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IP over HF is still a bit slow. Isn't it? Perhaps I've missed something but as far as I can remember the bandwidth was something like 1200 bit/sec at best (but 600 bit/sec was the most common a few years ago).

If you take a look at the known foreigner jihadists in ISIS you will see that one of the biggest contributor is Tunisia. In next door Libya the local ISIS branch is also gaining ground rather quickly. So he could be easily a terrorist.

Oh! The overpopulation myth again . That's cute.

As you said it's man's natural state. Until today only capitalism been able to give some sort of vision of the future and the feeling of progress. I think (besides the lack of basic maths) the lack of vision of the future was one of the main reasons of the socialist economy.

Very true. I think every sensible housewife could tell to the politicians what to do when the family income isn't enough. Yes, get a better job, or get a second work, but until that's done immediate austerity measures are needed to keep things floating. (Of course banksters are offering an alternative by using credit cards and keep spending happily, but everyone with some minimal common sense knows how that will end.) According to my past experience only the kids used to make anti-austerity protests and supporting the use of credit cards...

As I grown up in one of the so called commie states I've seen how the economy felt apart from the very bottom to the top because of the lack of the very basic maths and psychology. The marxist economy is destined to fail by design. IMO those hard working first and second generation "capitalists" used to move the world forward.

You see, my political commissar in the army told me the same stuff twenty some years ago. As I see capitalism is still here but our glorious socialism went down the drain. Even the Chinese hard-liners switched to some sort of capitalism. Capitalism most likely will transform over the time to a more sustainable hopefully more localized form but that will be still capitalism, as capitalism is the natural way for economy.

I know a couple of rich people who was working really hard for decades to get rich. Some of them was even working at night too just to get some job done for the deadline, some of them kept working almost all day on some designs or inventions. In the same time "the poor" was hanging around the pub and kept joking on these blokes. Finally these guys got (sometimes extremely) rich and now "the poor" in the pub condemning them for being bloodsucking capitalist.

Maybe you are right, but I'd be grateful if you could point out my mistakes. I haven't read the first one but I've read the Guns Germs and Steel and it's  actually full of factual errors and misinterpretations. From Rifkin I've read The Hydrogen Economy. After that book I can't take him seriously. As I heard his newer books are more likely environmentalist and commie propaganda then anything about real human nature .

This would be the ultimate scam. Ppl will be happy because of they got scammed and no one will come back to complain. Smart.

You are right the design is pretty khmm... minimalistic. In addition this isn't a loan site but a ponzi site therefore yes, we know how it will end.

You can try to develop (or join the development) a lightweight bitcoin alias system. I think it would be much better to send BTC to a twitter like handle like @HoneyBunny then to 1wtf1sTh1sFuck1nL0ngSTuffH3r3. The current semi-existing solution (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84653.0) is pretty much useless as you need to download the whole bloody namecoin blockchain as well (what is almost as big as the BTC blockchain).

Making an SMS based payment gateway could be an other good idea especially for developing countries. Asian African and South American immigrant workers using BTC in surprisingly large numbers for sending money back to home as it's much cheaper then a bank or WU transfer. This could be nice and dandy, but unfortunately many times the recipients are struggling to collect it, because of the shitty internet infrastructure. However apart from some really remote places, good ole GSM is available almost everywhere. Something like SEND <senderusername> to <recipientusername> <amountofBTC> in a text would make things really easy and this service could be available on doggy old phones as well.

If you want some more funny stuff you can make a good RPG with BTC as in game currency. (This one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406675.0 seems to be dead)

IMO yet another exchange/dice/ponzi/mining/scrambler/sell-something-useless sites not going to make much difference.

BTW this is pretty much a paved way for total financial control and surveillance, but on the other hand this initiative will definitely raise awareness and maybe acceptance of bitcoin. Perhaps we should rename BTC as "Freedom" .

That was my first question too . WTF is World Bitcoin Association?

In smaller societies that attribute will be always balanced and counteracted by selfishness itself. I do a favour to you and expect that you will do the same when I need it. I think this is one of the most ancient and most basic human behaviour patterns. Those who break the circle will be soon outcasts, thus the circle will "repair" itself. Same thing applies to cooperation between these small communities. All of them are selfish but in many cases they overrule their selfishness for future gains. However generalizing this schema to bigger communities is IMO a mistake. That never worked very well.


Well, IMO that's not Rand's fault. Without Marx many ppl would be would just be considered a thief .

Localism is a really good idea. Paired with a Swiss type direct democracy (what seems to me as a practical implementation of localism itself) that would be the most ideal political system.

"Ein volk ein reich ein führer"... well, we've heard that before. Those guys also said the same stuff what you just have said here, only the name of the country was different .

Done. It was a quick one.

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Jews might try to sacrifice Soros and Barnake for the common good. That would greatly improve their reputation .