If that was there sole reason they would just tax it.

I agree with your point but the game is being played whether you participate or not.

While I admit some companies are just horrible but sometimes this is the by product of doing things right. The company I work for hires 2/3rds employees with under 5 years experience most of which are recent college grads. With in three years most of these employees have been fired or promoted and the need for more entry level positions exists and the cycle starts again. Promoting from with in rewards employees for hard work and boosts company morale.

Till they ban bring your own modem. What your current modem works just fine and you have to pay for a new one. Already happening.

They use lists of known file hashes to search for files unique to your computer. If this were done they would have to examine every file.

Because there is not much of a market for $400 e-reader.

What can't you do in 7 that you can do in XP? I get the atrocity which is windows 8 but I've been happy with windows 7 when I use it.