Germany is obligated by its constitution to stay home and is brown water. BraZil, China and India are brown water navies and couldn't if they wanted. They simply can't participate. i wouldn't want China there.
Are you using some new meaning of bankrupt?
Stupid? Are you such a partisan sheep/blame America firster that can't see that Qaddafi is a sick evil fuck killing his own people to stay in power? That Libya is not Egypt? That the people need help? That NOT helping the civilians is morally the same as helping Qaddafi?
Hamlet dies. Real people die just once. In this case it happened in the past relative to the utterance, so we use the past tense not the infinitive. He died. He is dead. Using the wrong tense does not make him less dead.
Because some people are insecure, so they build up themselves by putting others down (via the things they like)
Because some people are egocentric enough that they can't distinguish between their own thoughts and what others are thinking. If you aren't thinking the same thing, something is wrong with you.
It doesn't help that much of what we call Sci-fi is not. For instance, Star Wars is fantasy in space with robots and lasers. Turn the spaceships into boats, the wookies into Minotaurs and the light sabers into... sabers and viola, fantasy.
1) Send aid to Somalia to help them find legitimate work 2) Allow civilian vessels to mount.50 cals 3) Have navies of many nations patrolling dangerous waters, maybe even do some direct escorting
They recently murdered 4 American civilians. Maybe now is the time to... DO something about it.
This is why i play PlanetSide. Vehicles come out of a vending machine. No grinding. No crafting. No player trade. We just go at it.
Diff'rent strokes i guess.
As long as people buying ISK think of it as an entertainment expense rather than an actual purchase, i guess it's OK. But the idea the people "own" any of this stuff is worrisome to me. Once the servers go cold they'll find out exactly what they bought.
Was destroying the left's (and maybe the right's) ability to think rationally and objectively. This thread is full of derp and whargarble defending a traitor who is getting exactly what he deserved.
Left, i am disappoint./voted for Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Obama
The SEC monitors Linden Dollars. Maybe they will eventually take note of BitCoins. However, Lindens are centrally controlled, like WoW gold, and can therefore be annihilated when the servers turn off. BitCoin can't be controlled anymore than the MPAA can control the copying of a song. We can copy it faster than they can sue us. They'd have to make it illegal to use, but we've seen how that usually works when the people don't care about the law.
That would be the first real test then. In the US, i think the former is more likely than the latter. Our currency says "ya gotta accept this" and our gov't won't accept BitCoin for payment of taxes. If you earn BitCoins, you have to pay taxes on that because it's income.
i'm not sure BitCoin is meant to go mainstream. It might be an alternative currency.
Keep reading. There are only 21 million possible coins which can be divided such that if the world's population was 14B each person could have 3,401,360 units.
i doubt bitcoin users want any gov't involved in bitcoins. Most of them are anarchists.
There are 47,619,047,619,047,619 units in the total pool (when the system has run its course). Seems like quite a few. Enough for 14 B people to have 3,401,360 each.
For a currency to work people need only to accept it as a medium of value exchange.
i think it is not meant as a replacement for national currencies, but as a supplement.
You should read more about something before talking about it. BTC is very different, almost nothing like debt money. Feel free to attack it for what it is, not for something you just made up.
While i'm no fan of BTC, your post is wildly inaccurate enough to warrant a response. Attack it for what it is, not what it is not.
It's currency if people use it as a medium of value exchange. A pile of whatever currency Rwanda uses of little value to me, but to a Rwandan guy with kids it could be worth having good in their bellies and shelter.
You get 50 BTC for running a program in the background of your computer. It seems to take about 28MB of ram and a few % of my CPU. It's like Folding from Home or the SETI screen saver. Your computer is on all the time anyway, might as well let it crank out some BTC.
People *are* using BTC for goods and services. Poke around the website.
Where did you get the idea that currency is IOU notes that devalue? Who said that? Are you trolling?
BTC is backed by the same thing as all other currencies, the willingness of people to use it as currency. i personally, have zero use for gold, i'd rather be paid in comic books. But i do understand that other people value it so i'd be willing to use it as a currency. That's all any currency has ever been (commodity backed or not).
