For me, first and foremost is the fact that Chinese companies don’t have to operate by the same rules here as North American companies have to operate by in China. Until that’s fixed, I have no interest in letting them into our market. And that’s before we get into issues like some of the more valid arguments for a limited amount of protectionism.
Not really. In most jurisdictions, only gambling type sweepstakes (ie a random draw) are governed that tightly. Fan voted things like this are more or less unregulated. Plus, you have to read (and understand) the legalese fingerprint fine print to determine legal responsibilities. I’d be surprised if there weren’t language in there a that absolves them of almost all legal responsibility.
Also, there’s nothing in there that seems to be anywhere near an actual legal problem.
Dumb question maybe, but why not just let them get older and then eat them?
Sold by weight, not volume, and oil is 0% dinosaur.
Yeah, I’d love to, but first we have to tell that to Rockwell, Siemens, Bosch, ABB, etc, etc. All the proprietary software runs on Windows. Not to mention getting my company on board when we’re already heavily into the Microsoft ecosystem at the corporate level.
I think that every operating system needs to a have a “do what the fuck I told you to” mode, especially as it comes to networking. I’ve come close to going full luddite just trying to get smart home devices to connect to a non-internet connected network, (which of course you can only do through a dogshit app) and having my phone constantly try to drop that network since it has no Internet.
I get the desire to have everything be as hand-holdy as possible, but it’s really frustrating when the hand holding way doesn’t work and there is absolutely zero recourse, and even less ability to tell what went wrong.
Then there’s my day job, where I get do deal with crappy industrial software, flakey Internet connections and really annoying things like hyper-v occupying network ports when it’s not even open.
Nope. Those are the “purebred” ones. You know, the kind of purebred that actually means inbred to the point of barely being able to survive and yet somehow “worth” more.
These chuckle fucks in the media are driving people to Bitcoin Milhouse
That’s the point. The majority of our news media outlets lean that way.
Wait, so me saying that Teams is not that bad relatively speaking is a toxic mindset? You do see the irony of flying handle at me to say that, right?
Wait, so me saying that Teams is not that bad relatively speaking is a toxic mindset? You do see the irony of flying handle at me to say that, right?
I’m talking software/firmware in general, not just chat clients/protocols. As I said, you seem to need some perspective.
Everything is relative. Teams is a shining beacon of competency when compared to a lot of the utter shit software and firmware that I end up having to deal with.
Honestly, I think that anyone who is this angry about Microsoft products needs to spend some time working with the types of industrial software that makes the manufacturing world go round. Just to get some perspective on what truly God awful software actually looks like.
Never understood the thought process behind these sovereign citizens. Let’s say you accept the initial premise that they are their own country not subject to Canadian laws… aaaand you’ve been conquered. And are now subject to Canadian laws.
I did a similar diagonal route across Canada. 84 hours it says.
23 hours is about as high as you are going to get while maintaining a (relatively) straight path. The north is not really accessible by road.
Edit: I take that back. I managed to get up to 27 hours driving from the Ambassador Bridge to Windigo Lake.
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Yeah. Good luck with that.
I think it’s one of those things where you could do it, but if you had the required money, you’d do something far easier and more luxurious.
Oh I’m not concerned about the safety and quality aspect. GM, Ford et al have put out plenty of unsafe shitboxes in the past. I’m talking about the fact the outside companies are flat out not allowed to operate in China without forming a partnership with a Chinese company. It’s a simple rule that fuckd things up royally once all the ramifications of that play out.