This sounds a lot like the advice Groupon got.

"There's an inverse relationship between income and charity. The more you make, the less you give, proportionally speaking."

Compounding this problem is the fact that we tolerate it.

A recent example of this is with the recent Philippines tsunami. The NBA players association decided to give 250,000 in relief aid, as mentioned in a PR statement that was apparently issued with some pride. In case it's not clear, we're talking about a group of crazy-rich athletes with an average salary of $5,000,000 donating about $600 each. To see just how terrible this, consider this. If you earn $50,000 a year, and you decided to forego a $25 pizza for the family for one week and donated that money to the disaster victims, mathematically you're FOUR TIMES as generous as an NBA player.

They recently decided to double it to $500,000. What a bunch of heroes.

And yeah, before you ask, I gave. I earn less than $30,000 a year, and I sent over $100. I'm not knocking anybody in my pay range for not sending as much. I'm talking about the superrich expecting accolades for doing jack shit, and the idiotic masses obliging them.

I downloaded the image for a Live CD a few days ago but hadn't installed it -- lucky me -- and I was wondering, are the new Live CD downloads updated yet? Or do I have to apt-get something straight away?

People are surprised by this? Awwwww.... that's so cute...

Newsflash. This is what governments do. Something bad happens, and they use it as an excuse to take away rights.

English speaking countries may mock the French as much as they want, at least THOSE guys know how to have a Revolution.