By defiling one of the ADL's websites???  Not helpful.

Thanks for coming through however many years ago.  Best of luck going forward.

I went a few years without using Coinbase.  When I tried to use them again I found that they would not let me on without a 2-factor auth of some sort.  Even though I had some BTC with them they never tried to inform me that they were going to lock my account as far as I could tell.

When I looked at the 2-factor auth options (since I research this stuff and won't use insecure platforms such as Windows and Android) I decided that I could use a fork of Google Auth before they closed the source code.  Turns out that by that time Coinbase was basically forcing me to use a company called 'Authy' but their documentation was out of date.

Since it is not necessarily unsafe to use a 2-factor authenticator on a platform which suffers from potential device security issues (e.g., my Android phone) I went ahead and dicked around with Authy.  Authy's documentation said that if one tried to use a land-line one could be 'permanently locked out' for initialization or something like that.  Nobody at Coinbase or Authy could explain what that meant.

There is no cell phone access where I live so I don't bother to have a cell phone (except some old ones from work which work on wi-fi.)  Nobody in tech-land can seem to get it through their heads that not everyone is in cell phone range.  Even if I did have a cell phone, I would have to drive to town to get an SMS or whatever and would be away from my secure workstation where I need to use the codes.

Eventually I tried to perform the Authy initialization with my land-line anyway and it worked fine.  I imagine that people are trying to use various voice-routing or whatever and the system is getting balled up so Authy just dumped land-line use all together (fucking their down-stream customers such as Coinbase in the process without telling them since they seemed unaware and/or argumentative about Authy's policy shifts.)

Anyway, when I finally got logged in to Coinbase I found out that they would not allow me to transact without sending them an identity theft kit that they could 'lose' as desired.  In earlier times Coinbase seemed to meet their KYC by off-loading the task to a bank (since I hooked my account up to them and the bank knows me in person.)  Alas, no longer.  At least not in my case.  Or they just see value in having scanned drivers licences and what-not on hand.  Whatever the case I was able to get what BTC I had with them out.

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As an aside, I have had trouble with checks mysteriously being rejected on a business account at the same bank where I had an account hooked up to Coinbase.  My Wells Fargo account hooked up to them was canceled some time ago.  The check clearing guy said 'it's a Fed thing, and I couldn't tell you the problem even if I knew it fully' or something close to that.  What is particularly galling about this who cluster-fuck is that I've been diligent in paying my taxes and doing everything in fiat-land totally by the book.  I think I read the Feds saying that only 802 Coinbase users bothered to file taxes.  I've always suspected that a lot of people are going to be fucked like Hogan's goat when the shit hits the fan.  Of course I might be as well, but having taken the pain of paying my taxes I probably will have some options and won't necessarily have to participate in trying to destroy Bitcoin (Ver? Evoorhees?) or play a role in some fake-ass school or night-club shooting or whatever in order to get my ass off the hook.

It can be honestly reported that I've never had anything but positive results when using Bitcoin.  More and more, every time I turn around there is some enormous grief and/or threat there-of when trying to use USD.  USD seems like a fast failing system to me.

Good to see you back Wilikon.  I pegged ~robbylove as probably you before noticing the footer.  In case you didn't see it, there was a thread about your vanishing act.

People are just going to have to make do with virtual pet accessed via an app on their cell phones.  Anyone who is so greedy and self-aborbed that they cannot make this minor sacrifice in the interest of saving the planet should be encouraged to commit suicide.  Rich people can have a dog if they pay enough taxes, and genuinely wealthy people can actually keep a human child.  Humans are even worse for the Mother Earth than dogs and cats.

Glad to see the Coinbase is not participating in the Bitcoin-Trash scam.  Hell, maybe I'll even use there services again at some point in the future.  For now I'm satisfied to be pig-headed about handing them an identity theft kit that they can 'lose' when it is profitable to do so.  In the mean time it is funny to watch the puppet theater where Coinbase pretends to withhold info from the bad bad Feds and the bad bad Feds pretends to try to make them hand it over.

WRT BCC, I'll look forward to hearing the plantif's attorney complaining that Coinbase was unwilling to support that particular pump-n-dump scam.  That should be good for a laugh.

Be that as it may, do you think the law and policy built on top of this human-caused climate change fraud with the stated goal of 'saving the planet' are going to be rolled back?  You think the billions of dollars spent on the wind and solar boondoggles under the same fraudulant scammery are going to be clawed back?

