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Java Specification Request on Community Currencies

Posted by Hemos on from the come-and-help-out dept.

bernfast writes "I've submitted a Java Specification Request on complementary currencies to the Java Community Process. This specification will allow to implement arbitrary units of exchange as Java currencies. Examples are timedollars and other community currencies. This JSR is still in need of an expert group and will probably not receive too much industry suppport, so any help from the open source community is welcome."

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  1. Damn it. by DAldredge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just when I didn't think /. could get any worse.

    Please recommend other websites/blogs that cover real tech topics not stupid crap like this.

    TIA

  2. MOD PARENT DOWN - GOATSE REDIRECT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent contains Goatse redirect!

  3. hello im new :) by feeeee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i hate eggs

    1. Re:hello im new :) by feeeee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      man i need to explain that that egg thing was part of an ad and yes *looks embarrassed*

  4. Re:Why do we care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Communism rocks!

  5. Re:Barter and alternate currencies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The IRS is more than welcome to pump my stomach for their 25% of the home-cooked steak dinner I was fed for fixing a friend's computer the other day. I received no US dollars, and I will give them no US dollars.

    Hmm, better yet:

    Declared value of home-cooked steak dinner: $0.00
    Justification: There is no demonstrable average market value that can be assigned to something that is given and received in millions of households in the US on a daily basis for free.

    0.25 * $0.00 (from line 17d) ^ (US gross national product) = $0.00 tax I owe for the tummy income of my labor.

    Taxing labor-derived income is completely immoral anyway. If you have to tax some sort of income, tax investment income, where it is money that is making more money (the traditional income of "old money" aristocracy, which laws like the inheritance tax try to break up and inhibit). Forcibly seizing the fruits of one's labor runs completely counter to what this country was founded on. It is unAmerican. (See? The label game works both ways.)

    Screw you, IRS. You were created illegally anyway, and your existence "justified" only after the fact. You can tax the vapor currency that you issue, but you'll get nothing of my non-cash (US-issued money) increase.

    You're welcome to raid my vegetable garden for 25% of my tomato increase, plus zucchini penalties for illegal seed withholdings. That would be a Constitutional direct tax, at least.

    If you want to tax foreign currency income, be my guest. Regulation of international commerce is a well establisted power. I didn't want these damn Canadian pennies in my pocket anyway.

    Don't get me wrong, Canucks: I love you and your comedians and your "bacon" on my pizza, I just have no use for your pennies. Unkle Sham can have'em whenever he feels like dropping by. Maybe he can use my pennies to intimidate you economically for a pack of gum.

    IRS: Stupid, grasping, bean-counting peshunkets...