I'm afraid you're a couple of months too early to be joining this campaign... but you're someone's alt account, so you already knew that, right?

There was a large influx of users late last year / beginning of this year, which led to there being a large number of Senior Members at present - that plus signature limitations for newer ranked members, makes it desirable to hire only Senior Members and up.

In relation to the regular contributor campaign - would you be willing to use escrow, letprice? I guess 3 btc would be enough, given the 30 member limitation.

Se calhar a lei que vos estava a dar ouro expirou - só duram quando muito 100 dias, se me lembro correctamente. Outra possibilidade é que o ouro estivesse a ser dado apenas mediante certas condições (para além da mudança de nivel); por exemplo, só ser dado a quem tenha menos de um certo número de trabalhadores, ou assim. Têm de ir a Politics e ver isso - aliás, deviam ir a Politics não só ver isso, como também votar nas leis que os outros vão propondo (se já são > nível 3).

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Começas sempre no teu país de origem - ou melhor, o país que corresponde ao teu IP. Depois, para te mudares, tens de ir à secção dos países privados, algures do lado esquerdo (já não me lembro exactamente onde é isso); depois escolhes o país que quiseres da lista; e em seguida escolhes a opção de te juntares ao país. Obviamente só te podes mover para um país privado desta forma, não um dos países normais. Para além disso, só podes depois voltar a sair dele passadas 72 horas.

EDIT: já agora, uma das coisas que eu costumava fazer era: saltar de país em país para ver o mercado de cada um, e ia fazendo lucro "comprando" (trocando neste caso, como era nos mercados nacionais) nos países em que os recursos estavam mais baratos, e "vendendo" onde estavam mais caros.

Great, looking forward to it. Let us know if you need people to gather information about currently running campaigns.

Meanwhile, one more campaign:

CoinPiler (Thread)
Payment period: Monthly.
Minimum posts: 100 posts per month.
Payments: S/H/L: 0.1BTC per month.
Miscellaneous: Must have a minimum of 1000 posts to enroll. Maximum of 30 participants.

You can see more detailed information here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=746016.msg9077387#msg9077387 (in the "For Regular Contributor" section). So far, it seems not to be using escrow.

Yes, I understood your point; I was just disagreeing with the idea that we wouldn't be able to identify that it was man-introduced - if by accident, we would almost certainly be able to at least determine what organisms it originated from; if on purpose, it would still be limited by current knowledge and abilities, and so likely to be traced back to us. But take it with a grain of salt; this isn't really my field.

As to whether or not life actually exists out there somewhere, I stand by my previous point: it just seems too unlikely for there not to be any - but don't take that to mean that aliens necessarily visited Earth though; I've seen nothing to convince me of that (which is a shame, because I'm still looking forward to that threesome with two hot alien chicks; do I need to move to Australia for that?).

I particularly like their RAI segments - they often have some great interviews.

As to the profit motive you mention, I was just seeing the following news story from The Young Turks (also think they're pretty good), that touches upon it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8u9sHVVoGk (titled "Profits From Syrian Airstrikes Will Churn Your Stomach").

I asked him about member limits, and he says he is considering limiting it to 50 members, which although a large number isn't unusual, I think. Also, according to him, most users would get paid upfront - at least judging by his example. I would still prefer escrow though.

EDIT: hilariousandco beat me to it...

EDIT2: that reminds me: what about the suggestion of editing the OP to contain information about whether or not a campaign has funds in escrow? It currently details those that pay upfront, but I think this would also be useful information to have.

Is there a limit to the number of members you are looking to accept? This might not be much of a problem since you only accept Senior Members and up, but it may be a good idea to define that as soon as possible. Also, instead of upfront payment to select users, wouldn't it be better to use escrow? Not only are some willing to do this job for free, but it offers much better assurance to both parties.

One thing I would like to see more of in signature campaigns is users being allowed to promote several sites - even if for reduced pay. I'm not sure there are many other campaigns that allow this at the moment however (I think Bitmixer does), but it would be nice to see.

Several months ago, The Real News Network had an interview with David Swanson, the author of "War is a Lie", that covered this subject well, I think. Here are the links to the 3 part interview, if you want to see it (the first is more autobiographical, if I remember correctly, but the others are well worth it):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwaSbWD8C0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5qIvVLGg0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIcOdilpXUU

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I'm not convinced by this idea that "war is just part of human nature, and there is nothing you can do about it". As David Swanson put it in the above interview, there has always been a war somewhere, but at the same time there has always not been a war some many more places - in fact, you often have situations in which what led to war in one place didn't in others, despite very similar circumstances. Further, in many cultures, segments of the population (women for example) have traditionally been kept out of conflict; that being typically reserved for men - as he puts it, if women can not do it, why can't men leave it? So, I tend to agree with his explanation that war is mostly a cultural phenomenon: we consider wars to be acceptable, so we enter them, or incite others to do so for our profit.

