The Windows 8 start menu is populated with all newly installed programs and apps, hiding the extraneous bullshit under deeper layers that must be accessed specifically (as opposed to crowding your screen/menu with garbage like help files and uninstallers). Furthermore, it eliminates the need to care about where it is installed (unless you want to configure that, in which case that functionality still exists in normal programs, but not in store apps [at least not that I'm aware of]).

Hence why I love it (especially after using OS X for some time) and find 7 inefficient by comparison.

How do you conclude that? The baseball player may have denied some guy who wanted to get a degree in underwater basket-weaving instead.

Absolutely true. Moving to 8 convinced me of how wrong I was doing it for years with regards to the start menu (apart from easy search, but looks like they are aware of that and will fix it).

Go use OS X for a while then go back to the pre-Windows 8 Start menus and you'll realize how asinine the design is for efficiency. Microsoft moved in the right direction with the Start screen.

Or, to put it another way: A massive problem with college is that it is now High School Part II: Curse of the Monthly Loan Statement.

Ok. Don't use it. It isn't a requirement of connecting to other computer systems. If you don't like convenience, you don't have to make use of it.

Not in terms of taking the proper legal recourse, but he did betray his principles by trying to force someone to give up their legally owned domain. He didn't like the rules of the DNS game, and rather than make a simple financial deal he decided to try and manipulate the game to his favor. Thankfully the system took the proper course and told him he's shit out of luck and that he should play by the same rules as everyone else.

The 24 hour news cycle hasn't had anything worthwhile to contribute since the 90s. And even that is being generous.

Fox's network channel would get stomped in a cable lineup.

And if they are a bank circa 2008, they prefer to push the losses on the taxpayer when the risks don't pay off.

What a moronic assessment. Yes, there are plenty of investments that could fail, but acting like ever individual out there will crash and burn on their "grand plan" is small minded and ignorant at best.

I'm not advocating everyone go invest in the market (that would hilariously bad), but to pretend that a savings account with .000001% interest is the only other option to keeping your money in escrow with the gov't is myopic.