He did it through what he says was the only means available to transfer funds to war-torn Iraq, an ancient informal system known as hawala, in which brokers move money outside the conventional banking system.
And Bitcoin looks inferior to the conventional banking system in other ways too.
But for those with conventional nervous system wiring, nothing is quite like short-selling.
In a conventional optical system, light rays enter through a lens and converge at a point to form an image.
The defenders of the cap-and-trade proposal, however, have advanced the proposition that strictly speaking, cap-and-trade is not just a tax, as its mechanism contains features not included in a conventional taxation system.
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This software is happy to be a conventional (albeit ambitious) operating system for conventional (albeit ambitious) computers.
As a result, a system using wind and solar has to be built with sufficient system capacity from conventional sources to be handle the system full load without the wind and solar systems.
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It combines a conventional global positioning system (GPS) signal with those of other sensors - accelerometers and gyroscopes - to pinpoint a car's location to within 2m (6ft 6in).
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One big problem: Sky Angel distributes its signals over the Internet instead of a conventional cable-TV system.
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Far Solitaire is powered by a conventional diesel-electric system consisting of three engines connected to generators that run electric motors.
But for those with the conventional wiring of the nervous system, nothing is quite like short-selling.
The push for this prize-like system came after conventional government subsidies for vaccine research failed.
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Mr Daley thinks a more conventional eight-hour shift system might be healthier for everyone involved.
For every two units of electricity provided to consumers through the conventional power generation and delivery system, as much as 98 units are wasted along the way.
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This is one of the merits in such an all-inorganic system while some conventional systems cannot follow the light power in general because of their internal or external rate-limiting processes in the complex structures.
This kind of LEMP weapon could be theoretically deployed as an air defense system to neutralize conventional (IR guided or radar guided) missiles, but could also be used to neutralize UAVs, which are dependent on electronic systems.
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In November Ovshinsky dropped another doozy: He told an audience in Japan that he has made possible a cognitive computer, one that can mimic the human brain by busting through the limitations of conventional computing's binary system.
The pound-and-a-half weight of a current iPad sheds the tremendous amount of weight that would normally be needed for a conventional in-flight entertainment system built into the headrest, which on a typical 375-seat 767 could see the iPads pay for themselves within years, if not sooner.
The nation should not have to choose between an immensely powerful conventional and nuclear force-projection system like the B-2 and affordable, global defenses against ballistic missile strikes.
This means that if energy is required on a constant basis then the system needs to be backed-up by conventional sources of power 73% of the time, and there are days when the back-up system is required for more than 90% of the time (In Germany, the industry association insists that renewables uptime averages 10%).
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The trouble is, the current funding system encourages them to run conventional September-to-May courses.
Helping Komatsu persuade the mine operator to switch was a new drive system that instead of the conventional mechanical axle and cogs uses rear-wheel-mounted electrical motors.
Compared to conventional notebook PC manufacturing processes, this system is expected to reduce the amount of newly produced plastic used by 10 tons per year while cutting CO2 emissions by approximately 15%.
The Advantix cameras are based on a hybrid digital-and-conventional technology called APS, for Advanced Photography System.
The enterprise version can also integrate conventional radio systems and telephone networks into the system.
CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).
Furukawa wants to reduce the price to of the salt-water system to half the cost of a conventional lead acid battery.
Bringing together hundreds of thousands of components to quickly launch such a massive-scale computing system-which would have been nearly impossible using conventional technologies-requires an incredible level of reliability.
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Lord Turner says that the conventional institutions that we look to provide stability for the financial system and the economy - micro-prudential regulators such as the FSA or central banks like the Bank of England - don't have adequate tools for the task.
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