that's different from bitcoin or any other currency? Please tell me how many currencies you could hold today and had value even a hundred years ago. Then up that to 500. I'm not aware of any currency that has survived 500 years, except precious metals..

except when shit hit's the fan, people resort to using gold and silver as currency. of course if shit REALLY HITS THE FUCKING FAN and there's no society left, then yeah, sure neither will do you as well as water food and ammo. Such is life..

thinking all the stupid articles about bitcoin have stopped.

You want a real currency? they're called gold and silver. They have lasted thousands of years, and will last thousands of years more, short of us figuring out a way to create them in the lab.

if you're programming in C/C++ and you're young, you'r eprobably using visual studio, which requires no make files. Just a bunch of options in the menu system, you probably won't touch very often. If you're using another language (java/c#/python) I really doubt you're using a makefile.

Just my opinoin, but the 2000, 2008, 2012 elections have nothing on how crazy slashdot got in 2004.

the joke is that people who say they work 80-100 hours, rarely do.

Reddit is that way -->

Wrong. This is slashdot, A car analogy is required.

I'm certainly all for the right to keep and bear arms, but the US is by far the most armed country in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

It does not follow that if you are speaking honestly, that makes your community look good.

Example: If Linus feels that all women should be raped, that would not make anybody look good.

All that said. I personally don't give a fuck.

i'm not so sure. I remember a case of a woman outright grabbing a male co-worker's genitals and the case got thrown out.

funny how many people decry bigotry, then turn around and spout off crap like the OP.

I wonder how many presidents qualify as worst president in history? I've heard it mentioned about every president in my lifetime, multiple times.

First off, that's not crony capitalism, that's capitalism. Crony Capitalism is where businesses depend on the government, rather than competing in the free market. There is plenty of this in the US right now.

So when the OP said:

Patent trolls are indeed a function of crony capitalism.

While you can perhaps argue that there has never been a pure capitalist state, you can eliminate things like the bailouts and the possibility for patent trolls, to go a long ways towards that pure capitalism.

first thing i saw when i got into phoenix.. 2 billboards for jail bonds.. really not the best way to start of a visit to a new place lol.