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12661  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What do you think of my latest rap song on: October 20, 2014, 02:02:59 PM
I decided to make it politically correct to prevent criticism from social democrats ('liberals'), environmentalists, and feminists

Hello guys,
What's up
I like engaging in sexual intercourse with women
Only if they consent to it first of course
I make a lot of money
But I pay my taxes so they can build the roads
I like speeding in my luxury vehicle,
But I make sure I use Hybrid/Electric cars,
I also never go above the speed limit,
When I do, however, I make sure I know my rights when I'm ticketed
This is what I enjoy doing
Making all the money,
Well not all the money, that would be monopoly
I like smoking marijuana,
Only for medicinal purposes of course
I like having sex with promiscuous women that engage in consensual sexual activities for money,
But I make sure to stay safe by using condoms,
If they get pregnant, I pay for their abortions
I consume alcohol in moderation,
But not on election day, that's when I'm voting for Obama

~Quiz Khalifa (Awesome31312)









Please donate if you like it
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12662  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 3D-printed huts to revolutionize home building in poor countries on: October 20, 2014, 12:11:40 AM
And in the "rich countries" You can build nothing without authorization of competent organs.

Which is what I wrote.  "Homeless", in the sense of sleeping on a cold paved sidewalk, is a phenomenon which only exists in developed countries.  Elsewhere in the world the governments are often so weak and powerless that you can literally build a house anywhere and a lot of these illegally constructed homes are beautiful mansions or 2000+ SQF homes.


They have to sell you the myth that you are better off being poor (less than $15 Hr or unemployed) in a rich country than being working class or middle class in a poor country.  If I was making a destitute wage I would just say forget it, book the next plane to Cambodia and go teach English for $800-$1000 a month (you can live well on $500 there) and make more money on the side with private lessons and then Bitcoin / Altcoin trading.



Not after the local government steps in with their newly acquired 3d printers, starts convicts running them and producing row houses, and orders everyone to live in them in neat little rows.  Then they can keep track of all those people that previously were pretty nameless.

Then Cambodia can enforce their 2006 military conscription laws on people that thought they could live there cheap and high on the hog.
12663  Other / Politics & Society / Re: An eye opening video about Climate that need to be shared with you on: October 19, 2014, 09:21:35 PM
It's so confusing all the different opinions on climate change. For me it seems that it's a natural process for the climate our planet. It's a very complicated system, with a huge amount of factors to influenciate. In reality man cannot understand all these factors. And when man cannot understand things they tend to create myths.

If man can find an excuse to make money he will try to sell you the air that we breathe

Or if it can help them control the people they will sell you the fact that a disgusting expensive energy such as solar panels or wind turbines is better than natural green energy such as oil or the most renewable and less dedly energy (only one major very deadly incident in 50years) : radioactivity
They are not really disgusting, they just need to be carefully located.  Say on islands where there is no natural energy and all electric comes from ships bringing fuel oil or coal to the island.  Or remote areas, where it isn't practical or cheap to run a power line. 

It's disgusting to lie about solar and wind and to claim they will replace coal and gas.

We have sufficient experience with solar and wind today to know these claims are false.

Look at the fail of Germany on so called "green" energies; they lost billions for nothing and they are importing nuclear energy from Poland and use coal energy

Wind turbines and solar panels use rare earth metals, wind turbines only last for 20years and need a lot of maintenance so they need a lot of resources to build and to maintain
Yes, I agree completely.  But STILL, you will agree with me that there are likely some places on this planet where solar and or windmill power do make perfect sense from an engineering and fiscal perspective.

The error is in indiscriminate promotion of these systems by governments in bed with greenies.

Oh yes I agree and the market and private capital would develop the technology but pouring billions and sometimes tens of billions in public programs without caring much about the cost or if it's profitable is a bad idea

It makes me think of hundreds of billions rail road constructed that everyone like when you could pay an airline ticket a month to every citizen for 100years with the same money!

