1. Miners cannot make bitcoins worthless, as the difficulty of mining adjusts to the number of blocks created. ~21,000.000 BTC is the cap, period.
2. Joe Sixpack doesn't understand how dollars function either.
3. It's increasing. There are several eCommerce platforms being modified for its use, and I myself recently began accepting it for physical goods.
4. I don't understand this one. It doesn't appear to be a question.
5. The masses are stupid - that's why they thing dollars can be converted to gold.
6. In what way does the US government back dollars?
7. They would mine a shit-ton of BTC - but not more than ~21m - (amount in existence). If RSA is broken, the whole network would need to move to another hash algo. The algo with 50%+1 support would win in the case of a schism.
8. You can use Bitcount anonymously - but it isn't something a layperson can do. Note that the creators of Bitcount don't claim that it is completely anonymous, either.
No, you're right. I've been involved in the "tea parties" (not the lower case) since Bush was in office. The first one I attended was a fund raiser for Ron Paul - not that I'm a big Paul fan, but I was interested in the connections to be made there.
After the elections, it took off and was great for a while. After the April 2008 events, it started attracting broader support from conservatives, though, and that was the beginning of the end.
In 2008, you would meet people who identified themselves as Objectivists, libertarians, agorists, minarchists, voluntarists, etc - and would be happy to sit and discuss political philosophy. In 2011, you meet people who bitch about Obama for 20 minutes without ever making a logically consistent argument beyond "I disagree".
Bradley a hero? It seems to me he simply leaked everything he could get his hands on. That makes him a traitor, not a hero.
Now, had he had a grievance with the way things are being done, found evidence of wrongdoing, and released that - he might have a case for being something other than a simple traitor. He didn't do that, though - he downloaded everything classified he could and sent it to a foreign national who he knew would disclose it to the enemies of the US. That's espionage.
If you agree with him, that's fine. That makes you a sympathizer. You have every right to be a sympathizer, but to pretend anything different is simply an attempt to fool yourself.
This may be a minor quibble, but the very leaks in discussion here show that there were in fact many instances where WMDs were discovered and recovered in Iraq. The most common were gas-filled artillery shells, and some were even used in IED attacks, seemingly by chance.
It was kept quiet to keep the insurgents from knowing what they had, which seems prudent.
What's your point? I was merely pointing out the activities that I saw as the most bandwidth-intensive that they regularly use in my presence. Does it really matter if they are producers or consumers of the data, as it is still being transferred?
I look around at the Fortune 100 company where I work, and I note that every single executive is carrying an iPad. I regularly see them pulling down enormous PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, and watching Netflix.
This is the first wave, of course - soon, VPs will need one to feel important - then Directors, then Sr. Managers, and on down. The iPad is on the path to finally cracking the corporate market for Apple.
Yes, that's the case. I didn't say it would be easy on the developers - I'm coming at this from a marketing perspective.
Being able to say "We will not retire features without a year's warning, pressing security issues aside" would be a great marketing tactic to the stupid number of people who are resistant to change.
$100m for the "MySpace" name is what this amounts to. Take it, shut it down for a month, and relaunch the service completely re-invented. Take from Facebook what works (clean, simple, consistent layout; an accessible auth system; cater to businesses), and loudly fix some of its shortcomings (Insane privacy issues; constantly changing API and business pages; vendor lock-in). I think it would be an enormous hit.
Hell - simply allowing users to stick with old versions of the service for a year after new changes launch would garner a lot of attention. How many silly "Bring back the old Facebook!!!" groups exist?
Zinc is about 10 miles from a town of 12,000 people. It is also the home of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - the people that live there choose to do so. They all have cars, and they all have access to better jobs and education.
Second, how the hell does the fact that Mexico lacks the material infrastructure to support opportunities for those people make them "lazy"? Even without it, many Mexicans work in maquiladoras, particularly near the borders. They aren't lazy, they are simply poor and in a geographic location that isolates them.
Yes, I live in Arkansas. I moved *back* to Arkansas - life is substantially slower here, the people are generally more welcoming, and it is a good place to raise my children. Don't let that stop you from assuming I'm a backwards, barefooted hick though.
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Your linked article says the opposite of what you're asserting.
He goes on to say that they specifically told him that the Apple dev team looked at his app and were impressed.
Last I checked, that would make this a derivative work.
My Asus netbook does have a sliding cover on the webcam. It's one of the design features that prompted me to buy it.
I purchased his wife as well, and was quite satisfied.
Would do business with again. A++.
Both FedEx Ground and FedEx Express are non-union. The pilots are the only ones unionized across the whole company, to my knowledge.
1. Miners cannot make bitcoins worthless, as the difficulty of mining adjusts to the number of blocks created. ~21,000.000 BTC is the cap, period.
2. Joe Sixpack doesn't understand how dollars function either.
3. It's increasing. There are several eCommerce platforms being modified for its use, and I myself recently began accepting it for physical goods.
