So you are saying that, somehow, the FDA would force Google to keep selling the product? And that the FDA won't ever allow a useful product to be discontinued by it's manufacturer due to lack of desired profitability? Really?
Also, these will be designed to transmit the collected data, undoubtedly to a proprietary smartphone app (available for both iPhone and Android), which couldn't possibly send that data to Google for their marketing and tracking purchases?
Hmmm...blood sugar a little low? Suddenly all your adwords beside your google searches are for candy bars. Email "offers" start showing up at the top of your gmail inbox, etc. ad naseam.
And, as I mentioned in my first post, if it turns out not to be as profitable as Google desires, away it will go.
In what fucking universe do you exist in where this is a logical rebuttal to "I live in the real world, and my real world landlord doesn't accept BTC"? Right now, I can't buy groceries with BTC. I can't pay for parking with BTC. I can't take a friend out for lunch and pay with BTC. I can't buy a car from a local dealership with BTC, I can't go see a movie in the theatres with BTC.
I can exchange BTC for my local currency and then go about my business, but that's about it.
So really, I have no idea what dream world you live in where BTC is some magical universally accepted currency, because that isn't the universe we all occupy at this exact instant. The GP was right, and it's a legitimate question. What happens to the BTC market if the US government basically blocks all the exchanges by hitting them all with $23M worth of withdrawals?
I can't buy groceries with BTC.
I can't take a friend out and pay for lunch with BTC.
I can't... most of your list is
Wrong
$23M in Bitcoins is less than 2 normal trading days worth of sales on the global market. It would be a noticed, but extremely transient blip. Nothing more. And wouldn't come anywhere NEAR "blocking exchanges".
Version 3.0 will still be in Beta, then before they get to 4.0 they'll cancel the project leaving millions without a vital tool they've come to depend on.
Excuses will be made that "Diabetics are only a small fraction of the total Google user base, so we just couldn't justify keeping those resources tied up on something we couldn't monetize with AdWords."
Unfortunately, that opinion is a great part of why things are in the current mess. It presupposes that if you take away the money, then the "extras" will be curtailed and only the core "important" parts will be left. But this blind faith that the cretins and crooks that are currently in charge, will willing give up their cash cows and "do what's right" is so incredibly naive as to be almost unbelievable.
Blindly "tightening the purse strings" leads to those parts of government that are good and useful to be sacrificed first, while the partisan and corrupt parts better defend themselves and their budgets. So, instead of a progressive nation of healthy, happy, nutritionally fed, employed, well educated citizens in a nation focused on freedom, scientific and technological advancement, we have become the secretive spymasters and bullies of the world, looking for the next war to line the pockets of the oligarchs, while the bigoted, ignorant masses fight from paycheck to paycheck, if they can find a job, until they die from easily preventable disease, if they survive the worst infant mortality rate of any first world nation.
"Tighten the purse strings" has meant killing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, killing the National Institutes of Health, killing the Center For Disease Control, killing the Food & Drug Administration inspection program, etc. ad nauseam. Meanwhile the secret budgets, the crony protected waste, the bureaucracy, swells and continues unabated.
Instead of demanding that the money be taken away, we should be demanding that the places where the money is being mis-spent be stopped, or at the very least that the places that lead to a better society are better funded, in the hopes that doing so requires funds to be reallocated from those things which are wasteful. It has been a tremendous coup by the oligarchs to get people to focus on the dollars, not what value are they getting for the dollars. Government of a large advanced nation by its very nature will involve sums of money so large that the average person will be staggered to the point that most wont even comprehend just how big the amount is. This inevitably leads to the uninformed, most radical knee-jerking among the mob to scream at the size of the number, not at any analysis of how it should be spent.
The trouble is that Mathematics can describe ANY universe, not just the one we happen to be able to perceive.
