Aw, whatcha gonna do, pour maple syrup on me?

Au Contraire, do you really think Manifest Destiny was merely to the west?

You are aware that the idea of Canada joining the USA goes back 250 years, with even the Articles of Confederation having an explicit clause for allowing Canada to join the then USA.

You are ignoring the very long history of the USA attempting to annex or otherwise encourage Canada to join the States, going back all the way to the Articles of Confederation as well as the American Revolutionary War.

You are misreading my point. I am not attacking on the basis of the bug itself, nor is my point regarding the security of the base level software itself.

I merely pointed out, via using the overflow bug, that the clean up post bug fix was to erase the offending transaction from the chain via Bitcoin's longest chain consensus protocol. That goes against your assertion that Bitcoin is an immutable ledger.

Remember, immutable means "Not subject or susceptible to change." If they hardcoded a blacklist of those 2 wallet addresses while keeping the transaction on chain, then there would be a point to saying Bitcoin has immutability.

Removing that transaction post-hoc however means that Bitcoin is not immutable, for better or worse. That is merely my point.

You do realize that it only takes 51% of the total hash power to change the rules of the network right? If the majority of miners decide to fork where there is 42 million instead of 21 million BTC, nothing is practically stopping them.

"If only if there was some immutable ledger that no one can modify"

Short article about Bitcoin's little incident with block 74638, and how they then proceeded to change aforementioned "immutable" ledger to fix it.

Lets see: Monero is more private. Ethereum does the programable money paradigm better. Bitcoin Cash allows more transactions through per 10 minutes.

There is not a single intrinsic factor that Bitcoin does better than pretty much any other major crypto, asides from arbitrary "firstness", which is a god awful metric for best going forward.

Rocks are for the stone age but you don't see people calling for the abolition of concrete.

End the Fed!

I simply cannot agree with your premise when increasingly large groups of deviants and pedophiles are using "early porn introduction" or EPI, as a method of grooming children online.

If we lived in a world where those people did not exist, I would be inclined to side with you, but we do need a bar set to keep the trash out.

To be clear, I am not of the opinion that the Australian bill is something that needs passed to protect muh kids or what have you. I am merely pointing out the hypocracy of Youtube being regulated as a social media platform, but not Pornhub, despite Pornhub having very similar features as Youtube, the only difference being the focus of content.

As an aside, if Australia's Pornhub is anything like the US's, a "Yes, I am 18" button shouldn't fly. If one can't just proclaim to be of legal age for alcohol, tobacco, etc and must prove their age, why should online pornography be any different?

Nah, it's a social media platform. Not only are you allowed to upload non-explicit content, IE there are gaming lets-plays of otherwise SFW games, the platform has a very active commenting section.

If those criteria are good enough for Youtube to be blocked for underaged viewers on the basis that social media harms them, Pornhub meets the exact same criteria.

Also, not America.

Yes.

Minor nitpick, Kerrygold is not an alternative to butter, it's just another option of butter.

Doing some slight digging, it's not heavy metals but the "forever chemical" buzzwords that liberal media throws around so much. Apparently there is a lawsuit by CA and NY for PFAS found in the wrappers and the holding company's lack of labelling the product as containing it.

Updoot for the 2016 memories

That's to be expected though? CA, OR, WA are "officially" deep blue.

Everyone wants a handout nowadays, wouldn't be suprised if some day they start doing that!

And circling back to the comment OP's point, who says that they can't be caught off guard again?

I am very much of the opinion currently that if there is a blackhat plan in play right now, it's going to be of the lawfare/subterfuge variety. Just the messaging from party faces like Obama, Harris and the like show that they may be treating election night as a lost cause, and are looking at other options in the near future.

Lets not sit here and pretend that cheating is some new phenomenon however. Even as far back as the 60s there were questions about JFK's election being rigged.

If the elections have been rigged for so long, why would DJT have made it in 2016's general, much less the primary?

Wow, that shows how much of a dated period piece that book is. The book is clearly written from a anti-Free Silverite point of view, because it adopts every single flawed argument about muh inflation and muh economic disaster.

I was actually looking at that, apparently the IRS in it's infinite wisdom DEBOOONKED that and will charge you $5000 if you use that as a reason for not filing/"frivolously filed".

Don't question why the agency in charge of executing the 16th guards the 16th amendment so jealously, it makes total sense...

Of course, there is nothing in the 16th amendment that says that income tax must be collected, only that Congress "shall have power" to levy income taxes.

All you'd need to do is either repeal the income tax law itself, or render the IRS effectively inoperable, to get a similar, although temporary, effect.

This reads like massive schizoposting. A "performance artist" takes one long running project and uses it to advertise another project of the creator's, and people are falling over each other saying "OMG the AI are creating their own religions!!!"

Mayhaps a comparative vs absolute statement? Do remember that his "opposition" was McCain and Romney, both of which makes nearly anyone a charismatic titan versus those 2 limp noodles.