That lines up with his story.

Why would you put chicken nuggets in an oven? Don't you guys have deep fryers??   

(chicken nuggets here are a kids' food, so it's usually aerated, 15%+ water and "flavoring," with rib meat, and loaded with preservatives [even though they're usually sold frozen] - but it's often <$3 a pound. Who says we don't love our kids? There are "real" chicken nuggets in some areas, I've heard -- maybe out in Greenwich or something)

Irrefutably, best way to prepare chicken is chicken marsala. Quick and easy to make at home.

Really? That's a jail? I was looking at it for the longest time trying to figure out what an elaborate facility was doing in a tiny town across from a cemetary. I was leaning toward Mega Church or weird industrial chicken farm. 

I can see it as a jail, now... all those buildings must be different blocks. Here's a fun, potentially useful bit of info -- many jails have inmates clean the facilities, including the "guest" bathroom. This is generally the best way to smuggle stuff inside. A visitor/guest places contraband in the commode (or whatever the water tank is called where you are) of the toilet, which is then picked up by the inmate cleaning. This can be very profitable, especially in smaller jails without a established smuggling operation. Cigarettes are most common since they're relatively tolerated by guards and high-value.

That'll likely happen with a "normal" hamburger, too, so long as the patty is as thin as the one pictured, in a dry environment, and also as salty as McDonald's (the bun also needs to be toasted). Incidentally, their beef is preservative-free. (umm... not that I'm trying to defend McDonald's burgers as "good")

The purpose of local currency is usually the exact opposite of one of Bitcoin's greatest benefits. Whereas local currency is used to promote a form of localized protectionism (keep money in town), Bitcoin permits easy transactions cross-country and even overseas.

An alt-coin could be a reasonable alternative to Bitcoin, though, if it were only accepted within one province. For example, ChinaCoin was popular for a while, but offered nothing particularly exciting, so died. If it were given some purpose (like protectionism), it might be viable. However, local currencies generally don't attract a high level of enthusiasm and usually die out within a few decades, given the benefits are moreso for local merchants than consumers. This tends to be true of protectionism itself.

ETA: Put on the magic sunglasses my anger therapist gave me. Baseless intolerance is acceptable. It's all cool. Mr. Mellowpuss is a fine cat..... 

You're supreme commander of fucken idiot if you think that's an "egregious violation of trust." You have to be trolling. It practically effects 0 people, except those looking to stir the shit-pot.

Inaba put "Do a barrel roll" in the blockchain, violating the sacred trust of those mining on his pool. You know who sees it? People actively trying to look for it on its novelty/amusement value, same as people looking for what messages Luke put in there. I mean - what's your argument, even? Luke's misrepresenting miners as Catholics? Is there some type of faith pie chart in pool monitoring sites I'm missing, where Catholicism has become the dominant hashing religion? Are the media sources picking this up, saying Bitcoin is clearly a Catholic idea? I'd guess not, because it'd be stupid as shit, and deserving of as much ridicule as your post.

There are some really nasty ones in the US. (not arguing all MLM schemes are scams, or even scammy -- I even pitched a business idea which used MLM just a few months ago)

Not too long ago, I almost interviewed for a scammy charity fundraising MLM (cold calls to raise funds for unknowns [likely people involved] and promising a salary but really giving commission) after sending out a resume to just about everyone I could find. I initially agreed without looking into it much, then was hesitant about driving 40 minutes out, so read up on them. My second response was "Sorry to have taken your time up, but I no longer have interest in an interview after reading more about the company." She didn't even bother trying to defend against it. Thinking about it more, I should probably file a formal report if they're still operating.

