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4581  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obama says the US is indispensable, meaning all other countries are dispensable? on: May 30, 2014, 02:48:40 PM
I think most of us all along knew that the American government were filled with Imperialists, that's the one thing that binds them all together, at least they're being more open about it now.
4582  Other / Off-topic / Re: Vintage computer gems on: May 30, 2014, 08:28:48 AM
Okay, just realised I know a lot more games than I thought Tongue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhuvSsCWRmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15bvpznQP5M
4583  Other / Off-topic / Re: Vintage computer gems on: May 30, 2014, 07:33:28 AM
Jazz the jack rabbit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b16upFloYak
4584  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Do I Tell My Daughter That People Across Europe Fear Minorities Like Us? on: May 30, 2014, 07:00:21 AM
You haven't watched Top Gear much have you? Cheesy they regularly get into trouble over comments they make but I honestly believe they do it now to bait people who go around looking for something to complain about.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/06/top-gear-jeremy-clarkson-slope-comment-bbc-ofcom

The funniest thing is, in the shot, you can actually SEE that the bridge is genuinely sloped where Hammond is pointing rofl, there certainly are laws and stuff about saying these kind of comments but I think there are people here who believe in free speech even more than the Americans.

There's being racist and then there's being stereotypical, most of the comments I've seen people complain about in the UK are usually people talking in stereotypes, not people being overtly racist, that footballer guy in the U.S for example definitely was racist, what was it the NBA? Yeah, that's how little I care about racism really.

I remember when I was taught about racism at school and I bet most people do, I seriously doubt they explained anything properly because I remember being taught that 'certain' words were wrong to use about a people or saying certain things but they never bothered going into detail, probably because they didn't know themselves. Attacking and being violent to someone because of their race or religious beliefs etc. definitely is racist for sure.
4585  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Do I Tell My Daughter That People Across Europe Fear Minorities Like Us? on: May 30, 2014, 06:51:15 AM
Fuck all supremacists.
4586  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If bitcoin becomes world's reserve currency? on: May 30, 2014, 05:21:52 AM
If these currencies are so valuable and doing so well then why is everyone poor? Answer me that.

Everyone isn't poor. The net worth of the world is estimated at $223 trillion.

Sorry, you're right on the poor thing, not everyone is poor but most are.

Oh and LOL you think that number is real, I'll try to explain it to you though if you're going to actually read my explanation, what's happened is that what I would call the 'real' net wealth is essentially being doubled or tripled through money printing so it's a bit like taking £100 and then printing more money until you have £1,000,000 oh look! I just became a millionaire! They go around telling all their friend and other countries and they actually buy into it.

It's such a simple con that people fall for, but now everyone has realised what's going on and that people don't actually have products and services worth that much, fact is, to pick up that much net worth globally we'd have to either take up asteroid mining or take over Afghanistan completely and mine some giant holes in it to even come close to the numbers these central bankers have made up.

If you're actually bothered about learning how the bond market and paper money works this video explains it perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0

Hows that different than BTC being $580?

Because Bitcoin didn't have an organisation behind it multiplying itself in secret to make it that price, somebody actually considered it worth that much in order to pay for it, therefore it's that price, that's how a real free market is supposed to work, prices will go down as people decide it's worth less than the highest price, but then it will go back up again.

If we obeyed the logic of other people claiming that by suddenly going up in price Bitcoin is a 'bubble' then going by that logic everything else should be a bubble including gold and of course we know that isn't true, ti's because the people throwing the term around don't even know what it is. Stuff like the housing market and the stock market were a bubble because instead of people trading it honestly and openly it was the central bank buying up everything in order to artificially keep it high.

You could argue that the $1000 high that Bitcoin reached earlier was a bubble because of the bot trading that was spotted but even then those of us who were in the know knew MTGOX was dodgy as fuck and weren't surprised by the market manipulation. I actually said myself before that Bitstamp's prices etc. were more realistic because they were actually going around filling orders and executing them properly.
4587  Other / Off-topic / Re: I know I like free games for sure Battlefield 1942 on: May 30, 2014, 05:10:22 AM
To be frank, I can't understand how people hate Origin over Steam when they're both pretty much the same type of software, Valve fanboism is dumb to watch, both companies are equally as bad for this kind of thing and yes, offline mode is shit, so I consider them both the same, don't defend shitty business practices from any company.
4588  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If bitcoin becomes world's reserve currency? on: May 29, 2014, 05:10:49 PM
If these currencies are so valuable and doing so well then why is everyone poor? Answer me that.

Everyone isn't poor. The net worth of the world is estimated at $223 trillion.

Sorry, you're right on the poor thing, not everyone is poor but most are.

Oh and LOL you think that number is real, I'll try to explain it to you though if you're going to actually read my explanation, what's happened is that what I would call the 'real' net wealth is essentially being doubled or tripled through money printing so it's a bit like taking £100 and then printing more money until you have £1,000,000 oh look! I just became a millionaire! They go around telling all their friend and other countries and they actually buy into it.

