Income is income, and sales are sales and disguising them as trades, or monopoly money or bitcoins does not change the fact that they ARE subject to taxes. But the fact that you believe they are not is exactly why governments hate bitcoins, because they make tax fraud very easy. Never mind the other crimes made easier by these.

Rules against criticizing the government makes a political campaign all but impossible for anyone but the incumbent. In other words, they are now a dictatorship. Hopefully the Russian people won't give up their freedoms so easily, and push back.

Which would encourage us to find NEW coal supplies anywhere.

I got some sweet real estate to sell them!

Seriously, why do the young men all have to flip burgers, and all the young ladies get to babysit. I don't know about the rest of you but I would have much rather played Legos with a 5 year old than stand behind a fryer all day.

Can you say 'Microwave Death Ray"? I know you can...

Most of the people who claimed 'sudden' acceleration said it happened while they applied the brake. And I don't care how crazy your engine goes, the brakes wouldn't also happen to go out at that moment too. It's like the Audi's even before the computers did anything more than fuel mixture, folks pressed the wrong petal and blamed it on the car.

Even if solar were made super efficient (AND affordable) today it would still be nowhere near ready that quickly. I'm not convinced it will even start moving in that direction that quickly, let alone arrive.

The title would imply someone has actually achieved this vs 'designing' it.

Slander is not protected speech. If they really were customers of this guy they would have no difficulty at all proving they were customers. If they were customers they can go after this guy for malicious prosecution. If they are phonies just trying to hurt his business then they deserve to get their asses sued off to make up any damages they cause this fellow.

Short of hardware issues, no software bug is truly random, 'it just happens sometimes' = 'I lack the skill to troubleshoot this'

For many IT people in the US the only reason they don't venture out on their own is concerns over health care coverage. Now that it's possible to purchase affordable care on their own this will no longer be a major obstacle.

NoSQL and Notes types databases are ideal when volume is low, and variety is high and needed values change frequently. Seems to me the data they were collecting and presenting are ideal SQL candidates, and terrible NoSQL candidates. Even if the DB is not bad, it IS a very bad choice for this type of application. Although I'm sure the salesperson/campaign contributor would disagree.

I'm sure it is more difficult to 'hack' simply because it is less familiar to hackers, but validated input, and well patched servers is a better way to prevent getting hacked.

I'm only slightly introverted, or was, now I'm a lot more social. Here is my experience, it might work for you too.

If I have a few questions for a user, sometimes rather than sending an email I will invite one of the people who depend on my work to come sit with me at my cube to go over the questions. I let them see what I am doing, discuss some of the changes, even let them see me make some of the changes while asking for their input.

Me: "So would you prefer it to tab from this field to that field, and not to that button over there like it has been?"
Coworker: "Oh yes!, can you do that to the other screen too? that always messes me up".

This can be very empowering to them, exciting to see it in action, and appreciative that you have let them have a peek in at and participate in the secret world that has so much influence on their day to day work.
Do this over time and you end up getting to know your co-workers, what they know, how they work, and maybe even make some friends.

I just know they will recover. There might be 'Billions' of dollars worth of bitcoins out there, but truly believe they will become worth almost zero in the long run.