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3941  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution on: May 02, 2016, 05:09:11 PM
^
The barbarians at that time were building pyramids and that stuff lmao.

Those stone age barbarians sure must have been clever; they apparently domesticated all sorts of wild plants and many other clever things that certainly appear to be impossible for modern man; Pye's essay mentions some of these clever things and some others are found here:

100 things evolutionists hate

Dat angry chinese meme. You got me. Where can i join your church rofl  Cheesy
3942  Other / Off-topic / Re: Intervention Theory: An alternative to Darwinism and Creationism on: May 02, 2016, 05:07:08 PM
Hmmmm, no rational responses to the evidence supporting Intervention, and no discussion of what these astronomical figures might mean for life's origin...

Is that directly from Twilight zone? Or outer limits? Rofl



More please im on the brink to joining your religion Lol
3943  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] SuperNET trades on Poloniex as UNITY, asset id 12071612744977229797 on: May 01, 2016, 10:08:55 PM
Supernet does marketrate swap at rate of 120 SuperNET assets for NXTventure's sharkfund0. This provides indirect ownership of sharkfund0's 120,000 BTCD stake, which when prorated is a bit over 30,000 BTCD, in addition to the other holdings of sharkfund0. NXT txids 14267855016414469572 and 9842386871139077046




Is there a certain reason for doing this and will there be a timeframe for it?
3944  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Help me cope with Trump's hate!! on: May 01, 2016, 06:06:16 PM
Donald's above such distinctions. You're either a winner or you're not. And if he asks the Secret Service to help get his balls up you as well then let them.

Maybe i might rethink my stance about the donald Lol
3945  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Help me cope with Trump's hate!! on: May 01, 2016, 06:02:54 PM
Make an appointment with the Donald when he's in town for a two minute hate.

Lie back and accept those seventeen inches of glistening entrepreneurial meat to the fucking hilt.

Never think unfondly of Donald again.

Wow that sounded really homo bro Grin

Is trump pro lgbt? I didnt know XD
3946  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: May 01, 2016, 06:01:30 PM
^

Brainwashed kids these days  Cheesy
3947  Other / Off-topic / Re: Intervention Theory: An alternative to Darwinism and Creationism on: May 01, 2016, 05:59:53 PM
I love how he imagines living beings as being composed of legos, like mutations happen when someone randomly grows another nose or something.
Mutations, eh? Have a closer read from the essay I am quoting:

TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE


Plants and animals evolve, eh? Alright, how do they evolve?

By gradual but constant changes, influenced by adaptive pressures in their environment that cause physical modifications to persist if they are advantageous.

Can you specify the kind of gradual change you're referring to?

In any population of plants or animals, over time, random genetic mutations will occur. Most will be detrimental, some will have a neutral effect and some will confer a selective advantage, however small or seemingly inconsequential it might appear.

Really? But wouldn't the overall population have a gene pool deep enough to absorb and dilute even a large change? Wouldn't a small change rapidly disappear?

Well, yes, it probably would. But not in an isolated segment of the overall population. An isolated group would have a much shallower gene pool, so positive mutations would stand a much better chance of establishing a permanent place in it.

Really? What if that positive mutation gets established in the isolated group, then somehow the isolated group gets back together with the main population? Poof! The mutation will be absorbed and disappear.

Well, maybe. So let's make sure the isolated population can't get back with the main group until crossbreeding is no longer possible.

How would you do that?

Put a mountain range between them, something impossible to cross.

If it's impossible to cross, how did the isolated group get there in the first place?

If you're asking me just how isolated is isolated, let me ask you one. What kind of mutations were you talking about being absorbed?

Small, absolutely random changes in base pairs at the gene level.

Really? Why not at the chromosome level? Wouldn't change at the base pair level be entirely too small to create any significant change? Wouldn't a mutation almost have to be at the chromosome level to be noticeable?

Who says? Change at that level would probably be too much, something the organism couldn't tolerate.

