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2661  Other / Meta / Re: Rant on Tor on: September 30, 2018, 02:29:23 AM
One possible solution to accepting certain TOR traffic that you know is "perfectly-good traffic" would be to setup a hidden service as a reverse proxy for a specific person, possibly for a cost, and possibly that will only support a pre-determined amount of traffic.

For example, I could ask you to setup a hidden service that I can use to connect to the forum. I would pay you $xx for you to do this. You would then spin up a VPS that runs a hidden service that connects to the "real" IP address of the forum (it bypasses cloud flare) that is intended for only me to access. Our agreement could be that once the hidden service receives xx GB worth of traffic, then it will be shut down -- this will more or less prevent me from using the hidden service to DDoS the forum, or otherwise making the hidden service address public.

I am not sure if you can run multiple hidden services via one VPS/IP address, although I suspect there is a good chance you can.

This would reduce privacy incrementally, as it would expose sockpuppets that are all used to access this hidden service. However the location of the person accessing the hidden service would remain hidden from you, along with other sensitive information, such as their IP address, and ISP.  

There would still be the problem of how someone would access the forum in the first place, which is more complicated. One option would be to run a separate website with a separate server, whose only purpose is to sell access to these hidden services. This would be easier to maintain then a major forum, and when that website goes down, it would not affect the forum.

edit: you may not like this, however for added privacy, you may accept payment via certain privacy focused altcoins.

edit2:
People using Tor have something to hide, we don't want their kind on this forum.

[...]
Privacy is good. Tor's approach to it is bad, or at least very incomplete.
One reason for this may be that the TOR devs don't want too much privacy when using tor in order to avoid the government regulate, or otherwise entirely break tor because too many serious criminals are hiding behind tor.
2662  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 29, 2018, 08:02:36 PM

The Senate Republican investigators have already spoken to the same people that the FBI will speak to, and have already obtained the same information. The only reason Senate democrat investigators are not named is because they refused to participate, hence they are not interested in the truth.

Bullshit, what a ridiculous assumption.  The FBI is a non partisan premier federal agency with thousands of field agents what a stupid assumption to think the senate partisan clowns gather all relevant information.  Your leaps of logic are astounding and agenda driven but ok cool.
If the Republicans don't want to ask specific questions for political purposes, then the staffers who work for democrat senators can ask those questions, and all the questions would be asked.

Judge is in hiding what are the questions the partisan investigators asked asked, I can assure you that the FBI will ask more questions than the partisan republican investigators.
Judge has said he is willing to answer whatever questions are asked of him in writing by Senate investigators. You say that "partisan republican investigators" will only ask softball questions, but you fail to mention that democrat investigators can ask all the questions they want, but declined to participate in the investigation.
2663  Other / Meta / Re: Romanization of Russian in the English posts. on: September 29, 2018, 07:57:46 PM
All of those posts are in the english sections, and should only contain English. Using only my knowledge of the english language, I am not sure what any of those posts are trying to say. I would report them for being in the wrong language.

If the posts were longer or had more effort put into them, or I could otherwise understand what they were saying with the Russian words in the posts, I would leave the posts alone, or possibly suggest that a mod add a translation to the Russian words in a modnote.
2664  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 29, 2018, 07:49:05 PM
Indeed, the Democratic Party of the US lurches farther in the direction of Stalinesque with each passing year.

I know right looking for the actual facts and truth
Senate Democrat staffers refused to participate in investigations of any of the allegations, and refused to participate in the interviewing of any of the witnesses. 

And yet they and the victims were calling for the premier federal investigative bureau to look into the matter.

What information do you think the FBI can uncover that Senate staffers would be unable to uncover?

Well for one they will actually talk to more than just the 2 people in the hearing like duh obviously, something the republicans refused to do ffs seriously if you think some partisan senate staffers are better than the FBI than ok cool.
Senate investigators spoke to all of the witnesses that Ford named. All of the witnesses denied having knowledge of the incident, nor the party/gathering that Ford described.