Don't stay up nights waiting for it.

I would donate some as well, but if the fires problems have been resolved it's not of as high of value.

The win I see here would be in pointing out the value of being able to translate value between BTC and other currency vehicles.  More than that, the damage that is done when such translations are interfered with by legislative and enforcement means.  Of course the other win would be to put out fires and save people's homes!

I would be interested to know of future similar opportunities which come along.

After flunking out of a state university and blowing any grants and what-not I worked for a while and also did 3 years in the military for the army college fund (which was fairly generious at the time, and also it was pretty safe in terms of going into battle back then.)

After that I was actually ready to go to school and had some earning potential.  I did a transition program at a junior college.  Learned a lot and paid for it without taking out student loans.  Ultimately I dropped out in my senior year of civil engineering because the dot-com bubble created opportunities and I had learned some about programming as a kid (who had a C-64 computer to play with.)  Also, after seeing and thinking about how and what civil engineers actually did, I didn't think I wanted to be one all of my life.

My main point would be that I found it the case that the lowly junior collage actually provided a discernably better education in some areas.  In this case the math department was fantastic.  Head and shoulders above the university.  The smart and dedicated high school students (mostly Asian immigrants) set the standards which probably helped, but the staff were also a big factor.

If you actually want to learn shit, I think you can do so effectively at any institutution.  Sappy as it sounds, 'you get out of it what you put in.'  I've been out of it for so long that I don't know whether it is practical to get through with minimal or no student loans at this point, but if so, and if one has the maturity and interest, I'd say go for it.  Else, spend a few years digging ditches which may improve one's attitude.  Just don't develop debt or start a family during this phase or school will probably never be a realistic option.

Also, in retrospect, I feel that school is scientifically design to dampen thought and creativity and produce certain kinds of people who display certain kinds of behaviors deamed desirable by TPTB.  This from pre-school through post-doc.  School (with the possible exception of certain elite institutions for certain people) also will dilligently NOT teach certain things and discourage further exploration of them (e.g., 'what money actually is'.)  If one can understand and watch for this, one can get what school has to offer without letting them fuck up one's head to much.

Trouble with that theory (which is heavily promoted by the pharmacuitical industry) is that it doesn't seem to be occuring all that much in areas where vaccine coverage is limited or leaves out one of the dreaded scourges you've been worrying about.  Maybe you bought into a load of marketing bullshit.  Just a thought.

Did you ever think to worry about scarlet fever?  If not, why not?  I mean has at times in history been at 'epedemic proportions' and there never has been a vaccine for it.

Even people who have a 'sane' view of the current vaccine madness still think that there is something wrong with catching a seasonal bug that puts one slightly under-the-weather for a few days.  More and more I'm thinking there nothing at all wrong with this and it is actually quite healthy in that it keeps the various parts of one's immune system excersized and in good working order.  The immune system is actually quite complex and it has a tough job.  I see no reason why it would not benefit from needing to get a little practice now and then.

For the last few decades number I've been sort of glad to catch the flu or a cold.  If it comes on quick for me (one evening) then I almost always get over it within a few days, and often just one day of misery.  The ones which I can feel slightly in my throat in the morning for days on end tend to finally make me sick and they seem to linger.  If I go a few years with no seasonal bug then the one I finally get seems to hit me harder.

Another thing about catching a seasonal bug and feeling shitty for a few days is that when I kick it I tend to feel especially fantastic for a few days.  I suspect that is associated with endorphine production rates.

I figured there was a pretty good chance that Trump was bailed out of his casino-related financial failures by the likes of Sheldon Addleson, if not the man himself, and is in debt to same.

While he was running, I kept expecting some real dirt of the above variety to come out, but waited in vain.  I figured that if there was anything there it would probably be released due to the no-bullshit anamostity toward him.  At this point I entertian a variety of hypothesese (in no particular order.)

 - Trump's genuine enemies live in such tenuous glass houses that they could not afford the risk of putting any real meat on the table.

 - Trump's genuine enemies never got the dirt on the guy because they are to stupid/weak/incompetant.

 - There is/was a quite sophisticated game going on with Trump's fake enemies are/where doing a surprisingly good job at pretending to be adversarial while they realized that in doing so, they were actually bolstering his numbers with people like me.

 - Trump actually is 'for real' vis-a-vis being a MAGA America-first nationalist type and is shrewed enough to play the game to win.  If so, the elements which scream 'fail' to a person like me at this point would have to exist at this point (half a year in.)  If future history reveals that this (absurdly hopeful scenerio) is the one, I will need to adjust my estimate of his IQ up from my current estimate of 'North of 150'.

