When you do shit like this on your desktop systems, it doesn't sink the system, but any time you do this on... well, anything else, from MP3-players to phones to tablets to... you name it, it sinks the system.
Do I really have to put on my consultant hat and charge 1000 bucks an hour when telling you why so you finally believe me and get it?
You don't get away with it on the desktop because people accept this or even (*snicker*) like that. You get away with it because people have no choice. You get away with being an asshole because people have already sunk too much time, money and staff cost to switch. You get away with it because people are dependent on software that only runs on your OS and they can't put into a VM. That is the ONLY reason people put up with this. If they could, they would dump you faster than a chick that said "oh, and by the way, you should probably get tested" after you fucked her.
You are not in that position in ANY other area than desktop. You MIGHT get away with it to some degree in the server department. And maybe in the console market, mostly because anyone competing with you is at least as much a dick as you are. But anything like that will NOT be accepted in ANY other market. People will happily dump you and switch to something else because they easily can do so in all other areas.
What the GP said is that if you don't introduce your kids to "good" foods and only feed them "bad" ones, they will crave the "bad" ones. Which are unfortunately, evolutionary speaking, the "good" ones. The ones with lots and lots of calories that make you fat so you can survive those times when food is scarce where all the ones that didn't like to eat the greasy "junk" die of starvation.
Unfortunately there are no times where food is scarce anymore, so our evolutionary "advantage" comes to bite us in the fat ass.
You cannot solve the obesity problem in the country that way. What you do here is ensure that kids don't eat healthy in any way. But that's basically it.
I was "blessed" to go to a school that did the whole "whole grain and vegetable" bullshit years before Michelle got the idea. Our parents paid a lot of money for our healthy school lunch, with the net effect that the school made a ton of money that way, knowing that only a tiny fraction of the kids would eat there at all. Because the grub was simply unbearable. You, as an adult, may understand that it's a necessity to feed your body something healthy. Most likely because you, even at the age of, say, 30, start to feel the drawbacks of stuffing your face with greasy hamburgers and you know that you pay the price of pigging out on cheese pizzas next day in the bathroom.
Kids don't.
All they know is that the stuff sucks, tastes like garbage and that they don't eat it. Especially if there's a burger joint just 100m down the road that gladly takes their money.
The words "pineapple", "anchovy" and "pizza" do not belong next to each other. In no combination. You might find them in a classified paper talking about the diet in Guantanamo, but nowhere else.
Well, as soon as a child actually wants to be a child, i.e. play, run around, be active, climb on trees etc, we call it "hyperactive", diagnose ADHD and pump enough Ritalin into them 'til they are sedated enough to not move anymore.
5 years later we lament how they don't exercise enough and get fat.
Tell me how you want to force the kids to eat it. Until you can do that, they simply will not.
If you have kids, you should know that they can be surprisingly creative and incredibly stubborn when it comes to not eating what they do not want to eat.
You can lead a donkey to the water, but you cannot make him drink. Likewise, you can offer healthy food to kids but guess what: They don't like it and will refuse it.
Remember when you were a kid? Remember when your parents packed you "something healthy" for the lunch break? What did you do? Eat it? Probably not. Throw it away and buy something else? More likely.
This is pretty much what happened after the change for "healthy" food. Kids simply said "this sucks" and refused to eat it. Instead they took their money to the next burger joint. The older the kids, the more likely. And there you had exactly ZERO control over what they'd eat.
It is far more sensible to provide a meal that they will enjoy where you still can slip in something healthy. I'd rather have a school offer grilled turkey, well seasoned on whole grain burger buns, with fresh veggies and kids eat it than them offering some bland tofu squares on leaf lettuce without any salt or taste that kids will go "meh" over and instead stuff their face with burgers and fries from the Wendy's around the corner.
Actually, nuking something perceived bad and replacing it with nothing (which is actually worse) is pretty much what DID happen in the early days of the Soviet Union...
He was elected on a "Obama is teh evilz and Hillary is his minion" platform, what do you expect now from him? He's pretty much only doing what is to be expected.
Anyone expecting anything else is severely deluded.
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When you do shit like this on your desktop systems, it doesn't sink the system, but any time you do this on ... well, anything else, from MP3-players to phones to tablets to ... you name it, it sinks the system.
Do I really have to put on my consultant hat and charge 1000 bucks an hour when telling you why so you finally believe me and get it?
You don't get away with it on the desktop because people accept this or even (*snicker*) like that. You get away with it because people have no choice. You get away with being an asshole because people have already sunk too much time, money and staff cost to switch. You get away with it because people are dependent on software that only runs on your OS and they can't put into a VM. That is the ONLY reason people put up with this. If they could, they would dump you faster than a chick that said "oh, and by the way, you should probably get tested" after you fucked her.