In this sense, I only partly agree with Bonam; sure, the "group mind" or "gramophone mind", as George Orwell put it in the preface to the Animal Farm, is a problem, and many succumb to it; but you can't forget that, for example in the two cases you presented (Hitler and Stalin), the population at large actually had a lot to gain from their policies. If you weren't one of those being oppressed, both Germans and Russians were living much better off; at least initially - that's one way they managed to hold on to power so easily. So, I don't think it's necessarily the case that people unquestioningly accept that crowd mentality; but rather that they often believe they profit from war, and use the given justifications that they are better than whomever they are busy oppressing at the moment, or that they are somehow actually helping them - look at the US's foreign policy for a good example here.

And it's now up again.

Anyway, this is the signature campaign thread - the main thread might be more adequate for subjects like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=757624.

Actually, I think that whether or not humanity would have a chance, would depend on a couple of things: mainly, how long before the impact you detect the comet, how large it is, and its composition. If you have years of advance notice, you can try to tug it out of harm's way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor) - that would be the best bet at the moment, I guess. Less than that, you could try more direct approaches (destroy, deflect, etc.), but chances might be good that we would still get it, if not by the comet itself, by the debris.

It's true that it could be the case that some step required for the appearance of life is so unlikely, that it only ever occurred once - after all, we still don't even understand all the steps that lead to it. But if it happened once, then we know for a fact that no matter how unlikely, it is possible. All other things being equal, if we have very similar values for all of the variables that led to life on Earth, we would probably get a similar outcome.

And indeed, as you say, space is vast, the number of worlds not too dissimilar to Earth is probably large, and the chemical elements that we know are required for life similar to ours is abundant throughout the universe. But there are at least 3 other things you also have to consider:

One, the possibility that life as we know it is not the only way life can exist - sure, we only know about one type, but I know of no reason why it should be unique. Perhaps life can be composed of (slightly, or not so slightly) different elements than those that life on Earth is based on, increasing the chances for it appearing elsewhere.

Two, even if life as it exists on Earth is the only way life can exist, it could still be the case that it originated elsewhere first, and somehow found its way to Earth - and perhaps other welcoming planets as well. Or perhaps some more elaborate components that it requires did: water (http://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-systems-water-predates-sun), "biologically interesting molecules" (http://www.space.com/1686-life-building-blocks-abundant-space.html) and so on could be sufficiently abundant to kick start the process in several places at once.

Third, time. Often forgotten, but the universe is over 13 billion years old, and it could be that the conditions for life similar to that on Earth to appear have existed for some 8 or 9 billion years - ~ since stars similar to the Sun started coming along (population I stars). That's plenty of time for unlikely events to occur repeatedly. And perhaps one reason for why we don't see any evidence of intelligent life out there at the moment is that we are just too young and primitive, and most others are a couple billion years older - who knows, we may not even be able to recognize them for what they are if we got a change to see them.

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Even if it was the case that life was introduced elsewhere from Earth, the similarities would likely make it obvious there was some sort of relationship - that is, we'd probably have a good idea that it either evolved from a previously known organism, or lacking that, we could at the very least suppose there was some prior common origin to both sources of life.

Também nunca cheguei a testar a wallet, e normalmente concordaria com o que disseste; mas conhecendo o jogo, imagino que seja só um bug/problema qualquer da parte deles.

Muita gente tem problemas semelhantes quando se tenta registrar no jogo, aparentemente - por exemplo:

If that was the case, it seems to me that they might as well have not returned to the campaign at all, or at least ended it earlier by themselves (like, a week ago). I mean, even now, the maximum payout would be something along the lines of 6 bitcoins - considering ~30 users left in the sig campaign, all paid at Senior Member level, and assuming everyone makes the (technical) maximum of 200 constructive posts - all in all unlikely.

Except, perhaps, the fact that dooglus still has coins in escrow? There is no reason to believe they won't get paid when all is said and done.

Is there any way in which Pocket Dice enforces that you are who you say you are in the site? Because if not, and if people don't have to confirm anything here, someone could have used your username/ID in there (not sure why anyone would, except maybe if they have negative feedback and wouldn't be able to join the campaign, or something like that).

EDIT: Hmm, it seems the site then verifies your forum signature when you join, so this would probably not be as easy to abuse as I suggested.

I know... the most I could find was 4chan's "step by step guide on how to summon a succubus". Not really the same thing.

Damn, that number 1 "compelling piece of evidence"... lucky bastard; a ménage à trois with two hot alien chicks? How do I sign up for that?

This. Try also odesk, freelancer and other similar sites - it will be hard to set your own price initially, but if you have a strong portfolio, you might be able to get some good offers soon enough.