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101  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: US Dollar maybe shit aug 2nd GO BITCOIN watch video on: July 18, 2011, 03:01:57 AM
"Maybe if Warren Buffet paid a little bit more than just 17.7 percent we wouldn't be in this revenue problem that we're in. Rich people honestly need to start paying their fair share. They are paying the lowest tax rates, of any industrialized country in the world."

Seriously?... your going try to make Buffet look like a bad guy? You think he has 50 billion sitting in a bank account?  His net worth is based on stock in the company he has built most of his life. Even though he has this enormous wealth from his company stock he probably lives below the means of your neighbors.

Buffet has pledged to give away 99% of his wealth upon his death. Not doing the standard big inheritance is something I totally agree with as long as it is by his own decision and not a forced government theft.. Still not enough for lefties... you think he needs to sell the ownership of his company to fund the entitlement state right this second.

This prevailing attitude in America makes me want to vomit. I don't care what anyone says.. a flat tax is the only "fair" tax rate if you understand how percentages work.. and most liberals don't or don't care.

Buffet: "I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It's like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GDP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die"

Buffet... of all the people to point the a finger at. (shaking head)

post #14, meet post #15.

nobody's trying to make buffet look like a bad guy.  and he isn't.  that's why he understands that he should be paying mucho mas in taxes.

what was the top tax rate, when this country was at its best across the board?  when was that?

do you even know?
102  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Ubuntu Mining Help - cannot get second card to mine on: July 17, 2011, 04:49:15 PM

Every time I run poclbm.py with -d1, the program never shows it as processing hashes.  CTRL-C and kill will not stop poclbm.  kill -9 on the poclbm process crashes the entire computer.

I tried setting DISPLAY=:0 and =:0.1 before running poclbm.py with no luck.

Do I need a connectore out the back of the other graphics card?  How else can I troubleshoot this?

Thanks

EDIT: I am running x-windows, do I need to shut it off to run 2 card mining?

you did this:

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31. sudo aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all

right?

the command, after installing OpenCL, is

export DISPLAY=:0

NOT:

DISPLAY=:0

you do not need a connector of any kind on the second card.

you need xwindows for OpenCL mining.

when you installed linux, you did a clonezilla backup of the fresh install before you changed anything, so if you screwed up you could start over quickly, right?

try here (post #3) for some simpler instructions:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=3356.0

i use the linux mint re-spin of debian testing on my miners - i just install it and don't do any updates except i add NTP and disable a lot of stuff in startup.  try it if your 11.04 doesn't work - then follow those instructions.  the fact is, ubuntu is just not as easy to mine with as a closer-to-debian version like LMDE.

good luck.
103  Other / Off-topic / Re: Best way to communicate securely? on: July 17, 2011, 08:22:50 AM
the Cone of Silence.
104  Economy / Economics / Re: low price because of repeated large sells on: July 17, 2011, 06:42:29 AM
also agree.

the more Bitcoin get spread around, the better.  because the more people who have them, the more they will be used.

yeah, there's a little bit of short-term pain.  so what?

a couple of months.  maybe even three or four.  we need the time for all the software that's being written and refined to bear fruit, anyway.

and then we bury paypal in an unmarked grave...
105  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoins are collector's items. on: July 17, 2011, 03:10:24 AM
i would pay 200BTC for this one:

http://blockexplorer.com/b/0

i dunno if there's a way to get it into one's possession without tainting it, other than getting all other blocks out of the wallet which contains it and taking ownership of that wallet.  i don't even know if that's possible.  is it?

i'd also pay 75 BTC each for blocks 2 - 8.
106  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: YTKilledRawdog (chipmunk version) on: July 16, 2011, 11:52:38 PM


does the guitar or gun case ever move in that room of his?

it's a set in a production studio.  he's not a 'guy', he's a paid actor.
107  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: AMD HD 6790 quickest return on investment? on: July 16, 2011, 09:50:16 PM
One 5830 will actually pay itself off in 2 weeks.

The 5830 averages 286 Mh/s in a survey of 20 of the entries on the Hardware Mining Comparison Chart.
The 5850 averages 236 Mh/s in a survey of about the same number of entries (can't remember now).  That is an incredible difference!

I guess it can be attributed to the fact that the GPU used in the 5830 is the same one used in the 5870.

Right now Amazon has a 5830 for $154 and a 5850 for $161.  Very small diff in price, but big diff in Mh/s.

you'll want to start by using actual comparison numbers.

a 5850 at 236 Mh/sec?  ummm... no.  i don't actually believe they'll go that slow.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
108  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: YTKilledRawdog (chipmunk version) on: July 16, 2011, 09:28:42 PM
he makes much more sense now...
109  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin and Bruce doing Satoshi dirty work? on: July 16, 2011, 01:21:45 PM
We should have a poll!

Gavin would probably win and now that I think of it, the Gavin-is-Satoshi-theory was never conclusively disproved... Wink

Below, copied and pasted from a previous post of mine:

I believe it would be relatively simple for any one here to figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto if they took a little time to do this: http://www.lexifab.com/2010/07/stylometry/

Excerpt from site above: Stylometry is a set of techniques used to identify the author of a work. It can be applied to fine arts and music, but in linguistics, stylometry is utilized to identify anonymous authors and determine forgeries.

I think there's a enough written by Satoshi Nakamoto to compare his/hers writing style to the writing style of any other person's style you care to compare.

