Value is purely a matter of perception, as is reality. The perceived value is in the GPU time, the scarcity of the current Bitcoin pool and the potential size of the Bitcoin pool.

Puerile naÃveté. Systems of justice, insurance, etc. have no validity unless sanctioned by a democratically-elected government that derives its authority from the populace at large. Competing prisons and security forces are no different than foreign invaders and would be treated as such. Any sort of court and its judgments would be meaningless. There is no personal motivation whatsoever to respect such arrangements.

The first 150,000 years of our species consisted of a system that precisely fulfills your fantasy world. And Somalia. Suffering and survival of the most violent. Life becomes a struggle for mere survival and nothing more, ie meaningless. Civilization implies you cannot get your way all the time and need to comprise so that a larger population can generally get along better. Humanity at large is not going to give that up for a failed ideal fapped upon by a fringe element.

Since $30,000 is not enough to cover any medical bills for a serious car accident, what this means is that the people who are paying for car insurance are giving a handout to the people who decide to "self insure" by virtue of higher premiums. Effectively, if you can self-insure for only $30,000, you are no better than a cheat without any car insurance.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever read and I see this shit all the time on FB from some of my anarcho-capitalist leaning friends. Literally, all you are doing is substituting "The Government (tm)" for a different government, and just cleverly avoiding the use of the word.

I think of this as something similar to a Roku, but with better game support.

Things are different in this post-Columbine environment.

All that matters is that you are using your resources to consume media put out by the entrenched interests, rather than seeking out alternatives.

If you're still partaking in TV programming, regardless of the means, you haven't said goodbye to it.

If you're hiring out to a part of the world you'll never visit and never know the people, you are going to miss out on spotting talent that can help your company grow. Our company has a very tedious and mind-numbing research project that is perfect for outsourcing, but we use interns from area colleges. The star players on the intern team shine through and are given a chance for employment. I guess that's the difference between looking at people as a long-term investment versus disposable labor though.

So they end up having to continuously defend themselves and have no effective freedom.

"...because someone might get offended."

The old straw man of "being offended". Sexual harassment has nothing to do with being offended. It is almost guaranteed that someone is going to be offended about something. What's not acceptable is creating a hostile and intimidating environment where someone cannot function at their job.

For long-term storage I've had good luck with the following. You will need:

1. Heavyweight plastic vacuum-sealable bags
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Tank of dry nitrogen (ask a local welder where he gets his)

Place your objects in a vacuum-sealable bag. Use the vacuum cleaner to extract as much air as possible from the bag. Replace the air with dry nitrogen (i.e., nitrogen at 0% humidity), but do not overinflate: leave some room for the nitrogen to expand with temperature changes. Seal the bag. Place the bag inside an opaque plastic bag (a black garbage bag works well) and put into storage.

The two major contributors to chemical decomposition over time are oxygen and energy. By purging the air (78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, approx) with nitrogen, you get rid of most of the oxygen. By making sure you're using dry nitrogen there's no water present in the bag, and water as you can probably figure out is an oxygen source. No oxygen equals no oxidation reaction. Nitrogen is also a fairly inert gas: it's not argon-level of inert, but it's pretty damned unreactive.

By putting things into a black garbage bag, you seal it off from sunlight. No more ultraviolet light doing ultraviolent things to valence shells, kicking out electrons, etcetera.

Now that you've got oxidation and ultraviolet light controlled, store it in a fairly temperature-controlled place. 25 years of thermal shock can destroy things, and your keepsakes deserve better. A basement works well.

Insofar as how to make sure the digital media is still readable... buy a cheap laptop and put that in the nitrogen-atmosphere, UV-shielded, temperature-controlled time capsule, too, along with a USB-to-RS232 cable. In 25 years we'll still be able to read data out over a serial connection, even if Ethernet is still a thing of the past.

Putting aside the tax strategy, it is still better to have a CEO's pay tied to company performance via stock options than a salary.

The Constitution of the US does not grant or enumerate rights to citizens; it limits the rights of the government. Huge difference from a European-style (and I mean that in a pejorative sense) "subject society".

Some people say Reddit killed Digg, but most people would say Digg committed suicide.