Folks like him go from bitter about the stupidity of Bitcoin, to bitter about failing to jump in early, without realizing that their world view inhibits their lives similarly in many other ways as well.:(
Heh, I already admitted some ideas are stupid, no need to attempt to prove the point.
1) Our star tells the future of life on earth.
2) Transmutation is perfectly possible.
3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19276390
Sometimes naysayers are wrong, or at least are too limited in their frames of reference.
Is Bitcoin a stupid idea? I don't know, but Dogecoin seems like an even more stupid idea and it is growing considerably faster than Bitcoin at this point. Regardless, Bitcoin is 5 years old and growing fast. How long will it last before you start reconsidering the wisdom of your mockery?
I am looking at textbooks that cost $40 just to rent for 3 months, and $180 to "own." This is e-book format, for the kindle, that you cannot even view with the kindle app on a PC.
I never bothered to learn the ribbon UI but I don't really hate it. I rather enjoy the fact that it drove a few people to adopt OpenOffice.
I have used nothing but linux both personally and professionally for quite a few years. I have a vague and displeasing mistrust of closed source operating systems, which turns out to be well-justified.
Piracy increases sales. Who wouldn't support piracy?
Don't be an ass, my opinion is meaningless regardless of how I phrase it.
As for context, who are you to determine what is or is not proper context?
This Snowden leak is clearly aimed at securing corporate opposition to the NSA. Yet the danger of an intelligence agency broken free from the bonds of law and oversight applies not just to corporations, but to every one of us.
Because ordinary citizens -- both American and foreign -- have jobs with these corporations, jobs that are affected by industrial espionage?
Because we have expectations of privacy (in the absence of wrongdoing) and that expectation applies to corporations as well?
Because industrial espionage is the motherlode of data in the age of the Internet...can you imagine the damage if Snowden were corrupted by Chinese intelligence services? Or Russian? Indeed, what if that is the case with other NSA personnel already?
Because an intelligence agency willing to engage in corporate profiteering is showing a callous disrespect for law, privacy, and ethics?
If an intelligence agency has freed itself from the bonds of law and public oversight, how far will it go? Will it be used against a populist target such as the "1%" or against a political target such as Occupy? Indeed, is it already being used for such? (Michael Hastings!)
Stop being an apologist, recognize the cancer for what it is.
This just gets more and more rich as time goes. So what if every spy agency does it? That does not make it right. It is time for ordinary people to figure out whether they want this kind of action being done by their governments.
I am very happy Snowden is choosing to release this material one drop at a time. It is like Chinese water torture against the intelligence apparatus. Please, keep the love coming!
I think after the Murrah bombing, 9/11, and the marathon bombing, we have established that the security agencies are not capable of stopping actual terrorist activity against American citizens. Not when every supposed thwarting is really just an FBI set-up. So it is time for us to really consider what these agencies are actually doing, since they are apparently not stopping terrorism.
My apologies. The atmosphere on this forum tends to be viciously anti-liberty on this point, and ignorance about the history of money seems to correlate well with ethical blindness about self-defense.
> Places where the the plebs could get wealth resulted in modern society.
So, you are saying that it was the specific change to inflationary, centralized currencies that led to modern society, right?
<a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/28/the-sixth-great-extinction-a-silent-extermination/">This is the price of your inflation-led modern society.</a>
I am not impressed.
I happen to believe firmly that we will never return to the ages of feudalism, even as we will inevitably return to a deflationary currency. However, I am quite certain you will like the reason for that belief even less than what you have already read. In a nutshell, feudalism is impossible when the populace is armed.
But you are being extremely disingenious. There are plenty of people who were born here and simply have no documentation of their citizenship. We call them "homeless" and try to pretend they don't exist. But they do exist, and one of the major impediments to their improvement is a lack of access to any sort of financial system.
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If the airline employees were on board with it, then there would be no problem.
Folks like him go from bitter about the stupidity of Bitcoin, to bitter about failing to jump in early, without realizing that their world view inhibits their lives similarly in many other ways as well. :(
Heh, I already admitted some ideas are stupid, no need to attempt to prove the point.
1) Our star tells the future of life on earth.
2) Transmutation is perfectly possible.
3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19276390
Sometimes naysayers are wrong, or at least are too limited in their frames of reference.
Is Bitcoin a stupid idea? I don't know, but Dogecoin seems like an even more stupid idea and it is growing considerably faster than Bitcoin at this point. Regardless, Bitcoin is 5 years old and growing fast. How long will it last before you start reconsidering the wisdom of your mockery?
So was the internal combustion engine.
So was the idea that the earth was small enough that you could reach China by sailing east from Europe.