Maybe we're putting too much emphasis on mutations.

Right! What about environmental pressures? What if a species suddenly found itself having to survive in a significantly changed environment?

One where its members must adapt to the new circumstances or die out?

Exactly! How would they adapt? Could they just will themselves to grow thicker fur or stronger muscles or larger size?

That sounds like mutations have to play a part.

Mutations, eh? All right, how do they play a part?

This game of intellectual thrust and parry goes on constantly at levels of minutiae that boggle an average mind. Traditional Darwinists are one-upped by neo-Darwinists at every turn. Quantum evolutionists refashion the work of those who support the theory of peripheral isolates. Mathematicians model mutation rates and selective forces, which biologists do not trust. Geneticists have little use for palaeontologists, who return the favour in spades (pun intended). Cytogenetics labours to find a niche alongside genetics proper. Population geneticists utilise mathematical models that challenge palaeontologists and systematists. Sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists struggle to make room for their ideas. All perform a cerebral dance of elegant form and exquisite symmetry.

Their dance is, ironically, evolution writ large throughout science as a process. New bits of data are put forth to a peer group. The new data are discussed, written about, criticised, written about again, criticised some more. This is gradualism at work, shaping, reshaping and reshaping again if necessary until the new data can comfortably fit into the current paradigm in any field, whatever it is. This is necessary to make it conform as closely as possible to every concerned scientist's current way of thinking. To do it any other way is to invite prompt rejection under a fusillade of withering criticism.

This system of excruciating "peer review" is how independent thinkers among scientists have always been kept in line. Darwin was an outsider until he barged into the club by sheer, overpowering brilliance. Patent clerk Einstein did the same. On the other hand, Alfred Wegener was the German meteorologist who figured out plate tectonics in 1915. Because he dared to bruise the egos of "authorities" outside his own field, he saw his brilliant discovery buried under spiteful criticism that held it down for 50 years. Every scientist in the game knows how it is played--and very few dare to challenge its rules.

The restrictions on scientists are severe, but for a very good reason. They work at the leading edges of knowledge, from where the view can be anything from confusing to downright terrifying. Among those who study the processes of life on Earth, they must cope with the knowledge that a surprising number of species have no business being here. In some cases, they can't even be here. Yet they are, for better or worse, and those worst-case examples must be hidden or at least obscured from the general public. But no matter how often facts are twisted, data are concealed or reality is denied, the truth is out there.

Is that directly from Twilight zone? Or outer limits? Rofl
3948  Other / Off-topic / Re: death on: May 01, 2016, 05:55:09 PM
Not sure if its a loss if some of you people try to visit god today or so Cheesy
3949  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Help me cope with Trump's hate!! on: May 01, 2016, 05:18:35 PM
Well, IMO Trump is just a racist piece of orange shit(no racism intended). He thinks his net worth of 4 billion is more than Bill Gates'.

I mean, he filed for bankruptcy for his casino, and if he becomes the president, all of America will be bankrupt.

you are completely right.. if he becomes a president , he will screw us badly.. whole american citizens will be broke and be homeless for sure.. trump will be the worst president of all american history..

Before putting around such wild arguments, lets see some real proof, right? What makes you think that if Trump becomes the POTUS, then the United States will go bankrupt? Check his policies. He is against invading third world countries, and he want to encourage manufacturing in the United States. He is also against granting food stamps and other payments to welfare rats. These measures will reduce the fiscal deficit and make the American economy stronger.

He wants to nuke the middle east and europe.

What about the 25% max tax? Grin

We are talking about 30-50% reduced tax for the rich and super rich. Sure the USA wont bankrupt if he does that? Lol
For a hundred years, the average COLLECTED TAX was in the 22-25% of gross income range.  That's after all the hoopla about tax rates. 

I don't think that will change.

Can you explain how you come to that conclusion? (Im not US citizien i know only what i read about the US tax system)

Nevertheless trumps want to cut the taxation of rich and superrich by 30-50%(it might be even more with all the tax holes and stuff). Where the hell will that money come from?

