And yet we pay quite a bit for both sand and air, because they are not available everywhere we need them.

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That's great news! Explains the really steep and narrow market graph this morning I guess. Someone should remind Roman to post an update on his Google+ blog.

I am generalizing that all the SA goons who are regulars on the Bitcoin threads, which includes you, are scammers, sure.

Just saying that whatever you pay for your GPU, you will never make back from mining. Doesn't CPU mining earn something like $3 a month tops?

FYI, whoever is offering to sell you that card is likely trying to rip you off, unless they are selling it for you to play games on. GPU mining is a dead investment at this point.

Relieved, actually. No more than I am upset with the KKK or Focus on the Family. Was just glad to figure out what it was exactly that made me dislike that bunch so much.
Thanks for all the attention though  

But PayPal managed to achieve a very special kind of wrong. I'm still pissed at them for the violin incident.

Continued from another thread...

What bothers me is the SA culture in general. I've thought about it at length yesterday, and realized that SA are essentially a bunch of jealous ludites. Here are some examples why that is true:

1) Furry fandom is a community of incredibly artistic people, full of painters, writers, musicians, and entertainers, who organize, put together huge international conventions, and raise hundreds of thousands for charity while contributing tens of millions of dollars to local economies of the cities hosting those conventions. The only thing SA contributed is to make fun of them.

2) SecondLife allowed for unprecedented communication, collaboration, and creativity. Players there got a chance to explore design, fashion, and architecture skills they never even knew they had. They used their creative skills to make new games, experiment with fashion in virtual space, and practice things like investment and business/real estate management before building real life businesses using those skills. People there earned from thousands to millions of dollars using nothing other than their brains and creativity. The only thing SA contributed is to make fun of them by making random penises fly around, and when told that they are causing serious damage and costing actual money, their only reply was, "don't take it so seriously."

3) Bitcoin is a new financial concept entirely without precedent. We are only scratching the surface of what is possible with it. The only reason it has any value (and the thing SA seems to focus most on) is that it is impossible to duplicate, and has a guaranteed limit on quantity, which is extremely unusual in the copy/paste digital world. But besides inflation resistance, it can do awesome things like, for the first time ever, allow software to own valuable property. This was never possible before, w/ closest thing being that a program could control bank accounts or own contracts in someone else's name. Now, for the first time, it's possible for a program or a "virus" to own money, decide on its own how to spend it, and actually take it with it as it travels around the web. The possibilities for AI, concept of property, and ownership/copyright law are mind boggling. This is just one example of many that Bitcoin allows for, and those that realize such possibilities are working hard to make them come true, earning real money in the process (as much as $6,000 a day, or $2.3mil a year). The only thing SA has contributed was to willfully stay ignorant of basic finance and economics and make fun of those involved with bitcoinOther than that, all they are able to do is stare at the system without understanding it, or being able to figure out how to make anything out of it. As they have with SecondLife, or any other fandom or technology.

All this makes me think that SA goons have absolutely no imagination or drive. On the contrary, the group seems to be based around making fun of anyone who shows any sort of imagination, or attempts something out of the ordinary. They are like a pot of crabs, grabbing and dragging anyone who dares try to escape and achieve something back down with them. The group has no accomplishments to its name, other than being a nuisance to everyone else, and providing a circle-jerk of entertainment to its members in the style of bullying people they don't even want to understand. Any discovery of scammers or bad people in other communities is at most a purely accidental result of them being so eager to try to attack anything and anyone. This of course suggests that the SA group consists primarily of losers, who lack any initiative, imagination, or drive, and who's actions only suggest that they are jealous of those who do (which is perfectly exemplified by their whining about how Bitcoin is unfair, benefits early adopters, and their insistence on the belief that everyone involved with it is a selfish idiot who's only philosophy is "F*** you, got mine."). And judging by the few people I know in that group, including even my ex, that seems to be completely true.

My biggest pet peeve is ignorance; especially willful ignorance. Racists, religious extremists, jingoists, and ludites who believe they are right, and everyone else is an idiot, who are afraid of anything they don't understand, and actively try to avoid understanding or learning new ideas. SA is in that group, and that's why I hate them.

Supposedly January 2013 (from a blog post on their site regarding Bitinstant's review of it), so if it goes like everything else around here does, I would expect it to be available around April or May 2013.

If the service I'm being provided is just the privilege of playing a song, I will still bypass it and download it illegally, as will many others. I want something that will be worth MY time and money. A service that stores and organizes things, or makes it easy to donate to and support the artists I like with what I believe it's worth, I would pay for. Places that force me to pay just to listen to something I may end up not liking anyway? No thanks.
BTW, that's the main problem with paying for music. If I pay for an item at a store, and it's not what I thought, I can return it. If I pay for a song or a movie, and it sucks, I have already experienced it, so I can't return it. That's why I would rather pay for the experience AFTER getting a change to evaluate it instead of before.

I like the old one too. More colorful. It's not even the design, it's the monotone blue that feels too cold.

Us two? None at all. SA in particular? Somewhat. I dated an SA goon a while ago (before there was SA even), we are still (very) close friends, he's fairly well set up in the SA forums, fills me in on a lot, and lately I've been trolling them on and off (mostly off). Know your enemy and all that, and considering I like things like Bitcoin, furry fandom, and SecondLife, they are definitely not a friendly bunch to me (except for the closet cases who want to fuck me ) If I come across something questionable on their forums, I'll report it here, that's all.

Not saying ban them, just don't trust thus guy. Really, don't trust anyone associated with SA, since they are actively working on coming up with scams to use against bitcoiners. Yes, we have the money. Just make sure they don't.

On the SA forum, it's quite clear that he (along with everyone else there) thinks that Bitcoin is a joke and BTC users are a bunch of idiots who will fall for any scam. Not only does that make me think that he is not serious about delivering, and may just be trolling the users here, but even if he is genuinely interested in selling, fuck him for his opinions and contempt, and fuck his whole business. If customers are OK with buying from someone who thinks so poorly of them, that's their problem, but at least they should know it.

Seller is a SomethingAwful goon, so there's a high chance of trolling or trying to scam. Add him to your list off possible scamers and ignore him please
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3486823&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=146#post408053807

Oh, sorry, forgot one more thing: providing users with the service or sorting, organizing, and storing their music for them, so they can always get easy access to their tracks without having to search through their hard drives, and you can suggest to them whatever other music they may like.

Good luck!

I think the future of music services is a platform that musicians can subscribe to that has only two functions: promote and advertise the musicians (including possible merchandising and concert planning), and being a platform where musicians can collect donations from fans and sell them their merchandise. The pay-per-track business is a quickly dying model.

You are envious of your friends when they talk about the great games they have been playing, and you haven't been able to play any of the games you wanted to for over a year.
At LAN parties, you have the best, most powerful PC with the best graphics capabilities, and your friends are pissed at you because all you use it for is minesweeper and solitaire.

Mine did too.