I agree, hate groups aren't right, but barring freedom for one to choose for themselves to be involved with a hate group is worse.
I know I'll get marked as a troll for this from the euro-centric crowd, but this is exactly why you embrace freedom-loving society and not authoritarian socialism like they have in Europe. As John Green has said, you cannot declare war on an idea or noun because nouns are so amazingly resilient.
> Maybe you should stop taking economics lessons from someone whose predictions are always wrong.
Good advice. Can you recommend an economist whose predictions are always right?
Who's Ron Paul?
With the high profile shutdown of Silk Road the number of things you can buy with Bitcoin would be considerably less.
Negative. The silk road was a tiny fraction of bitcoin volume. Do you realize you can buy gift cards with bitcoin, via the Gyft website? For example, CVS sells beer, Gyft sells CVS gift cards, therefore I can buy beer with bitcoins. Problem solved.
Or it's an attack on the system itself, maybe someone figure out a way to race the market and make money?
My guess is it's massive amounts of Chineese money flowing into bitcoin, as they slowly realize that the USD will soon be worth less than the paper it's printed on (or the electrons in bank computers that actually make them).
If I see another story about some schlub who "plans on" making clean, cheap power; or one that "reveals" a breakthrough that "could" revolutionize power generation, I'm going to lose it. We can harness the power of the atom to provide almost limitless clean energy, but no one cares because Japan gets flooded sometimes. *yawn*
Many, but not all workers have to deal with "at will" work contracts. To be able to be fired at any time, without notice, for no reason, is a very big fear of mine. OTOH, it does mean I can leave at any time, too.
Business apps designed specifically for IE6 might not work with IE11? I'm shocked! That's terrible! What is this world coming to? Or should I say, to what is this world coming?(don't answer that)
I think this world needs to find a quiet room in which to do long division. That is all.
Oh, and follow me at @ddombrowsky
And the media continues to spread disinformation to advance its own pet causes. The United States has continued nation building, and has even started NEW wars (and proxy wars) since twitter came of age. It wasn't twitter that had to go to the floor of the house and demand that the President of the USA declare he doesn't have the right to kill us in our sleep! I agree it's an interesting tool for the spreading of links and content, and with more information it seems that people
To quote the cliche: The Revolution will not be televised (or tweeted, probably).
As of now, 36% say they're not paying taxes to the US. Is that the percentace of non-US readers of slashdot? Or are most readers tax dodgers?
FTA:
In the end, Hill and his fellow lawyers at his small Atlanta firm, Hill, Kertscher and Wharton, didn’t have a lot of fight in them. Two weeks after he filed the third-party complaint, Project Paperless dropped its lawsuit. No settlement, no deal—they just went away. (As a result, the scanner makers never actually came to court.)
That can't be where it ends. Where's the countersuit for legal fees? Compensation for the money required to do the prior-art search? There's protection (albeit not enough) from frivolous and vindictive (perhaps even defamatory, in this case) lawsuits.
This strategy makes it clear that the individual privacy, civil rights and civil liberties of United States persons must be — and will be — protected.
Why don't I believe you? Oh, that's right, because you've expanded the power of the police state just as much as any executive before you.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
