Maybe 6-8 weeks.

No regulatory would provide a single sentence answer and certainly wouldn't provide that answer over the phone.  The regulatory would be acting as an agent of the United States and any statement would have vast legal implications.  It could allow future lawsuits against the federal government or provide protection for a business in the event the federal government sought legal action.  It could even rise to criminal entrapment.

Indeed. When one person makes a mistake for himself, it's a shame. When he makes it for millions, it's a calamity.

How old are you? At some point you will realize that we all live in a society who's structures can only change slightly in our lifetimes. I know kids think that the global anarchist revolution in three weeks away, but it isn't. For the rest of our lives we will be living under the government structures we created, and the best we can do is liberalize them as much as possible, take as much power away from the centralized elite as possible. BTC is a great tool to democratize finance, but if you think you are ever going to be totally free from the kinds of limits out systems put on us, you are living in a dream land. Find a desert island perhaps, or move to Somalia.

Dreamers are great, we need ya, but keep learning. Once you get further in (public) university you will read more than just 1984 and a third of Atlas Shrugged, and hopefully at some point you'll realize that the world is a lot more complex, and solutions are not as simple as you think.

Thankfully there are reasonable adults who are and will continue to advance BTC within our current legal and political systems.

What black market?  All I see are individuals freely trading goods and services without interference.   

I like the idea, but I agree that bitcoin.org is not the best page to land on when you're new in the bitcoin world.
Maybe landing on a youtube video like the weusecoins one, or the introductive post here on the forum is better but the url is too long to write down.
I'm thinkin in print a bunch of adesive labels with a qrcode on it, something like this (land on the youtube video) to stick on Euro around me

be free:use bitcoin

Forget these suckers.
Make an offer.
A real one.

Also anyone can sell their signature to InstaWire.org, see here.

Home schooling? lol yes let's have high school dropouts teaching kids that Jesus controls the climate and economy, what could go wrong? We don't need young people to learn peer-reviewed science, we need them to learn whatever random bullshit their parents believe. Fuck math.

Private schools kick ass! Look at all the world's great education systems that work without public education... oh right, there are none. New Orleans is doing great spending 5X more per student to have them get 1/3 the education! Yay to making profit at the expense of the education of the next generation of children!!! We'll just count on China and India to train enough engineers and scientists... I guess us western societies should take after Louisiana and start producing... preachers and beggars I guess? Great plan. Maybe the Tim Tebow Corporation will hire all these kids with bullshit private HS degrees... but I doubt it.  

Move to Somalia if you want absolutely no organized society. Also stop reading Ayn Rand, that is not serious.

i have faith in BTC and other curencies' developeres. Thus i believe that if and when needed, the optimizations will come
and bottlenecks will be overcomed successfully
perhaps the electronic currency idea is very old (if someone knows?) but today was the time to make it happen!