From its website, the Bitcooin Foundation "standardizes, protects and promotes the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money for the benefit of users worldwide". I don't see where it engages in money transmission.
Mt Gox is an example of an exchange. Except they are a Japanese company, over which the state of California has no authority. And perhaps not even the US Treasurey department. The transmission of Bitcoin is being handled by AT&T, other ISPs and Internet backbone operators. It is these companies that are enabling the movement (transmission) of Bitcoin and who should be penalized.
Continue to dither. Until climate change actually becomes important.
We'll know when this happens. It will be when one ton of carbon sequestered by a Monsanto genetically engineered super tree is worth the same in carbon credits as one ton sequestered by a tree in some third world country, owned by Al Gore. Until then, its a wealth transfer scam.
Right. And lets take this a step further. What is an "official complaint"? Making a public statement I can understand as designed to instill fear among the general population. But raising the issue either through official channels for such feedback? Nope. They asked for comments, they got them. If they don't like them, tough.
Its also my understanding that the complaints were along the lines of: "This water makes me/my kids sick." Not, "There's poison in the water." The former is subjective and purely dependent on the sensitivity of the particular consumer to some attribute of the water.
Techniques of data mining and continual tracking across most web sites (anything with an ad banner) render the anonymity of a device worthless. Even if you use a 'burner' phone, unless you change numbers and hardware (don't forget your IMEI) every few months, they can identify you.
You would have to add to your list, "Never use that device to log in to any service. Even with a pseudonymous ID." And that would make such a device practically useless, not being able to check my e-mail or log into Slashdot as PPH.
as long as you aren't buying Ammonium Nitrate and egg timers.
Or working on a venture capital deal, making a significant investment in something or working with trade secrets in general. If you don't think people at the FBI/NSA/CIA don't slip their buddies insider tips on industry goings-on you are deluding yourself. On the other hand, if the biggest transaction you arrange is picking up a gallon of milk and a box of Tampons for the wife, then go right ahead. You are just another sheep in the flock.
He's recording a conversation. In Washington State. Without the prior consent of both parties.
Generally, it is legal to record a conversation in public as a third party. The people engaged in that conversation do not have an expectation of privacy if they continue in that third's presence. But if two people are alone and one asks the other , "Why are you recording me?" That conversation's privacy is protected and may not be recorded.
In fact, war itself is well-known to be fundamentally irrational. There's even something in economics called the "war puzzle" or "war problem": under the economic model of rationality, war is irrational.
For the major players involved, yes. But for the weapons suppliers, war can be immensely profitable.
As such, creating bigger and bigger machines to prosecute wars is the stupidest thing humans could possibly do. On the other hand, if you think a weapon is a tool for changing your enemy's mind, then machines that educate are the most powerful weapons of all.
People who want war have convinced themselves that they are already right. No further education is needed. Or the leadership has been convinced of this by those seeking the war for their profit motive.
There's a difference between putting R&D on a back burner while your economy recovers and taking an axe to what you've got. Over manufactured concerns of national security while the USA goes ahead and builds commercial versions of their version.
And then there's Canada (nobody starving up there in the 1950s) who had to chop up their prototype supersonic interceptor at Boeing's request.
I've never had problems with automating manual processes. And in my experience, whenever someone demands a manual step somewhere in the chain, its for some unethical or illegal purpose. Or to employ their idiot nephew who can just barely operate a rubber stamp.
for all their faults, ordinary banks, in general, do not like dealing with certain types of criminal customers.
Only because the gov't has criminalized the free movement of funds. Banks could care less about their customers so long as they behave themselves while in the lobby. But they have been pressed into service by the state as quasi-police. Because the state cannot detect (or be bothered with identifying) actual criminal activity.
The amount of funds that move per unit time for legal purposes is orders of magnitude more than those supporting criminal activities. Compliance with FINCEN regs for all of these legal transactions is so high we would be better off legalizing drugs and losing one or two WTCs or year. We'd still be money ahead.
But who identifies the enemy? Declaring war is the job of Congress. Unless they do so, individual terrorist acts are a law enforcement issue and should be handled within the constraints of that function.
