It is still censorship and a pretty stupid thing to censor at that.
In many countries election related 'advertising' (or campaigning) is prohibited for 24 hours before election starts.
No, it's not censorship.
Yes it is. It's '24 hours of censorship before the election starts'. Read your own post.
No, censorship carries the meaning that it is done by the government against the people's wishes. Most people seem to agree that it is a good idea to prevent damaging and scurrilous revelations just before an election.
It doesn't carry that meaning with me. If 99.9% of the population agree that censorship is a good idea 24 hours before an election, it's still censorship.
I noticed Randall of xkcd fame took down his bitcoin link. His reasoning is sound and succinct.
What was his reasoning?
Since his address has already been published, people can keep sending him donations whether he likes it or not, and there's nothing he can do to stop them.
I bought the $200 headphone cable for my $400 headphones back when I had money to burn (ah the good ole days). Was it noticeably better than the $12 cable that comes with the headphones? yes. was it $188 better? Hell fucking no. not in my opinion anyway.
No. Headphone cables have no effect on sound (as long as they are not torn or shorted).
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No, but the transaction is processed and the fund are allocated, immediately.
Likewise with Bitcoin. It takes literally less than 2 seconds to see the funds allocated to you and appear in your account.
You've obviously never used it nor read the docs.
Also this -
"money you transfer to anyone in the world is instantaneous, in as little as an hour..."
Is self contradictory and you know it.
Not at all. You get the money instantly, but it takes "as little as an hour to confirm it to be irreversible".
Compare that to receiving credit card payments, which take 6 months to confirm it as irreversible (prior to that the buyer can do a chargeback).
UAE FTW!
Yep, specifically for Emerald Mine IV :)
http://www.emeraldmines.net/default.asp?action=detail&p=downloads&id=110
At first I thought they were talking about left/right tilting for fast cornering... Now THAT would be hard to replicate on a stationary bike.
It is still censorship and a pretty stupid thing to censor at that.
In many countries election related 'advertising' (or campaigning) is prohibited for 24 hours before election starts.
No, it's not censorship.
Yes it is. It's '24 hours of censorship before the election starts'. Read your own post.
No, censorship carries the meaning that it is done by the government against the people's wishes. Most people seem to agree that it is a good idea to prevent damaging and scurrilous revelations just before an election.
It doesn't carry that meaning with me. If 99.9% of the population agree that censorship is a good idea 24 hours before an election, it's still censorship.
It is still censorship and a pretty stupid thing to censor at that.
In many countries election related 'advertising' (or campaigning) is prohibited for 24 hours before election starts.
No, it's not censorship.
Yes it is. It's '24 hours of censorship before the election starts'. Read your own post.
OP wrote "bona fide child molester". What does it mean?
Maybe he meant 'boner fried child molester' as a reference to what will happen to him in prison.
especially with web content.
What else would you use a web browser for?
Tollerances get
Must have been using one of those new disks.
Does this mean Telstra can now fearlessly implement their internet filter?
Scratch that, I mis-read your post. I'm sure you know what year YOU came to Australia.
Came to Australia in 1998
1988, actually.
WTF was the bitcoin guy thinking?
Who is the bitcoin guy? The one in the Guy Fawkes mask?
No bitcoin is toast!
And no toast is bitcoin!
I noticed Randall of xkcd fame took down his bitcoin link. His reasoning is sound and succinct.
What was his reasoning?
Since his address has already been published, people can keep sending him donations whether he likes it or not, and there's nothing he can do to stop them.
I bought the $200 headphone cable for my $400 headphones back when I had money to burn (ah the good ole days). Was it noticeably better than the $12 cable that comes with the headphones? yes. was it $188 better? Hell fucking no. not in my opinion anyway.
No. Headphone cables have no effect on sound (as long as they are not torn or shorted).
Or unshielded, or made of cardboard.
Take a look at 'Namecoin': http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternative-based-on-bitcoin.html
The top five are youth, gays, [sexy mothers], breasts and cheating wives.
I was in a bank once, while it was being robed!
The robe must have been size XXXXXL to fit a bank.
Obtain an outline map of the world
You mean a circle?
Who runs the bitcoin website where I read about bitcoin then?
CmdrTaco?
Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
There are thousands of bitcoin-related sites. But none of the owners would be 'THE' bitcoin people in my book.
There are no people only accepting bitcoins.
False.
I'm pretty sure these people 'only' accept bitcoins:
http://bitcoinwear.com/
http://bitmunchies.com/
+ tons more if you look at the bitcoin trade page.
I'm not quite sure how the people at bitcoin think this is going to work though.
There are no people 'at bitcoin'.
A laptop HDD is about 3 cubic inches.
What's that in cubic centimetres?
A standard shipping container (40x8x8 ft^3) would hold about 1.5 million if they were packed tightly.
What's that in cubic metres?
That would be a train about 75 miles long.
What's that in km?
If each byte in 9.57ZB was a water molecule. It would be slightly less than a teaspoon.
You mean 5ml?
I think I'll go back to thinking of the distance to Neptune.
Misread the title.
They hadn't invented Health and Safety back then.
This is very insightful actually.
There is no way today they'd get away with doing things as they did in '69 - everything these days has to be bubble-wrapped, with rounded edges.
I'd say just to repeat that same mission from 42 years ago would be a challenge under today's H&S.