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4021  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 2020 Democrats on: July 02, 2019, 01:07:00 AM

I've heard a conspiracy theory, which starts to sound slightly believable, that he's intentionally making himself a punching bag for Kamala Harris.
It is possible, if that theory is true, that it was part of a broader strategy to lose the number one spot, and win the nomination via a late come from behind push late in the primary. I noticed that Warren and Sanders (and Harris) were attacked very little either night. This might allow him to avoid presenting himself as a crazy extremist that would have no chance of winning the general election.

I agree with this assessment. Biden seems to be filling the role of sand bagger as Bernie Sandbag played last time around in 2016, then endorsing Killery after being cheated out of the primary nomination. I predict Biden will play this role as wider establishment net and then funnel his supporters toward Harris once he is caught again groping small children.


I also get the strong impression they are setting up Gabbard to be the populist polar opposite answer to Trump for the Democrat party.[...]This narrative would align with establishing her as the underdog, and that is a lot of the psychology of why people voted for Trump, because he was the populist underdog outsider.
I would find this very unlikely. Democrats appear to believe whoever they nominate will nearly automatically beat Trump. Look back to the 2015/2016 Republican debates, a common theme was x candidate would be "best" to oppose Clinton, while last weeks debates did not mention any candidates' ability to beat Trump once (that I recall).  I do think her foreign policy stances would give her an advantage over Trump, but I don't think her beating Trump would be a given.

Except I am not talking about most Democrats, I am talking about the people who make the selection, not the people who make the election. They are neither Republican nor Democrat. They are whatever serves them best at the moment. Think Hegelian Dialectic. They are hand crafting her image as a populist rebel outsider, and her vet status gives her a distinct in to a certain conservative demographic as well. She is 100% the sleeper, much like Trump was.
4022  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Flagging user broke an agreement and leaking confidential information on: July 01, 2019, 09:56:14 PM
Even if the seller is still in possession of the goods the "damages" is the extra effort they have to go through to either enforce the sale or resell the item to another buyer.

IMO, this is an extremely vague interpretation of 'damage'.

I would understand this if i had intentionally replaced another buyer.
If the seller had backed out from the deal with another buyer and instead decided to trade with me, that indeed - under some circumstances - could be seen as damage.


But he has the same amount of money and goods before and after my conversation with him.
It basically didn't change anything except for the fact that i made this information public.



Bob123 promised to buy the accounts if the seller releases the details, but after the seller released the details, he just got under defective performance and the contract was breached as he promised one thing and did other. Hence the flag started by the seller is perfectly valid, it's your own judgement if you would like to support it or not but I think a genuine thinking towards the issue would show a serious breach of contract here.

The flag has not been started by the seller.
There was no damage resulting from rescinding from it.
There first has to be a contract, before there can be a breach of it.




You made an agreement. You received considerations under that agreement (the PM and the information resulting from it). At this point the contract was active. Rather than submitting payment as you agreed to, you then released that information (consideration) you received under false pretenses not only violating the contract, but causing damages which then took you firmly into fraud territory, not just contractual violations. This is quite clear cut, you even provided all the evidence yourself. All of this Playschool lawyering is not going to change the facts.
4023  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Mother Forcing Chemical Castration & Gender Reassignment of 6 Year Old Boy In TX on: July 01, 2019, 09:46:12 PM
I would love to see this unbiased news source you claim exists.
Never said that. Only that your sources are heavily biased as this article is. It relies mainly on testimonials and personnal feelings. Very few facts. Only people saying "yeah she loved school", "the teacher diddn't care about hte well being of the child".
Not factual at all.
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That would be amazing. How to limit extremism in teaching? Get the federal government out of the educational system. Close The Department of Education. Home school your children.
Home schooling is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. It's horrible, innefficient and just transfer your own biases directly to children. Try home schooling or talk to someone who has suffer home schooling before saying shit like this.

How the hell would getting the government out of educational system help with limiting extremism? Getting rid of government would somehow magically makes so teachers no longer have political and societal opinions somehow?

It would only creates officialy biased schools. You would get religious school, liberal schools, anarchist schools etc... You would probably end with much MORE extremism because it would be isolated and organized ones.

Would you care to explain shit you say or you're just here to say "government bad, orange man good"?
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Are you honestly arguing there is zero biological component to gender differences?
Your question makes no sense and isn't related to anything I've said. There are biological differences between each individuals so of course I couldn't ever say something as stupid as "there are no biological differences between genders". You really love strawmen don't you?
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Here you are again making claims that the "nature vs nurture" debate has been concluded...
Have never made this claim. You're the one making me say this. Because you can't make the difference between action and result. Behaviour and social situation. Cultural factors and biological factors. Because you're dumb as a rock ^^

I didn't say you said that, I said that. I asked you to give examples of what you think is an unbiased news source since you are operating under the impression those are a thing. Tell me, in an article almost completely about peoples feelings and beliefs as a subject matter, what kind of hard observable facts would you like to see come to bear on this situation? Perhaps you want a peer reviewed study on this single child's life?

