Over a month ago, about 250 girls were kidnapped from a Nigerian school and taken to a remote area, all in the name of Islam. Their stance is that western education should not be allowed. Since then videos have been released and one showing the killing of a woman.
What are thoughts on Boko Haram?
I thought that I heard on the news that the girls were rescued already. Did that not happen? |
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Sounds pretty secure, I just store mine in encrypted files and keep them in a few places. There's always a chance you make loose the USB drive and don't forget its not reccomended to use flash drives for long term storage. Pen drives degrade over time.... Apparently  With this thought nothing would be stored on the USB drive. If it works the way I think it does all of the information I need to access the wallet is stored in the twelve word seed provided by Electrum. This way the only way I could lose the bitcoins here are through some sort of Linux vulnerability, an issue with Electrum, or something physically stealing my written down seed in real life. Or maybe my ISP could do a man in the middle attack? Not that it's likely, but is that an issue as well? Since I'm downloading Electrum from a live internet connection. I guess thinking about it that way means that it could be my ISP, or Electrum's web server or anything inbetween... Thinking that way you better avoid bitcoin all together  at some point somewhere there's always as small chance someone could get your coins, I personally wouldn't go to these extremes, if I where storing a mass amount of bitcoins and even then it would be split into smaller amounts among a lot of wallets, A man in the middle attack wouldn't be very effective as the address is generated on your side only block data comes through the isp, There is no 100% sure way to keep bitcoins perfectly safe no matter what anyone says if you can access your bitcoins then so could someone else I think a lot of people use Armory offline storage cold wallets and I think those are considered safe. Once they're in there as long as the computer isn't connected to the internet there shouldn't be anyway to access them. I'm just thinking that my method is a bit easier and more flexible since I can get the coins back easily by restoring my wallet from my seed. But I also want to make sure I'm not making any big mistakes. |
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Loads and loads of people from across the globe are immigrating to America for different purposes.. Their aims and purposes are getting fulfilled but America is actually getting destroyed..
Some adverse affects are as below :
- Americans are losing their job
- There has been an increase in crime, pollution and traffic congestion
- Erosion of culture
- Over-utilization of resources such as electricity, gas, food, etc
- Loss in form of remittance
You are free to debate, confirm on\off any of the combinations above..
Immigration is a good thing. Voluntary and yes even forced immigration built this country. We should have open borders. Immigration might be a good thing. But open borders would be quite the situation. People from all over the world would be flocking to the US in the millions. There would be violence for sure. Honestly the thought is just scary, and I'm not anti-immigration by any means. But open borders is asking for trouble I think. There are a lot of people in the world who would take advantage of such a situation. |
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Nope. A true cryptocurrency should never have a capital. Bitcoin and cryptos don't need capitals, they are built to be free, like a bird in the sky, like a cow on the hills, like women in the kitchens.
Why not? What's wrong with a city embracing bitcoin and having enough merchants and services to be considered the (unofficial of course) capital of bitcoin? I would love a place like that. Some where you can go and know that you can support your self just on bitcoin. |
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Fiction:
A Song of Ice and Fire (only if you have about 15 days of free time)
Why bother reading this book if there is a TV Serial which is a lot better.Its famous all over now Games Of Thrones. I haven't read the series personally but I've heard from many people that the books are better than the series. Also, the books go more in depth and introduce other characters that are not included in the HBO adaptation. |
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Much more annoying than the can it self, is to be without gas, having to walk to a gas station with the first bottle we could find, and they refusing to sell gas saying that we have to have a gas can.
