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2401  Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question. on: July 28, 2014, 02:25:17 PM
Have you ever been as far as even considered go want to do look more like?

Did anyone actually understand what he just wrote? Smiley
2402  Other / Off-topic / Re: Post your Total time logged into Bitcointalk on: July 28, 2014, 02:21:45 PM
0 mins, 37 secs

I wonder who whitelist this user.

Back to on-topic:
Total time logged in: 80 days, 9 hours and 24 minutes.

Couldn't he have just waited out the 6 minutes - or however long the delay is between each login/post/search for new members - and only then returned to the forum and made the post? Or am I missing something there? (though it seems likely this is someone's alt account, given the choice of board and all Smiley)
2403  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: *Huge Chance! Free, No Registration Contest* 0.85 Prizepot! on: July 28, 2014, 01:49:32 PM
pm sent
i NEED  0.1 BTC .
thanks

free coin,I like. pmed.

PM'ed.

i love BTC on this contest

#PM SENT
I want to win to buy food to eat.

PM sent.

I want to win the prize to buy a ipad.

I wonder why some of the replies here have an old subject - OP has since changed the thread's title and so, when you press "reply", the subject will usually reflect this unless you purposefully change it or quote someone (which doesn't seem to be the case here).
2404  Other / Archival / Re: Updated Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns on: July 26, 2014, 10:54:02 PM
Maybe 1000 would be nice, but that would just bring a lot of spammers.
Now he is reducing more in near future as bringing pay per activity which give some more tough time for spammers

well, how does that work? max acitivty you gain is 14 every 14 days

One way that could work is, you would get paid some btc amount per activity point you have; it's likely you would also need to make a minimum number of posts in a month, to ensure you're still actively participating in the forum. This would probably be a good way to eliminate spam and cut on promotion costs, but it's not very fair for users who post a lot, I guess.
2405  Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question. on: July 26, 2014, 08:43:36 AM
Why do people use numb3rs where there should be letters?

Why are you deviating from the current subject of the conversation?
2406  Economy / Services / Re: [PrimeDice] [Highest Paid Signature] Earn Bitcoins Simply By Posting on: July 26, 2014, 07:03:55 AM
How can we know whether the enrolment form submitted is accept or not?

At the moment, I don't think there is any immediate way; you'll have to wait for Stunna to update the list with the users who have enrolled. You can see the list here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291387.msg7421598#msg7421598 - it was last updated July 22.

Other than that, if everything went well with the enrollment step and you have no trusted negative feedback (the red warning on your trust rating), you are automatically accepted into the campaign.
2407  Economy / Services / Re: GAW MINERS PAYS FOR YOUR SIGNATURE >>> HIGH RATES 50posts = 0.1BTC JOIN US! on: July 26, 2014, 06:52:59 AM
Think I could get a spot in?

After 2.5 months, if there is a spot vacant, I guess Smiley

Oh wow so this is going to be long?

Well, you are still a Junior Member, and this campaign only accepts Full Members and up, so yes. Full Members require 120 activity points and you only have 42 at the moment; considering you gain 14 points every 2 weeks (if you keep on posting), you still have about 10 or so weeks to go... and then, you can enter this campaign, if there are spots open.
2408  Other / Off-topic / Re: the 'What was the last thing you put in your mouth?' game on: July 26, 2014, 04:53:47 AM
chair :/

How is this not a dirty response? Who knows where that chair has been... or who has been on that chair.

As for me, the last thing I put in my mouth was a gaseous substance, made mostly of nitrogen. I couldn't help it; it was really a life or death situation. Tongue
2409  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 5th Mass extintion on: July 26, 2014, 04:31:08 AM
That seems unlikely. I think that there has been so much time since the beginning of the universe that allows for life similar to what exists here to appear, that encountering species at close to our technological level is very, very unlikely. I mean, there could be species literally billions of years old around, and chances are they would have little to no interest in contacting us, which might explain why there seems to be no evidence for alien life - no need to assume everyone has taken the route humanity is taking.

I doubt that; since the universe had a beginning, and since all matter has had the same rules placed on it since that beginning, the speed at which planet Earth formed into an ideal place for life to begin is going to be about the same speed as any other planet, meaning those planets, perfect for life as is ours, had creatures evolving at about the same rate and in similar ways considering they've experienced a similar environment as ours, meaning they're roughly in the same spot that we are now: intelligent beings, sentient or otherwise, duking it out for resources, with little time to focus on developing the technology and gathering the resources necessary to travel at lightspeed for decades, if not centuries (not to mention being able to live that long, or to reproduce in-between), just to see more of the same.

