What the world needs....

is a cruise ship with 4,000 rooms!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/020927/168/2bxy4.html&e=2

There's something just so....unnecessary about this. Would be a good target for a SWAT team of pirates, though.
Surprised to see it's French. America's typically responsible for most of the world's hedonistic capitalistic excesses.

This looks similar to the Freedom Ship concept.

http://www.freedomship.com