Actual social-democracies are a farce, because, for example, there are politicians between your ideas and the making of laws.

it's a heater that generates money!

This will be fun to try out, since I am going to get a Pandaboard soon anyway.

I hope mining for long periods of time doesn't burn up the OMAP4430, the PowerVR SGX540 is on die with the rest of the CPU. Additional cooling is probably in order, I know the OMAP in phones can get quite hot when running full speed.

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12843&contentId=53243

You guys are just realizing this?

Of course, there are going to be legions of troll armies of various factions trying to control this market, because there is no regulation.
It will easily be accomplished by buy/sell orders and bots, not to mention psy-ops. Cornering this market for a big player like say the russian mob is childs play because there is tiny float, and the liquidity is a joke.  All these realities are starting to sink in for the dreamers. When they start realizing that this currency is not functional as a currency (because of instability) is yet to be seen. 
Make no mistake this is a dangerous market, without supervision from big brother. So the bad children are having a field day and will continue. Trade accordingly.

Sorry I had just woken up when I wrote that post, what I said made no sense.

Sure it has some subjective value, but food or water will always be needed until science alters our metabolism, so there will always be some value to it.

Hugo, I agree with you that food has objective value. It is a necessary component of human life, but depending on the supply and demand of certain foods, the prices might change, but there will always be demand, unless we kill ourselves off. It's more objective than subjective, imo.

Ok, so I did some number crunching.

The Radeon Mobility 4670 gets 674% higher performance than the Intel GMA 500 (based on PowerVR 535) in Fear, which is a very shader intensive game.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-500-GMA-500.12614.0.html

According to Anand, the modern PowerVR chip used in the iPad 2 gets roughly 5.5x the performance of the GMA 500 chip in shader intensive tests.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4216/apple-ipad-2-gpu-performance-explored-powervr-sgx543mp2-benchmarked/1

This means we can expect a modern PowerVr chip to 81% of the shader performance of a Mobility 4670. The M4670 is equivalent to a desktop 4650, which can manage 31 Mh/S.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

We can therefore expect the PowerVR to manage 25 Mh/S at .9w. This gives us a Mh/J of 27.7, compared to 1.8 for a 5850.

This has potential.

The farmer and his entire family will always need food, for the rest of his life at steady 4 to 12 hour intervals, and if he was too hungry to drive his daughter might just as well have died.

Just because I currently value a bitcoin as worth more than 5 breads does not mean bitcoin is more valuable as a commodity. Bitcoin has no value for most people in the world.
I will always need bread, even if my internet access is cut off or there is a massive shortage of electricity, I'll manage without bitcoin.

However, you or I can't manage without bread or other food. We can manage without bitcoins. Hence bitcoin has subjective value (up to market to decide) but food is always worth *something*.

If fuel runs out globally, cars become worthless. If there is an attack on electricity networks, all gadgets become useless.
But food can't become useless as long as someone is alive.

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They're not difficult to find at all in Europe.

The car has only temporary value because the farmer's daughter is sick. But when she gets better, the car becomes useless if the farmer's family doesn't need to travel or they are happy with horse carts or walking.

However, they will always need their harvest or other sources of food to stay alive. The need is constant as long as someone in the family is alive. Hence it is always worth a certain portion of their income that they are willing to part with (be it 2%, 5% or like in many poor countries, over 50% of their income will go into food)

Unless material replicators or other sources of synthetic food are invented, food will always be a commodity that has infinite demand (as opposed to other commodities which only have limited, increasing or diminishing demand, such as certain consumer goods) but only a limited supply.

You could argue Bitcoin and gold are limited in supply as well, which is true, but they do not have infinite demand over time (infinite meaning as long as humans are alive), at least yet. They are not essential to the vast majority of people.

Therefore a thing of absolute value must be something that has a worth for everyone.

Not everybody here is north -merican, I'm european. How am I supposed to know that?

Necessities do have absolute value.

These include food, clean water and in some cases housing (though many people in the world live on the streets). People are always willing to invest a certain amount of their income in those things, because they are required for sustaining life (unless they are self-sufficient farmers). People that refuse to, will die, or will have to resort to the charity of others, or stealing.

Bitcoins, gold, home theatre systems, computers, jet ski's and desktop fans have only arbitrary value.
Anything beyond the initial cost of labor+materials is just a percieved value due to their utility, rarity, etc., but everyone in the world can survive without them and has survived for thousands of years.

Nobody can survive without nutrition or drink though.
Clothing and shelter are very critical needs as well, depending on the climate they might have absolute value as well (especially in colder countries).

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For those who aren't UK based: the Guardian is the most left wing, pro-state, anti-individualism newspaper in the country.  Bitcoin is unlikely to get a good review from the Guardian until it has "government approved" stamped all over it.

That being said, that article wasn't anywhere near as bad is it could be (or will be once the main Guardian journalists get wind of Bitcoins).

Well, there was no Social-democrat option here, and socialist inside a democracy is the same than social-democrat.

I'm socialist. Which, btw, is different from communist. I mean, every 1st world country is socialist up to some degree: they have universal health care (except for the US), police, firemen, public schools etc.