You would be missing my "fine aim" qualities... but that's ok, I'm fine with concurrence 

Well, I'm just taking advantage of the *rather not say* rating system recently installed, therefore here're my fees:

"Bounce for me jobs" (give you +1) 1 BTC
"Hitman jobs" (hit someone -1) 2 BTC

 

Neither do I, however I do like to know why someone disagrees or agrees with me, it's an issue of being rational.

Due to the nature of this forum I would appreciate it within the Marketplace, outside it may look odd... so a newcomer may be lead to believe someone with +something is "honest" when indeed that "+something" just express mostly his philosophical and political views and has nothing to do with his honesty.

+1 ... well, not quite, I'm plainly ignoring that "feature", so I won't be pressing that "+" sign anyway, sorry. But still, you get my +1 plus reasons, it's much better.

Flame?! Where?!
Flame wars are about senseless insults, I wouldn't ever engage such a thing, we're discussing over some arguments here. Different points of view, but arguments.

You know what leads me to believe on those so called "conspiracy theories"? The pictures of Bin Laden.
Photography, video and audio evolved along with technology, if today you see a video or picture from the 80's you automatically know it's old, not only by the weird hair looks of the folks but by the grain, interference and glossy colors of the picture itself, even if remastered those pictures will still look old.
The world colors also come to be a hint, as it was normal up to mid 90's to see many brown, brick and sand-colored clothing, buildings, cars, etc... colors you don't normally see today on man-made things.
On audio you have the interference of mechanical parts, removed now with digital recording but common up to mid 2000's.

Now, when a simple mobile phone can take pictures up to 12 Mpx, all the pictures and audio records of Bin Laden resembles, at best, the technology of early 2000's. There's not a single picture, audio or video record someone can say to be taken after 2003~2005.

Why? Because one caused a World War and the other not, at least yet? Never heard on Rothbard's contest on Hitler's policies - actually almost nobody does contest Hitler's policies as it is never discussed other than come out with the social and emotional effects of Nazism. (This does NOT mean people agree to Hitler's policies, just that issue is barely, rarely or almost never discussed).

Also you guys take everything seriously, and by taking it way too seriously even for a little piece of fun test, you second my thoughts of the danger in the extremes and ultimate danger in corners.

As for that sentence, turns funny, if use it a sole "Absolute argument" would be arbitrary, the fact is it's oppose isn't less arbitrary than it nor less arrogant - And put to practice the argument that "there's absolute truth" is a statement of Authority, taken that if there's than we must all abide by such "truth". I would ask outside math and theories where we can find something, some social or economic value to be in a position we can call "Absolute".

BTW, even on math and written theories you can find the burden of arbitrary, why do we say 2+2=4 and not o+o=d or something else instead? And those characters we use? Do they've any absolute value? Are they more worthy than chinese? Or arabic? And our languages?...
A value to be absolute would need to be immune to time, political quadrant, ideologies, so that from pre-historic times to the future ahead and from libertarians to authoritarians, left to right, it would remain unchanged... up to so far I found no such a thing in the planet, at least in this one.

http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March_2011

Now... there's something I never came to understand why is it forbidden in the first place...

And you would bury BTC and condemn it to the bottom of the underground, as most people take Mt. Gox as the "standard price" for BTC... so most of people is actually consulting not trading, not all BTC users are speculators or exchangers.

Whitelists are generally impracticable except for small access groups...

Unless MagicalTux splits Mt. Gox in two, one for trading other for consulting.

FW for layer 7 attacks sounds good, but due to the nature of those attacks I didn't think it would be possible.

Does that do what? Limit POST headers to Y connections - I see a problem here, as the attack is distributed they would have different IP sources? Closes slow POST? But that would be just a connection issue, anyway there're no big data uploads to Mt.Gox, posts are resumable to the login/register and bid/ask/withdraw forms...

I believe this would need a bit more organization than a simple distributed grid, specially due to liquidity. Imagine you sent some BTC, like $100 worth, to someone that's near an "independent exchanger" for him to cash it back, if that independent exchanger has no more than $10 with him the cashing out wouldn't be possible.

Either way they are, but the long term damage would be worse out of CC, because it's not an immediate loss to the company who got hacked, but is an image loss as they put their customers at stake. - OK, solution 2.0a; move town or change name.
wallet.dat file would represent damage to the store alone, not their customers.

Actually we could create a "Western Union" ourselves, doing e-transfers by BTC and local by cash.
Eg:

A is in US and needs to send 1000 US to B that is in China
A contacts C who deals with BTC - OR - A himself has a 1000USD worth of BTC
A/C sends the BTC to the Chinese local operator who delivers the money to B.

Alternative paths would include:

A buying 1000USD worth of BTC from C and send them to the Chinese operator

A sending BTC to B who cashes them out with the Chinese operator

This would need just a bit of organization to put forth, along with ways to contact the needed operators.

It's NOT Democracy that goes around that "abide or be killed/arrested", it's the Government, they're different things.
You got the very same "abide or else..." action within almost all other forms of State, Dictatorships use it even more lightly.

Democracy is just the way issues are addressed and bodies are elected not how to deal with those who don't comply.

BTW, this so called "reputation" systems remembers me why many people complaint of BS on Democracy, it's not "just" politicians fault, it's the people's fault as well, people love to be BS'ed. Like if I come here, just say what you guys want to hear, regardless I would do it or even think on such way, and see my "rep." rocketing... a bit like the votes in a regular democracy. 

"Democracy sucks"... Let's vote (because that +/- is a voting system, something that is used normally for Democracy, it measures the will of the majority over an issue/point of view).

Yeah! Let a DEMOCRATIC measurement utility be used by those who bash Democracy 
Isn't this funny or what?! I guess that's a big nag within Democracy, to be Democracy it has to allow those who opposite to live within.

In general I give a nill regardless, but may be thinking about it.

Nevertheless it looks like a coercive way to abide by the majority... but what can be expected of anarchists? Their only issue with the state is that they're not in charge 

Side speaking, I believe the idea of that "+/-" was to use within market place as a sort of feedback and not to use as sort of "like" button in Facebook for political discussions... 
Using it here will render it so useless as... well... as the like button on Facebook is.

Main causes of the Russian revolution:

- The government printed million of rubbles, creating an overwhelming inflation.
- This inflation went to the pockets of the "bourgeois" - who held the logistics - means the people was still selling their production at the same price but buying others' production inflated 4x.

Don't know where you got that one of "against the Tsar alone"...

To trust in corporations (not the back alley guy who's selling something for life - small commerce never been an issue) is to trust in people you don't see the face and you don't know, you would need a tight security to prevent market maneuvers from these guys which would put the back alley guy and all others alike out of business and you can't do it without a government body.
There seams to be a boundary of corruption somewhere in the middle term between "belong to few" and "belong to many (or all)", all states to close to either of the edges are more corrupt - belonging to few by oligarchies and belonging to many by "not belonging to anyone".

Lies exists everywhere, Democracy is far from perfect, but is the best thing to do "damage control" we know so far.

If that guy held some information he might bargain with during the trial, then that head shot and "put to sleep with the fishes" are more than convenient... Don Obama... ooops!... Tony Soprano wouldn't do any better.

To the very end however this whole story stinks! No pictures, no body, no evidence at all... like we should just believe Obama sent his thugs to kill Osama and that's it.
And then see Americans celebrate like Palestinians who just killed a Jew... to some point it looks like the West is as much civilized as the Middle East. Celebrate death, even of that "creature", is a synonym of barbarity (Doesn't mean you need to mourn him either).