Did you guys see this? Bill O'Reilly, Fox News chief douchebag, thinks that people who own iPods are anti-American, for some reason. Since Bill O'Reilly makes money from a premium podcast on his website, what does that make him? "Aiding and abetting"? 
Perhaps he's twigged that a large number of tech geeks don't agree with him - they're usually libertarians on social matters, often rising out of their religious liberalism or atheism (cf. Tim Berners-Lee's Unitarianism, Bill Gates and Richard Stallman's agnosticism/atheism).
Bill O'Reilly's analysis seems to peg America's downfall to it's penchant for technology. How exactly? The same technology that helps his "boys and girls in Iraq" (an interesting description for professional killers) smoke out the terrorists also feeds in to the development of consumer goods. Take hard drives. The hard drive in a portable MP3 player like an iPod is a tiny little 2.5" disk. It is designed with shock protection and memory caching in order so that it can be used in motion (in the car, on public transport, out while walking etc.).
The smaller iPods and their competitors use flash memory, a technology which is getting cheaper and cheaper as the storage sizes increase equally (you can now buy 1Gb SD cards for less than £10). These kinds of enhancements in storage technology are helping everyone - whether it's a commuter on a train who wants more interesting entertainment (I have about 3.6 hours of unwatched video on my iPod, and about 4 days of unplayed audio podcasts), a business who wants to store more data or a military intelligence unit who wants to be able to reduce the physical size of their equipment so that they can set up quicker and easier out in the battlefields of Iraq.
Not to mention the fact that the super-dull Tom Clancy genre of computer games are now used for military recruitment and training (America's Army being an example of this).
It's the "geeks" who are developing this technology, Bill. The problem is that when O'Reilly's show is on, people are tuning out and watching Rocketboom or listening to TWiT or to political podcasts produced by people with quite a few more working brain cells than Mr. O'Reilly.
