Again - luckily - this shouldn't be an issue in deciding whether or not to vote for Ron Paul. Just like the fact that he's a Christian shouldn't be.
Those are quite different things. One is his beliefs, and the other is his actions. He is going to remove laws that protect the rights of the citizens. Just like when he said (video was taken down) that don't ask don't tell has nothing to do with homosexuality, his views on a fertilized egg being a human (that can be murdered) has not been rationally justified. And if it isn't the choice of the mother then who should decide? Current laws protect this religious choice. Anyone who is against day after pills or contraceptives for anything other than social reasons is not rational. Hence, not suitable for president in my opinion. Until, RP ensures these rights won't be taken away he will not be supported by me. My vote- none of the above. Your vote will always be none of the above if you have to stretch this far to find a fault with a candidate. Ron Paul will not remove any laws that "protect citizen's rights." If you're talking about overturning Roe-vs-Wade you are misrepresenting the issue to bias opinion. Have fun worrying about how abortion laws might have changed when the dollar collapses and you can't buy food or gas. |
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Again - luckily - this shouldn't be an issue in deciding whether or not to vote for Ron Paul. Just like the fact that he's a Christian shouldn't be. Because he's a strict constitutionalist, we can disagree about these philosophical issues and not have to worry about him passing laws that violate our rights. Instead, he will focus on fixing things that have sent us hurtling down the path to destruction, like trying to police the world.
Forget policing the world, the most violent country in the world is just south of Texas, and that's completely our fault. Excellent point. Besides being the commander-in-chief and having the power to give us a stronger military presence at home at a much lower cost (do we need 70,000 troops in Germany??) the war on drugs is another place where the president can have an immediate and extremely positive impact on how our country behaves without over-reaching the power given by the constitution. |
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What makes you a dick is not taking responsibility for merchandise you were selling.
What about a car maker that goes bankrupt, are they also required to continue servicing their customers' cars? Oh, so you incorporated and then filed chapter 11? Or were people trusting that you personally were going to give them what they paid you personally for? Did you tell them all that there was a high risk that the codes you were selling them were going to be invalidated because you were dealing with sketchy people and were not going to take on any of that risk yourself? I also respected the fact that you didn't just try to hide under a fake handle, but if it was because you don't feel that you were in the wrong, you completely deserve it. |
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Of the above terrible choices I picked Ron Paul. But I can certainly understand why libertarians wouldn't support a man who would would threaten women's self-ownership.
Doesn't he simply say it's not an issue that should be decided by the federal government. Yep, I think that's his stance. Sounds good to me. At what level do you think legal personhood and human rights protection SHOULD be decided? Shall we leave slavery up to the states too? Nice red herring, but regardless of your views on slavery, your original statement was not correct. Ron Paul is not a threat to women's "self-ownership." He is against any kind of federal abortion police. Slavery is not a fair comparison because slaves couldn't move to a different state (without getting the dogs sent after them). Free women can. It's not only a completely different issue, the entire "I don't support Ron Paul because of my views on abortion" is a very dishonest (or ignorant) argument. Ron Paul is not going to pass laws that hurt anyone concerned with abortion rights. So that should be the least of your concerns, even if you're a one-issue voter. I personally am very pro-abortion (haha). But I agree with Ron Paul in principle - as an OBGYN he just believes that a person is a person earlier in the process than I do. I don't think we should legalize killing infants because their mother's lives might be inconvenienced, and many abortions are done for this reason. If you think that the fetus has rights at some point, abortion past that point is indeed murder. Again - luckily - this shouldn't be an issue in deciding whether or not to vote for Ron Paul. Just like the fact that he's a Christian shouldn't be. Because he's a strict constitutionalist, we can disagree about these philosophical issues and not have to worry about him passing laws that violate our rights. Instead, he will focus on fixing things that have sent us hurtling down the path to destruction, like trying to police the world. |
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Of the above terrible choices I picked Ron Paul. But I can certainly understand why libertarians wouldn't support a man who would would threaten women's self-ownership.
Doesn't he simply say it's not an issue that should be decided by the federal government. Yep, I think that's his stance. Sounds good to me. At what level do you think legal personhood and human rights protection SHOULD be decided? Shall we leave slavery up to the states too? Nice red herring, but regardless of your views on slavery, your original statement was not correct. Ron Paul is not a threat to women's "self-ownership." He is against any kind of federal abortion police. |
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Coinexchanger - you might want to put a little info about your exchange up if you want more users.
I just checked your site and saw no information about:
What deposit methods are available and what the associated fees are.
(Yes, I saw the 5% withdrawal fee...is that $? Bitcoins? Both? Other currencies?)
What withdrawal methods are available and what the associated fees are.
What orders are currently on your books.
What your daily/weekly/monthly volume has been.
What policies/conditions users are agreeing to when using your exchange.
Where you are located.
If you have an API available and if so, what are the methods.
This is basic stuff.
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People need to be doing more to drive price down so I can buy more bitcoins. I'm looking at you "myself". Step up your game! I'm buying more BTC this week and I want a good deal!
