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Comment Re:The Queen (Score 1) 214

Originally by right of conquest then by inheritance, just like everyone else ...

By "Offered the Crown" you mean was selected by parliament as the successor to both the crown and the royal family and inherited all their assets both public and private - and the crown lands were private then as now ...

In the same way the government and the law decide who in your family will inherit if there is no valid will, but your company will decide who will get your job ...

Comment Re:Crap, the sky is falling (Score 2) 334

My government will always accept the current legal tender for payment of taxes
Any one trading in my country has to by law accept the current legal tender in payment

Some people will accept other currencies in exchange for the legal tender or in payment at whatever exchange rate they deem appropriate, but it is not required

No-one *has* to accept bitcoin anywhere, and the exchange rate is therefore *only* subject to market confidence and nothing else - and could be zero tomorrow ....

Comment Re:Crap, the sky is falling (Score 2) 334

Real world currency - A currency that has a value backed by either :

              Physical something of real value - Gold, Silver, etc that actually exists in a vault somewhere

              A Large entity who guarantee to pay, and are trusted enough to do so (Government/Bank/etc)

      And/Or - Fiat currency that will always (and sometimes will only) be accepted for the purposes of paying taxes and so will always have value

        All real world currencies are usually legal tender - It is required that people have to accept legal tender as payment for good and services

Bitcoin - A currency backed only by the assurance that they cannot be faked/cheated but is otherwise free floating
          No-one has to accept Bitcoin, if they do they can assign any arbitrary value to it as an exchange rate depending on how much they trust it ...

Comment Re:The Queen (Score 1) 214

Her allowance is paid out of the income from the Windsor's family Land ... the Government would be loath to lose the 94% of this they currently keep ...

We don't have a dismissable monarchy, it would require great constitutional change to get rid of the Royal's, and even then they would still be the monarch of 15 other countries and head of the Commonwealth ...

Comment Re:Royalty? Just say no. (Score 1) 214

This *is* the power the queen has, her Governor-General is simply exercising the power of the Queen ... in this case he overstepped his remit (by how much is debatable)

The Queen/Monarch of the UK has the same power and has exercised it (to a small degree on advice) when we have had a Hung parliament ...

Comment Re:It's 2013, why are you still using Windows ? (Score 1) 435

For "Mangled by LibreOffice" read MSOffice does not meet it's own spec

managing MS Servers not using Windows is asking for trouble (works find the other way round of course)

Powershell without Windows is asking for trouble

Basically you are trying to use Windows tools and are surprised that they don't play well with other OS's

But managing the other OS from Windows is easy ...so which company is the issue ...?

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