Thus the confusion in my first comment. Governments play at least as fast and loose with their own rules as this dude did, and you're right, its stupid the article doesn't mention it at all.
Not that he's not reselling them, but paying a 9% tax for every single item you posses beyond $500 in value every time you cross the border is just absurd. Remind me to never take my laptop, phone, or a decent camera anywhere near Singapore.
All that aside, I thought the idea of customs and import duties was versus new items, not things that can be picked-up at a second-hand store or pawn shop. If he provided itemized receipts, would they even believe him if the prices weren't high-enough? ... or were "too old"?
lemmyverse.net has a damn decent community search function. Additionally, on lemmyverse, you can sort all communities by Active Users, Publish Time(age of the community, newest first), number of posts or number of comments.
Your question is the kind of thing I expected to find out with my own comment, but the answer barely matters when it comes to whether they will take action or not. Either way its their product originally, something they invented/discovered.
I agree they have grounds, but I was approaching it from the angle of if they would bother, or need to for that matter.
Trump is as friendly with big pharma and the big corpbrations as any politician - behind closed doors he'll likely say or do anything to keep them happy, and they know it. Their lawyers may contact his lawyers, but we'll likely never hear of it unless both sides decide to leverage legal/political theater to their mutual benefit somehow, at the taxpayers/consumers' expense.
Nah, their patent on acetominaphen is expired, so they have little real interest in defending it today. Slap another brand on their various meds that don't contain it, and call it a day.
If the bearing were loose on the shaft, this would be a different conversation entirely.
If adjustment/refinement of the fit in the housing were out of the question, it shouldn't be made out of plastic, but even in the world of metal-cutting machine tools, adjustment is often neccessary, and if a shim, spacer or set-screw does the job, its what is done.
Meanwhile, my own suggestion was, first, the upgrade kit.
Resin isn't that cheap either. Then there's shipping. That said, if shimming works for test-prints, it may work for this. Personally, I can't believe there's not a wedge-centering end-cap or set-screws for dialing in the centering of the bearing just-so, but I'm no expert on this printer.
Epoxy isn't cheap, unless you have it on-hand already or buy in-bulk. So you can burn ten-or-so-dollars on an epoxy fix that might or might not work as desired, or $40 on an upgrade that should.
That said, are you sure the printer is otherwise in good working order? Have you tried shimming that bearing and running a test print?
Love how the emphasis isn't on communication. Don't read. Don't talk to eachother. Just sing patriotic/religious songs, and make sure to force everyone to participate. I'm hopeful this take was dud in 1938, as it should be today.
How the hell is this better than "unreliable machines and confused corporate users"? Seems it's for nothing more than sneaking a diffuser into environments where it's rightly restricted. Every single time I'm feeling remotely okay with such non-sense...
Itself, first and formost. FCC-approved method for dealing with EFI. Me? I would rather have a drain-hole and keep it away from other vulnerable tech, but I'm not the traget consumer.
Thus the confusion in my first comment. Governments play at least as fast and loose with their own rules as this dude did, and you're right, its stupid the article doesn't mention it at all.