Anecdotal confirmation from an AC doesn't amount to a whole lot.

Well played, ArcadeMan. Well played indeed.

Now get UP and AT THEM!!!

Don't yell as much at your employees, throw a chair once in a while.

They want to channel all donations through them, and take a small % of the donations. And manage the donors. For some reason, all the major foundations hate that idea, especially the part where they give up the donors to the Gates Foundation. Gee, I wonder where that behavior came from.

I'm still eagerly waiting for people to show me the "innate value" of the dollar. Something that does not require me to go back to the times where conversion to gold was guaranteed.

Excuse me Sir. Your shoe is ringing.

Is ANYONE in a rush to make their consumer products invisible?

Unsurprisingly, there are mechanism for both of these. And they don't need junk DNA - bacteria can evolve just fine and they have virtually no junk DNA .

(I am very hesitant to playing with my android phone after bricking the previous one by trying to flash the rom - toying with gadgets is nice but not if I can't make a phone call until I get it right...)

What technical problem is there?
It's just that the new Bitcoin and the old Bitcoin are becoming two different currencies. People need to convert all their old Bitcoins to new ones to avoid this.

If you check out the Wikipedia page on paper cuts you'll note that Paper Cuts have a Medical Billing Code.

I was once called by a Bloomberg reporter who wanted a comment on the movement of a particularly thinly traded security that I owned. I asked her how she knew to call me, and she replied that I ran news and analytics on that specific ticker regularly on my Bloomberg terminal.

It makes me wonder how often I was front-run by Bloomberg reporters or their cronies over the years.

You, sir, put a lot of effort into that. I applaud you, and may God have mercy on Yee's soul.