I'm not saying it's justified, but I understand.

Sorry, just needed to rant.

I'm no big fan of Domino's, but I smell a thin-crust pizza in my future tonight just so I can try this script out.

Gotta admit that Domino's isn't my favorite pizza. Any chance of seeing a script like this for Papa John's? Or even Pizza Hut? I'd ask for Round Table first, but they don't even do online ordering...

I won't even buy anything Sony makes; DVDs, CDs, consumer electronics, etc. I can no longer trust them, so I will not give them my money, end of story.

While, on a platonic level, it is as simple as "eat less and exercise", in practice, it does require a lot of hard work and dedication to lose weight. Mainly because most fat people don't even realize that they're eating too much. For me, I "listened to my body" as every hack on the internet tells me to do, and I ended up at 300 pounds. My body, quite simply, doesn't know what's good for it. So now, I restrict myself to 1700 calories a day (this was after experimenting a bit and finding my average daily burn, which is somewhere between 2200 and 2500), I track what I eat using spreadsheets, and I'm gradually ramping up on exercise. So far it's working; I'm down to 260 since starting in the last week of January. But it's not easy (though it's a hell of a lot easier than the first few days, when I was hungry, tired, and sick all the time). It's a big chore that most people don't have to deal with, because their body actually tells them when it's satisfied.

It's easy to sit here and tell people, "Stop stuffing your face, lardass!" It's considerably harder to put into practice. And that's why people are always looking for the quick fix; because people like you make it sound like it should be easy. So, when they try things the hard way, and don't get immediate drastic results, they assume they're doing something wrong.

In short, you're hurting people. Stop.

So, what stops Microsoft from doing something similar, and providing an inexpensive harness that doesn't interfere with the industry-standard connections, while still allowing the drive to be easily removable?

Greed.

So there's the thing. Apple may sell more iPhones if they're unlocked, but they'd have to sell 4x as many in order to make it worth their while.

Probably the latter; everybody thinks they're entitled to control your property these days.

Whatever happened to building relationships with customers? Stupid companies, trying to buy their way to the top...

@Captain Angry: If it's a conditional offer, it's not resolving the issue. It's bribery. End of story.

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