Indeed. But this is the "worst case" scenario. You are right, maybe some of the big(ish) miners who don't need to cash out immediately will hold their coins, perhaps a lot of smaller miners who want to wait for the halving will hold too, but I think $15-20 per coin would be more than enough temptation for the majority to cash out.

To keep LTC between $15-20 buyers should keep pouring 400-600K USD into LTC every day, just for maintaining the price. After the halving such a pump would be much cheaper, so the profit would be much higher.

Bad idea. This action can escalate the situation on the whole Middle East, as the SAA have some quite capable AA gear, but if they shot down US planes, the US surely going to retaliate, what will most likely piss off both Iran and Russia (and maybe China too). BTW this decision on it's own can be enough provocation for Russia, to complete the deployment of some already delivered but not yet installed S-300 systems for boosting the Syrian AA defences.

Because of miners still can get a lot with relative little effort (if you compare it to LTC for example) and then they can still dump it for a few dozens of sats. If someone have some "old" script mining gear what isn't profitable on LTC any longer and also have some cheap electricity, with DOGE it's possible to extend the lifetime of the gear and make a nice profit.

No, they shouldn't. E.g. palestinians and Hezbollah fighting for their own land and rights, but IS and other jihadists have entirely different goals and rhetoric, however the methods can be pretty much the same. 

Newrad is right about Rule #1. That's the most important. So always do your own research and never listen to people from here who are trying to convince you about the "great investment potential" of coin X or Y.

Defending the monero devs isn't my job, but as far as I know they are working closely together with CZ on improving the code. If you take a look at the changelog you will see that both CZ and the monero devs are contributing and exchanging pieces of code.

SO if I search for the word scam or p&d then I'll be pointed to here by Google . Well, that would be a sort of fame and success indeed, but maybe not the kind of success and fame we want to see .

The problem is the distance. A barter economy usually workin well in local communities, but what will happen if the seller of the 30 egg assets located in northern Greece and the physical tomato assets are in Crete... However if it's a local community then they don't need any coins.

If this isn't fake then those IS guys are must be really stupid. (But they not used to be.) This “Even if the U.S tries to attack with all its allies, which undoubtedly it will, the ummah will be united, resulting in the final battle.” part of the great plan looks a bit sketchy for me... and sounds like some 16YO wannabe "dev" from the altcoin section .

I'm not talking about the crowd funding. That's fine, no one will have any issues with that. I'm talking about the "My girlfriend wants a telly but that won't happen because of I'm going to buy monero" part .

Is this something what you guys consider as marketing? I'd suggest to read at least the Marketing for dummies (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=marketing+for+dummies&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amarketing+for+dummies)

Most people will think that that this is a fake story, in addition the storyline have some negative connotations (ignoring GFs needs for a few bucks more or "if you get into monero you will lose your mind and going to spend all your money on this stuff", etc.)... :/

Even sending funny pictures about a cat or a puppy in a monero hat would be better than this.

Actually I've recently found a good historical parallel for Monero: the SdKfz 184 Panzerjager Tiger (P) (Ferdinand / Elephant) heavy tank destroyer.
You know it was an freakin' awesome stuff what was able to wipe out anything on the battlefield from miles away and absorb nearly any sort of enemy fire, so it was a hard hitting beast with great potential. A real Porshe in its class . But...it had two flaws. First the developers forgot to install a cheap machine gun on it (user interface) so the Russian soldiers just comfortably walked to the Elephant and blown up the whole bloody expensive technological marvel with a 50 cent molotov cocktail. The second was the fact that an Elephant was a sophisticated, slow and heavy machine designed for the wast, wide open Russian plains, what was fine there but this made it pretty much useless everywhere else (real life services).

This is the two main flaws with monero too. User interface and real life services. You know until my 90 YO grandma' and 12 YO little brother can't use the client comfortably (without reading a few pages of howtos) from any sort of hardware, and the real life services are basically limited to Bittrex, Poloniex, and some sort of empty marketplace like thingy, I wouldn't expect too much attention from the public.

At this moment NXT is far better. Especially because of it's up and running while Ethereum is still in development . I guess NXT will be able to keep it's technological superiority for a while, because of AE, marketplace, voting, monetary and plugin systems are already there, tested and proven working. In addition Supernet-Multigateway and coin shuffling are both only few steps away. I think later this might change as IMO more money and resource will flock to Ethereum.

Threat? I don't think so. There are more than enough "living-space" for two competing systems (actually there's enough space for many more), so I'm expecting some healthy competition what will be good for both solutions.

That's easy . The west blasted away half of Iraq and Afghanistan and killed at least a million people for some oilfields and pipelines, our wise leaders recently unleashed a big bunch of religious fanatics in Syria, supported a coup and an attempted ethnic cleansing in Ukraine (plus an other ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia back in 2008). In the meantime Russia have made only (relative) moderate steps to restore its former sphere of influence, and they actually saved the asses of a lot of ossetians.

I don't think so. These folks only killed someone, but Ulbricht withheld money from the state (and he made possible for others to do the same) what is a much much more serious felony... :/

This isn't bigotry. This is simple everyday common sense. Multiculturalism by definition "the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single jurisdiction, usually considered in terms of the culture associated with an ethnic group." This is clearly not working. Just take a look at the news or go for a walk in any major city in the UK.

As far as I can remember the Labour wasn't any better. (Actually I can't see too much difference between the Labour and the Tories.)
You know, it's quite easy to make a scapegoat from some groups when the members of that group raping 1500 girls, or creating no go zones for ppl with different views, or making a living from abusing the benefit system.
BTW as I've seen in the UK large part of the "poorest and most vulnerable in society" are the elderly working class indigenous people, but nobody cares, because of they are whites :/.

...as we seen from the from this poll what you said is only true for that remaining 5% dreamers and fools who still not managed to wake up and see how things are going in the real world.

So, more and more people taking the blue pill . Actually I'm surprised to see such stuff on BBC. I'd expect them to sink all evidence of such results deep into the nearest oceanic trench . Perhaps they were high on something.

As far as I know you can't go straight to Germany. At first you need to apply for a residential permit on the German embassy in Spain.

Here you can find some good info and examples:
https://www.eurojobs.com/blog/2012/03/29/eu-residencyworkpermit-rules/