I keep seeing things with several regular screws and one a funky type (security torx and such), If they want to make it tamper evident, put a dot of acrylic on the screw,
Then there's clips that will snap together to make a tight fit exactly once. And of course the stupid plastic rivets.
I have no idea what devices you are seeing.
So you're claiming it is somehow cheaper to produce 10,000 desk fans with 3 phillips head screws and one security head crew epoyed in than it is to produce the same run of fans with 4 phillips screws?
You claim the parts are interchangable on the assembly line but somehow not on the repair bench?
Or are you claiming somehow that it's cheaper to have employees assemble random piles of parts in bespoke fashion than it is to have them putting the same parts in the same place every time?
On the other hand, there are plenty of LCD monitors thrown away even though a $25 CFL and 10 minutes could have it up and running if you could get the right CFL.
And don't forget that the time to go get a new whatever isn't free either. Some problems can be fixed in less time than it takes to buy a new one if it's reasonably made to be repaired.
The problem is devices that WOULD be significantly cheaper to repair if parts were more easily (and reasonably) available and if the things weren't designed to be harder to repair.
Often the repair hostile design isn't in any way cheaper to manufacture.
The trick is to grasp that at high RPMs, it's not pressure that drives the work. A light touch will make more progress.
My mid-90s Dremel kicks ass.
A *NEW* use. Not the same old use but online now.
It's built into Android as well, typically accessible from the Setup/Security & Screen Lock menu. However, it is not the default in Android, the boot-up sequence is a bit hokey when you turn it on, it really slows down access to the underlying storage, and the keys aren't stored securely. Also, most telco's load crapware onto your Android phone that cannot be removed and that often includes backing up to the telco or phone vendor... and those backups are not even remotely secure.
On Apple devices the encryption keys are stored on a secure chip, the encryption is non-optional, and telcos can't insert crapware onto the device to de-secure it.
The only issue with Apple devices is that if you use iCloud backups, the iCloud backup is accessible to Apple with a warrant. They could fix that too, and probably will at some point. Apple also usually closes security holes relatively quickly, which is why the credit card companies and banks prefer that you use an iOS device for commerce.
-Matt
By that time there were millions of slaves in the U.S. and as you pointed out, they reproduced and even resulted in a surplus for the larger plantations. There was a lively internal slave trade at that point.
Actually, the war on poverty was working until the GOP insisted on surrendering.
And yes, businesses that mooch on the taxpayer to supplement their inadequate payroll are evil. They know damned well they are mooching off of people with a lot less than they already have.
We don't claim the car thief is blameless if you leave your keys in your car, do we?
As timeOday said, they cost about 10 years wages for an equivalent free worker, so if the owner didn't keep them alive and well at least that long, it was a losing proposition.
So as despicable as the practice was, the modern practice is in some ways worse.
That's the new innovation of forced labor. In the bad old days, slaves were quite expensive so you had to provide food, clothing, shelter, and at least minimal healthcare.
The new improved forced labor lets them pick up the slaves cheap, provide them minimal food and shelter and just let them die from overwork.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
