I can't remember exactly where, but someone suggested that this might be a possibility on one of the Bitcoin forums. A day later, someone said in an IRC channel that they had been raided. I'm pretty sure they made it up based on the previous day's speculation. And now a website has picked up the IRC claim, and now Slashdot picks up that website's claim. As far as I can tell there's no backing that this supposed drug bust ever happened, but it's pyramiding into bigger and bigger news based on nothing.
I really like BitCoin, But the biggest problem is the "goldrush" is over. While new bitcoins can still be mined, it's expensive, and takes time. Oh, the other big problem is that not enough people accept them.
Difficulty of generating new Bitcoins is a feature, not a bug. If it were easy, they would have no value. The purpose of Bitcoin is to function as a form of money for saving and exchange, not to get rich by using your processor to print money.
But you're right on the second part, the biggest obstacle is the lack of businesses that accept them.
Bitcoins can be divided up into units as small as.00000001 The software currently only supports 2 decimal points, but this can be increased in later versions.
Numerous powerful US political figures and pundits have unashamedly called for his assassination. Fear of going to Guantanamo is not unreasonable. http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/
The only argument against that which I can think of is that you are essentially mortgaging the phone with most phone plans - you get it for a low or zero upfront fee and you're essentially buying the phone with higher monthly fees. And when you mortgage a house, there are certain things the bank says you can't do to it while they own it - among other restrictions, I specifically remember them saying I couldn't store large tanks of gasoline in my house.
For phones, I guess it would come down to whether this is explicitly stated in the service contract.
Perhaps the thing is that most movies stink, and since there are so very few movies made from video games, they aren't statistically enough of them to get a good one.
Jean Plantureux, the political cartoonist from France's Le Monde newspaper, came to talk to my college a few years back and explained that due to anti-Nazi laws they couldn't draw any swastikas on anyone. So what they do if they want to say somebody's a Nazi is they draw them with an armband with a white circle on it. Everyone knows exactly what the white circle means.
But Craigslist isn't committing the crime. They're providing a means of communication in the same way Google Gmail or AT&T do - or any Internet provider. And they should bear no more legal responsibility for the communications people make with their service than AT&T, Google, or Comcast do.
To modify your examples, it would be like prosecuting the manufacturer of the car for letting people speed with it, or prosecuting the manufacturer of the Louisville Slugger that someone gets beaten with.
On "soverign immunity," I agree with you.
And I will say that "state secrets" is a huge magnet for abuse. . . but I don't think you can say that the government should not be able to keep any secrets whatsoever. Must the government publicize all nuclear secrets? Troop locations? Weapons and surveillance capabilities? Surely not.
The solution, in my opinion, is to have an independent court with access to all information which can determine what is and isn't a legitimate case of a "state secret."
Yes, if you count consciously witnessing yourself suffocate because your diaphragm is paralyzed as "painless". Of course, the audience won't notice any of this, so it's fairly painless to them.
I find this a very strange situation - doctors around the world induce unconsciousness for surgeries hundreds of times per day with ease. They've been able to do so for decades. Why are they unable to do so for a lethal injection?
While you might not be able to evacuate, you could go through drills, stock up on food, maybe move things around a bit so you wouldn't be so devastated by an earthquake.
And what's more, raising kids as if they had no rights results in a future population of adults that is conditioned to authoritarianism and doesn't care about their rights.
This is so commonly repeated in the media that nobody questions it, but can you point out where in the Constitution it says that protections of rights only apply to citizens?
It's precisely because our military and money are all in Iraq that Iran can do much of what it's doing. They know our resources are tied up there and so we aren't as much of a threat as we would be otherwise.
MADD actually sponsors a "drunk driving simulator" that goes around to high schools where licensed drivers can get in the car and drive on a closed track where the controls are delayed, trying to avoid hitting cones.
How can they come out against GTA then?
Has anyone else noticed that some people seem to take an engineering major just so they can tell other people "My major is so much harder than yours! I'm both a) smarter and b) more deserving of your sympathy!
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I can't remember exactly where, but someone suggested that this might be a possibility on one of the Bitcoin forums. A day later, someone said in an IRC channel that they had been raided. I'm pretty sure they made it up based on the previous day's speculation. And now a website has picked up the IRC claim, and now Slashdot picks up that website's claim. As far as I can tell there's no backing that this supposed drug bust ever happened, but it's pyramiding into bigger and bigger news based on nothing.
