my only suggestion is that someone sell USD and/or EUR cash on the site. Selling cash could help vendors bootstrap their reputation and buyers refine their delivery mechanism without risk from possibly illegal goods. That's a great idea. I might look into offering this service. |
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Frankly, for the system to work, and for Order to flow naturally from that one rule, only most people need to follow it. As long as the peaceful people outnumber the bullies, all is well. I think the really interesting thing about this statement is that it is exactly the same for statism. If, in a statist society, the bullies outnumber the peaceful, then we will almost definitely get bullies running things. As it is, my opinion is that the peaceful outnumber the bullies, but they are convinced that they must put bullies in charge, or else all of those other peaceful people will turn against them. |
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His science is a load of bunk. Our diets have mostly consisted of meat since the inception of the species. Our genetics haven't changed. We still need meat.
Right, his science is bunk and your science says our genetics haven't changed since the beginning of our species. Regardless, billions of people on this planet are vegetarian. We don't NEED meat. I doubt that there are billions. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country) I agree that we do not need meat to survive, and also that the environmental impact of raising livestock for food is high. However, I believe it is much harder to get all of the nutrients necessary for survival as a vegetarian, especially if you don't live in a first world country. |
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It would seem that he thinks any exchange in which someone realizes a monetary gain is "exploitative." This is so utterly absurd that I hardly know where to begin. I do. In order to determine whether or not any transaction I engage in is "exploitative", I must know exactly how much it costs the seller to produce the good or service. Ridiculous. |
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If an employer isn't exploiting you, he's your partner. If a renter isn't exploiting you, he's your seller. If your lender isn't exploiting you, he isn't charging you to borrow from him. If an employer offers me a certain amount of money for my services and I accept, we are both in a better position than before. If a landlord offers me a place to live for a certain amount of money and I accept, we are both in a better position than before. Tell me how you fit in to this transaction, and how you can determine if I am being exploited or not. |
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If you never worked to obtain your organs, why should you get anything in exchange for them? If your spare organ will save someone's life, should that person become your slave after he gets your organ? What exactly are you saying? I shouldn't be allowed to sell my organs? My spare organs should be taken against my will? |
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they seem to be mostly dependent on LR staying good You can do a wire transfer or ACH payment to MtGox... |
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I couldn't post a comment directly to the blog, and I really felt the need to comment on this statement, I thought I'd do so here. I have come to the point in my life where I will only eat living plant food. I have always been a fan of common sense, and when I stepped back and looked at the whole picture, being a raw vegan was the only option. It is ethically the cleanest diet, it has the most nutrition, and it is the diet of every other wild animal on the planet. It consumes the least energy to produce and prepare, and its the diet that we have eaten for millions of years up until very recently. Um... what? According to Anthony Anderson, there are no meat eating animals in the wild, and humans did not eat meat until recently. Wtf? |
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Rather than cash, how about Itunes Cards for BitCoins. Can you buy groceries with Itunes cards, can I pay my rent with them? No, Itunes cards are worth less to me than USD, I would not use an exchange if they dealt in Itunes cards as a proxy for cash. Also, I believe your logic wrt Apple is flawed. Large corporations (Apple is a great example, since their legal department is so central to their success) have a vested interest in the status quo. Bitcoin could absolutely destroy the status quo. I think you would see Apple coordinating with U.S. authorities in order to stop the theoretical Itunes->Bitcoin exchange. |
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I today sent him paypal request for 8 btc which he owes me. I had transaction with him on 8 th feb 2011 for 20 & 30 PPUSD for 22 & 34 bitcoins. & after that he asked a loan of 22, then ......after a lot of request i gave 8 bitcoins. I received paypal from this email address greg@madcashdash.com & he replied for my request from this email greg@glpbucks.com& his name seems greg art, its mentioned in paypal transaction. If anyone know any details please share. The guy is a gambling addict... do we really need to make his life any worse? I mean, he uses email addresses from two of those skeezy "cash for completing offers" sites. |
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I have few new facts: Translation: "I have a few new wild allegations for which I offer no evidence". |
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The point is that high quality paper and ink will decay far slower than any optical media. Additionally, you don't have to worry about not being able to find a CD-ROM drive when you fetch the stored keys out of your safety deposit box.  |
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Nobody's locking them in at night and marching them to their job at gunpoint. It's an apartment, not a prison.
There are, however, coercive forces at work and I think it is important that we acknowledge that. Capitalism as we know it would not exist without the state, but that doesn't mean that employer-employee or landlord-tenant relationships are inherently coercive. |
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When one party takes advantage of another party with no consideration except for the first party's own gain. A party will often employ trickery, deception, and coercion in exploiting another.
So you're saying Bob is exploiting Adam by making use of his basement and offering little to nothing in return? |
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I'm confused. At first I thought this was a discussion for a new wallet. Do you want to replace JSON-RPC, or essentially create a new client, broken into pieces?
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McGruder, I think what you don't understand about the employer-employee relationship is that the employer bears the majority of the risk. The employer stands to lose his investment at any time, the employee merely loses his job. At any point the employee could take that risk upon himself and strike out on his own. Now, I agree that in our current situation, this proposition is less desirable for most, but I contend that it is due to the state's interference in labor markets, not something inherent in a non-socialist society. All that said, I don't call myself a capitalist, or an anarchist, but a voluntaryist. I found this to be a good read on the topic of the state's use of force distorting labor markets: http://c4ss.org/content/4043My take on the impossibility of anarcho-capitalism is simply as follows:
Under anarchism, mass accumulation and concentration of capital is impossible.
Without concentration of capital, wage slavery is impossible.
Without wage slavery, there’s nothing most people would recognize as “capitalism”. As the price of capital is diluted, the share of production that goes to the workers increases. What we would eventually see is essentially, a permanent global labor shortage. Companies would compete for workers, rather than the other way around. There’s nothing the anarcho-capitalists could do to prevent people from agreeing to treat property in a more fluid or communal manner than they’d prefer. Nor is there anything the anarcho-socialists could do to prevent a community from organizing property in a more rigid or individualistic manner than they’d prefer. |
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Yes yes the old 'work for me for pennies or don't and starve'. Not a valid argument - someone else will come along who needs labor and offer a better deal, the hypothetical worker can start his own business, or do contract work if there is enough demand. There is at least one case when this argument is valid - when you're talking about state capitalism (rather than free market capitalism). In state capitalism, the capitalists pay the politicians for favors, which they redeem to tilt the labor market more in their favor. Minimum wage laws, licensing regulations, tax except employer health care... all of these things sound good, but put up barriers to entry to the market. This means that the "exploited" employee must remain exploited, because it costs too much to start a competing business. |
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I'm happy with the UI as well. Actually, I like it better than the one I created. I've sent a small donation your way.
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Hmmmm.... Talking almost as if you knew him, you are.
Suspicious it is, indeed. Shadow, please give up this witch hunt. There's no evidence to show that wb3 and Baron are related in any way, and I don't think constant accusations are going to do the Bitcoin community any good. Please, please stop this behavior. It's not helping anybody. |
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is or will there be an increased value to the older bitcoins, will there be BitCoin Collectors? Or collectors of interesting bitcoin strings...
Maybe. Since the market for collectible digital commodities is not centrally planned, nobody knows! |
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