Are you people really trying to drive us away?

Person A independently devises a set of computer instructions that make it possible for any person with a cheap 3D printer to create a unique and specific product that, if created, would be patentable. The product is not created.

Person B independently does exactly the same thing--except that the instructions are written in English.

B is not patentable under patent law (and it shouldn't be). A shouldn't be patentable, either. Otherwise, we'll get people who'll write instructions for making old, patent-expired stuff and expect to get a patent for their instructions.

Software patents are garbage.

To play Bitcoin, you have to trust your Bitcoin exchanges. Those are BANKS, people. UNREGULATED banks!!! Banks have a history of really screwing depositors over when they're unregulated. Bank panics?? Why we have the FDIC?? Think about this for half a fucking second.

How do you know where "your" Bitcoins are right now?

One of the benefits of money is that it's backed up by a social superstructure (police, judiciary, the army, etc.). Bitcoin has none of that. You are on your own.

Keep on trading your seashells, fools. Mr. Ponzi would LOVE you.

And when you get ripped off (and you will get ripped off), who are you going to cry to for help?

Did the NSA rearrange bits on the law firm's cable-connected computers?

That would be a key constitutional trip line.

Banning Bitcoin will make it much easier for the kleptocrats in control to take their cut.

Watch 'Community' on NBC. You'll see that the HVAC people are the hidden power in our civilization. Be very afraid.

All that power frittered into stupid algorithms. What a terrible waste Bitcoin is.

. . .and they won't get paid that much. They'll get paid the fair market value of their work, plus their attorney fees.

If the use was a "taking," then the noisers will get paid. If the use was for "police power" then the noisers are going to get stiffed.

Seems to me that it's a taking. When the military gets its boards for waterboarding, it pays for them. Seems it also should pay for the noise it uses for noise torture.

Hewlett and Packard were something special.

Now it's just a bunch of MBAs trying to massage their stock price.

In a grocery store, the store makes the manufacture pay for product placement. If you want your product to get placed in the middle of a shelf, you have to pay the store money for it.

Without neutrality, the Internet will be the same way--those that cut sweet deals with the provider (cut him in), will get the best bandwidth for their services.

We need non-discriminatory municipally owned cable. Such a service NEEDS to be content-neutral, because of the constitution.

Adobe wants to hook you, lock you in, and keep you forever. They don't want you just buying their software, they want your credit card permanently and irrevocably hooked up to their (leaky) computer system.

The HELL with them.

Search warrants, arrest warrants, and indictments are based on sworn statements. It's obstruction of justice to lie on those sworn statements.

Union NOW!