Yes you're right. As a farmer myself it drives me a bit crazy to see.

The largest Zetor tractor is 148 HP. The Ursa tractors are 180 and 260 hp, considered class 7 tractors. Zetor appears to only make class 5 and 6. So different markets.

No they are using Tier 4, late model 8.3s, probably the QSC series.

2020 time frame. 10.7L engine. OM 470 or something. I understand this engine is widely used in trucks, tractors, construction equipment. If I'm not mistaken it was introduced in 2016.

All that has to happen is for Europe and America to get together and say, "It has been decided that Russia will not be allowed to annex any part of Ukraine." Putin is not insane, he'll fight Ukraine but not NATO if NATO gets serious. But he hasn't crossed any red lines.

That's not what happened, though. Biden told Putin, "If you invade Ukraine, we will sanction you." Putin said, "Good deal."

The market for electric tractors is incredibly small. They certainly do fill a small niche, though. Chore tractors for feeding cattle, small excavators, etc. See a US company called Nesher Equipment, for example.

Meanwhile for broad-acre tillage,planting, and harvesting, your average machine has at least 500L of fuel that lasts a day or two (or much less for some operations), which is, counting for thermal efficiency, the equivalent of at least 2500 kWh of battery storage.

That's what Stargate Universe was.

Studios are not keen on new things. Look at the backlash against the new Star Trek series. Despite what some people claim, most of it was good Trek, and very enjoyable. Some of it is the best we have ever had from the franchise.

A small but very vocal group of fans made it clear that they just want more bland, Voyager style shows, lots of filler episodes, nothing particularly challenging. Nothing like what Trek should be, or what Trek has been at its best. They attacked everyone who liked it, and of course all the actors and the production staff. You should see the Alex Kurtzman memes.

Same thing happened with The Acolyte. It wasn't bad. Not amazing, but better than most of the Star Wars TV shows. Some fans heard a rumour (untrue) that it was going to make The Force "female", whatever that means, and they started a campaign to make sure it failed.

Then you have the grifters posing as reviewers on YouTube, who pan everything good to get those controversy clicks.

In the era of streaming this stuff matters, because you have to get people to subscribe before they can even see your show. They try to work around it by releasing episodes onto YouTube for free, but it's difficult.

1. I never said it was illegitimate, did i ever use that word? You're out over your skis and it's clear you do not understand my argument so now you're grasping. I was using your definition of tyranny to point out a flaw in your reasoning because you absolutely do not think Trump is illegitimate despite the fact he didn't win a majority, or can you not follow that? "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?"

Which candidate got more votes than Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996?

So 2 times in one sentence you have to strawman me falsely. This is pretty sad.

We've been dealing with strict emission standards for agricultural vehicles since 2006. Current US regulations are Tier 4 and Tier 5. Unlike cars where the California market is huge and auto companies build for that market exclusively (thus setting the standard for the entire nation regardless of EPA), there is no reason for ag engine makers to target California, so they will have to be content with Tier 5.

Only a problem in the US?! Hardly. Problems with diesel emissions control systems are a plague for farmers (and truckers and auto owners) in Europe too. The main difference is that deleting is strictly forbidden there.

The Kirovets tractor? No of course not. Other than the ECU itself on the German engine, there are no electronics on that tractor. No CAN bus, no cell modem.

Deere tractors (and the other major brands), on the other hand, all now ship with cell modems that continuously report in to the mother ship to enable subscriptions for things like syncing GPS lines and coverage data between tractors working in the same field, or sending jobs from the OpCenter to the various tractors. This serves a very real purpose for farmers, but it can also be used by mother Deere for any purpose they deem appropriate including remote kill switch, as we saw in the tractors stolen from Ukraine.

Wow that's pretty cool you allow slashdot to show you ads. Very loyal of you!

Not sure why you would think Alibaba is blocked in the US. Many businesses in the US import goods from Chinese manufacturers, often through B2B transactions on Alibaba. As the importer they pay duties and tariff taxes to the US government.

The big critique about capitalism is wealth inequality - it invariably leads to some people getting most of the money, and everyone else getting very little money.

The problem with that critique is that wealth inequality is mathematically more fundamental than any economic system. In other words, any time there is trade in value, you will get wealth inequality regardless of the system.

You can see this in numerous simulations online, such as this one.

Wealth inequality follows a Boltzman distribution or a Pareto distribution, depending on the type of investments allowed, and this can be proven mathematically.

About 2.5 million books are published in the US each year, about the square root of that number (1500) break even in sales, and about the square root of *that* number (35) are best sellers. Lebron James scores 43,000 points in his career, Kobe Bryant scores 34,000 points, and there are a zillion players that score lesser values.

Wealth inequality happens any time you have trade in value, this can be proven mathematically, and it applies to any value in any system.

And as a side note, once you realize wealth inequality is inevitable, the main selling point of Communism disappears. Wealth inequality happens under Communism as well, and we have numerous examples of this in recent history.

To be fair, this wasn't known when Marx was writing his thesis. At that time (1850's), economics hadn't progressed as far as it has today. Marx himself had a degree in law and philosophy, and not economics or psychology.

Capitalism has a bunch of bad characteristics, but we try to modify it to reduce the damage. For example, you can't sell patent medicines any more, you can't sell fake stock shares, and so on.

We use a modified version of capitalism that tries to avoid the bad characteristics.

What are you talking about? In Canada and the US agricultural diesel engines have to meet the same pollution control standards as on-the-road engines do. All diesel engines of a certain size have to meet EPA tier 4 limits for NOx and particulates. And starting in about 2024, Tier 5 came in. This Ursa tractor is no different. I must meet Tier 4 also. If regulations for agricultural engines were relaxed, Deere and others would happily sell tractors without DEF, EGR, and DPF. In fact in countries without strict pollution standards, they do still sell Tier 3 engines in their tractors.

I cannot speak to the original V8 engine. To my knowledge that engine is still used in Russia and other FSB countries. However, that was not the engine they were using in the K744 they were selling here, which had to meet Tier 4 emissions controls. For north America and Europe, Kirovets used a standard 6-cylinder Mercedes engine that was Tier 4 compliant. Comparable fuel burn to FPT, Cummins, etc.