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1241  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 5 hobonickels instabounty / easy money on: June 10, 2014, 10:20:59 PM
The real issue with this case is the fact that any of these people were in Utah in the first place.  They should have all been in Burma.  Then the Burmese legal system could handle it.  The good people of Utah shouldn't have all of this nonsense undermining their legal system, disrupting their tranquility, ruining their neighborhoods, and consuming their taxes.
1242  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Do I Tell My Daughter That People Across Europe Fear Minorities Like Us? on: June 04, 2014, 05:03:12 AM

That's the stupid thing I find about racism and xenophobia, you get any of these morons to submit to a DNA test and you'll find they'll at least have 5% something that isn't what they claim they are, single cultures are dead and soon the single race will be dead as well Tongue

I'd like to do some DNA testing on both the BNP white supremacists and Muslim supremacists, I'm sure we'll all be in hysterics, the Muslims will probably find out they have some kind of Christian ancestors and then the white supremacists will have some african blood in them or something.

This is why I think racism is a fucking joke and people should never take it seriously.

This is a common misconception.

Among whites on 23andme, it is estimated that 96 or 97% of them are of pure European descent.  The remainder have an average of less than 1% non-European ancestry, meaning 1 non-white great great great great great grandparent out of 128.  The one-drop rule formed a protective barrier for whites.

Of course this is the 23andme data set, a self-selected group which skews towards the curious, nerdy, and financially secure.  The other end of the spectrum probably has a little more non-white ancestry.  I suspect that most "Cherokee" ancestry among lower class Americans is actually very distant black ancestry, but again it can't be much.
1243  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Was U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a Traitor? on: June 04, 2014, 04:36:45 AM

You should read your own link.  If you are a random male soldier NONE of those ways will get you out without a criminal conviction, except *possibly* conscientious objector.

Let's use a concrete example.  Imagine that I am a male soldier and that I have been in the army for one year.  I can't get pregnant and I don't think that I can convince my CO that I am an conscientious objector.  Bottom line: there is no way for me to get out without prison time.
1244  Economy / Speculation / Re: When will Bitcoin reach $1 again? on: June 03, 2014, 05:39:46 PM
When there is only one surviving dollar bill left in the world and museums and collectors fight over it in an intense bidding war.
1245  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Was U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a Traitor? on: June 03, 2014, 04:30:30 AM
It would be more constructive to add to the discussion links and proofs of that "misinformation". Unless you have forum post deletion super powers...

He's just making up nonsense, the burden of proof is his.  He should edit his post to remove the misinformation.
1246  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Was U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a Traitor? on: June 03, 2014, 03:43:27 AM
This sucks because any kid dumb enough to join the military can formally quit and go home after they get in and see what's really going on.

Completely false.  Please edit your post to delete this misinformation.
1247  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is cryptocurrency millionaire dream a thing of the past? on: May 26, 2014, 04:45:04 AM
If bitcoin becomes the world currency, a single bitcoin will be worth millions of dollars.

If bitcoin becomes a trusted savings mechanism on par with gold, a single bitcoin will be worth tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
1248  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 26, 2014, 03:55:09 AM
Define excellent. Every definition you could make is either unspecific on traits or would be brittle in terms of resilience.

Excellent is whatever I want it to be.  I could have a formal standard or just go with my gut feeling.  It is just like breeding animals.  If you want a cow that makes more milk you carefully choose the cow and the bull based on production performance and pedigree.  If I want smarter humans I would carefully select people based on their IQ scores.

Fitness is not about your preferences, rather about adjusting to all possible outcomes which all occur eventually.

If I am the selection mechanism then, by definition, fitness is about my preferences.

Coase's Theorem and the Second Law of Thermodynamics apply.

No they don't.  You're throwing around words and concepts that you don't understand, and which have no relevance to my ideas.
1249  Other / Politics & Society / Re: European Parliament election, 2014 on: May 26, 2014, 03:39:09 AM
If you're talking about Democrats and Republicans, I think you'll find they're both decidedly right wing compared to political parties elsewhere in the world.

That is a common misconception.  If you look at actual policies the US is pretty far left in many ways.  I spent a few days studying this a year or two ago, and the US is to the right of about 3/4 of Western countries, and to the left of about 1/4 of them.

Looking at that, there's hardly anything between Obama and Romney.

I am familiar with the website from which that chart comes, and I don't consider it credible.  How does it decide where to put the center?  It is arbitrary.

I use a non-arbitrary definition:  the status quo is center.  Anyone who wants modernize authority is a leftist, anyone who wants to diversify authority is a rightist.  Anyone who is more of a leftist than Marx is far left, anyone who is more of a rightist than Confucius (the man himself, not his disciples) is far right.

You are correct that Obama and Romney seem to fall pretty close to each other on a left-right spectrum, but the truth is that they are on the left.  This is because they both want to move the status quo to the left.  That is indisputable.  We know that Obama's policies are far left because of his actions on the lumpenprole (people that Marx did not care about).  Romney could have gone pretty far left when he was governor of Massachusetts, but he didn't.  So we can conclude that he (like most Mormons) is only a center leftist.


As for it being "nice" to see UKIP do well, I'll have to disagree.  Scapegoating minorities and blaming them for all your economic problems is the kind of backwards thinking that we, as a species, should have been able to move past by now.  That sort of BS should have ended with WW2.  UKIP are disgusting, vile creatures.

