You should but not to the same extent. And you shouldn't be reading just one source of news, either. Ukrainian news matches news from USA, Poland, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Latvia, and others. Russian news only matches Russian.


Because my family is blacklisted since USSR days and I don't want to risk being turned away at the airport (most people who renounced their citizenship and emigrated in the 80's got on a list, and us more so because my grandfather, who left with us, was head of USSR's polytechnical institute, which is USSR's equivalent of DARPA). Because I'm gay and they can fine, detain, assault, or deport me. Because I am involved with bitcoin, and that is soon to be a criminal offense. And mostly because I don't need to. I talk to plenty of people in Russia, since I have friends living there, and my parents have many friends there too. We hear plenty about their life from them.



That's really difficult to accept after all the photos of Russian military hardware, Russian troops posing for pictures, and Russia admitting that they sent Russian military to "help" Ukrainian rebels. Especially since this exact same tactic was used by Russia in Georgia, Afghanistan, Cuba, and tons of other places they invaded over the past century.



This I agree with. But not when a minority makes that choice for a majority. And especially when that minority originally consisted of foreign agitators. How would you feel if your neighbors wanted to join North Korea, and started a war on your territory, destroying your property, and tried to force you to agree with them? That's not how you break off from a country. Besides, it didn't start with a few people wanting to break away. It started with Russia scaring the fuck out of everyone in eastern Ukraine with their lies about Ukrainian government being completely taken over by Nazis, and that a Nazi is guaranteed to win the presidency. So the entire premise that the war was started on was Russian lie, and was wrong.

If you love our wallet, and love supporting us, PLEASE make sure that you have a working verified backup of your wallet, and any single address keys you may have. We had some incidents where people lost their keys for whatever reason (phone wiped, app uninstalled, etc) and the users didn't have a backup, or had an encrypted one without the password, making it useless. We also had someone who thought scanning their public bitcoin address into their wallet was all they needed to restore a backup, since the address was added and showed a balance in their wallet (it was a watch only address at that point), and they were quite upset when they sent more coins to that address, and later found out that they couldn't spend from it.
So, users losing coins upsets us a lot, we really hope everyone keeps their coins safe, and being safe and having backups keeps us happy and "supported" 

Why do you say that? Is your claim that, because it took our monkey brains hundreds of years to develop understanding and tools to understand biology, that biology is too complex to be created by anything but a god? Why does a system have to be simple for it to be natural? And, let's say our society collapses, and we lose a lot of our knowledge. Does the fact that it would take centuries to rediscover how to make something as complex as a computer CPU mean that CPUs are made by god? Or better yet, what will you be claiming when, in 50 years or so, we DO figure out how to live to 1000? (We're actually very close, since we understand almost all mechanisms of aging at this point, and are now just working on ways to repair and modify them)



Why do you say it's complex? That's just your personal opinion, based on your lack of knowledge. Life and the universe are fairly straightforward to biologists, physicists, and engineers. You are arguing from ignorance here, basically claiming "I don't understand, so no one else does either."



That's not religion, that's biomechanical processes and instincts We do them because our body sends signals making us crave those things, and rewards us with physical evidence when we complete the tasks. You don't eat food because you have faith that you are hungry, and have faith that you will feel full after. Conversely, a person born in a society that doesn't believe in god or Jesus (such as in Islamic, Buddhist, Shinto, or atheist society) doesn't get cravings for Jesus.



Every atheist in America has. You may assume that atheists started out that way, and just haven't considered the idea of god before, but in fact America is absolutely steeped in religion. 80% of it is Christian (which is why we laugh when they claim religious persecution, or claim they are courageous to say they love Jesus in public), and religion is mentioned everywhere almost daily. So atheists almost always start out christian here,believing what you believe, and then get educated, start questioning and thinking, and come to their senses, realizing that Christian stuff doesn't make sense.



Fitting into things that exist is evolution, not god. You, as a species, would not exist in your environment if you didn't fit into it, because you would either starve due to lack of food you need, or get eaten due to being weak and stupid. So of course every living thing fits into everything that exists. Those who didn't went extinct long ago.

First of all, all you'll have as a result is a hypothesis, not a theory. And that's no more valid than an opinion, albeit based on logical set of words. And second, that theory does not automatically prove god exists, particularly because you would have to define what god is in the first place. So far no one has been able to.

