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I'm surprised we were only 4 (as of now) to say we don't want one. I believe it's a great asset for BTC to be totally virtual. I would have the feeling I would spoil BTC if I were using a hardware wallet.
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Countryfree,
I respectfully disagree. If authorities are indeed shocked, it is by massive (yet, still pasive) resistance from natives, not by human waves from south.
What resistance from natives? I've never seen that. In Calais, I've seen French people giving food and medical care to migrants. You can see them at work everyday. Yes, they are natives complaining, but I've never seen nor heard about a demonstration against the migrants. It's all silent. One way for leaders to achieve increased control over their citizens would be to introduce a problem then provide a solution. If a majority of 'natives' of a country feel threatened by newcomers and have no realistic alternatives for 'protection' than the state, that's what they will choose. This could take the form of increased surveillance of society generally and an increase in the number and capabilities of state sponsored paramilitary assets.
I wonder if this is not one of the main driving forces behind the push to control guns in private hands here in the U.S. The more people feel confident that they can protect themselves, the less inclined they are to rely on the state for various kinds of protection.
As best I can tell from afar (sitting here on the West coast of the U.S.) it seems that Western Europe is a lot farther along the path to centralization and that planning and directing these population movements is handled mostly from Brussels. It's an interesting thing to watch. I'll be paying closer attention to the phenomenon.
Brussels has yet to answer to the problems of these thousands of migrants who arrive every week. Ask anyone in Italy, he'll say the EU doesn't do anything, and that is correct. It is member states, Hungary beefing up its borders, France blocking the migrants in Ventimiglia, who act, leaving all the burden to countries on the Southern side, Italy or Greece. Regarding protection, it isn't the issue here. There's about 40 millions people unemployed in EU. Many locals just wonder what will the migrants do if they're allowed to get in? This as a time where most countries are running a deficit. |
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I like new ways of protesting, but I'm afraid this will not last long, because the brothel owner has to pay its "workers". That may amount to a lot of money as they may need to work overtime if, as expected, free service, brings a huge "load" of new customers.
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Greece is probably better off siding with Russia, they will get the benefit from the gas pipeline, have a market for their agricultural produce without other competing EU members due to sanctions, a weaker currency boosting tourism and exports. Staying with the Euro they will just have perpetual pain.
A gas pipeline? To what end? Greece doesn't need much of it. The customers Russians want are in the EU, with Italy first in line. I'm not sure many European leaders would be pleased to pay the Greeks to buy Russian gas, especially since that it would be a way to bypass Ukraine, giving Russia an even tighter grip on Ukrainian economy. I agree that a cheap currency would help exports, sadly Greece doesn't export much. Anyone here likes ouzo? I don't. |
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They're looking at blockchain technology, which is quite different from BTC itself. I believe Barclays and a pool of the world's largest banks could create their own blockchain, to move money between themselves, and only between themselves.
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It's only normal since there are more people in China alone than in the EU and the US together. I've been following the car industry for many years, and it's been a while that Mercedes sells way more of its most expensive models in China than in Germany. The good thing being that many Chinese are investing abroad, though it's not so good for Londoners by example. Thousands of British people had to move to the suburbs because real estate prices have been rising fast due to Asian buyers.
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Let me add than the cost of mining is not fixed. Just like the price of BTC. Price of processing power constantly goes down. Price of electricity is different between night and day, and it varies a lot between countries. Somehow, I guess the 2 are related, but it's a very distant relation, like the cost of producing an iPhone in China, and its retail price in a flashy London store.
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If these people have been granted political asylum then they should be distributed across the EU.
Anyone who has been to Italian cities recently will have noticed large groups of African men drifting through the street with no source of income other than street selling. It is cruel to these people and even more so to Europeans because it fuels the far-right and threatens the integration of our continent.
I really agree with you and I'm sad that France suspended the Schengen treaty because all of us can talk about free circulation of goods and people in Europe when there aren't problems, but when we have to face an emergency (Migrant crisis) all the countries think for themselves. So we are an united Europe or not? Are we able to face this bad problem together? I think the only solution is to put army at borders and reject them in their country if no one collaborates. The Schengen Area was designed for skilled and smart West-European workers. Bulgaria and Romania are not in it very precisely because their people have less skills (and are less smart) than their western neighbors. So African migrants have no rights to get in. That has never been the plan. I'm sorry but this is wrong, The Schengen area was designed to allow the free movement of goods and people without any restraint, and to push further for an integrated EU. That's the European Union form 1957 which was created and designed to allow the free movement of goods and people. The Schengen area is a very different thing. It certainly helps to make movements even easier than ever before inside the area, but the main goal (much less talked about) was to make the borders of the area stronger. The EU has paid big money to build fences, barriers and checkpoints. The problem, which few people had seen coming, is the sudden arrival of thousands of refugees in boats, straight into the Schengen area, bypassing all checkpoints. |
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Wow. The US net debt is a really huge number. How on earth did it get up to that?
