As Intrade just found out, there is no such thing.

Wait, why is it not legal to lease a license?  What says that you aren't an employee?  You're just an employee on a contract, instead of a hourly wage.  The contract says that you are expected to submit the first whatever amount of fares that you collect per week into the company, and that you are entitled to whatever the remainder of fares may be for the rest of the week.  Easy peasy.  For that matter, you could set up such a contract agreement with the old guy who wants to sell, that after so many years of doing this, you have just bought the license from him by payments made.  Kind of a work-to-own arrangment.

Then negotiate with the guy who is selling his license for a final price, conditional on your abliity to secure a business loan, write up a business plan (there are simple examples online that you could adapt in an hour) and take it to the business branch of your bank.  Show them your conditional agreement, your business plan (no need to mention bitcoin, that would just muddle the waters) and your history as a cab driver.  Be quick about it.

If the core reason that you were dismissed is that the cab owner can't trust you to be honest with him, but you were a good driver; if you have the moxy you could return to him and offer him a weekly lease to rent his cab and then you keep everything over and above that rate.  Otherwise he still has to hire someone new, or his equipment is under-utilized.  I know it sounds a bit rediculous to make an offer to someone who just fired you, but I done it, and after a few days cooling off period I was able to reason with the old man, and explain that he was just viewing the situation wrong.  Maybe that's just me, but I've found that business owners have historical reasons to distrust their employees, and you just have to be the guy to offer him an alternative that doesn't require that he trust you so much.

How much would it cost you to "lease" or buy a cab license?  In my city, most cab drivers actually rent the cab from the cab company on a daily or weekly rate, and keep all the fares for themselves.  If you can get this kind of deal, you could hang a bitcoin sign from the rear view, or some other little sign that doesn't stick to the the vehicle.  Then you could compete with your former employer and accept bitcoin however you like, but it would be in your interests to let the dispatcher know that you are the one who accepts bitcoin for fares, if anyone else should call.

The problem is that he likely admitted to putting stickers on his boss's property, the window of the cab.  I doubt that any judge is going to show him much sympathy for "defacement" of company property, regardless of just how rediculous a window sticker might be.

I believe the default is the last sale price, but in order to sell immediatly, set your ask to where the current highest bid price is.  That is literally a current standing offer someone has made, waiting for someone else to come along who needs the cash quickly.  The sale would happen before you could pull your index finger away from the mouse.

Depends upon how quickly you desire to sell.  If you're in a hurry, sell at the current offer.  If you can stand to wait a bit, put up an ask around the last price.  If you have the time to wait, set your ask to a bit higher, and see if someone will come up to you.  Or you could split up your bitcoins into some combination.

Shortwave DRM can do that, no problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale

So could a bit of rented digital satillite downlink once each day, such as is used to deliver daily educational shows to distant elementary schools.  Of course, then someone needs the sat dish and receiver/decoder; while DRM just needs a quality shortwave receiver that can be plugged into the sound port of a computer.

I own a Sig Sauer Mosquito that I need a concealable holster for, do you have anything that would work well for this?

Maybe they concluded you just weren't going to take no for an answer.  Are you sure that it was a conversation?

Nothing is getting ripped apart in here.  And this entire thread wasn't worthy of reading weeks ago.  I honestly don't care what you opinion of my political persuasion actually is, and don't really feel obligated to defend myself to you.

His complaint is that the devs aren't listening to what he considers to be important.  And it wouldn't matter if they listened to no one, the source is open, anyone with the skils can do anything with it.

Try asking Linus Torvolus to include (insert your pet project) into Linux mainline and see how far that line of thinking gets you.  Fork the project, that is the root freedom of open source, not the idea that you get to tell the developers your next great idea.

It's not difficult to create a point-to-point wifi link using beam antennas this way, if there is a line of sight.  Non-line-of-sight systems would need to be slower, require special infrastructure, require a ham license or some combination of these.  Dash7 is good to a klick, and meshes by design, but is significantly slower than wifi.  I'm still waiting for an android phone to become available with a built-in Dash7 transceiver, and then I'm upgrading.  Samsung has given me some lip service on this one, but the rest of the phone manufacters just ignore me.

The source is open.  If you have teh skillset, you can contribute or fork the project.  Many have.  Almost all have failed to create an independent ecosystem like bitcoin, but that is a social question not relevant to Bitcoin's source access.  Whether or not you feel that Bitcoin's development team is nice enough is entirely beside the point.

But giving the US government an excuse to mess with developers of the bitcoin software is also anti-ethical to that same goal for everyone else that isn't Iranian.

Define higher speeds and shorter distances.  Generally speaking, the shorter distance, the higher the bandwidth that can be practially maintained.

Yeah, that's it.

In addition, if a link were to exclude whole blocks, the transaction traffic that bitcoin produces isn't particularly burdensome.  A classic POTS link using old modems, or simply just a pair of wires, could keep the bitcoin network from splitting.  Most of the time, even 6 blocks and hour wouldn't be much of a burden for a modem connection right now.  And many people would be surprised what modern hams can do with shortwave transcievers connected to sound cards.

In the end, a relatively small usb drive that crosses the divide every now and then would keep things from getting to far out of synch.  We tend to forget that there are other ways to move data than the Internet.

PM are not really a solution in the near term, as the vast majority of people have zero practical experience with silver or gold coins, in order to recognize them when they need to.  It's relatively easy to create credible fakes of gold plated tungsten while the lights still work that would fool 98%+ of the population after the lights go out.  This condition would last for months, until people began to figure out how to recognize the fakes; and until then most people simply aren't going to trust some guy with gold coins.  Silver has less of a problem here, and is useful in other ways for disinfection, etc, but most people aren't going to have need for silver anyway.  Barter items, such as common firearm caliber ammo, are better for the near term.  Bullets are already money anyway.  They are made of several commodities, are themselves useful, come in common units, are readily recognizeable to those who might wish to trade them, and any one is pretty much interchangeable with any other, and they don't rot.