Considering, if done correctly, being an "escort" can be a safe, fulfilling (and monetarily rewarding) job, it's worth looking into. Seriously if you are a pretty women (or, less demand for, a pretty man), know basic self-defense, and are willing to accept that you aren't really selling* your body, try and find out more.
Good luck with the job hunting if you do desire a white-colour office job in preference to that option.
* It's merely "renting" your body, and skills, just like any other job. Masseur, ditch-digger, hair-dresser, etc.
Importantly, you'd have to avoid a pimp. Perhaps join a worker owned brothel. |
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Why?
Because it's useful and you don't have to worry about the waste. On Earth, we get all the energy we need from the Sun and should concentrate our efforts accordingly. Using to Sun for useful propulsion between here and, say, Mars, not as easy as with nuclear power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion |
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I've mentioned elsewhere that paper bitcoin notes could each have a public key that you could use to check that the bill was backed. The bill could also have a feature that would reveal the private key upon voiding the bill.
As for interest, don't charge it! Why would you, just because you can?
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I think we should reserve nuclear power for space travel.
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Just wanted to chip in with my experience with this site, which was very positive. I ordered LSD tabs from the seller 'psynom' on Silk Road on sunday. I went with him because I found one post on their forums stating the guy was legit. He advertised shipping from EU. So I place the order, no order confirmation or indication that the order was really completed (as someone already mentioned - silk road is 'working on it' I hear). The next day I get a message on the site that the tabs have been shipped. After this I can see my order as an active order from the 'messages' screen, and get options to confirm whether the delivery took place. On Friday, I got the tabs. They were shipped in a regular envelope, quite innocent-looking. Inside was a hardcover greeting card, inside which the tabs were taped in plastic. The envelope was indeed mailed from a core EU country. Without giving specifics, 5 days was surprisingly fast for the postal service here. So, armed with our acid tabs, me and some friends tried it out yesterday. It was LSD alright. I've only tripped once before, that dosage was not very strong (I just felt a borderline effect from 1 tab that time, though it was pleasant). This one was a bit stronger, but I still wound up taking 4 tabs over a 4 hour period. Onset started about 45 minutes after taking the hit. I won't describe my experience here in any more detail (unless someone really wants to know, I suppose...), but suffice to say I had one of the best times of my life. In conclusion, silk road is the victory of decentralised cipherpunk thinking over traditional methods of blocking trade. If being able to buy drugs anonymously over the internet isn't a killer app for bitcoin, I don't know what is. I was already watching the bitcoin project for some time, but through this, I have spread bitcoin to several friends who wouldn't otherwise have likely been exposed to bitcoin - and I'm pretty sure they'll be buying some in the future.  Cool story, bro. Trolling aside, drug dealing is currently Bitcoin's killer app. No reason it can't have more than one, of course. |
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Because it's profitable. Someone could build an unsafe building but sell it for the greater price of a safe building. To that person, the short term benefits make up for the long term costs.
That person is guilty of fraud, and will be boycotted by everyone forever. It's a very bad business decision. I'm not saying that no one could make such a decision, but they will be quickly eliminated from the market. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris seem to have done pretty well by the market. |
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If the user is just spending, does he need the blockchain?
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I just wanted to repeat one more time thing that has been said: in my opinion also, default video preview is really not working well for site image.
I show people website and their first question is like "who's that woman?"
Aren't bitcoins pegged by Asians though? |
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Why would anyone make buildings that will be destroyed by earthquakes? That's a massive loss of money. Construction companies would lose all reputation if their buildings can't withstand expected local conditions.
Because it's profitable. Someone could build an unsafe building but sell it for the greater price of a safe building. To that person, the short term benefits make up for the long term costs. |
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In an anarchist society, you could, for example, have engineering guilds that would publicly certify buildings and building plans as safe or unsafe. With no exploitative employers or landlords to deceive or otherwise coerce people into working or living in or building unsafe buildings, preventable structural failure would rarely hurt anyone.
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Why not have a bank issue notes backed by bitcoins? Users will have to trust the bank, but at least you won't need electricity to conduct a bitcoin transaction. If i'm not mistaken, except for mining, you could network two machines and have them exchange transfers data, then pull one of them and connect it alone to the Internet, then connect it back to the other lone one and things would work just as if they have all been connected to the Internet, except for the huge lag in transaction confirmations etc, and this would still work no matter how many steps you place between one machine and the Internet as long as it gets connected to the Internet no matter how indirectly in a way both things sent and to be received eventually reach their destination.
