Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. John Deere is just another example of corporations that are run by bureaucrats with zero connection to the actual product and actual customer. That combine sits in the shed most of the year, and gets all kinds of tender loving care. But when it's time to harvest, if it breaks down - and breakdowns happen - they don't have time or money to haul it in to the dealership or anything else. They need to FIX it.
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  2. "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." - Barry Goldwater
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  3. The web of laws and regulations we have is so complex and convoluted that anyone can be singled-out for destruction and anybody with enough wealth or influence can do whatever they please. We're all criminals, just waiting our turn to come to the attention of authorities.
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  4. MS does this with all their software and they try to make you use their cloud service, as well. Not interested. Close enough to retirement, now, I'm sticking with the tools I have and never buying anything Windows or Apple, again.
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  5. The attractions that drew the billionaire class are swirling down the toilet, and the huge federal tax write-offs of state and local taxes are no longer in place, so the donor class has to pay those ridiculously high taxes without getting it all back from federal taxpayers in the countryside.
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  6. They CAN'T defend their position. They HAVE to attack the dissenting messenger.
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  7. I don't know if this alone will bring down YouTube, but just like Disney, the fact that YouTube is starting to squeeze is a sign that they're already hurting. Jack up rates, close down adblockers, etc. I think the move will back-fire, due to all the millions of people who will leave if they have to pay or watch ads. It got big because it was free and could afford to lose money for a long span, throttling the competition, like any Robber Baron.
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  8.  @lohikarhu734  The USA has quietly gone from free to "process as punishment."
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  9. "Whose streets?" "Our streets!" "Hey, where is everybody? I'm hungry." "Sorry, son. All the good folk who could done left."
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  10. The establishment has other plans for our children.
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  11. None of this makes sense until "Brother makes mistake" implies "Brother is a bad person." There's some hidden/unspoken axiomatics built in, which is why all mathematicians can program but not all programmers can do math.
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  12. But... But... Muh Emmy Award!
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  13. @David D. There's a difference between verified mail-in/absentee voting and "We'll just mail something out to everybody on our out-of-date voter rolls and hope for the best" approach taken by the states that implemented mail-in voting en masse in about 3 months' time. It was half-assed and full of holes, and we have every reason to believe those holes were exploited. Districts that never had more than 60% voter turnout suddenly with 90% or even 105% voter turnout should raise a big red flag. But "nothing to see here. Move along." And I'm frankly a little suspicious about how my state went blue and stayed blue not long after universal mail-in was implemented. But at least they had a procedure, where you had to prove you were who you said you were, before receiving a mail-in ballot in the mail. I had to vote in person, the first time and check the box to get future ballots sent to me. I had to show my ID to do that first in-person vote. That's not how the new-to-mail-in-in-2020 states did it. It was a train-wreck. Anyhoo, I think this is a bipartisan sort of thing. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find all kinds of fraud taking place in the re-election of guys like Mitch McConnell.
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  14. They'd find a way to sue you.
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  15.  @killaken2000  Yes. She's in the club. I'm sure she landed a sweet gig from some fat cat for her loyalty to the BORG.
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  16. The danger of working from home is that somebody cheaper comes along anywhere else in the world. If you can do it from a mile away, somebody else can do it from 5,000 miles away.
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  17. Beatin' the bushes for something better always sucks. If you're unemployed, your general situation sucks. If you're employed, you're too tired to beat the bushes at the end of the day, so your situation isn't terrible, but you're stuck. I've been brought to my knees many times throughout my life, and those toughest times strip life to its essentials, which is very good for the character, and a source of joy later in life, when things are better! All I did was keep my eye on the main prize and grind. OK. This sucks. What's the next thing I should do to improve my situation? Set my leg. Make a pressure bandage out of my shirt. Call for help.
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  18. CNBC gets most things wrong. I'm pretty sure it's on purpose, but their talking heads are all pretty stupid.
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  19. They don't have to censor everybody. Just people who start generating a following. Seems like there're tiers of attention. Once you hit 10,000 subscribers, they see you. Once you hit 100,000, they start censoring for anything politically incorrect.
