Sorry to have to repeat this (as I had already dropped it), but I just realized another great point to the ridiculousness of this logical fallacy and I think it's important to share:

"If ___A___ you would have ___B___ so you're a __C____ even if you didn't __B____"

You're basically saying that someone is a murderer before they ever murdered because you *think* they would have murdered in a particular situation that never happened. Feeling bad about your emotional responses is one thing, I don't feel bad for calling out your flawed reasoning though.

That was hilarious. 

It totally is, except the stone will fall apart if you don't constantly polish it! 

Awesome idea on its face, but people probably won't want to care for a dog they can't even pet. That is one more thing to discuss with a kennel if it ever gets to that point. Not sure if it'd be financially viable though as one single person would need to offset a small portion of the equipment, streaming access, food, etc.

That's a fine addition to BTCJam, Tulkas!

No worries, everything requires proper branding and every word at first sounds weird. I personally think "Windows" is a ridiculous name for an operating system, and "Linux" sounds like a disease you wouldn't want to catch.

Since you guys are already rushing through talking about names and such, I got the idea to call it "PeTroller" (Pet + Controller, not pet + roller. Ouch!).

Took the liberty of registering petroller.org where I should probably upload any progress to this project if it ever starts. Maybe make it a developers blog of sorts.

If it did ever get to a point that kennels could use this to help increase donations, I would be honored for them to be listed on that site as well!

Well, I can't argue about the annoying part for some (my own girlfriend says I'm annoying sometimes). Just too many endorphins I guess.

Well, the dude in this thread was talking about using it at kennels for example. If that's done properly, people could just choose which cage to start streaming, and the arduino could show which dogs have already been fed (and block them from being fed more etc).

I've always thought it would be a wonderful project, but like all large scale projects, it costs money and has absolutely no guarantee of ever receiving any kind of profit, so I think I need to start on my own dogs first and see where the technology (and cost to profit ratio) goes.

I feel awful that I did something that would cause you to act like this, but honestly what's the point of talking to you if you're not looking for truth?

I actually wouldn't need to build the shelter, I'm a member of a group of shelters here in Korea. If it worked and there was interest, I think it'd be a pretty nifty way of getting donations for the shelters without worrying about the trust issues of sending large amounts etc.

Haha

Did you want me to answer or did you want to continue to answer yourself?

I'm sorry you were hurt by that prank. You're still #21 in the pay queue and all my income goes to paying those people as a sort of "stupid tax" to me. I've learned a lesson not to play pranks involving money. I crossed a line. Scammer though? Why are you making up new definitions for perfectly good words, when you have people like Alberto Armandi (bitscalper/Bitdaytrader), Tawsix (mining rig scam), MyBitcoin, and literally endless more cases of *actual* scams? I don't mind hearing you complain while you wait to be paid, but I just wish you were more sensible is all.

I couldn't find any scammers in that thread. Who are you talking about?

EDIT: What I do see is clear evidence of a prank (albeit a completely tasteless one that was way over the top, affected lots of people financially, and taught more than just me some very hard lessons)


Eisenhower, since you've already made it clear in PM to me before that you incorrectly think I'm a scammer, can you please share your thoughts on this thread? Are people scammers when they don't take money? Are people scammers when they not only don't take money but honor bets that aren't legitimate or legal? Are people scammers when they not only honor illegitimate unescrowed bets, don't take money, but actually pay money to people who even admitted that they wouldn't pay themselves had they lost? I'm kind of confused as to what about that makes me a scammer.

I think you've redefined the word for your own purposes. If you'd like to look at a scammer, take a look at BitDayTrade/BitScalper. Take a look at MyBitcoin. Take a look at TawSix. If you spend the rest of your life thinking I'm a scammer, it'd be a waste of a thought.

Primarily spammers.

Well, if you can't find good cookies, there's always healthy tasty fruits to snack on.

Personally, I think Joshster is a fraud. Just look at his avatar. Wings and fries my ass. I know what he wants to eat.

I'm considering setting up several webcams and Arduino controllers in a room with my big dogs so that bitcoiners can go to a page and basically feed and play with them by simply sending bitcents to certain addresses. I realize it's kind of corny, but I've shared this idea since 2010 on Skype and no one has done it since then, so I figure someone's waiting on me to pave the way.

To tell you the honest truth, the reason I haven't come out publicly with this idea is because I was afraid of people taking the idea and modifying it to abuse animals and eventually torture or kill humans ("To vote for death, send BTC here, to vote for life, send here!", etc anyone else see that movie?).

Anyway, would this project be worth my time? Would anyone be willing to help out who knows what they're doing with Arduinos? Somehow I feel this will be the future of internet entertainment (I've previously discussed with Maagus Iverson back in 2007 about starting a physical tank paintball game controllable online for example, controlling RC helicopters with webcams online, and controlling a human being with a wecamhat, all online, but didn't know about Bitcoin at the time).

I understand this will potentially make no money, I understand this will definitely cost money, I understand this will distract me from other work, but everyone needs a hobby, and it would make feeding my dogs a simple task.

P.S. If I go ahead with this project, I bet some asshole later on is going to pay like 3 BTC and dump a whole container of food on my dogs' heads, ultimately filling the entire room up with dog poop.

I have no idea how much LSD costs, but by the looks of it, he's already consumed enough for brain damage.