Quote from: Karen Palen on June 20, 2011, 02:58:04 PM

Quote from: JA37 on June 18, 2011, 12:58:55 PM

I'm a slashdot guy and I don't hate bitcoin. I don't love it either though.
I do however find the rampant libertarianism that comes with bitcoin somewhat annoying.

I too am a Slashdotter who is pretty neutral about BitCoin!

Like Libertarianism itself Bitcoin is going through a transition from elegant theory to brutal reality.

To put that another way: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is!"

The Goddess of Libertarianism and "Objectivism" (Ayn Rand) was happy to collect her (gasp) government Social Security checks for many years. Her great prophet Alan Greenspan was the (government) person who Nationalized the US banking system in 2008.

Likewise the great and noble idea of a totally abstract form of money is starting to attract some serious crooks of various types. Up until a month ago all we saw were amateurs, now there is enough money (however you define it) to attract some serious thieves - not just script kiddies and small time con artists.

Sorry folks "I calls them as I sees them".

You certainly are a good representative of the typical trendy socialist /.'r Why?

- You love to bash libertarians, but have a terrible command of the relevant facts. EG, Greenspan left office in 2006. And the Federal Reserve Act nationalized the banking system long ago, in 1913.

- Your catty, emotional dislike of "all-time" bestselling author "Ayn Rand" makes you expose your ridiculous penchant for overusing the "Look@me, I'm being sooo snarky and sarcastic" quotation marks.

- You get your worldview mostly from Viacom's corporate liberal entertainment complex (Mahar, Maddow, Stewart, Olbermann, etc.) and parrot it without the benefit of critical thought or even cursory fact-checking.

- You think that Democrats are like, cool, and stuff. Or at least you did in 2008, when you voted for Obama.

Sorry dumbo, but you're not the only one who ""calls them as I sees them"."

And Ayn Rand had every right to reclaim the money stolen from her at gunpoint, under pretext of 'social security.'