Math is great at describing perfect theories that fail to pan out in real life, but that are perfectly self consistent in the theory and equations. Just look at all of the great, and completely wrong, models offered in super-symmetry, string, and all the other Grand Unified Theories that mathematically are perfectly sound, but are disproved by actual experiment.
The international "can't get there" crowd, U.S. included, can only whine and posture in the U.N. as the Chinese strip mine whatever valuable resources they find there.
From Bitcoin Charts
Bitcoins sent last 24h 1,303,510.08 BTC
Bitcoins sent avg. per hour 54,312.92 BTC
So the FBI's 174,000 coins would equate to less than 13% of the current daily volume, or in other words wold satisfy the full current demand for, oh, about 3 whole hours.
I'd rather they raise the rates on all the business class garbage I receive. 9/10 of everything I get local delivered is a sales pitch to "Current Resident".
I used to make long and rather expensive vacations in the US. It was a great country to spend some fun time (and quite a few 1000 bucks) in. It's no longer the case, sadly.
Ditto. And I live in Dallas!
If I have to go through Customs-level inspection every time I get on a damned airplane, I might as well go to somewhere really worth it. June in Ireland was beautiful. Looking forward to Germany and the Rhine Valley next year.
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So you are saying that, somehow, the FDA would force Google to keep selling the product? And that the FDA won't ever allow a useful product to be discontinued by it's manufacturer due to lack of desired profitability? Really?
Also, these will be designed to transmit the collected data, undoubtedly to a proprietary smartphone app (available for both iPhone and Android), which couldn't possibly send that data to Google for their marketing and tracking purchases?
Hmmm...blood sugar a little low? Suddenly all your adwords beside your google searches are for candy bars. Email "offers" start showing up at the top of your gmail inbox, etc. ad naseam.
And, as I mentioned in my first post, if it turns out not to be as profitable as Google desires, away it will go.
In what fucking universe do you exist in where this is a logical rebuttal to "I live in the real world, and my real world landlord doesn't accept BTC"? Right now, I can't buy groceries with BTC. I can't pay for parking with BTC. I can't take a friend out for lunch and pay with BTC. I can't buy a car from a local dealership with BTC, I can't go see a movie in the theatres with BTC.
I can exchange BTC for my local currency and then go about my business, but that's about it.
So really, I have no idea what dream world you live in where BTC is some magical universally accepted currency, because that isn't the universe we all occupy at this exact instant. The GP was right, and it's a legitimate question. What happens to the BTC market if the US government basically blocks all the exchanges by hitting them all with $23M worth of withdrawals?
I can't buy groceries with BTC.
I can't take a friend out and pay for lunch with BTC.
I can't... most of your list is Wrong
$23M in Bitcoins is less than 2 normal trading days worth of sales on the global market. It would be a noticed, but extremely transient blip. Nothing more. And wouldn't come anywhere NEAR "blocking exchanges".
30,000 BtC is about the total traded volume of two days on just MtGox.
If the Treasury spreads is out with daily sales over 2 weeks, it would barely affect the price.
Version 3.0 will still be in Beta, then before they get to 4.0 they'll cancel the project leaving millions without a vital tool they've come to depend on.
Excuses will be made that "Diabetics are only a small fraction of the total Google user base, so we just couldn't justify keeping those resources tied up on something we couldn't monetize with AdWords."
They licensed the technology and had it all assembled in Malaysia.
Only when you're talking rotor(s) on a single longitudinal axis. The side-by-side design of the octo-rotor should eliminate at least that problem.
That being said, you might get me to ride in it for a demonstration flight. You'd never get me in it going into a live fire situation.
Like kobayashi maru, tic-tac-toe, and thermonuclear war...
The only way to win is not to play.
Why waste time with that? For smelting, pretty much all you need is a good fresnel lens.
Unfortunately, that opinion is a great part of why things are in the current mess. It presupposes that if you take away the money, then the "extras" will be curtailed and only the core "important" parts will be left. But this blind faith that the cretins and crooks that are currently in charge, will willing give up their cash cows and "do what's right" is so incredibly naive as to be almost unbelievable.
