Uh, Islam is from the western world?

One thing wrong with most Americans ... "starter home" is in their vocabulary.

Guess what?
I live in a ~1850 sq ft 3 bdrm, 2 bath, no car garage house and am debt free with about 900k in securities and savings (not including the equity of my house).

You people have twisted goals.

I see cleavage. Very odd for a book on HTML5.

I like this description of this morning's clearing:

A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billionaire who bought his way into the mayor’s office.

Uh, how about NONE OF THE ABOVE ??? Where does OP live?

I live in Maine and here's what happened: it snowed.

I am definitely a JPM individual stockholder and very likely through one of the index funds in my 40x plan.

Being a common stockholder really holds no water. The networked board makes the decisions no matter what. I'm not saying I'm powerless, but, we are powerless.

Things like sports keep people interested in something else. Entertainment in general keeps people happy, it's a diversion. And I am one who rails against the high salaries of entertainers, kingly sums really. But I only rail so far because what's it get me? I'd rather enjoy life and so far things are good.

As a 10%er I'm concerned.

A. Wake up call? I NEVER said I "hated" them.
A1. Maybe there was some generalization there, but, I still support a 1%'er tax hike - period. Hard work yes, but those extreme compensation examples do not happen all by themselves. We pay for too much military, police and fire personnel with lifetime handsome livings, good highway systems, clean water, etc... Not a single 1%er did anything alone.
A2. I agree that fairly taxing 1%ers will not shift power down. Nothing will but it's a completely separate problem of lack of actual democracy. The irony of the US "democracy" persists. The actual sort of plutocracy/oligarchy persists.

B. You don't know fascism.

C. Economic feudalism is more like it. I come from a very humble background here in the US. I put myself through two degrees, served in the military, and have been fortunate. I am the only one in my family to go to college. I see many of my nieces/nephews awash and adrift in a place that doesn't really have a place for them.
Ca. As much as I want to shoot laser beams at Rick Perry, one thing he has proposed is the $10K degree. Now academics mumble that you get what you pay for, you can't get an education for this amount, blah blah blah. But what RP is kind of calling for is not a liberal arts education but a trade tract for individuals. You get a trade or occupation after a 10k investment. Period. It's a great idea to have thrown out there. Love it. We should acknowledge and help people find paths more and this would do it...

I have met these ... and those with pollyannaish tendencies (a different vector of delusion really). In the US, a lot of people tend to like folks such as these, take them on as subordinates, and promote them to their peter principle level. Not many adults enjoy the truth I've learned.

If you really think everyone "works" for what they have then you haven't been in the workforce long have you? Jesus.

Furthermore, if we are talking about the 1%: these guys aren't the risk takers, they aren't the job creators, they aren't the innovators. They are like Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan since 1995. He's seen his overall compensation between 9 million and 30 million all the while returning what to shareholders? Nothing. JPM the stock, which joe worker might rely upon either as a single equity or as part of an index fund has remained absolutely flat returning a paltry dividend only.
No, the likes of the good ol' person networked CEO is that they are glorified, overpaid managers. They are not the people who have worked hard for what they have.

Any talk of raising taxes today in the US probably does not affect you. I can say this with reasonable assumption only because it's a small percentage who make that kind of money.

Probably the only company to fly a pirate flag.

Probably the only company to dedicate their home page to eulogize someone (not Steve Jobs himself).
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_Honors_Rosa_Parks_on_Home_Page/

RIP Steve Jobs. You were a hero, an artist, innovator, and visionary of the likes we will not know. More people, businesses, and campuses should fly pirate flags.

... or using CASH.

I don't believe this reedit thing was around when I joined /. -- pray tell troll?

Unless you are buying ads from Google you are not a user to them, you are a product to them.

YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!

I'm a bald.

And I don't give a flying shit about hair restoration.

More haters gotta hate with the belittling speech codes. "precious designers"

Who the frack said they were precious?
Why do you suppose they are precious?
Why do you presume they will automatically screw up?

I've known people from all stripes of ambition and career to screw up, none inherently more than another.
I'd go into stories of monumental screw ups specifically regarding networking crew, application programmers, or systems admins I've worked with but to what end?

Take your bulloney elsewhere.