> Well they failed then. They certainly don't have a corner on the market!
Never said they did. I just said it's their strategy.. which it very clearly is.
> While Deere is the most egregious at DRMing everything, all the major brands do it to one degree or another.
Yes, because that's the strategy. Buy into a product ecosystem, lock them in, fleece them for as much as possible. It's a very popular strategy because it works.
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Good.
Google should have been doing that anyway. They are plagiarizing the content for free; the least they could do is actually acknowledge where they got it from.
Exactly. Just because a design is new with shiny gadgets does not mean it is automatically better than what has been previously on sale.
The sooner the newer generations understand this idea is nothing more than pure marketing hype, the sooner we can break away from and reject the enshittification.
> a) The motivation under capitalism is maximizing profits, not revenue.
Profits and revenue are functionally the same for the purpose of most discussions, however yes it's a valid and often employed tactic to charge the same price while providing less value, which increases profits at the same level of revenue.
> Consider the scenario where you capture all of your customers' surplus...
From John Deere's perspective, the optimal strategy is to corner the market on farm equipment that are strictly necessary for society as we know it to continue to exist, locking out all competition from all related revenue streams. From supplying the machines, to supplying the parts, to making sure they get a cut of any money to be made servicing the machines. They are not trying to minimize the profits of others, that's just the natural consequence of elbowing everyone else out of the market.
> Enlightened self-interest drives you to keep your customers and suppliers profitable.
This logic breaks down when demand is highly inelastic. If your customers need what you are selling, then there is less incentive to keep them profitable and really only the incentive to allow them to continue to exist. Oh, can't afford my fees? Well too bad, go into debt or die. Turns out most people will choose debt before death.
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> Capitalism is all about the free market.
This is a lie that Capitalists tell to make Capitalism sound less evil.
Capitalism is about making money. It's right there in the name. The idea is that a free market would enable those who are best at making money to make the most money, but you know what's even more effective at making money than investing in a better product for a better price? Investing in kneecapping your competition and creating a captured market where people are functionally *forced* to buy your product because there's no alternative.
Monopolies and regulatory capture are the natural conclusion of a capitalist system, unless the "free market" is enforced by actively preventing these things through force of law... oh, oops! Guess that's not a free market any more either! Turns out a free market economy is a fucking fairy tale!
> are not a capitalist. You are at best a plutocrat.
These are not mutually exclusive, and in fact the natural conclusion of capitalism is the creation of a plutocracy. To suggest otherwise is paradoxical; capitalism is about increasing wealth and plutocracy is about leveraging wealth.... to make even more money.
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"I think American's don't understand that the US has slowly gone overboard with things like AI that don't fit the values of other countries."
LOL This shit doesn't fit the value of any country, unless its' a country club for Billionaires. I'm from the US and we are OFF the RAILS here, but things
are going to starting happening NOW....
I've a friend who runs one of those Gazillion $$$ combines. He's said it before," I NEED air conditioning, and GPS. Everything else is BS."
We were talking about the BS JD pulls and his comment seemed to fit this room. I don't know anything about farming or tractors but that stuck in my head.
It makes sense that a long-lived species would take longer to develop
So then what is the point of Yoda being immensely old? Is he basically 63 in Yoda years?
"Fake call detection requires that both parties are on Android and use the Phone by Google app, while Google Messages and Google Contacts also have to be installed"
No chance in hell. Why not run spam blocker and enable STIR filtering? I don't understand what Google brings to the table that is not already accomplished by caller authentication.
I really wish that Git had stayed as a stand-alone free service for Linux developers.
It did. The authoritative upstream repository for the Linux kernel is hosted at kernel.org, not GitHub.
How can this be seen as a victory?
The "victory" is literally "pwning the libs." The thought process is, "Anything that denies them something that they want makes them weaker and us stronger." The base rallies and cheers, and meanwhile Trump and his cronies go back to extracting ungodly amounts of wealth from the entire world's resources.
If they leave them there, the next administration might be able to switch them back on and start gathering woke climate science data again.
Kinda unlikely. If you leave anything sitting under the ocean, it's going to experience significant wear and tear. If there's no budget even to monitor the status of the monitors, let alone conduct routine maintenance, they're likely to be as good as junk by the time they're switched back on.
Literally hundreds of scientific papers have been published using data from the OOI
Not to mention that the data is also used in industry, particularly in farming and fishing, where it is used to predict climate-related events. And this aren't just long-term events we're talking about. "Where are the fish likely to be this year" is a question this data can help answer.
What? I have one. It's hooked up (through an adapter) to the VoIP port on my fiber router. It rings and everything.
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