Without a 'central counterparty' to verify transactions and thus mitigate that risk, Bitcoin could fail to break into wider use.
The amount of trust in a currency depends on custom. If Bitcoins become widely used in some Chinese regions then they'll gain acceptance, and it might spread.
Northern Ireland bank notes, which are printed by various banks according to their own designs and are branded as "pounds sterling", are not actually legal tender. They're a hangover from an old law that let regional banks print their own money in place of currency issued by the Bank of England. But people in Northern Ireland use them and think nothing of it, including transactions between total strangers. The notes are met with a bit more scepticism when you try to use them in England though.
The only thing stopping Northern Ireland bank notes from gaining wider acceptance in Britain is the Irish Sea which has a tendency to slow down the flow of money across the water. Plus, seasoned travelers change their local notes for Bank of England notes when going to England because they know that the regional notes are going to be harder to spend. So that keeps a vicious circle going of unfamiliarity that undermines trust.
Students in Shanghai performed so well in math that the OECD report compares their scoring to the equivalent of nearly three years of schooling above most OECD countries.
Not sure about math, reading and science, but clearly my geography is bad. I had no idea Shanghai was a country.
Your reading doesn't seem to be up to much either. Nowhere in that sentence does it even imply that Shanghai is a country.
Yes, lots of HR departments in the Silicon Valley advertising for ex-cons with tech skills. This is a great way to spend tax payer money. Let's double down and spend a few billion (in a State with serious financial issues no less) educating ex-cons that can't get security clearance and who are untouchable by HR.
What would you prefer we do then? Let prisons go on functioning as crime academies where the only thing the inmates learn is how to commit even more crime as soon as they're released?
Is this the standard response now when racists are called on their bullshit? Start firing back with words like "liberal" and "lefty" as if they're insults?
Fuck you, you conservative racist prick. Fuck you to high heaven.
Don't give me your racist's last defense, the first amendment, because it doesn't work.
Here is the news, mad hatter. The first amendment only stops the government from censoring you. It doesn't stop a private citizen or organization from silencing you. I can still tell you to shut up. So shut your racist trap, you intellectually-challenged racist prick.
US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures
HIGHLY misleading headline. I read the headline and thought, "wow, so many executions are occurring in the US that there's not enough of this drug for non-execution purposes"... which is a much more straightforward interpretation than what the article eventually gets into, which is that the use of the drug in a single execution would make an EU regulation kick in.
BOOOOOOO, slashdot editor. Boooo.
Yeah. How dare he make you read the whole summary.
If I had to excuse any one country for being squeamish about how its chemical products are used, it would be Germany. (But maybe Gov Nixon could ask them if they had any leftover Zyklon B hanging around...I bet that stuff doesn't go bad...)
If only the only country in the world to have targeted civilians with nuclear weapons were as squeamish about holding on to them.
Because most of the "real firsts" were done by Russia and the U.S. a long time ago. And you've got to start somewhere.
Most of the firsts were done by the Soviets.
First artificial satellite. First living thing in space. First astronaut. First man to orbit the earth. First space walk. First woman in space. First space station. Plenty of broken records for long duration in space too.
Jesus H Christ, do you people have any fucking clue what socialism is? Are you calling Tony Abbott a socialist? OMFG you people need to go back to kindergarten and start again. Idiot.
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Without a 'central counterparty' to verify transactions and thus mitigate that risk, Bitcoin could fail to break into wider use.
The amount of trust in a currency depends on custom. If Bitcoins become widely used in some Chinese regions then they'll gain acceptance, and it might spread.
Northern Ireland bank notes, which are printed by various banks according to their own designs and are branded as "pounds sterling", are not actually legal tender. They're a hangover from an old law that let regional banks print their own money in place of currency issued by the Bank of England. But people in Northern Ireland use them and think nothing of it, including transactions between total strangers. The notes are met with a bit more scepticism when you try to use them in England though.
