You certainly know where to find those big cans of worms. This goes alot deeper. The fact is that you own nothing, you are just a holder in good conduct.

When you think you buy a car, you are simply buying a title to that car. The actual proof of ownership is called a Manufacturer's Statement Of Origin. The state in which you live takes that, records ad then destroys it and issues you a certificate of title or similar instrument which is nothing but a license. The last state that would issue license plates on an MSO IIRC was Tennessee and I am pretty sure they stopped.

The same thing applies to real estate. The Constitution says property cannot be taken without compensation, but they can take it for taxes as easily as your Mother could take a toy away from you when you are five years old. Why ? Because they already owned it. You pay for it, they own it just like your car. In fact, the network of laws written from the Trading With The Enemy Act all the way to the US bankruptcy papers decades ago make it clear that you are actually property and property cannot own property. Also realize that your 1040 form every year is an actual contract with a mandatory oath.. Nothing else, a contract. That's why 80 % of the people who beat the IRS do not file. But that is a different subject.

We are on the losing ed of this, and as far as I am concerned the older the better. My next car will have no ECM at all in it. Ever see the hydraulic schematic for a THM400 transmission ? That thing is a hydraulic analog computer. But you can put a shift kit in it. Actually I frown o any modifications to a THM400 because it is the last thing they designed right.

I do not need the internet on my phone. I do not need a user configurable dashboard on my car or tractor or any other damn thing. They shove this **** down your throat because that is what they have. You buy it or do without.

Don't even get me started on any software EULAs. They all say the same thing. We own everything, you o wn nothing. If our software destroys your hardware you are out of luck. If you decompile or otherwise modify our software we can sue you and take everything we own from you. That means everything folks.

How to fight back ? Well eventually we have to get the young into it, but don't buy anything. The only thing they understand is money. When they see you fitting a custom molded housing or something on a 1964 Oliver farm tractor rather than buying the new John Deere with their easy credit terms, they might take note. And 3D printing will help in some things.

And yes, you CAN replicate a 1980s ECM for a car. The O2 sensor controls the timing and mixture, the vacuum or MAF sensor controls the mixture and timing, with those priorities. As long as you can get a pulse from the cam, sometimes even just the crank, you can make any engine run. Twelve volts to the injectors, ground the other side to fire. Predetermined values for startup until it hits 400 RPM.

John P was quite the character. Tells me, about a car that keeps killing the battery and we were talking 1970s cars here, he says "Get you a wire cutters and get under the dash and cut every damn wire down there except for the headlights". Sounds pretty flippant but that might be our last resort.

Now TVs, people are just going to have to do without them. Idiots threw out all their old CRT TVs and now are caught in a trap. And we tried. This was our life in business, and now we're dead.

We considered many options, both well monied and not. We found out that it is a losing game. We could go out and buy TVs new, exact same model number, serial numbers the same up to the last five characters and NOT ONE SINGLE PART FITS. Not even the god damn speakers !

Shopjimmy made great strides, but we were the guinea pigs. I proved one of their parts was bad and that it had exactly the same problem as the one that came out. It was a Tcon and it was clipping the video. The main had already been tried so it was the Tcon or the screen itself, and there is no way a screen fault would cause that symptom uniformly on the screen. So we had problems even testing the parts, even to board level. Luckily I found you actually could put a scope on the LVDS and got familiar with the waveforms in a plasma TV. Bought me a couple more years in the business but in the end I was selling buggy whips.

If we could get the government to do it, and believe me Trump is the most likely to do it, would be to require a warranty on all goods, commensurate with cost. you got a $500 smartphone you want to sell here ? Four year warranty and eight parts and supplies for the ASCs. Twenty grand car or tractor ? Twenty years. Thousand dollar plasma, six year warranty, and twelve for the ASCs.

And, the sum total of all the parts needed to build the unit cannot exceed double the MSRP.

Bottom line, many liberals see Trump as too brash and too whatever, but in some ways he might get something done. This country has been open season on malicious companies across the world for too too long. Really, IMO that tariff for the Mexicans should not be 20 %, it should be more like 75 %.

Offshoring of work in the US is taking advantage of echange rates and costs of living in other countries. In China, think they are living in grass huts ? Nope. They are driving their air conditioned cars to work on roads better than ours and getting better heath care than we are. They EXECUTED the head of their FDA for what the head of the US FDA does every day. Prescription drugs kill more people than illegal drugs in this country, in China, SEVEN PEOPLE died and they executed the guy.

And if you live near fracking and have kidney problems, your doctor is under a gag order not to discuss with you how those fracking chemicals destroy your kidneys and therefore renal function. (Pennsylvania, Dr. Rodriguez) you didn't think they just pumped water down there now did you ? But the formula is secret. Know why ? /because if it wasn't secret there would be a **** ton of lawsuits against the oil companies.

And they built that piece of **** in the golf that makes sure our shrimp is nicely greased up. They build pipelines that leak all the time and give that Native tribe up there ammunition to garner public support to shut down those pipelines that we desperately need. What are they making these pipelines out of, paper mache' ? Trump should say "Have your pipelines, but one drop of oil leaked is a million dollar fine and every gallon is a million dollar fine. that should pretty much please everyone because their bottom line cannot absorb that and it would put them out of business.

But the bottom liner is that the government is all for business ad doesn't give a **** about us whatsoever, until election day. now we got a half nuts loose cannon in there who might get something done.

I say we make every effort to use this time wisely.