Item 1: Bitcoins are cash that you can transmit. Like cash, if you misplace it or it is destroyed, it's gone. If you stuff the mattress with your life savings, that could become a serious issue.

Item 2 and 6: Bitcoins are, in effect, a foreign currency. They have an exchange rate with your local currency and their value in your local currency is based on the faith a local exchange has in them.

The rest: Bitcoins are not a bank, but there's no reason a bank (complete w/ FDIC insurance) couldn't accept bitcoins. Except, that is, that banks don't tend to like bitcoins because they don't lock everyone into using a bank for any transaction not completed in person.

Like every year, a number of people die getting hit by freight trains. These things are massive, make a lot of noise and oh ya, can only travel along well defined paths. Still, some people seem to get snuck up on by 3000 ton trains and killed.

It really is a case of natural selection.

That is a lie. You have repeatedly called for the president to be removed. That does nothing to provide "justice" for those four dead people. You can't bring them back from the dead by putting someone you hate on the unemployment line. Justice would involve finding the people behind the attack.

You repeatedly asked for him to be thrown out of the white house over this, without any regard for the legal system. At that point, when you are forcibly removing the president by extralegal means, you are essentially supporting a lynch mob. Just because you didn't specifically call for him to be executed doesn't mean that your method would not lead to it.

Only recently have you started to give lip service towards having a civilized evaluation of the matter. What you haven't been brave enough to say is what you want to see done once the legal system fails to come to the conclusions that you want.

I have given more than you have on this matter. You keep evading the question and returning to silly insults.

Good thing too. Eagles eat rabbits. Are you seriously going to defend a monster that rips apart cute little bunnies and feasts on their lifeless corpses?

And then you sue and the judge rules that unconscionable and awards you a refund. Meanwhile he's pissed off at the shop and looks for an excuse to award damages.

Contracts can't just make any arbitrary thing binding.

I wasn't saying that the indication was anything.

Yes, I do believe they can tell the difference. They aren't determining the risk factor. They are passing on information based on scientific studies. The doctors who ran the studies make the determinations on risk. They provide the links to that research, and even specifically discuss other things you should do if you are concerned, including contacting a genetic counselor.

I didn't believe or not believe, I had gallstones based on the 23andMe report. I believed based on symptoms and a diagnostic ultrasound that showed two golf ball size stones where there should have been none.

Here's the study information they provide with this particular one. There's a lot of information on the page. I don't want to make this post huge by quoting the whole thing. It does include information on the lab that does the testing.

The FDA is pissed that 23andMe is making this information available, where you should normally spend a fortune with doctors, if you can get them to agree to doing genetic testing, to give you the same information.

ABCG8
Marker:rs11887534

This SNP is in a gene called ABCG8, which encodes a cholesterol transporter protein. The version of this SNP associated with increased risk for gallstones (C) causes a physical change in the protein that is thought to result in increased cholesterol transport into the biliary ducts and the gallbladder. This may precipitate the formation of gallstones; however, additional studies are needed to elucidate the mechanisms by which this SNP affects gallstone formation. Having two copies of the C version of this SNP confers higher risk than having just one.

Research suggests that the C version of this SNP is also associated with slightly earlier onset of gallstones. There is also some evidence that this SNP may be associated with gallbladder cancer (gallstones are a risk factor for gallbladder cancer), but larger studies are required to verify this.

Multiple studies have confirmed this association in populations with European ancestry. A small Chinese study examined this SNP and found suggestive evidence for the association with gallstones and biliary tract cancer, but more studies are needed to confirm the association in Asian populations. This association has not been studied in populations with African ancestry.
Citations

Buch S et al. (2007). "A genome-wide association scan identifies the hepatic cholesterol transporter ABCG8 as a susceptibility factor for human gallstone disease." Nat. Genet. 39(8):995-9.

Stender S et al. (2011) . "Sterol transporter adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter G8, gallstones, and biliary cancer in 62,000 individuals from the general population." Hepatology 53(2):640-8.

Xu HL et al. (2011). "Cholesterol metabolism gene polymorphisms and the risk of biliary tract cancers and stones: a population-based case-control study in Shanghai, China." Carcinogenesis 32(1):58-62.

The genotyping services of 23andMe are performed in LabCorp's CLIA-certified laboratory. The tests have not been cleared or approved by the FDA but have been analytically validated according to CLIA standards. The information on this page is intended for research and educational purposes only, and is not for diagnostic use.

Only sometimes.

But no blow-job occurred. Why do we need a special prosecutor? Previously you wanted to proceed directly to the gallows. I'm curious as to why suddenly you are pretending to have an interest in an orderly legal evaluation of the absence of evidence.

First of all, you have at more than one time indicated that you feel the POTUS should be removed from office immediately over this. You have not previously indicated any interest in actually following through with anything resembling a trial (which is what you would have if a grand jury voted in favor).

That notwithstanding, a grad jury is called to evaluate whether or not enough evidence exists to proceed with prosecution of a case. Being as you have no evidence for your charges, a grand jury would have to vote against. What would you do then?

How is that worse? At least the plaintiffs have the ability to opt out of the mess, defendants do not. I would up the ante a bit more and require that the fees be paid back with interest and that if the holder should have known the patent was invalid they pay back triple.

When you go around shaking people down for money, you better be damned sure it is owed to you.

Imagine you buy a new iPod. You get home and open the box and there's nothing inside but an artist's rendering of an iPod. That's what happened to anyone in Germany that licensed the 'patent' in TFA. I use quoted since apparently it wasn't actually a patent at all.

The first couple times I saw the title I thought it said "Killer Qualities of Japanese Fruit Revealed". Granted, that also could have been really interesting.

You are talking past and around me. I have repeated the same unanswered request to you many times. You could just reply to my request and this silly matter wouldn't look so silly.

If theoretical physicists are re-purposed as fundraisers by age 51, then that just enlarges on his point.

In active use, my experience has been that platters usually degrade because the heads get parked on a park ramp one too many times, snap off the head arm, and then get dragged across the surface of the disk.... Want your disks to last for decades? Park the heads infrequently or not at all.

But even in the absence of actual use, eventually, even on a hard disk, the bits are likely to get corrupted by random stray cosmic rays and possibly superparamagnetism. Of course, any real data loss is likely to take decades, if not centuries.