Aether is an outdated belief, like flat earth. We believed that electromagnetic energy, which includes light, traveled in waves, and waves require a medium to travel through. However, there is vacuum in space, so we couldn't understand how those waves could travel through space, and theorized that maybe the universe is filled with this aether that energy waves go through. However, there was no way for us to detect that aether, and numerous experiments showed that there is no evidence for its existence, other than that light and radio travel through space somehow. It was much later after Tesla that we discovered that light is both a wave and a particle - photon - and thus that energy can travel through space in particle form. Something like aether, which we could never prove existed, turned out to not be needed for the universe to work, and is thus considered to not be real in science.

In short, not everything Tesla invented was scientifically correct or functional. Especially in his later years when he went from electro mechanical systems, to more theoretical based on ideas that wouldn't be proven false or true for decades later.

Oh, and this sentence on that web site
pretty much confirms my suspicion that it's be. Nothing can exceed the speed of light.

How can you swipe on the internet?


Not exactly. Do you still shop and use your credit cards? Then you are losing more money. Who do you thinkcom takes the hit on stolen credit cards being used to buy stuff? The credit card companies? Nope. It's the merchants. If a thief uses your card to buy something, and you report your card stolen, the credit card company simply yanks that money out of the merchant's bank account. They don't go after the thief, or pay for the loss themselves. And the merchant has to make that money back somehow, so they do it by raising prices on everything in the store. The average annual loss to merchants from credit card theft is about 3%. That means stuff you pay for is 3% more expensive. So, take the total that you spend with credit cards every year, multiply that by 3%, and that's how much you and cardholders lost (for example, if you spend $1,000 a month, you lost $360 in a year).

Coincidentally, when I shop with bitcoin, I get discounts of 3% (and up to 10% sometimes) on everything I buy. So the reality is that cardholders are the ones actually losing money from theft, and I'm not.

If you believe that bitcoin will survive and be widely adopted long term, why would you hold other currencies?

Damage is done I guess.

It has. But the events Zerohedge is "resonating" are pretty much a rehash or the exact same thing Russia is reporting. Combine the fact that Russia has had almost a century of practicing lying in the media (and has been caught lying about things in just this last year), including about their military involvement in various places over the last century, their massive propaganda campaigns during and after soviet times, and what I and others there actually see happening in and around Ukraine, including lots of photographic evidence, and I am inclined to believe almost the opposite of whatever reports come out of Russia. Which, coincidentally, matches the reports coming out of the rest of the world's media. Everyone knows that when reading Russian news, you always have to read between the lines.

I ignored the last part of your statement because it was irrelevant?

Awesome. Thanks!

Why would you accept the trade without even knowing who the other person is, or whether they intend to go through with it?

In any case, that whole reputation thing needs to be rebuilt anyway. We hope to get to it some time soon.

I pay for groceries by showing the cashier a bar code on my phone, and having them scan it with their scanner. Takes a second, and I'm on my way out. Paying for things online is way easier, too. Just point and scan, instead of dig through wallet for a card, enter lots of details, etc.

Uh... what? No, I just meant that Zerohedge is typically antigovernment and nonconformist when it comes to news reports, rightfully pointing out that the government controlled media typically lies and that there is always more to the story, but in this case the media was reporting about an actual dictatorial warmongering power with actual control of the media, and Zerohedge went full retard when it again decided to be contrary to media reports, and starting to support those dictatorial warmongering power claims (or rather propaganda). It has actually been somewhat depressing seeing so many libertarians and anarchists assume that since the media lies, it is obviously lying about the Ukraine/Russia situation too, so obviously they should support Russia. It's like watching the EFF come out in full support of the NSA.

BADecker is one of those "Tide comes in, tide goes out, You can't explain that!" people.

No, that's the simplest answer. But it is no more valid or true than answering that the universe came from a unicorn's butt. The reason is that there is absolutely no way to test and verify your claim, since as you said, there isnt even any conclusive proof that he even exists, and thus your "god did it" is nothing but your own personal opinion. And as everyone keeps telling you, until you actually provide proof, one that we can test and verify ourselves, all you're arguing about is your own unsubstantiated opinion.

I hope it involves barn wood and goats! 

That I think he was guilty of at most a crime, and of at least a completely idiotic fuckup of Mark Karpelean proportions? Wow. You can predict the future ever better than Armstrong.

http://nihoncassandra.blogspot.com/2006/08/enigma-of-martin-armstrong.html


No, I am uninterested in studying the facts, in a case involving a clearly insane and overconfident loony. There's a difference.

No it's not! It's AT LEAST 35 times more expensive for me now.

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that god is not real...

There. I just made a counter argument just as valid as all of yours.

The list that that article points to, found here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321265.0, is woefully incorrect. I know some of the people on that list, and I know they don't own that many bitcoins.