Unfortunately tidal power is very unreliable compared to solar and wind.  There are fewer places where tidal changes are reliable enough to generate sustainable power.  Hopefully that will change in the near future.

Well yes it sucks, but what can you do other mine somewhere else.  You can't get mad you bet on red and the roulette wheel does black 8 times in a row (essentially another pool find more of the 2016 blocks then your pool).

You can't eliminate variability.  The only issue is whether o not something malicious is occurring at the pool either knowingly or unknowingly.  Most pools have gone through this at one point or another.  Back when difficulty was 9 million Ozcoin had a block that took 81 million shares, 9 times difficulty!!!  That was what caused a lot of people to leave Ozcoin, but the pool still survives despite a theft of almost 1000BTC at one point.

Eleuthria has nothing to gain really if his pool has bad luck - he makes more if it has good luck.  I'm sure he would love to see the number go back to neutral or above, but you can't will it.

Some people will jump onto the pool thinking it has had so much bad luck that it is due for a really good luck streak.

Which of those 4 steps I listed have you gotten stuck at?

Well if our government's answer to trillion dollar debt is to print more money, their answer is to take more assets and have that asset inflate.

Banned for horrible slang of "why dontcha". Might as well use caveman grunts "Og ban, smash good".

Well this is nice for women who keep lots of junk in their bags or for people with kids. If they weatherize the phone it's pretty much idiot proof short of driving a car over it.

Sapphire is a nice material. My Raymond Weil watch has it on the face and I have never scratched it even after hitting it with stucco and a couple of even a chainsaw (don't ask).

At what point is it not worth it to put such nice materials into something that people may replace every year potentially.  The touchscreens in cars don't have sapphire crystal and you keep your car for longer than you keep your phone (although car is usually not as abused - well my kids abuse my car).

Check this out:
http://www.cpushack.com/CyrixShirtsandstuff.html

I remember getting a 486-DX2 66 in 1993 because I couldn't afford the extra $500 for the entry Pentium for college.  They used to have those Microsource catalogs around the country and I found some good deals through those.

Intel today has the energy efficiency in their corner, but AMD was better on a per watt basis for a short period of time. 

You could have bought a slice of pizza with those blocks that you solved in 2010.  Such a waste, a good slice of pepporoni!

Master of Orion and Civilization have easily eaten over 1/10th of my total life to date 

Since you stated it would take a long time I skipped the obvious and found it quickly.  Had you not stated it...probably I would waste a minute or 2.

They are mining 2 different types of coins/algorithms.  Scyrpt runs about 1/1000th the speed of BTC SHA-256, so a GPU doing scyrpt mines at 600KH/s as opposed to 600MH/s when mining BTC.

Again, you are incorrect.  Please look at the table correctly.  2 week luck is at 80%.  1 month is at 89%.  The pool is now down to 6% of the network.  The pool is run by Eleuthria who actually limited/stopped his growth when he got close to 40% just so as not to scare people with 51%.  Ghash.IO hasn't bothered to inhibit its growth at all.

The bolded part is not true.  Do the math yourself or check with Organofcorti.  It falls within a normal confidence interval.

That being said yeah it's not pleasing.  If you flip for who pays lunch and you lose 2 out of 3 times do you say the coin is rigged?

There was a known withholding attack that ended a month ago and that messed up the 3 month stats.  It is possible that somebody is repeating the attack but it is almost impossible to detect until after the fact.

What's funny is that when BTCGuild had very good luck last year people were suspecting they were somehow cheating.

If you're not happy you can try Slush or Bitminter.  You luck may or not follow, depending on how superstitious you are.

I think Dutch was trying to point out utterly stupid it was for them to use the arguement that the hard drive crashed.  That's like saying my dog ate my homework.

Considering the IRS probably has a little more resources than the average citizen and with their servers with redundant RAID the chances of those selective emails be lost is like the chances of bruteforcing a Bitcoin private key.

If you upload you wallet.dat file to cloud storage like Dropbox, consider renaming it to something more secretive like pictures.dat or even contacts.txt so people are less likely to grab your wallet and try to brute force attack it.

Both of those bolded statements are wrong.  Until the recent X11/X13 mining protocols, mining is more demanding than gaming.  No game causes you card to reach TDP, while mining scrypt can cause that.

Mining is not bandwidth intensive - you can place 16x card into 1x slots and they mine at full speed.

Yeah I know.  I bought one Cyrix chip and board and it couldn't even install Win 95 without blue screening several times.  I swapped the board twice and the CPU once and continued to have problems.  Went to an AMD setup and had the machine running in 2 hours.

Sometimes competition for the sake of competition is not so good 

Contact.  The ending left it open to make a sequel which I'm hoping somebody will still be willing to work on.

I'm still into my turn based strategy games like Civ and XCom.  I tried Skyrim and it was fun for a couple days and then I got bored.

WW3 is an economic war and you enlisted if you mined or bought crypto.  Perhaps you are talking about WW4?