There is no way the businessmen involved in building these reactors are going to want to spend the time and money to properly maintain them let alone decommission and shut them down when they are no longer safe to run.
This is the actual problem with nuclear power. And by the time it comes around, the people who made the decisions have already safely moved elsewhere or into pension.
Correct. Breaking is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.
If something breaks, it's on me. This is about companies being able to take something away that isn't broken at all, at any time they choose, without any refund.
For any other item that'd be theft and would land them in jail.
Integral drone batteries would reduce complexity and likely
enhance structural strength. Warheads could similarly integrate explosive filler (with removable fuses for the usual transportation and handling safety reasons) and projectiles. Circuit boards could be rigidly supported without complex parts.
The simpler and more water and weatherproof a munition the better. Printing makes prototyping and mission-specific custom loads easy to fab. A nearly-non-metallic, low observable AI-assisted integral munitions drone package could work wonders on the battlefield and enable David to deter Goliath.
If you think software never breaks, I have a bunch of 5.25" disks somewhere that want to have an argument with you.
It's a complete strawman to argue that physical things break. If I buy music, digitally, that won't break and yet nobody sane would expect that the band can at some random time in the future say "we revoke all our music". I can also think of a number of physical things that unless I mistreat them will easily survive me and three generations down the line.
This is not about replacements, it's about taking the product sold away but keeping the money.
And what stops you from making a seperate license to play on the servers provided by the company that is based on good behaviour and/or monthly subscription fees?
This is what the Stop Killing Games movement is also about: Sure, we understand that eventually you wind down the online servers, no problem. But if I paid for a game, why should you have the right to disable it? With no other things I buy can you at any time later come to my house and take them back or disable them. Not with my microwave, not with my shower, not with my lights.
Buy indie games.
It's only the big players who have these delusions.
I'm not saying the right answer is to get a refund. The right answer is to not make the license revokable.
For the theater comparison: If the theatre would invalidate my ticket and throw me out mid-movie, you can be sure that I'd ask for a refund. And in any sane jurisdiction, I'd get it.
Mostly, the difference is some legales, but the kicker is: "revocable". That is an insane difference. I'm quite sure it doesn't say you get a refund if they revoke your license.
I do not use Internet of Trifles junk anywhere on my network for what does not exist is not available for exploitation.
Craving such fecality is pathetic and any consequences deserved because they were invited.
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