The universe is only about 13 billion years old, with our planet having circled the sun about 4 and a half billion years ago (that means about 8-9 billion years are spent just trying to bring order to the chaos.)  Within those 4 1/2 billion years, only the last billion has been spent with multi-cellular life forms, and only the last 200k years spent with your modern day man.  Unless this sentient lifeform managed to find a way to evolve several magnitudes faster than the species of our planet, or those planets formed way faster than all the others, it's safe to say that, while we're not alone, there's little room to precede us in technological advancement, and even if there was, the universe is a huge place and if you have the technology to travel around like that, there's probably something much more interesting locally to that lifeform.  Needless to say, there's no society that can be billions of years old, and no aliens are aware we exist aside from a mutual understanding that the odds of them being the only sentient species in the universe are zilch.

That's quite an anthropocentric view. Wink Anyway, first and foremost, a disclaimer: this isn't really my field, so if we have any expert among us, feel free to correct any mistake I make. Smiley

I guess the most important point where we disagree is at the very beginning: you're assuming conditions for Earth like planets, and eventually life, would require about the same time as it did here, while I see no reason to assume so. Population III stars - believed to have been the first stars, massive, short lived, and composed only of Hydrogen, Helium and Lithium - should have formed about 100 millions years after the Big Bang. Galaxies formed a few hundreds of millions of years after that, and population II stars formed at about that time as well, out of the remains of the population III stars. Subsequent population II stars gave rise to the first population I stars (Sun like) a few billion years after, maybe about 9 billion years ago.

From this point forward, I believe the chemical elements required for Earth like planets and life to have formed, might have existed in a proportion not too dissimilar to what you'd find today - so, I suppose the basis for Earth like life to have formed has existed for at least 9 billion years. From then on, and assuming very similar conditions, evolution of species and technological development, you could have had species similar to humans, at the same stage of development, 4.5 billion years ago. Of course, there is no reason, in my view, to limit this to Earth like life or development track, and perhaps at least some Population II stars could have already provided conditions suitable for life of some kind - or who knows, maybe even sooner.

Anyway, I think we've now successfully derailed this topic, and I blame Vod for that. Tongue
2410  Other / Archival / Re: Updated Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns on: July 26, 2014, 02:23:47 AM
so you guys think payment is correct? should they pay more? pay less?

Depends on the competition.
If there is only one signature campaign, it could get away with paying almost nothing. Smiley

I'm not sure that's true. I mean, having a paid signature these days will ensure you receive greater attention from mods here, as well as some users/subs ignoring you altogether; I'm not sure most people would go through it, if the rates weren't worth it - at least, I know I wouldn't. Tongue
2411  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is anyone following the Israel & Palestine Situation. on: July 26, 2014, 02:00:55 AM
You get the award for the funniest thread headline.

This has literally been the biggest story in the news for the last two weeks.

Awful stuff going on, I hope the peace talks can be product and long lasting. War doesn't win, only peace.

Well, sadly, weapons manufacturers win big time - not only in the sales they make with all this, but also in the advertisement they get out of it: "these are field tested on live targets" (that is, on Palestinians).
2412  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Israel: Operation Protective Edge on: July 26, 2014, 01:46:38 AM

Hmm, are you PeanutCoins' alt account by any chance? Grin


Apparently so, as well as an AE of most of the other posters in this thread.

I wouldn't find that surprising; I've seen users carrying out conversations between several of his/her forum accounts before, more often than not to boost post count, no doubt - and also a few cases of users making a mistake by posting with the wrong account, then deleting it, and posting the exact same thing with another account. People these days... Wink

Anyway, it sort of helps, knowing that many of the misconceptions and nonsense that you read here, time and time again, are probably coming from only a handful of different people. Tongue
2413  Other / Off-topic / Re: What's your favourite candy? on: July 26, 2014, 01:10:31 AM
I like any candy that's colorful, except butterscotch, and you will gain my trust instantly if you give or promise me colorful candy.

Oh, that's nice... here, I'll let you have these:



In the meantime, hand over 10 btc please - I'll pay you back, I promise. Tongue
2414  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Israel: Operation Protective Edge on: July 26, 2014, 12:45:05 AM
I didn't realize that my threads were so popular.

