haha, no kidding. Whenever a financial expert talks about "the economy" they don't mean you and me. They are talking about their economy. If the banks collapse it will hurt them more than me. I taught wilderness skills for 12 years, it can't get bad enough to hurt me. Sure it would diminish all our lives in some ways, but overall my social status would be elevated. 
The bills have come due and I say bring the rain.

For me the answer has something to do with liquidity. Consider our earlier comparison to gold. Unlike gold I can turn my bitcoins into cash or merchandise in a few minutes.

Perhaps Greece can start an account here and after a few posts start asking for bitcoin loans. 

It is really quite shocking. A disorderly exit from the Euro puts us all in a new world economy. If Greece goes, who will back up Spain's debt?...Germany? I don't think so.

You did make me cringe.  Gawd, I can't even touch my eye!   

I hope it all works out man.

Well, upon realizing you are here often your first thought was to make a post. So, yes you are Obsessed. 

There is so much you could do with this. The kids could even start a business. Remember when Naferio used BTC with his students in China?

I guess I will call them tonight and let them know I no longer see any value in their service.  Maybe MintChip will be the next way to get BTC?

You go bro! I feel like I have learned a lot about money via bitcoin. In school I don't remember being told anything about money. 

What kind of price were you hoping to get for it? I'm kinda heavy on handguns right now, but I will let my friends know.

That makes sense. Let's hope bitnet never becomes conscious. With Ayn Rand's sensibilities, she will surely consume us all. lol

Interesting reading about the role of "fearing death" in evolution. But death is a great asset to living things. Indeed death ranks right up there with sex as the best things that ever happened to life on Earth. Many people assume that death is some kind of inevitable part of being a living thing, not true. There is no reason for things to get old and die and some types of living things don't. This is sometimes referred to as "biological immortality".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
However there is a huge evolutionary advantage to dying. Species that age and die are in a position to more efficiently and rapidly evolve. This allows them to respond to changes in the environment by replacing themselves with better adapted offspring. Biological immortality tends to only work in species who live in extremely unchanging environments.
So, how should an AI form handle this? Could software updates be used to force the death of earlier iterations? Or should later versions be branches of the original, something like the radiation of species that happens in nature?

I'm also interested in guns. Anyone have an AR?

I talked to someone about buying this today. It looks like a good deal but after insurance and required repairs it could be a very expensive and useless property. Perhaps a business like a SCUBA center  would work here?  I just want it for a weekend rave. 

That is being kinda stupid. Just open mouth and let unformed thoughts spill out. But maybe he is just a kid or something.  We could try being nice to him and point out his mistakes graciously.
I dislike trolls as much as anyone, but before baning him we should be sure his intentions are malicious rather than ignorant.

I might trust them somewhat, but do I need them? What would they do for me? Storage, on-line wallet?

Or just use http://btcnearme.com

Or maybe it's just the included root kit. 

I'm not questioning your judgment guys, but I am not seeing it. I looked at the first couple of pages of his recent posts. They were not outrageous or anything? What did he do?

Oh, that's right. Forgot that. TY!