NSA's illegal wiretapping was "voluntary" when they approached all major telecom providers about it. And when Qwest opted out, they cut their government contracts, prosecuted their CEO on trumped-up charges, and ultimately bankrupted them.
These people are criminal scum. They have an agenda. They are pushing it through, and eliminating anyone who gets in their way.
We'll also help you with that pesky "citizens recording things they shouldn't" problem.
That just means they destroyed all evidence of having collected the data in the first place. You see, the US now practices "quantum" intelligence gathering. If they collect data, but don't look at it, it's the same as never having collected it to begin with. Likewise, if they collect data, and lose the data, and then delete the evidence that they collected the data, and deny that they lost the data, everything turns out fine. It's all very complicated physics that you wouldn't understand, documented in detail in the Back To The Future movies. The lost data should begin erasing itself any minute now. Any. Minute. Now.
Either party can then send a ticket to an arbitration service
No. Escrow involves trusting a third party.
So does arbitration.
Depends on the stock. Some stocks, yes if you buy them all you control the company. Others, you don't. Still others, you can buy up all the stock while the company just decides to issue more. The reality of a hostile takeover is a bit more complicated than you imply.
Theoretically. In actuality, the market grows by consuming finite resources, and the input of the sun is tiny in comparison.
Are we talking like "Rodney King" strange or "Roswell" strange?
bitcoins are an illegal security
What assets do they secure?
But there still is a need to transfer value digitally, and Bitcoin provides a way to do that
Not just digitally, but in-person as well. And actually, in a collapse scenario, without the internet you would have a very difficult time accurately pricing your gold anyways. So a communications network would quickly be established. And with a communications network, Bitcoin has a host of advantages over gold.
Physicists say that we'll have fusion working in about twenty years.
It's actually getting farther away. Now it's 28 years.
Bitcoins. Wikileaks.
Pedro Pinto, you think he's fake?
Again, a few isolated mad man. But without rampant poverty their attempts to radicalize fall on deaf ears.
And what about the neo-cons, who are not particularly isolated and whose radicalized footsoldiers are not relatively poor? They are relatively well-off, have infiltrated all levels of the US government with "deep cover moles" and remain as psychotic and extremist as ever. How do you explain that?
Ever wonder why terrorists don't send deep cover moles over here? It's because give them a taste of good life and they stop being psychotic extremists.
This may be relevant to your preconceptions: The Power of Nightmares
1863: US Civil War
I find this 25 year cycle much more convincing, based on demographics alone.
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