The only thing stopping Northern Ireland bank notes from gaining wider acceptance in Britain is the Irish Sea which has a tendency to slow down the flow of money across the water. Plus, seasoned travelers change their local notes for Bank of England notes when going to England because they know that the regional notes are going to be harder to spend. So that keeps a vicious circle going of unfamiliarity that undermines trust.
How about "if the system is corrupt then you've got no choice but to work within the corrupt system"?
Ah, the old "well actually I was only being ironic" defence. Nice try.
Did you notice that you advocated blatant corruption, just now?
Why not? Seems to be working for car dealers all over the country. Sauce for the goose.
They're not teaching them the joy of sex.
Fewer people of working age to fund the pensions of retired people. Kinda like the baby-boomer time bomb that's in the process of going off here.
Students in Shanghai performed so well in math that the OECD report compares their scoring to the equivalent of nearly three years of schooling above most OECD countries.
Not sure about math, reading and science, but clearly my geography is bad. I had no idea Shanghai was a country.
Your reading doesn't seem to be up to much either. Nowhere in that sentence does it even imply that Shanghai is a country.
Yes, lots of HR departments in the Silicon Valley advertising for ex-cons with tech skills. This is a great way to spend tax payer money. Let's double down and spend a few billion (in a State with serious financial issues no less) educating ex-cons that can't get security clearance and who are untouchable by HR.
What would you prefer we do then? Let prisons go on functioning as crime academies where the only thing the inmates learn is how to commit even more crime as soon as they're released?
Great. That means that in English cities you'll soon have to hail a "dark" taxi rather than a black one.
Like I said, fuck you.
Is this the standard response now when racists are called on their bullshit? Start firing back with words like "liberal" and "lefty" as if they're insults?
Fuck you, you conservative racist prick. Fuck you to high heaven.
Whoosh!
Jesus H Christ do I have to spell it out?
Most of the firsts were not achieved by the US.
Got it?
Don't give me your racist's last defense, the first amendment, because it doesn't work.
Here is the news, mad hatter. The first amendment only stops the government from censoring you. It doesn't stop a private citizen or organization from silencing you. I can still tell you to shut up. So shut your racist trap, you intellectually-challenged racist prick.
HIGHLY misleading headline. I read the headline and thought, "wow, so many executions are occurring in the US that there's not enough of this drug for non-execution purposes"... which is a much more straightforward interpretation than what the article eventually gets into, which is that the use of the drug in a single execution would make an EU regulation kick in.
BOOOOOOO, slashdot editor. Boooo.
Yeah. How dare he make you read the whole summary.
If I had to excuse any one country for being squeamish about how its chemical products are used, it would be Germany.
(But maybe Gov Nixon could ask them if they had any leftover Zyklon B hanging around...I bet that stuff doesn't go bad...)
If only the only country in the world to have targeted civilians with nuclear weapons were as squeamish about holding on to them.
So if you sentence the guy to thirty years, should the jury have to house, feed and guard him?
Maybe. It'd be cheaper than executing him.
Fuck you.
Mars is perfect for what? It's an unimaginably distant dead rock with nothing on it. Antarctica is a billion times more hospitable.
Yeah, and the moon is another dead distant rock. What could we possibly learn by going there, hmm?
There's only one answer to that question. Fuck you, you racist piece of shit.
Stop modding up racist comments. They are not funny.
Me too.
Because most of the "real firsts" were done by Russia and the U.S. a long time ago. And you've got to start somewhere.
Most of the firsts were done by the Soviets.
First artificial satellite.
First living thing in space.
First astronaut.
First man to orbit the earth.
First space walk.
First woman in space.
First space station.
Plenty of broken records for long duration in space too.
Stop modding up racist comments.
Better off just Australian forums, this isn't a new problem for us.
Of course /. is still a bad idea because most people here still assume no other countries exist.
Well actually they do. They just assume that any country with brown people doesn't have any running water, and that Europe is all run by communists.
Jesus H Christ, do you people have any fucking clue what socialism is? Are you calling Tony Abbott a socialist? OMFG you people need to go back to kindergarten and start again. Idiot.