The only computer-related business I can think of with more R&D budget is Microsoft, IBM isn't a tech company? Shut your mouth. Then again, if Cringely says it, it's probably wrong.

Amazon is clearly a business. But its model is Microsoftian EEE. Sure, you can sell through Amazon, but they keep stats and if it becomes worth it to stock what you're selling, they're going to do that. Of course, on eBay, if the Chinese see you sell a lot of what they've got, they'll start selling it directly. Then you only get to sell to people who care about shipping time and support.

Amazon is a real business, but their business model basically requires that they shut everyone else down, and not everyone wants to shop with Amazon. So they'll eventually fail if they don't find a new model.

You didn't even mention registration cost. Moving the goalposts.

get a better insurer.

No, no it does not. The number is different for everyone. They basically invent them, that's why they won't share their formulas. It's not because of competitive advantage. They're all fucking people in the same ways. It's to hide the fucking.

As long as it's new enough to have side curtain airbags, it doesn't really matter.

Synthetics have less problem with this, the more synthetic they are the less problem. Run Schaeffer's or AMSOIL, because the other supposedly "full" synthetics have been tested as low as 24%. Mobil 1 was actually downranked a full grade it's such bullshit.

Fuel stabilizers are readily available, and will easily let gasoline keep for a year.

Again, your logical fallacy is moving the goalposts. I said the costs don't double.

If I didn't, I wouldn't have been treated to your stupidity.

So?

There is extortion. You have to pay with your time.

Are you sure you're not a computing expert? I don't know what an order driver is, and neither does google. It knows what driver order is, though. But you seem to think you know what you're talking about.

Really? Searching for "order driver" just gets me a lot of stuff about driver order. How do we find these step-by-step guides for idiots?

Don't we all?

No, instead you'll choke on FTDI's cock and beg for more.

It's damaged (unusable by the user) until they get a tool from the people who damaged it. Sounds like extortion to me.

In my fantasy world, you wouldn't defend a corporation for damaging people's hardware.

They're rendering your device unusable, which they may not do knowingly.

That is irrelevant. You cannot give yourself rights with shrinkwrap license. The law still wins.

If only one of them does it, they will have lost money over this.

Yes, if they did it by accident. If it can be shown that they did it on purpose, and that is almost certainly the case here, then it doesn't matter what they put in the license.

I think you mean "superior to", because "better than" is based on a judgement by others. You could make an objective judgement based on numbers of some sort, there.

It's GM's fault that they only have two or three cars worth buying, and that they're not selling an EV.

it means none of those things but storage cost. The insurance for the second vehicle is reduced, and often the insurance on your primary vehicle is reduced when you add another vehicle to your policy, even if you don't decrease the primary vehicle's mileage. And you get an older vehicle for the second car, and it costs you less to buy, less in depreciation, etc.

It still might not work out, but it doesn't cost twice as much.

Then they definitely get smacked down for dicking with interstate commerce.

in the short term, sure. But injecting refinery wastes into the ground was illegal before fracking for a reason, and that reason is that it's toxic waste.

If you cannot find workers who are worth something as workers who will work for the wage that you're paying, then you're not paying enough. You don't need to pay less, you need to pay more.

HAHAHAHAHA

It's not socialism, it's oligarchy. Socialism is where the wealth is redistributed to serve the people. The wealth is being redistributed upward in this system, there's nothing socialist about that.

Why? A fully aware human being can also be aware while the car is driving. But most people drive in a state of at least partial distraction. You're setting the bar awfully high.

So what? they already mandate that the maps be correct, but roads are often shown going through (or not going through) when they don't (or do.)