Today it's an illusion, a type of propaganda, to accept the status quo: That the very rich becomes ever more rich at the expense of the rest. The status quo is class warfare, which you have perpetuated wonderfully in your post. First, rich don't get riched "at the expense" of anyone. When someone gets richer, that doesn't mean they stole that money from someone else. Why do you hold such disdain for someone who is successful, who has worked smarter or harder, or planned better than someone else? Can you not reserve some of your disrespect for those poor people that neglected their educations, have never worked hard, have come to rely on the teat of the government instead of themselves, their family and friends? We have people in America that qualify as "poor" but own TVs, cars, have cable service, cell phones, name brand clothing, free K-12 education, and the list goes on and on. Just because we classify someone as poor doesn't mean they are really poor, especially when compared to other countries around the world which you hold in such high regard. They work hard, but they will never strike it rich. Simply working "hard" doesn't mean you will -- or even deserve -- to strike it rich. That's lunacy. That's not the American dream. The American Dream is that the only one stopping you from being successful in America is yourself. That, and the bureaucrats. But still the poor is left to fend for themselves as best as they can as recent events so tragically shows. The tragedy is that this was the first time many of these people had to rely on themselves instead of mother government. Now you see what happens when you make people rely on government... and the inevitable happens: government stumbles. What happened to personal responsibility? That is the corner stone of the American Dream. If the American Dream truly is dead as you claim, then it is for this reason alone. -- Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.

He's nothin' but a low-down, double-dealin', back-stabbin', larcenous, perverted worm!!
Hangin's too good for him!!
Burnin's too good for him!!
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!!!

"Nervous?"
"Yes."
"First time?"
"No, I've been nervous lots of times."

IANAL, but I saw Matlock at a bar last night. The sound was off, but I think I caught the gist of it.

I thought just the indian police officers didn't understand tech.

What a totally stupid, biased and ignorant remark. You're probably an astroturfing terrorist.

"So many Americans" have given their lives to rescue many parts of the rest of the world from dictatorships in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Where were you and where was your country when the Taliban were shooting women in the head on just the accusation of adultry, and Saddam Husein was killing hundreds of thousands just for sport? Perhaps you are from France, Germany or Russia, countries that were reaping big $PROFITS trading military hardware to Iraq for oil? Or, perhaps you are a Radical Islamic teaching your young to tie bombs to themselves and blow up innoocent civilians because you are too much of a coward to do it yourselves? What do you tell them, that Allah will be grateful and will give them 72 virgins in paradise?

Did you dig the graves for the bodies of the Americans who lost their lives in WWI fighting to free you, or are you the one defacing the graves of Americans buried in France because they rescued your mother and father from a life under Hitler's rule?

With the $Billions spent on the Marshall Plan in Europe following WWII the US has contributed $Trillions to the rebuilding of countries around the world. Americans have freely redistributed more of our wealth around the world than the collective contributions of all the Socialist/Marxist countries combined. The major export of those nations has been guns, bombs, violence and "revolution", and everywhere they've succeeded the result is a people even more oppressed than before.

How much money did you or your country give to the rebuilding of Europe and Japan after WWII? Did your country start a Peace Corp? Have you been sending Billions of tons of Care Packages packages around the world over the last 50 years?

Maybe you're a self-rightous Canadian who is vitriolic about American military power but enjoys letting America pay its military protection bill? Canada has a total of only 55,000 serving in all of their armed forces combined and they depend on the protection of America's military might.

But, maybe you're right. What if, from now on, we keep to ourselves, and when you flirt with tyranny again we won't come to your rescue after you take the dicator's bait? What if we dig up our sacred dead from around the world and bring them home to rest in peace and respect here? Besides the Marshall Plan, the Peace Corp and Care Packages, we have redistributed more of our wealth via job outsourcing than any other country in the world. Everything we buy here is made somewhere else by folks who are earning 10X more than they did before. Ninty percent of all programming jobs in the USA have been shipped overseas since 2000. Americans standard of living has dropped in direct proportion to its rise elsewhere around the globe.
We even let foreign Billionaires buy citizenship and then setup websites here using disgruntled Leftists/Marxists in an attempt to influence our Presidential elections!

What if we stop outsourcing our manufacturing, programming and other jobs and stop all HB1 and other job imports, canceled free donations of food, clothing, medical supllies and money? Would that be treating othes with more respect?

It seems that 16 bits and 640K wasn't enough for them after all.

this one time, at band camp...

"That's no moon it's a space station"

Its time for the record companies to stop fighting the future and adopt a new business model.

It's completely asinine that this sort of thing is legal. The entire purpose is to make money without actually doing anything, and the end result is that it stifles innovation. The patent system in this country needs a major overhaul.