http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker

I suggest reading on George C Parker, who actually managed to sale people stock for the broklen bridge when it was first built. He scammed people in to believing he would turn it in to toll bridge and they would get a piece of the take.

Actually, I find the GP's post very insightful

It is foolish to assume that he left because family wasn't important. It is equally likely in this Senior that he left home to make better opportunities for the family that was so important. Proximity != importance.

Same could be said about the PS3, but once they took away the Other Os Option. It became a black box utility no different then a stereo. Computing power does not make it a "PC" It does make it a computer. I'm sure vogue is changing faster then I want to admit, but if you can't run a native compiler on it and write your own programs on the device it is more of a console (video game) then a PC ( IBM )

That being said, I realize how stupidly power my Ipad is, HTC evo are, but until I can write and compile my apps directly on them I can't consider them PCs. No reason these devices couldn't do this and maybe Android does, but at least by design they limit your ability to do so which makes them more equivilant to my dvd player or tv then my laptop (which I use to program for all four)

China would care if we could get a backbone and actually stop buying all the cheap products which help produce this level of pollution. Plenty of other countries want to have strong industrial economies and we could work with the more reasonable governments to install EPA like restrictions from the get go. It wouldn't happen over night, but eventually China would be forced to clean up its act as they saw the numbers drop.

No, he is saying that you should spend your money where you get the greatest affect. Asking for a 5% increase in US output for 5 trillion dollars is a waste if we can get a 80% increase in china for 50 billion. And with developing nations that do not even use basic scrubbers that 80% will account several times the clean up that we can eak out of our own country. So, create the equipment here export and maybe even help fund the process, but if we really care about pollution the US has to stop thinking its the center of the Universe and realize we are a world of Nations and we all need to help out.

Start with cleaning up the developing nations and as they catch up continue to improve our own efficiency or else the US will hit an asymptotic behavior nearing zero pollution and China, India, and Africa will have us all still choking to our deaths.

Nope, I'm apparently wrong. Dark Horse makes a line of comics that has been under publication. Its possible though that they never licensed it, but if they did from wiki comes this information

"The name Conan and the names of Robert E. Howard's other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Paradox Entertainment of Stockholm, Sweden, through its US subsidiary Paradox Entertainment Inc.[citation needed] Paradox copyrights stories written by other authors under license from Conan Properties Inc.[citation needed]"

Given the lack of citation I do not know if its correct or not.

Even if superman was public domain that would only allow you to reprint the various stories already published. Writing new superman stories as long as DC is still publishing and actively protecting its trade marks is not possible with out licensing. This is different then Connan becoming public domain, because as far as I know no new cannon works had come out since the films and the trademarks were long left unprotected. (I'll go make sure of that now..)

Did not the UK miners union/guild choose to go back to work with out a new contract effectively loosing the strike and costing its members an entire years salary?

I find myself wondering how the producer of the socks makes any financial gain. According to the check out page the socks cost -2.00 USD. I'm heavily thinking of investing in some sock storage because at 2.00 for every sock I adopt I could make a fortune. I'm sure the initial investment will more then pay for the shipping and afterwords I can resale them for additional capitol.

Your missing the point. It isn't that they require it now, but it is easy for legislation to be passed that will require it. Single payer transactions will always be unregulated. Your example is more akin to paying income taxes on your lawn mowing revenue as a teenager. Sure your legally required to, but how can anyone track down that small of a transaction.

I am mostly focusing on the large exchanges which handle multiple transactions a day and have a large public facing advertisement structure bragging about what they do. In the end this is where the bulk of the transactions in and out of the system will come from and they are easy to regulate if they want to keep making money hand over fist. When you start pulling over 250k a year from any activity governments start paying attention.

Still this all requires that you make money the government can track. If you can keep all your transactions inside of bitcoin then you can be as anon as you want, much like your post.

This article show a great deal of pro Bit Coin bias. Sever farms for generating coins may not be common yet, but bot nets are already an issue. However the real stickler point that the Legal Council is trying to get acknowledged in my opinion is the point of Exchange. In this case the point of Exchange from Bit Coin's to USD. (e.g https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox )

For now you can stay anon as long as your jacked in the system and buying goods that people will exchange for Bit Coins (I've personally never been on a website that accepts them, but I may not be paying attention). But the moment you want to trade with someone outside the system you will have to report that exchange to the proper authorities. I think the acknowledgement that BitCoin does have an issue where legal entities can require all sorts of gating protocols at the boarder points is at least worth debate.

If a gram of DNA can hold a Library of Congress we are going to need a new unit of measure here at database when having storage debates.

I've always found it interesting, how projections get the basic concepts right, but they completely miss on the piratical implementation of things. In TNG everyone caries around a small computing pad, but they seem to keep several of them from different reports and do not have any internal communication systems unless they download from a master main frame

Early on one of the interviews talks about full volumetric holographic displays by the end of the centuries, but ignores the middle ground of real time video transmission on existing displays. And the artistic renderings through out the video's keep displays as simple monochrome 13inch displays, because no one seems to imagine a high resolution color display, but they can predict the need for a network based communication network to transmit idea's.

The basics of the video are valid and a good projection to modern times, but all of the interpretations of how it will be implemented show a limitation based on 1985's existing tech. You see this same limitation in the early 1950/1960's articles on the world of tomorrow.