Only the people who see nothing wrong with such monitoring would be doing the job.

Why the make-work? Just go with basic income where everybody gets a check that's enough for food, shelter and other necessities, with no means testing or anything. If you want a bigger house or flashier car or a lawn greener than the neighbors', then you can go out and get a job (profit motive) to supplement your income beyond this. But you still take the "or die" factor out of employment.

http://www.f-secure.com/static...

The content of interest here starts on page 22.

It'd be nice if TFA actually included a link. Or even cited the fucking source of the graphics they lifted.

Not in this economy.

I think you're missing several points here.

First off, the most environmentally sound solution would be for these tech workers to live in the suburbs to begin with. The jobs themselves are in the suburbs, and the workers are commuting from the city to the suburbs simply because it's hip and trendy to (be able to afford to) live in San Francisco proper.

Worse yet, this ends up putting more cars on the road, not fewer, because the people who do work in the city can't afford to live there. They are the ones who have to commute from the suburbs to the city. The clerk at the trendy organic grocery store or the bartender at the hipster bar, the stuff that gives "living in the city" its pricey allure, are faced with impossible rents or stiff commutes, and you can be sure as hell it's not their employers paying for a private coach to collect them from the sticks.

OP said Bitcoin lost a third of its value this week, i.e. the exchange rate went up 50%. The numbers you link to show the Zimbabwean dollar typically took an entire month to drop that much.

Thereby making the Zimbabwean dollar look stable in comparison.

Creditors owed in Japanese Yen will only accept payment in Japanese Yen. Debts owed in Bitcoin will probably be cloaked by an SEP field as far as Japanese financial and bankruptcy law is concerned.

Yeah: they'll keep their money in Yankee dollars instead.

It'll be interesting to see if the courts will restructure debts when the debts aren't delineated in "real money."

Building your cryptocurrency to be outside the regime of banking regulations may mean you can't seek the shelter of those same regulations when you get into trouble.

They're called "enablers."

Except the number of people needed to perform that upkeep has been on a marked downward trend for decades. As it is it only takes about two dozen people, at most, to crew a quarter-million tons of ship for weeks at a time.

It's that big a leap of the imagination for that number to finally reach zero.

Such as...?

/sigh

Like Ubisoft?

The ESRB is a private industry group, and participation is entirely voluntary.

The ESRB doesn't care one way or the other. The "American" publishers tend to seek to avoid an AO ("Adults Only") rating, for marketing reasons, and will try to bring things down to an M ("Mature") rating so that certain big-name retailers will consent to carry the game. But games that get an AO rating are certainly free to keep that rating and have been published in the past, and publishers are free to skip the rating process entirely (e.g. I've seen more than a few localized Japanese H-games that don't bother formalizing the AO rating they'd obviously get).

Publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in North America (ESRB includes Canada) because they know that not enough customers will go out of their way to find retail channels that will carry AO/unrated games to make the the prospect financially viable. Conversely, publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in Germany or Australia because it would be illegal.

Either they got textbooks with actual history in them or they just used the Texas standards.