You are still listing the most corrupt police forces in the US though. When CJ students study police corruption and abuse, they study NOPD and LAPD. NYPD is not often far behind. There are even movies about it, like Serpico. That was the point...Serpico.  Your sarcasm detector needs a new battery. You're mistaken if you think it was police corruption that was behind the fail. Guardsmen are deployed by each state's executive and they were also involved. This was 2005 btw, and the can of subverting the highest law of the land has been kicked quite a piece down the road since. |
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Did you receive an Avalon? or tracking ?
He just received an Avalon in Taiwan. Check it out Bitbird: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/AvalonKeep us posted on how it goes please. Everyone's dying for first hand accounts. |
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Yifu desperately needs to offload CS duties to someone. Causing your customer base this much stress is bad mojo, or will be if/when they ever have any competition.
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it seems bfl could need a month or more if all goes well, why do they keep guessing wrong on their time table?
I wouldn't say "guessing". It's great marketing getting people to pay for something in advance where getting it first counts so much, even if it's not likely to be available for another 6 months after you claim. pretty dishonest:( It's also illegal in the US where BFL is located. |
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So I haven't seen anyone discus this angle, sorry if someone has. BFL has been accepting BTC for pre-orders so if you pre ordered a single in the summer months of 2012 it would be around 260 BTC as the value was around 5 to 14 USD last summer. That means that you just lost around $9,090 USD if you gave them your BTC when it was worth 5 USD and Today it's worth around 40 USD. Right, am I missing something here? The only thing you're missing is the dozens of times it's been discussed previously. Yes, unfortunately some people did pay BFL with BTC in June of 2012 and yes they've been royally screwed by doing so. In all fairness paying BTCFPGA in BTC for an ASIC last October has not worked out really well for me either. |
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Do some research then, there's plenty of information available about what happened in New Orleans. The confiscations were door to door. Riots and looting are no justification at all for this behavior. These were orders that should not have been followed, but were and while I'm certainly not saying regular troops would just open fire on a civilian population in a US city because Colonel blahblah told them to, I'm also not convinced those orders would be ignored by all.
BTW militias were the backbone of the Continental army, though the word has now come to be derogatory. Wonder how.
'"Guns will be taken. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass declared' First off, NOPD is historically one of the most corrupt police forces to have ever existed. Second, Im not going to try and pretend like it is not a tactic for the military to round up weapons. Less bullets = less people to shoot at you, less chance for the bad guys to get them, less resistance, and all kinds of other fun things. Im not saying it was right, or that it should have happened, but there is still a pretty big difference between one instance of mass chaos and crime, and just saying hey, were going to take these now. Or, eh I think I will be President for Life / Dictator for Life / whatever for life - we better squish anyone who says otherwise. And I already said there would be those that did follow orders. Im not trying to say that absolutely no one will allow it to happen. Aside from all that, I need no lesson in militias (past or present). Though, you are probably the same person who complains about mercenary groups / militias like Blackwater (Xe), huh? Anyways, feel free to keep connecting those crazy dots and pointing fingers at all the "extremists", Ill be in the background laughing some more. Oh brother. Guess that concludes the reasonable section of the conversation. How'z the unicorn fart powered car working out for you? Guess this kind of thing could never happen in a city with a highly trained and Constitutionally accountable police force eh? Like LA or NY?   |
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<subscribed> Thanks for doing this.  |
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Just received one. Trying to figure out how to set it up.  Country? |
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I'm pretty impressed with Bitfunder's reinvestment option... Currently reinvesting my dividends into more G.ASICMINER-PT shares... I'll see how I feel next week... But seriously, can we get some better terms or conditions than - We (BitFunder) do not accept responsibility for anything.
- WARNING: Use at your own risk.
- You must agree to 1 and 2.
 Sweet, I didn't even know they also had re-invest(DRIP)! Nice terms, does it really say that? lol |
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DRAT! Curse you Kano and your search-fu!  |
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Do some research then, there's plenty of information available about what happened in New Orleans. The confiscations were door to door. Riots and looting are no justification at all for this behavior. These were orders that should not have been followed, but were and while I'm certainly not saying regular troops would just open fire on a civilian population in a US city because Colonel blahblah told them to, I'm also not convinced those orders would be ignored by all.
BTW militias were the backbone of the Continental army, though the word has now come to be derogatory. Wonder how.
