Atoms are faaaar too slow even for a grandma machine.

Every transaction is public on the block chain.
It's traced to your wallet.
If the wallet(s) you received those bitcoins were ever implicated in a crime anyone cared to investigate, your wallet would then be implicated as well, as well as any wallet you sent coins to later.

All major exchanges are tapped by the feds. When you or someone you sent bitcoins to, tries to exchange them for fiat currency the feds know about it. Fiat currency transactions off the block chain involve personally-traceable information - names, addresses, accounts, etc. They they track you down like any other fraudulent transaction and bag you up and cart you off.

Super Secret Bitcoin Group runs a drug ring.

---ALL THE BELOW IS PUBLIC INFORMATION---
Person A uses it and gets bitcoins for selling drugs.
Person A sends bitcoins to Person B and Person C for whatever.
Person B and Person C sends bitcoins to Person D and Person E for whatever.
Person D sends you bitcoins for cash.
You send bitcoins to Person F, Person G, Person H, Person I. ...
Person X sends bitcoins to an exchange.
---ALL THE ABOVE IS PUBLIC INFORMATION---

The exchange sends USD to John Doe, paypal user dick@butts.com, bank account #99999999, whateverthefuckelse.

Super Secret Bitcoin Group is busted by the feds, legally or not.
The feds raid their shit and know that the wallets of person A contain drug money.
The feds follow the coins through all wallets.
The feds see the coins hit the wallet of a known exchange.
The feds get info about the Person X.
Person X cries like a bitch when the feds visit him, and explains each transaction involving Person X-1.
Repeat until you hit Person D, who rolls on your ass faster than a downhill taquito.

End game - you're fucked if they CARE about fucking you. All of the shit you do on the blockchain is POINTLESS since it's ALL PUBLIC.

The first and second versions had i5 processors. this third one has an Atom. trying to make battery life numbers and heat dissipation better?

It's traceable. The authorities in Russia and China don't give a shit.
If someone in the US was pulling this shit on a target the US government gave a shit about, they'd be locked up in a matter of days.

You can't mix or churn bitcoins on the bitcoin network without it being traced wallet to wallet to the ultimate destination. This is the entire design of the bitcoin blockchain.

You can do this off the network using some random service, but you then have to trust the service and all others using it. If one user gets targeted by a TLA then all users are targeted by a TLA once the TLA hits the service.

All major exchanges that convert bitcoin to fiat currency have been tapped by said TLAs. Secure money laundering and tax evasion only using bitcoin are not possible in the US and most of Europe.
You can launder money and avoid taxes using other methods as well as bitcoin, but the bitcoin piece is completely pointless as everything done on the block chain is trivially traceable to the ultimate destination wallet.
If you sell bitcoin to an exchange for USD, that exchange has been tapped by the feds and they'll be on your ass directly.
If you sell bitcoin to some chump for cash USD, that chump will be holding the bag when he goes to use them (exchanging for USD, real-world services, etc.). That chump will roll on you the instant he's put in a room with the feds, gets a letter from the IRS, etc.
If you mix bitcoins via some service, the service can simply take them and disappear off the internet leaving you with nothing. The service can attract high-profile targets doing worse things than you and getting more federal attention than you. That attention is then extended to you because you both used the same mixing service. Now a pot-dealer is under scrutiny for being affiliated with a service used by a terrorist buying nuclear material.

Bitcoin does nothing new for money laundering or tax evasion. Bitcoin is PUBLIC.

in the fair tax book which explains the proposed system, they explain that the initial rate is designed to be revenue neutral. adjustments that you suggest are for future revisions.
some degree of debt/deficit is not automatically bad. debt/deficit is degrees of bad depending on what it's spent on and what % of revenue it represents. current levels are bad but automatically precluding any would be bad in its own way.

OS/2 failed because:

It was more expensive.
It had higher hardware requirements.
It wasn't as compatible with existing software especially with DOS games.
It wasn't as compatible with 3rd party hardware.

I don't think the advertising had much to do with it at all.

"Apple does the same thing with their products they are trying to push."

um... maybe sometimes... but many signature apple commercials and ads do not show the product:

You might remember a few years of these?
https://www.youtube.com/result...

Or maybe these ipod commercials? from 2004 to 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh that's all ancient history. You meant something recent right?

Like 2015. Look at how easy it is to use, and all the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'd say reality doesn't really sync up with your argument here.

There's only one way to punish Amazon for taking this activity outside of the US. We must find a way, since they have a business presence in the US, to add a larger regulatory and tax burden onto them until they submit, and return this activity, which we won't let them do anyway, to US soil. At which point of course we will not reduce that new tax or regulatory burden, but that'll show 'em anyway.

Way to go, Executive Branch.

Thank you; asked and answered.

"I'll worry about Clarkson being violent when I find out what was said, and not until."
If the producer was verbally assaulting him then Clarkson could get him canned in a minute.
Time to move past school and into the adult world.

No. I question the ethics of paying people to beat each other for my entertainment.

