What you're suggesting has been suggested many times before in pirate threads (and in Bitcoinica threads, too, for that matter).  What on earth makes you think that confronting pirate face to face would lead to any payments?  Sure, you could threaten him but he lives in Texas which happens to have stand your ground laws and he could easily claim that he was fearful enough of whoever turned up to threaten him to justify shooting them. In fact, the stuff which has been posted in this board regarding doing things to his family could even be used to back up any claim on his part that he felt someone turning up on his doorstep posed a legitimate threat to his family.

You're naive if you think that everyone just rolls over in the face of intimidation.

You really think that you're going to become a well known musician by the end of the year?  Or even by the end of next year?

The idea that you're going to become wildly successful within months has been a common theme in your requests for money.  You said something similar when you were soliciting funds for a car, when you wanted money for a motorcycle, and when you wanted people to give you money so you could rent a house.  You actually have your house now and yet those thousands you predicted you'd be making within months of getting a house don't seem to be rolling in.  You claim to now have land as well.  Why hasn't the success you stated would happen within months of you getting a house happened?

Your hookah lounge venture alone has gone from something which was going to happen within a month to something which was going to happen before the end of this year to something which will now "happen in time".  It's literally taken less than a month for you to go from the hookah lounge being your immediate project to it being a "whenever" thing, which doesn't speak well for your ability to remain committed to anything.

FuriousxGeorge's PinkiePie troll deserves an honourable mention.

Poe's law.

The same kind of people who borrow from loan sharks in the real world.

The toilet paper dispensers they have in fast food joints here would make it difficult to steal by the roll - you'd have to break the lock and then conceal a huge ass roll of toilet paper.  A lot of them no longer even have the condiments, napkins and plastic cutlery where customers can access it without being seen.  You either have to ask the staff for it or it's at the register so there's limited opportunity to take large amounts.

Intersango was aware some time ago that there was a guy using his Intersango account to receive payments for drugs.  It's been posted about before on the board and the posts elsewhere which gave his specific account information were linked.  The Intersango account information for the individual concerned can be found in the thread Phin linked to back in July.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63877.msg1053283#msg1053283

Even if they were not aware of that information, it's still on them to ensure that people using their bank account are doing so for a lawful purpose and that they know the identities of people using their bank account.  

The legal responsibility for the use of a bank account rests with it's owner.  If I agree to put a cheque through my bank account for a friend and that cheque turns out to be stolen/forged, that comes back on me.  If someone asks me if they can keep money in my bank account and the funds they deposit into my account turn out to be the proceeds of crime, that comes back on me - that person is money laundering and I'm am facilitating it.

Before investing in this venture I need to know whether you play guitar.

dank should team up with Homeless Jackie.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=59932;sa=showPosts

And he's had a small degree of success in getting people to fund his living expenses while he practises guitar.

He apparently has access to free toilet paper, too.

Jackie should really team up with dank. 

You're assuming that there's some kind of commonality of goals in this community, which isn't really true - which is why the setting up of Bitcoin organisations which do have specific goals will ultimately be a good thing.

You have people in this community for whom Bitcoin represents an ideology.  You have others for whom it's simply a low cost payment protocol.  Then you have others who view it purely as a means of getting rich - they don't care whether it's open source, they don't care whether it becomes a viable currency, they don't care about any political ideology.

There's no "one true way" to do Bitcoin.  Bitcoin is just a tool and what it ultimately becomes will depend a great deal on how it's used.

Would it be necessary for Gavin to leave one in order to participate in the other?  It's not unusual for causes to have multiple organisations set up to promote them and for each organisation to have a different focus.  It's also not unusual for those organisations to have some degree of common membership, at least when the number of organisations is still small.

You guessed wrong.  It was deliberately separated from bitcoin.org because it's not any kind of official representative of Bitcoin.  It's essentially a fan site which has no official endorsement.

Someone has apparently promised to give him $5000 if he raises $20,000.

What a bunch of crap.  You were actively shilling for Narconon in the Dank Glass thread.  You prefer to keep your beliefs "private" when it suits you. You were trotting out your "mental illness is a spiritual disease and not a real thing" dogma in this thread before Scientology was even mentioned.  You've also tried to solicit money on this forum to have Battlefield Earth released on Bluray.  That's hardly keeping your spiritual beliefs private.


Then he could blame other people's counter intentions, considerations, overts and entheta for his postulates failing to manifest.

Satoshi didn't "become" anonymous - he was always anonymous. 

Satoshi's vision of Bitcoin is a simple one.  The role of the devs has been to develop the official client in accordance with that vision - nothing more and nothing less.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

No, the official position is what's written in CoS doctrine, not your interpretation of it.  No verbal tech, remember.  The texts and lectures I referenced are the official CoS view - they were written/recorded by LRH himself.  I did not comment on the validity or otherwise of CoS views.  I called you out for knowingly mis-representing what those views are - are you seriously going to argue that LRH did not write/say those things?

And the only person who has derailed threads even more than dank himself is you.

Kudos for not just having the self-awareness to realise what you were doing but for also having the balls to admit it.

That's some of the most inaccurate verbal tech I've seen in a long time.  Scientologists absolutely believe in spiritual causes of physical illness and that physical illness can be overcome by spiritual means.  Re-read A History of Man if you don't believe me.  Or All About Radiation.  In HoM, Hubbard literally claims that auditing the GE "alters physical structure, eradicates physical malformations".  Do you want me to go on about body thetans and physical illness?  Start quoting HCOBs?

In fact, why not let LRH speak for himself on how to cure blindness?

http://www.xenu.net/archive/media_vault/Blindness.ra