eBay does that even if you have an old account. It's quite annoying.

As long as your wallet is up to the current block (which can take several hours to run the first time), it'll show up there probably within 10 minutes. It won't be until you've got enough confirmations, however, that you can spend it. But it'll be there.

Definitely not fair. I remember reading one story a year or two ago where they were discussing banning the things in the UK, for the same reasons they're banned here (choking hazard). Not fair. Kinder Eggs are cool!

How many jobs get posted, vs. how many people are just "asking" for "donations" now in the sidebar? I've looked, and it's hard to tell how relevant any of the jobs are, how active the posters might be. 

You might want to look into http://www.bitcoinplus.com/ for CPU mining. The rate sucks terribly, but if you're going to have your computer on anyway and not be doing much besides surfing, it'll make you SOME coin. I've been running it on 2 comps for the past couple days while I keep GUIMiner going in the background. It's made about 0.002 so far. Not a lot at all, by any means, but if you'll have the computer on ANYWAY...

Hopefully, you've got multiple cores in your CPU; that helps a lot.

Aside from apparently having hundreds of accounts (discounts for more than 10), '"more accounts every day":


How many "friends" would they have to have to have more coming in all the time? And Jessica saying:


Why would you lose access if the account is, as claimed, abandoned? And why would her "friends" have abandoned thousands of dollars worth of MC accounts?

A MC account is/was between $9 (in alpha) and $22 (current value) USD. That's between $900 and $2200 worth of accounts (assuming "only") 100 accounts. And s/he's selling them all off for about $125/$250 total?


Not to mention everything that other people have pointed out.

It IS a bit complicated.

If you just want to get some BTC to play around with, install the wallet from Bitcoin.org then go to http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ and http://dailybitcoins.org/ for some free money. It's not much at all to start with, but it's something.

If you want to get into mining, do you at least have a non-onboard graphics card, preferably ATI and not nVidia?

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ is very helpful for getting started mining. If you have Windows, Kiv's miner (on that page) is very, very easy to use.

Say you bought a car from someone, only to get pulled over by the cops the next morning. You find out that the valet (Jessica) took it from a customer the night before, turned around and sold it to you.

You got what you paid for (a car), but under false pretenses. The customer may have given the valet the keys to park the car, but they never intended for the car to be sold. I'm no lawyer, but I do believe that (at least in most places) you'd have the right to at least sue the supposed owner for your money back under these circumstances.

I don't think the court would say "Oh, well, you did get a car, what are we supposed to do about it?"

I've never heard of any kid actually dying like that. I've heard of watchgroups THEORIZING that a kid could die, but I haven't actually seen any stories that I remember.

Perfectly fine? But... they're stolen accounts... 

From what I understand, it has to do with Nestle/Mars rivalry? About 10 years ago, Nestle came out with a "WonderBall" (anyone remember those?). It was a chocolate ball, with packs of candy and stickers inside. IIRC, Mars didn't like this for one reason or another. One thing led to another, and the "WonderBalls" ended up outlawed because "kids might choke".

Something like that, anyway.

Personally, I love Kinder Eggs. I'd love to be able to buy them regularly.

They do, indeed. If you drive to Canada and customs catches you bringing them back, from the various news stories I've read, it can be a $500 fine PER EGG. Ridiculous.

Definitely agree with giving "Jessica" a scammer/thief label.

The eggs are ILLEGAL in the US, which sucks even more. You can get your eggs confiscated and have to pay large fines for having them. Other Kinder products are fine, and almost as delicious. But not as much fun. 

Looks like headphones, the kind you might find in a studio setting.

Ah ha. I thought it was the fine powdered tea that I sometimes see at the Asian market. I don't actually drink much tea myself, but I have relatives that love the stuff. 

Loose-leaf tea as well as coffee? I may have to do some Christmas shopping here.

Any chance of getting pics and/or more details for some of the teas (like the chamomile and the herbal berry)? "Gunpowder green" would be leaf powder, not actual leaves?

On the send money page, you have to actually try sending money before you find out that the minimum send is $0.01. Might I suggest adding that to your FAQ or to the initial send page itself?

I really hope not.

Drop your phone? Oops, can't buy groceries.
Accidentally leave your phone in the wash? Well, you didn't really need that prescription anyway.
Kid take apart your phone "to see how it works"? Oh, darn, the rent can wait.
Phone network down? Filling your car's gas tank is so overrated.

I'd rather keep my thin little (relatively) durable strips of plastic, you go ahead and use a smartphone. 

CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha, the wife of the late head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria who died on the 8th of June 1998.

My ordeal started immediately after my husband's death on the morning of 8th June 1998, and the subsequent take over of government by the last administration. The present democratic government is determined to portray all the good work of my late husband in a bad light and have gone as far as confiscating all my late husband's assets, properties, freezing our accounts both within and outside Nigeria. As I am writing this letter to you, my son Mohammed Abacha is undergoing questioning with the government. All these measures taken by past/present government is just to gain international recognition.

My late husband had/has Eighty Million Bitcoins (80,000,000.00BTC) specially preserved and encrypted on CD of which only my husband and I knew about. It is packed in such a way to forestall just anybody having access to it. It is this sum that I seek your assistance to get out of Nigeria as soon as possible before the present civilian government finds out about it and confiscate it just like they have done to all our assets.

I implore you to please give consideration to my predicament and help a widow in need.

Your faithfully,

Dr (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha (M.O.N)



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