For me to accept Bitcoins from you as payment only requires that I believe that someone else will accept them as payment from me. There is no requirement that they be exchangeable for "real" money ever.
For the record, that's how "real" money works also.
*sigh* Is this from the same source of doubletalk, whatever-definition-suits-my-pet-cause-today bullshit that brags about how Anonymous has no leaders, yet someone still magically appears to deny responsibility whenever someone gets caught?
Once you know someone's name they are no longer Anonymous!
That sounds great. I will incorporate today. Woo-hoo - no more income tax. My corporation will own my house, car, buy food and clothing. As a condition of employment it will require me to live in company housing and use the company car. Oh well, I guess I can live with that.
Because you can just tell the person they dialed the wrong number. Once you are on a no-reply email list you are stuck unless you want to invest your own time and money into fixing someone else's problem
Yes. That will work. In the same way that cable rates have gotten cheaper due to economies of scale. Oh wait. Only the costs have gone down -- the rates have doubled everywhere that competition has been eliminated. But as publishing of paper books falls and prices rise I'm sure eBooks won't follow the same path as cable. After all, its not like Amazon is trying to take over the book market, is it?
If I have just finished a month of work creating arrangements of Shostakovich's works for my orchestra next season, then I have just lost a that work. What does public domain mean, if not permanent?
Oh get over it. We do not have anything near the capabilities or even materials for such a structure. And even if we did, space is still empty. All that work for what? Better access to emptiness? You have a very poor understanding of reality.
And you have a very poor imagination and sense of exploration. If nothing else, it would make maintaining our orbital space much cheaper. Combined with solar sails and asteroid mining, this could make space exploration drop to almost free in terms of the cost to our planet.
Then we could finally get off this rock so if we don't figure out how to make it work here, at least we have some options to start over with. Then again, from a moral perspective, I continue to wonder if we need to make it work here, before we start fucking up the rest of the galaxy.
Is that the same way that nuclear power was going to make electricity almost free? I've seen industry claims from the 50s that nuclear power would be so cheap they would stop putting meters on houses.
A space elevator would be cool, but it would still be the most expensive thing to build and maintain ever.
Actually, that's perfectly rational thinking. Evolution, the whole of biology, and even economics is based on just that notion: the fuck do I care what happens to you as long as it increases my chances of survival/my fitness/my happiness. Being altruistic is by definition a losing move in any game, which is why altruists always make sure their altruism benefits them the most.
There are legitimate complaints against the GPL. The most notable one is you can't make money from modifying or using someone else's software if everyone can copy it for free. It's good for school projects and vendors who sell "support" but for actual software developers who want to make a living writing software it's not the best license to use. Does that make it less free? You make the call.
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For me to accept Bitcoins from you as payment only requires that I believe that someone else will accept them as payment from me. There is no requirement that they be exchangeable for "real" money ever.
For the record, that's how "real" money works also.
*sigh* Is this from the same source of doubletalk, whatever-definition-suits-my-pet-cause-today bullshit that brags about how Anonymous has no leaders, yet someone still magically appears to deny responsibility whenever someone gets caught?
Once you know someone's name they are no longer Anonymous!
QED
That sounds great. I will incorporate today. Woo-hoo - no more income tax. My corporation will own my house, car, buy food and clothing. As a condition of employment it will require me to live in company housing and use the company car. Oh well, I guess I can live with that.
Ha! We've found another one! Here's the evidence:
by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 13, @02:24AM (#36422702)
Wow. That seems harsh. What would you do to them if they lied?
Link in article is to: blog.web.blogads.com
Because you can just tell the person they dialed the wrong number.
Once you are on a no-reply email list you are stuck unless you want to invest your own time and money into fixing someone else's problem
I suggest just making the eBooks cheaper
Yes. That will work. In the same way that cable rates have gotten cheaper due to economies of scale. Oh wait. Only the costs have gone down -- the rates have doubled everywhere that competition has been eliminated. But as publishing of paper books falls and prices rise I'm sure eBooks won't follow the same path as cable. After all, its not like Amazon is trying to take over the book market, is it?
If I have just finished a month of work creating arrangements of Shostakovich's works for my orchestra next season, then I have just lost a that work. What does public domain mean, if not permanent?
http://newsone.com/nation/jothomas/clarence-thomas-reveal-wifes-earnings/
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Natur.459..820Z
GIYF
asbestos isn't bittersweet, it doesn't taste like much of anything.
Oh get over it. We do not have anything near the capabilities or even materials for such a structure. And even if we did, space is still empty. All that work for what? Better access to emptiness? You have a very poor understanding of reality.
And you have a very poor imagination and sense of exploration. If nothing else, it would make maintaining our orbital space much cheaper. Combined with solar sails and asteroid mining, this could make space exploration drop to almost free in terms of the cost to our planet.
Then we could finally get off this rock so if we don't figure out how to make it work here, at least we have some options to start over with. Then again, from a moral perspective, I continue to wonder if we need to make it work here, before we start fucking up the rest of the galaxy.
Is that the same way that nuclear power was going to make electricity almost free? I've seen industry claims from the 50s that nuclear power would be so cheap they would stop putting meters on houses.
A space elevator would be cool, but it would still be the most expensive thing to build and maintain ever.
Actually, that's perfectly rational thinking. Evolution, the whole of biology, and even economics is based on just that notion: the fuck do I care what happens to you as long as it increases my chances of survival/my fitness/my happiness. Being altruistic is by definition a losing move in any game, which is why altruists always make sure their altruism benefits them the most.
Except that you are totally wrong
There are legitimate complaints against the GPL. The most notable one is you can't make money from modifying or using someone else's software if everyone can copy it for free. It's good for school projects and vendors who sell "support" but for actual software developers who want to make a living writing software it's not the best license to use. Does that make it less free? You make the call.
FTFY
Especially when "hacked in" might be "used the default password"
I guess you never read The Soul of a New Machine
But one of the knobs on the TI let you adjust frequency from low (male voice) to high (female voice). In War Games they were all set the same.
That image must have been taken with the standard 400,000 x 300,000 pixel security camera frequently used in cop shows.
The Earth's orbital speed is 30,000 mps. Mars is 24,000 mps.
http://www.vrzone.org/space/ has some tools to calculate Hohmann (minimum cost) orbital transfers as well as other choices.
True, but it still doesn't mean that long life bulbs use more electricity.
100W, 750 hour bulb -- 1710 lumens
100W, 1500 hour bulb -- 1580 lumens
so not a bad tradeoff
both good software engineers and good social engineers are a rare bread anyway
That's a rye observation.
Two words:: "printer cartridges"
Good luck with the criminal lawsuit..
Eh? You pay for watts (actually VA) so you pay the same for a bulb of the same wattage.
If you attempt to flow the proper wattage
LOL