It's such a simple con that people fall for, but now everyone has realised what's going on and that people don't actually have products and services worth that much, fact is, to pick up that much net worth globally we'd have to either take up asteroid mining or take over Afghanistan completely and mine some giant holes in it to even come close to the numbers these central bankers have made up.

If you're actually bothered about learning how the bond market and paper money works this video explains it perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0
4589  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens on: May 29, 2014, 04:33:24 PM
I can assemble bombs given enough time and some ingredients from local stores that cause far more devastation than any gun, I could also probably build some makeshift rockets if I did some research and that would definitely be more affective in terms of the level of destruction, depending on how sophisticated I wanted to be you don't even need to be in the location to set them off and terrorists have used these exact same methods to attack places that already have gun control in place like the UK.

You're too hung up on guns and are ignoring the fact that the people who carry out these attacks are almost always fucking crazy and quite often are known to the police before hand for causing trouble.
4590  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If bitcoin becomes world's reserve currency? on: May 29, 2014, 04:15:35 PM
If these currencies are so valuable and doing so well then why is everyone poor? Answer me that, the symptoms we are seeing in the currencies and countries you mentioned are not ones of a functioning economy.
4591  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens on: May 29, 2014, 04:12:59 PM
People are dead because of a stupid stigma about mental illness.

Sorry that I don't think that's something to mock.

I'm glad that there are people out there who recognise this as well, there were doctors calling for more investigations and investments into the mental health industry even before Sandy Hook, of course this is ignored by politicians and others who want to either profit from these massacres or get re-elected on it.

Even here you've got people already blaming 'gun culture' for the problems rather than looking at stuff which has already been pointed out.
4592  Other / Off-topic / Re: Savings/CDs on: May 29, 2014, 03:53:11 PM
It's not paranoia, you've got some research to do on hyperinflation Wink
4593  Other / Off-topic / Re: Savings/CDs on: May 29, 2014, 03:27:29 PM
It depends on the coin of course and crpytocurrencies are high risk, I don't dispute that, but I'd never leave a substantial amount of money with a bank in this day and age lol Cheesy Not unless they had something special backing them. The thing is, anything in the market could 'drop suddenly and lose its value' people just need to decided the return is worth the risk or not, that's how free markets work in general.
4594  Other / Off-topic / Re: Savings/CDs on: May 29, 2014, 03:11:08 PM
Buy Hobonickels and other PoS ( proof of stake ) coins instead, seriously, putting money in a savings account that can get frozen or the company go bust in a year or two is very risky, all banks are going to keep their interest rates below 1% forever until they either go bankrupt or their governments collapse because they rely on gullible or unreliable borrowers in order to make money.
4595  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Poland anti Neo Nazi activists in Donbass. on: May 29, 2014, 01:58:01 PM
Orange-black ribbon on shoulder of guy on left side is clear to see.

Damn that sucks, where are the other Anarchists when you need them?
4596  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Poland anti Neo Nazi activists in Donbass. on: May 29, 2014, 01:50:18 PM
I was wondering when they'd show up Cheesy these guys aren't just pro-Russian are they? I think more information about these guys' beliefs is needed, I can't read Polish by the way.
4597  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2014-05-28 WIRED - This Is What Happens When You Extort the ‘Bitcoin Jesus' on: May 29, 2014, 11:06:16 AM
Haha. I love it when this sort of thing happens. People don't mind hiding behind their computers committing crimes but sure start to sweat when the tables are turned. I don't believe in 'karma' but I think this is as close as you'll get  Cheesy.

It wouldn't have worked if the perpetrator was actually competent though.

To be honest, if the perpetrator was competent he wouldn't pick a fight with someone like this in the first place because they'd know the consequences, the smart criminals always pick on the weak and ignorant, being competent is about knowing when to calmly quit while your ahead as well as actually go for something.
4598  Economy / Economics / Re: OverStock Reported $1.6 Millions in Bitcoin Sales - WOW on: May 29, 2014, 10:52:30 AM
What we need is fucking international payments, they haven't set anything up for the UK yet or any other European countries that said their support staff did say they were planning on it to me.
4599  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If bitcoin becomes world's reserve currency? on: May 29, 2014, 10:41:06 AM
What if bitcoin (XBT) becomes the world's reserve currency and replaces the US dollar both as foreign exchange reserves and petro dollar..

Each and every country will fighting to buy bitcoins..

What will be the value of bitcoin then?

If that happens government paper currencies will become worthless so governments will have to do what those of us who don't have mining equipment and bought early have done and offer up services to earn it, like a proper economy does, I expect though if governments become desperate and fail in a 51% attack they will devalue their currency first though to try and destroy it.
4600  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Snowden should 'man-up' and face trial: says SOS John Kerry on: May 29, 2014, 10:32:11 AM
People in the U.S government no less talked about how much they'd want to shoot him, it's amazing really that Russia is more safe for him than the U.S given what we've been taught by western governments as children, John Kerry can shut the fuck up I agree, at least in Russia he's being treated as a human being.
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