Yeah, what BoA is saying is that *even if* Bitcoins were successful and popular in commerce, and as trusted as silver (which it's not), the prices it is commanding now is approaching the maximum of what it should be. Basically BoA is saying there is a huge bubble.

But hey, the Bitcoin pump-and-dumpers will push any lie that will nudge the prices up.

This is a bunch of non-sequitirs. "As it was mostly option contracts, they were largely not executed, so it didn't end up being a major issue." Really? The damage caused by tulipmania and so on has nothing to do with whether or not the options are executed. Even if they aren't, people spent money on those options contracts, and so lost massive amounts of money when the prices collapse. The characterisation of the prices collapsing due to 'the height of the bubonic plague' is also incorrect. The height of the bubonic plague was 200 years earlier in the 15th century, and plague outbreaks occurred before, during and after tulipmania.

If it is a replacement for cash, its value should decrease over time to discourage people from hoarding it, and so keep the currency liquid.

Extensive... but not *that* extensive. Not nearly worth any extended period of interrupted trade between China and Japan, let alone the US.

I'd wager I spend less time reading /. than virtually any MMORPG player spends in their game...

Read a book. Go out with some friends. Meet your neighbours.

... undeniable evidence that Earth is 6,000 years old and Noah had baby dinosaurs on the Ark.

Their data is sent in the clear. Time to fill their logs with the idea that I watch Golden Girls 24x7.

I want to print a 3D model of Washington's wooden teeth and put them in my RealDoll!

One faction "A" who were allies with a smaller faction "B", got one of their accounts hacked (or forums) by A's rival "C". One of those was A bitching about how small and insignificant B was to some other allies.

So in the forums, C posted an excerpt of that conversation. Leaders of A panicked and decided that to come out ahead, they should just post their own logs of that conversation, which was apparently worse as it went on. Of course, things didn't look good and other groups got pissed off with A.
Turns out that "C" didn't have much more than just the excerpt but "A" ended up looking worse because of their own full disclosure of the convi.

I'm guessing that with the info that Snowden has, this isn't the case for the NSA and they can confirm he has much more, so they want to dump the info first. (But if they didn't know for sure, it would be a funny likeness.)

The article mentions "Dark Friday" but links to a wiki page called "Black Friday". What is that about? (I know about Black Friday in the US, just not sure why the Dark Friday bit)

Reading
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"Don't Copy That Floppy"
"Home Taping is Killing Music"
"When You Download Movies, You're Sucking Satan's Most Unholy of Cocks"

up north, water freezes when it gets below 32F.

Come to Canada, this far north water freezes at 0C!

There is a good app called Divide for iOS and Android. Forms a nice, separate spot for all your work stuff (mail, calendars, contacts, etc.)

Sorry, man. Google Translate can't parse Tard.