I'd mod you up if I had mod points right now. I'm a Thelemite, which is a religion that doesn't require belief in a god or the supernatural, and many of us are atheists. As it stands, I can't go anywhere without some Dawkins or Hitchens type atheist telling me that I'm "delusional" for being religious. Every time a news article mentions religion, a bunch of atheists have to chime in about how destructive "religion" is. At this point, at least where I'm standing, it's worse than Christians who try to force their views on people. Honestly, if it weren't for religion, any philosophy or political ideology (even democracy, capitalism, etc) would be used to justify the same fucked up things that a tiny minority of people use religion to justify.

There's a reason Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" and a reason we have regulation in the first place. Unregulated business turns into corporate tyranny. Competition would disappear overnight through monopolistic hoarding of resources, price fixing, and other forms of collusion and founding a company to compete and change the industry would go right out the window with it.

It's not legal, actually. It's illegal under the name "parading without a permit."

The place my neurologist sent me for testing only tested with fluorescents, but it did show up on the EEG. Psychogenic seizures don't show up. Also, I've had seizures when friends accidentally forgot to screw in incandescent lights instead of their normal CFLs when I came to visit. I didn't have any prior knowledge that they were using CFLs and we only discovered it *after* I reacted to them. It's hard enough to get an appointment for testing (let alone getting to the appointment; my girlfriend is the only way I can get there since I can't drive and need to best escorted in with a blindfold), let alone asking them to set up something specific with multiple lamps, different types of lights, lampshades, etc, which may not be all that accurate anyway because the people slamming me on /. would just claim it wasn't truly blind because maybe I could distinguish between the bulbs based on the colour of the light. I don't get why people are attacking me on here. I have a serious health problem and I'm not asking for a ban on CFLs or a change in anyone's lifestyle... I do however want people to be aware of what I'm going through.

As far as the people who say everyone would know about this if I truly had this problem, it's simply not true. The media had no interest in picking this up, I wrote to all of the politicians in my state (California) and only got generic template responses, I tell everyone I meet, but the information just doesn't spread. I'm not looking for handouts, to push some agenda, or anything. I just want to be able to see in my house after dark.

Mine is one of the many that uses LED backlights. CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent) is on the way out.

I can't enter buildings. I work from home and have to go blindfolded when I see a doctor or dentist. My girlfriend has to lead me into buildings and people constantly stare and ask rude questions. My LCD monitor with a DC-powered LED backlight is just fine.

I never said anything about banning CFLs, I said I should be able to use incandescent lights. The kind of seizure you describe is called a grand mal seizure. There are other kinds of seizures that are also pretty horrible. I do in fact lose consciousness and fall to the ground under these lights. Don't think I've bitten my tongue, but I've hit my head pretty hard. I think my neurologist knows a lot more about this than you do.

You are just about the rudest person I've ever met. Guess what? I can't drive a car, go into office buildings, etc. I wear a blindfold to the dentist and can't go bowling or to the movies with my friends. I can't look at old "box" style TVs either. It's pretty awful and people like you don't help. Computers are fine because my LED-lit flatscreen monitor runs on DC power and doesn't flicker.

Mod this guy up. That's exactly it. Stating that they are "technically" not banned doesn't change the reality of the situation. Also, whoever modded me as a troll, I'm not trolling. I have serious adverse health effects from CFLs.

Modern LED "replacement bulbs" are directional and too dim. They still have a long way to go. Also, if hooked up to alternating current or put on a dimmer, they most certainly do strobe. As for CFLs not strobing... everyone says that they flicker at 22 kHz or something ridiculous, but they give me instant seizures anyway, so I'm not quite convinced. I'm sorry, but it's not the government's business to be telling people what kind of lighting they can use in their own homes, *especially* before there is a *real* alternative. Even if they made an exception for people with health problems, it'll still be next to impossible for me to get these lights as there won't be much financial motivation for companies to continue producing them.

Now maybe they can reverse that ridiculous incandescent light ban. CFL bulbs give me seizures and I have no viable alternative to incandescents. I'd rather not live in the dark.

This is a different situation. Trades involving moving Bitcoins from one person's wallet file to another's can not be reversed. That's what happened in the case of the dude who lost the 500,000 BTC. In this case, Mt. Gox stores all of the Bitcoins in their wallet file. Bitcoins can be bought and sold on the Mt. Gox exchange, but they aren't actually moved anywhere until a user requests a withdrawal to his or her wallet. The rollback proposed by Mt. Gox would just revert ownership of dollars and Bitcoins to their original accounts just prior to the hack. Any coins withdrawn from Mt. Gox to users' private wallets can't be rolled back, however. In this case, Mt. Gox will have to eat those costs.

A lot of people seem to hope for it to become a PayPal replacement, at least for now.

Same thing we do when data measured in bytes gets very large (kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, etc), but the other way: uBTC (microbitoin), pico bitcoin, or whatever else.

This is the most exciting news story I've read in a long time. Why?

I have a medical condition where I have seizures under fluorescent lights, including CFLs. I also live in the state of California. With the laws banning certain wattages of incandescent lights here (eventually leading to their ban), that's very bad news for me. I've written to just about every politician, called, emailed... nobody cares! The seizures I have under CFLs are so bad that I can't work, do my own shopping, etc. No, dark sun glasses do NOT help (everyone suggests it). Sometimes I can't even go outside because a lot of outdoor lights are now fluorescent and people leave them on during the day!

A ban on incandescent bulbs would prevent me from living in my own home since they're the only lights I can use. LEDs are directional and not bright enough, halogens can also cause the kind of flicker that disables me, etc.

Nor am I the only person with this health problem. After talking to hundreds of Democrats, the general argument I've been hearing is "Your health problem only affects about 1% of the population. The ban is good for 99% of us, so you have to understand." No, I do not have to understand. This ban effectively constitutes tyranny of the majority. There are other ways to cut back on energy consumption. The lights in your house make up a relatively small percentage of usage. Worst case, why not impose a tax on energy usage if a certain level is exceeded? People could stay below the level by switching to CFLs if they choose. As for myself, I don't use air conditioning or televisions, so I should be able to keep my incandescents.