So was A/C electricity.
So was the idea that humans could fly.
Ideas often seem FUCKING RETARDED before they change the world. Sometimes they are fucking retarded, but Bitcoin is 5 years old and still growing.
Well, since the devs are fixing it so it won't be a problem again, I would say this is just a remarkably good buying opportunity.
True, but they are both being utilized in these legal wars. Open source is being used as a tool to end patent disputes. I like it.
I am enjoying seeing this drama play out. I didn't see this coming, but it is fun to watch.
I am looking at textbooks that cost $40 just to rent for 3 months, and $180 to "own." This is e-book format, for the kindle, that you cannot even view with the kindle app on a PC.
Hey grampa! Kids born after NS4 was released are getting their drivers' licenses!
I never bothered to learn the ribbon UI but I don't really hate it. I rather enjoy the fact that it drove a few people to adopt OpenOffice.
I have used nothing but linux both personally and professionally for quite a few years. I have a vague and displeasing mistrust of closed source operating systems, which turns out to be well-justified.
Piracy increases sales. Who wouldn't support piracy?
Also I have a moral obligation to never ever buy anything from Sony, and I'm not really a fan of the Microsoft platform.
Work and school are convenient excuses, but the reality is that I can't justify dropping cash on a gaming console...
I'll become a gamer again if this happens. Just the idea of this makes me incredibly happy.
Don't be an ass, my opinion is meaningless regardless of how I phrase it.
As for context, who are you to determine what is or is not proper context?
This Snowden leak is clearly aimed at securing corporate opposition to the NSA. Yet the danger of an intelligence agency broken free from the bonds of law and oversight applies not just to corporations, but to every one of us.
Because ordinary citizens -- both American and foreign -- have jobs with these corporations, jobs that are affected by industrial espionage?
Because we have expectations of privacy (in the absence of wrongdoing) and that expectation applies to corporations as well?
Because industrial espionage is the motherlode of data in the age of the Internet...can you imagine the damage if Snowden were corrupted by Chinese intelligence services? Or Russian? Indeed, what if that is the case with other NSA personnel already?
Because an intelligence agency willing to engage in corporate profiteering is showing a callous disrespect for law, privacy, and ethics?
If an intelligence agency has freed itself from the bonds of law and public oversight, how far will it go? Will it be used against a populist target such as the "1%" or against a political target such as Occupy? Indeed, is it already being used for such? (Michael Hastings!)
Stop being an apologist, recognize the cancer for what it is.
This just gets more and more rich as time goes. So what if every spy agency does it? That does not make it right. It is time for ordinary people to figure out whether they want this kind of action being done by their governments.
I am very happy Snowden is choosing to release this material one drop at a time. It is like Chinese water torture against the intelligence apparatus. Please, keep the love coming!
I think after the Murrah bombing, 9/11, and the marathon bombing, we have established that the security agencies are not capable of stopping actual terrorist activity against American citizens. Not when every supposed thwarting is really just an FBI set-up. So it is time for us to really consider what these agencies are actually doing, since they are apparently not stopping terrorism.
The Taliban is and was an aggressive minority who prey on the unarmed populace.
You think those women being publicly raped and beaten are armed? Ha! The Taliban could never exist were the general population armed.
My apologies. The atmosphere on this forum tends to be viciously anti-liberty on this point, and ignorance about the history of money seems to correlate well with ethical blindness about self-defense.
You are proving my point. With a gun ownership rate rather lower than 5%, Afghanis hardly qualify as an "armed populace."
> Places where the the plebs could get wealth resulted in modern society.
So, you are saying that it was the specific change to inflationary, centralized currencies that led to modern society, right?
<a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/28/the-sixth-great-extinction-a-silent-extermination/">This is the price of your inflation-led modern society.</a>
I am not impressed.
I happen to believe firmly that we will never return to the ages of feudalism, even as we will inevitably return to a deflationary currency. However, I am quite certain you will like the reason for that belief even less than what you have already read. In a nutshell, feudalism is impossible when the populace is armed.
The reason we've abandoned deflationary currencies is because government can't steal our wealth by inflating them.
Time for a return to a currency that benefits the little people.
Without proof of citizenship you cannot open an account.
Shitty. Very shitty.
But you are being extremely disingenious. There are plenty of people who were born here and simply have no documentation of their citizenship. We call them "homeless" and try to pretend they don't exist. But they do exist, and one of the major impediments to their improvement is a lack of access to any sort of financial system.
Completely impossible for someone without citizenship or immigration papers.
And there are many millions of people here in the US in that situation.
But they all have cell phones, and many of them even pay taxes.
There are a lot of people immigrants here without papers. No bank accounts for them.