It's a reference to Chappelle Show about how Rick James disrespected Charlie Murphy by getting his muddy boots on his white suede couch, and Rick James is like "Fuck yo couch! You're rich, buy another one! Fuck yo couch!" while spreading mud on the couch. It's about disrespecting you, but also dismissing complaints rather than actually admit you did anything wrong.
That's not even accounting for server racks. Servers run operating systems too, and a server doesn't really have a 'user' as such. Sure there's the admin account, but there isn't a definitive person you can tie that to.
This bill, beginning January 1, 2027, would require, among other things related to age verification with respect to software applications, an operating system provider, as defined, to provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder, as defined, to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store and to provide a developer, as defined, who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface regarding whether a user is in any of several age brackets, as prescribed. The bill would require a developer to request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.
I'm not sure how this is going to be enforceable. So, in essence:
The OS should have an accessible API that returns the age bracket of the user, presumably for the purposes of eliminating a lack of compliance on apps using children's data for advertising. That's not necessarily a massive problem, though I don't like the idea of age brackets, I'd prefer it if it's just a "Adult" vs "Child" bracket.
It doesn't seem to be asking that the age be verified through some external provider, so simply stating the age of the user is enough.
App developers are expected to always request that information on launch/installation, which is simply not going to work because how would you enforce it for software made before this law came into effect?
The definition of "covered application store" is way too broad and covers basically anywhere you can download software, including things like public docker hubs or Github, so no that's never going to work out. Apple and Google can maybe include the request for age brackets and provide that information by default as part of the SDK, but legacy software? Good luck getting WinRAR to request that information. You've essentially banned all software made before 2025.
So... The OS-level stuff isn't a huge deal, but the requirements on app developers are way too strict and would be unworkable. If I were to re-write the bill, I'd make it so the age bracket must be available at the OS level, but not required by the app developer to actually use it. I would then add more strict requirements on sites to not use children's data for advertising, with the reasoning being that they could have asked for the age bracket from the OS at any time, and the fact that they didn't even bother means they actually wanted to use children's data.
To be fair, the internet was fucking everywhere once the dotcom bubble kicked off. Everyone had a website, and even my mum was like "Don't bother your dad, he's on the internet" like it was this massive thing.
How the hell do you fuck up the task manager, an application that hasn't needed to be touched in decades? At best, you stick a new skin over it to match the aesthetic. The core functionality of the task manager should have remained untouched going back to... What, Windows 3.0?
Absolutely not, there'd be some TikTok influencer that would be like "Broooo you can get land so cheap!" and buy it all and sell it for massive profit.
Torrent the Dark Knight to watch at home along and the media companies will sue you for infinity billion dollars. Openly torrent every movie known to man to train an AI and the media companies don't do shit.
I am immediately skeptical of the 90% claim. There are a lot of Windows games, going back decades! Not even 90% of those work on Windows, let alone Linux!
Would Vogons even like Chess, or any game that didn't involve smashing something to bits and eating it?
I imagine to get a Vogon to play Chess, you would have to get a specially requested form signed in triplicate across 12 different divisions of the Chess Department (A sub-department of the Entertainment and Leisure Department, a department that only one middle manager knows about, and he's on Annual Leave today), one for each type of piece for the game, and again for each colour. After a period of 18 months they will maybe approve your request for the forms you need to fill in to request a game of Chess with one specific Vogon, who will then be asked to fill in another form (also signed in triplicate) to accept the challenge.
By the time you get to actually sitting down to start the chess match, you realise you didn't mention on the form who was going to go first, so you have to pack everything up and start the process all over again!
You don't want to hear me read aloud, I deliberately add malapropisms because I find them funny, especially when I have to read the names of fantasy characters and places. I am not going to read your pronunciation guide in your half baked fantasy language! You're not Tolkien! If it reads like Chicken, I'm saying Chicken.
I was under the impression that Slytherin was about ambition, not just cunning. You have to not only be cunning, but also be ambitious enough to want to use that cunning to get one over on everyone else. Even Horace Slughorn used his cunning to further his own position, and he was considered the 'best' Slytherin in the book, so that's their best foot forward!
Oh well, could be worse, you could be in Hufflepuff, which consists almost entirely of the 'boring' students. The rejects, the terminally useless, the basic bitches.
So what happens when an ATC just... Can't afford to live anymore? Say this shutdown continues until April, and all the ATC savings are basically gone? There's gonna be either mass strikes or just a bunch of them quitting because the alternative is working a full-time job and starving at home.
It's a reference to Chappelle Show about how Rick James disrespected Charlie Murphy by getting his muddy boots on his white suede couch, and Rick James is like "Fuck yo couch! You're rich, buy another one! Fuck yo couch!" while spreading mud on the couch. It's about disrespecting you, but also dismissing complaints rather than actually admit you did anything wrong.