Every home schooled person I have ever met is LIGHTYEARS more intelligent than anyone who I have met educated in public schools. Some of them lack socialization skills, but that can be corrected over time, where as the indoctrination of public schooling tends to be a permanent impediment. So your opinion is parents educating their own children is extremist? I never said get rid of government, I said get rid of The Department of Education, the federal branch of the educational system. States and localities should be making these choices, and most importantly the parents, not Washington D.C. The public school system is already being used to spread extremism to OTHER PEOPLE'S children. Most parents actually care about their children and would never do this to their own, but many don't care enough to stop it from being done to the children of others. This is why home schooling is important, because no one will care for your own children more than you do, and certainly the state and its workers wont.

Again, you are letting your ignorance of your own arguments and ideologies shine through.

"Because gender theory is perfectly correct and when the teacher says "boys and girls aren't real" she's not wrong as gender are a social construct."

Here you are, arguing that gender is a social construct, excluding any biological component to gender identity. For like the fifth time, this is based upon the "nurture" argument in the "nature vs nurture" debate. Biology is nature, social constructs are nurture, hence you are in fact concluding that the debate has been decided regardless if you care to admit it or not. Your jibbering about "action and result" is meaningless. These are all long standing debates in psychology and sociology going back THOUSANDS of years. I promise you The Angry Frenchineer and his little red book of Communisms hasn't solved the riddle.

4024  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Communism also has capitalism on: July 01, 2019, 09:32:08 PM
Communism requires Capitalism to exist, but not vice versa.

Says the asshole again and again without ever proving his assertion because... Well... He could but... Yeah he doesn't want to.

Well, if it isn't the Angry Frenchineer. I have already proved this to you several times, but you don't argue from a position of logic but a position of Pathos so my arguments fall on deaf ears. Marx himself admits Capitalism is a requirement for Communism to exist in his own writings:

"Marx divides the communist future into halves, a first stage generally referred to as the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and a second stage usually called "full communism." The historical boundaries of the first stage are set in the claim that: "Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. There corresponds to this also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."6

The overall character of this period is supplied by Marx's statement that "What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society: which is thus in every respect still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges."7 This first stage is the necessary gestation period for full communism: is it as time when the people who have destroyed capitalism are engaged in the task of total reconstruction. As a way of life and organization it has traits in common with both capitalism and full communism and Marx never indicates how long this may take—the first stage gives way gradually almost imperceptibly to the second."

https://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/vision_of_communism.php#7


Of course, you barely know anything about your own ideology, so you wouldn't know this. All you know is Communism makes you feel good in your tum tum.

4025  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Universal Basic Income on: July 01, 2019, 09:22:31 PM
Until we get to the point that there are no longer any possible jobs humans can do, I don't agree with having a UBI. I don't like the thought of rewarding people for simply being alive.

I actually find the future where we have complete automation less rosy than what is portrayed in sci-fi like Star Trek. Where is the money going to come from anyway? What happens when you are branded "unsavory" and have your income cut off and there's no job you can do since everything is automated?

The money wouldn't even matter if we have more than enough resources for everyone.  You are looking at this the wrong way.   Capitalism already rewards people for simply being alive, money makes money faster than working.  Why not spread that wealth to the lower income group.  If the wealth gap gets too out of hand society crumbles apart.

Because automation is just an excuse. They are not hiring people because they choose not to, not because of automation. The plan is we are going to be culled anyway... so no need for UBI for people in mass graves.
4026  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Steve Forbes Thinks Facebook Should Back Libra with Gold and Call it ‘Mark’ on: July 01, 2019, 08:11:56 AM
How did Zuckerberg miss that branding opportunity? Anyways, this development was born straight out of satan's asshole. Hope you are all ready for totalitarian world government, because this is how you get totalitarian world government. When you are gnashing your teeth remember you were warned.
4027  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Flagging user broke an agreement and leaking confidential information on: July 01, 2019, 03:53:26 AM

Except he explicitly made an agreement, received considerations, which is when the contract becomes binding. Just because he changed the terms after reviving considerations does not mean he can unilaterally change the agreement. That is not how contracts work. If I order a pizza and the delivery guy gets here and I decide I don't want it any more, I am still legally obligated to pay for it because I ordered it and resources were expended getting it delivered. I can't offer to pay him 25% to make the contract go away for example.

