The design and process used to exchange BTC is probably deeply flawed, if these experiences are any indication.
The problem is a startup company called Blockstream, financed by traditional financial institutions, has managed to hijack the Bitcoin Core implementation, its developers, and forums. They are intentionally driving fees up through refusing to scale the blockchain as the original Bitcoin whitepaper outlines, and though their reasons are unknown, a good guess is that they are trying to force transactions onto side chains, which is a technology on which they have patents.
Because of this, the bitcoin blockchain was hard forked by a community wanting to restore Bitcoin to its original vision, and there is now a scaled version called Bitcoin Cash, which will allow for eight times more traffic (to begin with) without raising the fees. The fee for a transaction of any size on that chain, is at the moment about 3 cents.
Funny I just bought stuff at the corner store and the checkout girl's eyes glazed over when I asked if I could pay in American dollars. Then I ordered some delivery from a fast food joint and once again the dude on the phone said "what?" when I asked if I could pay in American dollars. Some standard you have there, which isn't even accepted in Europe.
I find that unlikely, but if he believed it was a good idea for even a half of a second, then he is too mentally unfit to be president.
I think this has already been established.
Putin may even be blackmailing trump and Trump is doing what he can to accomplish Putin's goals to avoid the blackmail being revealed.
Everything that Trump does is motivated by growing his and his family's wealth. Russian banks gave loans to Trump, and that's why he's being so friendly towards Russia. Qatar did not agree to a loan, and look what happened to them.
You can argue that if a single person didn't purchase a work but instead enjoyed it via an illegal copy, no money was lost. Maybe they told their friends and resulted in some extra sales. Maybe they could never have afforded it anyway. There are plenty of rationalisations that get thrown around if you only consider a single case in isolation.
But you can't argue that if everyone did that then the system would still work, and so if you look at the big picture, necessarily people who break the rules must be causing harm to some degree, because collectively they are responsible for the creator losing out on all their money.
By that logic, we can't have musicians. Sure, some people can be musicians, but what would happen if all people were musicians? No one would farm the food we eat, and everyone would die! Musicians must therefore be causing harm to society, and we should make being a musician illegal.
And you need to look at this
WTC 7 NIST Model vs. Reality
It's a two minute video comparing the real footage of the collapse of Tower 7 to the NIST simulation. Can you tell me with a straight face that they match up? The simulation bends and twists all over, while the actual collapse is so smooth that most of the windows even remain intact until the very end.
We're talking about some extremely sensitive equipment here. This approach allows the landing to be highly predictable as it comes to mechanical stresses on the components, contrary to the high randomness of a parachute + airbag landing. Add to that the fact that many of these missions cannot be returned to land, and soaking the engines in atlantic salt water is a good way to make sure they never fly again.
Well, I can't pay my taxes with US dollars, since I live in Europe. But they still have their use from time to time. The same goes for bitcoins, which I use quite often.
It's really nothing more than that - an inflatable test module which wont be used for anything, at least yet.
Here's a NASA blog post which contains some information.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is an experimental expandable capsule that attaches to the space station. After installation, the BEAM expands to roughly 13-feet-long and 10.5 feet in diameter to provide a large volume, where a crew member can enter. During the two-year test mission, astronauts will enter the module for a few hours three-to-four times a year to retrieve sensor data and conduct assessments of the module’s condition.
Well, if the US hadn't disbanded all of Iraq's armed forces, which then were humiliated and unemployed without most of them ever having had anything to do with the Baath party, maybe the insurgence wouldn't have had so many upset men with local knowledge, military training and no other way of feeding their families? That, in my book, is the most severe error that was made.
They should have just gotten rid of the uppermost of Saddam's old buddies, then promoted some lower chaps to take their places and put them all to good use, instead of starting an enormous recruitment campaign and trying to re-build the Iraqi army from scratch.
Not only that, but they should emphasise what a loser and a coward the shooter was, and thus make anyone hoping to make the news in a similar fashion think twice about it. "Do I really want to be called pathetic and spineless on national television?"
