feel differently, but I suspect the majority are decent folks who treat others the way they want to be treated themselves.
There are different groups of people that respond to different sides of that message, and the people who broadcast either or both sides have differing motives as well. Countering it effectively requires understanding the problem.
The anti-welfare shtick comes from the political donor class - the capitalists, ie billionaires. Lack of a safety net gives them more leverage to negotiate lower wages within the businesses they own, and less government spending results in lower interest rates on the loans they use to grow their industries. The narrative is often framed as concerns over sharing limited resources, but the true motive is the elimination of the safety net - if enough of the working class can be convinced that the system isn't fair, that creates casus belli to delete the system.
The other side of the argument is about supply and demand of labor as a commodity. As supply goes up, the price goes down, resulting in lower wages. Its a fundamental weakness of unregulated markets operating in the context of uneven global development. Immigrants from the poorer parts of the world can accept below market rate salaries and still come out ahead, but they drive down wages of the local economy in the process. A "free" market gives the capitalists, ie billionaires, power akin to the divine right of kings - with enough capital, they can game the market to suppress competition, establish monopolies, and perpetually remain in positions of ultimate executive authority. Therefore, regulating the market to make it truly free isn't in their interest, so instead the propaganda organs they own - CNN, Fox 'News', etc... - blame the immigrants for pursuing rational self-interest as if it were a moral failing, instilling hatred in part of the working class toward other working class people to garner political support for representatives who pay lip service to anti-immigration policy. Such policy isn't actually passed - it would result in better wages and the capitalists don't want that - but the lip service wins elections in some states while also preventing the conversation from shifting to possible regulation to solve the problem of low wages.
You see, there's no convenient apocalypse
Won't be no vaporizing cloud
Now we're gonna have to soak in what we created - too bad!
Just not in a pleasant, easily resolved, no questions asked, nuclear global happy ending with a big bow on top
This isn't what "right to repair" typically means. I've only ever heard that phrase used to describe the right of the owner to repair the devices they own themselves and to not be required to bring them to the manufacturer for repair.