Which means the automated cabin attendant will remind you to turn off your electronics, return your tray table to its stowed position and please buy extravagantly from your in-flight magazine.
I've been watching. I wanted to see how many episodes it would take for someone to figure out where the geographic center of the sphere was and go see if anything was there of any interest.
It would have been funny if there was a big box with a disconnect switch sitting there. And the townspeople would be saying, "What? We put up with how many weeks of this shit and we could have just turned it off?"
Perhaps. But Gallo's account didn't make the time frame of the account clear. Perhaps pre-GPS. I Googled for this and didn't find anything after a short search. I'd think such an observation in modern times would warrant numerous pictures and perhaps a log entry with position.
So, Bitcoin could be a commodity like bushels of wheat. One can exchange it for dollars, so it has a market value. But the commodity itself is just something farmers produce.
"Bitcoin Savings and Trust" may fall under SEC, or CFTC regulation if they offer contracts, futures derivatives and similar products. But unlike a bank (which is regulated), farmers can go on producing wheat (or Bitcoin) and only certain trading activities are regulated (financially).
A few decades is too much. What the Rolling Stones created in their heyday was worth something. Now the only remaining value is in going to their concerts to see the geezer freak show. Not something in danger of being copied.
... people get the difference between money and being subject to SEC regulations. Money is a medium of trade and exchange, of which Bitcoin is a kind. Fine. You get paid in Bitcoin, you'd better report it to the IRS.
Making Bitcoin subject to SEC regulations is a whole other issue, with additional requirements. The SEC regulates (most*) securities and imposes requirements such as registration and transaction reporting. This is far beyond the sort of regulation applied to money. When was the last time you had to report the serial numbers on all the currency you held?
So, which is it? A currency, subject to income reporting rules? Or a security, under the SEC's authority? IANAL, so I'd really like some enlightened input on what is being decided here.
*Derivatives and commodity contracts are subject to CFTC regulation.
There, completely beneath the waves was an old wooden sailing ship that was apparently being pushed along by currents
Pics?
I've heard of this as well. But it usually turns out to be a wreck floating very low in the water. Or someone passing over a sea mount with a wreck atop it. How can one tell that its the submerged ship slowly moving in the current and not themselves?
One of the Five Eyes Alliance. No doubt, the 'best' replacement for CAPTCHAs will be a centralized authentication/login authority. Or at least a few large outfits that can be arm twisted into linking everyone's accounts together. Like Google, Microsoft, OpenID, etc. Its just a variation of 'think of the children'. Think of the blind.
No thanks. I'll keep my on-line personas separate.
So you push the bot detection problem onto a third party. But when they are overrun, the smarter bot operators won't spam the identification sites. So these service providers will never have good statistics on which measures work and which don't.
Exposing this sort of behavior to the general public will help immensely in trials: Jurors will be less likely to take law enforcement officials' word seriously when given as evidence. Now, they'll be just as big a bunch of lying sacks of shit as the drug dealers they are trying to bust.
While we don't like being spied on and especially don't like it when not told about it, as long as the data is only going to them,
But is it? The local cops and even the FBI are full of people who will fetch a few records for their buddies. The only difference between them a Snowden is that they don't dump the entire server full of policy memos. And then hand it to the press. Want a search on your local business competitors? No problem. We'll slip that to you. When you retire from civil service there will be a nice cushy job in some corporate security department for you.
This will lead privacy-conscious companies to move their IT operations offshore to more secure jurisdictions. And that will lead to more interconnections, not less. The average user seems to think that they have to buy their e-mail, web hosting DNS and other assorted services from the same outfit that provides their DSL line. Not true. And as more people realize that, they'll move to services that can legally tell the NSA to f*k off when they come asking for the private keys.
It will also lead to more peer-to-peer systems. If I run my own e-mail server at home (for my own use), the security services can't come to me for the keys they need to spy on me.
... the optimal business model is one which will deliver the maximum revenue per hour from advertising or subscription fees. Free, or lower cost distribution (costs include making viewers sit through ads) will result in more low cost content pushing out the higher priced, higher quality programming. Eventually, we will have nothing but reality shows, ultimately resulting in programs like 'Ow! My Balls!' taking over.
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Flying cars.
Which means the automated cabin attendant will remind you to turn off your electronics, return your tray table to its stowed position and please buy extravagantly from your in-flight magazine.
