You make me LOL every time, the joint.
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Randy,
You're right. Outside of Bitcoin, I don't go on forums. How much time do you spend on forums?
And you should see my thread on "The Word 'Troll.'"
As for Lou, he was harassing a newb so I stuck up for him. Is that how you'd like all newbs to be treated? What if the newb was a nice 60 year-old lady?
Besides, after judging the way he communicates I have no doubt Lou is a very tough guy . I'm sure he can handle it.
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Meh, I like deepbit, but I also like what I'm familiar with.
3 BTC up front to get me to do it. Just one dude's attitude.
Btw, I get why switching could be better. Good luck with the pool.
Did you just say that you would switch to p2pool if someone gave you 3 BTC first? Definitely. Takes me about 10 days to get that with a 6970. Should more than make up for the possibility of bad pool luck. |
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Meh, I like deepbit, but I also like what I'm familiar with.
3 BTC up front to get me to do it. Just one dude's attitude.
Btw, I get why switching could be better. Good luck with the pool.
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That's class. "Motherfucker" is it?
Nice grown up way to handle the conversation.
It's a song. |
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Grammar nazi fest. Thread lock please
Hey. The newbs need defending. Garoux, Garoux, Garoux is on fire. We don't need no water. Let the motherfucker burn. |
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how much did astana pay you to post this?
Judging by the horrible spelling/grammar, Blue.mitzi is Asstana If you start guessing based on poor spelling ability, then 80% of the users here could be Astana. 90%, if you are really picky. First off, resurrection of necrotic threads is one of the most gauche things a newbie can do... nice way to piss in your own bathwater. Secondly, the delicious irony of your major grammatical gaffe beginning your second sentence in numerical form almost begs abuse, especially in a thread as incendiary as this one. One can only wonder why anyone would pick this type of train wreck to start screaming about how they want a turn to drive the wrecked train? And third- there was far more forensic analysis that proved that blue.shitzi, now banned along with all of ass-hole-tana's other sock puppets, was the spokes-bitch claimed. Are you wanting the same critical consideration? M3ta, don't worry about Loup. Just enjoy the delicious irony of his messiah complex acting as a compliment to his underlying inferiority complex. Or, you can simply criticize his failure to place commas after "gaffe" and "form." Undoubtedly, the confusion you may experience from the resulting lack of clarity will ultimately shift your focus away from his attempts to humiliate you. I feel bad. He has to live with himself all day. Actually TJ, Strunk and White would disagree with you in regards to both both commas. No Messiah Complex here, (citing a medical condition would obligate a capitalization, neh?) nor Inferiority. And here I went and tried to be nice to you for the New Year, and you want to go and disrespect me like this? Today was actually a pretty damn good day with me, like most of them. But, seriously though, thanks for mentioning it. Stunk and White are wrong; so are you. "With regards" is also preferable to "in regards." "Messiah complex" and "inferiority complex" are not diagnosable medical conditions. Check your DSM-IV again. Read the whole thing line by line until you find them. |
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how much did astana pay you to post this?
Judging by the horrible spelling/grammar, Blue.mitzi is Asstana If you start guessing based on poor spelling ability, then 80% of the users here could be Astana. 90%, if you are really picky. First off, resurrection of necrotic threads is one of the most gauche things a newbie can do... nice way to piss in your own bathwater. Secondly, the delicious irony of your major grammatical gaffe beginning your second sentence in numerical form almost begs abuse, especially in a thread as incendiary as this one. One can only wonder why anyone would pick this type of train wreck to start screaming about how they want a turn to drive the wrecked train? And third- there was far more forensic analysis that proved that blue.shitzi, now banned along with all of ass-hole-tana's other sock puppets, was the spokes-bitch claimed. Are you wanting the same critical consideration? M3ta, don't worry about Loup. Just enjoy the delicious irony of his messiah complex acting as a compliment to his underlying inferiority complex. Or, you can simply criticize his failure to place commas after "gaffe" and "form." Undoubtedly, the confusion you may experience from the resulting lack of clarity will ultimately shift your focus away from his attempts to humiliate you. I feel bad. He has to live with himself all day. |
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how does redeeming private keys on mtgox work anyway? when i type in 'frozen' it actually does correspond to an address. but it doesn't start with a 5? and i thought keys had to be in hex format or something?
Well this is somewhat disturbing.... please explain. i am just a currency trader, i know very little technical information about the 'features' of bitcoin. /cryptocompsinewbie Don't worry. Most of the computer geeks on this forum confuse technical competence with being intelligent. If they were intelligent, they wouldn't be such dicks to the newbies. They think they're sooooo smart. |
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$250 sounds like a little much...?
