If it is organic, all that energy input is carbon neutral.
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Portugal offers a high level of education and location of universities in relation to the PlanIT Valley site (5 major universities within 90 km) with the largest in Portugal – University of Porto – less than 15 km away. In addition, there is a significant emphasis placed on knowledge development to support transition to a knowledge economy.
They are probably counting galician Universidade de Vigo as one of those major universities. Not portuguese, but closer than Lisbon, and there's actually quite some circulation of students and workforce both ways across the Minho river:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norte_Region,_Portugal
North Portugal and Galicia form a Euroregion, based on the common historical, cultural, linguistic and economic similarities. The Euroregion has its origins in the Galicia-North Portugal Work Community, established in 1991. This Euroregion is also backed by the so-called Eixo Atlântico ("Atlantic Axis"), a lobby of Galician and North Portuguese cities and municipalities.
I realized I was replying to a tangential remark, but it wasn't just language nitpicking. The implication that the US were in war against the people in the country that Bin Laden happened to be from, was serious enough not to let it go unchallenged.
In Scheme you can define and create new functions and macros at runtime. There is not much else that is dynamic about the Scheme standard[1] because... there's not much else to the Scheme standard.
As for reflection, I see that mainly as a tools/debugging aid, and therefore very implementation-specific stuff. "Dynamic" languages have reflection in their definition because they are mostly defined by implementation.
That said, the Scheme standard doesn't preclude reflectivity at all, nor seems particularly compile-oriented to me. Nowhere it is assumed that implementations be compilers at all.
I think most of the things you find missing there were not left out for efficiency, but because it was rightly considered that they don't belong in the language spec at all.
[1] By the "Scheme standard" I mean R5RS.
Not agreeing with grandparent, though. Lots of people admit to playing with their Wiis for hours a day.
Care to elaborate?
If the new network implemented inflationary logic, as a modern state is wont to do, I can't exactly see people rushing to convert their old (relatively stable, perhaps deflationary) money to the new one. Therefore, I can't see many businesses stopping to accept the old bitcoin.
And after whatever adjustments are made, it will be business as usual. Bitcoin will remain the network for people that want a decentralized currency. Not necessarily of libertarians, but of anyone with distrust or disillusion with their governments and the banking system. Which I don't think is such a small demographic.
What does the OP's elaborate, hostile, expensive plan buy you over plan B? That users will have to opt-out of your branch, rather than opt-in? Is that wise PR?
If other people are happy with whatever features of BitCoin remain under centralized control, more power to them. I see no problem.
But you're saying we have to fear that someone will start effectively issuing p2p dollars. I think it kind of defeats the purpose, but I can't see why that's a more of a threat to the principles of Bitcoin than plain old USD.
If they fork the block chains, my understanding is that your old bitcoins will work alright in either network. People that stick to the old network won't accept any money from the new one, but nothing keeps them from spending their money in the new one. Thus the adopters of the new economy would be subsidizing the members of the old one.
[Edit] And now my own semi-rebuttal: sure enough, the people who move to the new economy can similarly spend their old credit in the old one. But considering that the original Bitcoin currency is deflationary in nature, they have less incentive to do so, at least immediately.
Men-with-guns haven't brought down p2p file sharing yet.