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The lower receiver is the part of a gun that actually makes it a gun, at least in the eyes of the law. It's this part that handles the ammunition intake and the trigger system and it's this part that requires a gun license to own. Apparently every other part can be bought separately by anyone without any restriction or regulation.

The word Singularity is to technology as the word Utopia is to society. Additionally, society and technology are inseparable. An absolute Utopia will never exist, likewise the Singularity is not an end, it's simply a new plateau. Once we reach the Singularity the world will be profoundly different, we'll be at whole new level of existence. Issues of health, poverty, politics, etcetera will be gone but we'll face a whole new set of challenges.

The world is not black and white but our feeble minds tend to simplify the world around us in order to accelerate our interaction with it. Similar to how lowering the graphics in computer games results in a faster game but a less accurate picture. The fact that religion is still so prevalent in society is evidence that our societal GPU is woefully underpowered and is producing a poor reality.

The free market system rewards exceptional individuals who might have been oppressed under previous social systems. However, the free market system does nothing to promote creative thinkers as a whole, this creates an aristocracy/slavery society, rewarding the few and forcing the rest to submit to wage slavery. This is akin to older systems like monarchy.

This is a response to the Disadvantages of Bitcoin post on the Stanford CS Faculty blog . Please read that post before reading my response. To get an idea of the advantages of Bitcoin there is an Advantages section on the same blog. I also recommend having a look at the We Use Coins site.

The word "utopia" implies a perfect society which is an oxymoron in itself because a society that stagnates is far from perfect. Like anything living; society needs to grow and adapt. The word communism also strikes fear into uninformed minds but in reality it's the sustainable approach when compared to free market capitalism or what we live in today which is creditism or wage slavery.

Thanks to the Reddit community and OMG Ubuntu , i was able to circumvent the closed beta access restriction for Steam and i managed to install and run the Steam client. Most of the games in my library were not available as they did not have Ubuntu versions. Of the games that were available only three actually installed correctly; Amnesia, World of Goo and Spaz. I've played Amnesia before on Ubuntu and it was a large download so i didn't test that game. World of Goo worked flawlessly and Spaz ran but had no sound.