Comment TaskPaper (Score 1) 170
I use TaskPaper. It's just slightly more than plain text, offering some automatic (and fairly unobtrusive) organization. I keep one text file for one year, and then start a new one.
I use TaskPaper. It's just slightly more than plain text, offering some automatic (and fairly unobtrusive) organization. I keep one text file for one year, and then start a new one.
It's a great place to live if you're rich, and virtually impossible to live if you're middle class or poor.
Considering that California is the most populous state in the nation, I think you might be exaggerating things just a bit. Clearly, lots of people live here, and not all of them are rich. Me, for instance.
A couple decades back, people were living in the exact same houses we're living in today.
You are legally free to boycott a company whose CEO, say, donated $1000 to a political campaign regarding abortion (either pro- or anti-), 5 years ago. That doesn't make it ethical.
Ethics has nothing whatsoever to do with the personal choice to boycott something that one disagrees with.
You are woefully confused.
You're wrong, actually. We as citizens are just as free to voice our views as Eich was to voice his. We're saying we disagree with his views. Are you trying to suggest that we be disallowed from that basic freedom?
Would that be the Greater Fool Theory? Or the notion that there's a sucker born every minute?
Generally speaking, if you find yourself going negative on something that a bunch of other people are enthusiastic about, the chances are fairly good that you don't understand it. That's not to say that Bitcoin is a stable market (it's not) but that there are probably many more variables contributing to the price than you are aware of.
I think you should re-read my statement. I believe you'll find that you are in error WRT what you think I said.
Dumb indeed.
In case you haven't noticed, the value of Bitcoin has dropped by more than half over the past three months. Between the MtGox scandal, the Bitcoin bans in Russia and China, and the draconian new IRS regulations
So what? BTC is a medium of payment. The businesses accepting BTC as payment are largely converting it into their preferred currency, so the volatility isn't very important.
I'm amazed that it's still trading in the $500 range.
Your amazement should be taken as a clue that you don't actually understand the Bitcoin market.
It sure as hell don't see it coming back to $1,000 soon, that's for sure.
See above.
Real coin has worked for thousands of years.
Yeah. And over those thousands of years, real coins have proved impervious to all manner of theft.
The real problem here is a non-governmental organization posing as a government organization
controlling the money supply and murdering presidents such as Lincoln and JFK who try to stop them.
Unless you have some tangible proof of that, I suggest you start taking your meds again.
If you're deep enough into economics-talk to be discussing the virtues and vices of a currency, you're deep enough in that you probably want to be careful about your meanings when talking about the source of a currency's value.
Keep tilting at that windmill, Don.
And there is nothing stopping the government from issuing gold dollars, or you from acquiring them.
I know this because I have a gold dollar. Interesting because the face value is currently ~1/1300th of the value of the metal.
I'm quite aware of that. And that gold dollar is legal tender. However, you'd be a fool to spend it for the face value.
And therein lies the rub: the value of that gold dollar is not fixed to the price of gold, at least not as legal tender.
Ever consider what the word "consume" actually means and how that's been twisted by the marketing types to imply that your experience of something implies that you've somehow, magickally used it up?
Ever consider not being a fucking pedant 24/7?
Ultimately, I don't really *care* if people like you believe in Bitcoin or not.
So really, you're waisting bandwidth trying to argue the point to me.
I think you are missing the difference so I'll try to explain.
thaylin knows exactly what the difference is, and is being deliberately obtuse in order to create a false equivalence.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
