Vast amounts of electricity go into feeding the Bitcoin delusion. Fortunately, it's unlikely that the digital currency will survive long enough to generate the environmental disaster that would arise if it became a major part of the financial system, writes John Quiggin.

www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-06/quiggin-bitcoins-are-a-waste-of-energy/6827940

Unusually, the comments are more intelligent than the article, though that's not saying much.

False. I just checked and all of Google's time servers exactly agree with the NIST and US Naval Observatory. Which is not surprising since a) I set all my clocks by the NIST, not Google, yet Google Authenticator works for me and b) why the Hell would Google use their own time standard? That doesn't make any sense.

I also have failed, and join the honourable post-deletion club.

Unlike victims of actual cyberbullying, you're here by choice. You voluntarily joined this community, and knew (or ought to have known) its standards of behaviour and the types of people who are tolerated here. If you don't like it here, you are free to leave at any time.

Your posts do not reflect any knowledge beyond that of how to pound on a keyboard. There is a difference between "not being very serious" and "behaving like a child".

Humans sometimes learn from their mistakes.

For example, the demands you made of Vod.

You're supposed to read the rules before you join.

Some people are curious about what I've been eating recently but I don't make several threads a day about it. Or bump and rename the same thread; it's hard to tell when you're involved. Save that shit for social media.

The vast majority of your posts are not useful to anyone.

You're not giving out free jewellery, you're selling it for profit. Why do you lie?

Sometimes I do things I don't want to do in the hope of benefiting other people. I don't expect you to understand why. This behaviour is indeed contradictory to a selfish person, but not to me.

That's what aeroplane mode's for.

I have 1,539 users on my ignore list. You're number 1,494. The use of it is that I no longer have to put up with your arrant nonsense. For someone who doesn't want any trouble, you sure go out of your way to create it.

I'm still positive I'm correct, since there's really nothing else that can go wrong. The code is (basically) just a hash of the secret plus the current time, so either the program's calculating the hash incorrectly (unlikely if you've tried multiple programs that nobody else has reported a problem with), the secret was entered incorrectly (unlikely as you used a QR code), or your time is wrong (which is pretty easy to screw up). To be absolutely sure, set your time zone to UTC and go to time.gov. In Linux, the system clock (as displayed in the BIOS setup) is normally meant to be UTC and corrected to local time by user applications, but it's configurable so maybe Tails does something weird in that regard. Setting everything to UTC should eliminate any such issues. If your clock agrees with the NIST to within a few seconds and you still can't get it to work, then besides making sure the secret was entered correctly (but I'm not sure how it couldn't be) I'm out of ideas.

22. Ne5.

Ne5 4 votes (XMRpromotions, recklessrager, boolberry, Foxpup)
Rad1 2 votes (Hueristic, dre1982)
Nc3 1 Vote (Timelord2067)

Note that they only appear in the centre of craters and other surface irregularities. This suggests they are places where meteorite impacts and other damage have scratched off the paint, exposing the shiny metal underneath.

I have no objections to turning this section into a public sex chat, provided that everyone involved is at least as mature as a 14-year-old virgin (needless to say, codishmumu does not meet this requirement).

I can't follow what you're saying at all. We play e5 after Black recaptures, forking the knight and recapturing piece. There is only one way for Black to save both pieces, and it significantly worsens his position.

Um, what about the reason you just quoted?

But Black would never make such a bad move. 22. Bxd6 Qxd6 (22... Rxd6 loses material to e5) 23. e5 Qd5 (the only way to save both forked pieces) and the f6 knight is forced to retreat next move.

Question: Why would anyone want to be your husband?

21. Bf4 followed by 22. Ne5 (unless 21... c4, obviously) works for me.

1 vote for Ne1 (dre1982)
1 vote for Bf4 (Foxpup)

Are your time zone and system clock set correctly (to within 30 seconds)? They need to be for Google Authenticator (or anything using the same protocol) to work.

20. Rd2.

6 votes Rd2 boolberry, dre1982, languagehasmeaning, hueristic, xmrpromotions, Foxpup
3 votes Bf4 gotmilk_, ErisDiscordia, newb4now
1 vote Qa3 Timelord2067
1 vote Nf4 jjacob

I like 19. Rd2.

Unless we move the queen straight back to b3, defending the pawn. Still, trading a knight for two pawns isn't the best idea ever (especially when one of the pawns is a rook's pawn).

That's nothing to brag about. Just going by the numbers, it takes an average of 3 fucks for you to realise that most people aren't as nice as they first seem. Does it occur to you to get to know people better before fucking them?

It perhaps wasn't that bad, but it definitely created a weakness that Black's wasted no time taking advantage of.

So she would have to have graduated high school at age 13 at the latest, which is clearly impossible. Unless...



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