You are simply cherry picking statements and ignoring the explicit agreement which I quoted above, including mutually agreed upon terms, as well as consideration, all the parts necessary to form a legal contract. The argument about an agreement over confidentiality is clearly implied, but also totally moot. The seller clearly made considerations. bob123 clearly agreed upon terms, and agreed to pay once the PM was sent. The moment the PM was sent the requirement for consideration was met, then furthermore later losses were accrued as a direct result of this fraudulently obtained consideration. I don't care how many other people oppose the flag. They are wrong. I don't make decisions based on what is popular. The ends do not justify the means. bob123's actions were fraud by any definition.


Invitation to treat, ability to examine goods, performance of terms, counter offer, variations, clarity all are part of forming a contract.

It is not cherry picking. It is viewing the entire discussion as a whole.

If there was a contract for $280 as you claim then why are they discussing different accounts and amounts instead ? It shows that a deal had not been made yet.

I do think that Bob narrowly escaped being in breach of contract.

With any commercial disputes - some require court action to resolve. Two parties enter court and usually only one party is found to be correct when it comes to determining if there was a contract or not. Both sides usually have smart lawyers.

In commercial conflicts the consumer has rights. Terms have to be clear. To say there a contract wherethere was a condition of privacy would require some discussion around that. That is absent from the chat log.

There is also a consistent trend of the seller believing the buyer will not follow through with a sale. It shows that the seller knows that there is a risk of a "no sale".

I doubt that we will agree on whether there was a contract or not. However we should agree  that this is one of the most controversial flags.  It is not a straight forward one. 



What you are trying to do is very transparent. You are just repeating technical terminology and hoping either that some of it will stick or that people will be too dumb or passive to even bother to check. I believe you to be actively disingenuous at this point, because you are smart enough to know what happened here. It is in fact very straight forward, you just don't like the conclusion.

There need not be any agreement for privacy, because consideration was provided under fraud, then the contract was violated by bob123 by not completing payment. This information was obtained via fraud and then directly used to cause financial damages. Once again, I might remind you the lowest standard for this flag is "... bob123 violated a casual or implied agreement, resulting in damages...". For you to argue that this not only does not constitute a technical agreement but doesn't even constitute an IMPLIED agreement is just totally disingenuous. You have fun wearing your little lawyer suit though.
4028  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Flagging user broke an agreement and leaking confidential information on: June 30, 2019, 10:45:27 PM
You don't get to rescind an agreement AFTER considerations (the PM) have been provided.

Well.. i can just repeat myself.. you seemed to have overlooked that (or maybe just didn't reply on purpose):


[...]
Regarding your argument that a contract was not formed, first of all the language in the flag says:

"SeW900 alleges: bob123 violated a casual or implied agreement, resulting in damages, in the specific act referenced here. bob123 did not make the victims of this act roughly whole, AND it is not the case that all of the victims forgave the act. It is not grossly inaccurate to say that the act occurred around June 2019. No previously-created flag covers this same act, unless the flag was created with inaccurate data preventing its acceptance."

So, even if your argument was correct that it was not technically a contract, an agreement was most certainly implied by any metric. However an actual technical contract was formed and documented here by bob123 himself.

Seller: "280$ ok,? !!"
Bob123: "Yes, 280 is good"
Seller: "ok" "do you pay me after PM" "?!"
Bob123: "Yes with escrow"

As you can see the three terms of a technical contract were in fact met.

If THIS is the 'contract' or 'agreement' in your eyes, then you just proved that the flag is inappropriate yourself. Good job on that.

The fact that i rescinded from it (which is 'breaking the agreement' in your eyes), did not result in any damage.
This did no damage to anyone at all.


So thanks for admitting that the flag is inappropriate.


'Breaking' the 'agreement' did not do any damage. Therefore the flag is not valid.

I don't understand why you are trying everything you can to convince others to support this flag.
It simply doesn't make sense to me.

It seems that the majority of voters also thinks that this flag is not appropriate.
Supporting: 1
Opposing: 7

I am not overlooking anything. You agreed to terms. You then agreed to pay a specific amount after he provided consideration by PMing you from the last account. It is at this time a contract was formed. Just because you refused to fulfill your agreement does not make the agreement invalid. It came into effect the moment he sent you the PM, also known technically as consideration, which you then used to cause damages. Sorry I don't care how many people oppose this flag, it is valid. You entered into a contract under fraud which directly resulted in damages via the loss of account value. If you had not explicitly made the agreement it might have been different, but you did in fact create a contract  with intent to defraud and then violated it AFTER receiving considerations.


When a counter-offer is made it kills the initial offer. Even is the person making the counter offer agrees later to the initial terms. This has happened to me in a real estate deal. I made an offer. Then the seller made a counter offer. The counter counter offer was rejected. The seller then offered the same terms as the initial offer I had made which I rejected because I had already decided to buy elsewhere.


https://i.imgur.com/nSZBySE.png

Shows the buyer rejected the account based on quality. An account that has plagiarized content is a misrepresentation by the seller.

-- although I do not see any plagiarized content myself. The posting history does make me wonder if it is an account stolen after the last bitcointalk hack where passwords were exposed.


