Sure, there is already a crime committed, so there is an actual criminal on the loose. You are a proponent of thought crime it looks like, based on your desire to use profiling as a 'pre-crime' measure.
The government's own constitution didn't forbid it. So the government was legit.
- it's not "legit" to have slaves that did not enter into slavery on their own accord, not from free market perspective, not from perspective of individuals having inalienable rights that are not granted by government, but are what people consider to be 'natural', if a segment of population is forced into a system of government, which allows abuse of these people, then again, I am on the side of them being able to gain their independence. You can promote slavery all you want though, that's your freedom to speak your mind.
There is no "should". You either win and gain your freedom, or you lose and you deserve whatever cruel fate the government has in store for you.
- they should be able to achieve their independence and over time they will.
So when will you bring your private army forward to fight the government?
...sites that accept currency and then immediately convert it to fiat that is one reason for the downward pressure.
I blogged about it the other day, in how I wish governments would just make BTC to fiat currency transactions illegal. It would be a great step in reducing volatility and decoupling BTC from the regulated markets.
- you really don't want that, you think you want it, but you don't.
Having people on both sides of a transaction is important, imagine if there was nobody to sell bitcoins on exchanges, and so the volumes would thin out completely and you would have just a few thousands or (hundreds) trades a day.
So the bid and ask would be pushed higher and higher and higher, however the moment anybody appeared with a non-trivial amount of bitcoins, prices would crash.
Why would you want intraday variations in other currency prices of that magnitude?
Buying a bitcoin in the morning of a day for 40 dollars and buying it at the end of the day at 2 dollars, buying a bitcoin during the day at 260 dollars, buying another one a few hours later at 2150 dollars and then buying another one at 5.25.
This is what you are asking for, a normal market should have more volume and more people trading and this requires people who want to buy and to sell.
In fact to stabilise prices I would suggest implementing a way to borrow and short bitcoins rather than preventing the market from working with legislation.
You are correct, it's important to be able to approach women the right way at work, if you can do it, you'll have all the office romance you can muster. It's a lot of fun (just don't have more than 3 at once, you'll get burned for sure).
My point is that if you are a 'friend' on a social network site with somebody that gov't finds to be suspicious, you can become a target through no fault of your own, but if you are at least minimally intelligent and you are up to no good, you probably won't 'friend' people on social sites that you collaborate with.
But mostly my point is that this is a pot of gold for gov't that will use these connections rightly or wrongly.
The US originally had slavery, because the constitution allows it. No need for consent from the blacks. It took a civil war and an amendment to change that
- precisely, you just defeated your own argument.
The people who are not consenting to the government that is trying to govern them should be able to achieve their independence.
Which is why, by the way, I am absolutely on the side of anybody trying to achieve independence from any government, so any USA State that wants to secede should absolutely be able to do it.
Well you wouldn't, would you. Being in one of the groups that's likely to be watched.
- maybe then you should watch me, keep watching. Obviously individual rights are long dead in USA, now it's clear that individual brains are also not really alive.
How about the US supporting Russia against Chechen rebels?
- how about USA sticking to its founding principles, trading with people, protecting itself in case of an attack but not taking sides, not building alliances with some against others?
It's very simple, they picked up Islam and decided they will support the 'brothers in religion', something to that effect, and guess what, to do that they can spread terror in USA, which has been spreading terror in the Middle East for quite a while, supporting Shahs and Hussein and bin Laden and then turning around and attacking Shahs and Hussein and bin Laden and Afghanistan and half of Africa, etc. I mean USA looks almost schizophrenic the way it deals with the world, but in reality it's not schizophrenic, it's quite consistent if you understand that what it always looks after is the interests of the most politically connected oil companies, that is all.
People should remember though who they are really supporting, because it may turn around and bite them.
Note, that I, personally think that Chechnya should have independence, but Americans sticking their nose into that conflict and using it for their political agenda will backfire as it always does, just like it did in Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran earlier.
Oh, give it a rest. For a few days I've been hearing the left talk about 'right wing nuts' blowing up the place because it was 15th of April, the tax day. I said on a few occasions that this had to do with the marathon, not with the date. If the marathon took place a day later or a day earlier, that's when the bombs would have gone off.
I'm listening to the CBS Boston live feed and one of the uncles of the two guys said just a little while Tamil (one of the brothers) told him he found his "new self" or something like that in Islam.
So give it a rest, it is what it is.
