Wow. Your "assurance" is pretty worthless. The Bureau of Revenue Service was officially renamed to the Internal Revenue Service in 1953. They had been using the name for a long time, as you can see on this Form 1040 from 1918. The organization itself has existed continuously since 1862.
North Korea was enslabed by... a north korean dictator, or by China, but certainly not by Russia!
Are you serious? Are you familiar with the history of Korea post WW2 and leading up to the Korean War? Japan occupied Korea until the end of WW2. After their surrender, the US and Soviets split occupation at the 38th parallel (much like how Germany, whose history I hope you are familiar with, was divided). In brief, the Soviet Union installed the Communist system and Kim Il-sung in power.
North Korea could not have been more directly enslaved by the Soviet Union.
We should have kept just one analog channel for a local news station to broadcast on, amping it up in emergencies, for when there are storms and the like.
Why would you keep the entire analog infrastructure in place for one channel "for emergencies"? We have an existing medium just for that purpose. It's called radio. Emergency radios are cheap, long lasting and can sit passively and unobtrusively until needed.
Digital TV is broadcast over the air just like analog. If you can't get something you used to be able to, it's probably because you were receiving a weak signal. Analog will degrade gracefully but digital will just drop out.
Wait, UPS isn't local? I'm pretty sure the human beings in the UPS distribution center are local (and are paid better than retail worked). Pretty sure they also pay property taxes. Pretty sure UPS also pays a LOT of gasoline taxes. Locally
I'm guessing myself, like many people put up with the 2x day delay in getting something (delayed gratification) due to not having to pay sales tax on orders from Amazon.
How much do you buy that you need "immediate gratification" for? Most of the things I buy are because I have to. Clothes, household items, etc.I shop online primarily for the convenience, with selection and cost coming next. The fewer retail stores I have to spend my time in, the better. Clicking "buy" on a website is something I can easily do with time that would otherwise be wasted. Going to a retail store is a significant chunk of my very limited free time.
If I had to pay sales tax, I'd just as soon buy it locally for immediate gain, and all things being local (if all was taxed) I'd just as soon keep things local.
Shopping at a retail store like Target, Sears, or Home Depot isn't really "keeping it local".
As it stands Amazon's 3rd party partners are no different than dealerships are to a car company.
That doesn't make any sense. A car dealership buys cars from Ford or whoever and sells them locally. Amazon affiliates own and sell nothing and do nothing more than recommend people shop at Amazon.
Considering the United States has no capability to put humans even in orbit, let alone other celestial bodies, one could say China has surpassed the US.
Such a definition is entirely useless because it does apply to almost anything swapped for something else
So basically the dictionary is "wrong" because you think the definition is something else? What an amazing combination of arrogance and idiocy.
which is why there is the second part to it (;money) which you have pretended to be too stupid to notice.
Oh, right, money: money
1. any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
[snip]
4. any article or substance used as a medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment, as checks on demand deposit or cowrie.
Oops. Did you mean to point out that you were still wrong? One definition actually mentions cowrie (shell money). How embarrassing. You should probably look words up before you try to use them.
You still seem angry. It's okay. You were wrong and you were corrected. It happens to everyone. The true test of character is how one reacts to that. You may need to work on that part.
I provided the dictionary definition. You're not very bright, are you? Try to criticize me for something I actually did, not something you hallucinated I did.
Oh I see your problem. You seem lack critical thinking skills and make baseless assumptions. No wonder you're so angry and misinformed. When did I ever say I had any stake in Bitcoin? I just prefer intellectual honesty in my discussions. It's unfortunate that you assume disagreeing with you means someone has a personal stake in another position but don't project your shortcomings onto others. You should probably stop talking about being a "better person" and clean up your own house first.
Thank you for your personal definition but I will go with the dictionary one thanks.
