And when was money first thought of? It has been around since prehistoric times.

Bitcoins can be divided up into units as small as .00000001 The software currently only supports 2 decimal points, but this can be increased in later versions.

True. Dollar-parity is just a psychological milestone. What is meaningful is that Bitcoin has increased from about $.05 in September to $1 now.

Numerous powerful US political figures and pundits have unashamedly called for his assassination. Fear of going to Guantanamo is not unreasonable. http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/

I've never gotten a telemarketer call in the years I've been on the list.

People commonly confuse MREs with C-rations (or MCI rations), which do last for decades.

The only argument against that which I can think of is that you are essentially mortgaging the phone with most phone plans - you get it for a low or zero upfront fee and you're essentially buying the phone with higher monthly fees. And when you mortgage a house, there are certain things the bank says you can't do to it while they own it - among other restrictions, I specifically remember them saying I couldn't store large tanks of gasoline in my house. For phones, I guess it would come down to whether this is explicitly stated in the service contract.

Perhaps the thing is that most movies stink, and since there are so very few movies made from video games, they aren't statistically enough of them to get a good one.

Looking for racism everywhere doesn't mean you are racist. It means you are racistist.

Jean Plantureux, the political cartoonist from France's Le Monde newspaper, came to talk to my college a few years back and explained that due to anti-Nazi laws they couldn't draw any swastikas on anyone. So what they do if they want to say somebody's a Nazi is they draw them with an armband with a white circle on it. Everyone knows exactly what the white circle means.

You never had a bicycle? Riding bikes to friends houses was the highlight of living in the 'burbs.

But Craigslist isn't committing the crime. They're providing a means of communication in the same way Google Gmail or AT&T do - or any Internet provider. And they should bear no more legal responsibility for the communications people make with their service than AT&T, Google, or Comcast do. To modify your examples, it would be like prosecuting the manufacturer of the car for letting people speed with it, or prosecuting the manufacturer of the Louisville Slugger that someone gets beaten with.

There was far less government borrowing under Clinton than under Reagan/Bush before him or W Bush after him.

http://www.headybrew.net/images/content/budget_deficit_or_surplus.gif

Of course, Obama looks like he'll be borrowing quite a bit more.

On "soverign immunity," I agree with you.
And I will say that "state secrets" is a huge magnet for abuse. . . but I don't think you can say that the government should not be able to keep any secrets whatsoever. Must the government publicize all nuclear secrets? Troop locations? Weapons and surveillance capabilities? Surely not.

The solution, in my opinion, is to have an independent court with access to all information which can determine what is and isn't a legitimate case of a "state secret."