The seller also misrepresented the trust on the account.

https://i.imgur.com/rxM4KAD.png

https://i.imgur.com/SxocdF3.png

https://i.imgur.com/t1xBqVJ.png

Which IF there was a contract would put the seller in breach of contract because he is not showing an account "as described".

It would mean that the message that was sent from that account did not match the description of the account that would have been part of that contract.

The absence of a message from an account that matches the sellers description means that the conditions that the buyer insisted on throughout the conversation (if there was a contract) were not met.


I found an interesting quote:

Since when is asking for proof of possession (picture of the product with username) a "low-life" move??

This same processor is available at NewEgg for $359.99.  Fry's Electronics (right down the road) is selling it for $380...

Tell me again why this low-life should spend an extra $40.00, pay for shipping, and likely receive a stolen chip without warranty?

Yep. Asking for proof of possession for someone who has ZERO feedback is not too much to ask.

$356 with free shipping on Amazon also.

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Boxed-I7-6700K-Processor-BX80662I76700K/dp/B012M8LXQW

http://archive.fo/SGJRp


'Breaking' the 'agreement' did not do any damage. Therefore the flag is not valid.

I don't understand why you are trying everything you can to convince others to support this flag.
It simply doesn't make sense to me.

It seems that the majority of voters also thinks that this flag is not appropriate.
Supporting: 1
Opposing: 7




Forfeiting a sale - IF - there is a contract is a technical breach of contract. Even if the seller is still in possession of the goods the "damages" is the extra effort they have to go through to either enforce the sale or resell the item to another buyer.

There was no implied contract of confidentiality as the seller clearly was aware of the risk and stated it was his risk.

https://i.imgur.com/rBGZBdB.png

I am not convinced that there was a binding contract. I am not satisfied that the conditions that form part of the terms discussed were met by the seller.

It is not really a victory on your part. The flag is permanently there and while it only has the support of one DT but also 4 other members - there are clearly other members that support the flag which I can understand - even though I do not agree with their analysis or conclusion.

https://i.imgur.com/RIv6OGr.png


Except he explicitly made an agreement, received considerations, which is when the contract becomes binding. Just because he changed the terms after reviving considerations does not mean he can unilaterally change the agreement. That is not how contracts work. If I order a pizza and the delivery guy gets here and I decide I don't want it any more, I am still legally obligated to pay for it because I ordered it and resources were expended getting it delivered. I can't offer to pay him 25% to make the contract go away for example.

You are simply cherry picking statements and ignoring the explicit agreement which I quoted above, including mutually agreed upon terms, as well as consideration, all the parts necessary to form a legal contract. The argument about an agreement over confidentiality is clearly implied, but also totally moot. The seller clearly made considerations. bob123 clearly agreed upon terms, and agreed to pay once the PM was sent. The moment the PM was sent the requirement for consideration was met, then furthermore later losses were accrued as a direct result of this fraudulently obtained consideration. I don't care how many other people oppose the flag. They are wrong. I don't make decisions based on what is popular. The ends do not justify the means. bob123's actions were fraud by any definition.

4029  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Communism also has capitalism on: June 30, 2019, 10:22:23 PM
Communism requires Capitalism to exist, but not vice versa.

Doesn't Capitalism need police, military, contracts upheld, public infrastructure for the system to work?  Or would you rather have a completely free market where people can kill each other and take anything they want.  Hey its the free market if you can't secure your stuff its mine.

he is gay and wants a big mighty emperor or ceasar, to rule over him and use him as money earning cattle.

Man you Commies never cease being entertaining. All public services do not fall under the metric of Communism, sorry. That is just not how it works. How sad it is I know more about Communism that its advocates? Interesting theory "KingScorpio", since you are constantly crowing about how great China is with its dictator for life.
4030  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: imusify bounty - KYC required after bounty scam on: June 30, 2019, 02:18:19 PM
i raised a flag, with this topic as a proof, i saw that they now changed their bounty thread, to include sentence regarding KYC procedure, it was not there in the beginning

Here's the problem:

Unless you can find an archived copy of the thread saying KYC isn't required, I can't support it, as the Telegram bounty group stated KYC was required for bounties since day 1 (Feb 2nd).



You might be correct that they changed it and it was their job to have it clearly stated from the beginning, so I'm not opposing it either. But it would be helpful if there was more proof the Bitcointalk thread didn't originally state it.

That doesn't appear to me to be a clear statement that KYC is required to claim bounties. I do agree with your argument though that we need further verification regarding the alleged thread edit. Perhaps a moderator can look at the change log of the thread edits and let us know.

