I will do a strip search if they can promise me that there is zero chance the plane wont blow up.

Zero chance the plane won't blow up? Man, I hope I don't wind up on your next flight.

Of course, they can't promise anything like that with certainty. The stupidity of the TSA is that we are wasting enormous amount of time and money for very little benefit.

I miss the days of coming off an airplane, walking down the tunnel, and immediately seeing the face of a loved one.

"Almost half of the top 100-selling iPhone apps are for preschool or elementary-aged kids"

I have a 15 month old and he loves watching us play colorful games or apps and his attentiveness has amused me, especially because he has no interest in TV.

I only notice it when I am using Chrome.

Ohio State University

not even close

...and they have Flash. It is a bigger deal than most think. 85 of the top 100 sites use Flash to some extent.

Internal Server Error

dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1087092

An update from VentureBeat - Apple tablet reps spotted at LA hospital

http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/01/09/apple-tablet-reps-s...

So the government should get it (in the form of taxes)?

Sure. Until we have a better organization, whose primary concern is the overall health of society, to distribute it.

Government is certainly a flawed organization. But we currently trust them with all our other tax dollars. I don't see any reason to hold estate tax dollars to a different standard than any other government revenue.

But the argument being made here is that spoiled kids are not deserving, so the estate tax is a just tax.

The point is: government is not deserving either, so the spoiled kids angle is bogus.

Pointing out that the government collects other taxes is simply not relevant to this aspect of the conversation.

Except that deserving isn't a binary attribute. So pointing out the government is undeserving isn't sufficient.

My point is that we as a society have entrusted government specifically with the job of redistributing wealth to better society and that makes them the better of bad choices.

The government isn't taxing the estate itself, it's taxing the transfer. See gift tax as well.