I guess I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that only property owners would be able to vote. In which case you do not have a democracy, you have something more like a fascist oligarchy. I don't know what percent of Americans are property owners, but it must be small. Remember that in a family, only one person likely owns the house.

The problem I see with this is that most people would have no self interest in your government. I say YOUR government because it would not involve most people. How do you think those people are going to feel if you try making laws that apply to them?  
When they begin planting IED's to get your motorcade, who is going to arrest them? The cop who earns just enough to pay rent?

I'm not sure? I know we could not have lived before the oxidation event, but how far back is a good question. I doubt temperature would be the issue.
My concern for the future is not just a warmer earth, but an increasing heating one. A few degrees warmer would be a challenge, but our inventive minds survived the ice ages. (That is what a few degrees colder looks like.)
but what about 5 degrees warmer? The Earth would look much different then. It could speed up the desertification of the planet, perhaps leaving vast areas uninhabitable. It would be mankind's greatest test.

True. we are likely in an interglacial. But it is unclear how the additional CO2 will effect this cycle. In the last 100yrs. we have released carbon that took millions of years to accumulate. Remember that gasoline is a solar based fuel, and a million years of solar collection is a lot of energy.

I hope you right Gavin. There are many unknowns in warming up the atmosphere.  One disturbing observation is the melting of the permafrost. When it melts it releases stored CO2. This causes further warming and melting. The amount of CO2 stored in permafrost dwarfs the amount we put in the sky via burning fuel. If it goes, the world may very well be a place humans can not live.
The oceans are also a great concern. As coral reefs die around the world, a major carbon sink is being lost. Other carbon sinks include the giant tropical forests that existed on the Earth until recently.
The last fact that concerns me is the inaction I have seen so far. About 25years ago I attended a lecture on this topic at a science museum where I worked.  It was shocking to see the initial data and to ponder what it could mean. I was young and more optimistic at the time. I assumed the serious people of the world would be jolted into action. What has actually happened since then is that we have not even been able to reduce the rate of growth of greenhouse gases, much less reduce the total. Businesses concerned only with the next quarter hire fake scientists to work against the worlds efforts.  And in our scientifically illiterate society global warming is treated as a "belief" rather than the repeatable, testable fact that it is.
Again, I hope your right. The Earth has not always been a place where humans can live, and there is no logical reason to believe it will support human life in the future.

I bought some BTC last night. I funded my account with Dwolla. I can see no way they could have manipulated anything?

Looks like I will be in Istanbul around the holidays.  Any Turkish peers want to meet?

me 2   

I have zero interest in a bank to manage my bitcoins for the same reason I don't want a bank to manage my gold bars, I don't need it.
I guess it's a good thing you don't care, because I think you would have lost money on your idea.

Sure tyranny happens, but you are more free than most people throughout time and geography.  For example; When and where else in history could I decide I want to live as a girl, then insist that everyone else play a pretending game with me? How few societies have ever arisen that allow me to say "there is no God" or "my leaders are idiots"?
There is always room for more freedom, but let's not forget how good we have it.  

I know it is annoying for our new members but if you had seen what a concerted effort at destroying these forums did several months ago, you would support this measure as I do.

The hope is that your brief time as a newbie was spent thinking up something productive to post. Anyway, welcome fellow peer.

+1  I've owned businesses, and had them fail. It is part of the game. I would still do business with you.

All opinion aside, doing most business transactions with Iranian citizens would be illegal for U.S. citizens. 

Ah, that did it. Until I added "sudo apt-get update" all I could see is the older version. Just installed without further issue on a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 system. 

For those interested in this, please note that currently the ppa directs you to an outdated version. Specifically, version 0.3.24

I have no legal expertise, but it sure seems to me that there are a lot of ways to argue for the legality of bitcoin.  Even if it were to be outlawed, what would that do? Downloading music is illegal, look how swimmingly that has worked out.

lol +1

Us liberals are already here. Remember we built the Internet, with the help of Al Gore. 

Is that what she did? How did we get to a point where music is primarily about money, and unauthorized listing is a crime requiring the beating of children? Thanks RIAA!