Considering that the delivery date keeps getting pushed back on new orders it looks like they sold out of their entire initial inventory and then some. Pricing seems in line with the market demands right now.

I am thinking more about the risk of earth organisms being rinsed off Cassini and falling back to Ecelandus during the pass. I wonder what the risks of that are.

Did he refuse to answer what it was? Seems to me he was pretty clear that it was a clock. The only thing he refused is to say was that it was anything other than a clock.

No. Gold, platinum and sliver have actual uses that contribute to their value. While much of the value may be speculative, they do have intrinsic value which is specific to each of them individually.

Bitcoin has no similar intrinsic value that isn't easily copied (and possibly improved upon) by any number of altcoins.

NT

Not quite accurate. The merchants where the fake/stolen card was used loses. They receive a chargeback notice and are debited the amount of the charge and are also out the merchandise that was purchased with the stolen card. This has happened to both my businesses (fortunately not often).

Natural gas valves could be shutoff at the building or even better at the substations. "The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused 90% of damage by fire." http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/...

Apparently not many reddit readers here that recognize this delicious copypasta.

In that case they would simply say "We have finished our audit." and leave it at that. The implications would be clear.

for bitcoin.

I too have a whole house Insteon system and pretty much concur with your wins/losses 100% with the following additions:

Wins:
-- A huge win is that outsiders need not know that the lighting is automated at all. Just use the light switch. Works pretty much like any other lighting system. In places with an 8 or 6 button switch is is still fairly obvious what button to hit to turn on the lights.
-- One button for all the kitchen lights.
-- One button for the whole main floor.
-- With my ISY994 the system smartly controls my irrigation system. It waters only when needed and avoids windy days and days with expected rain.
-- I can turn off all the lights in the house and tell the thermostat to go into setback mode with one button. I have that button programmed in the bedroom, by the front and back doors, and garage door. (programmed it to require three taps to prevent visitors from accidentally turning off the lights)
-- I have my thermostat setback when I leave the house.
-- I have my thermostat smartly look at the outside temp and adjust temperatures accordingly. Ie. it goes into setback mode if the outside temp is at all pleasant.
-- I have one button to turn on "Welcome home" mode when I enter the house.
-- I have timers to auto turn off the kids lights at night.
-- It is tied into my XBMC system and dims the lights when the movie playback starts.
-- The lights are set to come on in the case of a fire alarm trigger. (Hope I never need this).

Cons:
-- Very, very rarely (a couple times a year) there is some button press on my 6 button switches which turn on every light in the house. It is easy to turn everything back off with my all-off button but it still is weird.
-- Programming is a pain but I very very rarely change anything anymore. It just works.
-- Occasionally a program stops working right but a simple ISY reboot fixes it.

More = worse.

Yep. Pretty certain that Coal kills more birds than wind power. It's just that the birds that coal pollution kills are not killed at the site of the coal plant but all over the globe.

That system can easily be implemented using a series hookup with existing equipment. The downside is that all the kegs need to remain hooked to the system to get flow (you can't simply hook up one coupler). As you say it is really only helpful for very high volume locations with few taps. Here is an example of how to hook it up. http://www.bbssystems.com/kegs...

Umm... AC bar owner. You are 100% wrong. The kegs you buy ARE pressurized/carbonated. Kegs of beer are not like bag in a box soda. The kegs come fully carbonated. There is no difference between consumer and commercial kegs. The external CO2 tank (and hopefully you are really using either brew gas or a blender with separate co2 and nitro tanks) is used to push the beer out and keep the keg under pressure and thus carbonated as it is dispensed.