The Senate Republican investigators have already spoken to the same people that the FBI will speak to, and have already obtained the same information. The only reason Senate democrat investigators are not named is because they refused to participate, hence they are not interested in the truth.
2665  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 29, 2018, 07:32:38 PM
Indeed, the Democratic Party of the US lurches farther in the direction of Stalinesque with each passing year.

I know right looking for the actual facts and truth
Senate Democrat staffers refused to participate in investigations of any of the allegations, and refused to participate in the interviewing of any of the witnesses. 

And yet they and the victims were calling for the premier federal investigative bureau to look into the matter.

What information do you think the FBI can uncover that Senate staffers would be unable to uncover?
2666  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 29, 2018, 07:14:04 PM
Indeed, the Democratic Party of the US lurches farther in the direction of Stalinesque with each passing year.

I know right looking for the actual facts and truth
Senate Democrat staffers refused to participate in investigations of any of the allegations, and refused to participate in the interviewing of any of the witnesses. 
2667  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 29, 2018, 07:12:10 PM
If the Democrats gain both the House and the Senate in the upcoming election, then I'm calling it right now: Trump will get so amazingly frustrated that he will do something massively stupid/illegal and end up getting impeached (via the support of many Republicans).
I don't think there is a lot that Democrats can do to frustrate the President. Trump will be unable to move any of his legislative agenda forward, and will be unlikely to get most of his political appointees that need Senate confirmation confirmed, however beyond that, there is little the Democrats can do. The government may shut down, possibly for an extended period of time, however it is to be seen who would pay politically for that.

In order for Trump to be removed from office, a fairly substantial portion of hard line Republican Senators will need to support impeachment, possibly including some who believe Kavanaugh should be confirmed even if he is guilty of what Ford alleges. I would predict that Trump would get impeached multiple times by Democrats, but is unlikely to reach anywhere close to the necessary support for him to be removed from office.

The best-case scenario IMO is that we quickly get solid evidence that Kavanaugh is guilty, and then he's replaced [Amy Coney Barrett] who is then confirmed before the Democrats have any possibility of taking back the Senate.
To be clear, after witnessing what happened over the past two weeks, it will not be possible for Republicans to get anyone confirmed on the Supreme Court, ever, if Kavanaugh is not confirmed. Baseless accusations will be thrown against anyone right of center (and possibly anyone nominated by a Republican) nominated, and there will be calls to investigate such claims, and such investigations will not find any evidence to support such claims, then more outrageous accusations will be made, only to be followed by more investigations, more hearings, and more delays.



What makes me the most upset about this entire process is just how transparent of a smear campaign against Kavanaugh this is. On it's face, the Ford allegation is at least somewhat plausible prior to hearing any response from Kavanaugh, however the accusations from the New Yorker, and especially from the Creepy Porn Lawyer are so outlandish, that they frankly do not warrant a response from Kavanaugh.

Further evidence this is a smear campaign is the blatant disregard and uninterest in the truth by Democrats. None of the Democrats asked Ford any substantial question that would assess the credibility of her or what she is saying, and they for the most part were questioning Kavanaugh about things like his yearbook and drinking habits, in attempts to further smear him, and his friends from High School. Over the past two weeks, many Democrats have publicly said that Kavanaugh is presumed guilty for various reasons, all of which are ridiculous, and should be chilling to every American, and also goes against any sense of even basic fairness. The presumption of guilt is something that we see in authoritarian countries.

In regards to Ford specifically, it is fairly clear she took steps over many years to prevent Kavanaugh on the supreme court. It has been argued that she disclosed the alleged assault to her therapist in 2012, however Kavanaugh was speculated to be a pick by Romney if he were to win the 2012 election.

This begs the question as to why Ford did not come forward during Kavanaugh's work on the Starr investigation into Bill Clinton (during which time, everyone on that team was both smeared and throughly investigated by those close to the Clintons), nor when Kavanaugh was nominated onto the DC court of appeals. I suspect the answer lies with Mark Judge.

