coupled with student loans that are rapidly accruing interest which can't be discharged, EVER, through bankruptcy.
False.
That is the rumor, but the fact is: you can discharge student load debt on your SECOND bankruptcy.
If I were allowed to grant you 6 mod points, I would sir. It's not about the platfrom per-se. It's about how it's being used. Windows 8 and Ubuntu have followed the same track as to catering to those that would rather dick around and not produce anything. To people like me, that produces things, this is a drawback.
It's ok that they go on this track for consumers of things; but for god sake, make something for the rest of us that are producers of things.
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