The ZR1 that set the 7:19.63 Nurburgring lap time [autoguide.com] survived.
I'm not sure I understand. About a dozen other non-racing cars have done it faster. Is this ZR1 celebrated because it was the fastest lap time in a Corvette?
True, just like a great time to buy BTC was during that brief window yesterday when they were trading for 100$.
Yep, that would have been a good time to buy. Unfortunately, the low for yesterday on the exchange that I use (MTGOX) shows $511, so there weren't any trades at that price on the MTGOX. I wasn't able to find that sort of information on bitstamp, but they are trading even higher than MTGOX, so it seems unlikely that they hit $100.
If you have data that may incriminate, embarrass or cause financial loss, then the proper place for said data is probably not on a device which is easily lost. If one of the primary purposes of an easily lost device is to collect and store data that may incriminate, embarrass or cause financial loss, than that device probably shouldn't exist.
what about the potential damage of throwing snowballs at cars? very distracting to the driver. should the FBI get involved?
That is a lot easier to get caught doing, and it could still lead to an accident which the snowball thrower ought to be liable for.
The laser issue is more like throwing a brick at the bus drivers window, or, and I know this is a real stretch, shining a laser at a bus drivers eyes.
Apparently you didn't bother to read the summary. The problem is not withdrawing other currencies, that is still the same as it was. The problem is withdrawing bitcoin.
One example of this. If you are over s certain body mass index, the FAA requires that you pay for an expensive sleep study session to determine if you may be susceptible to sleep apnea. If you are found susceptible (not even necessarily suffering from it), you have to buy an expensive machine, which as I understand from some people that have one, makes it very difficult to get a good night's sleep and could increase the chances of falling asleep during normal daytime activities.
This is due to the fact that every year a certain number of pilots who suffer from sleep apnea fall asleep while flying and crash into structures on the ground. That number? 1 Million? No. 1 thousand? No. 100? No. 10? No. 1? No. The number is zero. Zero pilots have ever fallen asleep and crashed their airplanes. The only time a plane has ever crashed due to something even close was when the golfer died in his jet. All aboard were already dead due to a failure in the pressurization system and the failure of the pilots to recognize the issue before succumbing to hypoxia.
Yes, as we all well know, bitcoins are worthless and so therefore nobody would ever steal them and so therefore this whole article is a lie from Satan.
Why get your news off a blog post? Why not get it off the main site itself? They have a news feed right on the front page. There is nothing there about any suspension of withdrawals, but I would trust the actual main page over a blog which anybody can post whatever they want on.
When I choose financial institutions, I prefer those named after children's card games.
I'm sure you have similar reservations about buying merchandise by a site named after a tropical rain forest, or getting search results from a site named after a mathematical term.
At least until that site is sued into oblivion.
We've seen in the past where fans kept alive a disposed of product that was far superior to the current product. In most cases, the company trying to monetize their new pile of junk sues to get the superior previous version killed.
Why can't we just take the existing product that everybody likes and make it better instead of coming up with a new product and trying to make it more like the old product?
How are they going to kill it if the device is off or only does wifi? I suppose it is less likely that people will run around town with a wifi only device.
Also, why not let the market decided? The manufacturer can make it an optional feature and if the user wants it, they can pay for it. No need for even more legislation, which attempts to control what some manufacturer in China builds.
Not to mention that if you drink what is used for fracking, you would die. If you used it to water your lawn, your lawn would die. If you used it to dump in the river, the fish would die.
Highly entertaining that we get both people complaining about how fracking causes groundwater poisoning because the fluid used for fracking is so toxic and ALSO complaining that fracking takes water out of the system by pouring pure crystal clear water into wells.
To me, it seems like micropayments would lead to a less educated public and also more sensationalism. People are only going to pay for articles that they are interested in or that grab their attention. Right now, at least with a subscription, people subscribe for certain articles, but other articles are underwritten by the subscription that would never be able to pay for themselves otherwise. They may be informative and useful, and since people have a subscription, they may actually read some of these articles. If micropayments are introduced, some of these articles will just not be written because they would not be individually profitable.
And in a lot of the world, the floodplain isn't chosen because it's a nice place to live. Bengladeshi subsistence farmers don't locate in low areas because of the beaches, but because that's the only land they can afford.
