Unions are communist in that they are communal, i.e. you are the union. You collectively get out of it what you put in.

That's a recent development, since the 2000s really. Before then the different versions of the same engine were actually different, like in the 80s or 90s only a turbo motor would get the sodium filled valves, and it would have higher-flow injectors and a higher-flow fuel pump. At minimum back in the day the carburetors and intake manifolds would be different, like a 440 which might come with a 2 barrel, a 4 barrel, or a six-pack, or a 383 which could come with a 2 or a 4, or dual 4 barrels on a cross-ram manifold. (Sorry, I only know old Mopar stuff.) And a car would have multiple engine choices, like (again in Mopar land) you'd have your choice of a 318, 383, or 440 in a Charger, and you had carburetor options for the latter motors. My '60 Dart offered the same displacements, although it was the big block 318 at the time, which is what I had.

They provide engineering support to their partners, and they were fined for doing so in this case.

Both history and the present are filled with people who have redesigned the system of the world. Very much of how it works absolutely is by design, and asserting otherwise is, as you seem to enjoy saying, delulu.

It wasn't interesting enough. Do better.

Freedom comes from being able to be detached if you want or need to, but efficiency and greatness come from group effort. One possible goal is to make everyone able to be as independent as possible, but also to be as good at cooperating as possible. Is that not the best and most resilient solution?

A grid is great because it allows power to be moved around to where it is needed. It's a thing we should definitely pursue having. But we should also be promoting community microgrids and other similar organization structures for power generation to make power delivery as robust as possible in disaster scenarios. Especially as AGW increases severity and frequency of severe weather events, we're going to suffer increased numbers of power outages which threaten lives by disabling oxygen concentrators and CPAPs. People often have batteries for these things, sometimes even in the devices themselves now, but outages can easily outlast those batteries. I got to experience power out for a couple of days in Santa Cruz county due to the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. I currently live in a town which does not even have a disaster plan.

Yes, there are down sides, but there are also up sides to forks like new things being tried.

There are risks inherent to any development model. But there are lots of corporations dependent on Linux today, so they are motivated to back a plausible successor so that they can continue to profit.

Having a succession plan doesn't guarantee success, either.

I take it you're the author of the rsilvergun-impersonating LLM based on your accusation. What a surprise that you're also a coward.

I've opposed people using Ad Hominem arguments about things he's said, which is not the same thing.

I've been marked unwilling to moderate for years. I didn't get mod points for years before that anyway.

Your trolling is really dumb considering my posting history where I criticize China more than anyone else who can construct a complete sentence.

Hamas is funded by Netanyahu, just ask him. Also, pop quiz dipshit, when was Hamas founded? How many Israeli terrorist groups predate that?

Until last year or so Ford owners could download someone else's tune on the internets and load it into their PCM with a $15 cable (A $10 cable that's been hacked to add a switch which does a pin swap.) Alas, Ford has begun locking PCMs recently, and they were pretty much the last manufacturer not to.

You're really not paying anything extra for any of the equipment if you don't use it in this case, because they need that hardware to do maximum regenerative braking. It works in both directions, and they're "only" not allowing you to use it to make the car accelerate faster without paying them. I think that too is wrong, but you're overstating the case.

Even in a pay-for-range scheme (which I don't rule out happening eventually, but will probably be the last thing they implement along these lines) you're still getting something — better battery lifespan since they'd still be using the same battery pack, and "only" not allowing you to fully discharge it, meaning that it wouldn't be subjected to the same deep discharges.

That's not what happened. The offenders got caught. The protocols did their job. The machinery of justice moves slowly. By all means fix that, but don't complain about the parts that worked.

You wouldn't know an actual leftist idea if it fucked you in the eye socket.

Look I get it, you've got fantasies of mental competence, but every time you reply to one of my comments lately you prove you're nowhere near.

Does it even take a technical background? Just a little paying attention and a willingness to look things up if you lack personal familiarity goes a long way. There's maps of power connections, you can download free GIS data that shows where the transmission lines are and load it up in free software... (I use QGIS)