Wow, lol. What is this shit? Regulated gas cans? You can't pump your own gas in some states? What is the reasoning behind any of this garbage? Safety? Safety from what? Gas doesn't ignite very easily at all. I've seen someone put a cigarette out in gas before, it's flammable of course, but not as much as most people expect it to be. It can ignite easily .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn6hGnHBUccBut that law about pumping your own gas reminds me that we have the same rules here when filling your tank with for GPL ( or LPG i think in english). Oh my god, that guy must be the stupidest person ever. First, lighting the lighter, then pulling out the gas and spraying it all over his wife like that. She would have been fine and just run away if he hadn't have done that. |
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NATO already told it won't recognize the results. Because this is what Syrians want: Female Vice-President of Syria Najah al-Attar, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh   ...and this is what NATO and Al Qaeda rebels want for Syria...   Does anyone have any positive stories about the Syrian rebels? I've heard only negative things and I'm wondering why there is so much support among regular individual western people. I know the governments are supporting them, but that doesn't explain why people have come to the same conclusion. Where are they getting their positive information from? Is the western media doing stories putting Syrian rebels in a good light? Or is it just because people don't like the current Syrian government and they assume any alternative is better? |
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Has anyone contacted Franklin Jason Seibert to confirm he is actually defending Mr. Shavers and that the blog was actually put up by his office?
Seems more likely to be a scam, does it not? The spelling, a lawyer asking for donations? Seems incredibly suspect if you ask me. |
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I totally agree. 90% of HYIP are scams or will be soon scams. But there is fine opportunities in HYIP to gain money, with a bit of experience. That's why I purpose on my website a way to follow my results, because I have now near 6 months of experience in HYIP : sometimes scam, sometimes profits. And maybe invest like me in a future if my results are good.
This french site is telling the true stories about HYIP, I'm not here to scam other people or to make them bad investment. But I think by creating a comunity, we can be able to improve more our both profit. That's all. But I know, ofc, that lot of people don't believe in HYIP. But they are wrong! There are involved risks for sure... but with a bit brain, and some experienced guys like me, it's a way like another to make profit.
Actually, for my personnal case, it's more an investment than a gambling. At beg it was a gambling, I was scammed because of my lack of experience to choose good plans. Now, I'm approx at 80% successfull investments.
I have already spoken a lot in my french thread on bitcointalk forum, and don't want to continue more to speak with skeptical people (even if I can understand all the doubt about HYIP). But my website is just a way, like another, to proove that with a bit brain we can make money (with earnings and lost, but total balance can be positiv at the end of each month).
That's all.
Have a nice day.
Can you give us an example of a HYIP that turned out to be one that wasn't actually a scam? What was the rate of return? What was the money invested used for(other than paying out people higher on the pyramid)? I can't imagine anything with more than something like 12% annual interest being legit. But most of these things offer interest rates that are so insane that it's not possibly legit. |
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I know a few people who bought Bitcoins at $1,100 per coin. Some of them offloaded their stash at $400 per coin. Some others are still holding.  They must be crying every day they check the price charts now. And it doesn't look like it's going to be slowing down. Maybe they'll buy in at $1100 again? Or maybe they'll wait until this bitcoin ETF gets listed on NASDAQ. By then it might be over $2000  |
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Just one soldier released in exchange for 5 hardcore terrorists. These terrorists in turn will kill many more American soldiers. Bergdahl wasn't even a high ranking officer to begin with.
His rank isn't important there, the point Obama is trying to make is that he was a POW. And indeed, he was. So were the 5 Gitmo detainees. It was a POW exchange, nothing untoward about it. Also, the Army is taking the stance that he is innocent until proven guilty with regard to the allegations that he went AWOL/deserted his post. So until he's proven guilty, it's like you said: He's a POW. |
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The Syrian elections have the same problem as any elections organized in the middle of a civil war: It's not a civil war. It's the U.S. and Britain funding Al Qaeda terrorists to attack a country they want to run a gas pipeline through. Grow up. It's funny how these things work out when something happens to be in their best interest, no? |
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I start every day with a quick scan of the news, and then move on. However, today two items really stand out showing how freedom of speech and the rule of law which are fundamental to modern society are being aggressively corroded by governments and companies: UK secret trialA major terrorism trial is to be heard entirely in secret in a “totally unprecedented departure” from centuries of open justice, it can be disclosed.
For the first time in British legal history, two men charged with serious terrorism offences will be kept anonymous and the press and public will be excluded from their trial, the Court of Appeal heard.
MPs and civil rights campaigners said it was an “outrageous assault” on the principles of open justice and set a “very dangerous precedent”.