I can either start mining with it right away and keep it or sell for $250 unused which will allow me to buy another one. But, if I sell I will have to wait for shipping and will miss out on the profits I could have generated in that time. And, it would be at least a good week before I would receive a new one that I bought online (if I can even find one at the same price, free shipping is nice). He doesn't have to buy it if he doesn't want to. Shipping to Brazil via USPS priority mail was about $44 when I checked. Then, factor in the cost of gas for driving to and from the post office, and the actual amount of time doing it (which is valuable to me in its own right), and I only stand to make about $20-55 off the thing, depending on how you look at it. Offer is on the table, and it is within the price range that he proposed. |
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Both the "manipulator" (aka dude with loot) and other traders both are trying to achieve the same end, but of course, each will naturally use whatever means is within their capacity to achieve that end. Even someone with a "mere" 100 BTC could be seen as a "manipulator" to someone with 5 BTC. After all, will that 5 BTC make for a good buy/sell wall on TradeHill? No, but 100 BTC stands a much better chance of holding temporarily in the midst of a Gox swing.
The "manipulator" is simply the extreme on the spectrum, so those farther from the extreme tend to label it that way. The "manipulator's" methods vary from ours because of his relative power and capacity. But, those in the middle of the spectrum vary similarly with respect to those at the very low end of the spectrum.
^^^^ Already explained it to ya'll. |
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After that last run of refurbished cards, we're lucky to get them at $180-200 ourselves  Mmm... Okay... If you guys pay ~180-200 bucks for each 5870, can you sell it to me for ~210-250 and send it to me as a gift?! Can somebody make business with me?! Ples..Ples...Pleeease... ^^ Thanks! Thiago Thiago. I may be able to do one for $250 USD in BTC shipped from the USA, if you're interested. I bought it from the link in the OP (bensoutlet) and it was shipped from onesaleaday. I only took it out of the box to examine it and have not used it at all. If you are interested, I can post a picture with my name written on a piece of paper next to the card. I have two positive feedback reviews in the honest-traders section for selling gemstones to buyers in California and Canada. |
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That's exactly what I was getting at. That's why it's nothing like Astronomy, which is the scientific collection of data about the universe. Astrology is just an interpretation of that data, based largely on the church. That's the reason for my mentioning religion earlier, they are very much alike. Of course that basically makes this into an internet religious debate which is one of the worst things ever to do. http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeIV/astrology.htmIf astrology is a tightrope walk between religion and scientific astronomy, then we already have a first definition. First of all: insofar as it views cosmos, humans, and nature as being reigned over and guided by powers and forces from beyond, astrology is religion. All the events in the cosmos and on earth are linked together by an invisible magic bond. Only on the basis of this mysterious magical connection can astrology assume that the stars have something to do with the course of our lives, with our talents and weaknesses.
In this regard, astrology is related to the nature religions. These also assume that nature is inhabited and governed by magical powers, demons, and gods. Like the nature religions, astrology believes in a multitude of gods; it is polytheistic at its core. Each planet and sign of the zodiac is the expression of a particular god or demon. But astrology is also sometimes accepted by religions which know only one creator-god, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Then the many star-gods become angels and demons which are subordinated to the one God and, as such, understood as "instruments" of God. I think what you said is irrelevant. It's a matter of what level of interpretation of information, not a matter of interpretation vs. no interpretation. The mere fact that you recognize something as "data" and identify isolated data points as x, y, or z (e.g. by giving them names and/or definitions, categorizing them, etc.) implies that you are already interpreting it as stratified. Recognizing form in the Universe is just at a different level of interpreting information. And when did I say Astrology is like Astronomy? I disagree with your definition of Astronomy, by the way. Edit: An analogy is an example of another level of interpretation. Edit 2: I'm also wondering how you rationalized talking about religion in on online forum is the worst thing ever. Keep in mind you are suggesting that astrology, which is related to the thread subject, is also related to religion. |
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Bingo. When you spend enough time looking at the sky, even without a telescope if you aren't presently distracted by all the high tech shit in Western society (live for a few decades in a 3rd world country where there are no city lights clouding the sky), you'll see things a different way. Mayans, Egyptians, and Sumerians got pretty goddamn accurate with their "astrology" if you ask me.
It's like if I were to say I can't see with my ears. Ask a blind person.
Please feel free to enlighten us, and try to refrain from analogies like "seeing with your ears". And don't bring older cultures into it, back in that time period astrology and astronomy were linked and almost interchangeable in their usage. At the end of the 17th century, new scientific concepts in astronomy (such as heliocentrism) began to damage the credibility of astrology, which subsequently lost its academic and theoretical standing. Astrology saw a popular revival in the 19th and 20th centuries as part of a general revival of spiritualism and later New Age philosophy, and through the influence of mass media such as newspaper horoscopes.[3]
While astrology may bear a superficial resemblance to science, it is a pseudoscience because it makes little attempt to develop solutions to its problems, shows no concern for the evaluation of competing theories, and is selective in considering confirmations and dis-confirmations That's not astronomy. It's astrology, astronomy is science and astrology is voodoo.