Also, because flood plain land is the most fertile.
My house is about 1,000 feet above sea level, and if all the ice in the world melted, it is estimated that the sea level would rise by 216 feet. So I would still be well out of danger. Ironically, only a few hundred million years ago, my house would have been at the bottom of a shallow sea. Apparently there used to be more water than there is now.
In the old days of Wheel of Fortune, in the last round, they had you select a certain number of consonants and a vowel, and then you had to guess the phrase. After awhile, people started always picking the most common consonants and vowels. Was there similar controversy? I don't recall. At any point, after this got boring, they changed the game to where they gave you these letters automatically and then let you guess some more. I'm not sure if they have now started always receiving the same secondary list of letters or not. Maybe eventually it will get to the point where they give you all of the characters and just see if you can manage to read it.
I personally never took the Genesis 1 as being to the letter literal. It may have happened exactly like that, or it may have taken 6 billion years. That's not really the point, and getting hung up on small details doesn't help anybody. I guess the problem is that some people can't handle that a book that is a mere 2,000 pages could contain some passages which are allegorical and some which are literal. I think at some point in history, someone asked "who gets decided what is literal and what is allegory" and at that point, the Church decided it must all be literal, so that nobody could call into question where to draw the line. Me, I think I can tell pretty easily what is a parable and what was an event, but that may differs from others interpretations. And that is fine, they're just wrong.:)
That's not the way creationism has worked historically, but that's okay, even when it has worked that way, the beneficiaries stopped believing after only a short time period, so who could blame you for not believing when you have never seen it happen.
They both have vigorous standards of proof. One uses centurys old established scientific theory and the other uses centuries old established Biblical doctrine. At the end, both sides come out the winner from their perspective, and the loser from the other perspective, which, thankfully, doesn't count according to them.
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The ZR1 that set the 7:19.63 Nurburgring lap time [autoguide.com] survived.
I'm not sure I understand. About a dozen other non-racing cars have done it faster. Is this ZR1 celebrated because it was the fastest lap time in a Corvette?
How is it risky. If they are waiting to buy in, and it crashes, then they just don't buy in.
True, just like a great time to buy BTC was during that brief window yesterday when they were trading for 100$.
Yep, that would have been a good time to buy. Unfortunately, the low for yesterday on the exchange that I use (MTGOX) shows $511, so there weren't any trades at that price on the MTGOX. I wasn't able to find that sort of information on bitstamp, but they are trading even higher than MTGOX, so it seems unlikely that they hit $100.
If you have data that may incriminate, embarrass or cause financial loss, then the proper place for said data is probably not on a device which is easily lost. If one of the primary purposes of an easily lost device is to collect and store data that may incriminate, embarrass or cause financial loss, than that device probably shouldn't exist.
what about the potential damage of throwing snowballs at cars? very distracting to the driver. should the FBI get involved?
That is a lot easier to get caught doing, and it could still lead to an accident which the snowball thrower ought to be liable for.
The laser issue is more like throwing a brick at the bus drivers window, or, and I know this is a real stretch, shining a laser at a bus drivers eyes.
Apparently you didn't bother to read the summary. The problem is not withdrawing other currencies, that is still the same as it was. The problem is withdrawing bitcoin.
One example of this. If you are over s certain body mass index, the FAA requires that you pay for an expensive sleep study session to determine if you may be susceptible to sleep apnea. If you are found susceptible (not even necessarily suffering from it), you have to buy an expensive machine, which as I understand from some people that have one, makes it very difficult to get a good night's sleep and could increase the chances of falling asleep during normal daytime activities.
This is due to the fact that every year a certain number of pilots who suffer from sleep apnea fall asleep while flying and crash into structures on the ground. That number? 1 Million? No. 1 thousand? No. 100? No. 10? No. 1? No. The number is zero. Zero pilots have ever fallen asleep and crashed their airplanes. The only time a plane has ever crashed due to something even close was when the golfer died in his jet. All aboard were already dead due to a failure in the pressurization system and the failure of the pilots to recognize the issue before succumbing to hypoxia.
Yes, as we all well know, bitcoins are worthless and so therefore nobody would ever steal them and so therefore this whole article is a lie from Satan.