US currency under the Federal Reserve system is backed by debt for the most part.
Google: Money as Debt The Money Masters
BTC is not like WoW gold. When Actiblizzard turns off the WoW servers all that gold, entries in a central database Actiblizzard owns, disappear in a blink. Players do not OWN WoW gold, they have use and control of it for as long as the servers run. No one can do that to BTC except by destroying every copy of the program in the world. Imagine the difficulty in quarantining open source software that's running on a few million machines. People could copy it faster than any authority could delete it.
Don't think of it as free money. The likelihood of you getting any for free (aside from the faucet) is pretty low. It's far easier to just buy them (if you want to, no one is making you do it).
It's a fad unless it takes off in a big way. i can't see that happening for a long time or unless some black swan event ruins debt money.
To pass the Monetary Reform Act, President Obama. This is a perfect example of the sort of infrastructure that would be a boon to the economy and to society.
Most of the time people say robot when they mean unmanned/remote control. A land mine is more robotic than the Predator. Someone flies the Predator and fires its weapons. A land mine does what it does without human intervention, that's a robot.
An IR missile is a robot. The "bots" in battle WERE NOT ROBOTS. They were remote controlled cars with armor and weapons.
Even if this thing takes off, lands and cruises on it's own, it's a robot for only those functions. When it can pick it's own targets and fire upon them without asking for permission we'll call it a Robot Jet Fighter.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
It's the Sears Tower.
And it has higher useful office space than the Petronas Towers. Petronas is "taller" because of the decorative spires.
Noone as in Peter Noone?
You're a willfully ignorant asshole. And yes, a cowardly partisan sheep.
Germany is obligated by its constitution to stay home and is brown water. BraZil, China and India are brown water navies and couldn't if they wanted. They simply can't participate. i wouldn't want China there.
Are you using some new meaning of bankrupt?
Stupid? Are you such a partisan sheep/blame America firster that can't see that Qaddafi is a sick evil fuck killing his own people to stay in power? That Libya is not Egypt? That the people need help? That NOT helping the civilians is morally the same as helping Qaddafi?
i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how indie you are.
Hamlet dies. Real people die just once. In this case it happened in the past relative to the utterance, so we use the past tense not the infinitive. He died. He is dead. Using the wrong tense does not make him less dead.
Sophomoric excuses in 3... 2... 1....
i'm not sure i could watch The Descent again.
Usually when people say militant atheism they mean non-closeted atheism. What did you mean here?
Because some people are insecure, so they build up themselves by putting others down (via the things they like)
Because some people are egocentric enough that they can't distinguish between their own thoughts and what others are thinking. If you aren't thinking the same thing, something is wrong with you.
It doesn't help that much of what we call Sci-fi is not. For instance, Star Wars is fantasy in space with robots and lasers. Turn the spaceships into boats, the wookies into Minotaurs and the light sabers into... sabers and viola, fantasy.
End of discussion.
1) Send aid to Somalia to help them find legitimate work .50 cals
2) Allow civilian vessels to mount
3) Have navies of many nations patrolling dangerous waters, maybe even do some direct escorting
They recently murdered 4 American civilians. Maybe now is the time to... DO something about it.
Amusing for a few seconds. Does this use JS?
Question marks mark questions.
This is why i play PlanetSide. Vehicles come out of a vending machine. No grinding. No crafting. No player trade. We just go at it.
Diff'rent strokes i guess.
As long as people buying ISK think of it as an entertainment expense rather than an actual purchase, i guess it's OK. But the idea the people "own" any of this stuff is worrisome to me. Once the servers go cold they'll find out exactly what they bought.
Prestop preadding pre to every verb. Pre- doesn't pre-go with verbs.
I will record a message.
I am recording a message.
I recored a message.
They played a recorded message.
If the sale is complete the headline should be:
Nokia sold....
If the sale is not yet complete but underway:
Nokia (is) selling....
If the sale has not started but will happen:
Nokia will sell....
Nokia to sell....
