Are you a troll? USD hasn't been backed by gold since before the 70's. It's backed by nothing but the people willing to accept it for payment, and the government and central banks promising they won't devalue it through hyperinflation.

As for your WoW comparison, the difference between Bitcoin and WoW is that Blizzard can make as much WoW gold as they want (thus making everyone else's gold worth a lot less), or worse, Blizzard can just shut down WoW, or be shut down by someone else, making WoW gold instantly worthless. Bitcoin isn't owned or operated by anyone, so no one can make bitcoins on a whim, and no one can shut down bitcoin. That's why Bitcoin is so valuable and has so much support.


Even if USD was backed by gold, you still have to rely on the promises of politicians that they will give you X amount of gold for Y amount of USD. So, whom do you trust more? A promise of a few politicians who have shown to be professional liars? Or a database secured by math, and computing power that is greater than 500 of the world's top supercomputers combined?

Grants for web wallets? I missed that news. Can you elaborate of provide a link please?

What has the Linux foundation done that made you go "wow?" My understanding is that foundations, being nonprofits and not for the purpose of designing or coming up with products and services, mainly exist to support things from the background, and thus are not really recognized or noticed for the little tweaks they do here and there.

Oh, how's this: When Gavin releases his multi-sig/multi-device authentication to the Bitcoin wallets, where your coins can no longer be stolen because they require two devices or a device and a service to spend, would that be a wow? That would be something that, at this point, is paid for directly by the foundation.

I just want say hooray for Russians smuggling in illegal contraband, and selling it out of their stores "under the counter." It's the only way I've been able to get kinder eggs in USA.

Also, how long till we have an assault weapon that requires a 3D printer and a trip to a local Home Depot?

Did you see the long legal letter that was sent to California in response to the claim that the Foundation was being a money transmitter? That was at least public. Other than that, their members are flying all over the place, meeting with groups and politicians. That you don't really hear about. But they are working their asses off.

I'd love to see that happen! Or even a bitcoin marketplace, where people can come and buy/sell random stuff for bitcoin. I'll definitely have lots of coins with me on hand.

The only people who can involve lav enforcement and the legal system are people with "standing," i.e. people who are actually directly involved with BFL, such as customers with pre-orders. Random Citizen can't just sue or sick the cops on a company because they don't like the way it's doing business. If you do have pre-orders, and feel you should be compensated in some way, feel free to go after them yourself, or start putting together a class action lawsuit. Though I suspect that even a (legitimate) threat of a lawsuit would force BFL to give you a refund, at which point you'll no longer have (much) "standing."

Yeah, I was wondering about that. Is this possible? To create a blimp that uses solar top stay in the air indefinitely?

If you look at the center cylinder of the fan, surrounded by a circle of blades with the empty space between the center cylinder and the blades, you'll notice that the empty space is narrower at the front (towards the viewer) than at the back. And it's obviously a rendering. They didn't take pictures of anything here. The whole thing is obviously rendered. But so what? That's not a sign of a con. They had bad renderings of a BFL Single circuit board, too, remember?

60 years? Doesn't this assume that there is no new adoption, and all growth is from deflation?

Well, right now an employee is able to get a WalMart job, and say "yes" to the paltry wage, because he knows he can still rely on safety nets to survive. But what if we were to take away the safety nets? Wouldn't employees demand higher wages to make sure they have enough to live off of, or even start saying "no" to the job until it offers more pay? I would think there is some point at which an employee would decide that the pay is low enough to not be worth their time or their effort. In the end, sure, prices at WalMart will go up a bit, but they may be more than offset from everyone not having to pay as much for safety nets.

There is only one information that matters, which doesn't depend on anyone's subjective tastes or polls:

In-n-Out does not employ anyone on the east coast. Boom. Done. Move on.

So, logically you will pay $1k for a Bitcoin when it's worth $1,000?

Um, what are you talking about? That's a standard centrifugal blower fan. They're pretty standard on GPUs.

The two McDonald's that are next to a Burger King and a Checkers (which makes burgers way better than any other fast food place) are doing just fine, usually being quite full. The other places are a bit empty. Reason is because people prefer uniformity to quality. They go to a McDonalds knowing exactly what they will get, as opposed to wanting to experiment with new things. And that, by the way, is the McDonald's version of WalMart's supply chain. McDonalds is beating everyone around the world because they were the first to set up a uniform burger standard around the country. Regardless of which Mcdonalds you go to in the country, you know exactly what you are going to get.

Would you pay $100 for a bitcoin? People said they'd never pay $100 for one, when it was worth $4.

Maybe it was because people can get their food within seconds after ordering, and no one has to stick around waiting for their order? McDonald's around my area are packed (despite us having Checkers, Hardees, Burger King, Wendy's, etc), and serve about 300 customers an hour during lunch rush, and about 100 a hour the rest of the day. Average a day for the good ones is about 3,000 customers. So not THAT much worse.

Sounds like they are very inefficient, and can't handle the capacity. Maybe they should open more stores, so they can serve 100 meals at two stores in 5 minutes.


Again sounds very inefficient. You don't need more than 1 employee cleaning the tables AND tending the beverage bar. And even if you have 4 employees at the registers, and 2 cleaning the tables, that still leaves 17-4-2=11 employees in the kitchen. The hell do you need all those people there for? It should be 1 taking drivethrough orders and collecting cash, 1 running bags from kitchen drop-off to windows and registers, and maybe three in the kitchen putting together burgers conveyor--belt style, with mane one manager helping out. 6 is enough.


Yep. Not efficient enough. You should only see patrons at the table, and barely anyone in line or waiting for their order. Otherwise it means the restaurant is not able to keep up. Even with 11 people. They should open another store.



Yay! Good for you! How long did you wait?


And, again, the most important queston: who has more employees, McDonald's Corporation, or In-n-Out? If if McDonald's (obviously it's McDonald's), then why doesn't In-n-Out open more stores? I mean, according to you, they have a much better business structure than McD's, so obviously it shouldn't be a problem for them to take over the Burger/Fast Food market. What's stopping them?

Based on the same "I bought burgers from there, so I know" reasoning