Comment Re:We can make them change their minds yet... (Score 1) 390
Had intended to link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHU2RlSCdxU (Hypnotoad 10 hours), must have had the bit.ly shortened URL in my clipboard from posting it on Twitter. Guessing
Comment We can make them change their minds yet... (Score 4, Funny) 390
10 hours of Hypnotoad: http://bit.ly/13O13rl
Comment Needs a soundtrack by Soundgarden (Score 2) 77
Like the Playstation & PC versions of Road Rash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkxYUxxtD4
Comment Re:Want to collapse the Bitcoin market? (Score 1) 437
All you would have to do is wait until the last Bitcoin has been mined and their value has made them too cumbersome. It would be laughably easy to pull this off.
So... the year 2140 then? Have fun with this plan in 127 years, good luck!
Comment Re:Cool! How do they feel in your hand ? (Score 1) 437
What size are they...
Oh, what's that ?
You can't ?
While this ATM doesn't dispense them there are physical Bitcoins you could carry on your persons, https://www.casascius.com/
So long as they can be kept physically secure in the machine there is nothing to stop future BitCoin ATMs from being able to dispense said coins.
Comment Re:What's with all the hostility? (Score 1) 437
And in the end, when I want to sell WoW weapons, buy webserver space, or play a few games of poker online, why would I use gold, credit card or paypal, which all require me to remember log-in creditials, give away information and/or pay a bunch of third party fees.
In the United States banks were ordered to block these transactions under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enforcement_Act_of_2006 ), though there are some poker sites that continue to accept US players following Black Friday.
For BitCoin poker SealsWithClubs.eu (available in the US) runs exclusively on BTC deposits and withdrawals while SwitchPoker (US players not accepted) takes it as a deposit method and then converts it to fiat. Another site, InfinityPoker, which has been in beta for close to 6 months plans to also be available to US players and will accept BTC as a deposit method and convert it to fiat (and back to BTC when you withdraw).
Scientists Give NASA Planetary Marching Orders 145
coondoggie writes "The community and team of scientists that help NASA prioritize space missions has come out with its exploration recommendations for the next decade: get to Mars, explore one of Jupiter's moons and study Uranus. From the report: 'The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn have been extensively studied by the Galileo and Cassini missions, respectively. But Uranus and Neptune represent a wholly distinct class of planet. While Jupiter and Saturn are made mostly of hydrogen, Uranus and Neptune have much smaller hydrogen envelopes. The bulk composition of these planets is dominated instead by heavier elements; oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur are the likely candidates. What little we know about the internal structure and composition of these "ice giant" planets comes from the brief flybys of Voyager 2. So the ice giants are one of the great remaining unknowns in the solar system: the only class of planet that has never been explored in detail.'"
Comment Re:X-Ray Detector T-Shirts? (Score 5, Interesting) 386
You know those WiFi-sensitive T-Shirts from ThinkGeek? Maybe it's time for something that responds to X-radiation...
New Clothing Line Reminds TSA of the 4th Amendment - http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/07/new-clothing-line-reminds-tsa-of-the-4th-amendment/
Not thrilled with the Transportation Security Administration's new touchy-feely pat down techniques and full-body scanners? Now there's a line of underclothes that offer a friendly reminder of the Fourth Amendment during controversial searches.
It's called 4th Amendment Wear.
Metallic ink printed on shirts spells out the privacy rights stated in the amendment and is designed to appear in TSA scanners.
Comment Re:Declared wars? (Score 1) 844
authorization of force != declaration of war
declaration of war = declaration of war
Comment Re:morally bankrupt (Score 1) 580
even traitors deserve a fair trial, see also John Adams legal defense of Captain Preston after the Boston Massacre.
Comment Re:So Dick goes to Jail? (Score 1) 389
Lets make sure it's retroactive
They can't... Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3
Comment Re:Small government? (Score 1) 164
Do the satellites still trade with Russia?
Comment Re:Small government? (Score 1) 164
They can have the Monarchs (who play in the Verizon Wireless Arena), the University of New Hampshire Wildcats are better anyways.
Comment Re:Small government? (Score 1) 164
NH has two large airports (Manchester and Portsmouth [and several smaller ones]), a power plant (Seabrook), and is not likely to be attacked on it's on if it adopts a foreign policy of non-interventionism and free trade (you know, like America was INTENDED to) - in addition we see $0.71 worth of services for every dollar we ship to DC, 47th out of 50 in the country (source: Federal Spending Received Per Dollar of Taxes Paid by State, 2005 - http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html) - we no longer need the federal government and would do better on our own.
Comment Doublethink (Score 5, Insightful) 614
"Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them" - 1984