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  20. All good points. Sadly, they don't want you repairing your petrol vehicle, either! Planned obsolescence is one of the biggest causes of major pollution, today. Think of the energy and resources and pollution that go into (or come out of) the manufacture of a new vehicle. So to save 100 gallons of gas a year, you're going to expend the energy and resources equivalent to a $200,000 new Tesla? How about taking that money and applying ot towards a home that's closer to work, so you don't have to drive as much? I'm sort of blurring the practical environmental value of an electric car with planned obsolescence, but they're closely linked in my associative mind. A more sustainable model for greener world would be a vastly reduced auto industry that builds cars to LAST, and only the young or egotistical older people would ever be buying the "latest model." If I could - and I'm trying my damnedest - I would drive my '93 Toyota pickup the rest of my life. I remember as a young man in the 1980s helping rebuild a '55 Chevy. There were parts manufacturers in Mexico and the USA that still made "new old stuff" and put out their catalogs for backyard mechanics and professional auto shops. Not so much, any more. I'm not sure, but I think you can still build a complete VW Beetle out of new old parts, if you want. You can certainly restore those old Beetles. The EPA will tell you those old cars are bad but they never figure in the pollution that comes from junking the old cars and making entirely new cars. That's why I'm convinced that all this environmental alarmism is driven by profits for a few and not for the betterment of the planet or mankind. Rossman should be able to repair Nokia flip phones to this day. Any smart phone should be built to last forever or be easily repairable for freaking ever.
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  21. "Pole-watchers" with an 'e' is the same as the crappy alternatives to the Big Tech offerings. The programming task doesn't even look all that tough, and yet, all the competing platforms are clunky as hell. There was clearly evidence of shenanigans in the election, but I agree that the suits that were brought were ridiculously inept. Almost like they did it on purpose. Semi-literate drivel.
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  22. "If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it" is why my boss gave me root password on the server, back in the '90s.
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  23. It's unavoidable. When you don't like how they censor, stop using them. Find other products. Don't let Google BORG you.
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  24. There's also a movement to generate free course materials.
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  25. I went down to ACE Hardware and bought a wrench. Imagine my surprise when Apple issued an injunction.
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  26. Schools can't teach Math or English. What makes you think they can teach stocks and investing?
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  27. For every one story like yours, there are 99 stories of people who dream big, but lack the talent to make it big. I see it all the time. Kids with only bonehead math on their transcript heading to college "determined" to be electrical engineers. I try never to discourage anyone, but if you're 18 and you still don't have algebra and trig out of the way, you're already adding a year or two to your expected graduation date, because engineering programs - 4-year engineering programs - are based on starting with Calculus I. Rather than try to bring them down, I just lay out their program of study, with a semester of college algebra and college trigonometry taking up the first year. And that's assuming they're even prepared for college algebra, which many are not. They like tinkering with things and they like the idea of being a high-paid engineer, but they have no idea what they're up against in the years to come. The only "discouragement" they get from me is my being realistic about how long it's going to take them, and, given their current level of learning, how EARLY it is for them to be deciding they're cut out for engineering, at least in the traditional sense. A lot of those kinds of young people would be better served getting into a vocational-technical program for electricians or electronics-repair.men. It may even put them closer to what they actually want, which is to tinker with electronics and build their own cool projects. And if they're STILL determined to be a traditional, college-graduated engineer, they've got a skill to help PAY for it, so they don't have to live like poor college students for 5 or 6 (or more) years, with nothing certain except for a mountain of debt when they're done, assuming they finish. As a mathematician, I feel that a good engineer is BETTER in some areas of math than I am, because of their immediate applications to their field, and their constant use of those areas. There are also a lot of DIGITAL techniques that serve the same purpose, but without all the theory, other than a general understanding that if they've got enough data, they can build a model, empirically, without really concerning themselves with what classical function it most resembles. A LOT of the math they'll teach in a classical engineering program is built on mathematics that was invented because if they didn't find something clean to represent their model, they were at a loss, because they lacked the computing power to brute-force it. If we had computers before Newton came along, maybe we wouldn't care one bit about "smoothness and continuity" principles, but just build a digital model of how far the apple has fallen after x number of seconds, build a smooth curve through all the data points and extrapolate from that curve you built off empirical data. You might never have to know the basic falling-body model in order to predict when the apple hits the ground and how fast it's moving when it does. In real-life engineering, there's a lot more experimentation and testing than theory. They may not know WHY x amount of this metal makes the alloy the strongest, but they tried every percentage and took the one that was best. Maybe in 20 years or 30 years, they'll figure out why. I remember teaching an applied problem: "How long should your eaves stick out if you want to block the sun in summer and let the sun in in winter?" problem. I used data for the angle of the sunlight at the solstices and equinoxes, and gave a really complicated derivation of the ideal length. A physics prof taught in that room the next hour, saw what I was doing, and said "Why not just use a stick to see where the shadow falls on those days, and use that?"
