I shouldn't hold my breath for DNA Lounge to start accepting crypto payments any time soon

I know one of these guys.

Back in the day Eric Watson bought an Audi S8, which I've owned for fifteen years or so. And in another coincidence which is probably only amusing to me, we met one another at a formal dinner at the Cafe Royale in Piccadilly at the time he owned my car.

This guy has an interesting backstory and, it would be fair to say, a chequered history. The billionaire Owen Glenn has spent a lot of money going after him.

God bless Lili St. Cyr!

Serious? No. I don't seriously expect really safe speed limits to be set up by any democracy that has so many motorists in it. But I do think that's what we ought to do. As a civilisation, we are killing our own children at an appalling rate, just so that motorists can catch up to the back of the next long line of stationary traffic a few seconds faster. In town, slow down.

Look at the scenario you described. A car doing the speed limit towards a marked crosswalk... it's such a familiar scenario that we forget to be horrified. Think about what we're doing here. We have footpaths across the street specifically for people to walk across. And then we have motorists driving straight at those footpaths, at such speed that it would literally be a crime to go any faster at all, at such speed that they couldn't possibly stop should anyone suddenly walk out on the path. These motorists expect everyone else in the world to pay attention, to stay out of their way. God forbid they themselves should slow down! They're 'doing the limit' and that makes it OK.

That limit is obviously much too high. It should come down. Twenty is plenty.

Then let's redesign those footpaths. At the moment there are raised paths either side of the street, and when the path runs across the middle of the street it is lowered. For the convenience of motorists, of course; otherwise they might have to slow down. Well, let them slow down! The path across the street is a pedestrian walkway just like the paths either side, so let's have it at the same height, for the convenience of people using wheelchairs, people pushing infants in prams, people with mobility issues. We'll put a gentle slope to either side of the path so that it isn't a nasty bump for motor traffic. Well, I mean - so that it isn't a nasty bump if the motor traffic is moving at a safe speed.

Yeah, speed limits are definitely way too high, you're right about that. 20mph in cities is plenty. Then you have a lot longer in which to notice people walking across the road, your brakes have much less work to do in order to bring the vehicle safely to a stop, and if you still fail to respond in time you'll do much less bodily harm to somebody.

having their ass kicked

The word is arse. In New Zealand we speak proper English, no true Kiwi uses zionAmerican pidgin.

Fuck off, fraud.

The astronauts took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre

Chinese space travelers are Taikonauts, much as Russian space travelers are Cosmonauts.

We can admit that the articles were pretty much always crap. The difference is that, back in the day, someone in the comments section would have pointed out that removing the headphone jack is about ApplePay competing with Square and, in the future, other payment competitors like Bitcoin. If it weren't for a lot of your supposedly highly-intelligent peers deciding to jump into yet another walled garden, maybe /. wouldn't have changed quite as much over the years.

Actually, Rand was almost exactly in the middle of the generation that paid for Social Security twice. The first benefits began in 1940. The first generation of retirees were paid directly out of the treasury. The actual SS taxes that Rand paid went into the "trust fund," which was later loaned out to other government agencies, to pay for war mostly.

Abiogenesis

Eliminates parasites.

MtGox was not really a bank. It was a trading platform. Keeping Bitcoins on deposit there would allow you to place limit orders.

With emphasis on the "unbelievable," as in "probably complete bullshit." MtGox has been under investigation for a year now, selectively limiting accounts and withdrawals. Karpeles has said himself that the Bitcoins aren't lost, but "temporarily unavailable." There is likely more going on behind the scenes.

Don't use the term "Israeli" when you mean "Zionist."

There is no "Israel" and using the term bestows an illegitimate legitimacy to the Zionist entity occupying Palestine.