Indeed. This is the one that people don't seem to understand.
As far as I am aware, no mathematical proof has ever been offered which declares cold fusion to be impossible. This is as opposed to, say, accelerating beyond the speed of light, which has been proven to require infinite energy.

Note that I don't mean to imply that this "cold fusion" is not a fraud, but crying "Thermodynamics!" at every alternative-fuel story makes me wonder how these people would have responded to the discovery of coal.

Why don't we look at this as a starting-point, rather than a solution?

So you want your decentralised and anonymous system to vary the payout based on how many transactions are processed?
I think I found a flaw in the plan.

Wow.

Here's the first thing I found when looking for Guile with ECMAScript: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/ECMAScript.html
In summary: Don't use ECMAScript for Guile under any circumstances, btw bitch bitch bitch bitch we are not a project worth paying attention to.

in a country where it's perfectly possible to live without a car, this term is far too short. He should never be allowed behind the wheel on a public road again.

1) Yes.
2) We don't want special treatment. We are willing to accept that others could do their job more effectively if they had multiple monitors (after the developers pushed to get multiple monitors at my office, everyone else followed suit. This seems sane)

bitcoin is designed to have "diminishing returns" in terms of bitcoin generation. ie: the longer the project goes on, the fewer new bitcoins will be generated. This ignores that the longer the project goes on, especially if it is successful, the fewer bitcoins will usefully exist. ie: not just a counter that says how many bitcoins exist, but the number of bitcoins which are valid and usable, as opposed to being lost due to lost keys, etc.

3) When you change the defaults, it needs to seamlessly migrate to the new one.
4) If an update fails, the update should roll-back (config files aren't versioned by default? still no sane "diff3" option when updating? wtf?)

With transmissions speeds that fast, processing and storage can both be dumped on someone else without worrying about filling the pipe.