Such things are typically only an obstacle for the law-abiding. Something of a joke like most security theater.

They pull apart about 1/3 of the article and call it done. There are certainly some inaccuracies in the article but that doesn't dismiss the whole thing.

But often they can do accounting tricks where the cars are "sold" even when they aren't. Probably in some perverse way, it would cost them more not to make them. Plus quarterly reports may be heavily based on "items manufactured" rather than "items sold".

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die

Snopes has this as "false" but it seems like a rather weak and hand-waving debunk to me.

Love my TDI but I've just about run it into the ground. Time for a refresh. I won't use my stash though. It would have to be a buy BTC then spend.

Used. New cars are poor value.

Smooth growth is rational, bubble growth is irrational. People tend to be irrational in the face of fear so we're waiting for a fear-generating event perhaps.

24 July.
234 day cycle
MtGox auctioning bitcoins.

When the irresistable force meets the immovable object...

Interesting. I'm in the market for a new car and have the cash to do so. Will have to take a look.

Though  have never heard of this company at all in any manner.

I am thinking of going to this. Biggest issue on my mind is whether to stay just the Saturday night or the Friday as well. Between the hotel cost and the parking and me being a tightwad, it's a bit of a hard sell. I think the only thing I'd miss out on would be the Friday night pre-party thing. Which would probably be fun but I'm not sure 300 worth of fun. I can already see which way this is going but I'm open to persuasion

I think the conference itself is great value BTW.


Great. How much would they be paying me?

You give them your dollars, they give you the realcoins. Then 5 years down the line, they revalue or say that they're no longer backing the coin with dollars (like the US govt did with gold) but they're still worth a dollar. Then everyone else kicks themselves for being so stupid and Brock Pierce puts on his scuba gear and goes for another dive off his yacht anchored in the Caribbean.

Thus this is indicative of a government with too much power. Without the power, there's less opportunity to crony.

This is why many of us put focus on the government rather than sitting in a park in new york participating in drum circles whining about the 1%.

That's crony capitalism. In the Laissez faire world, there is not "too big to fail" you just fail and get bought out (or not) by someone more competent.

Jorge obviously hasn't had much contact with regulated industries. When HIPAA came in (and later Sarbanes Oxley), they were *huge* costs to the company I was working for. The company was big enough to absorb the cost but a new or intended entrant?

Concerns noted but choice is a good thing. Not that anyone should be obligated to support it.

I don't see that vanity addresses are any different than any other address though. Privacy is not always a concern and there's nothing to stop people using other addresses also.

But they probably paid their taxes.

Of the laundry list of things that Jorge listed, only "tax evasion" is a thing that government is really concerned about. And then only if you're the wrong kind of tax evader.

I'm looking at parsing through the blockchain and it seems like the insight API might be the best way to do so. Unfortunately, unless I'm missing something, there's not much in the way of documentation. There's a quick example of "this is how you access a couple of features" but no comprehensive list of API calls. Is there one hidden somewhere?

firstbits.com abandoned, firstbits.net not working (even worse than being abandoned). We need an open source version of this site that can be shared.

That's mostly because the person who wrote it was an irrational f*tard and thought he was smarter than he was.

Now we know what adam's "free beer" campaign was all about.