I said, "A currency is simply something that is generally accepted in exchange for goods and services. "
The dictionary says:
currency
1. something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
[snip]
I think my statement is a fair paraphrasing of the dictionary definition and is certainly what i think of when i think of the concept of "currency". I would say that you are the one redefining the term by trying to limit it to concepts with which you are familiar. The world has seen a great many objects most of us would see as strange used as currency. Salt, squirrel pelts, sea shells, and giant stones up to 12 feet in diameter. And yes, in ancient Egypt, beer was even used as currency.
I really hate this "let's make it difficult to communicate just so I can trick others into misunderstanding what I mean and make it look like I've won an argument" shit that has been disgorged from the ugly end of US politics.
You can be a better person than that.
Ditto. You jumped in in the middle of a conversation I was not having with you. I'm not clear on what you were objecting to and why, and you have yet to explain it. If you want me to address a specific objection you will have to state it clearly and forthrightly. As of now you're just playing games and being deliberately obtuse. Not to mention hypocritical in trying to accuse me of being anything less than forthright in the face of your semantic games.
If you object to the word "currency" being used to describe Bitcoin you're going to have to come up with something pretty convincing, as all the evidence is stacked against you. If you object to something else, you're going to actually explain what that is.
Analogies to physical objects are impossible. A Bitcoin is the entire set of positive real numbers. Having one set or fifty sets doesn't give you any more or fewer numbers. I don't know how to explain this to you any more simplistically than that. A concept that cannot be explained by physical objects seems lost on you.
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Wow. Your "assurance" is pretty worthless. The Bureau of Revenue Service was officially renamed to the Internal Revenue Service in 1953. They had been using the name for a long time, as you can see on this Form 1040 from 1918. The organization itself has existed continuously since 1862.
North Korea was enslabed by ... a north korean dictator, or by China, but certainly not by Russia!
Are you serious? Are you familiar with the history of Korea post WW2 and leading up to the Korean War? Japan occupied Korea until the end of WW2. After their surrender, the US and Soviets split occupation at the 38th parallel (much like how Germany, whose history I hope you are familiar with, was divided). In brief, the Soviet Union installed the Communist system and Kim Il-sung in power.
North Korea could not have been more directly enslaved by the Soviet Union.
Pacemakers are fine.
I'm sure the "disruption, not damage" thing is going to be very reassuring to the guy with a pacemaker.
The military has actually looked into the effects of EMP on pacemakers. The conclusion is that there is minimal, if any, risk.
We should have kept just one analog channel for a local news station to broadcast on, amping it up in emergencies, for when there are storms and the like.
Why would you keep the entire analog infrastructure in place for one channel "for emergencies"? We have an existing medium just for that purpose. It's called radio. Emergency radios are cheap, long lasting and can sit passively and unobtrusively until needed.
Digital TV is broadcast over the air just like analog. If you can't get something you used to be able to, it's probably because you were receiving a weak signal. Analog will degrade gracefully but digital will just drop out.
Wait, UPS isn't local? I'm pretty sure the human beings in the UPS distribution center are local (and are paid better than retail worked). Pretty sure they also pay property taxes. Pretty sure UPS also pays a LOT of gasoline taxes. Locally
What an idiotic comment.
guess what! taxes were not collected before 1913 in the way they are now - the IRS did not exist.
While the 16th Amendment indeed changed the way taxes were collected, I assure you the IRS has existed since the Civil War and the first income tax.
Sears & Roebuck had the same sales model as Amazon back in the late 1800's. They didn't collect sales tax either.
I would hope not, since general sales taxes in the US came about in the 20th century.
I'm guessing myself, like many people put up with the 2x day delay in getting something (delayed gratification) due to not having to pay sales tax on orders from Amazon.
How much do you buy that you need "immediate gratification" for? Most of the things I buy are because I have to. Clothes, household items, etc.I shop online primarily for the convenience, with selection and cost coming next. The fewer retail stores I have to spend my time in, the better. Clicking "buy" on a website is something I can easily do with time that would otherwise be wasted. Going to a retail store is a significant chunk of my very limited free time.
