In this particular occasion we were talking about the Belo Monte dam. It doesn't have anything to do with the CO2 emissions.

In my country all form of gambling is illegal (by all ages). Some people do get arrested occasionally, but I haven't heard anyone getting arrested for online gambling.

Off course the Winkelvii ETF was an important mile step in this regard. But we didn't had much success after that. 

Have you found a way to circumvent the government regulations? If so, why can't you post a few words about it?

This thread is meaningless. People like me, who are having 2 or 3 Bitcoins will post the truth. But the large holders will never publicize their holdings, due to multiple reasons.

These reasons include:

1. Risk of hacking
2. Risk of additional taxation
3. Risk of Blackmail

Is it so? I thought that the FBI seized some 140,000 BTCs, all of which were held in a single online wallet.

This announcement will give an enormous boost to Bitstamp. The exchange is registered in Slovenia. 

It won't be very easy to commit a 51% attack, if the Bank of America is behind it. They have vast computing resources, and they can easily add a lot more from their allies.

The coins were transferred to a different wallet a few hours after Ullbricht was arrested. So I think that the FBI is in possession of the private keys / passwords.

I don't understand how come the Dragunov sniper rifle is on that list. Dragunov is a completely different type of rifle. Don't have much in common with the AK-47.

One of my friends, an user with tens of thousands of Wiki edits found a Job description in Elance.com. It was to alter the Wikipedia article of a Mining company. The person who posted the job was a total idiot and he made all the details public (visible to everyone). My friend took a screenshot of this job, and marked the article in his watch list. To his surprise, the job was carried out within the next 48 hours, by a very reputed admin. My friend posted this in the Wikipedia complaints thread, along with the proof. Initially, the majority of the admins voted in favor to ban the culprit. But then suddenly 2-3 British admins, who are close to Wales argued that the proof was doctored.

The JPEG file had no modifications, but these guys will not believe. And the new edits were clearly biased in nature, deleting the sections on environmental damages caused by the company and replacing it with an alternate version from a little-known source. The argument went on for 2-3 months, and my friend gave it up (He had a full time job as well).

A few days later, the British admins flagged my friend's user account as "Sockpuppet". They claimed that he was holding 2-3 different accounts, which were only a few days old. Most of the edits were in the articles in which my friend was active. But some of the edits were clearly spam. A Checkuser process was conducted, and it was found that although the IPs were different, the network provider was the same. My friend was banned.

He wrote to Wales, but the latter replied by saying that the people who banned him are the most honest Wiki editors.

Hmm... you don't have to beg. 

And regarding the policy change, I know people who paid $200 to get "harmful" sections removed from the Wikipedia article dealing with them or their companies. (It was done indirectly. The payment was not made to Wales. Rather it was made to some Wikipedia admins who removed the sections themselves).

Anyway, here is his email ID:  jwales@wikia.com

1. Will the service be international?

2. Will the service be available in regions where it is banned currently (eg. Saudi Arabia, Sudan.etc)

3. Will your company be publically listed in some BTC-based stock exchange? 

The Mossad is having an enormous advantage. The local population will support them, no matter whatever they do in the name of intelligence gathering. Neither the CIA, nor the FSB can claim such a loyal population.

I think that none of the small arms invented in the former USSR were patented. It was mostly due to political reasons.

I am not a westerner. I am an Asian. And I'll stick to my stand that the regime in China is one of the most oppressive of its kind in the entire world.

Still it was better than the one last year, which was delivered by  Adam Hills. The one I found the most interesting was that by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2008. 

China might be having 1,000 ethnic groups and each will be speaking a language of its own... but only one group (Han) holds the power. The other groups are marginalized (Tibetans, Mongols.etc).

Wars will always happen and people will die participating in it as long as humans exist. If AK-47 wasn't invented, then some other weapon would have been used for shooting people.

Again, you are generalizing everything. The Alto Xingu region is one of the areas with highest biodiversity in the whole planet. Destroying 122,000 acres there is like destroying 122 million acres somewhere else, like Canada. We should at least preserve 1% of our planet, where the maximum amount of living species are found. Already only around 15% of the earth's area is under primary vegetation. The remaining has been cut down or destroyed by humans during the last few centuries.