"Turn-key tyranny."

But you could really see the fear in his eyes.  This man is a real American, if I could put it that way; an actual hero.  He knew what could've happened to him if he let those secrets go and yet let his morals get the better of him.  A real human being.

But this just keeps making that line between the American people and the American government so much thicker and obvious.  They're not us, and they're not with us, is the theme that keeps cropping up.

I believe this mystery is solved

It does take a lot of getting used to.  We're coming from a currency where one dollar could get you enough sundaes for all your family and friends, and now $5 will only get you one.  In the case of Bitcoin, it's going the exact opposite direction; 1 BTC might've gotten you a sundae (hypothetically), and later,  0.05 BTC would get you one.  As the price for a single BTC rises, the amount of BTC you need to buy just one thing will always go lower, and so it requires getting used to alternative denominations such as mBTC and eventually uBTC, lest we use 0.001 BTC as the normal denomination.  I believe it'll just take time, as 1 mBTC looks better than 0.001 BTC, and requires a lot less 0's.

Okay you caught me, I picked Antarctica for giggles.

Def agree on PC gaming.  Consoles are just too restricting, especially when it comes to the Xbox.

I'm interested in seeing how the Steam Box will play out, and if it'll just be a glorified computer running Steam in Big Picture mode.  That'd be OK with me.

I have no idea what you're saying   I recommend reading up more on Bitcoin and how it works.

Or about 500 million years longer than the Earth's been around

We live in a time period where we have access to any sort of knowledge within seconds at any point in time, almost anywhere there's a large number of people living.

And then we use it to look at cats

If we can assume technology is always improving, then eventually, at an indeterminate time in the future, Bitcoin's crypt will be broken (not by brute-forcing, but by a security flaw we've yet to discover.)

However, the great thing about Bitcoin is that it can easily switch to another form of encryption, which I presume will happen before SHA256 is broken.  So even if SHA256 fails, Bitcoin can chug along with the next best encryption.

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Lol so anyways, who needs all that democratic CISPA/SOPA/PIPA bullshit when you can just do what you want anyway.

Also, this: surprise!, we're in it.

Valid points, Elwar.  We're all anarchists until the state gets involved.  Once the state leaves us alone, we proceed to be anarchists again.  I tell you, the hardest thing to explain to someone is that society won't collapse into utter turmoil once the state disappears (you know, as seen in the movies); in fact, life would continue as it always has, just without state hindrance.

Sweet.  We could attach cameras to the drones and make a TV show out of it.  We'll name it "The Domestic Terrorist Files", it'll come on prime time right after Fox news and sometime before Dancing With The Stars or American Idol, whichever comes on around this time, and make a killing.  Or be killed.  Whichever comes first.

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Really cool website   I punched in a few of my characters to see if they'd line up with their supposed personality types.  So far they've been spot on, one an ESFJ and another an INFJ, and they both match up with what this website is saying.