Comment Re:Why wouldn't they? (Score 1) 67
Yet, almost everyone I know has Internet in their phone, and almost none of the use bitcoin...
User snaps a photo of it with their smartphone. Bitcoin app on phone decodes it, and sends payment to the address specified.
That just shifts costs from the merchant to the buyer, who now has to pay the telco a recurring fee for a cellular data connection.
And no one is doing that now, without bitcoin. This is like trying to include the cost of an electric generating plant in the price of a toaster.
I don't see who would be willing to pay $400 per year to subscribe to 4G just to be able to spend bitcoins.
Because that is the only reason to have portable Internet, of course...
For real business purposes, though, you'd be bonkers to accept bitcoins.
Why? It has value. And companies willing to process it for you and convert directly into your currency of choice. And due to it's nature, it is actually harder for the merchant to be defrauded than with regular credit cards... Not sure where the downside here is, especially if they are not holding them.
Ebola isn't realistic either. You'd get more results with empty glass vials and a written "Deadly Ebola" label in a few dozen big malls.
The widespread panic would have the same effect for much less cost.
Considering that the goal of a terrorist is to spread terror, having a documented case of getting ebola could be very effective. http://www.nydailynews.com/new... Oh, wait...
Some say no, others stop going to those places because they got tired of assholes trying to sell them crap they don't want. Of course, the first group is way larger so it's worth losing the business of the second group.
Amazon would disagree...
they can, just borrow $100 billion to build out a network, negotiate with every redneck and podunk town to get franchise rights to run their cables and spend more money for marketing to get customers
Or, pull a Google, and do one town at a time and watch the incumbents suddenly offer free peerage and lower rates.
It's difficult to pay your electric bill with chickens, and hogs.
True, but it will get you a hooker. (Until they closed the Chicken Ranch.)
Come on.... which arguments?
How about where he demanded Intel take his name off that piece of crap AV they sell? I find no fault with any of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
If you've given up on them then support someone else's work that doesn't use DRM. Don't use TPB and justify it to yourself because it was inconvienent.
They are stealing our rights to privacy and free speech, so he is "stealing" a movie. You are right in that it is not a fair trade... But shooting them presents other problems.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
