Sure, I don't believe anyone is crazy enough to push for a major nuclear war either, as I said above - but that doesn't change the fact that those close calls we've had in the past can still easily occur in the future; and we might not be so lucky next time.

As for proxy wars, coups, support of dictators, and whatever other means are used, they certainly aren't as immediately destructive as a major conflict would be, especially for those of us in a first world country that won't go through any of it. For anyone living through, sometimes, decades upon decades of these sorts of things however, I'm not sure they would necessarily care about the difference - dying at the hands of the local friendly dictator or with a bomb dropped on them by another nation, might not make much of a difference. Further, dismissing them as less developed and so not as important for society as a whole, ignores what part they could take, had they been given the chance. Finally, I see that line of reasoning as a sort of fallacy, in that it says that it's better for these types of policies to be followed, than a major conflict to occur - well, that ignores the obvious question: what is the reason for these conflicts to occur in the first place?

Your username reminds me of someone who has been watching too much Death Note (Naer ~ Near).

So far, whenever a user was promoted in the middle of a period, he was paid at the higher rank - in your case, that means all your posts would be paid at the Senior Member rank, if no major changes to the campaign occur in the meantime.

Banned for breaking the thread, and further reported to the authorities for animal abuse.

Eu parei de jogar, para aí há 2 ou 3 semanas... os updates ao jogo são muito lentos, e o que estava a ganhar não compensava o tempo que estava a perder. Se tivesses dito isto mais cedo até te dava a minha conta (agora já devem ter caido os edificios todos ). O único jogo deste género que ainda jogo é o MarketGlory, e mesmo esse se calhar não por muito mais tempo.

That might be how it turned out, but I'd say that not only are we not out of the woods yet, but also that there were several times in which it was sheer luck a nuclear war didn't start - the Cuban missile crisis comes to mind.

But there is something else you have to consider: even if not directly, these nations didn't stop fighting amongst themselves - they instead turned to proxy wars and other indirect means (though arguably no less significant for those caught up in them).

That was what UpDown claimed some time ago - when howzar was asked about this recently, he seems to have denied it (from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=738554.0):

Well, it only needs to happen once...

But yes, this seems more like saber rattling, than anything else - it's always useful to have a scary "enemy" you can point to, after all.

Probably just some big players manipulating the price.

Anyway, you have a few other threads on this already, like https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=738249.0 for example.

Even if we went back to bartering or whatnot, chances are you would still have inequality - money is just another way of doing the same thing, but it's senseless to blame it for poverty.

That's the god of the gaps fallacy again - pushing the idea of a god to whatever gaps exist in our understanding of the universe. There is no reason to believe it will become true this time, when it hasn't ever before.

Sure, there is no way to prove god doesn't exist; but if we can continually make progress in our quest for knowledge without such a concept, why bother with it?

That was pretty cool.

I'm currently listening to Advent: One-Winged Angel, from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAVwPR5E8wM - not the best for just hearing the music, but still nice).

EDIT: ah, here we go, music only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmD478NnnoE.

Well, you can't really not spend energy if you're alive: keeping warm, breathing, fundamental cellular processes, etc, constantly require energy to keep on going, so some loss of weight will always occur, I suppose.

In that link you have access to two forms: one to register, and another to claim payment each month.

I'm not sure if this has changed in the meantime, but when most people here registered, after you clicked submit on the "register" form, the "request payment" form showed up automatically; it is this one he was referring to - you have to click submit in there as well, while leaving the form completely blank.

You know, fasting... as in, not eating, or at least greatly reducing it, for some time. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting)

I have no idea in relation to the acid though.

You can see what other campaigns are available at the moment in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0. There seem to be a few other campaigns with spots still available, like Bitstars which seems to have a similar model to this one, or PrimeDice which pays per post instead.

It seems I really did miss those episodes. But that's no problem: I'm sure the ever helpful (and present) NSA has a copy of those emails somewhere... as well as any other agency/government that can somehow gain access to their databases.

Guess I should have waited before replying myself. Still, it would probably be best to ask bitcoininformation to change the "payment period" to just "monthly" then, as it could be misunderstood otherwise.

Hilariousandco posted the following in the overview thread:


The payment is always on the 12th of the month, so you'll always get paid on that date, provided you have met the prerequisites (50 posts minimum, keeping sig at all times, etc), regardless of when you signed up to the campaign.

EDIT1: Though, to be honest, now that I think about it, that will probably lead to a lot of people jumping campaigns (if places are available), just doing the minimum amount of posts as quick as possible, and then jumping out again.

EDIT2: Guess I was wrong. See hilariousandco's answer down below.