You're wrong. It's very usable. I like it quite a lot, when using a touchscreen. It's kinda' awesome, actually.

That's just my opinion.

Another bad decision from Firefox. My company's moving to Windows 8. We'll be sticking with Chrome, which has a simple toggle between standard and metro. Every laptop made today is a touchscreen, and Windows 8 is awesome on a touchscreen.

Then you probably have no clue whatsoever.

Actually, I pay the health insurance for more than 20 people. I know more about health insurance costs than you do, unless you happen to be a health insurance salesperson.

Hopefully people have finally gotten the message and aren't handing over their money to private companies just because the government says you have to.

Why are you "hopeful" that people are not buying health insurance, and instead paying the tax penalties and living without health care? Sociopath, maybe?

Then after you realize that government regulations are so onerous that its really difficult to get a business started, you'll have to go back to working for a big company.

Like what regulations, exactly?

was on my own with a full-time consultancy, but I scaled it back to off-hours and went back to a forty-hour-a-week corporate job for the health insurance.

I call bullshit. You had a "full-time consultancy" but couldn't afford a few hundred bucks a month for health care? Right.

The point is that after they have entered their password, the child has 30 minutes of unfettered purchasing power and there is NO warning of this at all.

No warning sign... except for entering the password...

Am I missing something, or are you trying to be funny?

That's a lot of complexity and room for error just to save a few hundred bucks.

I have a 16 TB media collection at home that I just back up on more hard drives.

External hard drives in USB cases + Robocopy works great for me.

Speak or yourself. I eat according to the food pyramid, and at 40, with moderate exercise, I'm in incredible shape.

If this is true, then this is a really profound discovery that could help millions of people.

What I'm wondering, is why no other society, that we know of, has discovered this low-tech, yet seemingly incredibly useful thing previously?

What if you went to an Indian casino, exchanged your dollars for chips, and when you went to leave and cash out your remaining chips, they refused to exchange the chips for dollars, and instead decided to close shop. Would you still trust the dollar?

I think you've got your analogy backwards and upside-down. The correct question would be, "Would you still trust the casino chips?"

I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances

It's a big deal because a year later, lots of people STILL think it's the best car on the market.

I see this as being a real problem on Android and iPhone, because one needs to download a relatively large number of "apps" to get the same functionality built into Windows Phone right out of the box. Windows Phone has a lot fewer "apps" because there's obviously a smaller customer base right now, but also because fewer are needed in Windows Phone 8 than are needed in an Android or iOS environment.