Amazon hasn't done anything with Bitcoin - the gift cards are sold by a third-party (gyft.com, IIRC). And gyft only takes bitcoin via a third-party payment processor. For merchants, "accepting bitcoin" in this way is almost identical as "accepting credit cards" with Square as the processor.

I'd love to have the option to choose the cable monopoly - in my area AT&T provides (shitty) internet, TV and phone, with no options for anything else.

Don't assume that the only profit to be made is via the act itself - NASA's space program ended up giving birth to a lot of technology that is widely used in society these days, but could not have been measured in a pre-estimate of the profitability of the space program.

The sad thing is that many people would.

There are too few TOR exit nodes for everyone with a brain to use it. Now if they moved all the actual anti-establishment news to an onion address, then they could know that all non-onion links are propaganda or honeypots.

An important note is that the exit node can see all of "the" plaintext traffic - there's no effective way to track it back to you unless the data contains your personal info. That's one of the biggest reasons that many jurisdictions hold the exit node accountable for the traffic that goes through it.

That's why the scientists got rid of most of the genome. All that's left should be covered by Fair Use, right?

They took it down for about a week, but restored it a few days ago.

I think that things like this are caused by in-flight food service. We must ban in-flight food, because we have no evidence that these events are NOT caused by the in-flight food.

I used to do that for a 200MB file on on dialup. I think the point is that content sizes are growing rapidly, expecting broadband speeds to keep up. The concern is that people are afraid of the current stagnation, and how it might mean that in a few years, your download of that 50GB patch will take longer than 30-40 minutes.

All the more reason to do the opposite of what marketing tells me to do.

You realize that if large enough quantities of people began to do this, marketers would catch on and take advantage of that, right?

Have you tried X3 from Egosoft? X3: Terran Conflict (standalone expansion) is a mighty fine game.

Also, less poo and more boom. Explosive poo?

And just think: if it overheats, your computer becomes delicious

Honestly, I found the name "Unobtainium" no less plausible than a number of the heavier elements in the periodic table. Comparing "Unobtainium" to, say... "Promethium", "Ununoctium", "Berkeluim", "Californium"; not to mention a number of the proposed names for the current temporary ones... How does "Unobtainium" defy logic any more than those do?

Or are you claiming that because we haven't discovered it yet, it doesn't exist? In a science fiction movie. Really? Really?

As for orbital bombardment... That's probably the part the Cameron didn't show. Humans go down to the surface and try to strip-mine politely because of politics. Think of the PR win that it would be for the (then current) administration if they can convince these primitive creatures to live/act like humans! But now that we're kicked off planet, time to warm up the nukes.