They need money to invade sovereign nations such as Libya, Serbia and Iraq, right? Also they are spending almost $1 trillion a year to maintain their war machine. That said, most of the federal debt was amassed after Barack Obama became the POTUS. And if Hillary becomes the next POTUS in 2016, it can rise to new peaks.  Financing war is only part of the budget. There's also medical insurance, but since the average American is more than 10 times richer than the average Russian, bankers will always have more trust in US than Russia. US government can borrow money at less cost than the Russian one, and this isn't going to change in the foreseeable future. |
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If the US decided to send ground troops, ISIS wouldn't last long. Its only victories so far have been against Irak and Syria whose soldiers are far from the best of the world. We're still waiting for ISIS to fight with a modern professional army, I don't think they would last long, but that takes commitment, and we may have to wait quite a while to see that. One thing which could lead to a change would be for ISIS to get closer to South West Syria, because Israel may get nervous about it, and they would be merciless as always.
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I thought that Russia was in financial trouble  Well... I'll give you a comparison between the United States and Russia. Russia:Net Debt: $243 billion Forex Reserves: $370 billion Surplus: $127 billion United States:Net Debt: $18,315 billion Forex Reserves: $121 billion Deficit: $18,194 billion Now, from these stats, who seems to be in financial trouble? You should relate debt and deficit to gross domestic product, and income per inhabitant... Now, I wonder what game the Greeks are playing. They've said many times that the Germans and especially Frau Merkel were all nazis, but they would like us to believe that Putin is Mr Nice Guy, and that he will save Greece from rapacious western bankers? I'm doubtful dealing with Putin will be any sweeter than dealing with Mme Lagarde from the IMF. |
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If these people have been granted political asylum then they should be distributed across the EU.
Anyone who has been to Italian cities recently will have noticed large groups of African men drifting through the street with no source of income other than street selling. It is cruel to these people and even more so to Europeans because it fuels the far-right and threatens the integration of our continent.
I really agree with you and I'm sad that France suspended the Schengen treaty because all of us can talk about free circulation of goods and people in Europe when there aren't problems, but when we have to face an emergency (Migrant crisis) all the countries think for themselves. So we are an united Europe or not? Are we able to face this bad problem together? I think the only solution is to put army at borders and reject them in their country if no one collaborates. The Schengen Area was designed for skilled and smart West-European workers. Bulgaria and Romania are not in it very precisely because their people have less skills (and are less smart) than their western neighbors. So African migrants have no rights to get in. That has never been the plan. |
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Besides faster confirmation times, what I want isn't from BTC, it's from thousands of retailers and businesses all other the world to accept BTC, just like they accept credit cards. It will come, but the sooner the better.
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Conjugal visits? I see inequality here as few inmates are married. Then, how often? 3 times a week? If one day, the guy is tired, can his friend, the guy sleeping in the bed next to him, do it? Can the wife ask some financial compensation if the guy isn't her husband? And what about the prisoners who aren't married, the government should pay a hooker to satisfy their sexual needs, right?
If jails turn into brothels, men will commit crimes to get there.
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Michelle Obama could have visited a school in Marseilles or Brussels and it would have been the same thing. I'm afraid muslims are all over Europe, bringing in their clothing, their food and their values. The worst being that if you complain about it, many will say you're a racist.
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I'm all in favor of gun rights for all home owners and business owners, because you should be able to defend your property. Only your property though, I don't think you should be allowed to carry when you go shopping in the high street.
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Bulgaria also has spent millions of EU money to beef up its borders. I'm afraid that's the future. There are just way too many people who want to get in. Italian newspapers has shown pictures of migrants praying on the rocks, along the coast in Ventimiglia, and guess what, they're all muslims! Great! Thousands of poor unskilled muslims! I see why France doesn't want them. Right now, France is home to some 7 million Muslims (probably the largest Muslim population in Europe), and recently they have suffered from Islamist terrorist attacks. So they might not be interested in exacerbating the problem. Bulgaria, on the other hand had given asylum status to 7,000 refugees in 2014, which is a very high number. Yeah, thats why most of France football national team players are descendants of immigrant, like zidane, benzema, nasri, and pogba. I think France is one of european countries that become a friendly place to immigrants, provided they must have skills so it will be easier to them get work there. Don't know anything about football, but I know there are only a handful of football players, whereas in the French newspapers I've read, they say there are 5 millions people looking for work in the country. Pity the immigrants haven't read those same newspapers. |
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It's like a religion. Many people believe in government, they think they're doing something good and useful when they buy government's bonds. Some people love their national flag, too. They keep one at home, and they're proud to show it off. Sometimes, the government is corrupted, the country is on the verge of bankruptcy, but some people remain proud and happy.
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^ He's talking about Iceland. Not Ireland.
My mistake, sorry. What madame Lagarde is implying is that, in order to satisfy the greed of Goldman Sucks and other cartels, the Greek government should confiscate the pension funds, and hand it over to the troika. The Greek pensioners have already seen their pensions reduced to a fraction of the former levels. If madame Lagarde is going to get her own way, then we can see the pensioners starving to death in Greece. It's not only Goldman Sucks, it's all taxpayers in the whole European Union. The pensioners would go through much harder times if Greece pays their pensions in drachmas. It will be tough for drivers, too. The oil companies will not accept drachmas... |
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