Of course we are on uncharted territory. What we see here is the evolution of future payment systems, and evolution is always "uncharted" otherwise it wouldn't be evolution but repetition .

I'm not used to do so, but now I have to disagree. Adding new features and improvements to a working coin is always a good thing. The possibility of anon transactions isn't just a "trendy" marketing gimmick what will fade away, that's an essential thing what should be basic functionality of all coins.

No, but right after bitcoin, LTC is the most trusted and most widely known and accepted coin. ETH is still unfinished and untested without real word exposure and experience.

Actually they are going to be a problem. Also good for distractions indeed, but they are going to be a rather big problem on their own in a couple of years. I think in the not so very distant future finally they will end up as scapegoats for a lot of economic and social problems, what was originally created by banks and companies and their sock-puppets in various parliaments. You can already see the first signs.

No, these parties can entrench themselves for a long time, terrorists, uncivilized immigrants, and those who are there for abusing the benefit system will provide them enough ammunition for decades.

Welcome to the real world, mate . BTW in my opinion just like PKK, Hamas also have a point. In both cases I'd recommend fair negotiations, but nobody seems to be very interested in such peaceful resolution. Actually mostly you can say thank you to Erdogan for the escalation of the conflict with the kurds.

Russians achieved their tactical and strategic goals: secured their bases over there, secured the survival of their ally in the future (maybe not Assad himself but someone Russia friendly), forced the "moderate opposition" to (at least temporarily) turn against the saudi/turkey/us backed islamists, so they've gained a lot of bargaining chips.
I think behind the scenes they've also made some new friendships with the syrian and iraqi kurds, so a pipeline from Iran to the Mediterranean sea through friendly kurdish held territories is possible again and now there's a possible supply route to PKK if the turks would try to oppose that.
Now they are partially pulling out with a military and diplomatic victory in their pocket. It appears unlike the US, Russians have learned their lessons in Afghanistan about why not good to be bogged down in local turf wars and such unstable situations. BTW they can go back in days if needed.

Indeed, I don't know how this scheme working in other countries but in Hungary and in the UK PP used to send debt collectors after people who were left holding the bag after chargebacks.

...and socialists as well . They also like ant-people who are not asking too many questions just keep doing their "duty". Japs are a very different culture. Trying to apply western schemes to them is misleading.

They never had shortages on volunteers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze#Recruitment) Actually they usually had minimum twice as many applicants than planes. Different mindset as I said. In eastern societies the given society is more important than an individual.

Freedom fighters often used to be called terrorists by the occupiers. BTW since the appearance of the Young Turks, Turkey have a long record of abusing minorities. It appears these kurd guys have the will and the means to fight back.

Nice piece of leftist BS, but kamikaze pilots were volunteers... They didn't obeyed, but they felt that this is their duty for the community. They have a different mindset than western people.

Probably he's talking about the ongoing factom dump, not about XEM.

Anyway $10 or $100 XEM is simply unsustainable, unless we see some pretty big USD hyperinflation.

Probably neither China nor Russia would be extremely happy if the US would start nuking one of their "allies"/business partners right next to their borders. I guess the US decision makers perfectly know this, so probably they not going to do anything stupid. Hopefully China can also keep the koreans on a short lead.

Could you add Tengrism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengrism) to the Other category please ? I like that religion.

Indeed Banglades have a huge muslim majority and there will be surely some upheaval if the government trying to reform it as a secular state. Such action would be only good to make extremists show their hands in preparation for a showdown, but that surely going to be an ugly and bloody business.

Unlike bitshares, Christianity have a third shareholder (however this three are usually considered as one) a well known CEO, vast corporate infrastructure and lots of local sales and support offices. Also it's old and established and thought to be too big to fail. Most importantly it  promising rewards only in an afterlife instead of right here and right now, so it's a lot more difficult to testify . Of course users are happy.

Payment received in order. As usual . Thanks.

Would you mind to elaborate a bit more why do you think this? You know, a soda machine is a nice start but not going to boost acceptance and exchange rates very long .

Not a good idea. These ponzis and hyips will flood other boards. In addition nobody can keep the fools and their money together by force.