Speaking of sound ...

Bought a Samsung sound bar w/woofer (separate piece) and attached to a ~55-60 inch LG TV via fiber optic cable.  Worked for a while, nice sound, but started cutting out - run ~twenty (20) minutes, cut off for a couple minutes, repeat cycle.

Then I bought a Samsung sound bar, woofer built in, and attached it to a Samsung 46 inch TV - never worked.  Samsung to Samsung, right?  You would expect compatibility, right?  Apparently not  :-\  :mad:.

Samsung has great video, but audio - in my experience, at least - is less than stellar if not totally non-functional  :P.

Makes a great stocking stuffer?  :huh:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QS6W0I/

-app103 (December 10, 2014, 03:47 AM)

Hm-m-m-m ... thimk I'd need a stylist for proper application  :-\.

Smart contracts, tokenized property, micro payments, and arbitrary escrow are just a few things there.

It's more than just rhetoric.

-Renegade (November 24, 2014, 06:55 PM)

Well, it is rhetoric, at least to me  :huh:.  For instance:

• Contracts are neither smart nor dumb (although the parties involved may be).  
• If you pay $1.00 (USD) once, or a penny 100 times, you still pay the same amount (unless there's interest involved).

How does Bitcoin change that perspective  :-\?

Further, as the Internet gets more and more nationalized, how does Bitcoin survive?  If I cannot contact someone in China, how can I pay them or receive payment from them?  Bitcoin, insofar as I can determine, requires a free and open Web - which is currently being strangled by a significant number of nations.

I'm not averse to the concept, but I simply do not see it surviving in current political climate(s)  :'(.