On closer examination of the thread I see the terms "imusify reserves the right to change these terms or rules any time,". If this was present from day one, the debate over the KYC edits would be moot. The terms and conditions linked seem to be pretty thorough as well. This is another thing which if posted from day one would invalidate this claim. Unfortunately for now I am going to have to rescind my support unless or until a moderator can validate that these were all added later. I still think this is shady behavior either way not making it very clear, but they may have technically provided notice.
4031  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Trump becomes 1st sitting US president to visit North Korea on: June 30, 2019, 02:05:55 PM
Trump just became the 1st sitting president to visit North Korea, as he stepped with NK supreme leader Kim Jun Un over the concrete boundary into North Korea. Kim appeared winded from the walk across the border.

Some will (and should) compare this to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the defeat of Nazi Germany -- American victories. 

What do you think? Will this lead to a nuclear deal with North Korea? Will the US sign a peace treaty to officially end the Korean war? 

Trump haters are going to hate but he has achieved an impossible task, this meeting that took place was not a scheduled one all Trump did was wrote on Twitter and North Korea accepted it. I won’t compare it to those but this is an historic event nevertheless, and I feel it’ll help to establish peace in that region. If Kim decides to accept Trumps decision to come to the White House, then yes a deal will indeed be signed.

News Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/30/trump-to-travel-to-demilitarised-zone-for-possible-meeting-with-kim-jong-un


Does anyone think this could be Trump doing a double play with China here? He just had a tentative agreement with China over trade restrictions during this trip. It seems to me he may have back doored them a little and set up a meeting with Kim knowing full well China would not want to give up the North Korea card to play, but would also not put the potential trade deal at risk over stopping this largely symbolic meeting. It has been widely established Kim is taking orders from Xi, but at the same time he probably recognizes his position as a tool of China and sees a relationship with the larger international community as a way out from under their thumb. Thoughts?
4032  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 2020 Democrats on: June 30, 2019, 01:59:22 PM
I agree with the conclusion regarding Harris being the establishment pick, but I also get the strong impression they are setting up Gabbard to be the populist polar opposite answer to Trump for the Democrat party. This would be the role that Bernie Sanders formerly occupied, but fucked up due to him caving to the DNC fraud in favor of Clinton. This narrative would align with establishing her as the underdog, and that is a lot of the psychology of why people voted for Trump, because he was the populist underdog outsider.
4033  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Flagging user broke an agreement and leaking confidential information on: June 30, 2019, 11:26:08 AM
[...]
Regarding your argument that a contract was not formed, first of all the language in the flag says:

"SeW900 alleges: bob123 violated a casual or implied agreement, resulting in damages, in the specific act referenced here. bob123 did not make the victims of this act roughly whole, AND it is not the case that all of the victims forgave the act. It is not grossly inaccurate to say that the act occurred around June 2019. No previously-created flag covers this same act, unless the flag was created with inaccurate data preventing its acceptance."

So, even if your argument was correct that it was not technically a contract, an agreement was most certainly implied by any metric. However an actual technical contract was formed and documented here by bob123 himself.

Seller: "280$ ok,? !!"
Bob123: "Yes, 280 is good"
Seller: "ok" "do you pay me after PM" "?!"
Bob123: "Yes with escrow"

As you can see the three terms of a technical contract were in fact met.

If THIS is the 'contract' or 'agreement' in your eyes, then you just proved that the flag is inappropriate yourself. Good job on that.

The fact that i rescinded from it (which is 'breaking the agreement' in your eyes), did not result in any damage.
This did no damage to anyone at all.


So thanks for admitting that the flag is inappropriate.


P.s. Rescinding from a trade isn't even considered breaking it. But whatever, you have already proved that the flag is inappropriate. Thanks for that, the discussion should be over then i guess.



What comes before and after the highlighted agreement is irrelevant. What you say before and after a contract does not invalidate a contract made some time between those two periods because further discussion or terms were had.

I can't even try to take you seriously anymore  Roll Eyes
Too much trolling for me.

You don't get to rescind an agreement AFTER considerations (the PM) have been provided. Just because you don't like being held accountable to the same standards you hold others too doesn't make me a troll.



The conversation as posted by the OP https://i.imgur.com/HGZCFtT.jpg

The quoted part is before the rest of the conversation which clearly shows that there was no acceptance yet of mutually agreed terms.

https://i.imgur.com/rBGZBdB.png

Shows the seller accepts taking the risk.

https://i.imgur.com/0hD2FrX.png

Asking for proof. No acceptance has been made.

https://i.imgur.com/WJV6I2A.png

Shows the seller is not convinced there has been acceptance.

https://i.imgur.com/bMy0NvD.png

No  proof of ownership - terms not met - no acceptance yet.

https://i.imgur.com/gSpI4l2.png

Quality not accepted - no acceptance yet.

https://i.imgur.com/jANNM66.png

End of conversation that was posted - where seller asks to "wait". No acceptance yet of mutually accepted terms.