I've always suspected under the table pumping up of the radical left green agenda, including the solar and wind games, by forces profiting from continued dependance on oil.  Used the be Evil from the view of the left was Exxon, curious that it wasn't Saudi and other middle east oil companies.  But it never was - it was the US company, Exxon. 

Lately, with Germany and the Soviet natural gas pipeline, it's became clear this is more than wild conspiracy theory. 
12664  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Interesting ways to store your private keys for offline wallets on: October 19, 2014, 04:49:16 PM
I am wondering where I can stamp something into metal on my own.
Asking a third party to do that for me, doesn't seem like a good idea.

It can be trustless.  Check out how woodwallet does it. I think they use bip038

I have a fairly strong opinion that if you have an encrypted wallet, there is zero need for any additional layer of encryption.

Similarly, if you have a single private key, you encrypt it once, but to do this you can't trust other peoples' algorithms and "help."

12665  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Oh great, now IS is training pilots on: October 19, 2014, 04:44:05 PM
if they really have taken to the air over Aleppo, it would mark a whole new level of military sophistication for the feared group.

Hardly.

Getting a plane like that to fly takes one or two mechanics that know what they're doing and someone capable of flying it. Considering IS contains people that used to be in the Iraqi army, it's not surprising if some expertise in this area is available. The captured Migs are ancient, so all there is to know about them is out in the open and there are no high-tech gizmos that are hard to fix/replace.

If IS starts to use these planes for combat (or one too many parade-flights), either the Syiran army or the US will pop them out of the sky without any problems. Those planes are simply too old to still be competitive against modern arms.

I kind of forget the numbers, but it's more like 50+ ground support personnel to maintain and launch one fighter.  Something like 500 hours of maintenance and ground support for each flight hour. 

But yeah, just to get one in the air once, a couple of mechanics and someone who has flown a similar aircraft.

12666  Other / Politics & Society / Re: An eye opening video about Climate that need to be shared with you on: October 19, 2014, 04:33:43 PM
It's so confusing all the different opinions on climate change. For me it seems that it's a natural process for the climate our planet. It's a very complicated system, with a huge amount of factors to influenciate. In reality man cannot understand all these factors. And when man cannot understand things they tend to create myths.

If man can find an excuse to make money he will try to sell you the air that we breathe

Or if it can help them control the people they will sell you the fact that a disgusting expensive energy such as solar panels or wind turbines is better than natural green energy such as oil or the most renewable and less dedly energy (only one major very deadly incident in 50years) : radioactivity
They are not really disgusting, they just need to be carefully located.  Say on islands where there is no natural energy and all electric comes from ships bringing fuel oil or coal to the island.  Or remote areas, where it isn't practical or cheap to run a power line. 

It's disgusting to lie about solar and wind and to claim they will replace coal and gas.

We have sufficient experience with solar and wind today to know these claims are false.

Look at the fail of Germany on so called "green" energies; they lost billions for nothing and they are importing nuclear energy from Poland and use coal energy

Wind turbines and solar panels use rare earth metals, wind turbines only last for 20years and need a lot of maintenance so they need a lot of resources to build and to maintain
Yes, I agree completely.  But STILL, you will agree with me that there are likely some places on this planet where solar and or windmill power do make perfect sense from an engineering and fiscal perspective.

The error is in indiscriminate promotion of these systems by governments in bed with greenies.
12667  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dutch Motorcycle Club members 'join Kurdish fighters battling Isis' in Iraq on: October 19, 2014, 04:30:20 PM
why the biker fight against ISIS, a psychopath who killed many innocent people, especially children and women, especially Muslims, it is most appropriate to do the biker, I hope that when we want to fight for something, we should see if we the fighting deserve to be fought for, take a look at the good and the bad, which is larger, hopefully we are given a conscience that can be used as well as possible and be able to consider what is good or bad ...  Embarrassed
+1
12668  Other / Politics & Society / Re: An eye opening video about Climate that need to be shared with you on: October 19, 2014, 05:20:19 AM
It's so confusing all the different opinions on climate change. For me it seems that it's a natural process for the climate our planet. It's a very complicated system, with a huge amount of factors to influenciate. In reality man cannot understand all these factors. And when man cannot understand things they tend to create myths.

