It is called the Federal INCOME tax for a reason. Not a federal asset tax.

In 2006, the top 20% of income earners had 61.4% of income, sorry the page you referenced didn't supply a break down for the top 10% of income earners.

I agree, corporations and the super rich have many more options to hide wealth than a majority of people, and that needs to change. But it annoys the HELL out of me when people like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates complain that they don't pay enough taxes. Here's a solution, tell you accountant to quit taking all the extra F'ing deductions, stop hiding income, and pay more taxes. What that tells me is that they want to screw everyone else, but be leave me alone. Frickin' hypocrites.

I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.

That's it? If you had a billion dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?

Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a billionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.

That's not what your wife told me. Sorry couldn't resist, but neither could she.

Sorry, I had a different train of thought when writing the title. Should now read "what is the end goal, reuse old equipment or low power server".

If the point is to re-use the old P4, then get a low power PCI video card. If the point is to have a low power server to play with, get something like this: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch_v3.asp?scriteria=BA25456. Can be found else were, not giving props to MWave. Or if a dual core system is wanted, get this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167037.

Just need to add memory (SO-DIMM DDR2) and a HD. I went with the first as the single core Atom uses about 3.5 watts less than the dual core. I also went with two WD "green" HDs. It should pull about 50 watts when up and running.

Please, stockholders don't sue. Individual stockholders don't hold enough shares to make it worth their while to sue. And institutional stockholders don't care, they are not in it for profits to go up, they want reasons to make large numbers of trades to earn additional commissions.

Look at what Meryl Lynch did. Give out $4B in bonuses, and had the balls to move the date of the payout up to get it done before the BoA acquisition. They lost $15B that quarter, and still paid out the bonuses. If stockholders have a reason to sue, that would be one.

Shareholders don't sue.