...and think twice before you drop out based on what a few privileged geniuses (who were going to succeed in life no matter what) were able to do. Cherry-picked anecdotes are nice but in real life, the unemployment rate among recent college grads is 6.8%. Among recent HS grads? 24% Do you feel lucky punk?

Wow, that's amazing news. It does almost everything that email can do. What will they think of next?

Talented people want to exercise their talents and be rewarded for such. They do not want their rewards to be deliberately diluted by an enormous welfare subsidy to the rest of society. Don't forget that individuals can simply pick up their talents and take them somewhere that adequately rewards them for their accomplishments. Siphoning this talent from the rest of the world is a fundamental tenet upon which the USA was founded, and subsequently emerged as the world's only superpower.

Whippersnappers - when I was a lad, we didn't have XBox at all. We had a cardboard box AND WE LIKED IT!!

hrmph...