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Are you still talking about fiends?
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I just penned a post about my return trip form India, not aware about this thread. Guess I missed it.
I just happened to me in India during the '01 Christmas season. I toured the country for three weeks. I vividly remember the talk on the street everywhere I went about the stock exchange in India. In fact, if I recall correctly, a lot of the trading was taking place outdoors, outside of the stock exchange buildings. The reason I remember this obscure fact is because I happened to remember at the time that the original stock exchange here in the US took place under a tree on Wall Street (paraphrased).
The reason for stating the above is that I experienced first hand how the Indian people feel about finance, money, dollars, and gold. In fact, I was informed beforehand to make sure I bought with me to India as many dollars as possible. When I say dollars, I mean singles, opposed to fives, tens, and twenties. For some odd reason, the merchants liked the singles the best. I later learned that they exchange the dollars (not just singles) in Iran for gold. Once the gold was in India, the jewelry makers formed it into those Mr. T-type necklaces the Indian women are accustomed to wearing. In fact, it was, and maybe still is, cheaper for people to buy a tooled piece of 22K gold jewelry in Indian, than buying the same weight in 18K gold here in the US. On the surface, it sounds crazy, but trust me, because I knew first-hand that this is/was true back then.
All that said, I firmly believe that Bitcoin could easily prosper in India. And they do wire a hell of a lot money overseas from the US, as well as other countries. All it would take is to show them how much money they would save on transfer fees alone, and they would be all over it like flies on a freshly made Chicken Marsala dinner.
~Bruno~
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Coming back to states after a three week visit to India during the first week of '92, I found myself in line at customs in NYC with five large suitcases, each individually duct taped to the max, prepped such a way to survive the trip. While in line, I held two pieces of reading material: A leaflet outlining what I legally can and can't bring back to the States from India and a paperback book, of the which its title now eludes me. While waiting in the long line, I took it upon myself to read the leaflet to pass the time. I couldn't believe what I was reading. It seems that the main three things that you're not allowed to bring back to the US from India is exactly what I had in three of the five suitcases: mass quantities of silver; mass quantities of peacock feathers; and mass quantities of spices. After reading those lines, looking down the still line of people and seeing suitcases being opened and gone through, then slightly glancing at my suitcases, only one thought went through this half brain of mine--Midnight Express. My asshole still tightens up just thinking about certain scenes. At any rate, I finally reached the custom agent. A pleasant over-weight middle-aged woman. I just knew I was fucked when she asked what I was reading. I told her just this leaflet. She said no, the other one--the book. I held it up for her to see what I recall was a best seller at the time. And for the next five minutes we talked about the book and how she just read it, liked it, etc. Afterward, she asked me--wait for it--do you have any mass quantities of... or... or...? I lied to her and said no, and even asked if she wanted me to open all the suitcases for me to show her. She said no, then welcomed me back to the United States. I then went to my next connecting flight heading to O'hare without a worry in the world with my mass quantities of...
~Bruno~
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(surely, the rising exchange rate is a serious concern for them as the deal with authentic claims) I wonder if the rate is artificially rising to take advantage of this situation. I'm not savvy enough to figure out how that could be done, let alone knowing if there's a real advantage for doing such, but do have a feeling that something doesn't smell right. Really? A near 18% gain over the past 30 days with this episode looming? One would expect the price to fall or, at the very least, remain stable as it has relatively done prior to this Bitcoinica episode. I may be wrong, but it's something sure to think about. I apologize for the slight aside, and I'm not the right person to start such a thread on this subject if one is warranted. I am glad to see progress on this issue. Good job and good luck, guys. ~Bruno~ |
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Let's try to solve this without any outside help from anybody who does know the answer until we collectively get close and give or proclaim we have the answer. I'll start by re-posting the original image, followed by an image of the Russian alphabet.   I guess we can assume that there are only 5 words, therefore... 1. O ... 2. P ... 3. ... 4. ... 5. ... That's the best I can do. Now help out by placing in some letters. ~Bruno~ |
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It actually IS Russian... it reads:
Hey Boris! In Soviet Russia, pointy end of bullet goes in chamber first. Forgetski notski.
You're right, LG. I was just testing you to see if you knew Russian. I Googled your translation and found this:  |
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It ain't Russian. It's Lithuanian. It reads: All your base are belong to us. What you have there is the very first meme. ~Cackling Bear~ PS: That's one hell of an ugly avatar, dude.  |
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Lmao, I love how you came to my thread. Mad about the post I made on your exchange thread? Learn to take a joke, it was a poke at the fact that you said you were on a lot of people's ignore list.
I thought I was on your Ignore List ?. You weren't I just ignored you to post that, as a joke. You dog! Just for that, I want to fuck your avatar. ~Bruno~ |
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The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
Is that where they do the long version of Jessica? (sorry for the question, but I just left that 'ask a question' thread) I love that song! I believe it's on my Top 10 list, and if it ain't, it surely is on my Top 20. Here's one of the same genre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Gv0q-qocIDamn, that sure the hell brings back fond memories of when I used to host Writer's Nights in Nashville for three years. You see, I was the only host of Writer's Nights that did not sing or play a musical instrument (because I couldn't do either), thus allowing the writers more airtime. Toward my last year of doing these gigs--three nights a week--the writers still remaining at the end of the night would all play together, with the last song sung my me (the one I've linked to), for it's the only song I knew all the words to, coupled with it fitting my vocal rang whereas, I've heard, Matthew can sing Opera. It was not uncommon to have 20-30 writers on stage at one time, playing mostly guitars, ending the last set (actually, it was just one long 4-6 hour set without any intermissions). ~Bruno~ |
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Did I inadvertently insert an r, thus changing the meaning of said word?
