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Cocaine, ecstacy, and LSD were all once unregulated and "legal". It used to be OK to take pocketknives and drinks on airplanes.

This was partly due to the highly unregulated nature of UK IT recruitment but the problem was the lack of jobs. Still, a see some problems in this article.

Hello, downsides of unregulated currency. Some of the rules are there for a reason.

Bear in mind that cryptocurrencies are currently an unregulated wild west, where activities like these are both common and legal. Do not invest anything you are not prepared to lose.

If you own your very own completely unregulated trading exchange and deposit syatem then you have a big incentive to cheat the market. One way to do so would be to allow your own trades to jump the queue in the order book.

And since bitcoin is completely unregulated, there's nothing really stopping anyone from manipulating the market. For example, no one knows who's behind BTC-e, but it has a lot of trade volume.

Even if it's illegal to manipulate the US Dollar, it is most certainly legal to manipulate the BitCoin, whose express purpose was to be wholly unregulated! !

Most of the current situation can be explained by the fact that broadband is currently the only unregulated public utility. In NYC, I don't really pay much attention to electricity, gas, and water.

Can't we just keep everything unregulated until it's inconvenient for me that it's unregulated?

An unregulated leveraged options platform with essentially no assets and what will undoubtedly be super senior debt deals with their prime broker writing naked contracts on something that moves 30% based on one website lagging out for a hour or two? what could go wrong

Isn't this exactly what Bitcoin was created for - to allow unregulated access to currency? I guess people don't really realize what unregulated actually means - and nor do they realize why you really do want regulated currency.

Perhaps best exemplified by this statement: > In other words, bitcoins cannot possibly fulfill their supposed purpose: to serve as an unregulated currency unit. Author offers scant real critisism beyond the observation that bitcoin is very volatile.

Because it's unregulated and any problems then lands at Apple's door to adjudicate so they don't want these headaches because to do so requires setting up channels and systems and policies for the local, state, federal, and international areas of contention but the lack of profit incentives makes this a simple decision. Do I get a MBA now?

I find the disturbing allegations of unregulated, widespread, and deep surveillance used for economic and political ends far more important than Snowden's role in all of this, and I think he'd agree with that. While it's tempting to get obsessed with Snowden, his character, his job, why he leaked etc, and create grand conspiracy theories surrounding it, it's more healthy to discuss the facts we do know and their implications for how we use the internet.

Yes, there absolutely are policies that encourage people to climb to a perch from which it is incredibly easy to fall: social pressure against out-of-wedlock births; ineffective sexual education; social stigma against and a lack of services providing female reproductive health in general, contraceptives, emergency contraceptives and abortion; the structure of our health system disincentivizing preventative medical care in general; bankruptcy 'reform'; predatory lending practices; social stigma against the trades; corporate abuse of the safety net to depress wages; college grants and their unregulated effect on tuition; the college loan system in general; regressive taxation; child tax credits; safety net rewards based on family size; the jarring transition between qualifying for social safety net programs and not qualifying; military rewards based on family size; subsidized sprawl and a lack of public transportation; zero-tolerance laws and policies; substandard school districts; etc.