3950  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A German comedian could be sent to jail for insulting the Turkish president on: May 01, 2016, 04:55:32 PM
Erdogan receives funds from the GCC nations such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait (a reward for his Islamization policies in Turkey). He also receives weapons from Israel and the United States. There is no real opposition in Turkey, as most of the rival leaders are behind bars. I don't think what happened to Saddam and Gaddhafi will happen to Erdogan.

Saudi Arabia and Israel supporting the same leader? Something wrong here? Saudi Arabia does not even recognize Israel.  Grin
I guess you didn't understand him quite well. If you think that they're supporting Erdogan due to some sort Israeli-Saudi partnership, then there is a mistake. It's Erdogan who have made few careful deals with Israeli and Saudi leaders, avoiding direct interaction between these two factions.


P.S. When it comes to business, saudis are no worse than israelis. If it's profitable in the short-term, then they're ready to forget about their agenda and make another contradictory alliance. In fact, there is nothing wrong with that.

Wow erdogan the mastermind. The world must look like the truman show for him.

What.... wait isnt that how putin usually get introduced? Wtf just happened here... russia is a vassal state of turkey now? Cheesy

3951  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Legal Migration Overrunning US on: May 01, 2016, 04:49:05 PM
What your study "proves" is that hispannics are a younger population. What's wrong with that?

Nothing wrong if they were all legal immigrants. Out of the 55 million Latinos, some 12 million are illegal aliens, and a similar number is consisted of anchor babies. Those who took the legal route only compose around half of the population. And worse, they are sucking the state coffers dry by over-exploiting the welfare system.
I keep reading this shit about exploiting welfare system...
But please explain me how you benefit welfare without American Nationality? Roll Eyes
They say the same dumb shit about welfare exploitation in Europe. But you don't get shit if you're an illegal migrant!

You dont.
Illegal immigrants can only get it through their US born childrens (if i understand correctly you get us citizienship as long as you are born on us ground).

http://cis.org/Welfare-Use-Legal-Illegal-Immigrant-Households

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This is the case a decade and a half after the 1996 welfare reform law, which was supposed to greatly limit immigrant access to the welfare system. Among households headed by an illegal immigrant, we estimate that 62 percent use one or more welfare programs. While the overall rate is very high, however, households headed by immigrants illegally in the country primarily use food programs and Medicaid, and their use rates of cash and housing programs are lower than native households' use rates.

The high rate of welfare use by immigrant households may be surprising given the restrictions on welfare enacted in 1996. But those restrictions cover only a modest fraction of legal immigrants at any one time, many programs are not barred, and numerous exceptions exist. Further, benefits are often received on behalf of U.S.-born children who have the same welfare eligibility as any other citizen.
3952  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A German comedian could be sent to jail for insulting the Turkish president on: May 01, 2016, 04:00:00 PM
Someone quote me for that idiot to read.
So polite, you must be one of these new-breed europeans, truly civilized ones.

I learn fast from my russian comrades Wink

Btw. Saying that he is an idiot is a fact it is not even an insult lol
3953  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Help me cope with Trump's hate!! on: May 01, 2016, 03:26:41 PM
Well, IMO Trump is just a racist piece of orange shit(no racism intended). He thinks his net worth of 4 billion is more than Bill Gates'.

I mean, he filed for bankruptcy for his casino, and if he becomes the president, all of America will be bankrupt.

you are completely right.. if he becomes a president , he will screw us badly.. whole american citizens will be broke and be homeless for sure.. trump will be the worst president of all american history..

Before putting around such wild arguments, lets see some real proof, right? What makes you think that if Trump becomes the POTUS, then the United States will go bankrupt? Check his policies. He is against invading third world countries, and he want to encourage manufacturing in the United States. He is also against granting food stamps and other payments to welfare rats. These measures will reduce the fiscal deficit and make the American economy stronger.