Hmm, are you PeanutCoins' alt account by any chance? Grin

But yes, given the needless loss of life that has been going on, it seems only natural that it will strike a chord with most people.
2415  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 5th Mass extintion on: July 26, 2014, 12:19:28 AM
According to a recent study (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6195/401) scientists warn we are approaching the next mass extinction.
What are your thoughts on this topic, and how do you think that will affect us.
The most interesting part for me, is that the other 4 mass extinctions were probably caused by natural events such as super-volcano eruptions or asteroids strikes, but this next is will be our fault... We are as destructive as a super-volcano eruption lol that can't be good :/

I have a feeling that what we are doing here is done by every intelligent species on every planet.  Every race that develops industry goes mostly extinct, so there are no aliens for us to contact!

That seems unlikely. I think that there has been so much time since the beginning of the universe that allows for life similar to what exists here to appear, that encountering species at close to our technological level is very, very unlikely. I mean, there could be species literally billions of years old around, and chances are they would have little to no interest in contacting us, which might explain why there seems to be no evidence for alien life - no need to assume everyone has taken the route humanity is taking.
2416  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Israel: Operation Protective Edge on: July 25, 2014, 11:41:29 PM
Why should Israel annexes Jerusalem why not give Jerusalem to the Palestinians ? and why should Israel be armed even further ?

Hamas finds it reason in existence, in the colonization of Palestine by Israel, if Israel, goes to pre-1967 there won't any war, especially is Palestinians are allowed to have their own country with real institution with police and army that could enforce order.

I don't think land is the main issue here, though it's often stated by extremists as such. As far as I can tell, Palestinians want their human rights to be respected - whether that is under a Palestinian state, Israel, or whatever, is a secondary consideration to the population. The problem is, Israel isn't interested in a one state solution, since that would be a "demographic" problem... so much for democracy.

I disagree land is central to the issue its the whole reason this mess started if Palestine was left to its people there would be no war

Well, I'm not Palestinian, or personally know any for that matter, so take it as you will - but let me try to clarify what I was trying to say. Of course, people don't want to be kicked out of the land they live in, and they want to have a government that actually represents them and respects their rights; but whether the country they are part of is called Palestine, Israel, or whatever, doesn't seem to be the biggest issue in most Palestinians' minds, for all I've read and seen about it.

For example, in the following interview Shir Hever expresses this same idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWYeWeoQ-uQ (at about the 7 minute mark, though I definitely recommend the full interview).
2417  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Israel: Operation Protective Edge on: July 25, 2014, 09:23:41 PM
Why should Israel annexes Jerusalem why not give Jerusalem to the Palestinians ? and why should Israel be armed even further ?

Hamas finds it reason in existence, in the colonization of Palestine by Israel, if Israel, goes to pre-1967 there won't any war, especially is Palestinians are allowed to have their own country with real institution with police and army that could enforce order.

I don't think land is the main issue here, though it's often stated by extremists as such. As far as I can tell, Palestinians want their human rights to be respected - whether that is under a Palestinian state, Israel, or whatever, is a secondary consideration to the population. The problem is, Israel isn't interested in a one state solution, since that would be a "demographic" problem... so much for democracy.
2418  Other / Off-topic / Re: What's the dumbest gun related mistake you've ever made? on: July 25, 2014, 09:07:12 PM
Guns have got nothing against blades (katana in this case). Tongue

My biggest blade related mistake would be (other than the money I spent on it Cheesy), not practicing with it as often as I'd like.
2419  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Gaza death toll nears 805 as Israel bombs UN school on: July 25, 2014, 08:59:07 PM
If they knew the school is in a dangerous place why not evacuate them instead of waiting for word from the Army? Because Palestine will trade thier women and children for propaghanda.
Evacuate them to where? do you even know the size of Gaza, and the destruction that is Happened in Gaza, do you know what's a UN shelter and bombing such a thing is considered as what type of crime according to international law, you are either intellectually malsaint or really clueless and brainwashed by propaganda, please use your brain and check the points I mentioned before answering me

Yep, if this wasn't such a serious situation, it would be amusing to make fun of the people that repeat, often word for word, what they see on TV, and never bother to fact check any of it. Oh well, that's one thing propaganda relies on, after all.
2420  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is It True Love? on: July 25, 2014, 08:37:07 PM
What is your own definition of true love? Add your quote here

What is true love? High levels of the oxytocin and vasopressin hormones, perhaps? Tongue
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