Quote from: abstraction on March 31, 2011, 05:37:37 PM

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"Outlaw Bitcoin"? Well, maybe.. But idea is alive and I don't think it can be stopped.

You only need > 50% of GPU power to stop it. (think double-spends) The governments of the world only need to conjure up slightly greater than 50% support of the network to suppress the rest, kind of like "majority rule" democracy.

No, even 50%+ of the network power isn't enough to break Bitcoin, only to defeat a particular portion of the system security for a period of time. The only known way to actually break Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet, and unless that is total, then that only works for as long as the sections that are dark remain so.

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10-20 more years of the crap they call education these days and we'd be doomed as a race.

Education as a whole is a well-meaning profession gone wrong because it is currently based on false principles.

It may seem that way, I'm sure. But "education" has been surprisingly effective at it's original goals. Horrance Mann is widely considered the "father" of the American education system, by both his supporters and critics. Read what he said about the subject, and it will become bluntly obvious that the "education" system was never really intended to educate the children of the middle and lower classes in America, but to condition them. The next obvious question then becomes, condition them for what?

You will not like the answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_History_of_American_Education