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  28. In a modern society, politics should be the least interesting and least important thing. But because government is inserted into every aspect of life, we can't live our lives without obsessing on politics. Nancy Pelosi has a bad/good day and it costs us all our planned vacation or that car we were saving for, or that night out at the restaurant, or our entire retirement or, ... They have far too much power over us because we've asked them to do too much FOR us. We'd be better off if all governments stopped governing so damn hard all the time and just left us the hell alone.
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  29.  @LunarShift  It IS what happened. Don't believe your Snopes or other paid fact-checking outfits, with their "mostly false" BS.
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  30.  @HoloScope  Might be surprised if you look around.
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  31. Reality already smacked NYC in the face when Trump's tax-reform bill was passed, and the deduction for state and local taxes was cut to $10,000. They've been in a panic ever since, to GET TRUMP. Their plan is to have Democrats in control of the federal government, and bail out all the cities and states that have failed to manage their affairs wisely. These cities and states were already in trouble, before COVID-19, due to mismanagement. COVID-19 is going to be their excuse to rob the rest of us blind with porkbarrel spending from Washington. Unfunded pension liabilities? No problem. Here's $50 billion dollars from the Federal Reserve printing presses. No problem. Don't worry about your savings that inflation's going to wipe out.
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  32.  @mrkv4k  That's odd, because the "better" they get, the worse my user experience is. "Look at our great new features!" I don't want to have to learn a whole new piece of software. I'm an experienced end user. You're stealing time and efficiency from me with all these "improvements." A pox on all their houses. Here's an idea: Make something that lasts.
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  33.  @Rhaspun  Yes. Partisan positions follow the "whose ox is gored" principle rather than, uh, principle.
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  34.  @MoreEvilThanYahweh  Libertarians' biggest weakness is we're not big joiners.
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  35.  @aresgood1  Review your history. You sound like someone making the case for Ma Bell before the breakup and an explosion of competition for phone service.
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  36.  @mjc0961  Yes. I want to break with FaceBook, but I've got friends I grew up with and it's the only way we're connected from across the country. Tough to cut it off, but despise the company.
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  37.  @WeFightTheDark  People who expect they own my attention for ANY purpose are going to have those expectations subverted worse than a Game of Thrones script.
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  38. Louis is all about the regular people being exploited by corrupt corporations. The unionization of Amazon workers in Atlanta is the same sort of thing as workers in India destroying an Apple facility, because of promises broken. It's not crazy to say that this relates to the election, where outfits like Amazon and other Big Tech platforms assured us that mail-in voting was just fine.
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  39.  @Chris-ji4iu  All the feedback they're getting is "Butt out."
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  40.  @jonathanodude6660  ... or 10x the price. Good point. You'd think there was enough money in just making a fair profit for a durable, repairable product. Seems to me a company with a more enlightened business model would have a big niche. I don't understand why LINUX hasn't taken over everything.
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  41.  @rasmysamy2145  I think back to the '80s, tinkering on '60s and '70s vintage cars, and wonder "Why can't all durable goods be durable, like they used to be?" Do they HAVE to be greedy and pollute the planet 10 times more than they have to? Companies should take pride in being able to back their 20-year-old flip phones with all the parts and accessories. Seems like an intelligent consumer would want that and press for that.
