Why is this modded down... and replies which are even further off-topic modded up?

People who have actually been to Ukraine don't call it the Ukraine...

Feeble attempt to make the computer page look and feel the same as the mobile page. Stop. This madness has to stop.

Republicans are such a perverted facsimile of what used to be a very reasonable party. If 6 years of Obama has taught us anything, it's that the empty can gets the grease. USA Politics desperately needs the GOP to fork into two factions - there are enough independents currently voting "D" to jump over to make a center-right candidate feasible. Center-right by US Standards, that is.

How many pretzels can you buy now that they've curtailed the length of time you can receive unemployment benefits?

Are your dogs lactose intolerant? Hipster freaking dogs with their allergy-of-the-month syndromes...

1. Bitcoin was introduced 3 January 2009; therefore it has been around nearly 5 years. Christianity has been around 5000 years? In one form of another I'm sure it has, but whatever - bedtime stories change over time, but they're still really the same thing.

2. IRL? Really? In Real Life? Whatever.

3. John Lennon much?

4. You really think that because there a plurality of Christians in this world, that it lends some kind of credibility to it? I'd be willing to bet we'll see a lot more people actively using BitCoin in any form (investment, profiteering, currency, speculation, whatever) vs. any kind of proof that Christianity does what it says. But He's coming back any day now, so yeah, maybe BitCoin is screwed after all.

It's almost like we shouldn't boil down politics into a 2 party, good vs. evil, sith vs. jedi, Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh, Manchester vs. Chelsea, Japan vs. China, USSR vs. NATO, Hetfields vs. McCoys decision. Almost.

But there's far too much money to be made by turning politics into entertainment.

Whether or not Charles Stross is correct is irrelevant; BitCoin is bigger than Jesus.

He's likely referring to the presidential election. As the electoral votes are awarded on a popular vote, with gerrymandered districts NOT figured (directly..) into the outcome, he clearly forgets that the State GOP has deemed that their continued representation of a minority through use of gerrymandered districts is more important than having a representative democracy.

Happens all the time.

You think they have a lot of seat cushions in Mexican bus terminals?

Give me a break. Terrorists wouldn't waste their time - they'd use it as a dirty bomb for the media attention, they wouldn't be a pest and try to kill 1 person a day randomly over the next 12 years. Where's the attention in that?

Thanks Slashdot for joining in on the fun. News for nerds, fictional stuff that matters from a fictional perspective.

If I meant rendered bacon fat I would have said rendered bacon fat. I simply meant more bacon. A scaffolding of bacon.

Mayonnaise on a sandwich? What are you, a French? The correct lubricant to put on a bacon sandwich is more bacon.

Karma be damned. Artisan Lamps? What the fuck good is that without an Artisan light bulb, an artisan table, or an artisan fluffy hipster cat to sit next to it? Artisan lettuce with my heirloom artisan tomatoes and my artisan bacon with some artisan cheese on my artisan bread. Shove that artisan BLT down my artisan throat and wash it down with my artisan spring water.