 - Trump has no problem with the swamp and his happy to frolic in it.  History will judge him to be no different from the las slew of recent presidents in this case so it's no real skin of his ass, and is a good way to increase his family's wealth an prestige.  The U.S. has room for another dynastic family since apperently the shine has finally worn off the Bush criminals.

I'm still waiting on any high-level human trafficing/pedo/SRA crap arrests too.  After a bit of research and a lot made of this stuff over the last year, I'm fairly convinced that this shit does go on at these levels, and I doubt very much that with the round-up of Hastert/Weiner/Epstein they got them all.

In the mean time, the 'six months to a year' that I've given Trump to prove himself is running down.  So far, even with some good things that he has done, he's proving himself to be Yet Another Zionist Stooge by-n-large.  Not unlike his buddy Alex Jones is doing.

If it turns out that Bitcoin related efforts outperform government organized ones, I would suggest not to make to much of it in case it causes some ressentment.  Nobody likes to be shown up, and especially not those who consider themselves to be the leaders of society.

Although I have no idea where things stand currently, I would expect that it is still the case that getting govt officials (corrupt and otherwise) hooked on using Bitcoin for their own purposes is of value.  The very simple reason for this is that if these persons become dependant on Bitcoin for their own purposes, they will be much less interested and vigiourous in cracking down on Bitcoin in the future.  At the end of the day the net balance of such a dynamic could tip the scales toward it being practical to have adoption by common people (which I hope would be a good thing, but am not totally certain.)

Some of the African tribes considered pygmys to be some form of monkey and hunted them as general bush meat.  So I read.  That was/is slightly North of DRC.  Sucks to be a pygmy.

The prion ailments which impact other creatures besides humans are interesting, and the more I think about it, the more I wonder if it is a 'design feature' rather than a bug insofar as it discourages inefficient behavior should it crop up in one population or another.  The thing which argues against this hypothesis is that it is noted in herbivores (who wouldn't generally be tempted to eat their fallen comrades.)

One thing I've seen over and over again is that humans, and I think other creatures as well, seem to develop a taste for a food source which sustained them in times of hunger.  For instance, one person who grew up during the depression preferred all his life cornbread over any other food.  Even steak.  This because it was what he ate as a child in the hungry times.  It would be interesting to see if the same principle applies (to a minor degree) in populations who needed to resort to cannibalism for survival.  Examples would be populations who's leadership choose to try socialism or communism as a economic system such as the Chinese under Mao.

I'm not one to be a stickler for correct use of the language, but the guy said the exact opposite.

My point, again, is why would anyone listen to anything a person like this says?  It's useless babble.  If he/she really is drinking the Kool-aid from the pro-vax crowd it is a good indication of the caliber of people who do so.

As it is, I think (based on other posts) that this individual is a troll or AI bot or both,  Thus, it's actually not really that much of a strike on the pro-vax zombie contingent.  Other more verified pro-vaxers are equally retarded however.  In my observation.

There are many many people who are well over 20 years old who have never had one shot of 'vaccine' or anything else.  You are spouting complete nonsense (which I appreciate very much since seeing people do so is very helpful to the cause of trying to get the prole classes to be a little bit suspicious of the means and motives of the elite classes.)

Sure.  Take a look:

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/XS6vPor5jFX3vKkaE7Ri6H/India-to-get-poliofree-status-amid-rise-in-acute-flaccid-pa.html

That's what we call 'out of the frying pan, into the fire.'  Bill Gates will neutralize the useless eaters and darkies and save the planet yet.  And he'll get to practice his hobby tax-free using his 'charitable foundations.'

I doubt that world-wide vaccination rates are 99% (though I've no doubt that certain powerful people wish it to be so.)

To properly analyze the subject, it is critical to get reasonably accurate numbers and to look at schedules.  Yes, the vaccination squads might show up in the jungles of Africa sporadically when money from wealthy eugenicists allow, and these squads don't always get hacked to death by male natives performing their duty to their people, but that does not mean that the population receiving the desired vaccination schedule.

In 'developed' countries such as the U.S., we do have more people getting the as-designed 'vaccinations' at the as-designed schedule.  We also have prescription drug use rates which are extremely high.  One hypothesis is that whatever is being injected as 'vaccinations' are contributing to other (very profitable) health impacts on the population at large.