As long as you continue to believe what you do and spread the word then you can help keep prices low on things of actual value while the rest of us run like hell from debt leveraged fiat currencies.
"Keep prices low". As the price of gold is in one of the highest speculative bubbles in history.
If you think THIS is a scam, read up more on fractional-reserve banking. The debt-driven US dollar is the biggest ponzi scheme ever.
I fail to see how this is even remotely relevant, as the issue is that BitCoin is a pyramid scheme. The idea that others may or may not be has no bearing on that.
Physical mining actually takes work. In addition to actually finding the gold deposit, you have to go through the effort of extracting the material from the earth, which is no small task. Bitcoin "mining" involves running a program on your computer. That's it. No work whatsoever.
Now you have to earn (or exchange earned money for) bitcoins. Why is it shocking to have to earn your currency?
Because it wasn't designed that way from the start. It was specifically designed so the "early adopters" (read: The creator and his friends) would be able to amass large amounts of the shit with very little effort, but then when others come in, now they have to "work" for their money.
In other words, they didn't have to "earn" it, so why should everyone else?
The rapid growth of people participating is making it much more valuable in that regard.
No, regular, government backed money is still more valuable. For one, I can actually buy things with my government backed money. To buy things with BitCoin, either I have to use Silk Road, which for the most part, only deals in drugs and other illegal and quasi-legal things, or I have to.... convert them to government backed currency.
And it astonishes me how full of shit most BitCoin supporters are. "Oil producing nations would not accept dollars unless we held a gun to their heads." Really? You're gonna resort to some stupid, conspiratorial, anti-government rhetoric? Is it not possible that they want our dollars, as they are accepted in many places around the world, through FREE CHOICE of those peoples? No, of course not. The only reason anyone would accept US Dollars is because they were forced to.
Every single atheist, and all of their views, will be dead and gone in 150 years.
Because none of them will think to write them down in books, and pass them on to the next generation?
If your statement was anywhere even close to true, then every major religion in the world, including Christianity, would have died out within 50 years of their inception.
>now moving past the irrelevant personal critique spice up with and Appeal to Authority and Ad Hominem fallacies...
Ummm, referring to someone who is actually an expert in the field is not an "Appeal to Authority" fallacy. It's recognizing that there are people who know a fuckton more about a field of study than you. If there's something wrong with you, and someone tells you to go see a doctor, is that an "Appeal to Authority" because people recognize that a doctor knows a fuckton more about medicine than you?
How about giving grants to communities to pay for them building their own community-owned infrastructure so that companies can lease access to fully built-out fiber networks instead of leasing access to the ground and running their own?
Because the telcos are against it, and are turning many of the state legislatures against it.
You're going to have to redo your roof at some point. Not to mention, the costs to paint the roof white are quite small.
As for the winter argument, if the roof is white, that impedes heat transfer FROM BOTH SIDES. Both the sun shining onto the roof, and heat rising inside of it. A black roof would facilitate that transfer much easier. Meaning that you're going to lose more heat from inside as well.
I've seen people turn the attic into a kind of office/"Man-cave". Most people aren't currently using the attic, except for storage, so it can be a very good candidate for getting extra living space.
Agreed. So many of the posts above this are just troll posts about Mono being shitty, and while I don't hold it in the highest of esteem, I think it's very good that they decided to allow a group of people that was actually doing something with the IP to do it, rather than just sit on it, make them reinvent the wheel, and possibly sue them afterwards.
I highly doubt it. Regulated by definition means "to bring under the control of law or constituted authority." Unless you have something to show it meant something different back then.
No, honestly, why did they add the "Well Regulated Militia" clause? People claim it's some kind of explanatory statement, yet, no other Amendment has one. Why that one? There must be a reason it was put in there.
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As long as you continue to believe what you do and spread the word then you can help keep prices low on things of actual value while the rest of us run like hell from debt leveraged fiat currencies.
"Keep prices low". As the price of gold is in one of the highest speculative bubbles in history.
If you think THIS is a scam, read up more on fractional-reserve banking. The debt-driven US dollar is the biggest ponzi scheme ever.
I fail to see how this is even remotely relevant, as the issue is that BitCoin is a pyramid scheme. The idea that others may or may not be has no bearing on that.