They are tracable to a hash of a signature. I don't think these hashes are easily traceable to a person.
I really like BitCoin, But the biggest problem is the "goldrush" is over. While new bitcoins can still be mined, it's expensive, and takes time. Oh, the other big problem is that not enough people accept them.
Difficulty of generating new Bitcoins is a feature, not a bug. If it were easy, they would have no value. The purpose of Bitcoin is to function as a form of money for saving and exchange, not to get rich by using your processor to print money. But you're right on the second part, the biggest obstacle is the lack of businesses that accept them.
And when was money first thought of? It has been around since prehistoric times.
Bitcoins can be divided up into units as small as .00000001 The software currently only supports 2 decimal points, but this can be increased in later versions.
True. Dollar-parity is just a psychological milestone. What is meaningful is that Bitcoin has increased from about $.05 in September to $1 now.
Numerous powerful US political figures and pundits have unashamedly called for his assassination. Fear of going to Guantanamo is not unreasonable. http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/
I've never gotten a telemarketer call in the years I've been on the list.
The only argument against that which I can think of is that you are essentially mortgaging the phone with most phone plans - you get it for a low or zero upfront fee and you're essentially buying the phone with higher monthly fees. And when you mortgage a house, there are certain things the bank says you can't do to it while they own it - among other restrictions, I specifically remember them saying I couldn't store large tanks of gasoline in my house. For phones, I guess it would come down to whether this is explicitly stated in the service contract.
Perhaps the thing is that most movies stink, and since there are so very few movies made from video games, they aren't statistically enough of them to get a good one.
Looking for racism everywhere doesn't mean you are racist. It means you are racistist.
Jean Plantureux, the political cartoonist from France's Le Monde newspaper, came to talk to my college a few years back and explained that due to anti-Nazi laws they couldn't draw any swastikas on anyone. So what they do if they want to say somebody's a Nazi is they draw them with an armband with a white circle on it. Everyone knows exactly what the white circle means.
You never had a bicycle? Riding bikes to friends houses was the highlight of living in the 'burbs.
But Craigslist isn't committing the crime. They're providing a means of communication in the same way Google Gmail or AT&T do - or any Internet provider. And they should bear no more legal responsibility for the communications people make with their service than AT&T, Google, or Comcast do. To modify your examples, it would be like prosecuting the manufacturer of the car for letting people speed with it, or prosecuting the manufacturer of the Louisville Slugger that someone gets beaten with.
He just put off the bad economy by using short term loans.
There was far less government borrowing under Clinton than under Reagan/Bush before him or W Bush after him.
http://www.headybrew.net/images/content/budget_deficit_or_surplus.gif
Of course, Obama looks like he'll be borrowing quite a bit more.
On "soverign immunity," I agree with you.
And I will say that "state secrets" is a huge magnet for abuse. . . but I don't think you can say that the government should not be able to keep any secrets whatsoever. Must the government publicize all nuclear secrets? Troop locations? Weapons and surveillance capabilities? Surely not.
The solution, in my opinion, is to have an independent court with access to all information which can determine what is and isn't a legitimate case of a "state secret."
Yes, if you count consciously witnessing yourself suffocate because your diaphragm is paralyzed as "painless". Of course, the audience won't notice any of this, so it's fairly painless to them.
I find this a very strange situation - doctors around the world induce unconsciousness for surgeries hundreds of times per day with ease. They've been able to do so for decades. Why are they unable to do so for a lethal injection?
While you might not be able to evacuate, you could go through drills, stock up on food, maybe move things around a bit so you wouldn't be so devastated by an earthquake.
And what's more, raising kids as if they had no rights results in a future population of adults that is conditioned to authoritarianism and doesn't care about their rights.
This is so commonly repeated in the media that nobody questions it, but can you point out where in the Constitution it says that protections of rights only apply to citizens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shah-nukeIran.jpg
It's precisely because our military and money are all in Iraq that Iran can do much of what it's doing. They know our resources are tied up there and so we aren't as much of a threat as we would be otherwise.
Mr Conductor has gone to that great train station in the sky.
MADD actually sponsors a "drunk driving simulator" that goes around to high schools where licensed drivers can get in the car and drive on a closed track where the controls are delayed, trying to avoid hitting cones. How can they come out against GTA then?
Has anyone else noticed that some people seem to take an engineering major just so they can tell other people "My major is so much harder than yours! I'm both a) smarter and b) more deserving of your sympathy!