Considering these teachers are partially responsible for the state the economy is in because they won't have properly prepared the majority of their students for the real world I have very little sympathy, much like when I see teachers in my country going on strike over pensions.

People didn't stop using gold as a currency, the governments did.

We've done all we can, constantly I am warning people not to leave their money in online wallets for a long time, to backup their wallets just to be safe, to make sure they double check things before sending money. Do they listen? No, the information is there for people intelligent enough to read it and listen to us, even Satoshi who made Bitcoin laid out a whitepaper detailing exactly how Bitcoin works but people still fucking choose to ignore it and on purpose on top of that.

When a human being deliberately ignores all scientific and mathematical reasoning provided to them with no effort on their behalf, they are beyond help.

This better not be a bait tactic like Paypal, it would be big news if it were true, don't ever jump to conclusions guys until you see a "We accept Bitcoin" symbol at McDonalds.

A lot of people here can't be pigeonholed into the mainstream political compass, I'm actually pretty centrist, I really like free market capitalism and I won't budge at all on rights to expression and speech, so I definitely don't fit into the labour/conservative or democrat/republican politics. I do tend to consider myself an Anarcho-voluntrist but If I were to pick a government it would be one founded on direct democracy, I think the current democratic systems are a joke, what pisses me off about the whole left/right bullshit is that whenever you disagree with someone they automatically assume you must be with 'their' enemy. It doesn't enter into the heads of a lot of people that there are more than two viewpoints about a particular political, social or economic issue.

Anywhere else they'd be wearing gas masks in that kind of environment lets be honest.

Well it's refurbished so I'm not surprised if it would have problems but ehhh if the Nvidia card has gone in fine I question it deeply.

Okay, just to let you guys know, it definitely is the cards fault, I just got a brand new very cheap Nvidia card ( yeah suck it ATI ) to test things and low and behold not only was installing the drivers far easier because they actually let you download drivers by fucking product the temperatures were completely solid and very cool the card I have in now is stuck at around 44 degrees which I'm very happy with.

Fuck you MSI and ATI! Fuck youuuu! -_- I swear I don't know what it is but I have nothing but problems whenever I buy ATI cards.

pwned

The whole concept of race and racism is utterly moronic, speaking as an artist who is actually having to study skin tones etc. I can assure you 'white' people are not white and 'black' people are not black. Never mind the fact that single culturilism is dead and if you actually did DNA tests on all the people ranting about race constantly I guarantee you that 'white' people are going to have some variation of DNA in them that isn't what they think and the same goes for 'blacks' that hate anybody who isn't them.

Oh, just so we're clear, whites are actually extremely pale shades of pink or orange etc. and 'blacks' are extremely dark shades of brown.

http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/glade/HD_Glamour_0_5_color_chart.jpg

Aha! I didn't know about gpu-z this is very helpful, lots of detailed information on all the different sensors the graphics card has, should I make a log? I've also emailed the support to ask how they got everything running, I hope they tested things properly, it may be I just installed the drivers badly.

Edit: okay well trying to install latest drivers and making sure everything was right made some alarming issues come up like constant black screening so I think this card is DOA, I will now buy a cheap Nvidia card to keep me happy while I get this b.s. sorted, hope this turns out simple to fix.

Very odd because they told me they had tested it which makes me wonder how long they actually tried it for.

Yeah, as I said, it's your own fucking fault for not checking, it doesn't matter if you're going on holiday or not, what kind of dumbass leaves bots and transactions running like that assuming everything will be okay once an exchange has been hacked?

People, especially people who deal with a lot of money in Bitcoin and have experience in it, should know better.

It's not Bitstamps fault if people don't check their support messages, I'd say they've done very well given they were hacked recently.

Nice detective work, I tend to agree with the others, I have a very hard time believing someone would have that much money in Bitcoin without doing prior research first, either it means he's galactically stupid or he's lying, anyone with that kind of money who had any sense would be keeping a very close eye on things.

Forget global warming, that alone should be reason enough to get rid of all the fuels that emit those kind of fumes constantly, the last thing you want is to be breathing in smog on a daily basis, there are plenty of reasons to switch to cleaner fuels beyond "What could happen" when we have plenty of evidence on what has already happened to countries that just blatantly ignore everything that is going wrong with them.

Anyone who supports this kind of intolerant bullshit really needs to take a look at themselves, government shouldn't be in the business of defining what marriage and love is.

I'll try testing things again because it might have been something as simple as a loose cable but I'll need to check it all out.

Okay, I have Dragon Age running again, it's interesting, but it's reporting 94 degrees or so but the card actually feels very cool, so maybe my original issue was just a loose cable, can refurbished cards be like this and still run fine? You might be right that it's just the temperature reader going haywire though I don't have detailed knowledge about components like that but I'm not seeing an increase in how hot it actually feels.

Edit: Okay so here's my theory, probably DOA or whatever they've done to refurbish it has made the card underpowered so it can't really deal with anything high detail I'll need to check out some other low poly games to see if my theory is correct, if they all work fine then I guess I'll just have to stick with them until I save up for a brand new card.

I'll report back if anything changes but I think it is purely just the card, it seems to be only capable of handling pretty low poly games but I'll need to try things out a bit before I know for sure again, it doesn't seem to be the temperature reader, that's reporting stable again.

Edit 2: FUCKS sake, nope, it's pretty much happening with anything requiring 3D, sigh, let this be a lesson to you guys never accept refurbished replacements, I may have to make a call this week but I don't know if I can be bothered anymore.

Well I've been spending most of the day trying to sort this out, some of you may already know I have recently had to RMA an old MSI Lightning 6970 and in return I got a refurbished MSI R7950 and I thought, fair enough, as long as it lasts me for another year and doesn't have any ridiculous issues I'll be happy. Low and fucking behold, I have run into temperature spike issues, normally the culprits as I'm sure you know would be things like, dust, case airflow or bad seating or a slightly loose plug.

So far I have found none of this to be the case, the damn thing should be working normally, after that it's normally a driver problem, I tried doing a clean sweep of my drivers and using auto detect but I had some very odd reactions from my GPU on it which makes me wonder how well this card is supported, I used the auto detect utility in the end just to be on the safe side but I pretty much got the same results. Games? Oh fuck me games are a whole other nightmare, you try loading up something like Dragon Age or Dying Light on this thing it will spike up to nearly 110 degrees for no fucking reason.

I would very much appreciate some help on this, at this point it may be easier day trading my way to a brand new card than dealing with the RMA process, just so you know, I'm keeping an eye on the temperatures using MSI Afterburner and Speccy etc. Oh and for some reason now the temperature has decided it's 35 degrees idle, that may have to do with the fact that it managed to shut down when I tried keeping it running to see how things went, I am also setting the fans to 100% on afterburner to keep things cool.

I daren't mess with games again because I'm worried I might trigger something lol this is a totally different graphics card so I don't know what will set it off.

Note: Hope I'm not speaking to soon but since my rage attempt at fixing the thing I seem to be getting stable temperatures on CSS, terrified of trying anything on higher detail though lol

Before I forget, here's a link to the exact model: http://uk.msi.com/product/vga/R79502PMD3GD5OC.html#hero-specification

I'll leave this here just in case it all starts going horribly wrong again.

Not sure lol, you'd have to check with the mods on that one, it's usually pretty obvious though what is and isn't a necro post, you guys must see it, blatant "I agree" posts for example I've seen a lot of.

This happens constantly in political polling, it his highly unreliable and I would easily argue it's just propaganda designed to use fake mathematics. It's like when companies make skin care products etc. and get scientists to say things for them so they can claim it's backed by real science.