Blindly "tightening the purse strings" leads to those parts of government that are good and useful to be sacrificed first, while the partisan and corrupt parts better defend themselves and their budgets. So, instead of a progressive nation of healthy, happy, nutritionally fed, employed, well educated citizens in a nation focused on freedom, scientific and technological advancement, we have become the secretive spymasters and bullies of the world, looking for the next war to line the pockets of the oligarchs, while the bigoted, ignorant masses fight from paycheck to paycheck, if they can find a job, until they die from easily preventable disease, if they survive the worst infant mortality rate of any first world nation.
"Tighten the purse strings" has meant killing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, killing the National Institutes of Health, killing the Center For Disease Control, killing the Food & Drug Administration inspection program, etc. ad nauseam. Meanwhile the secret budgets, the crony protected waste, the bureaucracy, swells and continues unabated.
Instead of demanding that the money be taken away, we should be demanding that the places where the money is being mis-spent be stopped, or at the very least that the places that lead to a better society are better funded, in the hopes that doing so requires funds to be reallocated from those things which are wasteful. It has been a tremendous coup by the oligarchs to get people to focus on the dollars, not what value are they getting for the dollars. Government of a large advanced nation by its very nature will involve sums of money so large that the average person will be staggered to the point that most wont even comprehend just how big the amount is. This inevitably leads to the uninformed, most radical knee-jerking among the mob to scream at the size of the number, not at any analysis of how it should be spent.
Or just start out with SpiderOak to start with.
Most of my SO's interesting problems have nothing to do with computers or even technology in general.
Sometimes I wish I'd gotten my degree in psychology, not engineering.
I think they meant to say the key was stored on somebody's Nintendo 3DS.
The trouble is that Mathematics can describe ANY universe, not just the one we happen to be able to perceive.
Math is great at describing perfect theories that fail to pan out in real life, but that are perfectly self consistent in the theory and equations. Just look at all of the great, and completely wrong, models offered in super-symmetry, string, and all the other Grand Unified Theories that mathematically are perfectly sound, but are disproved by actual experiment.
This is why Physics, e.g. "science" > Math.
All that matters is Boots on the Ground.
The international "can't get there" crowd, U.S. included, can only whine and posture in the U.N. as the Chinese strip mine whatever valuable resources they find there.
I use Windows Phone, it crashes anywhere *you insensitive clod*.
So much WIN in this post.
Welcome to my friends list.
Says the idiot AC with no research skills.
From Bitcoin Charts
Bitcoins sent last 24h 1,303,510.08 BTC
Bitcoins sent avg. per hour 54,312.92 BTC
So the FBI's 174,000 coins would equate to less than 13% of the current daily volume, or in other words wold satisfy the full current demand for, oh, about 3 whole hours.
These are the type of discussions that keep me coming back to /.
I'd rather they raise the rates on all the business class garbage I receive. 9/10 of everything I get local delivered is a sales pitch to "Current Resident".
I imagine that Google could buy AT&T's legislators with pocket change dropped in the company lunch room.
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
We ain't got no honest politicians in Texas.
The hot grits are still real to me, dammit!
I just wanna sell popcorn.
Well... I suppose that if you get 7 of your friends to "Like" your post, that's essentially the same as what this "coalition" did.
Get 8 and your doing 14% more than they are!
In collage, I learned that Aerospace Engineers design weapons. Civil Engineers design targets.
/B.S.A.E.
I used to make long and rather expensive vacations in the US. It was a great country to spend some fun time (and quite a few 1000 bucks) in. It's no longer the case, sadly.
Ditto. And I live in Dallas!
If I have to go through Customs-level inspection every time I get on a damned airplane, I might as well go to somewhere really worth it. June in Ireland was beautiful. Looking forward to Germany and the Rhine Valley next year.