What comes before and after the highlighted agreement is irrelevant. What you say before and after a contract does not invalidate a contract made some time between those two periods because further discussion or terms were had. A contract was technically formed, by your own clearly stated metrics, and by the information bob123 himself provided as I covered above. The instant the seller PMed bob123 a contract was formed because that act was the first act of stipulated consideration after terms were discussed and mutually agreed to.

What comes before is part of the conditions which is relevant.

https://i.imgur.com/wrMj9ge.png

He makes it clear he needs proof and escrow.



https://i.imgur.com/zR1ffz8.png

Also what came after shows the seller making a counter-offer with a variation of the terms - no escrow. If there is an offer and then a counter-offer the counter-offer automatically cancels the initial offer. A counter-offer is considered a rejection of the initial offer.

"But I need a direct deal" is a rejection of the condition of escrow.

https://i.imgur.com/kscOQi4.png
Source: https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/contract-law/offers-and-rejection-law-essay.php

The whole conversation shows they are still haggling over the terms and which accounts to buy. In order for a contract to exist there has to be agreement on the terms (escrow and proof of ownership) , which products and what price.

https://i.imgur.com/WJV6I2A.png

Shows that the seller is aware that no deal has been struck.

What comes before is irrelevant because they both later agreed on $280. bob123 accepted consideration after the contract was formed. They both also agreed to use escrow. The seller made the consideration to bob123 in good faith (and under contractual agreement) that a certain price would be paid once this consideration (PM from account) was made.

You will also see later in that same conversation about 2/3 of the way down:

bob123 (18:52): "OK send me a message from this account and we have a deal"

He explicitly accepts the terms discussed, and accepts further consideration from the seller in the form of a PM which is then delivered just after as you can see in the conversation. Also once again prices are discussed and agreed upon.

bob123 himself admitted they had a deal, signaling his willingness to contract, and that contract was activated upon consideration (the PM). Just because bob123 backed out of his agreement, and the seller realized he would not complete it at that time does not invalidate the contract bob123 formed. bob123 adding on additional terms after the agreement was formed, and consideration was already made does not invalidate the contract either. To argue this doesn't meet the terms of even an implied agreement is asinine and disingenuous on your part.
4034  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Child Kidnappings by the Western-European States on: June 30, 2019, 11:02:04 AM


Right, I am sure the temporary detainment of these people is far more expensive than just letting them continue to flood in by the millions and then housing, feeding, educating, and medically treating all of them on the state's dime right? I can't believe you even tried to make that argument.




The irony is that in your attempt to be sarcastic, you are actually correct.  For 775 per day, they could live like Kardashians.  Of course thats not the true cost just the cost we pay when capitalism is involved.

You're going to be really upset when you find out giving homes to the homeless and healthcare to everyone are also . cheaper than the cruel way.  Knowing that, some people would still prefer to pay more for torture than saving money and letting these people leave.

Whats next?  Are you going to say the war was cheaper than peace and less extremism?

Uh. No. Stop getting your "facts" from The Huffington Post and Buzzfeed. There is no way in hell $775 per day would cover food, housing, education, healthcare, or the litany of other costs accrued by having the additional burden on all the publicly used services available in this country. Furthermore they aren't detained there indefinitely so your argument is useless on its face. That is a short term cost compared to a permanent recurring cost. Your claim that this makes any sense at all shows me your complete and utter incompetence with not only economics but simple math. Again, don't try to muddy the water with other subjects. You are already way off topic with your immigration debate anyway, take it to the appropriate thread. I will not be replying to any further off topic posts here and will be reporting them.
4035  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "Black Markets Show How Socialists Can't Overturn Economic Laws" on: June 30, 2019, 10:56:29 AM
Do you argue now that these things are all beyond the control of the world's impoverished? Are they completely helpless without the state to provide for them?
All of the kids are yeah.   Thats why my goal focused on kids.

I am pro-human rights, that is why I am anti-Communist, because Communism sells pretty lies in exchange for slavery. No one has inalienable rights to the time or resources of others, that is called slavery. In order to give people a "right" to commodities or the time of others it requires the theft of rights from those people who provide it. You are advocating taking from one hand to give to the other, and the result will be two empty hands instead of one.
Its called taxes.  You want me to "secure" the border for you, fight your wars, and pave your roads but don't call it slavery when you think its something that will benefit you.  You sir, are a hypocrite. 

I don't think you are evil I just think you are working with a narrow perspective and a narrow set of information.  I think you honestly don't know about the kids I'm talking about.    You told me to control my emotions which suggests you've found a way to control yours which suggests you actually do have empathy you just suppress it. 

I suppose it is not shocking you use kids, they are a topic that is most likely to be effective at emotionally manipulating people to sell your lies. Children have parents, and children are their responsibility. Children without parents able to provide for them already have existing programs to do so. Your goalposts are shifting so much none of what you are saying is making any sense anyway. What you are advocating for is more than that, and more than just for kids, but you keep moving those goal posts every time I hold you to your own words in classic Communist postmodern deconstructivist formless "form".

