You can still close windows in Windows by double clicking the left side of the title bar (where the window menu used to be), even in Windows 7 (not sure about Windows 8 or Windows 10 as I have used neither).

Today that price difference is not nearly as much. Looking at (as best I could find, not exactly) comparable systems, a Dell 15" XPS laptop is $0.99 MORE than a MacBook Pro 15". The Dell has a touch-screen but the MacBook Pro has an SSD and other differences. Perhaps if you took more time than I just did to build as close a system as possible the Dell would be cheaper, but I didn't find that.

How does inflation fund government services to the general populace? Genuinely curious. I like taxes, I get a benefit from them. I don't see much benefit from inflation (that I am aware of but I am ignorant of much macroeconomics).

Why would I want Comcast internet service? We're talking about the cheapest way to get HBO today.

From your link:

Which is $95 a month PLUS:

An unknown amount of fees they don't disclose on that page, which might change during your TWO YEAR CONTRACT. No idea what the termination fees are.

So, according to what you linked, I was wrong about the $140/mo + whatever fees cable package and indeed you can get HBO cheaper by having a cable internet connection going into your house that's going to sit there unused for $95/mo + whatever fees.

If they were increasing their subscriber numbers they'd make more money unless the new subscribers were only giving them a fraction of what they make. I imagine, with ESPN being pretty much the one thing keeping cable subscription fees so high, that they make a LOT more than $10 a month per household that has cable. I might be wrong, but I remember reading that ESPN is the backbone of cable subscriptions.

I don't know how much HBO makes, I care about my cost and value received. Now that there is an option to not pay $120 for other crap I don't care about, I'll give them money. Until then, my only option was $140 a month.

Many do. They don't care about shelling out over a hundred dollars a month for the couple of shows they might watch. Especially if they are not cable shows like Big Bang Theory or Nova or much of what's on the broadcast networks.

I'm in the Seattle market and my quote was from the Comcast website for the lowest tier (without Internet, cable only) which had an option of adding HBO.

In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month, though they can't actually tell me how much before selling it to me. Of course, I would get all sorts of other channels, but if I only want HBO, that's the cheapest I can get it today. That's why HBO selling directly to me might actually get money out of me. HBO is not worth $130 a month to me.

That's not a very tall order, considering now much most cable companies compress their feeds. Since I switched to OTA my quality seems an order of magnitude better.

I imagine they make a lot more than $10 per cable subscriber per month. If what I imagine is true, then they might not want their cable subscribers to leave the cable system and only pay them $10 via Amazon (less after Amazon's cut).

I agree that there are many better solutions than the system we have in the US today but there are options if one disagrees with the social norms (birth control is a social norm, for example). One could opt out of employer purchased health insurance and buy ones own from a company that does not cover birth control. Insurance is a shared experience by a group. One has to balance their views with the views of the group. It's silly to insist that the rest of the group follow one's worldview when one could join a different group.

I'm a man and I'm glad that insurance covers birth control for birth control does society a truck load of good.

Why would the Mainstream Media say a retraction of the CIA report that said there were no WMD stockpiles?

If you want to only pay for the medical expenses YOU use, then what you want is not insurance but just pay out of pocket for everything. Insurance is a *shared* way of distributing costs. Many such costs will NEVER be relevant to you.

Also, car sales in my state are not anonymous, they require signing over a title which has an owner's name on it.