If I had to pay sales tax, I'd just as soon buy it locally for immediate gain, and all things being local (if all was taxed) I'd just as soon keep things local.
Shopping at a retail store like Target, Sears, or Home Depot isn't really "keeping it local".
No, actually, Amazon has been fighting tooth and nail against sales tax for years.
Amazon has been fighting against having to collect individual sales tax, while endorsing a Federal framework like The Marketplace Fairness Act.
As it stands Amazon's 3rd party partners are no different than dealerships are to a car company.
That doesn't make any sense. A car dealership buys cars from Ford or whoever and sells them locally. Amazon affiliates own and sell nothing and do nothing more than recommend people shop at Amazon.
Who do you believe is setting "hidden rules" on a decentralized network using open source clients? That's a pretty significant level of paranoia.
You can't divide it infinitely.
Yes, you can. Eight decimal places is just a fairly arbitrary number. If it becomes necessary, smaller transaction can be supported.
Catching up pretty quickly???
Considering the United States has no capability to put humans even in orbit, let alone other celestial bodies, one could say China has surpassed the US.
Such a definition is entirely useless because it does apply to almost anything swapped for something else
So basically the dictionary is "wrong" because you think the definition is something else? What an amazing combination of arrogance and idiocy.
which is why there is the second part to it (;money) which you have pretended to be too stupid to notice.
Oh, right, money:
money
1. any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
[snip]
4. any article or substance used as a medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment, as checks on demand deposit or cowrie.
Oops. Did you mean to point out that you were still wrong? One definition actually mentions cowrie (shell money). How embarrassing. You should probably look words up before you try to use them.
You still seem angry. It's okay. You were wrong and you were corrected. It happens to everyone. The true test of character is how one reacts to that. You may need to work on that part.
I provided the dictionary definition. You're not very bright, are you? Try to criticize me for something I actually did, not something you hallucinated I did.
Oh I see your problem. You seem lack critical thinking skills and make baseless assumptions. No wonder you're so angry and misinformed. When did I ever say I had any stake in Bitcoin? I just prefer intellectual honesty in my discussions. It's unfortunate that you assume disagreeing with you means someone has a personal stake in another position but don't project your shortcomings onto others. You should probably stop talking about being a "better person" and clean up your own house first.
Thank you for your personal definition but I will go with the dictionary one thanks.
I said, "A currency is simply something that is generally accepted in exchange for goods and services. "
The dictionary says:
currency
1. something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
[snip]
I think my statement is a fair paraphrasing of the dictionary definition and is certainly what i think of when i think of the concept of "currency". I would say that you are the one redefining the term by trying to limit it to concepts with which you are familiar. The world has seen a great many objects most of us would see as strange used as currency. Salt, squirrel pelts, sea shells, and giant stones up to 12 feet in diameter. And yes, in ancient Egypt, beer was even used as currency.
I really hate this "let's make it difficult to communicate just so I can trick others into misunderstanding what I mean and make it look like I've won an argument" shit that has been disgorged from the ugly end of US politics. You can be a better person than that.
Ditto. You jumped in in the middle of a conversation I was not having with you. I'm not clear on what you were objecting to and why, and you have yet to explain it. If you want me to address a specific objection you will have to state it clearly and forthrightly. As of now you're just playing games and being deliberately obtuse. Not to mention hypocritical in trying to accuse me of being anything less than forthright in the face of your semantic games.
If you object to the word "currency" being used to describe Bitcoin you're going to have to come up with something pretty convincing, as all the evidence is stacked against you. If you object to something else, you're going to actually explain what that is.
Where did you read that?
The 10th Amendment.
Synfig.
Analogies to physical objects are impossible. A Bitcoin is the entire set of positive real numbers. Having one set or fifty sets doesn't give you any more or fewer numbers. I don't know how to explain this to you any more simplistically than that. A concept that cannot be explained by physical objects seems lost on you.
It makes them much more likely to be successful.
No it's not. The set of Bitcoins is countably infinite.