It's been my experience that most self-professed Christians worship money and power far more than they worship any deity.

And this (extremely insightful) explanation is why so many United Statsians are so terrified of our own country. We are seemingly just a few votes away from a tyranny of the vocal religious minority. Give a fundamentalist a few thousand nuclear missiles and the most expensive army the world has ever known, and brown people around the world start to get nervous. But we have to do it, because terrorists, or freedom, or something!

So his next career will be on Wall Street?

This may actually be the stupidest thing I've ever seen on ./. So kudos, to you.

Same way Google does it I suppose. A list of single-use codes that you keep offline, and you can verify from the same device that you initiate the purchase from...in theory. It seems like the U.S., as a society, wants to completely eliminate every sort of risk in the world. What we should really be concentrating on is mitigating them to an acceptable level.

How about just basic 2-factor authentication?

• I initiate a purchase online, Amex gives a probationary okay and sends a 5 digit code to my mobile device
• The vendor prompts me for that code
• Once I confirm that I am in possession of the device, the transaction can be completed

It may not be perfect but it seems a bit better than the honor system that we're on now.

In a few years once somebody figures out how to implement a 5 digit value on the back of a card, our worries will be over!

I'm guessing that if the information were to ever get out, terrorists would somehow use it to their advantage. Give me a few more pints and I'll work out a rationalization.

I'm looking to relocate to Denver in the next several months...please tell me that Comcast being their ISP was your idea of a terrible, terrible joke.

Holy be Regan, peace be upon Him.

Something about man proving that black is white and getting himself killed at the next zebra crossing?

ownCloud does a pretty good job of it. Granted I'm one of those fortunate United Statsians that has a 50/5 connection, but a homemade microserver combined with docker and a slew of other applications hasn't let me down yet.

So...as an American can we borrow a few of your ideas? Of course we'll have to repackage them in red, white, and blue so that our more jingoistic (read: Southern) citizens can stomach the idea. I'd happily trade the "free" market for subsidized education and healthcare, and at this point will even more gladly trade our system of crony capitalism for anything else. Even bronie capitalism.

If you can get onto the testing group for Google's domains, you can set up an alias for any domain you have with them pointing to your Gmail account.

Settlers of Catan for gatherings of 4-6. The only issue is when alcohol gets involved, the games can become marathon sessions.