Prosecutors have successfully applied for the case to be heard in private on grounds of national security but media organisations are trying to overturn the decision.
Journalists have up until now even been banned from reporting the fact that a trial was to be heard in secret.
The move has fuelled concerns over the growth of secret justice in British courts, which has already spread to civil cases and celebrity privacy challenges.
But a major criminal case being heard entirely behind closed doors risks ripping up the very tradition of open justice in the UK, which dates back to the Magna Carta of 1215.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10876499/Secret-terror-trial-is-assault-on-British-justice.htmlLinkedIn censorship and collusionA major international social networking company is being criticized for assisting with China’s aggressive censorship of matters concerning the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.
At the request of Chinese authorities, the professional connection site LinkedIn is removing content from member’s sites that reference the protests or their subsequent violent suppression.
The content, which can take the form of posts, messages or other comments, is being removed without the members’ permission.http://www.voanews.com/content/linkedin-faces-flak-for-censoring-on-behalf-of-china/1929613.htmlIs anyone else sickened by these? The British secret trial is a pretty interesting one. Especially because like you pointed out Britain has a rich and long tradition of public justice which many countries have emulated in their own legal systems. The linkedin thing is just linkedin being stupid. It's pretty laughable that a public American company would do something like that. It's not like linkedin is a very respected company anyway, and doing things like this just adds to their poor image. |
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As far as I know, the abstention numbers weren't published.
Wrong. The polling figures were given in the official site of the elections agency of Syria. The turnout was 73.42%, which is a bit lower when compared to the previous elections, but still very significant. How accurate are these numbers considered though? I know there are a good amount of people in Syria in metropolitan areas who support Assad. I don't have any idea of what percent of the population actually does though. |
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Since when do we negotiate with terrorists? -_-
Daily... Remember when Special Envoy Rumsfeld was 'negotiating' with Saddam Hussein? They are not called terrorists when their objectives match those of US foreign policy/war machine. They get called activists, or freedom fighters. Its an Orwellian word-smith game that has been played in every war and in dozens of US backed overthrows by terrorists around the world. The US has a history of prisoner swaps with their enemies. Thats all this is. I don't think the American government considers the Taliban a terrorist organization. A deposed government at this point, but not a terrorist organization. It's semantics I guess. |
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- Over-utilization of resources such as electricity, gas, food, etc
I don't understand this one at all. How can you over use these things. I mean they all leave a carbon footprint but America is based around this type of consumerism. I would think it would be considered a good thing. |
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Much more annoying than the can it self, is to be without gas, having to walk to a gas station with the first bottle we could find, and they refusing to sell gas saying that we have to have a gas can.
Wow, lol. What is this shit? Regulated gas cans? You can't pump your own gas in some states? What is the reasoning behind any of this garbage? Safety? Safety from what? Gas doesn't ignite very easily at all. I've seen someone put a cigarette out in gas before, it's flammable of course, but not as much as most people expect it to be. |
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What would be the point of a centralised decentralised coin?
Implied legitimacy, trust, less volatility, accountability, essentially all the things that Joe and Susie citizen are skeptical about with current crypto-currency models. Edit: and it might be the only way to revive the USD against the renminbi. And like I was saying in another post up there imagine what kind of development could be put in to a coin like that. Imagine a team of 200 top tier programmers working full time on the software. It would be amazing. And since it would be open source the benefit to the community(for study and forking purposes) would be amazing. |
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What happened to the peacock? How did it get away from the dog? I'm guessing it flew away? Or are peacocks flightless birds? So many questions...lol. I've never seen a peacock outside of the zoo. I think people make money selling their feathers online. I think some people make jewelry out of them and sell it on etsy. |
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From the article:
"Perhaps the most notable element of Pepper is the price: it will go on general sale in February for ¥198,000, or around $1,930, for the base unit."
That actually seems a lot less expensive than what I would expect for this type of new tech. Most early adopter type stuff is pretty high priced.
I wonder how things this thing can actually do though.Or if it's more of just another piece of furniture that is mostly just for display.
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