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  42.  @m4ki9h76  Repair shops should have full freedom to stock high-demand parts, according to the demand they see. Manufacturers should be 100% behind that and pride themselves on seeing their old models out in the world, still working. They don't. Their whole focus is on your buying their latest product, and if their 3-year-old product is obsolete, all the better for them. It's a terrible attitude, and I don't understand why the tree-huggers aren't up in arms.
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  43. Typically the case, although not always. I'm all in favor of a new business model wherein the workers buy up a piece of the company over time as part of their pay package. Open your books. Be transparent. If you're doing the right things, workers will be behind you. If you're exploiting them, that will show up in the books, too. Anyway, I dunno how it'd all work, but yeah. The old saying is "A company that's unionized deserves it."
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  44.  @360recaps  LOL! Anti-woke doesn't help him in the algorithm! If anything, it HURTS him in the algorithm. But the algorithm can't keep up with the popularity of widespread anti-woke. At least not yet.
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  45. Agree. The scariest part is Swamp Rats of both parties think RESTRICT Act is a good idea. It's a bad idea. When Dems and Repubs agree on something, you KNOW we're about to get more bad law.
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  46.  @houghwhite411  I noticed it when the story about hiring Ukrainian hackers to help U.S. farmers fix their broken-down tractors.
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  47. Back in the '70s, used bookstores used to have to tear the front cover off used paperbacks. Back in the '90s, the price of college textbooks was based on existing pre-orders. They set the price to make all their money back from the orders they already had. Everything after that was profit. What I'm doing, NOW, as a math professor, is purchasing the Learning Management System that accompanies the textbook for around $100. Included in the LMS are homework exercises that are graded automatically, for instant feedback. There's "View an Example," "Help Me Solve This" and "Ask My Instructor." They will give you a pre-test and auto-generate a custom study plan for you (and your deficiencies). They suck for graphing and can't (yet) automate the partial-credit grading of written work, so I supplement with a handful of "Writing Projects" that are graded by hand by a human, the old-fashioned way. But a LOT of students learn a LOT from what LMS's CAN do. The price of a new book is $100-plus. IMO, the LMS is WORTH $100 for a semester. The LMS comes with an eBook as part of the service. Students who want a hard-copy textbook may still purchase one, new, but I tell them "ANY EDITION OF THE TEXT IS FINE." So they can rent or buy used on eBay or Amazon or wherever. This way I can build a course based on a particular author and re-use the materials online for YEARS. I think the new books are a major scam, but the publisher can still get their $100 per pupil AND the pupil gets ALL KINDS of on-demand help. That help isn't always the greatest and some of the "Go to Read About This" just sends them to a chapter without directing the student to the actual part of the book that pertains to their question. That's why I make a video for every question the students might have. MY take on what we're covering. At my institution, the issue is quality control for remote and online courses. During COVID, the testing center stopped supporting written test proctoring. So I'm testing online with lock-down browser and cameras. But that's not the same as a WRITTEN EXAM under a TIME CONTROL with a PROCTOR overseeing the test-taking, to reduce cheating. You can spoof a lock-down browser and camera pretty easily if you want. Every time I bring this up, nobody cares. Academia is trying to get away from "high stakes testing" so that more students will "succeed." I consider anything less than mastery to be a failure, but I see more students "passing," who wouldn't have 3 or 4 years ago, when we still had the in-person testing under a time control. Now, Disability Services hands out extra time on tests like candy, and I have to accommodate those diktats. I think that if you give them extra time on everything, you're not really getting a fair measure of their competence. "He can get 100% if you just give him 10 hours!" Taking 10 hours to do what a competent person can do in 1 hour is not mastery. It's welfare, and may God help their employer when they show up and work REALLY REALLY SLOW.
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  48. FTC Chair was aiming a bit high. But you could definitely do the agency some good.
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  49. Turns out "You will own nothing" is a terrible business model, conceived by assholes.
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  50. Nice apartment.
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