Physical mining actually takes work. In addition to actually finding the gold deposit, you have to go through the effort of extracting the material from the earth, which is no small task. Bitcoin "mining" involves running a program on your computer. That's it. No work whatsoever.
Now you have to earn (or exchange earned money for) bitcoins. Why is it shocking to have to earn your currency?
Because it wasn't designed that way from the start. It was specifically designed so the "early adopters" (read: The creator and his friends) would be able to amass large amounts of the shit with very little effort, but then when others come in, now they have to "work" for their money.
In other words, they didn't have to "earn" it, so why should everyone else?
The rapid growth of people participating is making it much more valuable in that regard.
No, regular, government backed money is still more valuable. For one, I can actually buy things with my government backed money. To buy things with BitCoin, either I have to use Silk Road, which for the most part, only deals in drugs and other illegal and quasi-legal things, or I have to.... convert them to government backed currency.
And it astonishes me how full of shit most BitCoin supporters are. "Oil producing nations would not accept dollars unless we held a gun to their heads." Really? You're gonna resort to some stupid, conspiratorial, anti-government rhetoric? Is it not possible that they want our dollars, as they are accepted in many places around the world, through FREE CHOICE of those peoples? No, of course not. The only reason anyone would accept US Dollars is because they were forced to.
Every single atheist, and all of their views, will be dead and gone in 150 years.
Because none of them will think to write them down in books, and pass them on to the next generation?
If your statement was anywhere even close to true, then every major religion in the world, including Christianity, would have died out within 50 years of their inception.
An ape in clothes, with an internet connection, but an ape all the same.
I want to be this. Or at least see it in cartoon form.
>now moving past the irrelevant personal critique spice up with and Appeal to Authority and Ad Hominem fallacies...
Ummm, referring to someone who is actually an expert in the field is not an "Appeal to Authority" fallacy. It's recognizing that there are people who know a fuckton more about a field of study than you. If there's something wrong with you, and someone tells you to go see a doctor, is that an "Appeal to Authority" because people recognize that a doctor knows a fuckton more about medicine than you?
So we're not allowed to love those relatives we have that may have differing viewpoints?
As wrong as her viewpoints may be, she still has one up on you in that she still loves her family, and doesn't put arbitrary criteria on that.
You mean the same guy above who retracted his statement?
Which is why the company that owns the wires should NOT be allowed to sell service on them.
How about giving grants to communities to pay for them building their own community-owned infrastructure so that companies can lease access to fully built-out fiber networks instead of leasing access to the ground and running their own?
Because the telcos are against it, and are turning many of the state legislatures against it.
You may not, as an individual, have lots of choices for broadband, but there are lots of choices.
If most people don't have access to those choices, then there are not lots of choices.
What about when they disagree? Dennis Kucinich is very much in favor of Universal Health Care, whereas Ron Paul is adamantly opposed to it.
By less than a year, you mean 2 in the US Senate, along with at least 10 in his State Senate?
Is there anything that happens in Washington that isn't political cock waving/cock measuring?
You're going to have to redo your roof at some point. Not to mention, the costs to paint the roof white are quite small.
As for the winter argument, if the roof is white, that impedes heat transfer FROM BOTH SIDES. Both the sun shining onto the roof, and heat rising inside of it. A black roof would facilitate that transfer much easier. Meaning that you're going to lose more heat from inside as well.
I've seen people turn the attic into a kind of office/"Man-cave". Most people aren't currently using the attic, except for storage, so it can be a very good candidate for getting extra living space.
Please actually figure out how much money we're talking about. The "opportunity cost" is small enough so as to be negligible.
As cool as that would be, I don't think it would even be possible.
Just about every new housing development has some kind of HOA from the start. In a lot of places, it's hard to find homes without HOAs.
Agreed. So many of the posts above this are just troll posts about Mono being shitty, and while I don't hold it in the highest of esteem, I think it's very good that they decided to allow a group of people that was actually doing something with the IP to do it, rather than just sit on it, make them reinvent the wheel, and possibly sue them afterwards.
I highly doubt it. Regulated by definition means "to bring under the control of law or constituted authority." Unless you have something to show it meant something different back then.
No, honestly, why did they add the "Well Regulated Militia" clause? People claim it's some kind of explanatory statement, yet, no other Amendment has one. Why that one? There must be a reason it was put in there.
Glad to see that nobody else can have differing opinions on things. Your way is the One True Way.