If a woman is murdered, the cops look at her husband as the most likely suspect, and you know what? Most of the time that's who killed her. Same is here, this is profiling and it works.
No, I am watching live feed from CBS Boston as they interviewed a couple of uncles of the bombers, and he is the source, he said that Tamil told him he was now heavy into Islam.
I suspect that the 'friends' of Johar are now in an unfortunate situation, I am quite certain they will now be facing some government scrutiny, something you don't want to face even in USA but especially in Russia.
What do you think about being 'friends' with somebody on social network sites, isn't it just too convenient for the authorities to go after 'friends' in case they don't like somebody? Imagine the government decides you are an enemy for any reason, all of your their 'social network friends' are immediately suspect. What a pot of gold for the government.
So what do you call them now, Americans, are these Chechen guys "terrorists" or "freedom fighters"?
They are Islamist, that much certain, so why are they bombing USA, after all USA was probably more on the side of Chechens in their search for independence from Russia (this is of-course about oil, there is oil in Chechnya).
However it is my personal guess that these guys wanted to bring some terror to USA as an asymmetric response to USA being in the Middle East, Afghanistan most likely. What is interesting is that the two brothers (Johar is the younger one) lived in USA as refugees since 2000-2001. What else could be their motivation if not a newly discovered sympathy towards their 'brothers in religion' somewhere in the Afghan mountains, being attacked by the US empire?
I think this is an example of how exactly the war on Terror will backfire just like the war on drugs did with more violence and more drugs.
War on terror creates more terrorists that were just kids just a few years ago. War on drugs creates more drug related violence.
There is an old idea that violence begets violence, I think it's very much true.
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They should really rename that piece of garbage software into "Larry Ellison's pocket lint he can't throw away" bar.
Eric, you better have a get away backpack ready (or at least a billion bucks in bribes).
What is your point? The South tried to escape the overreaching government and it lost, too bad for the South.
Sure, there is already a crime committed, so there is an actual criminal on the loose. You are a proponent of thought crime it looks like, based on your desire to use profiling as a 'pre-crime' measure.
The government's own constitution didn't forbid it. So the government was legit.
- it's not "legit" to have slaves that did not enter into slavery on their own accord, not from free market perspective, not from perspective of individuals having inalienable rights that are not granted by government, but are what people consider to be 'natural', if a segment of population is forced into a system of government, which allows abuse of these people, then again, I am on the side of them being able to gain their independence. You can promote slavery all you want though, that's your freedom to speak your mind.
There is no "should". You either win and gain your freedom, or you lose and you deserve whatever cruel fate the government has in store for you.
- they should be able to achieve their independence and over time they will.
So when will you bring your private army forward to fight the government?
- it would be a trick for somebody not in USA.
...sites that accept currency and then immediately convert it to fiat that is one reason for the downward pressure.
I blogged about it the other day, in how I wish governments would just make BTC to fiat currency transactions illegal. It would be a great step in reducing volatility and decoupling BTC from the regulated markets.
- you really don't want that, you think you want it, but you don't.
Having people on both sides of a transaction is important, imagine if there was nobody to sell bitcoins on exchanges, and so the volumes would thin out completely and you would have just a few thousands or (hundreds) trades a day.
So the bid and ask would be pushed higher and higher and higher, however the moment anybody appeared with a non-trivial amount of bitcoins, prices would crash.
Why would you want intraday variations in other currency prices of that magnitude?
Buying a bitcoin in the morning of a day for 40 dollars and buying it at the end of the day at 2 dollars, buying a bitcoin during the day at 260 dollars, buying another one a few hours later at 2150 dollars and then buying another one at 5.25.
This is what you are asking for, a normal market should have more volume and more people trading and this requires people who want to buy and to sell.
In fact to stabilise prices I would suggest implementing a way to borrow and short bitcoins rather than preventing the market from working with legislation.
I don't understand, why would I want to hire somebody I can't fuck?
(I kid, I kid).
You are correct, it's important to be able to approach women the right way at work, if you can do it, you'll have all the office romance you can muster. It's a lot of fun (just don't have more than 3 at once, you'll get burned for sure).
My point is that if you are a 'friend' on a social network site with somebody that gov't finds to be suspicious, you can become a target through no fault of your own, but if you are at least minimally intelligent and you are up to no good, you probably won't 'friend' people on social sites that you collaborate with.
But mostly my point is that this is a pot of gold for gov't that will use these connections rightly or wrongly.
