SEO activities should be treated as slander in the sense that they bring down ratings of more relevant content. Google should lobby Congress to make such things punishable by several years in maximum security. And if more than one person are involved then this should be prosecuted under RICO and carry even stiffer penalties (ideally 25 to life). Google should work with the FBI to aggressively uncover and prosecute such activities.

And it's only two because nobody ever bothered with rock'n roll.

Rules and Regulations for Public Dance Halls ("no beating of drum to produce jazz effect") and also, Nazi hatred for jazz (I think this one is my favorite: "so-called jazz compositions may contain at most 10% syncopation; the remainder must consist of a natural legato movement devoid of the hysterical rhythmic reverses characteristic of the barbarian races and conductive to dark instincts alien to the German people (so-called riffs)"...)

I do not know why I got marked as flamebait. I clearly stated it was my personal opinion and I meant every word without intent of inciting a flamewar. Mods are on crack.
That said, to me the ideal design of GUI so far has been Windows 95, with toolbar autohide. Horrible OS but imho best GUI ever. Clean, simple, rectangular without the horrible rounded corners. Grey background, forgettable fonts, and equally neutral pointer shapes.
I have always hated icons and preferred text instead but I have yet to see a GUI with labels instead of pictures by default. Other than that - Windows 95 got most things right.

So now I know who made the Mac so insufferably ugly. For me it was a retch at first sight. I think I may be the only one in the world but I have consistently hated every single artistic and stylistic choice Apple ever made with their GUI (their hardware designs sometimes look OK, e.g. iPhone 4)

Not really. It is not too hard to make things robust. There is no reason why for instance a sub-folder could not be mounted even if the parent folder is corrupted. Just make every home directory a separate partition and mount them all under /users. If /users gets corrupted, mount discoverable user partitions somewhere else (e.g. /users-restore). So root folder could still be robustly accessible even if /users or /home were corrupted.
In any case, the point is that complexity should be within the filesystem, not on the user end.

I have no issue with your version either.
But my rationale on /var is that logs is something an admin consumes (like any other form of media - books, movies, etc). So logs that a given admin would care about should be presented to them and those they do not should not.

Example. A server in a household. One person reviews hardware related logs. Another takes care of internet facing services and security and the relevant logs. No-one looks at all the logs so there is no need for central repository. If multiple admins are registered to take care of any aspect of the system they get a separate copy of the logs. Hard drive space is cheap. Duplicate and personalize, don't centralize.

First off, logically /lib should be a subfolder in /bin since libraries are needed to make executables works and are not an entity in themselves.
Rename /bin into /programs or some-such for clarity. /dev, /proc and /sys also belong together though I am not sure how. Maybe under /devices.
Crap like /etc should be all collected in /config or something clearly named.

No need for /sbin, /tmp, /var, /root, /home, and /media.
Make a /users folder. This would contain all user info. This is where /root belongs logically. And /sbin should be in /root logically. /tmp should only be present on server installs. A distro aimed at personal use should not have it. /var should be renamed to something clear like /logs and should be present in every user folder, not globally. /home should not be there at all. Just have /username (including /root) in /usr. /media, /mnt and other crap like that just needs to be in /dev

Bottom line: when a user fires up a GUI browser for their filesystem, they should see just a few key directories and their purpose should be obvious from naming without any training in Unix. /programs, /devices, /users, /config
On server installs, add /shared.

BTW, I am not a fan of oversimplification either. Do not dump all things into something dumb like /unix or /linux or /posix. The whole /windows business is a mess. Users are afraid of even peeking inside this huge folder.

Removing unencumbered open code/GUI/interface etc. which is known to work for no good reason is unhealthy.

This does not seem like a healthy trend.

One more thing: It is possible for human labor to contribute to economic growth but only if the worker was not adequately compensated. So in the extreme case, if you take a grown man and stop feeding him while demanding work then anything he will do until he dies is indeed pure growth of the economy. However, assuming efficient labor market and fair compensation, commodity labor does not create wealth. And the only reason non-commodity labor like research generates wealth is that it is never fairly compensated for (you just cannot fairly compensate the inventor of the wheel with all the resources of stone age economy).