Thats like saying that C/C++ adoption on windows is due to vector locking because that's what the API is built on. Due to that, C-like bridges need to be build into other languages so they could talk to the OS
The same can be done to talk to Objective-C

DISCLAIMER: have been dealing with windows api the whole week and is not funny

What is this "adding a pin-stripe" you speak of...?

Just rename the paint color from Monte Carlo Green to Forest Racing Green, don't change the color mind you as that would disrupt consumer conciousness. Then say well clearly this is not the same car, it wasn't available in Forest Racing Green...

Optionally remove the passenger seats (we only sell this car for use by the owner) [e.g. DRM] and charge more for it as "the sport edition" -and- get to claim its a different car so only you get to profit.

Profit is a huge liability in a movie produciton. Profits are taxable as corporate income. Profits cost money since they sold/promised people percentages of the Net Profit. If a movie makes a profit someone has fucked up hugely and it will cost massive amounts of money.

Our choices in the US are:

In the pocket of the MPAA and RIAA.

-or-

In the pocket of any successful monetary concern (churches are monitary concerns here as are the entertainment industries).

So one is pro MAFIAA and the other is pro MAFIAA with a side of "what are you doing wiht that there reproductive organ".

Your choices are:

Tax and Spend: Deomcrats....

Borrow and Spend: Republians...

Neither is "big business" its all "big kickback", e.g. they don't care where the "election money" comes from as long as they get it.

Both are in a race for the "religious vote" as it is the most volatile and humans are "loss adverse" so they worry more about the religious vote they wont get than the "don't give a fuck about that stuff" vote that they could buy quite easily with a reasonable platform.

Most voters vote for Borrow and Spend because either (a) I cannot vote for Democrats because it would be good for the darkies, or (b) I cannot be bothered to pay for things now when they are reasonably priced, I'd rather hope I am dead before I have to pay this bill ten times over. (e.g. I have three moneies now and I don't want to live in a world where I only have two).

Plus we let the parties decide who gets to vote for each position instead of letting geography decide, so there is no way for a third option to survive long enough to become an option.

Yea, HR and General Council are heafty blows, but the poster is already saying he's worried about reprocssions.

In a government contract related setting, however, there are apporpraite people (your ethics focal, your compliance manager, your direct report, etc.)

The quesiton is posed as "Marketing told us all", so the response has to be "I told the very-limited subset of directly interested parties".

Since the questioner is -aready- in fear, targeted and effective aggression -is- the only answer that works. Being correct is just icing.

Passive aggression with "reply-all" is far more likely to tweak a managers gnads than a managerially correct action. Not knowing the size of the company, I picked titles that would be correct in general as examples to the crowd.

The one thing managers cannot stand is weakness, if you are going to fight the issue at all, don't be a wuss about it or you will get roasted.

CC: boss, HR, general council
RE:request dated (date) that I link, like, and promote our applicaiton in my private social media.

Dear Marketing Person,

In accordance with our companies Due Dilligence requirement I have examined the request of (person) on (date) and determined that following the suggestions therein could cause (app name) to be removed from the (app store) service. Since this request may be against our Ethics Policy, and following it may be detrimental to the company in general, I will not be able to perfrom the actions detailed.

I strongly suggest that management bar other employees from following the request at this time, pending formal review of the contractual requirements of (app store) and the possible reprocussions should (app) be banned.

Sincerely,
(Employee Name).

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The lesson: if you act all furtive about your rejection you look non-compliant or threatening. If you act very publicly and give citations you are potentially heroic or at least colatterally known to be acting in the company's interests as you understand them. The bigger the company the better this works. It is -particularly- effective if your company does any government or finincial work because then "due dilligence" and "ethics" are magical words not just good ideas.

You don't have to have the hardware made over seas if you home your firmware god-copies on an american made petri dish.

(obligatory windowz suxors reference, proving that anything can be turned into a partisan rant. 8-)

Atually the Prius B (e.g. second gen) is pretty peppy if you punch it, and the guys at the dealership have had them up to the 100+ miles-per-hour range with multiple passengers. Most gas cars will beat me from zero to sixty. Few will beat me from zero to 15 or 45 to 60. I have no willing declaration to make about getting from 55 to 85 on the grounds that I am making public statements concerning actions of interests of legal authorities... 8-)

The acceleration curves don't "feel the same" as a gas car, and you dont get the same "throat" out of a prius as a straining gas mahine with an automatic 3-speed transmission, but it ain't half bad really.

So no, my Prius B donesn't have the "performance feel" that a twenty-something who cannot use the break with any subtlty (hi Xue) so is constantly gunning it and then breaking harshly. But driven with subtlty and predictive awarenes of changing conditions, well it will "road rally through traffic" rather better than you probably have expected.

I also tend to end up speeding if I don't pay attention because decades of training to match engine feel to road speed between spedometer checks keeps getting foiled by the way the speed-MG will trade off with the torque-MG. So after I set my mental speedometer to the engine speed, the same engine speed will often lead to a creeping-up of the actual speed. Then you look down and Gah!... 8-)

You know, the -design- of the Prius et. al. was -not- to have it "pay for itself". This isn't surprising. My household refrigerator and washing machine don't "pay for themselves" either.

The Prius was tuned for -emissions- -efficency- not mileage. I knew this. For instance, in climbing hills the gasolene engine goes -much- faster than a comprable non-hybrid sedan. The higher speed is turned into electricty and then back into torque. If I punch it on the hill the engine goes faster still. The rule of losses in the transformation of energy dictates that energy (mileage) will be lost to transformation. Entropy must be paid. But the whole thing is squeaky clean.

People who expected to "make money" on their 40k car were idiots buying for the wrong reason. The rest of us bought for the green, and the smug, (be honest, there is smug to be had. 8-) and to drive down the price points as earily adopters.

And "mileage" is nearly the worst measurement of efficency there possibly could be. It is no wonder that big flat florida has people who -are- making back their money. The state is -flat-. If my commute were flat it would my mileage would be much better than it is today (42mpg). I have gotten 55mpg driving from Seattle to Portland, and only 48 driving the other direction (the sawtooth patern of the hills along I-5 is a determinant, very helpful going south, somewhat wasteful going north).

I lose most of my "mileage" in a prius in that once the engine starts it wants to run till it has "warmed up", which takes a significant part of my commute and is concentrated in the stationary time while I am stuck in surface street at terrible traffic lights, trying to get onto the highway. This meanst that all of my gas is spent pointlessly making heat.

I will likely not buy another hybrid though. I am planning on going electric next (e.g. leaf). Or to a Volt-Alike hybrid if I must.

Further on, I don't expect the electric to be much cheaper to run than the Prius. The state of Washington is gonny slap on a GPS tax any day, and electricty is clean but it aint as cheap as you might think. Ask anybody with an elevator or regularly used winch in a space they pay for. But I can aford the hit. I like having the smug, and I like having the cleaner tailpipe in general. -Someone- has to start paying to break the oil addiciton and having that opinion without willing to back it with my wallet would be hypocritical.

Full Disclosure: I also am midst of installing a geothermal heat pump in my house. I am expecting some savings, and some resale value improvement, but I doubt it will "pay for itself" for a very long time if ever. I'd like to back it with solar pannels because if I can get my energy bill down I expect to be able to sell the flash of having a negative electric bill several times a year when I sell the house.