Wow, well someone doesn't understand the concept of satire...

I can't wait to see the remake of "Ghost in the Shell", I really hope they don't fuck it up...

The cast looks good, Scarlett as Major Kusanagi (and 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano as Chief Aramaki!!)

Another film I'm looking forward to is (finally) the first film of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, "The Gunslinger".

Great casting again, Idris Elba as the gunslinger, and Matthew McConaughey as The Man in Black/Randall Flagg etc. This series could be epic.

Valid criticisms, but I liked it. I thought the cinematography was excellent, and Matt Damon did a pretty good job seeing as he was acting solo through most of the film.

I haven't read the novel, but apparently it does have a strong comedy element.

I agree that it was too "family friendly", and overly sentimental (this is becoming a big problem with recent Hollywood films because of money). Also I thought the screenplay in the scenes on Earth was very clumsy in parts, they had some great actors like Jeff Daniels and Sean Bean, that fell flat because of the shitty script.

Could have been better, but not that bad IMO.

What's your view on Occam's Razor?

Just as an example, let's take your hypothesis that carbon 14 decayed at a faster rate in the past than it does today. That would explain a 6,000 year old Earth, right?

But without any evidence that this is the case, it's not a valid rebuttal of carbon dating, according to Occam's Razor. You're simply thinking of ways which validate your beliefs, with no supporting evidence.

I could just say "well that Jesus guy that was supposedly resurrected and walked out of the cave, he was just a look-alike who pretended to be the real Jesus, the real one never came back to life." The argument has just as much validity as the carbon dating rebuttal.

(I know C14 dating isn't accurate to billions of years, but it does provide compelling evidence against a 6,000 year old Earth.)

Actually yeah, I posted a few times that the halving would be priced in gradually before the actual date, I wasn't surprised that no drastic move occurred at the exact time. That's how markets generally work.

I agree that most TA is bullshit, but there are some aspects of charts that can give clues as to what might happen IMO.

I tend to look at it like a poker hand, it's never even close to 100%, but some indicators signify good odds.

In this case, my prediction is based roughly 50/50 on (what I consider) a bullish looking chart, and a gut feeling.

Well, we'll see soon enough won't we.

At least I won't be riding little kids eh! 

Things seem eerily quiet. It's a Mexican standoff right now, no-one wants to pull the trigger.



If you look at 3 month charts, there's one hell of a bullish pennant that's formed. I think there's a good chance we'll see a breakout from here, seems to be strong resistance at the current price, it's just no-one wants to be the first to start buying...

>$800 within a week or 2 is my prediction.

A haiku dedicated to proudhon:

When proudhon says sell,
Buy the shit out of bitcoin!
He's old, but not bold.

(Good to see you around these parts again, hope you didn't sell your account to some noob to make up your losses )

What use is a deterrent that cannot and will never be used? Especially one that will cost (If we look at estimates from low to high) between £20b and £164b to renew. Billion.

We are not living in the same world as WW1 or WW2, there is no single country or coalition that can simply be wiped out with a big expensive bomb.

The threats we face in these times are fragmented and dispersed across the globe, nukes are useless against them.

Your arguments about EU contributions is moot, we pay ~£8b net, not in the same ballpark. And wasn't that money meant to be spent on public services, such as the NHS?

Significant employment is a poor argument too, we could try and build a tower to heaven and employ everyone in the country, doesn't make it a sensible idea.

If the cost of Trident wasn't so ridiculous, I might be in favour of it. But the Cold War era is over now, if you really think we should spend £30b plus on defence, for fuck's sake let's spend it on useful things like planes, boats and infantry, not useless bombs that are nothing but an immature statement that amounts to "my dick's bigger than yours!"

Right then, let's go back to school.

There is a perceived difference between acceleration and velocity. Travelling 1 million mph feels the same as travelling at 1 mph. Forces only act when we change velocity.

Imagine a car crashing into a wall at 100mph. Until the impact, everything inside the car feels stable, you could pass a drink to another passenger without spilling a drop. But when the car hits the wall, everything inside carries on moving at 100mph towards the wall, making a big mess.

Same principle with the movement of the Earth through space, we won't perceive any forces acting upon us unless there is a change in our velocity.

No worries man, apology accepted. Imma check out that GUI you mentioned, last time I checked XMR wallets were pretty codey.

Oh look, yet again a flat earther talks about his "radical new concepts" without addressing the arguments put forward. What a surprise.

Logic, motherfucker. Do you speak it?

Yeah, that's the problem. This nonsense obfuscates the real bullshit being peddled by the establishment. It's easier, for example, for people to believe there's a flat earth, than it is for them to understand the problems of mass surveillance or geopolitical war.

Unfortunately the important issues just aren't sexy enough for the average person...

UK politics is in turmoil, it's a fucking circus. People resigning left right and centre (no political pun intended), and no plans whatsoever. Chilcot report throwing a spanner in the works...

I predict <1.20 before the end of the month. UK imports way more than it exports, a weakening currency is bad.

Keep your eye on the FTSE 250, not the FTSE 100. And obviously GBP/USD.

"It is impossible to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"

Basically, these Flat Earthers don't have any compelling evidence for their position, their ideas simply come from a distrust of authority and delusions of grandeur - they subconsciously like the idea that they know more than the average person and can "see through the lies of the establishment".

It's becoming a common ideology, the distrust of science and the idea that we have to "wake up because we're being lied to!". Truthers, anti-vaxxers etc, the ideas all come from the same psychological dysfunctions.

The ideology is very similar to religion. It's all very interesting, but I've found it's easier to ridicule them rather than try and engage them in logical debate. 

Lol chill out mate, I actually divested a bunch of my BTC into Monero when it first hit 0.0035, I own nearly a thousand. I was just after some info cos I didn't sell when it hit the 0.004s (last year?) after being convinced by its features and deciding to hold even though I could have sold and made profit.

You gave me some good info anyway, even if it was in a passive aggressive way...

Is there any particular reason that XMR is rallying so much vs. BTC right now (I'm out of the loop)?

Aha, of course, so when people think they're circumnavigating it they're really just going in a big flat circle, with magnetic North conveniently following them around (but not moving for anyone else).

Got it

Bahahaa, now there's one I haven't heard before, the "Cardboard Tube Earth", where you can go around it one way but not the other.

Hint: If it's a disc, you couldn't circumnavigate it in any direction whatsoever, because it's, uuum, flat..? Good grief people