Is to want what you have rather than trying to have what you want.

If you earn $40k / year, don't spend money like you make $80k. Debt is stress. Debt is unhappiness. Avoid it.

People of all various income levels can be happy or not. It depends on how they choose to live their lives. People who over-spend because they think having those nicer things will make them more happy end up being owned by their things. And in debt. Both of which lead to unhappiness and stress.

I am quite happy. Why is that? My home mortgage is less than half of what I could afford. I drive an 8 year old car which I paid off 5 years ago. Therefore, I have some enough money each month for entertainment and also enough to save for the future.

No stress and I get to have fun. Stop trying to keep up with the proverbial Joneses. It will inevitably lead you toward stress and unhappiness.

What other demographic would pay $600USD for an over-sized iPhone that can't make calls?

Seriously. You can purchase much more powerful & useful devices that have a similar footprint for hundreds of $ less. While also freeing you from Apple's arbitrary application approval. The massive sales numbers of the iPad is truly baffling.

What about Ning?

I have not set up a social network using Ning, but am a member of a few. Does anyone have experience with it?

What about the notion of broadband providers as "mere conduits"?

They don't attempt to filter content on the grounds that the nanosecond they do that, then they are liable for any/all content that flows through their service.

By the same logic, an entity that is a "mere conduit" is NOT a 3rd party to which ownership of any of the content - including email - is given. The case is crap.

Personally, I think this is great news. Competition is a good thing. If Youtube was the only destination for video, that type of monopoly would - eventually - prove to be bad for everyone. Even if it is "do no evil" Google.

Several months ago, I canceled my TV service. I use Hulu quite often to watch the shows I want to see. They are always there, commercial interruptions are minimal and video/audio quality is good. And that is just using VGA cable from my laptop to DLP HDTV @ 720p res and a headphone-to-RCA output to my HTR.

I upgraded my internet service to 6mbps down for only $5 extra / month. Canceling the TV service saves me more than $70 / month. Obviously, I come out way ahead here.

Hulu.com is a great service and I disable ad-blocking for the site and try to actually click an ad every once in a while. I want this model to work. It's unobtrusive, on-demand and costs me exactly what is should: Nothing.

If I'm going to have commercials shoved down my throat, then it should not cost me money to view the content. That's what the advertisers are for. The traditional cable TV service model is on the way out. Good riddance - I'll not miss it in the least.

You are quite correct. I would like to retract my original post and apologize to all 2 - 4 year-olds.

... that the largest financial institutions in the U.S. were actually run by 3 year-olds.

Right. Vidler's mashup is actually title "Rapture Riders" and is a Blondie / Doors mix. Quite good, but probably not what you meant. I saw "Riders On The Storm" and it reminded me of that mix.

Oh, found a link to download if you are interested.

That would be Mark Vidler, aka Go Home Productions. He does some absolutely genius remix / mashups / whatever you want to call them.

Click the mp3 link and you will find some free downloads as well as many mashup vids hosted by YouTube.

Not sure if the mix can still be found on his site, but the "Superchunk Mix" Part 1 and 2 is simply stunning. Near the end of part 2, there's a very cool mix using Bowie's "Under Pressure".

Then, immediately after, is an exceptionally cool mash-up using AC/DC (Back In Black) and Queen (We Will Rock You) with a lead-in from Run DMC and then tosses in some Led Zeppelin too. Then, just at the very end, you hear I heard the news today, oh boy.... Squeezed some Beatles in there!