When will this worthless shit crash already? It's a complete failure as a currency. All it's accomplished for the world is to facilitate trafficking in drugs, weapons, and humans, and to reward people who waste electricity. Yes, everyone accepts it as payment. Because it's undergoing a bubble. But no one wants to pay for stuff with it. Because it's undergoing a bubble.
For a currency to be usable, it needs to maintain a stable value. Bitcoin fails miserably at it. Nerds seem to get intrigued by its algorithm and lose sight of human nature- people won't trust it once they get burned by the crash that's being dismissed as an inevitable "short-term correction". (And that's more acceptable than a long-term correction... why?) Sure, you'll forget you were a "billionaire" when you went to bed last night and you'll buy pizza with your Bitcoins for lunch- except no pizzeria will accept them after that. But rest assured, there is a distributed blockchain uncontrolled by any central authority that establishes beyond all doubt that you are the proud owner of a worthless currency.
Bitcoin has made one thing perfectly clear- so-called "fiat money" is the worst kind of currency except for all the others.
This was always a huge problem waiting to happen. The barrier to entry for idiot UAV operators is WAY too small. In my opinion they should all have pilots' licenses to fly beyond 50 feet from the operator.
OK, let me get this straight. You live in a country where 30000 people are shot each year, and what you're upset about about are drones that can fly 50 feet from the operator?
Guess what else flies 50 feet from the operator? You people need to get your priorities in order.
Correct. Because civilians wouldn't get bombed by Americans if ISIS weren't the murderous assholes that they are.
ISIS forced you idiots to firebomb a hospital?
Something is wrong with the way Americans train police. I don't think they know this, but American police are the butt of jokes around the world. They're not real cops.
Most of them are former security guards and prison guards who think their guns are toys, like this acquitted Philip Mitchell Brailsford piece of shit who forced a guy begging for his life to play "Simon Says", pumped five rounds into him, and then typically claimed self defense like an American policeman will always do.
Cops with prior military training don't act like this at all. Maybe you would be better served by unloading your current "police force" and starting anew with recruits who have been trained to respect weapons and understand that they serve the public, not the other way around.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro