What the fuck are you talking about? Is this the level you people have sunk to? Don't put words on other people's mouths.
Follow the laws of the region you're in. Period.
If you live in country A performing an activity that's legal where you live, don't expect country B to come after you because such activity is illegal in B's legal system. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Kim Dotcom, a naturalized New Zealand citizen who has never set foot on the USA, and who was running a business based in NZ, 100% compliant with NZ's laws, is targetted by the US because they didn't like what his business did. Not only that: they destroy his business, seize his assets, and now drag him in a legal battle that's taking him years and millions of dollars to fight.
How is this fair? The US is the world's biggest fucking bully. Just another corrupt regime. A big one.
I don't know if a society so focused on punctuality is a good thing thoughnot being allowed to be late (or early) means that there's no room for error in other parts of one's life either.
No. One thing doesn't imply the other. You're making a wrong assumption.
Tokyo is a huge metropolis. Commuters in the metropolitan area often have to change train 2-3 times to get from home to work, especially those who live in the outskitrs.
Missing your train because it left early means that you have to wait 4 minutes for the next one, so you're already at least 4 minutes late to work. If you're changing to another train then that could translate in a 10-15 minutes delay, which is quite a problem.
Same here. Around May I repurposed my gaming PC (and added an extra GPU) and it's been mining Monero since then. I've also been buying Bitcoin and Monero. So far I've been able to become debt-free, but not much else.
Anyway, I'm holding long term, so we'll see how it goes in the following years.
Yes, BCH has been pumped a lot, especially last weekend. However, the other altcoins are mostly irrelevant.
In any case, it'd be nice if you stopped telling me how much you've made with Bitcoin. It's already painful enough for me because I started mining back when CPU-mining Bitcoin was doable, and stopped at around 0.002 BTC because I got bored of it. If I had continued then now my life would be very different.:-)
Very good point. Honestly, I have no idea. Bitcoin Cash obviously did fork, but I don't know about the others.
If you keep your Bitcoin in a wallet under your control then you can find out which ones did fork and then install their wallets to claim these coins and transfer them somewhere else.
If instead you keep them at the exchange then I'm afraid it's up to the exchange to give you access to those coins or not.
Existing EU member states can veto membership proposals for new countries, so there's no chance Catalonia would get in unless Spain withdrew.
Not necessarily. Catalonia produces about 20% of Spain's total GDP. Spain can certainly send military police or even its army to try and take over the Catalan government, but Catalonia can also fight back by not taking responsibility for its share of the Spanish debt (currently at a bit over 100% of Spain's GDP). This would cause the Spanish economy to collapse if it actually happened.
Spain has options, but almost everything they do will meet a lot of resistance from the Catalan population. Remember that this isn't just a couple guys in government declaring independence: about half of the Catalans voted for it (probably more, but we won't know for sure because Spain didn't allow for a proper vote). Hostility from Spain will most likely result in another general strike in Catalonia such as the one we saw on October 3rd protesting against police brutality during the October 1st referendum.
The next few days will be critical. I don't really know what's going to happen, but I really hope things don't become violent. So far all the Catalan actions have been peaceful, unlike the response we're seeing not just from the Spanish government, but also from some ultra-right-wing, pro-Spain groups in Catalonia.
For the record, I'm Catalan and pro-independence. My views can be biased (they probably are), so take everything I say with a grain of salt and verify by yourself everything you read/hear. There's a lot of manipulation on both sides.
The 2006 Estatut where the Catalan Government tried a power grab of such length as to pave the ground to later claim independence defining Catalonia as a nation? Which was obviously was ruled Unconstitutional.
Bullshit. This Estatut was approved by the previous government of Spain, and later ruled unconstitutional by the current ruling party. The funny thing is, the same provisions that were ruled unconstitutional for Catalonia are allowed for granted Basque Country, Spain’s other autonomous region.
Public education is bilingual in both Spanish and Catalan because both are official. If you want Spanish-only education then sure, go to one of those private schools.
Oh yes, I forget that if there are someone whom keeps the +40 years dead dictator alive and well are the nationalist. What make those supposed ex-members now, 80?
Rajoy is 62. Sáez de Santamaría is 47, I think. The chief of national police is 53. All of them are family of members of Franco’s regime. The whole PP political party was AP before (Alianza Popular), the Patty created by Fraga Iribarne, one of Franco’s ministers. Just to mention a few.
You’ve been watching too much right-wing propaganda. Stop spreading their bullshit.
You're wrong. I'm Catalan and grew up in Barcelona. Most of my family and friends live there.
There has never been a wave of hate against the rest of Spain in Catalonia. There's discontent now about the current government of Spain because of the many cases of blatant corruption, but that's a thing in all Spain, not just Catalonia. On the other side, there has always been a certain amount of aggression against Catalans coming from the rest of Spain. This became worse when in 2006 the current government of Spain instigated a campaign of disinformation and hate against Catalans with the objective of taking away the Estatut (a set of laws giving Catalonia a certain amount of autonomy). They used this campaign to gain more votes from other regions in Spain.
Children in Catalonia learn both Spanish and Catalan at school. This has always been the same. We grow up speaking both languages natively because both are official languages in all Catalonia. Spanish has never been restricted in Catalan schools, but the Catalan language has: it was prohibited during Franco's regime, and the current government (formed by ex-members or relatives of the dictator's circle) is trying hard to restrict its usage again.
I don't know where you're getting your information from. Probably from the state-owned media, because you're just parroting back all the propaganda coming from Madrid.
Am I the only one that thinks the timing of part of Spain wanting to break away and become a (tiny little) independent country is rather.. susupicious?
Yes, you're probably the only one. The movement for Catalonia's independence isn't something new. It's been going on for three centuries. There has always been a certain proportion of the Catalan population who wanted independence from Spain, but in the last 10 years the Spanish government has been restricting our autonomy, attempting to take over our institutions and instigating a wave of hate against Catalans and Catalonia in order to gain votes in the rest of Spain.
This is what has fueled the pro-independence sentiment in so many of us. Russia has nothing to do with it.
Buy a few thousand Dogecoins. Not expensive and hey, you never know...
He said "unusable for people who struggle financially", and I have to agree with him on this point.
Until cryptocurrencies go mainstream, buying/investing in them right now is a gamble. Yes, they've been increasing in value regularly, but that's no indication of what's going to happen in the future. At the end of the day, nobody should be investing in cryptocurrency any money they can't afford to lose.
An ICO (initial coin offering) is a similar concept, but far more general and interesting; rather than buying shares, an investor buys cryptographic tokens (called "coins") that represent some kind of ownership of (or affiliation with) the endeavor.
While this is true in theory, in practice most ICOs are scams: someone creates a new cryptocurrency out of thin air by cloning an existing open source project and offers these coins for sale. Greedy non-savvy investors buy these hoping they will get rich when the price increases (that never happens), while the founders fill their pockets with the money.
Examples of such scams are Superior Coin (a ripoff of Monero), SureCoin (another copy of Monero started by the scammer who started Superior Coin), and ParagonCoin, just to mention a few.
All social structures are based on some level of faith and/or assumptions in mankind or of an ideological ideal. Religion (god), government (the state), the academic system (tenure, ontologies)
Nonsense. I don't have any faith in the government or academic system existing, because I have evidence that they do: I can go to the city hall and see the politicians or go to a university and see the teachers and alumni, I can see the laws they pass and their effects. I can see that people who have attended a university have a higher education level and generally more successful lives than those who don't. All these facts together lead me to conclude that yes, the government and educational system exist, and they're doing their job (to a varying level of success, but that's a different conversation).
Faith is believing in something when there's no evidence supporting that belief. That's the difference.
You don't have evidence that a god exists. All you have is your childhood indoctrination and an old book you point to when we challenge your beliefs.
You are cherry picking pieces of a Religion I did not mention, as well as cherry picking bits of a Religion (Judaism) which are not followed even by Orthodox Jews.
Bullshit. According to your own mythology, all those commandments still apply. But still, even if was wrong about these, you guys haven't provided any evidence yet on why we should care about what your fantasy book says, and you've had more than 2000 years to do so.
So no, until you guys give us a reason to believe in your religion (or any other) I'll keep seeing you as lunatics.
Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives.
Really? Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bang thy neighbors wife have no benefit to human lives? Are you high, or delusional?
You're cherrypicking. Do you realize that your list of commandments is full of stupid, ridiculous stuff that you're chosing to ignore?