He wants to nuke the middle east and europe.

What about the 25% max tax? Grin

We are talking about 30-50% reduced tax for the rich and super rich. Sure the USA wont bankrupt if he does that? Lol
3954  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution on: May 01, 2016, 11:27:17 AM
^
The barbarians at that time were building pyramids and that stuff lmao.
3955  Economy / Speculation / Re: Mat-isms & More: Tales from the trading floor of the Bitcoin markets on: May 01, 2016, 11:11:22 AM
He didn't say what his alternate spam acct name is.  God only knows what that is used for.

I have multiple accounts, in different names

Quoting only half of the sentence makes you look like a retard. And contradicts the whole idea of your thread. Wink

Yes, we are aware you and this "Phoneix1" person are part of the Mat "trading team" or "bonfire money team" or whatever you want to call it.

Well atleast this time there is no zionist world conspiracy or something around that line Grin
3956  Economy / Economics / Re: Eni, Hit by Falling Oil Prices, Reports $9.4 Billion Loss on: May 01, 2016, 11:08:53 AM
$9.4Bn loss. That is more than Bitcoin's market capitalization!!
Gives you a perspective of how small we are in the grand scheme of things. Still some way to go.  Smiley

And compare that to Warren Buffet's net worth Tongue

If he decided to buy BTC he could buy the entire coin supply 6 times over, lol Undecided

He trying to do that would catapult btc into trillion marketcap.
3957  Economy / Economics / Re: How would you double $100,000 safely? on: May 01, 2016, 11:06:34 AM
Safest bet to double 100 k is a casino for sure (and you wont need 1 year)

There wont be anything safer to double 100 k in one year.
3958  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin needs to move to POS. Thoughts? on: May 01, 2016, 10:54:18 AM
POS would require less energy therefore POW is wasting energy. Simple enough.


POS and POW are not functionally equivalent. The so-called "waste" energy represents the "work" aspect of proof-of-work. Apparently too simple for some.

Carlton is correct. "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."  Somehow, someone, somewhere is paying for the security. In POW, the work portion does that. The energy isn't wasted, it is the security. Whether the security comes from work or something else, you get the amount you pay resources for.  There are many long well written discussions about this if you google things like POS vs POW coins etc.

Regardless, the only way to settle it is to fork and let people decide for themselves. A top down, enforced approach has no chance of success in convincing everyone.  If you really think POS is better, fork it as above (or pay someone to do so) and let people decide for themselves which branch they want to use going forward from that point, maybe they use both - I think it would be a great experiment and would love to see how it turns out.  The thing is, no one has forked Bitcoin like this in the years since POS was proposed just lots of discussions about why they think POS is better without an empirical study.  So I think a lot is just argument for the sake of doing so without any intent of actually taking action while expecting "someone else" to implement it for them.


P.s.  QQ: "Dump" is not "dumb". :-)

This.

Maybe another example:

The USA stands on nr. 1 in military spending.
If you look at the top 10 the USA spends as much as the following 9 nations together.

Isnt that a terrible waste of money?
The answer is: Security is damn expensive.
3959  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Help me cope with Trump's hate!! on: May 01, 2016, 10:21:20 AM
I mean, he filed for bankruptcy for his casino, and if he becomes the president, all of America will be bankrupt.

Not all of the business ventures will be successful. Some would be failures, and some would be quite successful. To Trump's credit, he managed to increase the wealth which he had inherited by a factor of 200x. Not many would be able to do that. Obviously you can't compare him to Bill Gates, who is a self-made billionaire.

The only reason for that is because everytime he fails he lets someone else pay the fun (usually taxpayers or his buisness partners). Lol

Btw. Why is that so incredible hard to just post under one account?
3960  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: May 01, 2016, 12:21:43 AM
so did god gave him the task to build a wall or is it that building the wall will get him what he needs from medicare?


i guess nuking the middle east and europe is the answer to everything  Grin

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