Most (if not all) garlic in the US now comes from China, thanks to their dumping of garlic.
Garlic is a major crop in Washington State. But, you can always shop at the local food coop or farmer's market for "certified organic" which will definitely not be a Chinese product.
My company routinely has customers pay in Bitcoins and I've stopped converting them to USD as there are plenty of avenues to spend them...
What's your spot price for a kilo?
The NSA doesn't have any red tape or legacy junk holding them on '80s software...
Depending on how the US Gubment *really* feels about Bitcoin, it might just be on their "radar" to put the Super Secret Super Computers at the NSA on this to undermine (heh, heh...) Bitcoin this way.
People either seem never to report the numbers, or only those with relatively poor Bitcoin numbers report them.
Perhaps they are reporting the numbers, but most of the numbers are "poor"?
The "carrot" has always been "we can use this as currency for purchasing goods!" but the reality has always been that Bitcoin is in reality a speculative commodity that is rarely used in commerce.
I was going to reply then realized it was an Anonymous Coward. Is it me or are there a lot more Anonymous Cowards inside and outside Slashdot.org?
It's really not safe to express a controversial opinion at Slashdot anymore, lest you find yourself posting at -1 Karma, instead of engaging in thoughtful discussion.
You have only one solution. Move. England, Australia...
Really? Seriously? You think the UK or Australia has more "freedom"/ Seriously? You don't follow politics in those countries, do you.
Social networks are useful. It's about time we wrote and popularized a distributed one, hosted on our own machines rather than dependent on some group of folks to whom we are products, not customers.
Email lists.
The "story", such that it is, was probably submitted by a "Libertarian".
Remember "Love Canal"? This is what happens with no regulation, minimal regulation, or simply ignoring regulation.
I know, the reference is so old, the 20-somethings that now populate Slashdot will say "what?"
Get off my lawn.
These are all formalities.
The US Government knows that they need SpaceX, and Texas definitely wants SpaceX to stay in Texas, and folks, both for the completely obvious reasons.
Of course there are reviews to take place, and itâ(TM)s my guess that none of this is either a surprise nor going to be a roadblock to the SpaceX Thunderdome in Texasâ¦
Who cares about coral or the sea? It's better to poison and destroy the whole world so that walmart get it's chinese crap brought in on time.
What are your wearing? What kind of phone do you have? What type of computing device do you use? What kind of car/bicycle/motorcycle/mass transit do you use?
My guess is that a great deal of what *YOU* consume, even if you didn't buy it at Wal-Mart, was not made in the United States, and almost certainly was shipped here from... Asia!
If you really want to "put your money where your mouth is", go live on a self-sustaining commune. It's not the 60's anymore, but they still exist.
And we already know what happens to animal life that's subjected to climate change: it dies out, sooner or later.
You are not a believer in evolution?
There are much more useful things to donate money to. If these folks believe this this is something people would buy and pin up on the wall ay home or their office, they can invest their own money and sell 'em to the ThinkGeek folks...
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
