>Who is he to take form
>others? What exceptional skills
>and/or transcendental powers does he
>possess that are deserving of
>$90,000,000,000?

He didn't "take" anything from anyone. He recieved this money from investors and comsumers. When you implied that he "took" something it's as if he posessed something either by force or illegally, which he did neither.

>A: Do we really as a
>society need all this technological
>crap.

Some of this "technological crap" helps to save lives and make other people's lives easier.

>If we had more free time,
>we wouldn't be chatting on
>this board we would be
>discussion socialism in a bar
>somewhere over a beer (or
>water if you don't drink).

I don't drink. However part-time I work in a microbrewery/restaurant; I think they drink enough for me.

Personally, I'd rather have a Gatorade.

Other than Boodah and the other OkayMonitors, I dont think there is anyone that is actually forced to participate on this board. Hence, you're always free to discuss socialism anywhere else on the planet you like.

>B: Is it ever gonna end?
> Will we ever reach
>a point in society where
>wel will finally say "we
>have arrived" (i.e. no more
>innovation is necessary.)? At
>which time we would direct
>our energy toward improving what
>already exists. If not,
>then what the hell are
>we working for (besides transferring
>wealth to Bill Gates)?

I think one of the objectives of technology is to "improve what already exists".

I doubt if we ever get to the point where we dont need to improve the lives of people in some way. I would think that state would be considered utopia, in which I dont believe is possible.


"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler

"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -Voltaire

"The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help." - Thomas Sowell

"Life is insensitive, and the truth can be highly offensive. To hide from either is to hide from the reality of life. Take pride in the fact that I am an equal opportunity offender. You today, someone else tomorrow. You have no constitutional right not to be offended." - Neal Boortz

Some of you still think America's a
democracy. Lemme break it down for
ya...

* Democracy:  Three wolves and a sheep
vote on the dinner menu.
* Democratically Elected Republic: Three
wolves and 2 sheep vote on which sheep's
for dinner. 
* Constitutional Republic: The eating of
mutton is forbidden by law, and the
sheep are armed.

The United States is a CONSTITUTIONAL
REPUBLIC. Not a democracy.

Yes....I am a PROUD Black Libertarian Conservative.