You are likely the only one that is sad about this... The rest of us, not so sad!

Instead of calling the cops Alice should break out a big phat joint.  Since Bob is amenable by conversing with Alice they can both sit down and smoke the joint.  They will both forget about the phone, no cops, no blackmail,no cell phone just peace and love!

I mean that or the desert eagle thing, both are good!

AG Bill Barr has the Mueller report...

If Alice would have pulled out her Desert Eagle and shot Bob in the face when he grabs her phone we won't have to worry about blackmail, calling the police or Bob stealing cell phones again!

I think we could go a bit further down the poetic rabbit hole.  I think theymos should load them with 10BTC each and give them to all staff members (as of this date in case I get booted from being staff some time in the future!), 2 should be given to the P&S mod, because reasons. 

Joking aside, it would be cool to have a little prize pool for a design competition, have a small BTC payment for the winner and smaller payment for X number of "honourable mentions".  I don't think the prize has to be big at all but something would be cool.

In the real world math>feelings, reality is a lovely place you should try it one day!

Most normal, rational, reasonable intelligent people use math/statistics and very large sample sizes to determine if online cheating is occurring.  As an example Ultimate Bet (I will leave you to learn about Ultimate Bet all on your very own).

Most Trolls, retards, morons and agenda driven nut jobz say things like"anyone can see the cards are manufactured"...

You get a 4 on the TS (Troll Scale) from me, I would say you are at best an average mental midget compared to some of the real Trolls round here (like notbatman hes a fucking 10 TS).

You are not the world police, the forum is not the world police, if you require assistance from the world police get their phone number and fucking call them.

If a person chooses to gamble that's on them and no one else, NO ONE is forcing anyone to gamble anywhere, you have the ability to warn anyone who is stupid enough to open one of your threads and each user is free to decide if they would like to participate or not.

You making blanket statements like this site is illegal everywhere and look at my cards they make me think I will win simply makes you look like a simpleton!

If law enforcement agrees with you and decides to pursue things then a site not advertising it's physical location will not stop them from finding out what they need.

It used to happen in the mining section all the time, there were reviewers (probably still are) that were paid with crypto or hardware to review new miners.  Some reviewers were paid some were not, iirc one high profile user was paid 3000 BTC to be a full on paid shill for a miner manufacture.  I think it was open from the start he was paid, but it wouldn't have mattered as it was clear as glass where his loyalty was.

Everyone should always assume every review is paid for until you have established a personal comfort level with the reviewer (ie do they meet your personal criteria of providing unbiased reviews).

Because science...  Air travel is far more reliant on science than fairy tales. 

When we start to alter our air travel as a result of fairy tales I think the world will be in a really really bad place!

I don't remember BFL using cgminer, I thought the BFL crew had Luke do the mining software, wasn't it just a branded BFGminer?  I never owned a BFL miner so maybe my brain is playing tricks on me.

I'll take a set please, PM sent!

IOW quid pro quo!

Paid reviews and paid advertisement are not new or inherently bad.  As you say it's not a problem if it's objective (ie no quid pro quo).  It's obviously really hard to figure out the quid pro quo part so everyone should probably assume (until proven otherwise) that all reviews and the like are paid reviews.  Once a person has proven themselves to provide honest reviews folks can better trust the independence of reviewers by reputation!

This specific case is a bit of a joke just based on .02 ETH and I would be quite surprised if he got any live DT'ers, there are just way to many red flags for any sane DT member to seriously consider hooking up to this train wreck in the making!

Batch one  1st gen avalons are a part of history for sure, I just couldn't imagine displaying it, and personally I like to have my collectibles out on view at home or in my office!  I can't see myself wanting a big aluminium box with a couple fans on my wall or desk etc lol!  I'm sure there will eventually be a collector's market for some items but I don't think it will be a big thing for most collectors.

BFL miners might become collectible faster than a lot of the others as they have a story and notoriety so to speak. A lot of Jalepeno's ended up getting into the wild eventually.  If in the future I was collecting hardware the BFL mini-rig would be something I would want, not many reported to have made it into the wild, people paid thousands of BTC for vapour hardware or the ones that did get delivered were fucking garbage!

The famous BFL foam pitch fork would be so much more appealing to me than their old miners.

So many miners were built and sold and so few people would actually pay anything for them as collectibles that it will likely be a really really long time before old mining hardware is worth much more than it's scrap value!

I appreciate you thinking I would be smart enough to identify something like this but no it isn't my idea.  The de-monetization (from the consumers POV since one poster up thread doesn't understand what de-monetizing actually means) of the entertainment industry is very well documented and I have seen some people asking if this trend could be seen in markets like real estate when/if we are able to move humans at a much higher rate of speed and ease than we can now.

Walking, bike riding or public transit are all pipe dreams in north america, it's too fucking cold in the winter (in the north anyways) and too spread out for those to be the default forms of transportation but 2+ cars in every driveway that sit 90% of the time in a work parking lot or home driveway is grossly inefficient.  There is a spot in between those 2 that is much more efficient while still allowing people privacy and flexibility, the market will eventually determine where that spot is as more options become available.  The majority of millenials don't want to own a car but they want the advantages of having one, autonomous cars will allow things like that to be a reality, and it's only the beginning!

