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It should be noted that there are many Americans who are not ignorant to what is going on here. It should also be noted that there is a ton of money being spent to not only distract our societies with social issues (opportunity cost of attention) but also a ton of money being spent to manipulate the voting process. Gerrymandering currently favors the GOP (who are hell bent on privatizing the government) and disproportionally allows for Republican election victories.
It's easy to say that, "Americans have no idea what their leaders are doing because their leaders are doing some effed up shite," but it isn't accurate. Regardless of politics, every one of us has our own life to consider. We have jobs that we go to, we have families that we want to attend to and we have social lives that we want to maintain. Somewhere, in the past century, our social lives became extricated from social awareness. And within that paradigm, it was easy and still is easy to use false information to manipulate people into supporting an irrelevant cause.
Case in point. I don't know if anyone here has noticed it but during the BP crisis, the news headlines were full of the ongoing issue. What many people didn't see was that BP bought a crap ton of advertising space on youtube. Now consider what that means. When I say consider what that means, I mean try and figure out why they would do that. It's a simple associative trick to get people to think positively about a topic because they are more interested in the content that they were intending to watch. The ads were full of positive content like families are great and the environment is a priority. But I guarantee that 99% of people who were exposed to those ads didn't care - they just wanted to view their content and as a result, they implicitly decided that the issue was not worthy of concern. The Koch Brothers did the same thing on youtube these past few months with the Keystone Pipeline - highlighting families and American jobs. Generalized BS that every normal person will nod their head and say, "yeah, that is agreeable."
It certainly isn't as simple as that. It's much more. Religion is a major focal point. If God wants to destroy the environment and deny same sex marriage then he probably wants to perpetuate destructive energy practices (really, how effing difficult is it for a multi billion industry to just give in and start developing clean energy themselves; they'd be heroes instead of a stain on our future aspirations). Religion is still a major tool for psychological manipulation whether you want to admit it or not.
I'm not saying that there aren't ignorant Americans. There are. But not all of us are. But I can't do shit when the people with a ton of money pay the people who place the Congressional votes into supporting corporate ventures that oppress the common folk. I also can't do shit when people unknown decide to stand behind and support an 'officer of the law' who very likely killed a man in cold blood because of race. I also can't do shit about millions of dollars being spent in the financial community interchanged to the lobbying community.
All I can do is read and watch the train wreck. I post about it. I vote.
For the record, I can support everything I posted above with actual data and sources. I'm just on a drunk rant right now.
TLDR; It's not funny. Soime of us are ignorant but it shouldn't be considered a blanket association. We'll probably have to wait a generation for more progressive minds to replace the dinosaurs and suffer the consequences of it because there is no real social cohesion.
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An ounce of wine with two ounces vodka.
Not bad!
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There's a very active user on this former that acts dumber than he really is.
There are very active users on this forum that act dumber than s(he) really are. -Fixed it for you |
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Anyway, NHZ is a clone, so it makes sense for it to become part of the cloneNET blocknet.
NHZ may be a clone but they seem to have some aim to reworking the code in an effort to make it better. My point is that the term 'clone' as a label is not entirely accurate since they are rebuilding and redirecting rather than copy/paste/expect from community. And I can appreciate that the crossing out of clonenet was done because blocknet is not based on Supernet code as far as I have read. Silently invested in BTCD et cetera so please don't take my comments as anything more than an interest in being fair. I have respected your expression and coding for quite some time and think that there is no need to dive into petulance. |
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How many coins are in existence here?
One of the block explorers says 91 million...is that accurate?
Honest question. That said, I don't really like Cannibas but support the legalization effort...and perhaps even the coin...
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what about SSD coin? do you think it is legitimate? I went into their thread ragging them but they almost have me sold they are legit. i still not buy into it though until they deliver on all promises.
SSD is the only one with Stenography. Not much of a market for it now but if it is stout and continues along then there might be. It's been out for awhile and I haven't seen any copycats. Kind of a relevant indicator to me. |
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Was just going to say that. China is a superpower. They always have been. Orwell didn't cite Euraisa and Oceania for nothing...  |
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"Your life doesn't suck by any means...unless you destroy other people in the process"
true words
+1 Gambling is always fixed even if a site can be demonstrated to be provably fair. The reason is that it is very likely that after winning that you will bet again. And nobody wins a million times in a row. I would bet fifty dollars on the Cubs winning the World Series next year before I would place a fifty dollar bet equivalent in BTC on any website. Condolences to the hard stories in this thread. |
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Scrubs.
Shawshank Redemption is right up there for me but I think I would have to place The Matrix just a bit higher.
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2002 Chevy Camaro. It isn't my first choice but I have always loved Camaros so I will always likely have one around.
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Vodka - straight. I prefer rum but Vodka is easier to access at this point.
The brand is irrelevant.
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Noob Question - How do I download the update without sending the coins to an exchange, deleting the wallet and then installing?
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Where is the multipool at? I looked for a link in the OP and couldn't find it...
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There has been talk of a NoirExchange, right, which I essentially interpret to mean that it will be an altcoin exchange that will earn for the GF et cetera...and the guys have stated that they have been talking with the guys from Maidsafe and Ethereum...
Why not place the exchange on the Safe Network, making NoirExchange the first exchange on the Safe Network with all of the Security and advantages that the Safe Network has to offer? I imagine that there will be a race to populate the Safe Network with apps and sites so there may be an inherent advantage to being the first one over there.
Just a thought...
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Was he part of the team who brought Blackcoin to the top or not? yeahhh he was... so teams can not have personal issues? So let's say you are great at your job but you totally don't agree with the direction your boss chooses for the future, you'll bend over and take it up your... or will you thanks him and go somewhere else?
Not in my opinion. Having friends to help bulk purchasing to go along with his big mouth is not community building nor is it any part of the dev work or marketplace adoption. This is from someone who has been observing and never took his advice. Never in BC or LBC. Doesn't mean that they weren't worth my attention in the threads. (By the way...have also told many bosses to shove it when I disagreed. Using fallacious arguments to prove an irrelevant point is just that.) |
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Yeah...he is not legit. He just posted a promise to take XLB to #3 and I asked him how that was dissimilar to his behavior with BC...he deleted it multiple times as I would repost after the delete. Was able to get this screenshot though. That guy is not healthy for this community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit to add dashes in order to differentiate the screenshot with the rest of the post. |
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