If man can find an excuse to make money he will try to sell you the air that we breathe

Or if it can help them control the people they will sell you the fact that a disgusting expensive energy such as solar panels or wind turbines is better than natural green energy such as oil or the most renewable and less dedly energy (only one major very deadly incident in 50years) : radioactivity
They are not really disgusting, they just need to be carefully located.  Say on islands where there is no natural energy and all electric comes from ships bringing fuel oil or coal to the island.  Or remote areas, where it isn't practical or cheap to run a power line. 

It's disgusting to lie about solar and wind and to claim they will replace coal and gas.

We have sufficient experience with solar and wind today to know these claims are false.
12669  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just paid the $100K USD via BTC to become a Platinum Member of TBF. on: October 19, 2014, 01:24:45 AM
I cant say I believe that it really happened.
It is indeed something of a mystery.  Nobody from TBF commenting on this thread has seen it fit to validate that the 100K from KnC was made.

Or that the 100K from Phinneas Gage was not made.  

Accordingly I must, give both the benefit of the doubt, and consider them both Platinum Members as of this time.  One recognized, but by the somewhat suspect membership and board of TBF.  Yet the other, in the best Satoshi tradition, has vanished.   This means that only by the logic and algorithms he left behind, may he be understood.  

Indeed it is quite mysterious.



12670  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bitcoin fund for Ebola victims and their families. Start it? on: October 18, 2014, 08:59:46 PM
Comments?

Some percent to Africa, some percent to US?

Orphans of African victims?

How to distribute with no losses through middlemen?

I'll start it with 10BTC.

Addresses not yet set up.  But will figure that stuff out.

Another scam?

LOL.  Nope, not if I was involved.  Total public postings of all transfers.  It's the easiest thing in the world to show in the blockchain the complete path of a charity oiperation.

One thing did occur to me as an interesting side effect of this type of thing, though.  It would be necessary to BAN people living in Bitcoin-unfriendly areas.  Thus the front page of a website such as this would say ...

"NO Distributions will be made to Bangladesh or New York....."

Let them see the consequences of their policy.

12671  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do people hate islam? on: October 18, 2014, 03:05:01 PM
As long as they respect the Non Agression Principle, I don't care what they do, or in what they believe.

Well, what do MOST of them believe?



http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007891.html

Andrew Bostom writes:

    Polling data just released (April 24, 2007) in a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 4384 Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007—1000 Moroccans, 1000 Egyptians, 1243 Pakistanis, and 1141 Indonesians—reveal that 65.2% of those interviewed—almost 2/3, hardly a “fringe minority”—desired this outcome (i.e., “To unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate”), including 49% of “moderate” Indonesian Muslims. The internal validity of these data about the present longing for a Caliphate is strongly suggested by a concordant result: 65.5% of this Muslim sample approved the proposition “To require a strict [emphasis added] application of Shari’a law in every Islamic country.”

If two-thirds of Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab, are believers in sharia, then sharia is the dominant belief system of the Muslim world—not just because all authoritative Muslim teaching says it is, but because the great majority of Muslims accept that teaching. Which means that wherever there is a Muslim community, of whatever size, belief in sharia will be the dominant belief or at least an important belief in that community. Which means that in any country where the number of Muslims increases, belief in sharia and the political strength to impose it will also increase.

Sharia destroys all non-Islamic forms of government, destroys all non-Islamic forms of freedom, and reduces all non-Muslims to at best a humiliated second-class status. Therefore anyone who believes in sharia cannot be loyal to Western society, whether we define the West in traditional terms as Christendom or in modern terms as individual freedom.