I'm not sure why peddling is still considered legitimate, anyway. I don't think I've ever had a peddler come to my door and talk honestly. The whole time, I'm trying to get them out and fighting the urge to point out inconsistencies in their story. For example, just a couple weeks ago, a young woman walked in our garage and closed the garage door (thinking it was a doorbell). It turned out she was selling textbooks for children (yes, in 2013). She initially started by saying she was majoring in education and decided to start her own business (going door-to-door out-of-state selling textbooks for a company established over a century ago -- lie #1). I incidentally started preparing lesson plans for our daughter a month ago partly using the new Common Core Standards (set of guidelines and expectations for K-12 students) documentation, so I asked her about it and noted how relatively rigorous the new standards are. She hesitated and made up a story about the books being "compliant" with Common Core standards (lie #2), and how kids are expected to do advanced algebra in 2nd grade (lie #3 & 4 [she obviously isn't majoring in education]). She prattled on a long list of people in the neighborhood who purchased books from her, and happened to note one of our neighbor's kids (who's also a mother, and who we've never spoken to -- we generally don't speak to any of them, and not about anything personal) said we were very active in our daughter's upbringing (lie #5 [don't take that the wrong way]). She had a 6-minute timer she reset at least three times, and kept giving us a bunch of books to thumb through. We're both too polite/cowardly to simply say "we're not interested and get out, lying scum," so we kept half-heartedly going along with this until we ordered $400 in textbooks after seeing they had a return policy.

The closest experience I've had to a legitimate peddler was once when a guy replaced our fence and, after finishing, decided to shout, while outside, at my wife about Jesus. He gave her a horribly-written book he himself'd written trying to discredit carbon dating with hilariously stereotypical (and irrelevant) arguments like "scientists want you to think we came from monkeys but that doesnt [sic] sound right to me. Does it sound right to you?!" At least he wasn't trying to sell the book. 

I'll whitelist if you promise not to try posting in English again.

Ever enter a random thread you don't expect to see your name on?

I've finally made it.

Hey, Phin -- you know what the Hell I'm looking at? (It's in Sheridan)

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sandwich,+IL&ll=41.516724,-88.683765&spn=0.01356,0.019484&hnear=Sandwich,+DeKalb,+Illinois&gl=us&t=h&z=16

(I was trying to see how far it'd be to drive out and collect)

None of them. They're all too old. They're like the 60-year-old hookers of Bitcoin. No, sir, I pre-sell, invest pre-launch, and pre-order. Once they're going, they don't need my chump change unless something's wrong.

An immature market full of potential? 

Since this is an speculative OT shithole of a thread... ... That phrase's always bothered me when used to describe why someone with religious faith shouldn't be allowed to hold office (... not that BF is a state...). It's not something limited to this thread, but something increasingly prevalent in my country.

There are basically three schools of thought when it comes to how a government should regard religion in politics:
*In theocracy (if atheist, atheocracy), nobody of faith different from TPTB can hold office
*In pluralism (this is not an accepted definition everywhere), people of all faiths are welcome to hold office and take information of their faith to make political decisions
*In secularism, people of all faiths are tolerated, but expected to vote with constituents or in a utilitarian fashion. In secular decision-making, you will generally not have political issues argued based on what a religious authority has said.

Unless you have reason to believe Luke is in fact a theocrat, you're promoting atheocracy, which, from my agnostic perspective, is fundamentally the same as theocracy.

ETA: I mean -- if Luke's application were "Archbishop Roberts will be informing my decisions" - I could understand the unease. - But, he's given detailed responses, would probably give rationale for anything serious question you ask, and that rationale probably won't be "I would oppose such a measure because, as confirmed by Archbishop Roberts, it is heretical by Pope Urban V's Currency Centralization Bull of 1365."

There were 50% more days in the anomaly this time 'round. Therefor, we will reach ~$400.

And it's a witch.

PM if interested. Min. qty. 10 units. John K will be used for escrow.

Regulation leads to evasion. Over-regulation leads to anarchy.

After a point, the more laws on the books, the more Bitcoin is a lawless currency. We're not at that point, yet, but since we've started going down that road, we need to go full-retard, regulating once-legal business into black market activity. LJR is a non-favorable candidate, as I can definitely say he would not favor giving governments exclusive ability to host full nodes, without ever having asked him.

Personally, I would vote for Lawsky.

Yeaaaah... but you usually don't smell it three rooms away, and if you do... well... 

Create account. Set creation date to late '11, insert 15 crap posts inside dead threads nobody will resurrect.

Boom. $15. (assuming SMF can do that without heavy modification not readily available)

Bitmit's stopped relying on Gox, too. They no longer hold >50% exchange market share. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/volumepie/

Since the market on Gox is broken, it makes more sense to use exchanges where price is more in line with USD or whatever instead of GoxUSD (or GoxWhatever).