I predict that the price of my bitcoins will be unaffected by SR.

Thank you World! (Not the whole world, just the user "World".)

Any way we can see some pics? I am curious to see what it looks like.
P.S. I will likely be in Berlin this summer and pay you a visit.

Well written new peer!

Just curious. I bought my first pair of llama wool socks. 

So you want a loan to be used on an investment that is mathematically likely to be lost? I dunno man.

What's this about North Coffee brewing it's own internet?

Why do people and companies often decide to wait for permission from and authority to change? A brief examination of history shows that changes come when you drag the authorities kicking and screaming to the changes we make. This is how we gained most of our civil rights, for example.

I don't think the time frame for our economic reality has been long enough. I would expect at least a few thousand years to note a genetic divergence.
But I do think there is evidence for many animals to have a sense of "fairness" that is genetic. Interesting topic OP.

As stated before, if there were a market for such instruments they could be done with bitcoin. If you wanted you could even do exotic things like credit default swaps. But who would want such crap.?

That's god-awful. This makes computer code look like computer code looks for most people.

Take up a profitable hobby/interest?

It might be fun and budget enhancing to learn how to operate a crane or get licensed to do something few people do. I have thought that if I had a billion $ (or BTC) I would go the firefighter academy then become a Mayan history expert then learn Chinese, etc. Occasionally I might make a buck pursuing my interests. 

Perhaps you would have been safer in 1937 Germany. I stand corrected.

I don't understand how the safest times are those when you have to arm yourself and can be killed with impunity?

By 1937 most thinkers understood that war with Germany was coming. The Europeans who did not die in WW1 were very fearful, and correctly so.

And yes, you may not persecute someone who is gay. How does that make you less safe? 

no, I'm not on MDMA. Why, you got some!

lol, that's brutal.
A funny side note: In Florida the Romney campaign was encouraging early voting because their base there is so old that they were concerned about how many would die before election day.

I think they are going to stick with their current strategy of capturing the future by attacking women, gays and brown people. 

I do have friends in Berlin and I definitely will stop by next time I'm there. 

It seems like every year I hear more about the terrible plight we all face. People talk about rising taxes, and how the US is broken. I hear a lot about social injustice and how warlike we have become. What I find curious about all this are the facts that contradict these ideas.
 
In reality these are the safest times in all of human history. Never before could you expect to live a long life free of war and with health care better than any king of 100 years ago. You have rights almost unheard of in history. Today I could decide to live as a woman and everyone would pretend along with me. And you would not learn this by talking to voters, but US taxes have been going down for thirty years and are at historic lows.
It's a pity that we don't recognize our good fortune. I'm as guilty as anyone of pointing out the problems we have, or the far less certain future. The truth is we are luckier than any other generation that has come before.

That's my happy thought for the day.

Thanks Yankee. Perhaps I will offer a 1000BTC to a SR hitman and put an end to his efforts. 

Who stands to gain from DDOS-ing bitinstant?