In one line of questioning by Democrats on Thursday, one of the Senators asked Kavanaugh about a character in Mark Judge's book, "Brett O'Kavanaugh" to which Kavanaugh responded that this is a fictional book. I believe the book in question was published in 1997, so technically speaking the Clintons would have had access to it during the Star investigation, however the Kavanaugh-Judge relationship was probably too obscure to go looking at fictional writings of Judge. Fast forward to 2003, Google Books (or something closely titled) was launched, in which it became possible to search the text of books. The initial process of scanning books was fairly slow, and it took some time for Google to have a very wide catalog of books available for searching, so there is a good chance Judge's book was not available on Google Books in 2003 (-2006 when he was confirmed), but even if it was, there is a good chance, those looking into his past might not search Google Books because of its limited catalog. Fast forward to 2012, Ford could have researched the frontrunners to be nominated by Romney, saw the geographical connection from their early years, prompting her to find the Judge-Kavanaugh connection in Judge's book, and went from there.

Unfortunately, Republicans really botched the questioning both because the questioner did not have experience in cross-examining witnesses, and because the format (and time constraints) was horrible. There are multiple lines of questioning that I would have liked to see Rachael Mitchell pursue, however I would have liked to see Mitchell question Ford about any research she conducted on Kavanaugh prior to her making her allegation, and the timing of her therapy session in relation to this research.

In regards to Ford's lawyers, it is fairly clear they are acting as political operatives. Ford was referred to her 1st lawyer, Katz, by Senator Feinstein's office (or maybe it was Feinstein herself, I don't remember). Ford's lawyer got her to more or less immidiately get a polygraph test under very shady circumstances, under which IMO she had a very high probability of not being reported as deceitful (assuming she was lying during the test), ignoring the lack of underlying evidence the test actually took place, such as the machine readouts, and the video/audio of the test. There is not any evidence that Ford agreed to bear the cost, or was aware of the cost of the polygraph, indicating her lawyers intended on paying for it, absent sufficient GoFundMe funds.  Her lawyers also successfully delayed the hearing by a week under what can only be described as misleading circumstances, if not via outright lying. Her lawyers also made it very politically difficult for Republicans to meaningfully question Ford or her credibility by forcing a public hearing, even though Ford later said she preferred a private questioning in CA. It was Ford's lawyers who started the calls for an FBI investigation, even though the FBI would not be able to obtain any information that Senate staffers would be able to get.

In regards to the requests for an FBI investigation, this is clearly a farce, attempting to further delay a vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation. The FBI is unable to compel anyone to speak with them, while the Senate can issue a subpoena. The penalty for lying to an FBI agent is substantially the same as lying to a senate investigator under these circumstances. The FBI is not able to obtain any information that Senate investigators can obtain, and they don't know what specific questions Senators are interested in, while Senate investigators can work with Senators to ask specific questions. The claim that a Senate investigation is somehow "partisan" is ridiculous based on the fact that both Democrats and Republicans can investigate, although the Democrats refused to previously participate, which is further evidence of their dis-interest in learning the truth.  
2668  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 27, 2018, 10:54:55 PM
Trump has tweeted regarding Kavanaugh:



Quote from: President Trump via Twitter
Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!

Hopefully, the Senate will vote Kavanaugh in over the weekend/next week, and make the Supreme Court great again!
2669  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 27, 2018, 06:31:38 PM
Kim Strassel made a very good point about all the requests for an FBI investigation:


Quote from: Kim Strallel, WSJ editorial board via Twitter
This can't be said enough. And so saying it again. The Senate is doing as thorough if not more thorough an investigation than the FBI would/could. It is talking to same people, getting same evidence. Anybody calling for FBI investigation is doing so purely for delay.

The FBI doesn't even have the ability to compel anyone to talk to them, while the Senate does.
2670  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 27, 2018, 04:32:54 PM
The women from CA just testified that she traveled to DC via airplane, that she traveled to DE via airplane last summer, and that has traveled via airplane many times, often to get to vacations, and for business purposes.

