So you're equating wealth itself with crime. If that's not class warfare. I don't know what is.
N.b., there is always someone who has less than you who wants what you have. Be careful what you wish for.

Evil bankers won't buy me a house. Boo hoo.

That just drives the cost of goods up, since they charge merchants the 1-2%. On large dollar items, sometimes you can negotiate a cash discount.

The problem is that wealth redistribution requires at least some level of thuggish behavior. It might not be apparent in a large scale, where the IRS and threat of prison do the dirty work, but would quickly become apparent in a small scale, such as a town of 100. What if, in that town, 99 people went to a guy with an order of magnitude more money and said "give me your money, or we'll throw you in the jail"?

What about the people who borrowed from their banks, bought houses, rode their value up to 5x their real value. Cashed the equity out to buy cars, vacations, luxury goods, etc., and then let the houses go into foreclosure?
Same thing.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved more lives than any other event in the history of war.

Milbrae BART only runs to SFO after 7pm. Before that, you transfer Caltrain -> BART north to San Bruno, then transfer again BART south to SFO. If they can't even get that right, how the heck will they manage high speed rail?

I think demanding already paid compensation to be returned is very different from the way most American corporations operate. I've never heard of it before. It's mind boggling, and if I were said employee, I'd definitely quit on the spot.

The FCC sold of spectrum to Lightsquared without understanding its effect on GPS receivers. The entire aviation fleet would need to have upgraded instrumentation if LightSquared deploys in their spectrum, which was not intended for terrestrial use. There's a good chance GPS, which is now essentially safety critical, is going to win.

The same Slashdotters who are worried about patents in the H.264 standard someday possibly being used to sue someone are now excited when patents around technology core to 3G are being exploited. Hypocrisy.

You got a defective refurb, and should probably take it back.

Doesn't it automatically switch over to wifi when available (i.e., not involving pressing a single button)?

Maybe instead of a vast conspiracy, it's because LiFePO4 batteries have a much lower energy density? They can be charged much faster, but would you carry a 200W power brick to take advantage of it?
Lithium based ultracaps have on the order of 10% of the energy density of Li-Ion batteries. Would you carry a laptop that lasted 30 minutes per charge?

Most people will have their batteries replaced if it every stops holding a charge. Seems like a fair tradeoff to have devices last 30% longer per charge.

If it's not a formal standard issued by a standards body, and it's not a de facto standard, what really makes it a standard? If simply publishing defined a standard, almost anybody could create a standard, and there would be nothing standard about it.

I don't know what it will take to get people straight on this. H.264 is open and is a standard, but patented. WebM isn't a standard, but isn't patented.