You are not in that position in ANY other area than desktop. You MIGHT get away with it to some degree in the server department. And maybe in the console market, mostly because anyone competing with you is at least as much a dick as you are. But anything like that will NOT be accepted in ANY other market. People will happily dump you and switch to something else because they easily can do so in all other areas.
Well, it's perceived as less of a problem since Chrome is a pretty decent browser and Google a rather useful search engine.
Edge and Bing on the other hand...
Well duh. An obscure version of an obscure OS for an obscure device, how many users would you expect?
But I hope we can agree that bricking a device is a wee bit different from killing a person, yes?
What the GP said is that if you don't introduce your kids to "good" foods and only feed them "bad" ones, they will crave the "bad" ones. Which are unfortunately, evolutionary speaking, the "good" ones. The ones with lots and lots of calories that make you fat so you can survive those times when food is scarce where all the ones that didn't like to eat the greasy "junk" die of starvation.
Unfortunately there are no times where food is scarce anymore, so our evolutionary "advantage" comes to bite us in the fat ass.
You cannot solve the obesity problem in the country that way. What you do here is ensure that kids don't eat healthy in any way. But that's basically it.
I was "blessed" to go to a school that did the whole "whole grain and vegetable" bullshit years before Michelle got the idea. Our parents paid a lot of money for our healthy school lunch, with the net effect that the school made a ton of money that way, knowing that only a tiny fraction of the kids would eat there at all. Because the grub was simply unbearable. You, as an adult, may understand that it's a necessity to feed your body something healthy. Most likely because you, even at the age of, say, 30, start to feel the drawbacks of stuffing your face with greasy hamburgers and you know that you pay the price of pigging out on cheese pizzas next day in the bathroom.
Kids don't.
All they know is that the stuff sucks, tastes like garbage and that they don't eat it. Especially if there's a burger joint just 100m down the road that gladly takes their money.
The words "pineapple", "anchovy" and "pizza" do not belong next to each other. In no combination. You might find them in a classified paper talking about the diet in Guantanamo, but nowhere else.
When all that needed trashing was the lunch system in the first place...
Well, as soon as a child actually wants to be a child, i.e. play, run around, be active, climb on trees etc, we call it "hyperactive", diagnose ADHD and pump enough Ritalin into them 'til they are sedated enough to not move anymore.
5 years later we lament how they don't exercise enough and get fat.
Have you ever met a kid cranky because he's hungry? I'd rather have one hyped up on sugar.
Tell me how you want to force the kids to eat it. Until you can do that, they simply will not.
If you have kids, you should know that they can be surprisingly creative and incredibly stubborn when it comes to not eating what they do not want to eat.
Once you have a way to test and grade their eating habits, that parallel actually works.
And as soon as you can FORCE kids to eat it, you actually have a point.
This.
You can lead a donkey to the water, but you cannot make him drink. Likewise, you can offer healthy food to kids but guess what: They don't like it and will refuse it.
Remember when you were a kid? Remember when your parents packed you "something healthy" for the lunch break? What did you do? Eat it? Probably not. Throw it away and buy something else? More likely.
This is pretty much what happened after the change for "healthy" food. Kids simply said "this sucks" and refused to eat it. Instead they took their money to the next burger joint. The older the kids, the more likely. And there you had exactly ZERO control over what they'd eat.
It is far more sensible to provide a meal that they will enjoy where you still can slip in something healthy. I'd rather have a school offer grilled turkey, well seasoned on whole grain burger buns, with fresh veggies and kids eat it than them offering some bland tofu squares on leaf lettuce without any salt or taste that kids will go "meh" over and instead stuff their face with burgers and fries from the Wendy's around the corner.
Actually, nuking something perceived bad and replacing it with nothing (which is actually worse) is pretty much what DID happen in the early days of the Soviet Union...
"No child left behind" essentially means "kids who could do better are held back for the sake of not making the duds feel bad".
He was elected on a "Obama is teh evilz and Hillary is his minion" platform, what do you expect now from him? He's pretty much only doing what is to be expected.
Anyone expecting anything else is severely deluded.
Of course kids love junk food. Welcome to our evolutionary baggage where it was a survival trait to enjoy food that is high in calories.
The difference is that today there are no starvation times when we have to survive on what's around our waist.
So ... feed your kids crap so they don't know any better?
What are you, a Creationist?
You dietary nuts! I just watch out that all my meals contain the four important food groups, i.e. fat, salt, sugar and caffeine, and I'm doing fine.
On a completely unrelated note, what's that coppery taste in my mouth?
Yeah, that's TOTALLY the same thing.
Then they should probably stop beating up protesters and start protecting people instead of assets and investments.
What makes you think it has to be "either - or"?
There is a very easy solution to your problem: Fire your lawyer. He doesn't know jack shit about the GPL, or probably software licensing in general.
For at least 50 years now, commercially viable fusion power has been about 10 years away.