This directly contradicts with her claimed fear of flying, and with her reasons to not be able to testify on Monday, as she claimed to be afraid of flying.

She also testified that she did not submit to interviews with Senate staffers because she did not want to fly, and that she was hoping the staffers would come to her location, however this directly conflicts with Senator Grassley's staffers offering to go to her location to interview her.

Being afraid of something is not the same as being completely unable to do it. She got to DC, she's testifying under oath (something you didn't expect her to do).
Her legal team was lying about the reasons why she cannot testify on Monday, and why she could not submit to interviews with Senate investigators.


edit: The women also testified that she did not pay for the polygraph test, but does not know who paid for it.
2671  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 27, 2018, 04:12:23 PM
The women from CA just testified that she traveled to DC via airplane, that she traveled to DE via airplane last summer, and that has traveled via airplane many times, often to get to vacations, and for business purposes.

This directly contradicts with her claimed fear of flying, and with her reasons to not be able to testify on Monday, as she claimed to be afraid of flying.

She also testified that she did not submit to interviews with Senate staffers because she did not want to fly, and that she was hoping the staffers would come to her location, however this directly conflicts with Senator Grassley's staffers offering to go to her location to interview her.
2672  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 26, 2018, 03:37:06 PM
The Wall Street journal is reporting that the creepy porn lawyer has released an affidavit in which someone who hold a security clearance claims she was drugged in a party in 1982 in which Kavanaugh was in attendance.

Based upon the fact she hired the creepy porn lawyer, I am unwilling to give her any credibility at this time.
2673  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 26, 2018, 12:19:33 PM
Exactly, and thanks for pointing that out. You now begin to ask why the so much heat for something that happened over three decades ago when some of the present laws were not even there. Am against rape but I think this is more of witch hunting.

Rape was illegal 30 years ago, that law hasn't changed.

For me, the most important thing is the 5 times he lied under oath... Anyone who lies under oath should automatically be disqualified from being the highest judge in the land.  They have proven themselves untrustworthy.  You cannot appoint a known liar and expect them to judge others fairly.  That's stupid as fuck
When has he lied under oath?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/17/did-brett-kavanaugh-give-false-testimony-under-oath/

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Democratic senators allege that Kavanaugh gave untruthful testimony at his prior confirmation hearings for the appeals court, which were held in 2004 and 2006, and that those untruths disqualify him as a Supreme Court nominee.

They say Kavanaugh misled senators into believing he had no role in the selection and vetting process for three of Bush’s most controversial candidates for the federal courts: Jim Haynes, Charles Pickering and Bill Pryor. Democrats also say Kavanaugh misled the Judiciary Committee in 2006 about his knowledge of a Bush-era warrantless surveillance program run by the NSA to monitor terrorists.

The overarching accusation is that Kavanaugh whitewashed his record, distancing himself from thorny political events instead of owning up to his role. A cache of emails and documents that have been released over the last few weeks proves Kavanaugh did not tell the truth, Democrats say. At his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court this month, Kavanaugh rejected these allegations, and the White House has denied them.

“Time and again, Kavanaugh appears to have misled the Senate under oath,” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed on Sept. 13.
I am fairly confident those senators know that is about as a BS of a charge as the charges made by the women from CA and the women from Yale.
2674  Other / Meta / Re: Writing a welcome message on: September 26, 2018, 12:18:09 PM
I don't think Plagiarism is something that needs to be pointed out as being something you can't do. First of all, this is something that people should know they shouldn't do, for a number of reasons, and I believe most people who do this know it is wrong, but do it anyway.

Also, I don't think it is as big of a problem in terms in the number of people getting into trouble doing this. Sure there are very many instances of this happening, however I suspect this is done by a fairly small number of people with a very large number of sockpuppet accounts, and I suspect this is often done via some kind of automation/AI.

