So I visited that site, despite an 'impressive' vault picture and a bunch of assurances that "the site is built for stability and security", I got this error after clicking on some link: "Database object is busy, please try again later."

Beyond that, here is a note from the site: "Please Note: Short Selling will be enabled on livenet when platform liquidity crosses a preset threshold. This feature is available on CampBX testnet if you would like to try it out in the meantime."

Of-course the real problem with it as I see it, is its location, it's in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, the country of the Fed, IRS and NSA.

On the off chance that you went into law enforcement to serve the public in a very brave and selfless way it will be pounded out of you in short order or you will no longer work for the department.

Rule 1. Don't rat out fellow officers.

Rule 2. Don't make them look bad.

Rule 3. When your benefits are threatened make sure crime goes up.

Rule 4. There are the police and everyone else.

Fuck the police. They are badge wearing gang bangers who murder people and get away with it.

That is what he did. That was all he did. The internet is not one bit safer after he said that. In fact his statements will move a few of the stupid moo cows back to Windows. So the internet is a little worse now.

The AC never said American companies had scruples either. He also gave no indication he's American. You do realize there's more than 2 countries on the planet with companies, right?

No, they are not. They are agents of the state, and the state has no right of privacy. When they're off duty, you're absolutely right - these GPS trackers should not be implanted in their bodies, sewn into their street clothes, or placed on their personal vehicles. However, when they're on duty, they are employees and state actors and have no right to privacy. If they don't like it, there are plenty of other jobs out there.

Anything can be used as a 'medium of exchange', BTCs have no unique properties that make it better than anything else, in fact they are too volatile to be useful as medium of exchange.

Think about it, governments are basically contrarian indicators to any truth or knowledge or insight. That's all I wanted to say about this: BTC can be 1,000,000 USD per coin tomorrow or it could be 10 cents. Nobody knows, there is no intrinsic value whatsoever, more currencies of this type are created all the time, that's how you have inflation in BTC (never mind that every single BTC is actually a stack of 10,000,000 coins in its own right, all of which have exactly the same intrinsic value as the 1BTC, which is to say 0).

BTC may as well be 1,000,000,000 dollars in 2 months, who knows, but without a mechanism to SHORT this coin (except by not owning it), what I mean is without a mechanism to borrow coins to sell them, there is no downward pressure at all, while so many people are enticed into this particular pyramid, feeling like they are missing out on something. The early holders of BTC may all be millionaires right now if they sell. They have everything to gain from higher prices, they won't sell and if you want to buy, you have to pay more and more.

What happens when large holders want to sell without any prior shorting in the market?

Because only the SCOTUS has jurisdiction over the FISC. No other courts have jurisdiction, so cannot and will not hear such cases.

It's a judicial Catch-22.

SCOTUS says you must go to a Federal District court and/or a Federal Appeals court first.

Those courts have no jurisdiction over the FISC, so therefor cannot rule on the case.

Result: SCOTUS denial of certiorari = FISC is untouchable.

So then, since the whole thing was deliberately set up with no legal avenues to challenge FISC possible, I guess this leaves snipers, car-bombs, & IEDs as the only options left. As many nut-cases as there are running around loose in the US these days, I'm sure it won't be long. I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Would setting up a betting pool based on which SCOTUS judges and/or other government officials and office-holders are killed in what order, in what manner, and on what dates be a crime? Is Vegas posting odds?

Strat

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware of specific policy that allowed Governments to ignore the shit out of their own founding documents or Amendments that exist to protect its citizens from this very abuse.

They don't need a specific policy, they can just do it, like they've been doing for many years now.
What are you (or anyone else) going to do about it? Vote for the other party? The American public has been doing that for decades, and it hasn't changed anything.

Oh please, give it up. You've right, any child who's taken a decent civics class would know about the 4A, however the facts that the government has spent billions on spying apparatus and infrastructure, there's a whole federal agency dedicated to violating the 4A, the Executive branch has been complicit in it at all levels with both Republican and Democrat presidents, there's secret courts to rubberstamp all this activity, and Congress refuses to outlaw it, all shows that appealing to the Constitution and the rule of law is pointless. The law is whatever the government and the judiciary says it is, and they've said this stuff is perfectly legal, despite what your (and everyone else not in the government) interpretation of the 4A may say.

The idea that the government is bound by the Constitution and the BoR at this point is just silly.

PRISM and most other programs Snowden has revealed were public!?!?

I guess this was all just a big misunderstanding then, and Mr. Snowden can safely return to the US anytime he wants and all is forgiven, right?

C'mon man, you're really reaching here.

You'd have to consider rumors and complete speculation as to the existence, numbers, natures, and scopes of such programs equal to them being "public".

I never said it is or was a "conspiracy". It's simply corrupt, power-hungry people in government eager for more power and control using whatever tools they can get away with using to that end.

Looters gonna loot whether it's rioters grabbing a plasma TV or a group of politicians stripping away civil liberties because nobody stops them. Rioters looting aren't part of a conspiracy and neither are these politicians. They're simply criminals that need to be arrested, tried, and jailed.

You just can't give any form of government that kind of power no matter what sort of fear-mongering scare tactics and propaganda they employ, because it will *always" be turned to corruption and oppression every single time.

Surrendering liberty for temporary security will do far more damage than any terrorist group ever could, because those holding office will always be susceptible to corruption, blackmail, suborning, and pure lust for power and lust for ideology and/or religion.

Why? Because they are human, and apologies for Darwin's slow progress, but basic human nature and weaknesses and flaws haven't changed measurably since our ancestor picked up that first jawbone and had the leap of imagination to see it as a tool, and then promptly used it to smash in his enemy/rival's head with it and take what he desired.

The price of a free and open society with individual rights, including freedom from surveillance, is that sometimes crazies and bad guys are gonna kill some people or blow something up. There's no "right" to be "safe" because there is no, and can be no, single definition possible among hundreds of millions of people of wildly-diverse cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs, and spread across a fairly large chunk of continent.

Civil rights and freedoms are being trampled and the principles the nation was founded upon are being destroyed with secret courts and secret laws and secret surveillance and secret "kill" lists, all in the name of "protecting us" from the relatively tiny threat that terrorists present to the public.

Strat

How would you know if something was successfully suppressed, given that the definition of "successful" includes those who use bullshit assertions themselves while attempting to label others statements as such?

Why is it the government is incompetent at everything it does, but is still suspected of pulling off (or being able to pull off) the most fanciful of conspiracy theories?

You mean like all those years of fanciful tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory crap asserting the government is/was secretly mass-monitoring/storing/analyzing nearly all domestic voice & digital data communications that everyone dismissed for the very same reasons because we didn't have any real evidence to prove it conclusively until Snowden?

Besides, if you have to use "well, not that they wouldn't do it in a heartbeat, it's too hard/impractical" as an argument for it not being done, does that not indicate that the real problem is you having allowed the government to grab so much power that they care so little for the Rule of Law and fear the possibility of retribution from the people so little that they *would* do it if they only could?

Strat

Why would it not be possible for a C or C++ compiler to do the same thing? The multiple CPU thing could be a problem since C/C++-compiled code typically isn't targeted at a specific system, but it certainly could be specified, couldn't it? And for additional instruction sets, that's been common for ages; with gcc, it's always been possible to optimize for specific CPUs, not just i386. And with the multiple-CPU thing, isn't the OS supposed to handle scheduling of processes and threads automatically anyway, taking advantage of extra cores?