1) Not enough money goes to maintaining the roads or to many roads (the usa is too small to maintain all those roads).
2) Incompetent people doing the planning (and probably paid to much for their work).

Did I win?

Woot!

Not. I thought you didn't bother about that with the account-less system.

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To clarify a bit:

For bidding to work you need to track the actions of the bidder and you want that
the bidder is always the person who submitted the advertisement, so you need an
account for that. If you have idea's how to implement that without accounts, I would
love to hear your idea.

Let me know what you want, because I seem to be guessing every time what to do next
and if I'm doing it right. Last thing that I want is wasting time on things that nobody wants.
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Excessive, lazy quoting (like this message!) should also be discouraged.

Money isn't everything... you want good roads, public healthcare, good education, subsidy to start your own company, grants to do research (generate knowledge), good/reliable public transport, etc., etc.? That's worth something, right?

I think taxes aren't a bad thing, as long as they are spend again in a sane and good fashion, so that the whole society has profit of it.

to darken in the

I voted Socialist (last few elections I voted the socialist party) although I like many of the communist ideologies as well (although they only work in an ideal world). IMHO the state should represent its people and take care of them. To bad our new government is right-winged and hopefully that will end soon.

If you just allow any number of applications "on top" of bitcoin, isn't that a bit messy? Suddenly some guy says he invented this bitdns2 where all domains are available!

Maybe make it a tad bit hard to add applications?

Missing only the pound and the swiss franc then.

Congratulations btcex, it's a nice improvement. The more currencies exchanging directly with bitcoins, the better.
Do you plan to translate your site to Japanese as well? That might be a good thing for you now...

Every category of software gets developed sooner or later. Every week there are new bitcoin-based services opening up, so it will happen.

Anyway, Gavin's idea should be tried outside this forum until it proves itself. If it turns out to work well, not only would it be worth switching this forum to it, but the demand for that forum system from others would drive the adoption of bitcoin.

Willingness to die is not the same thing that die.

Just do backups.

Have nothing else, if something happens to the information will not be affected and community survive.

It's too bad we don't have any Indian nor african people.  And only one chinese.


We should promote bitcoin in these countries.