I thought after we collectively eviscerated Ted Stevens for his "series of tubes" comment that the internet clearly had no tubes at all. This plumbing thing must be a typo.

Sure, because obviously anyone doing something like this must be another member of your church, where the dollar is neither accepted for donation nor recognized as valid currency. Hence the need for bitcoin payments instead, right?

After all, you said 10 years ago that the US Dollar would fail completely within 2 years, and it certainly did fail 8 years ago. Just like everyone else I now have a wallet full of Ron Paullors instead. I'm so glad that your lord and savior warned us in time!

We wouldn't have believed that a blabbering cult member such as yourself would manage to get his karma back from terrible to good in less than 24 hours of posting, but yet you did. And now as a result we see you posting your church material here as fast as you can type it. Hence attack dolphins seem pretty plausible; after all they can likely handle math much better than you.

you might or might not be from texas, but you sure as hell are not a libertarian. libertarians are supposed to support liberty for all , not just liberty for those who can afford it. you are supporting liberty and freedom for those who can afford it, and oppression of those who cannot. you are only a libertarian if libertarian is now analogous to fascist.

ron paul was an ultra conservative fascist blowhard who was in love with the sound of his own voice and the notion of crushing the dreams of people who were economically below him. his son is following in his footsteps by talking endlessly while simultaneously doing everything possible to prevent the passage of any legislation that would in any way benefit people who make 5 figures or less per year. in other words, rand paul is just trying to shore up his dad's cult for his own political future.

and to slashdot paullowers; you can't moderate me down any further as i already post at -1 thanks to you. if someone did bump this up by accident and you pushed it back down you would only be spitting into the ocean.

Same can be said for what he sees of for constituting a "thought".

You normally argue for people to be held responsible for their own risks - whether they are individuals or companies. Yet now you are are arguing for the almighty financial players to be protected from risk. Can't you keep your opinion straight? Or is this the new stance handed down to you by your church?

His church told him that vowel was unnecessary, and that he could reduce taxation and help move towards the gold standard by omitting it.

ron paul has seen himself as an exceptional human being for a long time, seeing himself to be above the law as others see it any time he can find a new way to interpret the law to his own benefit. now he wants to use the law to take property away from others, we should not be surprised to see this behavior from him.

If you read through roman_mir's posts (including posts he writes from his sock puppet udachny) you'll see that he does it all the time.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When discussing fascism, do as roman_mir does.

Wow, you call extreme fascism good policy? I'd love to know what constitutes bad policy - perhaps anything that actually considers the will of the people?

First, udachny is a sock puppet of roman_mir.

After that, the problems with his statement and why it did not deserve to be moderated out of the hole he has dug himself:

You are, however, a fan of fascism and runaway free-market foolery. In your world the teen never would have faced any repercussions because nobody would have seen it to pursue the matter for themselves. In your world his friends wouldn't have been able to turn him in, either, as the police wouldn't have listened to them - even when presented with the written evidence directly - unless the victim was willing to pay for them to investigate the matter.

You oppose law enforcement taking action against such acts, though. So you are not really anti drunk-driving either.

That tactic is no different from your favorite political hack and religious leader, ron paul. Your leader also gives substance to followers who grab on to his words. The difference though is one group is concerned with the impact of their devotion on the rest of the world - and it is not yours.

That, and one group believes their leader is the latest resurrection in a long line of leaders, while the other openly worships their leader and holds him as the pinnacle of humanity who is the greatest philosopher in the history of mankind.

It takes one to know one, eh? You find a way to squeeze in your religious and political ideology into any argument, regardless of whether or not a rational person would find a way for it to fit in.

Do you even know what quantum physics is? You never took physics at the university. I would wager you wouldn't recognize quantum physics if it was presented right in front of you.

Considering you did not take - or miserably failed - economics, you likely wouldn't be able to correctly recognize socialist propaganda, either.

Patents are to ensure that the proper credit goes to an inventor. Without patents as soon as you start to produce a new invention, anyone who wanted to could copy it with no repercussions, even if they copied your name and sold a terrible product under it.

And since you want the legal system to be sold to the highest bidder, an independent inventor would have no hope of success with any action if a large company decided to rip off their creation.

WHY do you hate inventors? You seem to hate inventors just as much as you hate working people.

And I was moderated up to 1, while roman_mir has been mostly downmoderated to -1 for trolling. Hence I did not need you to read it, AC; other people already did and realized who was factual versus who was pulling shit out of thin air.

But thank you for sharing your opinion.