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There is more control and power if another language like Java or C++ is used.
That's true. However, Access and C++/Java aren't anywhere near equivalents. One is a database and a front end that most people can have working in minutes. One is a programming language, that somebody may be able to use to develop a database front end after a few years of training.
Maybe even give them a free linux laptop for the home. They can afford that because of the license fee savings for not using windows.
A retail copy of Windows 7 is about $100. Nobody sells a laptop for $100. Tack onto that the extra training and support for Linux, and you're nowhere near as cheap as using Windows.
No, you have it backwards. A single soda is about 300 calories, which would take most people about 2.5-3 miles of running/walking to burn off. It's relatively impractical to think that one can exercise off the calories consumed from a bad diet. It's much easier to change one's diet.
Oh, please. Introducing one more species to our ecosystem isn't going to have any effect at all, relative to everything humans have done to the ecosystem.
No government should be forcing its citizens into proprietary software which writes its data in proprietary ways without good, permanent ways to retrieve that data in the far future.
No, in many cases, it's just self-control. In my case, it's self-control. Believe it or not, some people can *choose* what they shovel into their mouths...