It appears similar technology is being introduced for office lighting, with disappointing results.
I'd sort of doubt that. Solid state fluorescent ballasts usually switch at 20 kHz or more (to keep the magnetics from whistling in an audible range). Dimming is accomplished by PWM this frequency.
Its possible that some cheap crap ballasts don't have the energy storage to 'coast' through the 50/60 Hz zero crossings. Or your office might have seriously low voltage on the lighting circuits.
you should get headaches from ANY non-solid-state artificial lighting (incandescent, fluorescent, halogen,...)
Fluorescent, yes. Incandescent and halogen (really a subtype of incandescent) no. The thermal time constant of a bulb filament is so long that the power frequency ripple is smoothed out.
Easy test: Build a simple circuit with a photodiode and plug it into an audio amp. You can easily detect which lamp types produce flicker by the hum and get an idea of the relative magnitude. Test your circuit first by shrouding the photodiode to make sure your circuit isn't picking up an E or H field signal.
One thing I haven't heard complaints about so far: Automotive HID headlights. I suspect that most of these run at 200 Hz or higher.
Given the numbers from Kinsey's research, how are you so sure of the motives of the guys that want to hang out with you late at the bar to 'talk shop'?
(2) the communication does not contain foreign intelligence information but is
reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime that has been, is being, or is about to be committed such communication may be disseminated (including United States person identities) to appropriate Federal law enforcement authorities, in accordance with 50 U.S.C.
So are you bastards going to report in when our local refineries make their weekly calls to fix the price of gasoline?
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Spoken like a true tool of the people who are making hundreds of billions off of oil and coal.
Like .... me. I've got 100 shares of Exxon.
Do you have 100 shares of Gore, Inc.?
It's the Borg. For midgets.
The links aren't dead. The NSA is logging every request.
Damn you! That won't run on Linux!
From its website, the Bitcooin Foundation "standardizes, protects and promotes the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money for the benefit of users worldwide". I don't see where it engages in money transmission.
Mt Gox is an example of an exchange. Except they are a Japanese company, over which the state of California has no authority. And perhaps not even the US Treasurey department. The transmission of Bitcoin is being handled by AT&T, other ISPs and Internet backbone operators. It is these companies that are enabling the movement (transmission) of Bitcoin and who should be penalized.
Continue to dither. Until climate change actually becomes important.
We'll know when this happens. It will be when one ton of carbon sequestered by a Monsanto genetically engineered super tree is worth the same in carbon credits as one ton sequestered by a tree in some third world country, owned by Al Gore. Until then, its a wealth transfer scam.
Yer supposed to chew before you swallow. Din't yo' mama teach yo' nuthin'?
Right. And lets take this a step further. What is an "official complaint"? Making a public statement I can understand as designed to instill fear among the general population. But raising the issue either through official channels for such feedback? Nope. They asked for comments, they got them. If they don't like them, tough.
Its also my understanding that the complaints were along the lines of: "This water makes me/my kids sick." Not, "There's poison in the water." The former is subjective and purely dependent on the sensitivity of the particular consumer to some attribute of the water.
Yeah, right.
Techniques of data mining and continual tracking across most web sites (anything with an ad banner) render the anonymity of a device worthless. Even if you use a 'burner' phone, unless you change numbers and hardware (don't forget your IMEI) every few months, they can identify you.
You would have to add to your list, "Never use that device to log in to any service. Even with a pseudonymous ID." And that would make such a device practically useless, not being able to check my e-mail or log into Slashdot as PPH.
as long as you aren't buying Ammonium Nitrate and egg timers.
Or working on a venture capital deal, making a significant investment in something or working with trade secrets in general. If you don't think people at the FBI/NSA/CIA don't slip their buddies insider tips on industry goings-on you are deluding yourself. On the other hand, if the biggest transaction you arrange is picking up a gallon of milk and a box of Tampons for the wife, then go right ahead. You are just another sheep in the flock.
He's recording a conversation. In Washington State. Without the prior consent of both parties.
