Are you sure?  I assumed the same thing until a week ago when my friend payed me back for a video card and he used the bank transfer option in paypal, i was surprised when I got the $400 instantly and he confirmed it hadn't even put an auth on his bank account yet, i went on to spend the money 5 minutes later with no problem.  Not sure what happened there...

I'll sell you 10 @ $3/per - i am $20 short on my newegg purchase and too lazy to deposit @ the ATM, so this solves my problem as well  

My only option to buy bitcoins right now is paypal echeck, and I realize that everyone hates paypal (especially echeck), so I'm offering a high rate of 3 USD per BTC. I have a good rating on #bitcoin-otc. I'm looking to buy 10 BTC. Let me know in this thread or pm me if you're interested.

I have raised an issue in github for RylandAlmanza's confirmation bug.

It is at:
https://github.com/jim618/multibit/issues/3

Because of preparation for the European Bitcoin Conference there will be a little delay in me looking at it but it will get worked on.

@Phinnaeus Gage: Nice trick

You know for kitchen timers you're supposed to twist them all the way, and then twist them back to the time you want? Twisting them all the way charges the spring used for ringing.


…Don't look at me like that! Most people I talked to actually didn't know this!

That sure is a nice bidwall you have there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it..sssssssssssssssss

While we're on the topic of posting only off-topic and not doing any megaposts, I have a bit to say about that. The people I know of who post off-topic generally are just doing it because they have got lost in a rabbit hole. The thing about the rabbit hole is that it may or may not be the rabbit hold that Alice went down to get into Wonderland. No, wait, did Alice use a rabbit hole to get into Wonderland? Perhaps it was Dorothy who used a rabbit hole to get into Oz. No, she used a house propelled by a tornado over the rainbow. Was there a rainbow? She sang about going somewhere over the rainbow but I don't recall seeing an actual rainbow in the movie. Then again, the movie is not the book, and the book was written before the movie, so obviously the book is the definitive work. Has anyone actually read the original by Frank L Baum? I have, but it was a long long time ago and I can't remember whether there was any talk of rainbows in it at all. Have you watched the movie with the sound off and Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' playing as an alternative soundtrack? It's pretty cool. You just start queue up the CD and push play when the lion roars. What do you think of roaring lions? Lions who roar are better than lions who yelp or whine, aren't they? The person next to me just said Holland. That makes me think of dikes. Why do you think dike became the derogatory term for homosexual women. It's kinda weird to me. I don't really get it is what I'm saying. What is the age group for most people who join this club? What am I talking about? I'm in a sales office right now so I might just type what I hear sometimes because I'm trying to make this post as epic as possible. Why? well, I think that's probably pretty obvious. Why would I not want to totally break the rules set by Gage? It is pretty fun to break rules that are arbitrarily set and breaking them does no harm to anyone. Don't you think so? Internet cafe. That's what someone here just said. Isn't it interesting how many internet cafes don't have any coffee in them at all? I think it's funny anyway. Not LOL funny of course, but maybe worthy of a little smirk. Well, maybe not, but hey what do you think about why do you think about how you think about what you think about? This probably has actually gone off topic so I'm not sure I achieved my desired aim of both posting on-topic and posting a mega-post. But then again, perhaps I've just come back on topic now? It's hard to say. How do you know whether or not you are on topic when what the topic is happens to be being off topic? I don't know. From this post, you'd think I have absolutely nothing better to do than type up a ridiculous post but actually I'm procrastinating doing the actual useful things I have on my list. But doesn't any post I make on the bitcoin forums count as promotional work since my signature includes links to my website? I don't know if I can justify a post of this length though. Wouldn't it be funny if my computer shut down or had some glitch or whatever and this entire post was lost? No. And I would not try to replicate it. Well, I don't think I would. How can I actually know what I would or would not do until the circumstance actually arises. I wonder what I would do if in a life threatening situation? I like to think of myself as a pacifist, so therefore I'd like to hope that I would run to get out of the situation, but what if running wasn't an option? Would I kill in self-defense? Is it actually necessary to kill in self-defense? Surely most of the time you can just maim or injure or otherwise incapacitate. If I knew how to just render the attacker unconcious, that is exactly what I would do. I think I might have written enough. Mr Gage will have to let me know whether this is classed as a megapost. If so, I've succeeded. If not, well, at least I've hopefully wasted a bit of some other people's time now rather than just my own. Now, go spend bitcoins!

I believe in something unlikely to happen
*gazes forlornly at the magical $30 price*