We aren't Socialist because of medi-care or medicaid, with those programs we are Corporatist.
We give buy huge amounts of product from big pharma without negotiating prices or refusing to buy over priced products. Look at the business model for "Hover-round":

For nearly 20 years, no other motorized wheel chair manufacturer has provided more Medicare-reimbursed power wheelchairs directly to their customers than Hoveround. There are no “middle-men” involved. If you pre-qualify, Medicare may cover 80 percent of the cost of your Hoveround wheelchair, and your supplemental insurance may cover the remaining 20 percent. In fact, 9 out of 10 Hoveround owners received their HOVEROUND power wheelchair at little or no cost.

The entire business model is selling a product in such a way as to cost the customer little to nothing to buy,and billing the rest to the taxpayer. All the taxes/profits are privatized. That is Corporatism in action.

."The vast majority of voters are not intentionally pro-corporation."
There is a a continual bait-and-switch from both political parties here in the USA.
On the Republican side, the voter is sold "freedom and democracy and protecting families" but they receive legislative action that adds to wealth concentration, which then undermines freedom, democracy, and the quality of median family life.
On the Democrats side voters are sold something like "health care reform" and then receive legislation written by Wellpoint VP Liz Fowler that requires everyone to buy the product her company sells.
We are not free. Our "democracy" is a sham.

Does the SSA have a database matching names and browsing habits? They do now.

If only that were an option for most of America. Even in NYC we have only two choices and this is the most densely populated place in the country. Choice and ISP are mutually exclusive concepts.

The family should get to keep the house, but other people should also be able to make houses like it without paying rights to the family. Imagine if you had to pay IP rights on every piece of technology you buy. Rights on the design of your socks, rights on the concept of socks, rights to the ancestors of the inventor of the zipper, etc etc etc. Obvious IP rights need to have a expiration date. The question is: how long should that last? The answer is: Get a job.

I think it's hilarious that you used a coal miner "working his ass off to put food in his children's mouths" as your example of how someone might accumulate enough wealth to even be relevant to a discussion of inherited luxury. Nice try though.

If only holograms work, then we will just watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI&feature=player_embedded What really works about 3-D is that people will pay $20 for a movie ticket.

Those lessons you learned about hard work probably do make you an excellent employee. I doubt they got you into "Skull and Bones" or an invitation to sit on a companies board of directors or even an internship on the CEO track. Consequently you probably make a respectable living, but will never have real power and influence. There is mobility between working and middle class, but the top tier is quite a bit more stratified.

I'm a native born American, and I'm here to tell you that we have much less social mobility then we like to pretend we do. There was a recent report done on social mobility in industrialized western nations. The U.S. ranks well below Denmark, Australia, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany and Spain in terms of societal mobility. Sorry to burst your American Dream bubble, but we do have an aristocracy. While they willingly absorb the occasional genius commoner, they have a social network that keeps the established positions of power and influence for those within the aristocracy. That's why over 2/3rds of congress are millionaires. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/2/7/45002641.pdf

About 20% of the Blue Ray disks I get from Netflix don't work on my PC because of DRM. Not much better then pirated files. In fact TPB is what I use to so that I can still watch the movie I paid Netflix for.

No benefit?!? It's great! Internet warfare between commercial entities is so cyber-punk that I can practically smell a dystopian future bubbling into existence around me. That's awesome, except for the small problem of cyber-punk dystopian futures being horrible places to live for 99% of the population.

Those who think of false reviews as "jokes" are just boors with a limited world view. It exactly the same mentality that thinks "tagging" a building or park bench is cool. Juvenile minds have no respect for the value of a good, well tended community resource. To the small minded, the limited benefit they receive by defacing the commons is not over weighed by the damage done, because they are unable to understand the damage or value of what they are defacing.

Black Hat, yellow belly. As soon as Black Hat became big enough to have something to lose, it ceased to be the underground anti-authority thing it poses as.

What is the purpose of life? To procreate with the highest genetic value partner(s) possible. That is the purpose, but what is the meaning of life?

FTA:

The air-purifying concrete contains titanium dioxide, a photocatalytic material that removes the nitrogen oxides from the air and converts them into harmless nitrate with the aid of sunlight. The nitrate is then rinsed away by rain.

So we are going to add fertilizer to the rainwater runoff. I can't see how that could go wrong...