Just to name a few:
132. The rapist must marry his victim if she is unwed
187. Not to eat creatures that live in water other than (kosher) fish
240. Not to reap that corner (WHUT?)
283. Not to gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal way
436. A woman who had a running (vaginal) issue must bring an offering (in the Temple) after she goes to the Mikveh
474. Not to rob openly (but skeakily is ok?)
504. Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws (so slavery is ok then)
And these are just a few pulled at random from your list of 613 commandments. It's nothing more than a set of rules for a Bronze Age civilization, that barely apply today.
The fact that you chose to follow the parts that you like and ignore the rest tells me that you're not too serious about your beliefs.
Lets take a well known example. The Bible says that God Created the earth, and mankind.
And The Silmarillion clearly states in the Ainulindalë that Eru Ilúvatar created the Ainur, who in turn created Arda through their music.
You can't quote a book to justify your belief in an imaginary friend in the sky.
In one thing you're right: science and faith are in completely different realms. Science works with the real world and what can be demonstrated. Faith is just wishful thinking based on a delusion. It's perfectly fine to mock religion into oblivion until we finally get rid of this nonsense.
I made the mistake of buying a few Sonos speakers last year, and they gave a bad impression even before taking them out of the box. I tweeted Sonos about it with this photo.
Same here. I ran a BBS in Barcelona for a few years and was a Fidonet node during that time (2:343/163). The atmosphere in those message boards was so much better than almost everything on the Internet today.
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Right, so all laws should be ignored.
What the fuck are you talking about? Is this the level you people have sunk to? Don't put words on other people's mouths.
Follow the laws of the region you're in. Period.
If you live in country A performing an activity that's legal where you live, don't expect country B to come after you because such activity is illegal in B's legal system. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Kim Dotcom, a naturalized New Zealand citizen who has never set foot on the USA, and who was running a business based in NZ, 100% compliant with NZ's laws, is targetted by the US because they didn't like what his business did. Not only that: they destroy his business, seize his assets, and now drag him in a legal battle that's taking him years and millions of dollars to fight.
How is this fair? The US is the world's biggest fucking bully. Just another corrupt regime. A big one.
a 3 year old can do this with 99.9% accuracy.
And when he's done with the training he's already 6, so...
oh, wait...
I don't know if a society so focused on punctuality is a good thing thoughnot being allowed to be late (or early) means that there's no room for error in other parts of one's life either.
No. One thing doesn't imply the other. You're making a wrong assumption.
That's not it.
Tokyo is a huge metropolis. Commuters in the metropolitan area often have to change train 2-3 times to get from home to work, especially those who live in the outskitrs.
Missing your train because it left early means that you have to wait 4 minutes for the next one, so you're already at least 4 minutes late to work. If you're changing to another train then that could translate in a 10-15 minutes delay, which is quite a problem.
Same here. Around May I repurposed my gaming PC (and added an extra GPU) and it's been mining Monero since then. I've also been buying Bitcoin and Monero. So far I've been able to become debt-free, but not much else.
Anyway, I'm holding long term, so we'll see how it goes in the following years.
Yes, BCH has been pumped a lot, especially last weekend. However, the other altcoins are mostly irrelevant.
In any case, it'd be nice if you stopped telling me how much you've made with Bitcoin. It's already painful enough for me because I started mining back when CPU-mining Bitcoin was doable, and stopped at around 0.002 BTC because I got bored of it. If I had continued then now my life would be very different. :-)
At $0.5? Then two things:
1) I envy you
2) You don’t need to worry much about these altcoins. It’s loose change for you. :-)
Very good point. Honestly, I have no idea. Bitcoin Cash obviously did fork, but I don't know about the others.
If you keep your Bitcoin in a wallet under your control then you can find out which ones did fork and then install their wallets to claim these coins and transfer them somewhere else.
If instead you keep them at the exchange then I'm afraid it's up to the exchange to give you access to those coins or not.
I'm holding out for the Bitcoin Ultimate GOTY Edition with all the DLC.
Give it another month or two. If you search for "bitcoin" today on CoinMarketCap you get this list of already-available cryptocurrencies:
And soon Bitcoin Gold will be added to the list...
in Japanese company you hit the bar after your 10 hour day at the office.
Depends on the company. Traditional Japanese companies with conservative management often do this, but it's becoming increasingly less common.
The solution: don't go work for these companies. As if there isn't enough to choose from.
Source: I live in Japan. I start work at 9:30 and leave at 18:30.
Existing EU member states can veto membership proposals for new countries, so there's no chance Catalonia would get in unless Spain withdrew.