Remember, he has not been charged with anything, but is wanted for *questioning*. What is to stop Sweden from doing the questioning, then dropping the case and letting him go, only to pick him up again at the airport and put him on a flight to Gitmo? Since he was freed, the terms of the arrest warrent should no longer be valid, right?
But if you have euros, and need to transfer them out of Greece, you cannot do that with the capital controls in place. At least not faster than mailing the bills in an envelope. If you can convert the euros to bitcoins, you can then send the coins anywhere pretty much instantly. And that is the greatest value of cryptocurrencies, even compared to normal bank services (between different banks and countries).
If copyright gave an incentive to keep these works in circulation then they would not be presently rotting away anywhere, they would be widely available. But they aren't. So the existing lengthy copyright regime is currently is doing exactly the opposite of what you argued would happen.
Add to this, that if the movies were in public domain, *anyone* with an interest - monetary or otherwise - could do the digitization and restoration. This could be some other company, some silent movie buff society, or a museum or archive.
No, the problem is the Merlin D engine produces way too much thrust for the empty first stage to be able to hover. They can only do a really short break at the end or the whole thing will begin to move upwards again.
Or Operation Cast Lead and Operation Pillar of Defense (at least show some knowledge and use the actual Hebrew names)
I see no difference between your "corrections", and what I wrote. Or is it the comma separator that you have a problem with?
As for the rest - please. I've read all that before. Yes, Hamas is a bunch of assholes and probably war criminals too, but since Israel is holding all the cards and claims to be a western democracy, I hold them to a higher standard. That includes not shooting at stone throwing kids using live ammunition, imprisoning and torturing hundreds of people without charge, attacking and killing workers in international aid convoys, firing white phosphorous on civilians, and lots of other things. Your tired rant about Hamas does not excuse any of that.
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Not that bad? 14 dollars fee to purchase "a few things" is INSANE! Most of the world live on less than that each day.
I do not accept payment in gold. I cannot pay my rent in gold.
What was your point again?
I can think of a hundred things, but for one, try buying anonymous VPN service with your gold bar. Having a hard time fitting it through the USB port?
The design and process used to exchange BTC is probably deeply flawed, if these experiences are any indication.
The problem is a startup company called Blockstream, financed by traditional financial institutions, has managed to hijack the Bitcoin Core implementation, its developers, and forums. They are intentionally driving fees up through refusing to scale the blockchain as the original Bitcoin whitepaper outlines, and though their reasons are unknown, a good guess is that they are trying to force transactions onto side chains, which is a technology on which they have patents.
Because of this, the bitcoin blockchain was hard forked by a community wanting to restore Bitcoin to its original vision, and there is now a scaled version called Bitcoin Cash, which will allow for eight times more traffic (to begin with) without raising the fees. The fee for a transaction of any size on that chain, is at the moment about 3 cents.
Funny I just bought stuff at the corner store and the checkout girl's eyes glazed over when I asked if I could pay in American dollars. Then I ordered some delivery from a fast food joint and once again the dude on the phone said "what?" when I asked if I could pay in American dollars. Some standard you have there, which isn't even accepted in Europe.
I find that unlikely, but if he believed it was a good idea for even a half of a second, then he is too mentally unfit to be president.
I think this has already been established.
Putin may even be blackmailing trump and Trump is doing what he can to accomplish Putin's goals to avoid the blackmail being revealed.
Everything that Trump does is motivated by growing his and his family's wealth. Russian banks gave loans to Trump, and that's why he's being so friendly towards Russia. Qatar did not agree to a loan, and look what happened to them.
Stop pretending I made it up, that's ignorant at best, and more likely disingenuous fuckery.
Yeah, OK. Not really interested in debating with someone who resorts to cursing and name-calling. Sorry.
What a convenient way to avoid answering all his valid points!
You can argue that if a single person didn't purchase a work but instead enjoyed it via an illegal copy, no money was lost. Maybe they told their friends and resulted in some extra sales. Maybe they could never have afforded it anyway. There are plenty of rationalisations that get thrown around if you only consider a single case in isolation.
But you can't argue that if everyone did that then the system would still work, and so if you look at the big picture, necessarily people who break the rules must be causing harm to some degree, because collectively they are responsible for the creator losing out on all their money.
