If anything it should deter a law being passed. I haven't found any good titties on google in a while I actually had to switch to another service.

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FinCEN disagrees.

Bruce?  Is that you?

What a bunch of fucking nazis.  Behead the man/men who dreamed up withdrawal restrictions.

That's true everywhere

Money to and from the market isn't exactly peer to peer.  Money to and from your aunt Sally--that's peer to peer.

As long as SOPA/CISPA stays out (and it's never going to stop coming up, it seems,) we have as much to worry about BTC being confiscated as TPB finally going offline.  But if this is just that much more incentive to lobby CISPA into existing law, get ready for a fun brawl.  The one chance we got at actual freedom, whether some realize it or not, remains in the Internet being entirely open.  Once government finds a way to censor (and they won't ever find a reliable way, just a good enough way for the typical uneducated,) we have a lot more trouble than Bitcoin being confiscated.  They could just end the system all together, along with several other certain services we currently enjoy.  I'd say civil unrest at that point will reach an all time high.

Writers aren't paid to write anything remotely intelligent.  They're paid to feed you whatever it is you want to hear.  This isn't an issue with just writers in the gaming industry, but all fiction writers combined.  Stephen King wasn't the best writer (cue the fans who think otherwise,) but he knows what you wanna hear and then you throw money at him.  Meyer didn't give two shits about her novels, but because she appealed to leagues of lonely, desperate women, she made more cash than most writers ever will--that is, if James and her porno-literary fanfiction hasn't topped it by now.  I'd still take King over the two.  Rowling's writing is pathetic, yet somehow, she has adoring fans who love and, at least, understand the child-like prose she whipped out (which, if you haven't been keeping up with her, really shone in a nasty light when her latest "adult" novel featured the same childish writing style.)

Then again, you have lots of "art" games, intended to tell an amazing story, and then fail on the game side of things.  It's hard to marriage great writing with great gameplay.  Game designers are more worried about gameplay, and expect the writers to work around them.  So if they have to fill the plot with a hundred holes so you can get from the beginning to the end, that's what they're going to do.  But hell, at least some of these games look pretty.  I will say, I'm completely fed-up with the LOTR rip-offs--elves, dwarves, trolls, giants, whatever.  Every single mainstream fantasy game has stolen from Tolkien and played it off like they invented the fucking thing from scratch.  Final Fantasy is the worst: Squeenix just takes whatever they can find and mashes it all into one world.  You've got mythology from every corner of the earth thrown into that pot.  I'd be hard pressed to find anything in FF that is actually 100% original--do moogles count?  And don't get me started on the fashion vs. functionality issue every character of Nomura's had after he's done with them.

But maybe the boat's gonna tip soon.  Once "omigawd look at these graphics" finally passes and games become so realistic on computers so powerful, no further visual improvement can be made, game devs will actually have to worry about creating real games with real storylines and involved gameplay (I'll be damned if I see yet another FPS with RPG features.)  And I do think more and more people are getting tired of the rehashed stories; the fantasy taking place in the woods with elves, or the sci-fi taking place in the space-woods with space-elves.  I ony hope, by the time I hit my bachelor's, I'll be prepped to create some really swell games with actual storylines   I mean, there's still tons of hope.  Heavy Rain was one of the greatest interactive story telling experiences in recent time.

I've attempted the random-phrase password before.  I got bored with trying to type it all out every single time I wanted to login tho   All things considered, I should probably switch back to the phrase.  You get so used to using the same few passwords that eventually it all crumbles down, so better to have one really oddball password than several easily found passwords.  Heck, several oddball passwords will ensure maximum security.  Only problem is, some sites have a strict limit on how many characters a password can be

Could've been hacked   Momentarily anyway.  Fake take down.

For the lols.

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True.  It'd split whatever one currency would've been worth with several different kinds.  Which isn't too bad, but considering the end user might have to wind up using several different wallets for several different crypto-currencies, it'd get a little annoying.  Some people might refuse a highly popular currency all together just because they don't want to be paid that way.  Because of this, I don't believe any two currencies will ever duel side by side, at least when there isn't a #1 currency already in place.

Then again, considering social barriers, it could be possible; one nation speaking language X would prefer XCoin, while another nation speaking language Y would prefer YCoin...

One more question:  Does the following phrase match up with you?  "Some people deserve to be scammed, if they're naive enough to fall for it."

Do you officially go by "scammer", or are you more partial to "con artist"?  Or perhaps "scam artist"?

Jimminy Cricket, that's a good deal of cash.  Convert to BTC nao!!

Someone give this man a whitelist!

Apparently, exposure to sunlight (about 20 minutes at a time) will stimulate the pineal gland.  Also, meditation...but I've always been more of a physical cure type of guy, opposed to a mental cure (despite this being a mental problem )

Any theories why sodium fluoride is deliberately being pushed into our water?

.005  Ha'bit.