I’ll never forget loading the game 20-50 times in an attempt to get the bug that made the license code work. Endlessly loading. Checking the code on the paper wheel. Fail. Do it again. Kids these days will never know that pain.
Right to repair is such an issue in the farming space right now, Big Bud re-entered the markets with a fully repairable tractor. Rumors are that pre-orders are significant.
100% this. As a small time farmer. I cannot butcher my own animals and sell them to anybody directly. I have to sell them "on the hoof" in a minimum size of a quarter of an animal and then have a custom butcher process the animal. I can't sell any of my meat directly to a person after it's butchered, or to a restaurant. I can only sell in those cases if I go to an FDA certified meat processor, which is 400 miles one way from my property. So essentially I'm limited to selling meat to either friends and family or shipping my animals 400 miles and paying $2 a pound in processing costs.
So no the Prime act isn't a way for corporations to go around the rules, it's so small guys like myself can sell meat to people without having to truck it 800 miles.
Reading from the linked website, it looks like the PRIME act is a way to avoid federal regulation in favor of potentially looser state regulation. Now I have no dog in this fight, but why couldn't we say, push for the house ag committee to get some people from the FDA to explain why these slaughterhouse regs are so onerous? Is passing a bill the best way to get something done?
I would say that anybody who is interested in the system should listen to this. All of the people in this panel, called by both Republicans and Democrats, call out the need for serious reforms of the FDA inspection system. And how the FDA system specifically allows large meat corporations to cut the little guy out of cutting meat. If you think that the current system limits 'bad meat' from entering the system. You need to understand that the FDA is fully captured by the corporations that it's supposed to be governing.
Amazing that they completely ignore the regulatory capture of FDA meat inspection. It is the largest barrier to disrupting the "big 4" for anybody to enter the market. Given the cost and complexity of running an FDA approved meat cutting facility, it makes it nearly impossible for small farms to enter the market and provide an alternative to the big 4.
Instead small farms such as myself are forced to do stupid things like sell the meat to somebody 'on the hoof' and then have it custom cut by a butcher, because getting the meat processed and cut at a FDA inspected facility, if you can get into one, adds $1-3 a pound. This also means I can only sell you a quarter beef or larger. Which most consumers don't have the money or the freezer space to do.
I feel for you. You might enjoy a book from a small farmer called "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal" by Joel Salatin. He talks about the absurdity of ag regulatory capture and it's effects on small farmers. It's an inspiring call to arms.
Building a bomb isn’t a secret. Tom Clancy wrote a very technically detailed description of the tooling and process and building of a nuclear weapon in 1991 in The Sum of All Fears.
That call is because Health Plans are rated by CMS on if you get certain types of services, or skip them. By skipping those checkups you are reducing your health insurance plans STARS rating, which means they lose significant monies from the government. Each .1 of a start equals around 1 million US in government funding to a health plan doing MA.
If it takes 300 one time in the future to start a long term reaction that’s a price I think we would all pay. The fact that we proved the idea now makes this just an engineering problem.
I'm not trying to undermine but more just act as a reminder to some folk. There is no such thing as "just an engineering problem". These things do not exist in a vacuum. It is a part of the tripod of economics and politics. If any one of these three buckles, the whole thing doesn't happen. Concord was an engineering problem we solved, but the economics and politics around it made it a white elephant. Here's hoping this doesn't happen to this.
And now we wait two years for another “iterative” launch. No wonder it takes NASA 20 years to do anything. And what are they doing in those two years? Certifying the flight computers. I was fearful SpaceX was falling behind but now I see that this was just a publicity stunt to make NASA look competent and effective. When they aren’t.
TSMC is building a huge fab here in America. It's a couple/few years out, but that would do a lot to alleviate this risk. And it could be rushed if it were prioritized as an American National Security Project.
The fab TSMC is building in America is such a small amount of their volume as to make almost no difference. And it won’t even be a leading node by the time it’s built.
No. I think the CCP wants Taiwan indifferent of it being an economic powerhouse, or a broken 3rd world island. Failure to integrate Taiwan has been a stain on the CCP system, and it's not a system that can afford any stains.
All I'm pointing out is should Taiwan be invaded, TSMC stands to be in a position to receive a significant infusion of government cash to bring that fab online ASAP. And once that FAB is completed the systemic risk of China to TSMC evaporates, and at that point I believe that TSMC goes to the moon.