2675  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Lauda, MinerJones, Blazed | Missing escrow funds on: September 26, 2018, 12:11:25 PM
Isn't ironic when someone is accusing you about scam, you'll give him/her neg tag instead of defending your self.
This happens quite frequently with one of these parties. Unfortunately, in this case, the accusation is quite credible, yet those in power have scared anyone from seriously caring...
2676  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 26, 2018, 12:06:35 PM
Exactly, and thanks for pointing that out. You now begin to ask why the so much heat for something that happened over three decades ago when some of the present laws were not even there. Am against rape but I think this is more of witch hunting.

Rape was illegal 30 years ago, that law hasn't changed.

For me, the most important thing is the 5 times he lied under oath... Anyone who lies under oath should automatically be disqualified from being the highest judge in the land.  They have proven themselves untrustworthy.  You cannot appoint a known liar and expect them to judge others fairly.  That's stupid as fuck
When has he lied under oath?
2677  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 26, 2018, 01:48:14 AM
but it's the only shot they got.

If you're in a boxing match and realize you are about to be bettered by your opponent, and the only chance you have is to punch him in the balls, do you take it?

Depends. Does the winner get to make the rules, including whether a ball punch is legal? I believe that's the calculation here if I'm getting your analogy right.
I think the analogy is more trying to determine if you are willing to act ethically and fairly when you are about to lose.

Your response answers that question.
2678  Economy / Reputation / Re: Negative trust for an opinion? on: September 25, 2018, 08:20:05 PM
Can you pin-point the reply where he is blatantly lying?
I mean, as in lying, not having a different opinion.

In the flat earth thread, he claims he watched a ship go over the horizon and he brought it back with binoculars.

That is obviously a lie, because it's impossible.  :/

Okay.

So, the correct wording should be:

The user has been caught lying. Trade with caution.

Or something along those lines. Not

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Believes the earth is flat. I can't trust people with severe mental issues.
The rating is absolutely wrong. His statements regarding what he did or did not see have absolutely nothing to do with him being a scammer and/or someone planning on scamming in the future.

The basis for any negative rating must ultimately be that the person is believed to be a scammer or someone who will scam in the future. The comment is only an explanation for this belief. The standard of “I don’t trust this person” is ridiculous and is an improper use of the trust system.
2679  Other / Meta / Re: What's more important to judge whether or not I should be trusted? on: September 25, 2018, 06:23:34 PM
Unfortunately there isn’t anything that can be done. Lauda promptly ignores all concerns with his trust ratings and regularly leaves negative ratings to those who speak out against him.

The administration ignores all instances of clearly erroneous trust ratings in the name of “free markets” which is idiotic because the administration is who arbitrarily allowed these people to leave ratings with substantially greater weight in the first place.

In regards to your question in the OP, it is ridiculous to say that selling some kind of your ethically obtained is somehow going to make you a scammer or untrustworthy. That is nothing more than an effort to artificially and arbitrarily regulate free markets and stifle free trade.
The truth meter for that post:

[img width= 350]https://www.iagreetosee.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ted-cruz-nose-meme-ted-cruz-lie-lying-ted-cruz-new-day-for-america-ted-cruz-nose-john-kasich.png[/img]

It still hurts that we killed your account farming and selling business, doesn't it? Smiley
I think this post is a pretty good example of

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Lauda promptly ignores all concerns with his trust ratings
2680  Other / Meta / Re: What's more important to judge whether or not I should be trusted? on: September 25, 2018, 06:03:02 PM
Unfortunately there isn’t anything that can be done. Lauda promptly ignores all concerns with his trust ratings and regularly leaves negative ratings to those who speak out against him.

The administration ignores all instances of clearly erroneous trust ratings in the name of “free markets” which is idiotic because the administration is who arbitrarily allowed these people to leave ratings with substantially greater weight in the first place.

In regards to your question in the OP, it is ridiculous to say that selling some kind of your ethically obtained is somehow going to make you a scammer or untrustworthy. That is nothing more than an effort to artificially and arbitrarily regulate free markets and stifle free trade.
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