Sorry, but now I ended confused: "depositing and withdrawing alt coins does not require verification", but if I deposited bitcoin, traded it to fiat, then traded fiat back to bitcoin and want to withdraw my bitcoins again: do I have to verify?

On the case of Cuba, tell me about a country where political leaders stay in power until their death, or quasi-death, and I won't have much doubts about their nature as a dictatorship.
China, under this perspective, is remarkable, because even if their elections don't have real choices, at least there is rotation in power. That avoids the worst cases of abuse.

Thank you for the explanation.
I wonder if that system of KYC makes sense? KYC has as a goal to avoid money laundering. No one can clean money if he deposits bitcoin and only withdraws back to bitcoin, after doing some serious trading. He started with bitcoin and ended with bitcoin or another alt coin. No money entered the banking system or even was converted outside your exchange for fiat.
There are a lot of exchanges that don't request any verification or even identification, if you just deposit or withdraw alt coins. You are losing against these exchanges.

https://anxbtc.com just went up a lot in volume (http://www.bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=24h).
Their KYC policy states no need for verification if people don't do transactions in fiat.
But this isn't clear if refers only to deposit/withdraw in fiat or someone depositing bitcoins and trading it for fiat, but only withdrawing in bitcoin or another alt coin, must also verify.

Hard regulation, like in China, or a pure and simple ban would also create problems to bitcoin.

Putin only accused the west of "informational, financial, and political" support, without presenting any evidence or explaining who was the "west". That is not evidence of NATO giving arms to the rebels.

Yes, but the second one was ordered by Putin, as Prime-Minister, when Yelstin was already in clear decadence, in terms of powers and physically. Putin was the strong man and heir of Yeltsin.
But I agree that with the crisis, the Yelstin army suffered from lack of investment and Putin only had that army in the first years.
Anyway, even after, the repression of the guerrilla war until 2009 was far from good. At best, we can say Putin's army hasn't yet show how good it is. And past perform doesn't promise much.

Probably, you will get better help here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=40.0

Religion is the only institution in modern societies that legitimazes someone talking about a supreme being nobody can see and promising eternal life (and, sometimes, even 40 virgens), getting in exchange huge parts of the money of some poor bastard with a mortal desease or some other problem (usually, that would be fraud), or even making him explode himself, and still being taking seriously and respected by big parts of the other members of society.

You could at least call us rich bastards and hope we would buy real rolex (I wouldn't ever buy one, but it's the intention that counts). 

Try this for a change. Listen to it at least 2 or 3 times. You need that to starting appreciate the best artistic show on the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NF6LweEA_A

After listen you will agree with me that this is one of the most beautiful things a human has ever created. Even chickens love this...

There are hundred of movies worthy to see.
Why don't you post the kind of movie you like? People might give you better recommendations.

In the USA white collar cases are also prosecuted, even big ones. Just remember Enron or Madoff.

This thread is helpful for users, but can also have a secondary positive effect: it helps increasing the competition between the owners of each campaign.
Good work.

Of course they received external support (but I would like to see evidence of military support from the governments of KSA and USA), how could a small region like Chechnya win over Russia. But the point is that they won. And Putin's army didn't do much better 3 years later: more than 1 year to conquer them in conventional war. The major operations only ended in 2009 and according to some sources, Russia lost more than 10,000 men (even if after 2000 it was basically a guerrilla war).

The dollar is excluded in thousands of deals, including oil.
That has been happening for decades. The dollars isn't the only hard currency used internationally.
Some even say that these exclusions were cause of wars, like the Iraqi one, like if that didn't happened every day.

Opera should be identified as an option.
It's fast, small, consumes low memory resources, many of its features were copied by other browsers, but still has some of its own, and, since its rarely use, it's safer, because hackers won't lose time looking for any debility.

Paypal adopting bitcoin would be like Stalin marrying Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

On the need to have reliable missiles to make an effective detente, there are other ways to deliver a nuclear weapon, including plane or using terrestrial small units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_delivery).

The simple fact that you have a few nuclear weapons upgrades your political and military status. There is a risk that you might be able to kill millions of our citizens.

Anyway, Ukraine had not only soviet nuclear weapons, but also soviet missiles to launch them. The soviets had launching stations on Ukrainian territory.

On the issue of interspecies war: even if we overcome scarcity of material resources, there will be always scarce goods, that people will want as symbols of social status (yes, most of current consumerism is just about this), like human creations (artistic, new technologies, etc) or high quality services. There always will be Economics, as a science of decisions about scarce goods.
Besides, many wars are about fear, nationalism, pride (for instance, think about the French declaration of war against Prussia in 1870), envy and only secondarily about resources.