In case of bitcoin, the valuable comodity is it's properties. You are fool if you think that national fiat curencies will last forever. I encourage you to find the mean life-span of past curencies various nations used.

I wonder what's there to trust? Bitcoin is not religion, it's open protocol with open-source implementation. It's like asking if i trust math.

Bitcoin is not supposed to be untracable, that is a myth, see blockchain. Every transaction can be traced to unique bitcoin address.

Also bitcoin is not outside of all govrrnment control. Nothing is. Bitcoin has no central authority which could print new bitcoins but that doesn't mean is somehow stands outside of existing laws.

Why not? In your country, law enforcments only investigates currency theft? If i steal diamonds from you i'll be ok?

Suspicious things already did happen. Interpol invovlemnt in this kind of charges is unheard of. The constant monitoring of his residence by several UK policemens is also unheard of. The whole sequence of events after the "sexual assault" case his highly suspicious (he was questioned, than he was released and told he can travel off the country, after he did it, suddenly, both of the "victims" changed their minds and he is wanted for another questioning again). All of this makes me believe that this is indeed political case and mr. Assange is right to be afraid to travel to sweeden.

In the pirate bay case history has shown us that sweden and it's authorities easily succumb to the pressure from U.S. I think that Assange's fear of return to the sweeden is very well justified.

Yes, it is. Or do you know about any other case where interpol issued international 'red notice' over such trivial/weak accusations?

Studying old stars will help us understand how our universe began. We will learn about the fundamental forces in nature, how the big bang happend, what is the relation between gravity and quantum mechanics. If we understand that, the posibillities are endless - warping spacetime, FTL travel, unlimited energy sources etc. That could solve a lots of real-world survival problems we have today, certainly more than funds spent on wars or propaganda.

If installed VLC is the reason for the denial, i'd just uninstall VLC before sending the laptop for warranty repair.

Six years ago, when bitcoin started, slashdot haters were "predicting" that this "scam" will collapse in months. Now it should last few years, that is improvement! In few years maybe you will even realize your error and admit that bitcoin is indeed revolutionary technology!

Pair of virtual particles is created on the event horizon of black hole. One particles falls into the black hole, other escapes it. Total energy of the virtual pair must be conserved. The particle that escapes the black hole has positive energy, so the other particle must have equal but negative energy. When negative energy is added to the blackhole, it loses some mass because energy = mass.

Easily. Someone extorted him and users of his site even if he caused no harm to anyone. Government refused to help him. If he ignored the threat, he and his users would end up in jail. Under those circumestances, killing the extorter is perfectly sensible defense. The main problem is of course the fact that selling drugs is illegal.

You are shooting the messanger. The progress in our technologies will bring the lack of privacy you describe regardless of google or any other group.
Our only option is to deal with it. First step would be to abolish stupid laws which force us to do many things in secret like criminalisation of drug consumption and production.

No, the lesson from this story is that copyright is unsustainable with our emerging technologies which will enable us to record everything without anyone noticing.