Hopefully this is the closest Koenigsegg ever gets to an SUV.

I just want to point out that although you were incorrect in your first post, it seems like you read through your replies & were a big enough person to admit to not knowing the whole story.

I dont think you understand how bad it is on farm equipment. On some models, even routine maintenance and repair of mechanical devices are locked down with DRM software that will gimp your machine if you don't use the OEM repair center and OEM parts.

Car makers can have their own proprietary diagnostic software but are required to have standard OBDII as well. To anyone whining about intrusive government and burdensome regulations Deere is what happens when you don't have them.

You need to read up on the dirtiness that Deere is involved in. Its proprietary unlike ODBII and requires expensive software only obtainable as an authorized repair person. They are worse than Apple when it comes to repair.

You’re not wrong, but the issue here is that John Deere doesn’t want to release the tools to do that to the farmers.  On the automotive side we can just plug in our own scan tool if we want to own one.  That doesn’t seem to be an option here. 

The new systems literally will NOT recognize components, unless a John Deere Representative comes out and runs their recognition USB key to unlock the tractor.

This would be like if you needed to change the brakes on your car and could only go to the dealership, because the moment you removed the wheel, the engine…

Well I think the issue specifically with farm machinery is that “a computer” means “a computer from a John Deere authorized technician because Deere has made it impossible to repair your own item on your own because nothing will work without that computer that the authorized tech has with the USB key that will let you…

I think the problem isn’t just ‘needing a computer’. If I remember right, it’s like dealer only diagnostic tools with cars. It’s that it has to be a Deere authorized mechanic with a proprietary set of hardware that they won’t sell you, and you can’t just use any old laptop.

Yeah, here’s a quote from one of the earlier…

aThis X1000. I think there’s a lot of folks that fail to realize how normalized corruption is in that market. It’s really nearly a requirement for doing business in Japan.

Ghosn’s already spent over a year in jail under conditions that would be considered torture in most western countries. Not allowed to see or talk with his wife for 7 months. Restrictions even on when and how he could talk with his own lawyers. Then he finds out, oh, by the way, your trial won’t be for another year and…

lol, bet you didn’t think you need to defend having a 401k when you woke up this morning.

Hello Oversteer, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Of a HellKitty quickly fleeing
And the excrement that left a stain
Still remains
Within the sound of superchargers

Even military families get ticked if they don’t have a few months notice that a move is going to happen though.

Seriously, who wants to go to downtown DC at night? Its a ghost town. Everything shuts down and its completely empty.

I have lived in both and will take Johnson County every day. I travel to DC often, in fact I got back last night. It is a shitty place, with shitty people, and shitty roads, filled with shitty traffic.

Hey, we’ve got great beer! And barbecue, apparently, but I think barbecue is awful and lazy.

People who vape are more than welcome to tell us the ingredients in the vapes they smoke. What’s that? The majority of the American populace is ignorant when it comes to basic chemistry and physiology? I am astounded.

That’s what I’m thinking too. Vape juice is not cheap if bought prefilled in pods and neither are THC cartridges. So they start mixing their own stuff and voila. 8 people end up in the hospital in one location and boom, they blame the entire vape world. I mix my own juice since it exists and know what’s in it...my…

You can’t hose down the interior.