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121  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Song are you Listening To? on: December 22, 2014, 07:53:34 PM
lol
I'm sorry.

Stupid radio playing Katy Perry Roar.
122  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Best Rock Band Of All Time? on: December 22, 2014, 07:53:02 PM
Are they really rock?

Beatles of course
123  Economy / Economics / Re: Armchair economists confuse Bitcoin: A response to Krugman & Gobry on: December 22, 2014, 07:52:24 PM
Oh THAT guy.   He's one of those guys; you know their name, but not their face. 

 

^
Jim Jones, the man who made Kool Aid the household word it is today.
124  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Song are you Listening To? on: December 21, 2014, 08:59:43 PM
Those tracks are so perky!   Cheesy

The Bitcoin Rally Song, of course. Intermingled with an occasional playing of Mt Gox Erupting for kicks.

It's rally time.
125  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Song are you Listening To? on: December 21, 2014, 08:58:03 PM
classic

126  Economy / Economics / Re: Armchair economists confuse Bitcoin: A response to Krugman & Gobry on: December 21, 2014, 08:57:13 PM
lol

Who is that guy?

The naysayers are regrouping and coming after crypto currencies again. Keep the faith, people...

Keep the kool aid flowing, Brother!


127  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Best Rock Band Of All Time? on: December 21, 2014, 08:56:12 PM
 I don't know any of their songs.

I think Iron Maiden can't be beaten.
128  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Best Rock Band Of All Time? on: December 21, 2014, 08:53:34 PM
They did not age well. (:

Pantera. Not so much rock, but they used to rock hard.
129  Economy / Speculation / Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. on: December 21, 2014, 08:51:29 PM
 And have yourself a merry bitcoin christmas now. 


WTF!  Where are the dozens of posts to this thread?  I cypherdoc collapsing?  One would not think so.  BTC hit $330-ish...I would have expected to see the guy and his minions going balistic with glee.  Like this:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1owcncKCHg

(Probably he's out for x-mas or some such.  Happy holidays all.)


We are running out of sidechains doping Smiley

Joking aside I prefer quality over quantity by a long shot.

Happy holidays everyone.
130  Economy / Economics / Re: Armchair economists confuse Bitcoin: A response to Krugman & Gobry on: December 21, 2014, 08:50:16 PM
It would be a lot easier to keep the faith if more people understood them.

The naysayers are regrouping and coming after crypto currencies again. Keep the faith, people...
131  Economy / Economics / Armchair economists confuse Bitcoin: A response to Krugman & Gobry on: December 19, 2014, 11:55:06 PM
Bitcoin Expert Daniel Krawisz unpacks convoluted statements made by columnists in his latest blog post.
132  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The best Bitcoin videos on the web on: December 19, 2014, 11:13:10 PM
nuh uh

This is the first time I'm seeing it.

Has this explainer video been posted yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVAluSL9SU
133  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The best Bitcoin videos on the web on: December 19, 2014, 11:12:35 PM
PS  I LOVE of this End to Silk song.
134  Other / Politics & Society / Re: WTF are the politicians doing ? on: December 19, 2014, 01:23:21 AM
That'll teach me not to skim posts! Silly reply with lighthearted intention aside, I acknowledge your astute observations. Problematically many people cannot perform basic functions without consulting someone else. 


How did this devolve into a discussion about religion?  ... This reminds me of my last Civ5 game and how ideology/faith points had no impact on my happiness, gold, resource, or productivity levels.  

Because government and religion are synonymous with collective dependence, psychological control, and thus enabling corruption by those are handed the power by these collectivized paradigms.

Summarizing my prior post upthread, the Bible and the government are both centralized paradigms, where the collective depends on each other. We need decentralized paradigms where the individual is empowered.

Gold is not a decentralized paradigm.
135  Economy / Speculation / Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. on: December 19, 2014, 12:52:06 AM
And as the U.S. has seen, government is so effective that it can hold the entire system hostage until demands of the companies it is supposed to regulate are met.

Quote
There is a growing body of evidence that bigger government means slower growth of real GDP. Once the level of total government spending as a percentage of GDP reaches a tipping point, estimated to be from 15 percent to 25 percent of GDP, additional expansion crowds out private productive investment and slows economic growth. When government overreaches, economic freedom is diminished and private exchange opportunities are lost — that is, the range of choices open to individuals is restricted.

This is hardly a revelation, most of the communist economic experiements of the last century have demonstrated this is abundance (well total lack of abundance). The question I suppose is how much communism is too much? 15%, 30%, clearly 100% is fatal, and anything more than 50% is probably also terminally toxic. Optimally operating economies seem to have around 5-10% govt. share of GDP but it also depends on strong justice and legal systems for protection of individual freedoms.

The problem that a free society is so effective that it grows government and in steps the saviors who now promise to solve all your problems.
5% turns into 10%. More problems arise and so it needs to grow even more to help you solve your new problems. 5% is soon 50% and the choke hold is now so strong it grows itself into death.

My guess is that the only sustainable amount of government is 0%
136  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: I'm an idiot who just got scammed for 5 BTC :D on: December 19, 2014, 12:47:18 AM
That sucks.  But thanks for telling us what to avoid.
137  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: I'm an idiot who just got scammed for 5 BTC :D on: December 19, 2014, 12:46:24 AM
2-3 months! You are lucky. 
5 btc is like 2-3 months of rent money for me.

seriously i feel for you..  Undecided
138  Other / Politics & Society / Re: WTF are the politicians doing ? on: December 19, 2014, 12:44:56 AM
How did this devolve into a discussion about religion?  ... This reminds me of my last Civ5 game and how ideology/faith points had no impact on my happiness, gold, resource, or productivity levels. 
139  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Best Rock Band Of All Time? on: December 18, 2014, 09:36:36 PM
It's a toss up between Pantera and Metallica. I had more Metallica CDs for sure. 
140  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Song are you Listening To? on: December 18, 2014, 09:32:17 PM
Paco De Lucia - Punta Del Faro
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