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from the take-a-little-ride-on-the-old-John-Deere dept.
An article about how the Russian military stole farm equipment from a John Deere dealership in the Ukraine, only to find it all remotely disabled when trying to use/sell it on the other side:
Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership -- and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area.
But after a journey of more than 700 miles, the thieves were unable to use any of the equipment -- because it had been locked remotely.
Over the past few weeks there's been a growing number of reports of Russian troops stealing farm equipment, grain and even building materials - beyond widespread looting of residences. But the removal of valuable agricultural equipment from a John Deere dealership in Melitopol speaks to an increasingly organized operation, one that even uses Russian military transport as part of the heist.
[...] Other sources in the Melitopol region say theft by Russian military units has extended to grain held in silos, in a region that produces hundreds of thousands of tonnes of crops a year.
Are there other examples like this justifying some sort of limited DRM? How prominent do you think this will be held up as an example in lobbying efforts to justify not passing "Right To Repair" laws?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 03 2022, @09:30PM (2 children)
I mean, the whole concept of "offensive war" is offensive to Western sensibilities these days. We're training our youth to teabag their conquests instead.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday May 03 2022, @09:58PM (1 child)
Partially true anyway. There doesn't seem to be to many issues with bombing for freedom (or oil or peace or profit or something). At least not initially. It seems it's the the offensive war that fills body-bags that seems offensive, as long as the body-bags are not for enemy corpses in a farfarawayistan then it's tolerable at least for some time.
Question is if there is a just war anymore and what it would be? Special Operations in Ukraine doesn't seem to be it anyway. Also clearly the various peacekeeping things and bombing for terrorism/freedom was not long on the list. They had their backing for a time but then things turned against them to and it became a 20 year unwinnable slog.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 04 2022, @02:01PM
"In the Queen's Navy an officer must always choose the lesser of two weevils..."
I think the bombings are perceived as addressing a "greater wrong" and of course, the value of "their lives" is always weighed less than the value of "our lives," so aerial bombings get a major advantage in that calculus - not to mention the jobs that bombs and planes and aircraft carriers generate back home.
Hopefully, global instant free video communication will eventually make all lives "our lives."
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