You know, I've always wanted to call you an arrogant fuck, but your vocabulary is pretty goddamn impressive.

Unfortunately, your mom's vocabulary is shit-awful.  Tell that nasty skank to read a book.


Edit:  Oh yeah...I voted you worst forum member of the year.  Bitch.

Hey Phinnaeus, what's with all these moulinyans?

Jesus Christ, those Thin Mints are awesome.

Anybody ever take a small bite off the top of one, dunk it into a glass of milk with the bitten-off part pointing up, and then watch the little air bubbles rise out of the cookie and proceed to float on top of the milk?

Mmm...meditation.

Well, according to allchains.com and bitcoinwatch.com, we still have 188 blocks left before the next difficulty adjustment.

I don't think it's been 2 weeks yet since the last difficulty adjustment...

As a newcomer to chess (been playing about 3 months), I think using a chess-bot is absolute bullshit mid-game.

Unless, of course, you wrote the program.  If you wrote a very good chess bot, then my guess is that you know the game well enough that I would probably concede before I even began.

BTW, if you're playing against a bot, keep an eye out for a good sacrifice that helps you gain a great positional advantage.  Most chess-bots seem to opt for grabbing material when it's there for the taking. 

^^Yep.

Imagine if everybody stopped mining immediately except for some dude with a single NVIDIA card hashing away.

It would take ages for the difficulty to readjust.

I've made the vast majority of my profit when the price of BTC falls.  If I had held from the beginning, I'd be down about 400%.  Instead, I'm currently up around 1500%.  There are merits to cashing out if you're a good trader.

There are also merits to buying low and selling very, very, very high   

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I say 300-400% because of the minting costs of producing such a small coin.  Check ebay out and see what 1g pieces are going for (I'm seeing between $2-$5 depending on the shipping).

And good luck, if I don't outbid you   

You could probably resell a 1g silver round (especially in mint condition) for 300-400%

Absolutely.  Litecoin touts itself as the silver to Bitcoin's gold, and when I mine them, it kind of feels that way.  I truly hope it DOES prosper and work in tandem with the Bitcoin economy.

I sort-of avoided the question because my previous post implies the possibility of simultaneous right/wrong states according to the Golden Rule.  Two people can abide by the Golden Rule and reach entirely different conclusions.  I think it's entirely possible that someone can think it's OK for a woman to have any abortion, but think that it's not OK for a woman to have an abortion given that she knows the fetus is female, and be completely right about it.  

I personally don't hold that view  

Two questions that must be addressed before talking about the morality of abortion:

1)  Who decides what is right and what is wrong?
2)  How do you know if the decision maker is correct?

I would say that anybody can decide what is right and what is wrong.  The 2nd question is a whole different ball game.

I must say though, I think the Golden Rule is a WONDERFUL ethical principle.  It is Universal (distributes to everyone) at the same time that it takes into account individual circumstance and/or perspective.

For tough ethical questions like these, I follow the Golden Rule.  To me, it seems as if the Golden Rule is the most comprehensive ethical model around.

Don't worry.  I thought I was fairly proficient with computers until I learned about Bitcoin and tried to start mining.  It took me between 3-10 hours to get myself up and running (depending on if you take into account all the Bitcoin research I did immediately prior to setting up my miner).

This stuff isn't easy, and anybody on this forum who claims that it's easy lives in a bubble.

I received it, but I should note that I received .05 BTC as well and I had made exactly 10 posts.

Edit:  Nevermind.  I got .1 BTC    I should've waited an extra 2 minutes to catch up with the blockchain.

Can't wait to check it out

The point is that people can choose to use drugs regardless of the law.  They are exercising their freedom, and if they choose to place their own constraints upon themselves through drug use leading to addiction, that is their right.  Wouldn't you agree that it is better for someone to erect his own constraints than for someone else to attempt to do it for him?  Choosing to use drugs is exercising freedom, not sacrificing it.  Also, the vast majority of illicit drugs are recognized for their medicinal properties in many cultures (nicotine is a classic example, and it is used in many Amazonian tribal cultures to cure illnesses even in infants, an act that would be considered child abuse in Western societies). 

What about fatty foods?  Should they be illegal as well considering all the harm they can cause to the friends and family of the morbidly obsese, not to mention the implicated costs of treating morbid obesity through state and government funded programs like Medicaid and Medicare that are paid with our taxes?

In my opinion, freedom is made more precious and meaningful because people can choose to exercise it for harm to self or others.  Effective use of freedom is a testament to wisdom and intelligence.

I think the Christian majority, in the same general sense as you refer to them, don't really have many concrete values that they can truly call their own.  I don't think they really know what they value unless its handed to them on a silver platter or at gun point.  I don't think they've taken the time to reason their way to faith or belief.

Laws prohibiting drug use mitigate freedom.

I received a 1 oz. round and a 1 gram round from BitcoinMint.US.

Hands down the finest coins I own.

Would gladly do business again, and you should too!

Edit:  Any plans for gold?