Freedom.  And the ability to keep your own threads from being spammed and driven off-topic.  It's quite helpful in many situations.


Like any liberty, there are those who'll abuse it.


Nice try.  I understand the desire to shift the blame, but the mods aren't culpable.  You got scammed, the scammer is the only one to blame, but only you can prevent it from happening again.  Scams aren't moderated here on this forum.  There is no way for admin or mods to prevent every scam, and therefor any attempt will only lead to a false sense of security.

I'm open to any of these suggestions.  I forgot that the Sept. 4th was Labor Day Weekend, I have motorcycle ride planned with a buddy that weekend.  I would probably be able to make it to a hotel room by 4pm (Pacific time equivalent to 7pm Eastern) to participate, but it would be difficult.  Friday the 3rd would be better for me, and I'm also open to the weekend of the 28th.  No pressure to make any changes on my account, I'll accommodate whatever decision is agreed upon.


Lol.  That's probably a safe bet, until it isn't.  I'm very shy about betting on meaningless games, especially preseason NFL with so many unpredictable new players trying to noticed.  Good luck.


Must be nice, braggard! 

This if fine with me.

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This reminds me of when they started flagging celebrations a few years ago.  That turned into a quite a fiasco, and if I remember correctly they reversed course on that rule the next year.  This probably wouldn't have even been an issue if it wasn't for that incident in the Super Bowl.  I expect some prominent players to get dinged by this rule for doing what they've been doing most of their lives; taunting each other on the field.  It's part of the game, part of almost any team sport for that matter.  Once the rule is applied in a controversial way, the resulting backlash will likely cause the league to reverse course next year.  It wouldn't be the first time.

I'm not sure that you can compare Trezor Suite with Electrum in an apples to apples type of way.  Electrum requires that you save wallet files locally, which is why it creates a hidden user directory.  Suite just reads the derivation paths from the hardware wallet to populate the information.  I would assume that any runtime environment files it needs will temporarily populate in the /run directory.

Admittedly, I've only used Suite with Windows, and used the installer.  I've never ran it in Ubuntu (my preferred Linux distro,) so I have no experience with the appimage. 

I'll admit that I thought FlyingHellFish was a poor moderator of the P&S section because he was too biased, and I was of the opinion that his bias influenced his moderation duties.  For the same reasons I think QuickPrimeSeller7 would also be poor moderator of that section, even if I do agree with him (in political terms) more often than not.  If he's volunteering, my (presumptive) vote is "NAY."

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I actually enjoy a political debate from time to time, but I find the P&S section to be more of a troll show than anything.  There are very few rational debates, and both liberals and conservatives end up reverting to trolling one another.  I often find myself succumbing to the trolling as well when I engage in those topics, which is why I tend to steer clear of most of the threads there.  It takes a lot of effort to remain calm and rational when most participants are engaging in such BS.  I don't envy anyone who tries to moderate that section.  

That's a bit of a relief, but it's still troubling.  Something like this could be an attempt to get people comfortable downloading Electrum source from an alternative site, and turn into a trojan horse in the future.  I personally would recommend that people only use the official Electrum site or the GitHub repository, which is managed by the same crew.  

I keep learning about football players who are keen on crypto, I had no idea Brady and Gronk are among them.  That's cool.  Yet another reason to be a Tom Brady fan.

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Preseason officially starts tomorrow, I'm looking forward to a weekend of football!  Meaningless football, but it's football none the less.  I hope to see the passel of first-round QB selections getting some snaps.  I really want to see Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson, and of course Trey Lance.

Winning races is over-rated.  Of course it's the goal and everybody wants to win each and every race, but when it comes to the championship consistency is far more important.  Look at Zarco, for example: He's second in the standings, only 40 point behind Quartararo, and yet he hasn't won a single race all season.  Two DNFs for Quartararo along with second place finishes for Zarco and they would be tied.

As for the Yamaha's speed, the Red Bull Ring is not likely to cater to the bike's strengths.  The Yamaha is probably the fastest cornering bike on the circuit, but certainly not the top speed contender.  As long as Quartararo can finish in the top 5 he's only adding to his lead and keeping the rest of the field playing catch-up.

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This discussion should probably be taking place in the Politics and Society board.  I will say this, however; the Woke Brigaded have declared war on Hungary (one of the last truly conservative countries in the EU,) and this is just another excuse to vilify their enemy.

I like this idea.  I don't want to throw all campaign managers under the bus, there are some who are quite diligent and respectful of the forum.  They are the ones who are quite critical of the users they allow in their campaigns, and don't tolerate spam.  It doesn't take much to figure out who they are.

But, there is very little accountability for spamming by many campaign managers.  Most of the guilty ones tend to be new.  They accept managerial positions for shady campaigns that are intent on spamming the forum, hiring as many accounts as possible, at meager rates, and send them out to flood the forum with low quality posts.  It seems like the only thing these managers care about are the blatant violations of the rules, like plagiarism, but when it comes to the quality of posts they are completely oblivious.  They tolerate low quality posts and spam because the rules are vague and they know they can get away with it.