Generally, it is legal to record a conversation in public as a third party. The people engaged in that conversation do not have an expectation of privacy if they continue in that third's presence. But if two people are alone and one asks the other , "Why are you recording me?" That conversation's privacy is protected and may not be recorded.
Why has he not been arrested?
In fact, war itself is well-known to be fundamentally irrational. There's even something in economics called the "war puzzle" or "war problem": under the economic model of rationality, war is irrational.
For the major players involved, yes. But for the weapons suppliers, war can be immensely profitable.
As such, creating bigger and bigger machines to prosecute wars is the stupidest thing humans could possibly do. On the other hand, if you think a weapon is a tool for changing your enemy's mind, then machines that educate are the most powerful weapons of all.
People who want war have convinced themselves that they are already right. No further education is needed. Or the leadership has been convinced of this by those seeking the war for their profit motive.
There's a difference between putting R&D on a back burner while your economy recovers and taking an axe to what you've got. Over manufactured concerns of national security while the USA goes ahead and builds commercial versions of their version.
And then there's Canada (nobody starving up there in the 1950s) who had to chop up their prototype supersonic interceptor at Boeing's request.
I've never had problems with automating manual processes. And in my experience, whenever someone demands a manual step somewhere in the chain, its for some unethical or illegal purpose. Or to employ their idiot nephew who can just barely operate a rubber stamp.
for all their faults, ordinary banks, in general, do not like dealing with certain types of criminal customers.
Only because the gov't has criminalized the free movement of funds. Banks could care less about their customers so long as they behave themselves while in the lobby. But they have been pressed into service by the state as quasi-police. Because the state cannot detect (or be bothered with identifying) actual criminal activity.
The amount of funds that move per unit time for legal purposes is orders of magnitude more than those supporting criminal activities. Compliance with FINCEN regs for all of these legal transactions is so high we would be better off legalizing drugs and losing one or two WTCs or year. We'd still be money ahead.
requires a shit ton of people to do stuff?
With green eyeshades and large paper ledgers? Welcome to the 21st Century. We have computers and an Internet.
But who identifies the enemy? Declaring war is the job of Congress. Unless they do so, individual terrorist acts are a law enforcement issue and should be handled within the constraints of that function.
It appears similar technology is being introduced for office lighting, with disappointing results.
I'd sort of doubt that. Solid state fluorescent ballasts usually switch at 20 kHz or more (to keep the magnetics from whistling in an audible range). Dimming is accomplished by PWM this frequency.
Its possible that some cheap crap ballasts don't have the energy storage to 'coast' through the 50/60 Hz zero crossings. Or your office might have seriously low voltage on the lighting circuits.
you should get headaches from ANY non-solid-state artificial lighting (incandescent, fluorescent, halogen, ...)
Fluorescent, yes. Incandescent and halogen (really a subtype of incandescent) no. The thermal time constant of a bulb filament is so long that the power frequency ripple is smoothed out.
Easy test: Build a simple circuit with a photodiode and plug it into an audio amp. You can easily detect which lamp types produce flicker by the hum and get an idea of the relative magnitude. Test your circuit first by shrouding the photodiode to make sure your circuit isn't picking up an E or H field signal.
One thing I haven't heard complaints about so far: Automotive HID headlights. I suspect that most of these run at 200 Hz or higher.
Because during WWII, the Allies collected intelligence on "the enemy". Today, it appears that our governments treat their own citizens as the enemy.
just ask yourself: what would a "thinking war machine" actually "think" about?
Philosophy
A prison sentence is sufficient. With a bread and water diet.
Guess where we got the water.
Given the numbers from Kinsey's research, how are you so sure of the motives of the guys that want to hang out with you late at the bar to 'talk shop'?
So, can we sue IV if our computers start automatically loading this malware?
(2) the communication does not contain foreign intelligence information but is reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime that has been, is being, or is about to be committed such communication may be disseminated (including United States person identities) to appropriate Federal law enforcement authorities, in accordance with 50 U.S.C.
So are you bastards going to report in when our local refineries make their weekly calls to fix the price of gasoline?