Why 40 hours?

Why not? What would be the worst that could happen?

All women are the same.

 

Do you think the government should force employers at the point of a gun to pay a wage that the federal government comes up with and spur the robot and automation industry to replace jobs or send jobs overseas?

I agree, a slow rise is fine...there is no huge news to support rapid adoption.

Something like the Bitcoin ETF, ebay adoption or something else unknown will send the price up quickly.

Bear trend has been punctured. It is leaking bull market.

No idea.

2008: Glenn Beck calls Ron Paul a terrorist, calls Paul's ideas kooky and fringe.
2009: Glenn Beck wishes he had a time machine to go back and reexamine all of those issues "he apologized to libertarians everywhere for calling himself a libertarian in the past. He has long called himself a conservative with libertarian leanings, but he said he is now leaning so far libertarian that he is almost horizontal. He said, "I'm going through a change here.""
2012: Glenn Beck compares Ron Paul to Osama Bin Laden
2013: Glenn Beck apologizes to libertarians (again...)

See the pattern?
Election year: "Libertarians are evil"
Year after election: "I'm a libertarian now, forgive me for last year"

I doubt he even changes his mind. He just knows that he can get a large audience spewing nonsense about freedom.

He just shows his true colors when something actually matters.

People that will be easily swayed when Glenn has an epiphany when it counts and sides with the government about how Bitcoin is bad because <insert big government excuse here>.

See: Glenn Beck says TARP bailout is necessary, Glenn Beck coddles libertarians then dedicates a show to calling Ron Paul a terrorist when Paul runs for president and is starting to gain steam in the polls, Glenn Beck supports the Tea Party then as the Texas Tea Party candidate for governor starts getting press for rising in the polls Glenn Beck has her on his show and uses radio hosting tricks (cut sound to her but not to audience) to imply that she's a "truther", calls her Hitler, etc.

See also all of the Ron Paul supporters that argued that "Beck isn't perfect but he has a massive audience"...

If he supported it he would accept bitcoin as an option on his shopping site: http://www.markdown.com

complete 180 turn on bitcoin in 5...4...3....2...

Not everyone is successful.

I would rather not be part of that everyone.

and?

I tell you what. When you get your paycheck, send me the money. When you want to spend your fiat I will give you money as you spend it.

If I convert it to bitcoins and gain value in the mean time, do not bother yourself with that. You can rest assured that you did not spend your money unwisely.

The law requires that you provide your name, occupation, etc...just like with a regular donation.

The big government conservatives are ok with government handing out welfare for their causes.

It is necessary to fight terrorists. Because...terrorists.

The IRS will steal your money (more than just via taxes) if you deal mainly in cash.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-the-heavy-hand-of-the-irs/2014/04/30/7a56ca9e-cfc5-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html

The Bitcoin rich list has stopped working, but I did find this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321265.0
(outdated)
1.  BTC980,000*. Satoshi Nakamoto

2.  BTC400,000*. HD Moore (AHA)

3.  BTC400,000*. Dustin D. Trammell (AHA)

4.  BTC400,000*. Tod Beardsley (AHA)

5.  BTC350,000*. "Dread Pirate Roberts" a.k.a. "DPR"

6.  BTC300,000.  Roger Ver

7.  BTC300,000*. "knightmb"

8.  BTC200,000. Mark Karpeles

8.5  BTC182,592. "Loaded"

9.  BTC174,000*. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA)

10.  BTC119,000. AsicMiner Management Team of 3 (names?)

11.  BTC110,000. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

12.  BTC100,000. "klaus"

13.  BTC100,000. "mezzomix"

14.  BTC75,000. "artforz"

15.  BTC70,000. Erik Voorhees

17.  BTC30,000. "nakowa"

18.  BTC30,000. Mircea Popescu

19.  BTC30,000. "Goat"

20.  BTC25,000. Chamath Palihapitiya

21.  BTC25,000. Gavin Andresen

22.  BTC20,000. Max Keiser

23.  BTC20,000. "Theymos"

So you should exchange your fiat when you get your paycheck to Zimbabwe dollars, lose several percent in value each day. That way when you buy a laptop for 3 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, tomorrow that laptop costs 4 trillion Zimbabwe dollars you gain 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars for buying the laptop a day early. That way spending Zimbabwe dollars is always a gain because it is inflationary...right?


Or consider last year. On average the price went up by 1% per day. If you convert your $2000 paycheck to bitcoins on Friday and buy a laptop 5 days later the value of your bitcoins have gained 5% or $100 that you would not have gained if you had kept your money in fiat. Sure, every year will not be the same rise of 1% but a rise over time none the less.

So...why would you -not- convert your fiat to bitcoins?