How about a right to repair law so third party repairs could be made and at least slow down the electronic equipment march to the dump.

Bravo, I agree. We do need a good laugh these days. Thank you.

Just think, a company can put up a lot of satellites that can move around with micro jets so that they can be programmed to move around like one giant sky sign advertising stuff. We'll never be able to escape the ads. I can see it all now, "Vote Don Dingle for President"

Just what we need is more space junk in the night sky. What happens when it they die? Who gets to clean up the mess? Why stop there? Why not let every person on the planet have their own little satellite up there. Perhaps with a special quantity discount. There goes astronomy. When oh when will it all end?

I've played a brass instrument all of my life. You learn to control your breathing so you have enough air to finish a phrase before starting another. I've noticed that after a practice session I always feel better both mentally and physically than when I started. Its a great feeling.

Just more e-waste for the landfill, more carbon dioxide for the atmosphere since you have to buy a new Apple, this really sucks. No Apple for me.

Well, who will revew the US response? Its has been a disaster, and the daily briefings by our fearless leader certainly are of no help. Answering a reporters question by attacking her or him does not give much confidence in our leadership.

I bought a Nikon Coolscan a few years ago to scan a large film collection I had taken over many years. It was very expensive. I was going to start after I retired. When I was ready, I started scanning. When it scanned it did very well. It died after less than 1000 slides and negatives. I contacted Nikon and they no longer supported it, nor were there any parts, nor any repair manuals. I contacted someone on ebay who cleaned them, he tried but could not find parts either. I gave up. It cost me about $3. per slide for those scans. I had a very expensive brick. I think these manufacturers who don't sell replacement parts or manuals are just plain greedy. Sure things are complicated, but if they did sell parts and manuals, then if something goes wrong with a customer repair they shouldn't be held responsible. What they are doing now is just adding e-waste to landfills at a much faster rate. I will no longer buy any Nikon product nor recommend any.

What about making the life of a phone longer by allowing 3rd party repair instead of designing them to be bricked when someone tries to put a used part in? This would cut down the energy use which reduce carbon dioxide being put into the atmosphere.

Yes I Other manufactures are copying Apple's glue in phone batteries, making it all but impossible to put in a new battery for example. Most of these dead phones are probably expensive (at least for some of us poorer people) and why should we have to toss them and add even more to the electronic waste problem. What a shitty thing to do.

I think they must have been taken over by a someone who thought he could show how great he was. Did he strip the company by borrowing so much money that the company debt load became too high to function? I used to go to Sears all the time to shop when I was just out of school, I liked their products and service. There was a Sears catalog house in Jacksonville, Oregon that had tours when I visited there some years ago. It was really well done. It really sad to see such a company go down like this.

I also find it frustrating that you can't change your battery when it dies.

I had a similar (but somewhat cheaper) experience with a gout medication. It went from about $0.50 per pill to about $5.00 per pill when some asshole CEO took over. However, he pulled some other shit and I think he's now doing time. Just as this CEO should.

They should work when the noise is repetitive such as engine noise. Then the noise signal can be determined and then the noise can be canceled by injecting it in to the original signal with a phase shifted 180 degrees. This should subtract the repetitive noise from the signal. Since speech and to a lesser extent music is random it will not be cancelled and what is left is what you are trying to hear. When the noise is random, there is no way to determine a 180 degree out of phase noise signal.

I wish I could say the same for one of my purchases. I bought several cards of their branded hearing aid batteries and most of them were duds. I would get perhaps 1 or 2 good ones out of 10- 12 batteries. However, many other of my puchases of their branded items were fine and a real bargan.