Why get your news off a blog post? Why not get it off the main site itself? They have a news feed right on the front page. There is nothing there about any suspension of withdrawals, but I would trust the actual main page over a blog which anybody can post whatever they want on.
if someone put $1,000,000 worth of gold and $1,000,000 worth of bitcoins on a table (hypothetically) which would you choose?
it wouldn't matter which one you chose. They are both worth a million dollars.
When I choose financial institutions, I prefer those named after children's card games.
I'm sure you have similar reservations about buying merchandise by a site named after a tropical rain forest, or getting search results from a site named after a mathematical term.
At least until that site is sued into oblivion. We've seen in the past where fans kept alive a disposed of product that was far superior to the current product. In most cases, the company trying to monetize their new pile of junk sues to get the superior previous version killed.
Why can't we just take the existing product that everybody likes and make it better instead of coming up with a new product and trying to make it more like the old product?
How are they going to kill it if the device is off or only does wifi? I suppose it is less likely that people will run around town with a wifi only device.
Also, why not let the market decided? The manufacturer can make it an optional feature and if the user wants it, they can pay for it. No need for even more legislation, which attempts to control what some manufacturer in China builds.
Not to mention that if you drink what is used for fracking, you would die. If you used it to water your lawn, your lawn would die. If you used it to dump in the river, the fish would die.
Highly entertaining that we get both people complaining about how fracking causes groundwater poisoning because the fluid used for fracking is so toxic and ALSO complaining that fracking takes water out of the system by pouring pure crystal clear water into wells.
Why don't they write a ticket to the speed limit sign? It is also telling people to slow down.
To me, it seems like micropayments would lead to a less educated public and also more sensationalism. People are only going to pay for articles that they are interested in or that grab their attention. Right now, at least with a subscription, people subscribe for certain articles, but other articles are underwritten by the subscription that would never be able to pay for themselves otherwise. They may be informative and useful, and since people have a subscription, they may actually read some of these articles. If micropayments are introduced, some of these articles will just not be written because they would not be individually profitable.
And in a lot of the world, the floodplain isn't chosen because it's a nice place to live. Bengladeshi subsistence farmers don't locate in low areas because of the beaches, but because that's the only land they can afford.
Also, because flood plain land is the most fertile.
what about the other 70m that the sea is going to rise because of the melting of the ice ?
The scientific consensus seems to be that it will take us 5,000 years to melt it all, so I am guessing that people will move out little by little.
My house is about 1,000 feet above sea level, and if all the ice in the world melted, it is estimated that the sea level would rise by 216 feet. So I would still be well out of danger. Ironically, only a few hundred million years ago, my house would have been at the bottom of a shallow sea. Apparently there used to be more water than there is now.
I guess you are no fan of libraries then.
Big fan of libraries. It lets the people know that you like their product and are willing to support it with public tax money.
In the old days of Wheel of Fortune, in the last round, they had you select a certain number of consonants and a vowel, and then you had to guess the phrase. After awhile, people started always picking the most common consonants and vowels. Was there similar controversy? I don't recall. At any point, after this got boring, they changed the game to where they gave you these letters automatically and then let you guess some more. I'm not sure if they have now started always receiving the same secondary list of letters or not. Maybe eventually it will get to the point where they give you all of the characters and just see if you can manage to read it.
I personally never took the Genesis 1 as being to the letter literal. It may have happened exactly like that, or it may have taken 6 billion years. That's not really the point, and getting hung up on small details doesn't help anybody. I guess the problem is that some people can't handle that a book that is a mere 2,000 pages could contain some passages which are allegorical and some which are literal. I think at some point in history, someone asked "who gets decided what is literal and what is allegory" and at that point, the Church decided it must all be literal, so that nobody could call into question where to draw the line. Me, I think I can tell pretty easily what is a parable and what was an event, but that may differs from others interpretations. And that is fine, they're just wrong. :)
That's not the way creationism has worked historically, but that's okay, even when it has worked that way, the beneficiaries stopped believing after only a short time period, so who could blame you for not believing when you have never seen it happen.
They both have vigorous standards of proof. One uses centurys old established scientific theory and the other uses centuries old established Biblical doctrine. At the end, both sides come out the winner from their perspective, and the loser from the other perspective, which, thankfully, doesn't count according to them.