Not necessarily. Catalonia produces about 20% of Spain's total GDP. Spain can certainly send military police or even its army to try and take over the Catalan government, but Catalonia can also fight back by not taking responsibility for its share of the Spanish debt (currently at a bit over 100% of Spain's GDP). This would cause the Spanish economy to collapse if it actually happened.
Spain has options, but almost everything they do will meet a lot of resistance from the Catalan population. Remember that this isn't just a couple guys in government declaring independence: about half of the Catalans voted for it (probably more, but we won't know for sure because Spain didn't allow for a proper vote). Hostility from Spain will most likely result in another general strike in Catalonia such as the one we saw on October 3rd protesting against police brutality during the October 1st referendum.
The next few days will be critical. I don't really know what's going to happen, but I really hope things don't become violent. So far all the Catalan actions have been peaceful, unlike the response we're seeing not just from the Spanish government, but also from some ultra-right-wing, pro-Spain groups in Catalonia.
For the record, I'm Catalan and pro-independence. My views can be biased (they probably are), so take everything I say with a grain of salt and verify by yourself everything you read/hear. There's a lot of manipulation on both sides.
You’re wrong again.
The 2006 Estatut where the Catalan Government tried a power grab of such length as to pave the ground to later claim independence defining Catalonia as a nation? Which was obviously was ruled Unconstitutional.
Bullshit. This Estatut was approved by the previous government of Spain, and later ruled unconstitutional by the current ruling party. The funny thing is, the same provisions that were ruled unconstitutional for Catalonia are allowed for granted Basque Country, Spain’s other autonomous region.
Alright, The children of Catalonia can only study in Spanish in 34 private schools
Public education is bilingual in both Spanish and Catalan because both are official. If you want Spanish-only education then sure, go to one of those private schools.
Oh yes, I forget that if there are someone whom keeps the +40 years dead dictator alive and well are the nationalist. What make those supposed ex-members now, 80?
Rajoy is 62. Sáez de Santamaría is 47, I think. The chief of national police is 53. All of them are family of members of Franco’s regime. The whole PP political party was AP before (Alianza Popular), the Patty created by Fraga Iribarne, one of Franco’s ministers. Just to mention a few.
You’ve been watching too much right-wing propaganda. Stop spreading their bullshit.
You're wrong. I'm Catalan and grew up in Barcelona. Most of my family and friends live there.
There has never been a wave of hate against the rest of Spain in Catalonia. There's discontent now about the current government of Spain because of the many cases of blatant corruption, but that's a thing in all Spain, not just Catalonia. On the other side, there has always been a certain amount of aggression against Catalans coming from the rest of Spain. This became worse when in 2006 the current government of Spain instigated a campaign of disinformation and hate against Catalans with the objective of taking away the Estatut (a set of laws giving Catalonia a certain amount of autonomy). They used this campaign to gain more votes from other regions in Spain.
Children in Catalonia learn both Spanish and Catalan at school. This has always been the same. We grow up speaking both languages natively because both are official languages in all Catalonia. Spanish has never been restricted in Catalan schools, but the Catalan language has: it was prohibited during Franco's regime, and the current government (formed by ex-members or relatives of the dictator's circle) is trying hard to restrict its usage again.
I don't know where you're getting your information from. Probably from the state-owned media, because you're just parroting back all the propaganda coming from Madrid.
Am I the only one that thinks the timing of part of Spain wanting to break away and become a (tiny little) independent country is rather.. susupicious?
Yes, you're probably the only one. The movement for Catalonia's independence isn't something new. It's been going on for three centuries. There has always been a certain proportion of the Catalan population who wanted independence from Spain, but in the last 10 years the Spanish government has been restricting our autonomy, attempting to take over our institutions and instigating a wave of hate against Catalans and Catalonia in order to gain votes in the rest of Spain.
This is what has fueled the pro-independence sentiment in so many of us. Russia has nothing to do with it.
Buy a few thousand Dogecoins. Not expensive and hey, you never know...
He said "unusable for people who struggle financially", and I have to agree with him on this point.
Until cryptocurrencies go mainstream, buying/investing in them right now is a gamble. Yes, they've been increasing in value regularly, but that's no indication of what's going to happen in the future. At the end of the day, nobody should be investing in cryptocurrency any money they can't afford to lose.
