So is there any way to have it done if a previous tech didn't do it? I had the MLB on my MBP replaced a couple months after I bought it (this was back around 2011), and it didn't get flashed with the serial number.

Just be sure to repeat that mantra while you watch your kid dying from measles or smallpox, or paralyzed from polio. Maybe it will make you feel better. But I hope not.

English speakers, at least US ones, tend to refer to it as the Ukraine, in the same way that we refer to the Netherlands.

"They should have ownership records "

You're forgetting that one of the design goals of bitcoin was untraceability. You don't *want* ownership records.

MF Global: not a bank. And SIPC insured, as has been pointed out.

S&L: FDIC insured.

Unless you had deposits in excess of the insured amount per account (which used to be $100,000, but has gone up in recent years), you didn't lose any deposited money.

Do you have more than $100,000 in your bank account? Because I don't.

You *do* understand that the reason why the value of gold fluctuates against the dollar is *because* we are no longer on the gold standard?

Frodo?

That honor is reserved for the cave divers.

Let's be honest: you were probably going blind for other reasons anyway...

Any estimate on how many people fit in this building? Was it 100,000+? This thing is huge!

They're too sexy for the cliff.

I hope he was taking bar bets...

Several-greats-grandpa approves.

This is the post-hurricane picture, right?

What's amazing to me are the number of people in this thread who clearly haven't read "The Virtue Of Selfishness", yet somehow feel they are qualified to make statements about Objectivism.

You don't recognize Sting?

I wish I still had my '71 Superbeetle.

Mufasa? Is that you under there?

I assume he's still in diapers only because he's so gangsta that he makes other people wipe his ass for him.