Those campaign managers are earning money for their tasks, but their employers are the ones who are really responsible for the spam.  The managers themselves have an obligation to preserve the quality of the forum, but they don't seem to concern themselves with the preservation of the opportunity, the opportunity that wouldn't exist if wasn't granted by the forum, not the shady outfit for whom they work.

I'm absolutely sure you're wrong about that.  I think it would be a conflict of interest for a global moderator who's managing the pool to pin the thread for this pool and no other.  Not that H&Co would profit from it, but he is sporting a Sportsbet.io signature in one of his accounts, and Sportsbet.io is sponsoring this pool.  It definitely would look like preferential treatment, and would cause a shit-storm of controversy.

Unless it's a rules thread or a generic guide I don't think it should be pinned, in my opinion.

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I think we had 50 participants last year, which is a pretty good turnout.  I don't know about the previous years, last year was the first time I participated.  Being that it's a pool, the more the merrier and the bigger the prize pool.  I can't think of any drawbacks to having more people join.

I got tired of waiting for the Premier League to get underway, so this past weekend I placed some small bets on Major League matches.  I jagged a sweet bet builder win betting on the New England Revolution:

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Sounds legit.  I might have to copy you on that one.

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They aren't always active for me, but I just signed on and found them both active.  4/3Free focuses on the Brentford - Arsenal match, and looks fairly straight forward.  It should result in a lot of free bets.

Game 1:  11'
Game 2:  11'

I'm going to throw out a wild guess here and suggest that you had a version of electrum running when you tried to install the new version.  If you're installing the new version into a different directory it may work, but it'll still look for configuration data in the same user directory.  That's very likely to cause a conflict.

In my opinion, the best practice is to uninstall all previous versions of Electrum before installing the new version.  Make sure to backup your wallets first as a precaution.

You're probably right, if anyone was paying attention to the thread they would (or should know) that this years fee is 0.002BTC.  But NotATether has a point.  If some newcomer did check the OP they would see that it was edited on August 5^th, yet the entry fee is listed as 0.0045.  It's certainly possible that could deter people from joining.  It certainly couldn't hurt to edit that part of the post.

Crazy race day with Pedrosa's crash.  I was glad to see he and Lorenzo Savadori were unhurt.  I found it funny that the let Pedrosa back into the race, but I guess rules are rules.

Sad to see Jack Miller crash out again today.  Barring a miraculous remainder of the season, that just about puts him out of contention for championship.  I was predicting a Yamaha - Ducati finish to the season, but I figured it would be the factory Ducati team, lol.

Maybe it's psychological.  Bitcoin having such a higher value than it did this time last year might make some feel like it's more expensive than last year.  But again, we have a week before the season starts and there are still some who haven't registered.  18 members have registered on Superbru, but the address shows at least 25 member have paid the entrance fee.  Hopefully we can get at least five more to join in the next week.

So, the next time you misspell an athletes name, I'll assume your account has been hacked and proceed to red-tag it.  Deal?

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The fact that we have a page and half discussing such a tenuous connection is really laughable.  People misspell words all the time.  I think I have a fairly advanced grasp of the English language, and I misspell words, or use the wrong word all together.  Just this morning I noticed that in a post I made after a couple of glasses of wine last night I used the word "reigns" when I meant "reins."  I know the difference, but I made a mistake because I'm human.

Knowing how poorly autocorrect works for native English, I can only imagine the horror for those who aren't native speakers of the language.

1xBet is indeed a sponsor of Barcelona FC, but don't confuse 1xBet with 1xBit.  1xBet is a legitimate sportsbook.  1xBit is a scam hoping the subtle difference gives them more opportunities to scam.

This from Barcelona FC's website: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/sponsors/

Yeah, nice odds on that one, unfortunately I missed it too.  There's another decent one available right now; a goal in each half of all week-1 fixtures, 366:1.

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As an MLS fan I would love to see Messi in the MLS.  I think it's a long shot, but there's no doubt in my mind that an MLS team or two are making an attempt.  They would be foolish not to.  It's not likely to generate the glory that Messi is looking for, so again I doubt it could happen.  

Assuming that Garoppolo doesn't get traded before week one (when his $25m salary will be guaranteed) I imagine we'll see Trey in some trick plays and designed QB runs.  We might see him as early as week one.  As for taking over the reigns, It wouldn't surprise me if Shanahan makes the change after the bye week. 

There have been some rumors lately that Shanahan and Lynch really fell out of love with Jimmy G after he showed up at camp in 2020 totally out of shape and out of sync.  Imagine how Tom Brady would have prepared for the upcoming season if he had narrowly lost the previous Super Bowl...  Garoppolo prepared himself with vacations and parties.  Not the work ethic Shanahan is looking for.  Regardless of whether the rumors are true, it's pretty obvious that Garoppolo's days as a 49er are numbered.  Shanahan will take every opportunity to promote Jimmy G as one of the best, because he want's his trade value to go up.  If some one offers a first round pick for Jimmy before the start of the season, count him gone.