4. I don't understand this one. It doesn't appear to be a question.
5. The masses are stupid - that's why they thing dollars can be converted to gold.
6. In what way does the US government back dollars?
7. They would mine a shit-ton of BTC - but not more than ~21m - (amount in existence). If RSA is broken, the whole network would need to move to another hash algo. The algo with 50%+1 support would win in the case of a schism.
8. You can use Bitcount anonymously - but it isn't something a layperson can do. Note that the creators of Bitcount don't claim that it is completely anonymous, either.
Can you cite a reference to the following?
[quote]Our schools are receiving less and less money[/quote]
No, you're right. I've been involved in the "tea parties" (not the lower case) since Bush was in office. The first one I attended was a fund raiser for Ron Paul - not that I'm a big Paul fan, but I was interested in the connections to be made there.
After the elections, it took off and was great for a while. After the April 2008 events, it started attracting broader support from conservatives, though, and that was the beginning of the end.
In 2008, you would meet people who identified themselves as Objectivists, libertarians, agorists, minarchists, voluntarists, etc - and would be happy to sit and discuss political philosophy. In 2011, you meet people who bitch about Obama for 20 minutes without ever making a logically consistent argument beyond "I disagree".
I want my damn tea party back.
If I had $200k in stolen money I was trying to hide, I'd put it in Bitcoins. No, really, I would.
Then I'd sell those Bitcoins over the course of a month or two, via wire transfer to a bank in the Turks & Caicos.
Then I'd move to the Turks & Caicos :)
I use Toktumi. My affiliate site here: http://mybusinesstollfreenumber.com/
I really do use it. My number is at the bottom of that site - feel free to give me a call.
This is a good point - if one were truly paranoid, it would be possible to create a new "identity" for each transaction in which they partook...
Bradley a hero? It seems to me he simply leaked everything he could get his hands on. That makes him a traitor, not a hero.
Now, had he had a grievance with the way things are being done, found evidence of wrongdoing, and released that - he might have a case for being something other than a simple traitor. He didn't do that, though - he downloaded everything classified he could and sent it to a foreign national who he knew would disclose it to the enemies of the US. That's espionage.
If you agree with him, that's fine. That makes you a sympathizer. You have every right to be a sympathizer, but to pretend anything different is simply an attempt to fool yourself.
Both Russia and China have committed governmental genocides larger than the Holocaust. See also, Cambodia.
This may be a minor quibble, but the very leaks in discussion here show that there were in fact many instances where WMDs were discovered and recovered in Iraq. The most common were gas-filled artillery shells, and some were even used in IED attacks, seemingly by chance.
It was kept quiet to keep the insurgents from knowing what they had, which seems prudent.
Thanks :)
We are nowhere near 100% utilization of spectrum, though.
What's your point? I was merely pointing out the activities that I saw as the most bandwidth-intensive that they regularly use in my presence. Does it really matter if they are producers or consumers of the data, as it is still being transferred?
... or more spectrum, or more efficient use of the spectrum to already have ...
I look around at the Fortune 100 company where I work, and I note that every single executive is carrying an iPad. I regularly see them pulling down enormous PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, and watching Netflix.
This is the first wave, of course - soon, VPs will need one to feel important - then Directors, then Sr. Managers, and on down. The iPad is on the path to finally cracking the corporate market for Apple.
Wow. I'm going to check out their service then - that's obscenely ethical.
Yep. Do the same thing with MySpace, but just be an implementation of OpenID - but for God's sake, don't call it that on public pages.
Yes, that's the case. I didn't say it would be easy on the developers - I'm coming at this from a marketing perspective.
Being able to say "We will not retire features without a year's warning, pressing security issues aside" would be a great marketing tactic to the stupid number of people who are resistant to change.
Seriously - a company could make a ton here.
$100m for the "MySpace" name is what this amounts to. Take it, shut it down for a month, and relaunch the service completely re-invented. Take from Facebook what works (clean, simple, consistent layout; an accessible auth system; cater to businesses), and loudly fix some of its shortcomings (Insane privacy issues; constantly changing API and business pages; vendor lock-in). I think it would be an enormous hit.
Hell - simply allowing users to stick with old versions of the service for a year after new changes launch would garner a lot of attention. How many silly "Bring back the old Facebook!!!" groups exist?
Yep - physical isolation. That's what has protected the Iranian nuclear program's computer so thoroughly :)
This makes no sense at all.
Zinc is about 10 miles from a town of 12,000 people. It is also the home of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - the people that live there choose to do so. They all have cars, and they all have access to better jobs and education.
Second, how the hell does the fact that Mexico lacks the material infrastructure to support opportunities for those people make them "lazy"? Even without it, many Mexicans work in maquiladoras, particularly near the borders. They aren't lazy, they are simply poor and in a geographic location that isolates them.
Yes, I live in Arkansas. I moved *back* to Arkansas - life is substantially slower here, the people are generally more welcoming, and it is a good place to raise my children. Don't let that stop you from assuming I'm a backwards, barefooted hick though.