Mining can't be trusted in such a scattered network 'cause the Internet probably found the solution before one of the sneakernet nodes did and the coins from the sneaker node will be considered invalid and wiped.
So, if your network got isolated, and you didn't want to fork the block chain, you could just conduct transactions without confirming them? |
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I think that may be more of a problem with Tor than the site.
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I'm down for a bitcoin supported tracker as long as it uses Gazelle.
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I think there's a difference between a whore working for herself and a whore looking for a pimp to let her work. You seem to be doing the latter, like most workers.
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I also had one question about the escrow mechanics: what happens if a buyer ends up in jail and can't affirm the shipment arrived? Does the seller still get paid? Sorry if I missed the documentation.
What about when a seller just doesn't respond? |
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Ah the old cliche, "The only rights you have, are the ones you can defend" A truism.
Without a government, a capitalist might have a hard time defending frivolous land claims. What's to stop him from reforming a government to help him defend such claims? |
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In the end, property is only achieved when its ownership can truly be enforced, whatever the means. Tack on whatever you like but it really means nothing. So, if I successfully take something that you produced, you won't mind? |
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I think communities will most likely determine the status of a thing, as someone's property or something up for grabs, on a case by case basis. Of course, their determination will respect gains through work and not gains through exploitation.
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The CPU mining option should be removed from the default client...
I disagree. Why not make it easy to play the lottery? |
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It's called a mutually profitable exchange. Yes, but this rarely happens in a capitalist society because one party exercises his power over the other in order to get more than he would if he hadn't. I did. let me put it in terms you will understand. My money is the condensed product of my labor. when I give my money to someone in order to acquire property, that property becomes mine through the actions of my labor. when you come along and take it, you are stealing the results of that labor.
let me break it down even more:
labor --> money --> property
when you take the property, you break that chain, rendering my labor moot. I should not need to continue laboring in order to keep my property. In order to extract more money from it, perhaps, but not simply to keep it. Follow? I say you create property through labor and then exchange your surplus for something you need. Money can facilitate that exchange. If you tolerate the exchange of labor for property, between people, then you must also tolerate people owning other people as property because you cannot separate a person from his labor. Why anyone would participate in such an exchange comes from the fact capitalists will use coercion to increase the value of their property to the point where an individual, who has less capability to coerce, must exchange more property than he would have in the absence of coercion to get what he needs. Considering that capitalists can call land and other resources, which they haven't worked, property by using force to keep workers out, the workers have nothing to turn into property with their own labor, and therefore nothing to trade except themselves. As long as cooperatively minded workers remain in the minority, they must submit to the capitalist despots. Or perhaps he does not wish to expend the time and effort to start a business himself, and wishes to use the resources Alice has made available to make some easy, risk-free money. Perhaps he does. He still should own that which he produces from his own labor. If Alice is good at making organized workplaces he can pay her for the organized workspace that she produces. Again, your proposed society and the ideology it embodies leaves no room for individual desires different from your own. Anyone who agrees to accept a wage is either a fool, and anyone who offers a wage is an exploiter. You forgot that Bob could also be doing Alice a favor. The idea that one party is putting themselves at much more risk, and both parties enter into the agreement willingly flies completely above your head. You mean the risk of default against her lenders? This risk is the product of exploitation. I would like to see you explain why Bob is being exploited, why he deserves to be paid "fairly" (at the same rate as Alice, who has more risk). You have provided no such explanation as yet, only that you know better than everyone else, including Alice and Bob. Just because Bob is foolish doesn't mean he deserves to own less than the product of his labor. If Alice uses her greater intelligence to take too much of what Bob has produced in exchange for too little of what she has produced, that is exploitation. If Bob is aware that he is getting too little for too much and is okay with it, that's a favor. If Bob gets off on getting too little for too much, that is a fetish.
*actually, I agree he deserves to be paid fairly, but only Bob can make that designation
Only Alice and Bob can make that designation as to what is fair and what is not fair. Everybody else who are not involved in the affair, GTFO. If Alice uses coercion, trickery, or deception to affect the exchange, it is objectively not fair. You did hit a major, relevant point, however: upkeep. You DO need to keep investing labor into a piece of property to keep it in the same condition. If you're fine with your house falling apart after you've bought it, feel free to do no maintenance on it. The resale value will go down, as will any potential income you might make from renting it, until it's worth nothing at all for either purpose, but you can do it.
If you choose not to maintain the house you live in, you still own it because you occupy it. If you abandon it, you cease to own it. |
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