I'll pick Iran  I am going with Germany its better team right now I never bet on the favourite, but I can't see anyone else but Brazil winning this one. |
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Current odds.
Brazil 10-3 | Argentina 9-2 | Germany 11-2 | Spain 7-1 | Belgium 14-1 | Colombia 20-1 | France 20-1 | Italy 25-1 | Netherlands 25-1 | Uruguay 25-1 | England 28-1 | Chile 33-1 | Portugal 33-1 | Russia 50-1 | Switzerland 80-1 | Ecuador 100-1 | Mexico 100-1 | Japan 100-1 | Ivory Coast 100-1 | Croatia 150-1 | USA 150-1 | Ghana 200-1 | Bosnia-Herzegovina 200-1 | Nigeria 200-1 | Greece 200-1 | Korea Republic 250-1 | Australia 500-1 | Cameroon 1000-1 | Costa Rica 1000-1 | Algeria 1500-1 | Honduras 2000-1 | Iran 2500-1
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Most religions use drugs in some way during their practices. Most societies use drugs in some way. And actually, most fundamentalist religions strongly discourage the use of drugs, since their own practices often rely on nobody in the religion having any alternative way to get high. So, like Pentecostalists, their only buzz is going into something like an epileptic seizure while rolling around on the ground spastically and "speaking tongues." If they had a better way of getting a buzz, they probably wouldn't be into spazzing out and flipping around on the floor screaming gibberish. The same could be said of the 9/11 terrorists, all in an Islamic offshoot that forbade them from just getting drunk or high. So their buzz was knocking down the Twin Towers. Totally agree, anything that puts the subject into an irrational state of mind can be use for the purposes of mind control. |
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Most religions use drugs in some way during their practices. This is to encourage irrational thought and help convince themselves that their superstitions are true. This is most obvious in primitive religions where the practitioners enter into a fully intoxicated state and experience hallucinations. These hallucinations they assume to be divine in origin. As well as drugs, many other techniques are used by religions and cults in order to discourage rational thought, such as repeated chanting and/or the telling of hypnotic stories.
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Imagine a shiny blue coloured cube, roughly the size of a baseball or grapefruit. Now imagine that the pointy corners have been dipped in red paint.
Now ask yourself: why did that cube appear in front of your eyes -- the same place where you're only supposed to see 'real' things? This shows that we must already be using our imagination to "see the real world".
True, but none the less, the cube is still imaginary. |
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As far as I'm concerned, gods have to prove their existence to me if they want me to believe in them, not the other way round, this looks a lot like fake or very dodgy science to me to make it seem that religious people are correct.
Doesn't that defy the point of a God though? Once a God proves its existence then belief goes out the window. If you saw god, you would only believe more. Do you believe it's possible to hallucinate something which isn't real? |
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No, I'm still shorting the Dollar.
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As far as I'm concerned, gods have to prove their existence to me if they want me to believe in them, not the other way round, this looks a lot like fake or very dodgy science to me to make it seem that religious people are correct.
Doesn't that defy the point of a God though? Once a God proves its existence then belief goes out the window. No, God can expose himself, he will still be God, and you would still need faith to believe he is. The reason why religious people say God can't expose himself, is because it explains the complete lack of evidence. This avoids having to accept the existential realities of existence. |
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Thanks.
So, if I understand correctly now, an attacker would have to overcome the hash power of the current miner(s)?
What you are referring to is called a 51% attack. It's one among a number of different attack strategies, see; https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/WeaknessesA 51% attack has to do with total hashing power and not the overall number of nodes on the network. |
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I see. I was under the impression that each client was a node, but I'm confused. So confirmatios have to come from miners nodes only, correct?
The number of confirmations is the depth of the block containing your transaction in the blockchain. When you send a transaction it has '0' confirmation as it isn't contained in a block yet. When it's in a block it has one confirmation. When another block is found, on top of that one, then your transaction has three confirmations. etc. Oh, ok. So it would need 5 new blocks found by 5 different miners in order for a transaction to have 5 confirmations? Essentially yes but.. 1) As pointed out, the blocks could be found by the same miner. 2) Some blocks may be orphaned. |
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I see. I was under the impression that each client was a node, but I'm confused. So confirmatios have to come from miners nodes only, correct?
The number of confirmations is the depth of the block containing your transaction in the blockchain. When you send a transaction it has '0' confirmation as it isn't contained in a block yet. When it's in a block it has one confirmation. When another block is found, on top of that one, then your transaction has two confirmations. etc. |
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When there are too few nodes bitcoin becomes susceptible to a low level network attack.
Ok. And that depends on the number of miners among the 3 nodes, or it wouldn't matter? No, attacker just needs to be able to create enough attack nodes to disrupt the rest of the network. No, the attacker not only has to come up with attack nodes but has to match or best the hashing power of the legitimate nodes still on the network. Until that point the most they can do is delay transactions, and waste their own money making invalid blocks... Yes, I know. This attack is about gaining control of the network, not the blockchain. |
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When there are too few nodes bitcoin becomes susceptible to a low level network attack.
Ok. And that depends on the number of miners among the 3 nodes, or it wouldn't matter? No, attacker just needs to be able to create enough attack nodes to disrupt the rest of the network. |
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When there are too few nodes bitcoin becomes susceptible to a low level network attack.
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Wow that's a pretty nice post. Learned a lot here.
Thanks for it!
Thanks, glad you found it useful  |
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Germany and Portugal will go through. Hopefully England will go through with Italy, but I'm not expecting much from our team. I feel the same way, but still looking forward to it. |
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Freaking weird, I think maybe this one is because I've been stressing about being able to buy back in, but now I'm not so sure I want to, In the coming three days, we're going to truely drop back down to the norm. So don't buy in just yet, according to my dream at least. The last dream I had about bitcoin was spot on, it just has to reach the 400$ point around the tenth, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344295which is still supported by my last dream. If this comes true, I'm going to really pay attention to my new dreams, but then again I could of just gotten lucky. Tread carefully. Have your fiat ready. down to the norm
And what's the norm? Anyway, I don't think this is over so easily. I personally now know a lot of regular Joes who got butthurt for not buying in when "it was cheap". Also, it's Sunday (dip) and ~750 $ in gox which is already pretty bullish. In my dream it's always in that 400$-450$ range. I also think that the current 150 is extremely bullish right now. Only time will tell. Quoted. |
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If every bitcoiner who wants to run a small startup site gets DDoS'd into the ground, I don't think Bitcoin will catch on.
Just a suggestion from cat to cat: build a mousetrap. I.e., if you want to do business, get DDoS-Protection.  I kinda know that now, but when the hackers go for your home connection...  Where do they know your home connection from? Hint, hint: use a VPN to hide your home IP, if you want to avoid something like that. I think he's just trolling, most ISP's use dynamic IP's. All you would need to do is reconnect and the attacker no-longer knows your IP address. |
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