Are you just an idiot, or what?! Payroll taxes are PAID BY EmPLoYErs and the employees never even see them.

They should have asked for it in gold bullion ;-) I doubt COMEX could come up with the requisite 746,154 troy ounces and we'd see a gold boom like never before!

Plus, who wouldn't want 51,165 pounds (23,208 kg) of gold?

You're not factoring in the 2011 Thailand flood that set back Moore's Law for hard drives by 2+ years...

Hey! Maybe they can take the Beta with them!!

I like this idea already!

Boy, I sure didn't! I read it as "the people you communicate with regularly ARE using gmail." His argument makes way more sense that way, too.

Anonymous Coward is more off their meds than usual today lol

Big big words for an Anonymous Coward!

Even though I totally 100% agree with the AC who said they can use notepad and shove an icepick in their eyes too lol! I deal with those sorts ALL THE TIME. Esp. the SublimeText fanatics who wouldn't recognize a debugging breakpoint if they saw one.

Same here. I hire out people to go to my meetings for me. No joke. It works GREAT!

PHP at work. HHVM+Hack at home ;-)

I am **very**, extremely happy with this arrangement ;-)

No, just "morans" [sic] ;-)

This is how the Subway restaurant chain became so huge. Remember their Subway Tickets in the mid-90s through mid-00s?

But then again, it worked WONDERS for Worgl, Austria (google "The Miracle of Worgl"), Ithaca, NY, Berkshire Bucks, the Ancient Egyptians (built the pyramids using distributed paper money based on degrading wheat storage), AND the Cathedral economy of the pre-Enlightenment Europe.

This is absolutely amazing ;-)

This is straight out of Charles Stross' scifi novel Accelerando!

Tipsters are warning of an impending readjustment in the overinflated reputations market... His reputation is up two percent for no obvious reason today, he notices: Odd, that. When he pokes at it he discovers that everybody's reputation - everybody, that is, who has a publicly traded reputation - is up a bit. It's as if the distributed Internet reputation servers are feeling bullish about integrity. Maybe there's a global honesty bubble forming.

Oh the U.S. already banned the owning, selling, and storing of gold and silver. From 5 April 1933 until 31 December 1974. Don't tell me it couldn't happen again! They'd just say "ONLY the Top 1% own silver and gold!" and all the mindless morons would believe them and CLAMOR for the ban and seizure.