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How touching. The war is very stimulating, but I don't see the rich lining up for that little venture. The poor risk their asses every day. If we only look at our own personal financial benefit, how can we hope to correct the fundamental problems in the U.S. economy, such as the national...

The Bush tax cuts, as I understand it, reduced the tax rate applied to long-term capital gains and (qualifying) dividends. Anyone living in the real world understands that this makes it, by definition, a tax cut for the wealthy. The middle-class and certainly the poor, have little or no...

Interesting question - I was referring to speeds from Boston to NY, which is routinely 20Mb download. Since there are probably at least a dozen or more hops between Boston and the west coast, I never used S.F. or L.A. to measure. Latency skews the results and doesn't reflect the actual speed...

That's megabits, not megabytes (bits x 8), but DOCSIS and cable are still contention networks so you still share bandwidth with your neighbors. FIOS is not contention. Nobody's gonna see 160Mbits anytime soon. I have FIOS, near Boston, and 20Mbits/sec, it's impressive. Cable has a long way...

I don't expect it's unusual for the ultra-wealthy to remain frugal. That isn't necessarily a character flaw, and probably had a lot to do with how they became wealthy in the first place. Alot of those guys who lived through the depression were like that. When I was a kid in my early 20's, I...