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In what are these various common data-structures supposed to be implemented? Also in a language that already has them?
We have to keep building and maintaining a kernel, a libc, and other basic infrastructure software. Should we also do that in a language that implements the missing things already? Maybe the CPU itself should implement these common data structures?
What solution do you propose?
There is a mismatch in duration. The obligation on the side of the employer is a one-off payment. The obligation on the side of employee is ad vitam aeternam (forever). If the employer wants to keep the employee to his obligation, he will have to make additional payments for additional periods of non-disparagement.
The G4 (USD,EUR,JPY,GBP) may last for somewhat longer than the other fiat currencies, but that does not detract from the fact that currency crises in the smaller fiat currencies are very common (think Argentina).
People who live in a G4 country are apparently incapable of imagining that the situation elsewhere is seriously different than in their own country.
There are lots of Mickey Mouse fiat currencies around issued by the banana republics that keep debasing them until they collapse. Even the Russian ruble is a joke that became entirely worthless, three times, in the span of two decades.
Instead of dollarizing during a monetary crisis, as these smaller/weaker fiat currency areas used to do in the past, they may elect to bitcoinize.
If that happens, you could end up with an entire country using bitcoin. As soon as this happens, nobody will ever manage to eliminate bitcoin in that country.
History does not repeat itself. Collapsing currencies now face a prospect of hysteresis. Reintroducing fiat currency will not work if people have already moved over to bitcoin.
With smaller fiat currencies collapsing one by one -- as they always do -- bitcoin will keep growing stronger and stronger.
Why would Indian people have to die of cancer, for the profits of the colluding US pharma oligarchy and their captive regulators?
Both India and China are nuclear powers. Between them, half of the world population lives there.
If I were India, I would not give in one single inch. Eventually, all respect is ultimately based on the fear for reprisals. Just as a matter of principle, I would rather press the nuclear button.
There is one major difference: Since the Snowden affair, the United States no longer have allies.
The Bombay terrorist bombings are indeed -- like so many terrorist attacks -- a false-flag operation, organized by the United States' intelligence services.
Your justification for the murder of innocent civilians falls short in many ways. You have simply rationalized the murderous ideological propaganda of the US military-industrial complex.
As long as you keep murdering just goatherders, you may indeed still get away with this kind of impunity. You fail to understand, however, how vulnerable the ones doing the killing are, to reprisals and retaliations.
It only takes a small bit of serious hacking and/or data mining to figure out the home addresses of everyone involved in these massacres, and from there to schedule them one by one for termination. The 40 million Target credit cards were much more difficult to obtain than that.
There is a tremendous asymmetry of information between your centralized murder engine and your decentralized enemies. The database of everyone involved on your side exists and can be stolen. The other way around is not true, regardless of all the surveillance that the NSA does. Therefore, the murderers are guaranteed to lose this conflict.
The deliberate balkanization of all finance in fiat money will backfire big time. The dinosaurs are simply herding everybody in the direction of bitcoin, and there will be no turning back ;-)
If nobody seems to be "excited" about this new "opportunity", there is only one explanation possible: bitcoin does all of that and more and better ;-)
This type of story in which they initially sentenced him to 8 years in jail, has zero deterring effect on me. As far as I am concerned, it only strengthens our libertarian resolve to break through the politically controlled monopoly on the use of force.
The fact that they initially sentenced him to 8 years in jail, has zero deterring effect. As far as I am concerned, it only strengthens our resolve to break through the politically controlled monopoly on the use of force.