By that logic, we can't have musicians. Sure, some people can be musicians, but what would happen if all people were musicians? No one would farm the food we eat, and everyone would die! Musicians must therefore be causing harm to society, and we should make being a musician illegal.
And you need to look at this WTC 7 NIST Model vs. Reality It's a two minute video comparing the real footage of the collapse of Tower 7 to the NIST simulation. Can you tell me with a straight face that they match up? The simulation bends and twists all over, while the actual collapse is so smooth that most of the windows even remain intact until the very end.
But those are chemically different and kan be removed through chemical means, if not straight up mechanical.
We're talking about some extremely sensitive equipment here. This approach allows the landing to be highly predictable as it comes to mechanical stresses on the components, contrary to the high randomness of a parachute + airbag landing. Add to that the fact that many of these missions cannot be returned to land, and soaking the engines in atlantic salt water is a good way to make sure they never fly again.
Well, I can't pay my taxes with US dollars, since I live in Europe. But they still have their use from time to time. The same goes for bitcoins, which I use quite often.
No it's not. It's $1000 per year per developer per platform. So if you want to target Android, iOS and Windows Phone, it's $3000 per developer.
Well, if the US hadn't disbanded all of Iraq's armed forces, which then were humiliated and unemployed without most of them ever having had anything to do with the Baath party, maybe the insurgence wouldn't have had so many upset men with local knowledge, military training and no other way of feeding their families? That, in my book, is the most severe error that was made. They should have just gotten rid of the uppermost of Saddam's old buddies, then promoted some lower chaps to take their places and put them all to good use, instead of starting an enormous recruitment campaign and trying to re-build the Iraqi army from scratch.
Not only that, but they should emphasise what a loser and a coward the shooter was, and thus make anyone hoping to make the news in a similar fashion think twice about it. "Do I really want to be called pathetic and spineless on national television?"
You lost me at "theft".
Remember, he has not been charged with anything, but is wanted for *questioning*. What is to stop Sweden from doing the questioning, then dropping the case and letting him go, only to pick him up again at the airport and put him on a flight to Gitmo? Since he was freed, the terms of the arrest warrent should no longer be valid, right?
But if you have euros, and need to transfer them out of Greece, you cannot do that with the capital controls in place. At least not faster than mailing the bills in an envelope. If you can convert the euros to bitcoins, you can then send the coins anywhere pretty much instantly. And that is the greatest value of cryptocurrencies, even compared to normal bank services (between different banks and countries).
I can no longer use the camera to deposit checks.
There's your problem, right there. It's 2015 and you are still transfering money using paper.
storage tends to be cheaper than any human labor you'd want touching important software...
Especially when it is other peoples' storage.
You didn't address the counter argument though.
If copyright gave an incentive to keep these works in circulation then they would not be presently rotting away anywhere, they would be widely available. But they aren't. So the existing lengthy copyright regime is currently is doing exactly the opposite of what you argued would happen.
Add to this, that if the movies were in public domain, *anyone* with an interest - monetary or otherwise - could do the digitization and restoration. This could be some other company, some silent movie buff society, or a museum or archive.
No, the problem is the Merlin D engine produces way too much thrust for the empty first stage to be able to hover. They can only do a really short break at the end or the whole thing will begin to move upwards again.
Or Operation Cast Lead and Operation Pillar of Defense (at least show some knowledge and use the actual Hebrew names)
I see no difference between your "corrections", and what I wrote. Or is it the comma separator that you have a problem with? As for the rest - please. I've read all that before. Yes, Hamas is a bunch of assholes and probably war criminals too, but since Israel is holding all the cards and claims to be a western democracy, I hold them to a higher standard. That includes not shooting at stone throwing kids using live ammunition, imprisoning and torturing hundreds of people without charge, attacking and killing workers in international aid convoys, firing white phosphorous on civilians, and lots of other things. Your tired rant about Hamas does not excuse any of that.
Here you go: Operation Cast Lead, Operation Pillar of Defense. State sponsored terrorism at its finest.