Uh, no. First of all there is simply no way that a viable tax plan to pay for this could ever be formed. Even if you taxed everyone at 100% (slavery by any definition), you couldn't pay for all of this. In order for you to have the policies you advocate for there would have to be theft of rights and state mandated labor. Leave the roads out of this please, they have been through enough. This isn't about roads or wars, stop trying to muddy the waters to distract from your highly mobile goal posts.

What makes you think I don't know people in poverty? I never told you to "control your emotions", I said you lack logic and operate from a position of Pathos. I do have empathy, but I also have enough logic to know that empathy doesn't fill bellies and keep people safe, logic does. Empathy without logic is worse than useless, it is dangerous.
4036  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: imusify bounty - KYC required after bounty scam on: June 30, 2019, 10:38:36 AM
here is the proof of the work, it was a blog bounty:
https://golos.io/blockchain/@casperbgd/imusify

i raised a flag, with this topic as a proof, i saw that they now changed their bounty thread, to include sentence regarding KYC procedure, it was not there in the beginning
here is a link to google spreadsheet with participants
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tLjkznfiyXx6qppLFPL_XDFU5nn2WHsl0wpprrURKHY/edit#gid=2146982639

there was 559 entries, and only 48 approved after KYC

Seems you forgot to add the link with your flag for imusify. To the awareness of anyone and wants to support the flag this is the link to it https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=305

Now is to get some more support especially on the DTs.

Supported.

EDIT: rescinded until further information is presented
4037  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Flagging user broke an agreement and leaking confidential information on: June 30, 2019, 10:31:56 AM
The conversation as posted by the OP https://i.imgur.com/HGZCFtT.jpg

The quoted part is before the rest of the conversation which clearly shows that there was no acceptance yet of mutually agreed terms.

https://i.imgur.com/rBGZBdB.png

Shows the seller accepts taking the risk.

https://i.imgur.com/0hD2FrX.png

Asking for proof. No acceptance has been made.

https://i.imgur.com/WJV6I2A.png

Shows the seller is not convinced there has been acceptance.

https://i.imgur.com/bMy0NvD.png

No  proof of ownership - terms not met - no acceptance yet.

https://i.imgur.com/gSpI4l2.png

Quality not accepted - no acceptance yet.

https://i.imgur.com/jANNM66.png

End of conversation that was posted - where seller asks to "wait". No acceptance yet of mutually accepted terms.

What comes before and after the highlighted agreement is irrelevant. What you say before and after a contract does not invalidate a contract made some time between those two periods because further discussion or terms were had. A contract was technically formed, by your own clearly stated metrics, and by the information bob123 himself provided as I covered above. The instant the seller PMed bob123 a contract was formed because that act was the first act of stipulated consideration after terms were discussed and mutually agreed to.
4038  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Flagging user broke an agreement and leaking confidential information on: June 30, 2019, 10:10:08 AM

You did in fact destroy the value of the other user's property. Normally if you just found this information out via investigation that wouldn't be an issue. The problem is you explicitly used deception and violated an agreement with the user in order to obtain the information to do so. Just calling it "non-confidential information" is meaningless. Rights end where the rights of another begin. Just because you don't like people selling accounts doesn't give you carte blanche to commit fraud to do so.

I agree with Techshare that value was destroyed.

It is a bit like someone selling cocaine and it getting seized because they get busted. Or someone blackmailing someone and publishing the details so they have nothing to blackmail with anymore.

Not something that I particularly sympathize with.



Account selling is not necessarily fraud. Please familiarize yourself with the definition of fraud.


I also agree with Techshare on this.

Account sales (unless the account is stolen) are "deception" but not necessarily a fraud using the definition provided by TECHSHARE

However - if you use the alternative definition in the dictionary:

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a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.

https://i.imgur.com/SoZuuCh.png

https://i.imgur.com/Zv9oY8L.png
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraud

Then it is "fraud".



You used deceit to obtain this information, you made an agreement, then you destroyed his property which he has a legal right to. That is fraud.


This is where I disagree with TECSHARE

Deception was used but it was not fraud (Using TECHSHARES definition of fraud) . I do not believe a contract was made. The evidence that I have seen is where there was an attempt by an account seller to sell an account that he didn't own / no longer owned (potential fraud).

However if you use the alternative definitions there was fraudulent representation.

There was an invitation to treat / inquiry by the buyer. There was an offer on occasions but there was no acceptance of terms agreed by both parties - so no contract.
I covered that in more detail here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157334.msg51571002#msg51571002



You were given clearly confidential information based on the agreement you would make a purchase if you were made privy to that information. Your "rescinding" talk is just you wishing you could modify the terms after the fact, that is not how contracts work. The accounts now are valueless to the seller, which was the entire intent of you exposing them. You intentionally caused him loss of property value. This is by your own admission, now you are trying to use semantics to cover up this fact.