The US originally had slavery, because the constitution allows it. No need for consent from the blacks. It took a civil war and an amendment to change that
- precisely, you just defeated your own argument.
The people who are not consenting to the government that is trying to govern them should be able to achieve their independence.
Which is why, by the way, I am absolutely on the side of anybody trying to achieve independence from any government, so any USA State that wants to secede should absolutely be able to do it.
A marathon is also not emblematic of anything to any tax protester, it's just a large public gathering with many cameras.
Well you wouldn't, would you. Being in one of the groups that's likely to be watched.
- maybe then you should watch me, keep watching. Obviously individual rights are long dead in USA, now it's clear that individual brains are also not really alive.
How about the US supporting Russia against Chechen rebels?
- how about USA sticking to its founding principles, trading with people, protecting itself in case of an attack but not taking sides, not building alliances with some against others?
Why should Chechnya have independence?
- because the only legitimate government is that, which is given the consent of the governed. Next question.
You're saying "They hate our marathon runners!"?
- I am saying it's a large public gathering, big target, lot's of news coverage.
If profiling works, then you should be closely watched yourself. Right wing extremists being one of the notable terrorist groups.
- did I promote "watching" somebody?
It's very simple, they picked up Islam and decided they will support the 'brothers in religion', something to that effect, and guess what, to do that they can spread terror in USA, which has been spreading terror in the Middle East for quite a while, supporting Shahs and Hussein and bin Laden and then turning around and attacking Shahs and Hussein and bin Laden and Afghanistan and half of Africa, etc. I mean USA looks almost schizophrenic the way it deals with the world, but in reality it's not schizophrenic, it's quite consistent if you understand that what it always looks after is the interests of the most politically connected oil companies, that is all.
Makes sense.
People should remember though who they are really supporting, because it may turn around and bite them.
Note, that I, personally think that Chechnya should have independence, but Americans sticking their nose into that conflict and using it for their political agenda will backfire as it always does, just like it did in Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran earlier.
The people can take up Islam regardless of colour of their skin and their background.
Oh, give it a rest. For a few days I've been hearing the left talk about 'right wing nuts' blowing up the place because it was 15th of April, the tax day. I said on a few occasions that this had to do with the marathon, not with the date. If the marathon took place a day later or a day earlier, that's when the bombs would have gone off.
I'm listening to the CBS Boston live feed and one of the uncles of the two guys said just a little while Tamil (one of the brothers) told him he found his "new self" or something like that in Islam.
So give it a rest, it is what it is.
If a woman is murdered, the cops look at her husband as the most likely suspect, and you know what? Most of the time that's who killed her. Same is here, this is profiling and it works.
No, I am watching live feed from CBS Boston as they interviewed a couple of uncles of the bombers, and he is the source, he said that Tamil told him he was now heavy into Islam.
I suspect that the 'friends' of Johar are now in an unfortunate situation, I am quite certain they will now be facing some government scrutiny, something you don't want to face even in USA but especially in Russia.
What do you think about being 'friends' with somebody on social network sites, isn't it just too convenient for the authorities to go after 'friends' in case they don't like somebody? Imagine the government decides you are an enemy for any reason, all of your their 'social network friends' are immediately suspect. What a pot of gold for the government.
So what do you call them now, Americans, are these Chechen guys "terrorists" or "freedom fighters"?
They are Islamist, that much certain, so why are they bombing USA, after all USA was probably more on the side of Chechens in their search for independence from Russia (this is of-course about oil, there is oil in Chechnya).
However it is my personal guess that these guys wanted to bring some terror to USA as an asymmetric response to USA being in the Middle East, Afghanistan most likely. What is interesting is that the two brothers (Johar is the younger one) lived in USA as refugees since 2000-2001. What else could be their motivation if not a newly discovered sympathy towards their 'brothers in religion' somewhere in the Afghan mountains, being attacked by the US empire?
I think this is an example of how exactly the war on Terror will backfire just like the war on drugs did with more violence and more drugs.
War on terror creates more terrorists that were just kids just a few years ago. War on drugs creates more drug related violence.
There is an old idea that violence begets violence, I think it's very much true.
The one known as 'limpy'.
Why, why, why does it have to be associated with some sick or even dying sounds? How is it ever a good idea to call your product: wheezy?
Sneezy? Leaky? Deathly? Spooky? Sickly? Stinky? Slimy?
I like Debian, why does it want me to think about such things when I think about that distro?
1. What you will?
2. So why do like your name so much?