We should have a US base in EVERY country! But that wouldn't be imperialist now, would it?

Is Putin really trying to engineer a phony Hitleresque provocation? The sanctions need to get upped big time. I doubt Russia would mobilize for war behind that gluttonous kleptocrat.

It can't take care of its people. It's army is a shambles.

But it does have nuclear weapons. Just like Pakistan.

Whoop-de-do!

Does the NSA rearrange bits on cable-connected computers in the USA without a warrant?

Please pardon the John McEnroe reference!

The cops have two choices: (1) Breach the contract and pay damages; or (2) Violate the Constitution.

The choice is obvious and the excuse is absurd.

Are you people really trying to drive us away?

Person A independently devises a set of computer instructions that make it possible for any person with a cheap 3D printer to create a unique and specific product that, if created, would be patentable. The product is not created.

Person B independently does exactly the same thing--except that the instructions are written in English.

B is not patentable under patent law (and it shouldn't be). A shouldn't be patentable, either. Otherwise, we'll get people who'll write instructions for making old, patent-expired stuff and expect to get a patent for their instructions.

Software patents are garbage.

To play Bitcoin, you have to trust your Bitcoin exchanges. Those are BANKS, people. UNREGULATED banks!!! Banks have a history of really screwing depositors over when they're unregulated. Bank panics?? Why we have the FDIC?? Think about this for half a fucking second.

How do you know where "your" Bitcoins are right now?

One of the benefits of money is that it's backed up by a social superstructure (police, judiciary, the army, etc.). Bitcoin has none of that. You are on your own.

Keep on trading your seashells, fools. Mr. Ponzi would LOVE you.

And when you get ripped off (and you will get ripped off), who are you going to cry to for help?

Did the NSA rearrange bits on the law firm's cable-connected computers?

That would be a key constitutional trip line.

Banning Bitcoin will make it much easier for the kleptocrats in control to take their cut.

Watch 'Community' on NBC. You'll see that the HVAC people are the hidden power in our civilization. Be very afraid.

All that power frittered into stupid algorithms. What a terrible waste Bitcoin is.

. . .and they won't get paid that much. They'll get paid the fair market value of their work, plus their attorney fees.

If the use was a "taking," then the noisers will get paid. If the use was for "police power" then the noisers are going to get stiffed.

Seems to me that it's a taking. When the military gets its boards for waterboarding, it pays for them. Seems it also should pay for the noise it uses for noise torture.