The irony here is Xerox using this to "copy" their ideal brainless worker to pair asses to seats. Well played, Xerox, well played.

indeed. I did same thing, except I had barbed wire on my bare feet for extra traction on the ice.

you lost me at "shemales"

Nintendo should definitely add some more features to appeal to the older gamers. I grew up with nintendo, love the mario / zelda franchise, and have owned every single one of their consoles. The Wii, while revolutionary for its time for its motion controls, was a bit behind in the graphics / processing department. Thank god it at least had component video outputs but even then it doesn't do justice to those of us who have large HD sets.. However as an aging (30-something) gamer, my tastes have changed. Sometimes after a rotten day at work futzing with IDEs, I want to decompress with a FPS, blowing stuff up with occasional blood and gore. Or perhaps after navigating through a bunch of idiot socialites blocking the grocery store coffee aisle I want to play stuff like mass effect w/ foul language and pseudo-nudity. (Big boobed, aliens in painted-on bodysuits FTMFW! And yes, I do enjoy a cartoonish games (like mariokart) w/ friends when we all get together during special occasions. Some suggestions for Nintendo: 1) improve online play - lose the 'friend code' nonsense. 2) incorporate some sort of HDD / flash drive to store games to *entirely* eliminate need to change discs. this would be HUGE in my opinion. Even if its an add-on module, at least give us an option. I can see this posing some piracy concerns though. 3) incorporate HDMI and digital output. Cut the whole "Composite Video and RCA Stereo out" cord 4) Gig-E jack on back. wireless is OK but some of us actually have dedicated ethernet drops behind our entertainment centers for this very purpose. 5) allow linking up of multiple consoles to improve localized multiplayer gameplay and allow use of more than one screen, more than 4 players at parties and such. and finally... 6) for the love of god, please let Mario and Link get laid one of these games. They've been saving those freakin princess girls for almost 30years now and they never put out. WTF is up with that?

I suppose now as good a time as ever to cancel my facebook account. WTF are they thinking? Farmville, free ipad spam, and now banking services? sigh.

Please understand that while what you mentioned is very true (especially the law / drug ads if you watch CNN news during lunch hour) not every American should be lumped into the same greedy/wasteful category. I abhor TV and personally believe it dumbs down the masses and promotes a culture of laziness and complacency. My vehicle is almost 10yrs old and has been paid for long time ago. My wife and I are professionals (accounting and engineering), yet we live in a small home that we can easily afford. Yes, even though our friends with barely a high school diploma have much bigger houses, new cars (which most of them lease by the way). Many are already on their 2nd (!!!) house despite not having any equity in their first ones (thanks to interest only loans). I do all my own home improvements/repairs/yardwork and we eat breakfast and dinner at home, leftovers for lunch. 3-4 times per month we go out for coffee on Saturday morning as our only "luxury" that we allow ourselves as a family. Hey it's boring to eat in every day! My wife saves coupons and sews buttons back on clothing. We don't have a nanny. We don't have a housecleaner. We recycle. We only buy healthy fresh fruits/veggies/meats, nothing preprocessed. We don't have ipad this, ipod that. My PC at home is a 8yr old machine I built from newegg parts. We put as much as we can away into our retirement funds, and have already been contributing to our child's educational fund. We have not been on vacation in over 3 years. My vacation time has been spent painting or drywalling my basement. As for purchases, my general motto is "I'd rather go without than spend money on something of low quality." So over the years I've collected a variety of, say, nice tools which will last me a lifetime instead of heading to Walmart and buying up their disposable "tools" made of mystery pot metal. My point is this: even though we have the income to live more lavishly / wasteful, we make a conscious effort *not* to. This makes my wife and I statistical anomalies in our age group (25-34yrs). Don't paint all americans with the same brush.