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3401  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "Reddit Raises $50m, Plans New Cryptocurrency to Reward Users" impact on BTC? on: October 02, 2014, 09:21:10 PM
As long as they're not trying to hijack somebody else's idea or blatantly plagiarise it I don't have a problem with what people do, it's shit like BitcoinPlus and BitcoinDark that I have a problem with.
3402  Other / Off-topic / Re: With Ebola striking in Texas on: October 02, 2014, 08:46:54 PM
Not really.

As far as I know the disease is not that much contagious when talking about highly developed countries like the USA.

Hopefully, it will be, well, true Smiley

lol, Ebola dont ask if you live in country that is developing or not. There is just no vaccine for it and once you got it, is no cure to cure it.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/09September/Pages/Ebola-vaccine-hope-after-successful-animal-study.aspx

Please, the scaremongering on this is ridiculous, doctors have already been coming out giving news like this but the media is just taking this whole thing and running with it like the Swine Flu all over again.
3403  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "Reddit Raises $50m, Plans New Cryptocurrency to Reward Users" impact on BTC? on: October 02, 2014, 07:18:31 PM
Creating your own coin just because you think you are cool is pretty much the definition of hubris, and its very likely a lot of people will get burned very badly.

They should use Bitcoin or Litecoin.

I've seen some genuinely interesting ideas come out of the altcoin market lately and I'm keeping a close eye on them, it's like any market that grows massively, you've got to learn to sift through all the junk to find what you're looking for.
3404  Other / Off-topic / Re: Are Societies Better-off without God? on: October 02, 2014, 06:48:23 PM
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I'm not sure that I agree with this study. Read it and decide for yourself.
Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'

I can't imagine why



In all seriousness, your religions encourage the oppression of women, they forbid people to use condoms, they hate homosexuals, some religious sects are even against medical treatment, they encourage violence against children, they are against abortion in all cases oh and they think evolution and science is a joke, they also actively do everything in their power to suppress critical thinking as they have already done many times in this forum.

So yeah, of course non-secular states are going to turn into shit holes faster than secular ones, it's because religious people won't be capable of thinking their way out of the situation because they've had any intelligent thinking beaten out of them, quite literally in a lot of cases. My particular favourite is being against abortion completely yet never allowing people to wear condoms in order to prevent a pregnancy happening in the first place, gotta love that logic.
3405  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What will you do if you meet a market manipulating permabear bitcoin whale? on: October 02, 2014, 08:17:38 AM
Thank him for the cheap coins?

Cheesy Pretty much this, whales are funny to mess with Tongue They tend to also use bots which are easy to manipulate though you do need a steady stream of coins to outbid them, they always buy at the most unrealistic prices and sell at the most unrealistic prices when you look at the orders they pick and they clearly rely on panic sellers to make money.
3406  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Prison for Kicking a Cat? on: October 02, 2014, 07:15:57 AM
I would probably give them a shorter jail sentence to be fair, since it was only a kick but I do agree the psychopaths need much harsher punishments, I don't think it really matters though to be honest, you don't use violence against other people to take out your anger so why do it on animals?

You don't eat other people either. The hypocrisy and willful blindness to contradictions in how we treat animals makes no sense. What makes a cat different than a cow that kicking the first warrants jail time while slaughtering millions of the second is fine?

It's not fine, never said it was, however do you actually know about the steps that law abiding people have to take now in order to make sure that the animals are slaughtered quickly so they aren't in much pain when it happens? Since in the UK they actually knock them out with electricity you could argue that they don't even notice by the time it's done. Eating meat though and torturing animals are two different things and if you can't see that then you're quite naive, as I said before, you think a lion is going to give a shit whether you eat animals or not? That self-righteousness isn't going to save you if you come across something carnivorous.

Also, there's plenty of hypocrisy in the way laws towards human beings are enforced, or did you not glance at the section you just posted in for five seconds? These days filesharers get more jail time than murderers and then you have cases of assault being completely ignored and everyone just hoping it goes away, that cat has more rights than people being assaulted do currently ironically and it's because these people don't have an army of lobbyists and prosecutors fighting for them.

Pretty sure there are standards regarding the treatment of farm animals too, especially where I live, but yeah, you can keep insinuating all meat eaters are evil if you like and not have anyone take you seriously because of it, when I look at my diet I actually don't even eat that much meat to begin with LOL.
3407  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do people think fat asses are attractive? on: October 02, 2014, 06:52:50 AM
Well either that means you're gay, a straight woman or you prefer something else Tongue lol Cheesy I prefer boobs myself Cheesy
3408  Other / Politics & Society / Re: HONGKONG DEMO on: October 01, 2014, 04:46:34 PM
State's aren't formed on another countries say so, they're just formed, the fact that you 'need' information from another government just shows you don't understand that, do I need to go into the intricacies of Scotland and Catalonia to explain all this to you? Or are you just going to ignore history?