Fully de-monetized no of course not, but the cost is trending down.  I wasn't trying to suggest it's done either. Having an expensive computer and entertainment system is great for home if you choose but what about the barn, office, shop, car, cottage, or any other place you go, audio entertainment is cheap as hell if you just use your phone and a speaker.  This kind of entertainment is the basics so to speak, anyone wanting or able to afford whatever they want is free to do so.  Those who can't afford it or don't care for quality or don't need quality in every situation will take the "basics" available and they will be the staple for the majority, Honda sells more cars than Rolls Royce!

You also can't deny that producing certain popular content is now virtually free by comparison to just a couple of decades ago. Producing TV content was/is expensive (hardware and airwaves) but producing content and accessing millions upon millions now is as easy as point a phone and press the screen a few times.

I am most curious about the trend, not the specific entertainment industry.  Can the trend apply to something like urban crowding?  What factors will allow people (US and CAN's in particular) to move out of the city centres but still allow them to engage the city centres for things like work and entertainment.  If I can live 150 miles out side the city centre but still have access to the city centre in less than 30 mins (by way of flying cars, transporter, tunnel, magic gorilla or whatever) imagine how many people have the option to live outside the downtown cores.  This would ultimately slow property demand in the downtown cores and distribute it to more rural area's.  How far can this go in the future as travel becomes easier and faster and remote work more prevalent will property value in the cores trend down while rural sections trend up.  I have to assume this isn't happening any time soon but the faster we can move bodies the more we can spread out!

You don't understand the concept of de-monetization.  This isn't about someone choosing what is or isn't a basic life requirement.  This is about a market that will change due to supply and demand redistribution.

Go ahead and buy whatever car or phone you want, but 1 example is that as cars become more autonomous it will allow people to live further from their place of employment, if that person chooses to buy a Lambo or a Lada to make their commute is entirely up to them but because they can work for the entire commute they can live an extra half hour away from work and can afford a larger home because it is outside the more expensive city centre.  If that person can also work remote 2 or 3 days a week they can live even further from work.

As far as phones go if you want a 2k smart phone go ahead and get one but at some point a company like amazon is going to start giving out smart phones free if you just use their platform enough,  that doesn't mean awesome expensive cell phones are all of a sudden illegal it just means that most people wont want are give a fuck about a $2k smart phone and will take the free good phone all day long.

De-monetizing isn't some socialist or communist boogey man coming to take away your choices, it is in fact possible because of free market systems.  The market wants youtube which is the ultimate de-monetization model.  Youtube has accelerated the de-monetization of entertainment.  In the olden days you need thousands of dollars of equipment and millions of dollars to broadcast on the TV.  Now days anyone with a cell phone and internet connection can get millions of viewers.

Entertainment is a basic human need, and it is quickly becoming de-monetized for the viewers, as this trend continues and happens in other markets I am curious what affects it will have.  What the market chooses as "entertainment" well the people will ultimately decide by participation...

For the last few years I have seen a lot of talk about how de-monetizing basic life requirements are trending to de-monetized model.

The premise is that things like entertainment are becoming cheaper and better.  People under 30 consume more youtube than cable TV and that number is only getting larger by the year.  Those users consume that entertainment virtually free.  In order to make videos, capture pictures, have an audio entertainment system and make phone calls all took an individual piece of hardware and costs thousands of dollars not so long ago.  Now all of those are integrated into a device you carry in your pocket and if you don't need the latest $1-2k model you can have it fairly cheap. 

It's been suggested that things like housing could also trend this way.  As automated cars and potential for 3D travel (above or below ground) and the increasing ability to work remotely its hypothesized people will be able to live farther and farther from city center's (great for places like USA and CAN which have plenty of rural land while still having overcrowded city centers).  This suggestion also helps to spread work out of the city centres as there is more need for spin off local business to support larger rural communities.

The auto industry could trend to de-monetization as well, polls show most millenials don't want to own a car (and for good fucking reason, motherfucking money pits!), community vehicle sharing could bring TCO for commuters down a lot.  Autonomous cars that sit in the parking lot all day and the driveway all night doing nothing could be efficiently put to use.

I'm curious about this trend in education, is it possible that education could follow this trend?  I wonder more about at the collegiate level could remote learning take over?  I don't think it makes sense for K through high school as socialization is far to important to get rid of physical schools.  There is a lot of talk about free college education in the US ATM perhaps the answer to this is to have an online government program that provided a college degree.  1 Professor could reach millions of students and the curriculum could be controlled. 

Cheating would be a problem (someone else doing your work) but having a camera recording a person at test time that are randomly verified could help and I'm sure some smart people could help work on rules to reduce cheating as much as possible.

It would certainly be a lot cheaper option than the ones being proposed by some 2020 candidates.

I love that thing...  I hope it isn't blasphemous or something but I wonder how your death star would look polished?