But most people still let the client go with the default, which is relying on IRC unless it's down, right?

Could they secretly force Freenode to silently mute anyone joining the channel except the govt's bots that will report the addresses of honeypots to cripple the network by keeping most people making useless connections and at the same time buil.d a database of who is trying to use Bitcoin?

I wonder what happens to human blood when it runs thru an inkjet printer cartridge...

Gah, i voted wrong and only realized after i hit send

Lol, yay for internet pseudonimity!

Now on a serious note; whoever that was, i hope you used a good annonimyzing proxy to create that sockpuppet and was careful enough with traces control on your machine...

So if you trully believe the wolrd would be better if X was not alive anymore it's not against the law to ask for X's assasination?

If you believe the theater is on fire or that there is some other important reason for everyone to leave in panic you totally have the right to yell "Fire!" inside the theater; not only the right but the duty to do so.

I guess he/she/it thought you wanted them to be a partner in your opensource project instead of just provide pricing information

Seems you didn't see what i did there

No, i don't mean how do i use it, i mean how does it do it?

I guess you have a point; just the other day over here a senator (or perhaps it was a congressman or somthing like that) ripped the recorder out of a reporter's hand, took it home and erased everything in the memory before returning it to the reporter just 'cause he didn't like the question...

Saying you want someone dead publicly is against the law? Isn't it covered by freedom of speech?

This system needs Faith

Kinda off-topic, but would any of you know of a site where people can vote for, and against, the assasination of individuals; just dealing with votes, no money? Even though it probably wouldn't lead to anything i guess voting there would still feel a little more productive than yelling at the TV during the news....

But how do they work?

Here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_symbol

There is already a thread several pages long about choosing an official symbol on Unicode for Bitcoin, there is even a page on the wiki with a few candidates.

A new block chain with a limited number of acceptable send and receive addresses (the senders being the voters and the receivers the candidates or proposals being voted on), with each sender address receiving  a fixed amount of "money". To vote you go to an agency (or whatever the places are called) present your documentsand grab a little official read-only USB flashdrive containing a wallet, later at home or a LAN house or whatever you plug it in and "spend" your "money"; in places where there is significant concern that people will be coerced to vote one way or another, thiings could still be done with voting booths and alike, but people would still be instructed to run the client on their machines to help guarantee the security of the poll.

I'm asking how to do it directly, without needing to use the USD/BTC exchange rate; i wanna know how to do it myself, without even a third party program doing the intermediary step; or is that not possible?

I wonder how bad the market will behave during the transition period while most miners will not be breaking even but people will still not be used to paying larger sums to get their transactions verified...