If I have to, I guess I should talk about the United States being originally part of the British Empire, or are you claiming that they needed acknowledgement from Britain before they became a nation state?
3409  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Prison for Kicking a Cat? on: October 01, 2014, 11:32:43 AM
I would probably give them a shorter jail sentence to be fair, since it was only a kick but I do agree the psychopaths need much harsher punishments, I don't think it really matters though to be honest, you don't use violence against other people to take out your anger so why do it on animals?
3410  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin with mirrors, lights, telescopes (and smoke signals?) on: October 01, 2014, 11:23:50 AM
There was a post about this sort of thing very recently where there was an article that had a guy who worked on the mining algorithm using a pen and paper.

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

In theory, you could do it with anything that can make a signal, but it would take a hell of a long time and be incredibly inefficient, this is why computers were invented in the first place.

I'm not saying you wouldn't use computers. I'm just saying you would not use the internet for the communication in between these nodes.

Oh right if you're talking about a decentralised internet there is a lot of talk about mesh networks too.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26285-hong-kong-protesters-use-a-mesh-network-to-organise.html#.VCvkJBbIOmA
3411  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin with mirrors, lights, telescopes (and smoke signals?) on: October 01, 2014, 10:45:57 AM
There was a post about this sort of thing very recently where there was an article that had a guy who worked on the mining algorithm using a pen and paper.

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

In theory, you could do it with anything that can make a signal, but it would take a hell of a long time and be incredibly inefficient, this is why computers were invented in the first place.
3412  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: What is the legal definition of Bitcoin? on: October 01, 2014, 10:08:26 AM
It depends on the country but they've already given it a definition as shares or assets but I would define it as 'Money' it's not really a currency yet because there hasn't been enough adoption but it is being used as one, the problem is with Bitcoin that there are too many conflicts of interests to have a reliable law definition from an actual government, so I just ignore them. At the learning rate of our current bureaucratic and democratic system it will probably be several years before we finally see them actually make any kind of definite verdict on Bitcoin, but by then I suspect their organisations would have all collapsed anyway.
3413  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient POC Mining | New version 1.1.3 on: October 01, 2014, 09:34:03 AM
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please make something like cloud mining which uses online storage so we don't need to use our hard disk

This coin looks like a very similar concept to storj, this isn't released yet, but they plan on making it a decentralised cloud.

http://storj.io/

Yes check also  http://driveshare.org/  but  I think is  in beta now...

Yeah, those are the same people ;P lol And you're right, closed beta though.
3414  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient POC Mining | New version 1.1.3 on: October 01, 2014, 09:17:48 AM
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please make something like cloud mining which uses online storage so we don't need to use our hard disk

This coin looks like a very similar concept to storj, this isn't released yet, but they plan on making it a decentralised cloud.

http://storj.io/
3415  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why consumers are not adopting BTC on: October 01, 2014, 09:08:06 AM
Yeah yeah, heard all that back in 2012 lol Tongue Meanwhile in Bitcoin we're apparently in a 'slump' and it's priced at $384! lol! Tongue
3416  Other / Off-topic / Re: how much you have a strong PC on: October 01, 2014, 09:01:42 AM
Oh well in that case to each their own, just a fair warning to anyone else who thinks that way about stupid green technology Tongue
3417  Other / Off-topic / Re: how much you have a strong PC on: October 01, 2014, 08:52:22 AM
In computing eco is simply code word for 'artificially underpowered' get a better PC, the reason you're drawing so little power is because the people who made that green bullshit have programmed it with software that deliberately turns down the original computing power and efficiency of the component in order to make it use less electricity. What you want to look at is how efficiently anything you buy uses electricity etc. not how little electricity it uses, if the component however only uses an absolute tiny amount but performs fantastically then that's definitely a good thing.

Basically it's a bit of a scam and you fell for it, I once bought a 'green' hard drive and little did I realise that it was operating in the background to make sure I couldn't use it properly, never bought these green bullshit components since.
3418  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why consumers are not adopting BTC on: October 01, 2014, 08:41:01 AM

Deflation   Shocked
I never see any fiat got deflation in a year

I think it does happened to quite a few countries.Japan had one not long ago( do they still have it?),I'm not sure if it symptom of the weak economy(It was during the Asian financial crisis) or one of the contributed to that state, all that I know was it was considered bad for the economy and the Japanese was quite alarmed by it( they were quite desperate to stop it).

Japan is supposedly in a state of deflation right now and there have been many comments by mainstream economists and the Bank of Japan screaming about how horrible of a thing it is while of course failing to mention that it was their inflation that caused the problem of ridiculously high prices in the first place.
3419  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why consumers are not adopting BTC on: October 01, 2014, 08:23:23 AM
I love how people are coming up with more visual ways to show you how much inflation affects everything.
3420  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: First Bitcoin Experience? on: October 01, 2014, 08:12:42 AM
I was rage searching after finding out about the central banking system and how it all worked, I was looking for a way round it all and eventually stumbled across Bitcoin and after experimenting with it I have been messing with it since and sending/receiving money all over the internet.
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