Therefore excluding terrorists and terror supporters is not enough. Excluding jihadists and jihad supporters—also known as “radical” Muslims—is not enough. Terror and jihad are only the more activist phrase of the Islamic belief system. They are the methods by which sharia is spread. It is sharia that defines the substance of Islam and it is sharia that is the problem.

Therefore, in place of the fatuous and delusive mantra of Daniel Pipes, that “Radical Islam is the problem, and moderate Islam is the solution,” the correct mantra is what I have been saying over and over for years, that “Significant numbers of Muslims do not belong in any Western country, period.”
12672  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Oh great, now IS is training pilots on: October 18, 2014, 02:28:18 AM
People have noticed and reported short training flights from IS held airbase.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29660029

To train a talented recruit to a pilot takes a couple of months, but they still will be inexperienced rookies and will be outclassed by any seasoned, battle hardened pilot. In addition they have some really old planes (MIG-21s or MIG-23s maybe SU-17s).

They don't worry about being outclassed. Because they are training kamikaze pilots.
Unqualified assumption.

I can't think of any military commander who would want air assets except to support ground operations.  Jets go in, soften up the targets, then ground forces go in.  However this will backfire if they try it.

Kamikaze is last resort of a loser.  Also, with today's airborne and ground to air weapon systems I don't think kamikaze tactic would even work.  Element of surprise would be needed.  But this base and these aircraft will be closely watched.
12673  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Anyone following the ebola outbreak? on: October 18, 2014, 02:09:05 AM
“People in the Western World need to know what’s happening here in West Africa. THEY ARE LYING!!! 'Ebola' as a virus does NOT Exist and is NOT 'Spread'. The Red Cross has brought a disease to 4 specific countries for 4 specific reasons and it is only contracted by those who receive treatments and injections from the Red Cross. That is why Liberians and Nigerians have begun kicking the Red Cross out of their countries and reporting in the news the truth."

See more at: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/ebo-lie-man-living-in-ghana-confirms-ebola-is-a-hoax/#sthash.7Jof6vGU.dpuf .

Smiley
Another "man in Gahna" says: "Also teh trees mon, the trees are talking and saying evil tings. Some mon put a hex on me!

True.  But they are the ones with experience dealing with ebola.  Might be we should learn from them.

It's not impossible that there might be some half truth to the Red Cross story.  Like, some focus of new infection and disease transmittal in the vicinity of the Red Cross facilities.  False attribution of cause to call it a conspiracy, yeah.

Just saying.

Kind of like saying...

"Stay away from those hospitals, mon.  I know for a fact lots of people go in alive and come out dead!"
12674  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bitcoin fund for Ebola victims and their families. Start it? on: October 17, 2014, 08:29:00 PM
“People in the Western World need to know what’s happening here in West Africa. THEY ARE LYING!!! 'Ebola' as a virus does NOT Exist and is NOT 'Spread'. The Red Cross has brought a disease to 4 specific countries for 4 specific reasons and it is only contracted by those who receive treatments and injections from the Red Cross. That is why Liberians and Nigerians have begun kicking the Red Cross out of their countries and reporting in the news the truth."

See more at: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/ebo-lie-man-living-in-ghana-confirms-ebola-is-a-hoax/#sthash.7Jof6vGU.dpuf .

Smiley
Wow, incredibly naive to fall for a story like that one. 
12675  Other / Politics & Society / Re: An eye opening about Climate change that need to be shared with you. It's FUN on: October 17, 2014, 01:41:26 PM
What they're trying to convey is that human activities greatly affects the rate of the cyclical change of the Earth's climate. CO2 may be beneficial to all living things, yes, but doesn't CO2 contributes to the Greenhouse Effect? If more and more CO2 are trapped in our atmosphere, the possibility is that the temperature of the planet may increase and result to a much faster ice meltdown, which may cause the ocean level to rise (not that much, though).