I've been watching. I wanted to see how many episodes it would take for someone to figure out where the geographic center of the sphere was and go see if anything was there of any interest.
It would have been funny if there was a big box with a disconnect switch sitting there. And the townspeople would be saying, "What? We put up with how many weeks of this shit and we could have just turned it off?"
GPS?
Perhaps. But Gallo's account didn't make the time frame of the account clear. Perhaps pre-GPS. I Googled for this and didn't find anything after a short search. I'd think such an observation in modern times would warrant numerous pictures and perhaps a log entry with position.
So, Bitcoin could be a commodity like bushels of wheat. One can exchange it for dollars, so it has a market value. But the commodity itself is just something farmers produce.
"Bitcoin Savings and Trust" may fall under SEC, or CFTC regulation if they offer contracts, futures derivatives and similar products. But unlike a bank (which is regulated), farmers can go on producing wheat (or Bitcoin) and only certain trading activities are regulated (financially).
why is copyright limited to only a few decades?
To get you up off your ass so you'll create more.
A few decades is too much. What the Rolling Stones created in their heyday was worth something. Now the only remaining value is in going to their concerts to see the geezer freak show. Not something in danger of being copied.
Making Bitcoin subject to SEC regulations is a whole other issue, with additional requirements. The SEC regulates (most*) securities and imposes requirements such as registration and transaction reporting. This is far beyond the sort of regulation applied to money. When was the last time you had to report the serial numbers on all the currency you held?
So, which is it? A currency, subject to income reporting rules? Or a security, under the SEC's authority? IANAL, so I'd really like some enlightened input on what is being decided here.
*Derivatives and commodity contracts are subject to CFTC regulation.
There, completely beneath the waves was an old wooden sailing ship that was apparently being pushed along by currents
Pics?
I've heard of this as well. But it usually turns out to be a wreck floating very low in the water. Or someone passing over a sea mount with a wreck atop it. How can one tell that its the submerged ship slowly moving in the current and not themselves?
What about Sea Hunt?
And stay off my lawn, kid.
Its all a show to reassure their respective citizens that they are complying with the laws and looking out for their best interests.
Captain Renault: "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Croupier: "Your winnings, sir."
.... seeing as how Snowden was dating a stripper. Indeed, I can think of no better role model.
In the cafeteria.
More 'secret sauce' on that burger, sir?
I just wish it would stop referring to itself as Carlos Danger when it posts these.
Curiosity wakes up the next morning with a lampshade on its head and Martian hieroglyphics tattooed on its ass.
One of the Five Eyes Alliance. No doubt, the 'best' replacement for CAPTCHAs will be a centralized authentication/login authority. Or at least a few large outfits that can be arm twisted into linking everyone's accounts together. Like Google, Microsoft, OpenID, etc. Its just a variation of 'think of the children'. Think of the blind.
No thanks. I'll keep my on-line personas separate.
So you push the bot detection problem onto a third party. But when they are overrun, the smarter bot operators won't spam the identification sites. So these service providers will never have good statistics on which measures work and which don't.
Exposing this sort of behavior to the general public will help immensely in trials: Jurors will be less likely to take law enforcement officials' word seriously when given as evidence. Now, they'll be just as big a bunch of lying sacks of shit as the drug dealers they are trying to bust.
While we don't like being spied on and especially don't like it when not told about it, as long as the data is only going to them,
But is it? The local cops and even the FBI are full of people who will fetch a few records for their buddies. The only difference between them a Snowden is that they don't dump the entire server full of policy memos. And then hand it to the press. Want a search on your local business competitors? No problem. We'll slip that to you. When you retire from civil service there will be a nice cushy job in some corporate security department for you.
Chalk it up to small brain size.
This will lead privacy-conscious companies to move their IT operations offshore to more secure jurisdictions. And that will lead to more interconnections, not less. The average user seems to think that they have to buy their e-mail, web hosting DNS and other assorted services from the same outfit that provides their DSL line. Not true. And as more people realize that, they'll move to services that can legally tell the NSA to f*k off when they come asking for the private keys.
It will also lead to more peer-to-peer systems. If I run my own e-mail server at home (for my own use), the security services can't come to me for the keys they need to spy on me.
There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
I'll bet your cat planted this idea in your head.