I can't afford bitcoin
You're aware that you can buy fractions of a Bitcoin, right? You can buy $10 worth of Bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency for that matter.
Exactly what do you think is competing here?
They've been applying for a patent on an electronic cash system since 1999. They updated the patent in 2009-2011 to something that resembles very, very much, Bitcoin.
These bankers do own Bitcoin. Lots of it. In the last few hours we've seen massive buy orders that have made the price start to rebound.
While this can't be proven, these signs suggest price manipulation by JP Morgan in order to buy more cryptocurrency at a much cheaper price.
An ICO (initial coin offering) is a similar concept, but far more general and interesting; rather than buying shares, an investor buys cryptographic tokens (called "coins") that represent some kind of ownership of (or affiliation with) the endeavor.
While this is true in theory, in practice most ICOs are scams: someone creates a new cryptocurrency out of thin air by cloning an existing open source project and offers these coins for sale. Greedy non-savvy investors buy these hoping they will get rich when the price increases (that never happens), while the founders fill their pockets with the money.
Examples of such scams are Superior Coin (a ripoff of Monero), SureCoin (another copy of Monero started by the scammer who started Superior Coin), and ParagonCoin, just to mention a few.
Personally I'm glad they're banning these ICOs.
All social structures are based on some level of faith and/or assumptions in mankind or of an ideological ideal. Religion (god), government (the state), the academic system (tenure, ontologies)
Nonsense. I don't have any faith in the government or academic system existing, because I have evidence that they do: I can go to the city hall and see the politicians or go to a university and see the teachers and alumni, I can see the laws they pass and their effects. I can see that people who have attended a university have a higher education level and generally more successful lives than those who don't. All these facts together lead me to conclude that yes, the government and educational system exist, and they're doing their job (to a varying level of success, but that's a different conversation).
Faith is believing in something when there's no evidence supporting that belief. That's the difference.
You don't have evidence that a god exists. All you have is your childhood indoctrination and an old book you point to when we challenge your beliefs.
You are cherry picking pieces of a Religion I did not mention, as well as cherry picking bits of a Religion (Judaism) which are not followed even by Orthodox Jews.
Bullshit. According to your own mythology, all those commandments still apply. But still, even if was wrong about these, you guys haven't provided any evidence yet on why we should care about what your fantasy book says, and you've had more than 2000 years to do so.
So no, until you guys give us a reason to believe in your religion (or any other) I'll keep seeing you as lunatics.
Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives.
Really? Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bang thy neighbors wife have no benefit to human lives? Are you high, or delusional?
You're cherrypicking. Do you realize that your list of commandments is full of stupid, ridiculous stuff that you're chosing to ignore?
Just to name a few:
132. The rapist must marry his victim if she is unwed
187. Not to eat creatures that live in water other than (kosher) fish
240. Not to reap that corner (WHUT?)
283. Not to gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal way
436. A woman who had a running (vaginal) issue must bring an offering (in the Temple) after she goes to the Mikveh
474. Not to rob openly (but skeakily is ok?)
504. Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws (so slavery is ok then)
And these are just a few pulled at random from your list of 613 commandments. It's nothing more than a set of rules for a Bronze Age civilization, that barely apply today.
The fact that you chose to follow the parts that you like and ignore the rest tells me that you're not too serious about your beliefs.
Lets take a well known example. The Bible says that God Created the earth, and mankind.
And The Silmarillion clearly states in the Ainulindalë that Eru Ilúvatar created the Ainur, who in turn created Arda through their music.
You can't quote a book to justify your belief in an imaginary friend in the sky.
In one thing you're right: science and faith are in completely different realms. Science works with the real world and what can be demonstrated. Faith is just wishful thinking based on a delusion. It's perfectly fine to mock religion into oblivion until we finally get rid of this nonsense.
You made the right choice.
I made the mistake of buying a few Sonos speakers last year, and they gave a bad impression even before taking them out of the box. I tweeted Sonos about it with this photo.
A Sanyo MPC-200, to be exact. 64KB of RAM, 16KB of VRAM, with a Sanyo DR-303 cassette data recorder .
I was 9 at the time (I just turned 42), and I still use MSX computers today (real hardware, CRT display and all).
Same here. I ran a BBS in Barcelona for a few years and was a Fidonet node during that time (2:343/163). The atmosphere in those message boards was so much better than almost everything on the Internet today.