When did it go underground?  It was pretty far underground from the start.

My daughter likes pretty rocks, any photos?

EDIT: Nevermind, I saw the site.

Oh, that kind of quartz crystals.

I was thinking that you were offering radio parts.

I'm on another forum, where this exact concept came up.  The idea was presented in the context of a human future similar to Serenity wherein a true free market exists on the leading edge of an ever expanding front of human occupation.  The theory being that those who seek freedom are always leaving the comforts of society and venturing outward to found new colonies, and for several generations those new colonies function as anarchist societies in a similar vein to the "Wild West" Western territories of the US before they were states; but eventually as the population grows on the colony, the society becomes ever more statist until those who seek freedom are driven outward in search of a new colony.

Not for long.  IRC is not a critical aspect of the system.  IT's not even part of the protocol, and is only used as a peer discovery method that is not exclusive.

So define property without exclusivity of use and without exclusivity of resource, and you might be able to define it such that the term is can both refer to historical examples of property and IP.

This is true, but what the disconnect here is what defines property.


This is not an argument in favor of copyrights.  Your opinions on the quality of products are irrelevent.

Yes.


Okay?  I don't know if it's okay.  As a generality, it might be immoral and an unethical business practice; but what if that product was a cure for AIDS but the same company that sold it at an inflated price did so while selling a much cheaper maintaince drug?  I could think of any number of strawmen to burn here, but the point is not whether it's okay to intentionally compete with an inventor by reverse engineering their work.  The point is that it's not ethical to advocate for the use of force to punish said unethical behaviour.  You can take steps to prevent your trade secrets from being stolen, including using force against anyone who tresspasses to that end, but once the cat is out of the bag, use or advocacy of force to punish said person is easily as wrong as the original "crime".  I wouldn't do it, nor would I support anyone that I knew did it, but nor would I support the original inventor if he decided to hire a group of thugs to tear down his competitors' factories.


The "right to copy" is not a right, but a privilage, and as such cannot be seperated from the current government/corporate collusion.

It seems that MtGox was sold to a person living in Japan, who has had limited contact since the tsunami.  MtGox has apparently been mostly running on auto-pilot since the tsunami.  No advice as to how you should proceed.

That's fairly normal.  The client downloads old blocks in groups of up to 500 at a time, and then proceeds to hash-check all of them before moving onto the next set.

Why?

Yes, it's theft.  But only because 1) the data is his and he made no attempt to publish it, so by default he intended to keep it; and 2) the wallet.dat file has only one function, and therefore copying it without the owner's consent can have only one motive.  I.E. to spend another person's funds.

I don't think that this is comparable to "intellectual property" because the core point of copyrights and such is to maintain a market advantage over other publishers, not to protect secrets.

That's as good an idea as any, but it still doesn't solve the problem with regard to the state enforcement of a monopoly.

It was never a violation of objectivism to take advantage of the system that exists.

I don't disagree, but the question becomes "when?"  Austrian economists have been predicting this for decades, and they are right, but all that have provided a time frame have been wrong.

No, I have not.

You should probably go ahead and withdraw your investements then, since generics are a well established industry.  And since the only thing that prevents this 'pirate' industry from undercutting the market price of any drug in existance is an international network of government enforced monopolies; should any of these major governments fail and be replaced with anything else, none are likely to be too concerned with enforcement of patent laws for a number of years.

After all, many of the world's most successful financial institutions have their roots in various black or grey markets.  Bitcoin certainly isn't the first system to depend upon nefarious activities in it's infancy.

I take a dim view of the idea that a barrel of oil is going to ever hit $10 anytime soon.  Not that I don't somewhat agree with their analysis, but if such massive deflation occurs (this would be roughly a 10x increase in US FRN trade value, which almost certainly requires an equal drop in the monetary base) it's not going to be occurring in a sudden manner unless some very unlikely events occur.  Such as an asteroid impact takes out the entire credit system of the US while leaving the US federal government largely intact.  In a slower deflationary perioid, as we were in between 2008 & 2009, a deflationary contraction of credit can (and was) be largely balanced out by the increase of the monetary base (printing, electronic creation, quanitative easing, etc) so that the consuming public doesn't really see a great deal of changes of prices.  This creates other inbalances, which eventually can lead to an inflationary period (which we have been in since at least Jan of this year).

That said, hyperinflation simply isn't in the cards, unless the US federal government actually ceases to exist.  Hyperinflation is, always and everywhere, a political event not an economic one.  Since the House of Reps control fiscal policy, and at present the Federal Reserve still controls monetary policy, and the House is presently dominated by fiscal conservatives; a political trigger for hyperinflation would truly be a black swan.

Actually, more likely the other way around.  Said dodgy tool manufactures originaly sold vastly more AS toolsets than Metric sets, although that's likely no longer so.

You're quite welcome.

The client does not require access to IRC to bootstrap, it's just quicker.  The clients communicate directly with one another in a peer-to-peer fashion, and do not require IRC or any other client-server protocol to act as a network intermediary.