I have an engineering degree and the college I went to had a general philosophy of trying to make "well rounded" engineers by forcing us to take various liberal arts courses. I don't have an issue with the general idea but I can tell you from first hand experience that colleges that try this almost invariably fail miserably at it. Mine certainly did. I got a great engineering education but humanities? Not so much.

I can assure you that the random smattering of non-STEM courses I took as college grad did not meaningfully expand my mind. I'm kind of a naturally curious person and I learned far more about humanities outside of classes than I ever did in a formal classroom. Forcing engineers to take a few randomly-chosen-whatever-fits-my-schedule courses really doesn't accomplish much. The problem isn't with the concept of learning about disparate subjects, the problem is with the execution of that plan. Learning about engineering by necessity takes up a HUGE amount of the credit hour budget for a degree. There simply isn't a lot of left over curriculum space for a meaningful humanities education to fit in. I do not really see how a school could deliver both a quality engineering AND humanities education in the same four years.

Now you're just being coy. Do you really think that it has ever been a feature of the Freedom of Information Act to require the archivists at the FAA to scour, say, the records kept by Justice, or Agriculture or Commerce etc when someone submits a FOIA request to the FAA for all correspondence involving a given FAA official on a given topic? Of course not. It's understood that the FAA is the keeper of all of the FAA staff's correspondence. If that agency's director was running all of his official mail through a private domain on a server kept in his house, and corresponded with, say, a Senator or someone at Justice, the FAA's own mail archives would have no record of that because said message never traversed the FAA's systems and the archiving mechanisms they have in place. A FOIA request to the FAA's records office for that official's correspondence with said Senator would - just like the FOIA requests for some of Clinton's mail - come up dry. Why? Because a FOIA request to the FAA doesn't cause the FAA's archivists to ask every other agency in the government to also scour the archives of all of those agencies.

We have no record of Clinton's correspondence with anyone in any other agency or branch of the government because the FOIA requests to State can't come up with them. Because those messages didn't traverse State's systems. Her claim that she was relying on her correspondence with other people at State to serve as a record of her official mail deliberately avoids the topic of how her personal server was allowing State to keep records of correspondence that didn't involve State's mail servers or archives. The only possible record of such external communication was going to be found through bottomless research against mail servers all around the government and the world, or through access to her own server - which she says she's wiped clean and will not allow anyone to see. We also get her own personal decisions on which fraction of her email she decided to print to hardcopy, rather than simply passing along in their entirety. And this she did only when pressed to do so, long after she left office. That is in direct violation of the Federal Records Act generally, as well as the 2009 NARA. That it's also in contradiction to her own signed policy just helps to illustrate how phony she's being on the subject.

But using that system would have been a good faith effort to comply with the FRA and NARA. Rather than make that good faith effort, she deliberately acted to keep her records from going anywhere near State's servers, didn't provide ANY of the records during her tenure, and didn't provide any when she left.

Yeah, an assistant DID. A personally paid aid, working for the family foundation. Someone who's not cleared for sensitive/classified information, and whose paycheck is funded in part by the millions of dollars Clinton collected from foreign donors to her family enterprise while on tour as the country's top diplomat. Regardless, she's the one telling the press that she decided when a message wasn't to be kept for being irrelevant from the State archivist's perspective. I'm sure the career archivists appreciate being told what to think and cut out of that process - not for the incidental use of a staffer's private mail, but for ALL of the top official's communications.

I didn't say that. But because it is the slower method with more work involved, it reflects a deliberate choice to produce the required documents in a way that maximizes the delay in allowing FOIA requesters to see the results and minimizes the contextual information that can be gleaned from the stripped-down information. That was a deliberate choice made by her. She chose to have her staff do more work, and to make far more work for the many third parties requiring the records. Just icing on the cake, to go with not having provided the records on the fly, during her tenure and at departure, as required by the FRA and NARA.

Because if you admitted that the odds of her having corresponded, even once, with another agency or external party in the course of doing her job were 100%, then you have to explain why you think that the complete absence of any of that in the FOIA requests doesn't impact your narrative about how she must have been BCC'ing all along to remain compliant. State has her correspondence with internal staff, but nothing external. She generated and received tens of thousands of emails, and you think that by sheer coincidence, flaky archiving at State accidentally lost ALL of the external stuff she faithfully CC'd, while happening to retain the stuff she sent internally? You can't actually believe that happened, which means you're spinning.

Apple only counts for money made.
What a load of garbage.
I love OS/X but the latest round of Apple hardware shows what happens when the "designers" run the show.
New Mac Pro... Stuck with Ivy Bridge CPUs when Haswell-e CPUs are out. GPUs are good but not near the best you can get plus no Nividia option for Cuda.
Mac Book line. You can not upgrade the ram and can not upgrade the SSDs. Prices for SSDs are going down but if you need more you have to buy a new notebook.
Apple is making money hand over fist but RIM and Nokia made a lot of money after the iPhone came out as well.
As much as I love OS/X and my MacBook Pro it is PCs that still do most of the real work. Servers run Linux, BSD, or Windows and not OS/X for the most part.
Desktops are running Windows for the most part.