You are right CO2 emission may contribute to the Greenhouse Effect : "Greenhouse gases—including most diatomic gases with two different atoms (such as carbon monoxide, CO) and all gases with three or more atoms—are able to absorb and emit infrared radiation"

But "if an ideal thermally conductive blackbody were the same distance from the Sun as the Earth is, it would have a temperature of about 5.3 °C" so hopefully we have the Greenhouse effect

I don't see any evidence that a rise of a few degrees of the temperature will not be beneficial overall; a significant raise of the ocean level is not a reasonable consequence of a small rise in temperature

Sea level has varied widely over timeframes in terms of millions of years, i would imagine it will continue to.  Man has located many huge cities right next to the oceans, thus creating something of an economic problem if in the vicinity of those cities, sea levels were to rise on a scale faster than the rebuilding and renewing of the city infrastructure.  But that's a multi hundred year timeframe.

The idea that is being promoted by governments, that taxpayers give them money and they will roll back the oceans, is utterly ridiculous.
12676  Other / Politics & Society / Bitcoin fund for Ebola victims and their families. Start it? on: October 17, 2014, 02:20:24 AM
Comments?

Some percent to Africa, some percent to US?

Orphans of African victims?

How to distribute with no losses through middlemen?

I'll start it with 10BTC.

Addresses not yet set up.  But will figure that stuff out.
12677  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Anyone following the ebola outbreak? on: October 16, 2014, 09:58:36 PM
Given the healthcare worker's recent exposure to Duncan, she was "self-monitoring" for any symptoms of Ebola and—according to the CDC—should not have traveled on a commercial airline until the incubation period for the disease had ended.

She should be charged with attempted murder, IMO.   Undecided

She called the CDC before her flight and they cleared her for the flight. Yes, she shouldn't have flown but the CDC is at fault for not being more vigilant here.

Nope.  She should have recorded the call, explicited called them dumb asses, asked them if they had any other stupid advice, and then put the call on youtube.

Anyone - anyone - looking for counsel and direction from a polticized agency such as the CDC is banking up the wrong tree.
12678  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Interesting ways to store your private keys for offline wallets on: October 16, 2014, 05:40:30 PM
So, I take this and a hammer to stamp it into steel? Sounds like hell of work.
Wouldn't I also need lower-case letters?

turn the letter sideways for lower case.
This makes tags for really harsh environments like pipelines, so it should do for permanent code storage including cases like fire and flooding.  Not sure if they do lower case but if not just put a slash in front of the char that is going to be lower case.

I'm going to get one and try it out.

http://www.amazon.com/DYMO-Tapewriter-Metal-Embosser-101105/dp/B000FD7Z7I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1413480605&sr=8-3&keywords=tape+embosser

http://www.amazon.com/DYMO-Non-Adhesive-Stainless-Embossing-Cassette/dp/B000O78D94/ref=pd_sim_op_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0S9RH5Z6WBSQ2RMV22PY
12679  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Spot a faulty ideology on: October 15, 2014, 08:10:50 PM
I think a perfect ideology today compared to the other ideology is the ideology of Islam, Islam as a religion and ideology, Islam is a religion falsifies previous yan, so the lack of previous religions perfected in Islam, be claimed that all religions and their ideologies the most correct, but in fact if they want to be honest, they would admit the perfection of Islamic teachings, as well as the teaching and ideology ... Hopefully ...  Roll Eyes
No.
12680  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Anyone following the ebola outbreak? on: October 15, 2014, 08:08:24 PM
That's okay with me if that's what we have to do, I'd just like to see a reality orientation from the gubbermint(s).

I would advise taking a reality check for yourself.

Trollin'?  That was a cheap shot if you're on a crypto forum.  Because we are all paranoid here....lol. 
Well, maybe someone can explain why my direct cited experience with microdroplets does not apply in this circumstance with this virus.  I thought it was worth posting as a possibly similar proof of work.
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