I'd bet money astrology isn't bogus. And, I'd bet a lot of it. Also, how do you plan to win a bet proving astrology isn't bogus when astrology itself is a belief system, and can't really be disproven or proven (like religion). "Seeing with your ears" was chosen because that's essentially what happens subjectively. I don't care that ears are not eyes. Blind people adapt and they begin to use their ears for spatial recognition. Do you think thoughts are also non-visual experiences? I don't know about you, but I can see my thoughts clearly and vividly, especially if I focus on them. Senses are interconnected. Hold your nose and eat something; I bet it doesn't taste the same. Or, notice how people turn down the music in their car when they are looking for addresses. Why would people do this if hearing didn't influence your vision? I'm not sure why you brought up religion. I think you were trying to indirectly suggest that religions are based upon no evidence. Even if that was true (check out East Asian religions, they are extremely scientific), not only is faith still the common denominator between science and religion -- or astronomy and astrology -- you can never say "prove" soundly with ANY inductive method of any kind. But, I've had direct knowledge/experience of "God" (for lack of a better word), and I can't prove that to you. It was self-evident. The thing about evidence-based beliefs is this: What one knows he cannot prove, and what one can prove he cannot know.Really? I ask for how astrology isn't bullshit with no analogies and this is what I get? More explanations of a dumb analogy and some defense of something I didn't even say? I chose to use an analogy because I can't prove astrology isn't bullshit, nor did I actually claim that it wasn't bullshit. What I said was that I would bet good money that the core principles of astrology are not bullshit, just as I would bet that the core principles of most world religions are not bullshit. You're asking for objective proof that astrology isn't bullshit but, in doing so, you are negating the fact that there can be no objective understanding without subjective interpretations. Moreover, you are negating the fact that it is completely impossible to prove anything with science because it is inductive. In other words, you are asking for something that cannot happen logically. And, as I am a person from a Westernized culture, my interpretation of astrological alignments will be vastly different than someone who has no telescope, astronomy book, or internet access -- so will yours. This simply means that my/your means of understanding is different than the means by which other cultures have attempted to understand. It does not mean my method is better or that I am smarter. My point is that just because the modern-day scientific method wasn't necessarily used for astrological predictions, my guess is that it is likely that many of the astrological assumptions made by these cultures are at least fairly accurate because they were committed to, and believed in, their own means of understanding. People/cultures who seek, observe, and learn for themselves will be far more intelligent than those who memorize some dumb equation or scientific finding that some other guy made. Most people either believe in the Big Bang or in Creationism. Why do they believe that? Because they heard it from someone else. When people learn independently, they will see patterns, relationships, and correlations that others will not. |
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I don't know what's going to happen but I know we live in the most interesting times and more than ever is going on week by week in our world. Look up Terrence McKenna's novelty theory if you want to wind yourselves up a bit more.
From Wikipedia: "Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.[75] According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT." From Swishercutter: "Hallucinations are not to be trusted." We will know in December when they come up with another "correction" that they are wrong...just like all the other "prophecies". There have been people with the end is near signs for quite some time. While hallucinations are not to be trusted, the relationship between your interpretation of a hallucination and it's effects on your mind/body should be, as this just goes back to self-reflection or introspection. Whether or not a hallucination is "real" (there are arguments to be made on both ends), it's effects on you are very real in a self-evident kind of way, and you can learn one hell of a lot from this. Interpretations of hallucinations should never be considered valid basis for what is going to happen 40 years down the road...especially when there is no real evidence of it. At this point I am hoping for a mass extinction...I just hope it culls the herd in a positive way. edit: I will also add this http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/appendix3.htmlUnless you recognize the holographic nature of the universe (i.e. because universal syntax/law distributes to everything inside it, everything contained in the universe is like a holographic image of the bigger picture). This is why truth can be established through ratio, the root word of rationale. You can learn a lot about the universe just by observing yourself through self-reflection and metacognition. |
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I don't know what's going to happen but I know we live in the most interesting times and more than ever is going on week by week in our world. Look up Terrence McKenna's novelty theory if you want to wind yourselves up a bit more.
From Wikipedia: "Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.[75] According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT." From Swishercutter: "Hallucinations are not to be trusted." We will know in December when they come up with another "correction" that they are wrong...just like all the other "prophecies". There have been people with the end is near signs for quite some time. While hallucinations are not to be trusted, the relationship between your interpretation of a hallucination and it's effects on your mind/body should be, as this just goes back to self-reflection or introspection. Whether or not a hallucination is "real" (there are arguments to be made on both ends), it's effects on you are very real in a self-evident kind of way, and you can learn one hell of a lot from this. |
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I've already reaped my profits. Waitin' for a dip to re-buy. Nice to know I have my profits locked in at 7. Lookin' to pull the trigger again...
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Haha man oh man, this shit is like christmas!
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2013.01.01 - $1B
2012.12.21 - 1g Au
Not a bad guess, in my opinion. Someone was thinking of what has happened this holiday season |
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2012.11.04 ------ $1 Billion (nov. 4th)
2012.09.03 ------ Gold (sept. 3rd)
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