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    War: The US will rejoin the Paris climate agreement
    • President Joe Biden recommitted the US to the Paris climate accord during his first day in office, fulfilling one of his earliest campaign promises. In 30 days, the US will once again be part of the global accord. Rejoining the agreement is as easy as sending a letter to the secretary-general of the United Nations.

      It is real tragedy for US that will cost tens of millions of jobs and will make all other workers much poorer.

      And all this will be accompanied by false brave propaganda and by oligarchs trading CO2 emissions while bureaucracy will feed from new anti oil and coal taxes (that will soon spread to any gasoline based cars).

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    Capitalism: Another monopoly wants more money from you - Nidec
    • Japanese company Nidec - accused Seagate of unauthorized use of electric motors in some models of hard drives. Seagate is required to cease illegal use of Nidec's intellectual property and compensate for damages and other costs.

      According to Nidec, which owns 85% of the market for spindle motors for hard drives, the Seagate 2TB BarraCuda ST200LM15 and 16TB IronWolf Pro ST16000NE00 drives violate the applicant's US patents. In particular, these models are equipped with electric motors of the Japanese company MinebeaMitsumi, with which Nidec has a cross-licensing agreement. But Seagate does not participate in this agreement and actually uses Nidec technology without its permission.

      Nidec is filing a lawsuit seeking a court order to cease Seagate's illegal use of its intellectual property, ban the sale of named products, indemnify for damages, collect pre- and post-court interest, and reimburse costs and fees.

      Nidec motors are one of big reasons of large HDD prices, this guys rip you off and do it silently.

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    Industry Rumors: Japanese company expect further 2-3 times drop of cameras sales in US
    • Rumor is that one leading camera manufacturer company managers had special meeting during early January considering US market plans only. They discussed upcoming fast shock during 1-2 years of Biden presidency leading to sharp income drop, drop can happen due very fast inflation.

      Reduction of middle range cameras sales can reach 5 times according to presentation file they used.

      Company also already cut models number to 2-4 per year and can cut further to 2 models (both FF only).

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    Capitalism: GDPR as new bureaucrats feeder
    • Law firm DLA Piper says that, since January 28th, 2020, the EU has issued around €158.5 million (around $192 million) in financial penalties. That’s a 39-percent increase on the previous 20-month period Piper examined in its report, published this time last year. And as well as the increased fines, the number of breach notifications has shot up by 19 percent across the same 12-month period.

      Italy, Germany and France are the three countries most willing to sanction companies, and have collectively charged companies €192.8 million ($234 million) since GDPR came into force. The biggest single fine, however, remains the $57 million that France levied against Google for violating data transparency rules. Other blockbuster fines, including the UK’s $123 million penalty for the Marriott data breach, was trimmed down to just $25 million.

      Note that they do nothing to actually stop capitalists from selling and trading data, they actually help them. Instead they made nice big pipe from finance streams to feed from.

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    Bad design: Canon PowerShot AI
    • Prototype specs

      • Cheapest 12mp 1/2.3″ CMOS Sensor
      • 19-57mm 35mm equivalent zoom lens (4x zoom), also Taiwan ODM made, cheap
      • Pans 170° and Tilt of 110°, heap plastic gears for this
      • Electronic Image Stabilization, as it is free and provided by main LS manufacturer
      • Dust and Waterproofing
      • Battery life of only about 2.5 hours
      • Records data to microSD
      • USB-C Port
      • Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity

      Targeted at many uses and perform none of them at decent level, including as a webcam, a baby monitor, a pet monitor or even as a security camera.

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    War: Baiden friendly diplomacy, cut all lines to NY Mordor embassy
    • The American side has cut off all telephone lines to the Russian consulate in New York, and there has been no connection for more than a day. They also reported problems with the Internet.

      "All city telephone lines are almost completely disconnected, and there are many of them," the consulate general noted. "Problems with Internet access periodically arise."

      "Such a situation has never occurred before," the diplomatic mission stressed.

      Nicey, I just feel the firm hand of Kamala guiding the guy while he is asleep.

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    Bad Design: TVs with mainboard where PSU is integrated
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      Common for many cheap TVs, and especially common for many Chinese brands TVs.

      As with 95% probability it is PSU that is at fault and it is much cheaper (2-4x cheaper and separate MB) you are overpaying a lot. And lot of waste is made.

      Note how none of bureaucrats or green fighters tell you about this - because if they do and start the real fight - they won't get any funding instantly.

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