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Episodes like law enforcement running around confiscating firearms in open defiance of the Constitution during Katrina doesn't exactly instill much confidence. Here's a group of premusably pro 2nd amendment citizens with badges that have no problem taking the 2nd amendment rights from other citizens when they're so ordered. This is an example of following orders without applying common sense.
You also seem to forget about the fact that there was so much rioting and chaos, even among Police, that martial law was issued and the military DID take over. You are trying to compare apples to oranges. There was so much devastation and destruction, people going crazy and doing whatever they wanted, they probably felt that was the only way to maintain safety. Was the right answer, probably not. But when your facing non-stop looting and just about every other crime. Umm...you're damaging your own argument. Don't you think that if the military was ordered to put down a "rebellion" that the "rebels" would be labelled domestic terrorists first? If simply saying a US citizen is a domestic terrorist or that martial law is declared and therefore Constitutional rights are null and void then there are no Constitutional rights to nullify. If there's looting and chaos then how does going door to door to take away each citizens right and ability to defend themselves solve the problem? Would YOU follow that order if you were put in that position? |
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My name is nimda and I'm using my 1337'th post to ask this: What the hell did I just read?You read a primetime example of off the charts ignorance. That article rag sounds like something Dick(head) Durbin would write. |
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Episodes like law enforcement running around confiscating firearms in open defiance of the Constitution during Katrina doesn't exactly instill much confidence. Here's a group of premusably pro 2nd amendment citizens with badges that have no problem taking the 2nd amendment rights from other citizens when they're so ordered. This is an example of following orders without applying common sense.
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It sometimes is informative. I don't live under a rock, but I had no idea that Butterfly was supposed to have their miners available last year in October or November. Is that correct and has been stated some where? Maybe on their forum?
I did order an SC for my dad and myself several weeks ago, but if i have to wait an entire year or even 5-6 months I don't think I really would even want it then. It would take probably over a year just to pay the thing off at that point. I could do a lot more with that $1333 I guess. I'll have to check on if they can issue refunds. I really thought BFL was making FPGA's and had distribution and all this stuff already set. I'm glad someone got something out of it. Yes, sadly it is true, the original shipping date was to be in October of 2012. You need not take my word for it though as there are plenty of "official" BFL threads around here at bitcointalk.org such as this one begun by a BFL employee in June of 2012: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87934.0Please use caution when you read BFL's own forum, there are many many allegations of deleted/edited posts and sock puppet account posters. |
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Quote of BFL_JOSH: "If you are ordering today, your expected ship date is sometime in the latter half of April as an estimate. Possibly sooner, but expect sometime in April."
Thats BS, Josh knows it, there is no way they have capacity to fill 20,000 orders in 6 weeks. Shit, they dont even have capacity to answer emails in a timely fashion. +1 Not only did he know it was BS, but BFL CS was peddling different(more reasonable) estimates.  Keep those pre-orders rolling in boys...even if you have to ding up the truth wagon a bit. u are dellusional:) and i have plenty of bridges with free bfl asics ready for sale I don't but that wasn't the point of my post was it? Anyway thanks for proving you don't actually read posts prior to commenting. I realize you're just pumping your post count, but slow down buddy...it's okay. |
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Whoever bet that is a fool.. I suspect it's Mircea Popescu... good luck winning your bet against when you lose, though. I'm sure he'll force close the bet and negate all bets after we ship so he doesn't lose the 250 BTC. As the COO of said company it's wholly inappropriate for you to comment on this. Your comments carry weight and could have caused some to lose money by either betting or purchasing equipment from BFL thinking they'd ship soon. It's unprofessional crap like this that makes BFL the target of so much ridicule. Grow up Josh. |
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scam
case closed
Says the guy who is artificially pumping his post count by spamming and necro'ing... At least he didn't use all caps for once. Sadly he's right about bASIC/BTCFPGA/bitcoinasic.net. |
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I have been successful at getting our main rig mining LTCs at ltc.kattare.com, currently at 935kh/s. It's been running this way for the past 12hrs or so without issue. As LTC mining and BTC mining are nearly equally profitable I have them split with the remainder of the GPUs BTC mining at bitparking, currently at 903MH/s. The company spreadsheet located here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArTS7AD--9SWdDNfb0lRNElqS1k1eGRoWEw2TGM4NlE#gid=0Has been updated accordingly. |
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