Because we, as a civilized society, look down on things like human trafficking, organized crime, extortion and so on. These activities require the ability to transact large amounts of value in untraceable ways, and so to the best of their ability the government try to prevent that.

This isn't about stopping this guy from doing what he was doing, it was about making him follow the same rules that everyone else who does similar things follow, which is more about keeping records than anything else. If he doesn't want to follow the rules, then fine, he can stop doing the business. His call - but no one MADE him stop.

It's amazing to me to hear the constant screams about Wall St "criminals" who need to be regulated even more than they already are, but heaven forbid the bitcoin freedom fighters get caught up in some of that regulation! The hypocrisy is truly breathtaking.

Because they will be using their electric cars to power Mechagodzilla!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechagodzilla

All we'd find is a bunch of surfing apes.

Nobody prints stock anymore. It's all done with a confirmation that you hold X shares.

On a different tangent, the value and desirability of a token you can no longer order means they will skyrocket in value. Well played, federable gummint.

Sometimes the reason for having is in the having, not in the utility. Any geek knows this.

If Apple sold an insulated iMug people would queue up for it. You know this to be true.

they'd also be suing samsung for patent infringement with their damnable galaxy adro-mug

I dunno. I have a Sigg insulated drink bottle, which holds 1L and if I pour hot green tea into it, it will still be hot the next day. Larges contributing factor in coffee cooling in a cup has to be surface area at the top. Evaporation takes energy with it, so minimize exposure at the top and your coffee will stay hot longer.

Rather like those dang travel mugs where I can't drink the hot coffee for about an hour after I bought it >:(

It holds 800ml.

If you need insulation, you are drinking it too slow.

perhaps the ability to add an iv-drip

Dad was a Rugged Man. Rugged, ate meat that was still mooing, Smoked Cuban Cigars and swilled the finest Whiskey.

Explains why I keep trying to refill myself with Johnny Walker Blue.

They already are bitching about people with solar installations. Whiny babies claiming having to buy back the electricity at 50% under wholesale rates, I.E. chump change is too expensive, yet they sell MY electricity to others at full rate.

They actually want to not only not buy power I send back to them, but they want to have a "minimum billing" so that even if I generate 120% of my energy needs they can still charge me $50 a month as a minimum billing.

It can, for exactly 1 second.

If my employer pays for free battery replacements they can do this all they want. Otherwise I'll simply modify mine to NOT allow power to flow backwards.

Solar panels,windmills, battery bank. They do this already all over the USA. Offset the power use during peak hours (plus a 10% lighting dim and load shedding) and go to town off hours. The coolest system I saw was simply pumped water storage at the top of the building, using pumps to fill the 10,000 gallon tank at night, ten close valves and wait for power to get expensive and high demand, then open valves and let water flow backwards through the pumps causing power generation. more efficient than batteries as there are no losses when it is in storage mode. High rise building can really take advantage of this as they have more potential energy gains from altitude.

Heck the hospital here has enough solar panels to offset 30% of their energy use during the day and their system still offsets 25% during cloudy winter months. because the wind kicks way up and the windmills run non stop at near peak. Nature is funny like that, it's either sunny and calm or cloudy and windy.

Early means the first 8 hours of the day, so it happened between 0000 and 0800 UTC.
Mid UTC is 0800-1600
Late UTC is 1600-2400

But you can get that just by fedexing copies of your backups to friends in different cities.

-jcr

Not anymore.

Switzerland stood up to the nazis, but they caved to the American IRS. There is no more reason to trust a Swiss bank today.

-jcr