None of the top three parties addresses any of the concerns of the average person.  UKIP not only addresses them, but has decent solutions.  Also "move past by now"?  Do you see the demographic shifts that are happening around you?  How many children does the average Labour supporter have?  How many does the average UKIP have?  I'm guessing that the latter is at least twice the former.  In the US it will only be a couple of generations before we shed the progressives.  They'll be a few of inconsequential weirdos instead of the ruling class.
1250  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC is going up on very low volume on: May 25, 2014, 01:03:23 AM
This is the pattern every time.  Volume will increase when people start dusting off their old coins and bringing them to market.
1251  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 25, 2014, 12:56:56 AM

See quote below for why you are deluding yourself.

If you could control others, there would no longer be life and evolution, because competition would cease. A static system where everything is known a priori is in fact dead.

You have to allow for variance, e.g. in offspring.


The passage that you quoted seems to have no relevance to what I am talking about.  Please clarify what I am missing.

I would not control others, and there would be evolution.  What I would be doing is providing an excellent starting point.

Your point about variance is correct, but again I'm not trying to make a perfect society where everyone is 100% perfect all the time.  However if you started with excellent people who had excellent parents (meaning that the founders are typical members of families with excellent DNA, rather than exceptional people from families with mediocre DNA), chances are that the vast majority of their children are going to be excellent as well.  So yes, there will be jerks, maybe something like 1% of the population, but that is not so bad compared to Earth, which is something like 30% jerks.
1252  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 24, 2014, 04:52:24 AM
I suppose you have proof of this?

You don't have access to google?  If you had actually attempted to do some research you would have found out that I was wrong.  It seems that muslim immigrants are committing only half of the rapes in Oslo.  Keep in mind that "only half" is still huge when you consider that they form only 1.5% of the population.  By simply sending these people back home they could cut the rape rate in half overnight.  However the elites don't want that, so it won't happen.  Pro-immigration = pro-rape.

The rest of your post is hysterics and catty attempts at insults.
1253  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 23, 2014, 05:35:02 PM
Well I think that human nature is only how we have learn to behave due to our surroundings and that the personality is a defense mechanism to reality.

It is an established scientific fact that personality is mostly genetic.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/02/science/major-personality-study-finds-that-traits-are-mostly-inherited.html
1254  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 23, 2014, 05:24:12 PM
Could you have an online community along these lines ? why does it necessarily have to be physical ?

On what grounds would someone gain access to such a community/society ?

An online community where you can only gain admission through a rigorous family background check and where all members of the community agree only to marry other members of the community?  I guess it is possible, but people will be tempted to stray from the community, plus it won't be able to provide as much benefit.  Who wants to follow a bunch of strict rules... just to gain membership to a website?  It isn't worth it.

By making a physical community you can eliminate violent crime, and all of its associated costs.  For example Oslo would be a rape-free city if not for immigrants, because all of the hundreds of rapes committed there are committed by immigrants.
1255  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Britain to give sex change drugs to nine-year-olds on: May 23, 2014, 03:27:50 PM
This is child abuse, nothing more.

Adults with severe mental illness (transvestites) should be given treatment instead of mutilation.  Children who exhibit similar symptoms (which are probably just a phase) should not have their bodies destroyed with drugs.  In mild cases it should be allowed to pass, and in extreme cases they should be given drugs to help them develop properly into their natural sex (the one that they are born as, testicles = man, ovaries = woman).

As for the Daily Mail, it is the best UK news source.  Is it 98% sensationalist trash?  Of course, but that other 2% has more content then the rest of the UK media combined.  Whenever I see an interesting story about the goings on in the UK it is always in the Daily Mail.  I never see interesting stories in the state-run media, or the other papers.
1256  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 23, 2014, 03:13:01 PM
People are always trying to gain power, and no matter how much conditioning to believe in the system they get, many someones will try to, and eventually successfully, put themselves above everyone else.

Exactly, which is why only my idea works.  My founding population would include only people who do not try to gain power, and whose parents did not try to gain power.  The people in my society would have no desire to rule over others.  I wouldn't need to condition them, they would be born that way.
1257  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bitcoin and the Sovereign Nation State on: May 23, 2014, 06:28:20 AM
Just about every new technology initially weakens the power of the state, and then ultimately strengthens it.

Bitcoin will initially weaken the power of the state by taking away its ability inflate away your wealth.  It will eventually strengthen it by making it extremely easy for the government to know what you are up to, through blockchain analysis methods that we can't even imagine yet.
1258  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It’s time for Nintendo to move beyond white characters on: May 23, 2014, 05:05:48 AM
"Heretic" fell out of fashion so now the term "racist" is used for those who dissent from the theology of those who control the Church (universities and media).  Racist = heretic.  It is that simple.  The word "racism" has very little to do with race, race relations, etc... except as they are part of the establishment's dogma.  There, discussion ended.

As for Nintendo, their characters are sufficiently stylized that they can represent any character that you would want to include in a game.  Remember that they are a company that focuses on making family-friendly games, rather than pushing an insane agenda.
1259  Other / Politics & Society / Re: European Parliament election, 2014 on: May 23, 2014, 03:31:19 AM
It is nice to see that right-leaning parties such as UKIP are going to do well this election.  Here in the US we are limited to choosing between Maoism ("progressivism") and Trotskyism ("neoconservatism").
1260  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If you could create a new society from the ground up, what would you do? on: May 23, 2014, 02:59:08 AM
Too many people are focusing on the political system of the new society.  The reality is that the political system will end up reflecting the population's inherent nature, sooner or later.

The solution is to carefully select your people.  Good genetics = good society.  Whatever traits you want society to have make sure that they are abundant in your founding stock.  Additionally you will want a sense of community, so make sure to select a small number of people, so that eventually everyone will have some sort of family connection to everyone else.  I might go with as few as 64 founders, assuming that we would have rapid population growth to cope with inbreeding concerns, though I would probably double or triple that just to be safe.  If population couldn't grow then I would select about 3000 founders.
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