Use more better scare tactics. kthxbye
At least he chose an appropriate avatar. |
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The plan is to be fair to all miners. If you are a good helping miner then you dont have to worry about anything. This is just an extra layer of protection for the business nothing more than that and as said in the future it could be removed allowing for a completely decentralized service.
Please explain mining further. What incentive to miners have to give this 'coin' a second thought ? COMPENSATION ......................  ? Transaction fees are the compensation. It won't bring in a huge number of miners (especially at first), but as the number of RLC transactions build, the number of RLC fees will build as well, slowly bringing in more miners. If 100 1 RLC transactions are made in a block, then that's $100 of fees that goes to miners. That's the same as a block reward from Bitcoin when Bitcoin was worth $2.00/BTC, and there was around 8 TH/s of miners at that point. In that case, why would anyone mine when there are no transactions? |
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Sadly, the onion doesn't have to be very creative...there was a large disparity in the entrance polls and results for both CO and MN yesterday.
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So lame, denominated in dollars (right?) but not redeemable for cash. It's like denominating accounts in gold and not giving the gold, who would fall for that, oh wait.
I laughed. |
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If you mean by leveraging on bitcoinica - 0%. If you mean by holding long indefinitely, 100%.
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Sorry, we're nowhere near 1%. For one thing, your 3.75 estimate is only for ONE sales quarter. The network power represents all the cards bought for the last couple of years, and includes a (albeit small) chunk of FPGA miners and CPU botnets.
But even in that extremely inflated case, if 99% of the cards are bought to game, gaming performance will obviously be what is used to determine how well the card is competing with nVidia. I can't see how you'd ever expect nVidia mining performance to drive the price down.
I can't say I really want things to be different, either. Although I would dearly love the attention/support from AMD, by the time mining equipment makes up a significant chunk of the GPU sales, bedroom mining operations will probably be forced out by larger interests. And that's only if FPGA mining hasn't completely taken over.
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I saw that, but it costs them very little to add us into a bullet point. If we were a driving market force they would fix their drivers. Obviously we're not.
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Yes and no. Gaming yes is far superior to mining needs at the moment. But I guarantee that AMD would feel something if the amount of people buying there cards for mining was cut in half.
Take Sapphire and AMD for instance do you think Sapphire would have bought as many old 58xx series GPU chips from AMD to release in the last six months if it were not for mining. I have average buying 2.25 NEW AMD cards per month since last August. If there was no mining I would have never made those purchases I would have stuck with my GTX580's and GTX570's and been content.
I think you've overestimated the size of the mining community. We're a drop of water in the ocean compared to cards bought for gaming. I do hope we eventually matter enough to AMD so that they'll spend a few hours and fix their drivers, though. |
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I'm guessing gaming performance will have 100x more impact than mining performance on market pricing.
I don't think either has any relation to market pricing. That's set by the bean-counters. AMD's competing models have more influence on nVidia pricing (and vise versa) than anything else. That's what I'm saying. But the competition will be judged on gaming performance, not mining performance. |
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I'm guessing gaming performance will have 100x more impact than mining performance on market pricing.
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Same goes on Bitcointalk.org, if you have a hero status account that you have been building for a year and a good reputation, it is not likely that you will throw it all away just to rip someone off a couple hundred bucks or whatever.
Actually it's worthless. How many heroes members were tagged as scammers? Ebay reputation is more valuable to me than bitcointalk's heroes tag by a HUGE margin. Especially if it's 100+ Agreed. Just make sure it's really them. |
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From what I've heard from others, to successfully underclock in Linux you may have to flash the card bios. I've stuck to Win7 to avoid that.
In windows, MSI Afterburner is not always enough to properly underclock. After many hours of experimenting, I now use a combination of several underclocking tools...it seems like different tools may be changing different settings. (The cards store settings for several different modes of operation.)
The first tool is GPU-Z. This will give you the true current clock values on the cards, while many of the OC tools will give you false values (settings that might not have "taken", or they might be reading values for a certain mode that the card is not currently operating in)
The next tool is Phoenix Rising (now called AOCLBF or something like that...no idea why the author decided to change it to such a hard-to-remember name.) I start that up with saved clock values. This doesn't change card clocks (yet), but changes some of the settings.
After that, I open Sapphire Trixx. It will read the values Phoenix Rising loaded, and although these still haven't actually set the card clocks, if you click on the Overclocking tab, change the values slightly and then change them back and click "apply", it will allow Phoenix Rising to set them.
I go back to Phoenix Rising and click Set Clocks for each GPU - this time the memory and gpu clockspeeds should be set properly. You can check in GPU-z. This also resets the fans to some lower setting.
Then I load MSI Afterburner, and it will dynamically adjust the fan speeds. I do this because the fan speeds, even when set with the other programs, often get reset to some factory setting which isn't sufficient for stressing the GPU 24/7 for months on end.
Sometimes MSI Afterburner is enough. It appears to depend on the brand and model of card. I've had to do this for several of my machines that have Sapphire and MSI cards. Machines with only XFX and Asus 6870's seem to work with just Afterburner.
Hope that helps, good luck.
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