Have you actually turned on a TV or read a newspaper in the last year or two?

Palin and Bachmann associated themselves with the Tea Party movement. They give speech after speech invoking the Tea Party and they have very many Tea Party supporters.

And you're trying to say this is "spun by the lib'rul media"? Amazing.

Good job changing the subject.

When you said, "I wish there was a law to kill stupidity," you were talking about the parent poster. He said something that offended you and you wanted a law to silence him.

Why do you feel such a sense of entitlement? Why do you want big daddy government to solve all your problems?

So you would like a law to silence people whose ideas you find offensive?

Wow, talk about loving big huge government. Where do you nutcases come from?

Do you really have to ask that?

A depressingly large segment of this country is like this. And you really are surprised that these people are listening to McCain?

To be fair, FCKeditor was named after its author, Frederico Caldeira Knabben, who is from Brazil. Evidently that was his real name and he didn't at first realize the unfortunate similarity of his initials to an English swear word--but even if he had realized this, they were still his real initials, so I think he would still have some right to name it that. In any case, the name of the editor has now been changed to CKEditor.

Please re-read the posts you are replying to. TFA was saying that Bitcoin is a form of flat currency, and I was saying that that is incorrect, for pretty much the same reason you just listed. Your post is redundant.

That's exactly what I was saying. Wikipedia did not say that Bitcoin is a fiat currency. I was quoting TFA, which said that, and I was pointing out that TFA was wrong. My (separate) Wikipedia quote above said pretty much what you are saying.

Whoops--I meant to quote a bit more of TFA:

Like most major worldwide money systems, BitCoin is a form of fiat currency, meaning it only has value because people believe it has purchasing power.

That's the important part. Bitcoin is not like most major worldwide money systems.

TFA says:

The Wikipedia article says:

That seems more in accordance with reality. As weak as the dollar has been lately, it would be very difficult for it to lose all or most of its value overnight, unless there was a major world catastrophe, because it is backed by the U.S. government. But (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) Bitcoin could crash any time because its value is given to it entirely by (gullible) people's beliefs. Heck, even stocks are backed by something, a company's performance, and those can crash overnight too.

Can we submit entries for the fucking stupidest Slashdot post of the month?

I'd like to submit the post I'm replying to.

YOU LIE!

How exactly does "may, just possibly, find out the truth about something" translate to "OMG evrything on teh inturnetz is teh TRUE!!1! Dur dur dur"? Did you even read the post you were replying to?

If someone does a Google search, they may, just possibly, find out the truth about something.

And that possibility is what people like Glenn Beck find the most frightening.

Sorry . . . the first sentence above ("What cracks me up . . .") is a quote and should have been italicized. It doesn't show up that way in some browsers. I guess I should have used the "quote" tag instead.

What cracks me up is how often conservative viewpoints are modded up right alongside a post complaining of slashdot bias against conservatives.

Actually, it's not just alongside. Surprisingly often it is the post complaining of Slashdot bias against conservatives that gets modded up.