Nokia sells would be if it was something Nokia did habitually:
Nokia sells cellphones down by the sea shore. /sophomoric excuse making in 3, 2, 1....
Was destroying the left's (and maybe the right's) ability to think rationally and objectively. This thread is full of derp and whargarble defending a traitor who is getting exactly what he deserved.
Left, i am disappoint. /voted for Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Obama
The SEC monitors Linden Dollars. Maybe they will eventually take note of BitCoins. However, Lindens are centrally controlled, like WoW gold, and can therefore be annihilated when the servers turn off. BitCoin can't be controlled anymore than the MPAA can control the copying of a song. We can copy it faster than they can sue us. They'd have to make it illegal to use, but we've seen how that usually works when the people don't care about the law.
That would be the first real test then. In the US, i think the former is more likely than the latter. Our currency says "ya gotta accept this" and our gov't won't accept BitCoin for payment of taxes. If you earn BitCoins, you have to pay taxes on that because it's income.
i'm not sure BitCoin is meant to go mainstream. It might be an alternative currency.
Hrm.
Keep reading. There are only 21 million possible coins which can be divided such that if the world's population was 14B each person could have 3,401,360 units.
i doubt bitcoin users want any gov't involved in bitcoins. Most of them are anarchists.
There are 47,619,047,619,047,619 units in the total pool (when the system has run its course). Seems like quite a few. Enough for 14 B people to have 3,401,360 each.
For a currency to work people need only to accept it as a medium of value exchange.
i think it is not meant as a replacement for national currencies, but as a supplement.
Question marks mark questions.
This is a question:
"Will the US Dollar soon be worthless?"
Not insightful. Just plain wrong.
You should read more about something before talking about it. BTC is very different, almost nothing like debt money. Feel free to attack it for what it is, not for something you just made up.
Mod parent FUD and ignorance.
While i'm no fan of BTC, your post is wildly inaccurate enough to warrant a response. Attack it for what it is, not what it is not.
It's currency if people use it as a medium of value exchange. A pile of whatever currency Rwanda uses of little value to me, but to a Rwandan guy with kids it could be worth having good in their bellies and shelter.
You get 50 BTC for running a program in the background of your computer. It seems to take about 28MB of ram and a few % of my CPU. It's like Folding from Home or the SETI screen saver. Your computer is on all the time anyway, might as well let it crank out some BTC.
People *are* using BTC for goods and services. Poke around the website.
Where did you get the idea that currency is IOU notes that devalue? Who said that? Are you trolling?
BTC is backed by the same thing as all other currencies, the willingness of people to use it as currency. i personally, have zero use for gold, i'd rather be paid in comic books. But i do understand that other people value it so i'd be willing to use it as a currency. That's all any currency has ever been (commodity backed or not).
US currency under the Federal Reserve system is backed by debt for the most part.
Google:
Money as Debt
The Money Masters
BTC is not like WoW gold. When Actiblizzard turns off the WoW servers all that gold, entries in a central database Actiblizzard owns, disappear in a blink. Players do not OWN WoW gold, they have use and control of it for as long as the servers run. No one can do that to BTC except by destroying every copy of the program in the world. Imagine the difficulty in quarantining open source software that's running on a few million machines. People could copy it faster than any authority could delete it.
Don't think of it as free money. The likelihood of you getting any for free (aside from the faucet) is pretty low. It's far easier to just buy them (if you want to, no one is making you do it).
It's a fad unless it takes off in a big way. i can't see that happening for a long time or unless some black swan event ruins debt money.
To pass the Monetary Reform Act, President Obama. This is a perfect example of the sort of infrastructure that would be a boon to the economy and to society.
Most of the time people say robot when they mean unmanned/remote control. A land mine is more robotic than the Predator. Someone flies the Predator and fires its weapons. A land mine does what it does without human intervention, that's a robot.
An IR missile is a robot. The "bots" in battle WERE NOT ROBOTS. They were remote controlled cars with armor and weapons.
Even if this thing takes off, lands and cruises on it's own, it's a robot for only those functions. When it can pick it's own targets and fire upon them without asking for permission we'll call it a Robot Jet Fighter.