Your partner would first have to find someone in the UK that changes BTC to GBP for an acceptable price.
And you'd have to hope that the value doesn't change too much while in transfer.

You mean one basement... With his mother still living upstairs.

I'd pass, I find my electronically-height-adjustable desk much more valuable ;)

If you're going 30MPH I'd advice you to wear a helmet too, but most people (http://www.verkeersnet.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amsterdam.jpg) are not going anywhere near 30 MPH, or even 20 KmPH.

If you're going 30MPH you're probably also doing it on a bike like this: http://www.online-fahrrad.de/Bilder/Mountainbike-Cube-Reaction.jpg or this: http://www.bikester.nl/fileadmin/mediapool/bknl/racefiets.jpg and not a nice classic city bike like this: http://static.batavus.com/bikes/HT140021/batavus/Blockbuster-7.jpg

The bike type has a huge impact on safety and I expect the chance of head injuries and thus the effect of wearing a helmet to also change significantly with bicycle type.

Bitcoins don't have an inherent value, they're just numbers. Gold has an inherent value because it can be used for stuff. Bitcoins don't.

If Bitcoin is meant to replace the US Dollar then the total value of all Bitcoins will have to equal the total value of all US Dollars.
There was approximately $1.24 trillion in circulation as of December 25, 2013.
There can be no more than 21 million bitcoins
This puts the value that a bitcoin should have at the time it totally replaces the US Dollar at: 59047.6 US Dollar.

Of course there are issues with this simplification, but it's a nice place to start.

If everybody on the planet consumes 1 hundredths of a percent more power... then we'll globally use 0.0001% more power.

If something is insignificant on an individual level, then even if you scale it up to everybody it's still insignificant.

Even cooler, when you donate plasma, they hook you up to a machine, your blood goes through a filter, and when the vessel is full, it gets pumped back into you :D
It usually takes about 6 or 7 of these passes and about 45 minutes.

Compromise is the basis of any proper democracy.

Unfortunately, the USA has a broken electoral system that forces politics to a two-party system. In a two-party system the need for compromise is gone. In a 3+ party system a party can negotiate with several other parties, and form a coalition with the best match. That means parties have to compromise, or they end up outside of the coalition and thus with no power. In a two-party system you either have a majority or you don't. You either win or lose. There are no coalition negotiations, there is no compromising. If you lose you shift a bit more in the direction of the other party to win some of the votes back and try to win next time.

The fundamental problem is the broken electoral system.

Unless you don't assign a value at the time of definition, which is 90% of the cases.
Or you assign the return value of a method call.

In most cases you can't visually determine the type from the value assignment, so you'd have to specify the type any way. And that makes the var keyword superfluous.

HashMap intNames = new FancyDoodle();

You can't express that with just the var keyword, but it is a very important distinction.

In this specific case, my guess as a biotechnologist would be Nitrogen starvation. Carnivorous plants live in nitrogen poor areas, they only get nitrogen from the insects they catch. DNA replication requires quite a bit of nitrogen, so less DNA means the plant needs less nitrogen to copy a cell.

Oh, bullshit. Look, I'm not anti-GMO. I'm sure I eat GMO foods every day and it doesn't really bother me. That said, GMO is exceedingly unlikely to make anything less dangerous.

Actually, if the GMO is less attacked by insects or other non-viral diseases because the modification allows for the use of a more effective pesticides then the GMO needs to make less toxins to ward of those pests compared to a non-GMO. This means yes, a GMO is potentially safer than a non-GMO, depending on the other breeding conditions.

I think Java is fun to program in for exactly those reasons. For me the fun in programming is getting cool results and Java allows one to create complex stuff without having to constantly worry about shooting oneself in the foot. It allows me to use my full brain capacity for the actual algorithms I want to create and doesn't add lots of cognitive load. Especially when using a powerful IDE, like Netbeans.

Exactly!
I used to live 10 minuted by bike from work. I found that time too short, so I walked instead, which made it 30 minutes.
Instead of sitting in the canteen for lunch, I (and several others) brought a packed lunch, and we walked around outside, in the park, for 30 to 45 minutes.

I can especially recommend walking or biking to work, it's great for clearing your mind, but I guess it depends on your local traffic situation and the availability of parks or green areas.

Yes, but due to comma weaselling, the perjury but only refers to whether they are allowed to speak on behalf of the copyright holder they claim to represent, NOT on whether the material infringes that holders rights.

So they could file a takedown notice claiming that the constitution of the USA infringes NASCAR's rights, as long as they are allowed to speak on behalf of NASCAR.
They could not file a takedown notice claiming an actual NASCAR race recording infringes NASCAR rights, if they did not have the right to speak on behalf of NASCAR, even though that recording actually does infrige.

But IANAL, so I might be wrong.

It actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of people in the Netherlands work part-time, often 3 or 4 days a week. Working less hours generally means that the hours you do work are more productive. So a workforce that works less hours per person will usually have a higher per-hour productivity.