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Lmao, I love how you came to my thread. Mad about the post I made on your exchange thread? Learn to take a joke, it was a poke at the fact that you said you were on a lot of people's ignore list.
I thought I was on your Ignore List ?. I believe I'm no longer on that list because I gave in. Wait, what? That makes me a pussy! Damn you LP for tricking me! Later, bud. ~Bruno~ |
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I believe that the company had plans to amend the Terms of Service to mention the illegibility of NZ non-accredited/non-institutional investors for Bitcoinica service.
You mean the Terms of Service available at: https://bitcoinica.com/pages/tos ? Oh, that's right - Customers did not have access to terms of service for over a month, at a time where it matters the most. Speaking of ToS: [17] Force Majeure
You agree that Bitcoinica will not be liable in any way to you or to any other person in the event of force majeure, or for the act of any Government or legal authority, or for the failure of or damage or destruction to its computer systems, data or records or any part thereof, or for delays, losses, errors or omissions resulting from the failure or mismanagement of any telecommunications or computer equipment or software. The parties shall be released of all responsibilities for partial, full or non-fulfillment, as well as for improper fulfillment of the obligations under this Agreement, if such non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment was a result of extraordinary events, which occurred after this Agreement was concluded and which the party could not either foresee or prevent (natural calamities, wars, armed conflicts etc.). I assume Bitcoinica is not treating this incident as Force Majeure? If not, how is Bitcoinica LP treating it? Let's assume that those tos are geniune. See bold text. Bitcoinica, who the hell came up with this drivel for you. Do you really think you can write this shit into Force Majeure and everything is hanky dory and you can just continue to be be as grossly negligent as you are? Yea nice lawmanship. Get proper lawyer to draft for you the terms. Bitcoinica, with such drivel in force majeure clause you are way better off without one. tl;dr Bitcoinica thinks that having their computers hacked releases it from any liabilities to everyone.I don't see what's so shocking about that. Isn't that exactly what Linode thinks (as was written in their ToS), and, infact, what ended up being the case for the big hack a few months ago? If I remember, all Bitcoinica ended up getting was an apology and an offer of free service for a year. Edit: To be clear, I'm not defending that practice, I'm simply pointing out that it doesn't seem to be uncommon and it's apparently enforceable. I wonder if it's binding when it's only copied and pasted from some other website: https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=14&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22or+records+or+any+part+thereof%2C+or+for+delays%2C+losses%22~Bruno~ |
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At 10:48 AM this morning of June 12th, one of our European representatives and the Managing Editor for Bitcoin Magazine, Mihai Alisie, arrived at the post office to claim 3 large and lately arrived shipments of the Bitcoin Magazine from customs. Entering the offices and presenting his claim form, a middle-aged Customs Officer began to collect and sort the packages. Both nervous of the condition of the magazines and any taxes or restrictions on the shipment, our Mihai waited patiently as the customs officer sorted through his papers. One box was sealed in a thick plastic bagging indicating some damage. It was this box that the officer chose for Mihai to open. Handing him a knife, he was instructed to cut the bag open. Clearing the plastic out of the way the officer then cut the box open himself to reveal the contents. Mihai grew more nervous, knowing that the front of the magazine would not only be the face of a guy fawkes mask, but of him behind the mask as well. As he cut the box open, sure enough, the officer noticed the notorious imagery and began a dialogue that will now go down in the history of Bitcoin Magazine. “What is this?”, the Customs Officer asked. “Magazines. They’re collectible.” Mihai responded, pointing to the QR code on the cover. The officer began to cut the other boxes open as well. Upon cutting open all three boxes, the officer returned to the first box where he took out a magazine and started to look inside. Another younger Customs Officer having seen the cover, approached the first officer as he inquired, “What will you do with these? Are you planning on selling them?”. “No, just sending them to people”. Mihai began to grow a bit nervous. Would his long awaited shipment be confiscated by customs for some technicality? Would be put on a terrorist watchlist in the country of Romania? Would he have to pay an insane amount of taxes just to keep the shipments to our loyal readers going? Mihai’s mind raced as he pondered the numerous possibilities, but he could never have been prepared for what came next. Read the jaw-dropping conclusion to this true story at http://bitcoinmagazine.net/the-case-of-the-curious-customs-and-bitcoin-magazine/You Bastard! You know damn well that after reading such a well written post I, and others, are going to click that damn link to your (insert curse word here) Bitcoin Magazine online site. Now, I have to read the rest of the story, then head back here to read the rest of the posts of this thread. Then comment. Can't you see that I'm a busy guy, worrying about RandFold's health and all, that I don't have time for this? At any rate, a damn good post, and can't wait to read the rest, bud. Later. ~Bruno~ |
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Do you really except me to brag to my friends about such a gritty adventure?
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