Maybe someone would like to start a tread on Stylometry to get the ball rolling. I believe that within 24 hours we'll have a match with over 95% certainty.

i'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that whoever satoshi might be he is certainly aware of such software as Signature, and would probably alter his writing to avoid a match.  assuming he is still here in any capacity other than that of an interested lurker - which i find doubtful.

in any case, a project like that is not one i would pursue or participate in.  he clearly does not want any involvement right now - and clearly has always wished to remain anonymous.  i do need to look at myself in the mirror every morning...
110  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gavin and Bruce doing Satoshi dirty work? on: July 16, 2011, 12:58:38 PM
dear OP;

i find your chain of reasoning has at least as much validity as your command of fact.

i also note that John Hancock did not sign the U.S. Constitution.
111  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obama's "Justice" Department wants to force you to decrypt your DjWVBeXx4ZHsvGME on: July 16, 2011, 04:18:34 AM
what's that, you say?

you want me to log in to my computer and then put the passphrase into TrueCrypt to decrypt that file i have that you want to see?

not a problem.  here - i'll log in right now.

...

ooops.  wrong user.  damn!  looks like some old login script i was testing has completely deleted both the file you wanted and the text file which contains my 89-character-and-impossible-to-remember-passphrase.

double drat!

sorry about that...
112  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Use code XBC, not BTC for bitcoins on: July 15, 2011, 06:08:52 PM
did you know that when the baldness drug Rogaine was trademarked, the name was the result of a typo by the secretary who typed and submitted the application?  it was supposed to be Regaine.  but they had to go with it because of time constraints - and here we are...

language - especially that most current variety of it which leaps up seemingly unannounced - is a funny thing.

the plain fact is, it's BTC.  nobody's going to change that any more than you could get people to start calling them 'tissues', instead of kleenexes.

but hey... good luck.
113  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Commercial on: July 15, 2011, 05:05:38 PM

Bitcoin: Decentralized. Deflationary. Secure... and practically free.

no.  consider the educational level of the average viewer.

too many syllables.  complicated concepts.

wordz are hard...
114  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What products and services are inherently better bought with BTC? on: July 15, 2011, 04:47:14 PM
sooo...  i see a trend.

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What products and services are inherently better bought with BTC?

answer:  any good or service whose value is lower than the minimum credit/debit card fee, or higher than the amount of local currency one can own/use/transport without restriction.

for everything else there's mastercard:

Bitcoin                     Master Card                    Bitcoin
-----------------|---------------------------------|------------------------>>
115  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What products and services are inherently better bought with BTC? on: July 15, 2011, 04:48:40 AM
anything expensive (i.e., in excess of the amount of currency your country allows you to take out of your own country without restriction or declaration) that you can only buy for cash in another country than your own.

collectibles, art, jewelry, etc.

if you have to pay cash, and you need to buy it in person in another country, Bitcoin is really the best option that exists.
116  Other / Off-topic / Re: (almost) free energy presentation for real ? on: July 15, 2011, 04:18:26 AM
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NEW DELHI: Amid sluggish spot demand and absence of cues from overseas markets, nickel futures prices fell by 0.14 per cent today as speculators reduced their positions.

At the Multi Commodity Exchange, nickel for delivery in July fell by Rs 1.50, or 0.14 per cent, to Rs 1,037.70 per kg, with a business turnover of 1,365 lots.

Likewise, the metal for delivery in August moved down by Rs 1.30, or 0.12 per cent, to Rs 1,046.90 per kg, with a trade volume of 88 lots.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-12/news/29765286_1_nickel-futures-sluggish-demand-trade-volume

it would occur to a cynic that a good reason to put a manufacturing plant in greece is that they're less likely to ask too many probing questions - what with being broke and all...

who knows?

if it works, i'll buy one.  but, as mark twain once remarked:

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don't you copper to it.
117  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Spreading Bitcoin to....JAPAN??? on: July 14, 2011, 08:09:01 AM

I think that because they are on the edge of technology, they actually have several more realized alternatives. In the long run, bitcoin is a better system. In the short run, they have simpler methods of doing similar things. Like simple bank account to bank account transfers, and phone payment systems. I think bitcoin will beat these alternatives, but only when more fully formed.

agreed.  although we may not see quite eye-to-eye on the definition of "long term".

i think Bitcoin for Android is going to make rapid inroads in the payment landscape.
118  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: It's time to reinstate trading fees on: July 14, 2011, 08:04:46 AM
so... the free market (as opposed to the "free" market) resumes on august 10th.

can't come soon enough...

I don't see why you are waiting for the 10th. July 28th has fees at .3%. There is nothing special about .65%.

I find it very bizarre that people are _asking_ mt gox to charge a fee. Very, very weird.

we'll see what 0.3% does.  not enough, methinks.

i think the point though, is that the bots are essentially uncrackable at 0% (and probably close to uncrackable at 0.3%).  the market is too thin right now, and regular folks just can't get past the ha'penny walls.

besides... it's boring.
119  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Spreading Bitcoin to....JAPAN??? on: July 14, 2011, 07:53:45 AM
Bitcoin should be popular in japan.  and it's got nothing to do with Satoshi.

it should be popular because the japanese are always at the bleeding edge of tech.  especially phone (Bitcoin for android...) tech.
120  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why google should endorse Bitcoins (and probably hates visa) on: July 14, 2011, 07:51:26 AM
google will do what is profitable for google to do.

how are they going to make money off Bitcoin?  i doubt they're going to become an exchange...

'competitive advantage' - i.e., hurting the competition - only gets you so far.
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