In order for there to be a contract to keep it confidential there has to be consideration and mutually accepted terms. There was no consideration or mutually accepted terms so it cannot be considered to be a contract. By the seller providing clearly false information in some of the cases it can also be argued that the seller was in breach of any contract if there was one.


The problem here is you made an agreement to gain this information. Just because you claim you had good intents is meaningless. You aren't some how special and allowed to have your own set of rules because you think your intent was well meaning. You want to get rid of this flag? Pay the man for the accounts you destroyed, ask for forgiveness from the seller, and I will advocate for you as you have remedied the damage you have caused.

All your double talk right now is just making you look more like you are full of shit. You fucked up, next time don't make agreements you don't intend to uphold. The fidelity of the trust system is more important than your compulsion to abuse it to punish people trading in goods you do not approve of.

I do agree that private sting operations are not a good idea. Police sting operations often have stringent rules and can be inadmissible under certain circumstances.

A more proper analogy would be that some one who sells the precursor chemicals to manufacture cocaine getting their lab burned down by a vigilante after he gains access by pretending to be a customer. Selling accounts is not criminal, and even if it was burning down his property using a fraudulent agreement is still not acceptable.

There are plenty of words that have alternative common use meanings which do not hold to the technical and originally intended definition of the word. Fraud is a legal term and as such it has very structured metrics by which an act of fraud is determined. Let us look at the legal definition of fraud.

"Fraud

A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of what should have been disclosed—that deceives and is intended to deceive another so that the individual will act upon it to her or his legal injury."

Clearly what bob123 did falls under this definition. Just because account sales fall under the more loose, casual, and colloquial use of the word is meaningless. One falls under the technical legal definition, one doesn't.

Regarding your argument that a contract was not formed, first of all the language in the flag says:

"SeW900 alleges: bob123 violated a casual or implied agreement, resulting in damages, in the specific act referenced here. bob123 did not make the victims of this act roughly whole, AND it is not the case that all of the victims forgave the act. It is not grossly inaccurate to say that the act occurred around June 2019. No previously-created flag covers this same act, unless the flag was created with inaccurate data preventing its acceptance."

So, even if your argument was correct that it was not technically a contract, an agreement was most certainly implied by any metric. However an actual technical contract was formed and documented here by bob123 himself.

Seller: "280$ ok,? !!"
Bob123: "Yes, 280 is good"
Seller: "ok" "do you pay me after PM" "?!"
Bob123: "Yes with escrow"

As you can see the three terms of a technical contract were in fact met.

Offer - The seller made an offer at a specific price point.

Acceptance of identical terms of the offer - Bob123 agreed to the price point on the stipulation his consideration of revealing the name/ownership of the account and they both agreed to identical terms.

Consideration
- The seller provided consideration under this contract by providing the confirmation stipulated, bringing it into effect.

I appreciate your genuine and civil discussion of the issues, but you are incorrect by your own metrics.


EDIT: I am sure most of you who oppose this flag do so mostly because you disagree with account sales. I do not agree the ends justify the means, but consider this. Theymos has the ability to outright ban account sales if he wishes, but he doesn't. Why? Because he knows all it will do is push the sellers further underground and make it harder to keep track of them. All you are doing is not only making accounts more valuable by making selling them difficult and more rare, you are also teaching the sellers how to go further underground out of the eyes of those monitoring their activity. What you are doing is not just destroying the fidelity of the trust system by allowing its abuse by exception, but you are literally having a counterproductive effect than the one you intended just so you can feel like you did some thing.
4039  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Communism also has capitalism on: June 30, 2019, 09:16:21 AM
Communism requires Capitalism to exist, but not vice versa.
4040  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Child Kidnappings by the Western-European States on: June 30, 2019, 04:41:11 AM
So you're all for 'forcing me to pay for this'
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Maintenance reportedly eats up most of the $775 daily cost per child for the tent camps, since it's difficult to keep temporary structures suitable for humans in a desert. In permanent facilities run by Health and Human Services, the cost is $256 per person per night, and NBC News estimates that even keeping children with their parents and guardians in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities would only cost $298 per night.
a great man once said
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Great, so here we are. You guarantee these people the time and resources owned by others. How do you pay for all of this? I know you are going to say just print more money because you think "Modern Monetary Theory" is new or something different than inflation, but this still does not make resources magically appear. This is literally exactly all of the things you just got done claiming you don't support.
Also, Germans did a decent job of controlling their emotions in the 30s.  

Right, I am sure the temporary detainment of these people is far more expensive than just letting them continue to flood in by the millions and then housing, feeding, educating, and medically treating all of them on the state's dime right? I can't believe you even tried to make that argument.





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