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Farmers have been getting screwed by a combination of DRM linked to DMCA legalisms that effectively make farmers into criminals if they modify their own farming equipment, forcing them to choose between breaking the law or paying extortionate fees to equipment manufacturers for both hardware and software fixes.
Elizabeth Warren recently announced a new broad policy agenda focused on helping farmers. But buried in it is something everybody here can get behind too - the right to repair:
Consolidation is choking family farms, but there’s a whole lot of other ways in which big business has rigged the rules in their favor and against family farmers. I will fight to change those rules.
For example, many farmers are forced to rely on authorized agents to repair their equipment. Companies have built diagnostic software into the equipment that prevents repairs without a code from an authorized agent. That leads to higher prices and costly delays.
That’s ridiculous. Farmers should be able to repair their own equipment or choose between multiple repair shops. That’s why I strongly support a national right-to-repair law that empowers farmers to repair their equipment without going to an authorized agent. The national right-to-repair law should require manufacturers of farm equipment to make diagnostic tools, manuals, and other repair-related resources available to any individual or business, not just their own dealerships and authorized agents. This will not only allow individuals to fix their own equipment — reducing delays — but it will also create competition among dealers and independent repair shops, bringing down prices overall.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:59PM (11 children)
Yeah, her policies are generally as shitty as shitty can get but she's on the money on this issue. As much as I'd like the market to take care of it, it hasn't been doing so for too long.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:38PM (10 children)
> her policies are generally as shitty as shitty can get
Counterpoint: You are just another shitty fascist and captain america would have punched you in the fucking face.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:45PM (9 children)
Cap's always been a libertarian. I offer every word he's ever spit into a speech bubble as evidence of this.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @11:30PM (8 children)
You calling yourself a libertarian is as laughable as North Korea calling itself the Democratic People's Republic.
Stever Rogers would have fucking pound your dissembling ass into the ground. And no, he was no libertarian either, he was a New Deal liberal literally drafted by FDR. For fucks sake he was invented by a pair of socialist jews.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:56AM (7 children)
Read a comic instead of wikipedia. You might know what you're talking about next time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:12AM (6 children)
> Read a comic instead of wikipedia. You might know what you're talking about next time.
Hahaha. You are so weak. So utterly ignorant of american history. I didn't have to read wikipedia to know the history of captain america, true fans got fucking pissed when the movies tried to turn him into a koch-bro a few years back. But it is fucking hilarious your only rebuttal is the comics equivalent of "go google it! nyah!!!" You're such a sniveler. I mean fuck, you don't even know what libertarianism is, you just dunning-kruegerd yourself into a rationalization for having anti-social personality disorder.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:18AM (2 children)
When you know not whereof you speak, your mouth is best used for chewing. Read a Cap comic. I've got plenty within five feet of me if you want to borrow one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:57PM (1 child)
> "Read a book!"
> "Google it!"
> "Read a comic!"
You've got all those comics within five feet of you but you can't cite a single example because you are just full of shit, all you can do is double down on the classic unaccountable appeal to authority tactic. And that's after claiming that "every word" he's ever said is proof.
You don't even read comics. Yeah, you have comics. But you don't *read* comics, you just look through them searching for affirmation that your social malfunction isn't actually your problem and ignoring anything that says otherwise. Its Everybody else in the world who are the idiots and you, the guy who has admitted that he can't even get laid without paying for it, is the one who truly understands people. You've been missing the actual message and you are so blindsided by the truth that the comics you've turned to for comfort have been criticizing your racism and misogyny the entire time that when someone spells it out for you, all you can do is make simpering denials and accuse them of reading wikipedia.
You should stick with the shit that Frank Miller puts out, he actually believes that mewling little fascists like you are the good guys. His 'heroes' would give you the cuddles you so desperately want.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:23PM
Citing a single example of Cap standing for liberty would be like pointing out the wetness of a single drop of rain. It's blindingly obvious to anyone but you. Unless, do you think I actually care about your opinion and you're getting me worked up? Doesn't work that way. I argue because it's my hobby and I enjoy it not because what you think matters to me. You'd have to have some actual effect on my life to get me angry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:44AM (2 children)
He literally told you not to google it, just RTFM. Are you stupid or just trolling?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @03:47AM
Yes.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 28 2019, @04:45AM
You say it like it's a bad thing.
Why not both?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford