There are already several alternate blockchains, but almost nobody uses them.
Given the choice between holding currency that does not artificially devalue, and holding currency that does artificially devalue, who is going to choose the latter?
I think it will tell us that even in the most optimistic scenerio where Bitcoin achieves 100% market penetration, some people will go to their graves insisting that it won't work, isn't really money, and is all just a ponzi scheme.
There are also a few VPS and VPN providers who accept bitcoins for the same reasons, and because now they can sell their services to customers anywhere in the world without being limtited by the legacy banking system's inability to process payments from certain places.
It allows them to escape from this. It removes the possibility that a third party can enforce rules about what they are and are not allowed to do with their money.
Non-falsifiable accusations are the best kind, because the accuser always wins, especially in the case of race or gender in which it's somehow socially accepted that asking for objective evidence is abusive and evidence of guilt.
though this reactor didn't breed its own Uranium from Thorium
Sure, but it's not adding that requires any new technology.
Nuclear reactors are not really complicated. The angst surrounding the development of new reactor technologies is just absurd. It's as if people think we have to completely reinvent civil engineering from scratch every time someone builds a highway bridge that isn't an exact duplicate of one that was built in the past.
you need to remember that these people truly believe that their skills and abilities make a difference in the lives of the kids they work with.
They're right.
Just look at the constantly rising percentage of children who need psychotropic drugs to get through the day. Something life-changing is going on in those insitutions, that's for sure.
The problem isn't the rate of increase, it's that the people paying for it don't have a choice in the matter.
Those of us who don't work for the state can't bribe our bosses with our votes to threaten to steal our neighbors' houses if they don't give us what we want.
The difference is that only government employees can use the state's taxing power to enforce their demands on the rest of the population. The most everybody else can do is bitch about it.
I was basically going to post this very thing but you beat me to it.
Unionized government employees do not simply step aside gracefully and change jobs or learn new skills. They fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo, with increasing ferocity the more obsolete they become.
Our western media paints a picture of Iran that makes their administration look insane. Compare and contrast the media's reporting on Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN this year vs the actual transcript. US media doesn't even seem to take the guy seriously. But I read what he said. It was cogent, it made sense. The United States is mismanaging the globe, in a awful, terrible, completely unprecedented in history kind of disaster. Iran's administration is not insane. The US is insane. Insane to think that Iran would NOT try to arm themselves with all the military support the US is pouring into Israel.
The US is insane, and so is Iran. That's just a given considering that you're talking about a theocracy.
You can disagree that punishment or deterrence should be the point of incarceration, but that's the way it is right now.
I'm not sure what method you used to derive that conclusion.
Based on the observable effects of prisons it looks like their purpose is to funnel money to contractors and prison guard unions, and to allow politicians the ability to adjust their public image favorably.
If punishment leading to deterrence was the goal of the prison system it's hard to explain why their methods haven't changed based on the many decades of clear evidence that punishment doesn't accomplishing this goal.
Reiser4 was supposed to give us a different way of working with file metadata by making files into directories, was supposed to allow us to set different file permissions on every line of/etc/passwd, or maybe every field. All those features were dropped though, so what's the point now when other filesystems are further ahead in other areas?
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There are already several alternate blockchains, but almost nobody uses them.
Given the choice between holding currency that does not artificially devalue, and holding currency that does artificially devalue, who is going to choose the latter?
I think it will tell us that even in the most optimistic scenerio where Bitcoin achieves 100% market penetration, some people will go to their graves insisting that it won't work, isn't really money, and is all just a ponzi scheme.
There are also a few VPS and VPN providers who accept bitcoins for the same reasons, and because now they can sell their services to customers anywhere in the world without being limtited by the legacy banking system's inability to process payments from certain places.
It allows them to escape from this. It removes the possibility that a third party can enforce rules about what they are and are not allowed to do with their money.
It's the same as setting cash on fire. If you lost your private keys the unspent outputs they control can never be spent.
Yea it's too bad nobody ever though of that or else they might have made sure each one is divisible to eight decimal places or something.
Non-falsifiable accusations are the best kind, because the accuser always wins, especially in the case of race or gender in which it's somehow socially accepted that asking for objective evidence is abusive and evidence of guilt.
+1 funny
Sure, but it's not adding that requires any new technology.
Nuclear reactors are not really complicated. The angst surrounding the development of new reactor technologies is just absurd. It's as if people think we have to completely reinvent civil engineering from scratch every time someone builds a highway bridge that isn't an exact duplicate of one that was built in the past.
That's so last century.
These days it's, "imagine a Bitcoin mining rig of these"
Doesn't quite have the same cadence, though,
"MSRE may also refer to the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment"
I'm not sure if you're just misinformed or what, but I suggest taking a second look at the MSRE article on Wikipedia for starters.
All the necessary research was done in the 1960s and '70s. Just let someone build the damn things already.
They're right.
Just look at the constantly rising percentage of children who need psychotropic drugs to get through the day. Something life-changing is going on in those insitutions, that's for sure.
The problem isn't the rate of increase, it's that the people paying for it don't have a choice in the matter.
Those of us who don't work for the state can't bribe our bosses with our votes to threaten to steal our neighbors' houses if they don't give us what we want.
Of course everybody knows that. That's why they have to resort to such hysterical propaganda to keep everyone distracted from this obvious truth.
The difference is that only government employees can use the state's taxing power to enforce their demands on the rest of the population. The most everybody else can do is bitch about it.
I was basically going to post this very thing but you beat me to it.
Unionized government employees do not simply step aside gracefully and change jobs or learn new skills. They fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo, with increasing ferocity the more obsolete they become.
The US is insane, and so is Iran. That's just a given considering that you're talking about a theocracy.
I'm not sure what method you used to derive that conclusion.
Based on the observable effects of prisons it looks like their purpose is to funnel money to contractors and prison guard unions, and to allow politicians the ability to adjust their public image favorably.
If punishment leading to deterrence was the goal of the prison system it's hard to explain why their methods haven't changed based on the many decades of clear evidence that punishment doesn't accomplishing this goal.
Reiser4 was supposed to give us a different way of working with file metadata by making files into directories, was supposed to allow us to set different file permissions on every line of /etc/passwd, or maybe every field. All those features were dropped though, so what's the point now when other filesystems are further ahead in other areas?
I had the same thing happen. I didn't create an account right away when they first started offering them and when I finally did I lost the first one.
According to the announcement BTC balances are locked and will slowly be released on a percentage basis as they are replaced so a run isn't possible.
I'm using the common definition.
They promised to secure client funds and lost them, and they lack assets they could sell to reimburse the loss. That's insolvency.
There are no discrete "coins". There are only addresses and balances.