The reality is whatever fancy device you own that has any kind of transistor in it, much less a CPU-- a phone, a tablet, a TV-- you're having to fuss with it. Constantly.

Horseshit. My printer has a CPU in it, and in three years I've never had to do anything but turn in on. (I rely on the auto off feature.) Ditto for the CPU's in my and my wife's cars. Or in our GPSr's (a handheld and two dashboard navigation systems). Or in our washer and dryer. Or in our home entertainment system (TV, Tivo, HDMI switch, Roku, Blu-Ray player). Or in our microwave. Or... we pretty much haven't had to "mess with" any of the dozens of the CPU's in our possession. (And most of what little "messing with" we've had to do has been with the phone and desktop, and the "messing with" has been minimal... hit "update" and walk away for bit.) I don't know what planet you live on, but here on Earth in 2014, consumer grade devices don't generally require user intervention.

Anyone with an IQ above room temperature has long known that if Bitcoin was accepted as a medium of exchange it would be treated like any other and subject to the appropriate taxes and has no problems with being so.

That isn't the heart of bitcoin at all.

And then Amtrak took over all passenger rail-travel, and has never shown a profit since.

Passenger rail has never been a profitable business in the US.

Republican in libertarian clothing to draw the lunatic and paranoia votes. And then Rand Paul will continue voting Republican.

It's a strategy that's worked well for him for quite some time now. People support him for his current soundbites, and ignore his voting record and anything older than a couple of hours ago. (The last Presidential election cycle, Slashdot was at times practically a Rand Paul For President discussion forum.)

Had G+ launched into the same vacuum that Facebook did... you'd have a point. But they didn't.

And sure, they eventually gave people large numbers of invites, but by then the damage had already been done.

I think you missed the big one: lots of people might actually start using Google+.

I doubt that lack of anonymous accounts hurt G+ all that much, despite the enormous amount of noise generated by a relatively small number of people over the issue. Google's insanely stupid "invitation only" method of signing up coupled with their very feature incomplete system at launch likely did far more harm than anything else. Google just doesn't seem to get social media, and their lackadaisical "benign neglect" management style and... unique approach to UI doesn't help either.

I like G+ very few trolls and flamebaits. I've had some good conversations. It was nice being in a science thread and not here AGW denier bullshit, and actually discuss the science. Many other examples as well.

That's a function of who is on your friends list, or who the community moderator is and how well they do their job, etc... etc... not of the host platform.

Your SRS is showing

You so coy!

damn_registrars has demonstrated himself false to me on several occasions.

The only things new under the sun are the abortions and gender re-assignments.
But those evils don't expose any fresh hell in the human heart.

"considers the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics to fit with our theology"
and
"but an image of God that is a model of the actual God"
Are you pointing to problems in general, or some theologies in particular?
As a sola scriptura type, I'd like to point to some specific English language scripture as a possible solution, but the same problem heads its ugly rear there, too. Guess we'll have to be humble and rely on faith, no? :-)

He can't help it, the leads were weak.

This kind of treatment is itching for a useful application. Screw photographic/military/whatever - put this on a car... lets say a Lamborgini 'cos some how something very angular seems more appropriate.