They are the best.  I seriously started to buy a couple, but then didn't.  Got to worrying about how to fit the couches in by the TV.  And also, how to get them to a vet if they got sick or old and it was necessary to carry them.  Looked like a job for about four guys and a pickup.

I can't find the pattern for that. Besides, only if it prints puppies. Can you imagine the cost of printing full grown English Mastiffs? (grin)

I'm not a good shot. Personally, I think before any home invaders get past our two English Mastiffs we keep inside because they are our other "kids," the police will have responded to our call and the operator will be on the phone asking us to put the dogs up so the officers can take an incident report. I will stipulate that the care and feeding of the "kids" is probably more expensive than handgun practice and maintenance. Hey! 3D printed dog food! hmm...(grin)

As long as there are people then there will be people killing other people.

The job of leaders of state, as concerns the topic of killing, is to minimize the number of people from their country that are killed by people from other countries.

It is the nature of human kind that some people like to be in control of other people AND that some people are happy to let someone else do the heavy lifting of making the world go round.  So if the world ever evolves/descends to a state of statelessness (no borders) AND there are any people still in existence then I am afraid we will still have leaders of some type.  And one of the jobs of those leaders will be to minimize the number of their constituents that are killed by the constituents of other leaders.  Part of that will entail killing people under those other leaders.

There is no CO2 problem.
Global Warming craze is a scam.

Humans can tolerate up to 4% of CO2 in the air.
A lot of CO2 will be good for plants.
More plants == more food for humans.
more humans == more slaves for us.
Et cetera ...

gotta start building a dyson sphere or two 

It's Jewish.  They're Jews.  That's why all they ever do is oppose freedom, sell America out to foreigners and give tax money to banks and insurance companies.

Jews are behind gun control.

Home made handguns are boring. They are not that much more effective than a knife or an axe. But handguns are only the beginning.

When people start to print armed helicopter drones, things are going to get interesting.

Would anyone be interested in starting a "Church of Development". Where "god" is "the future", and we worship by making it better. Basically just a developmental coin charity that religiously works towards the future.

I am a certified minister and I will work to get non-profit status in my state, but here is the base for the organization, I already have 200 members:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=213405.0

If anyone wants to get married or exercise demons, I can legally do the ceremony

so you prefer blondes too? :O)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fpubs%2Fmonographs%2F2009%2FRAND_MG819.pdf&ei=IyOeUdipO9a64APLzoCIDw&usg=AFQjCNH8MCPw8ct_OVU5LzLZsU1U-wq57A&sig2=-9KdhWPFYo60i_7LdIFHmg&bvm=bv.46865395,d.dmg

Prepared by the RAND Corporation for the U.S. Army.

So you sent money from Eastern Europe to Japan where it was used to buy Bitcoin.  Talk to your neighbours and ask them if that is the normal way to get a currency?  It isn't.  While people have to jump through so many hoops to get Bitcoin, they will be mainly collectibles.  And when a retail solution is found, the currency will get to its true market value and work as a currency.  For example, Poles in England will be able to send their earnings to their families in Poland far cheaper than they do now.

This lady has been putting out nice updates about the Japanese situation:

http://youtu.be/AR3TyfKTeNE

TL;DR; Parasitic rich investors/hedge funds are using near-zero interest rates to borrow from Japan and buying high-yield assets (carry trade) like the european bonds. This will suppress the prices of non-yielding assets like gold and yen and add to the housing/bond bubble. However, there's a high risk that sometime in the near future people will stop accepting the rapidly declining yen and stop buying Japanese Goverment Bonds(JGB) because the yield/risk ratio is off. This should trigger:

  a) hyper-inflation if Bank of Japan(BOJ) continues easing and buys even a bigger share of JGBs
  b) dramatic increase in japanese bond yields (interest rates) that would pretty much destroy the japanese economy that is already spending a large portion of their GDP on interest payments

Bonus: Japan has been the biggest external buyer of US Treasury Bonds(T-Bonds). Once the shit hits the fan domestically, they probably have to stop this. This means that T-Bond yields will increase -> interest rates will increase and the same scenario could take place in the US.

Good job, much appreciated. I reside outside of US, but otherwise I would have joined the action I'm sure.

The middle-class has been squashed and lost it's voice. Lower-class relies on the foodstamps and will vote for more, no matter the cost. Higher-class has the wealth to lobby and exercise dubious tax planning. It's sad that middle class, who's carrying the biggest burden of taxes, has no say in taxation nor has the power to avoid them.

But then again, the disappearance of the middle class has often been followed by the total collapse of the empire. Hope we are getting very close to this; the world would be much better off without the US and the IMF.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it becomes, marked: 'Account overdrawn.

You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while you're damning its life-blood – money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men's history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves – slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody's mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer. Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers – as industrialists.

To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money – and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being – the self-made man – the American industrialist.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose – because it contains all the others – the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money'. No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity – to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the Bitcoin and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide – as, I think, he will.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns – or Bitcoins. Take your choice. There is no other.

And your time is running out.

Just listen to this fucker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8WNgbRGcRQ

Hope he gets jailed and can no longer choose even yes/no when the prisoners take turns on him.

I'm sorry for your friends in Mexico. But it pales in comparison to the nearly 5,000 troops and 120,000 civilians killed in Iraq, including both my little brother and my best friend.  A war started based on fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction.  Not defending either F&F or Benghazi--just saying obviously partisan outrage adds to the problem.  So what's your solution?  I'm saying that if Obama resigned tomorrow absolutely nothing would change so fight the real problem.

I might be persuaded to undertake such a difficult research study within the UK   (jk!)

Right, I clearly need to explain myself better in these forums.

I meant it in a somewhat different term than the traditional use the term reserve currency since you're right, the term doesn't make sense for bitcoins.  But in most places, you can't pay all your bills with bitcoins, so what I meant was if you had to pick a currency to choose as a preferred currency to exchange from bitcoins -> fiat, which would you prefer?