I got my test deposit. I got involved with this, because I let my 13 year old son use my Paypal account to convert some of his btc to purchase a video game. When the charge back occurred, I went to my son and said I am now $30 negative in my account and who knows when this will get resolved. We came up with two options: 1) pay me now or 2) pay me once this is all over and we are reimbursed, but since time is money, there will be interest due. He didn’t want to pay interest so he paid me in full (with some of his Cognitive Mining Stocks- before they shot up in value- lucky me ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) ). Discussing this situation with my son, we have talked about what he would do in the same situation. I pointed out how some of these guys have pretty big amounts tied up, and in the bitcoin world, a lot can happen in a short amount of time. And that time is money. He said he would 1) Empty out his bank account. 2) Sell some his belongings 3) Get a loan from a family member or friend 4) Get another job or expand out what he does with Bees Brothers to pay off the loan as fast as he could. I was glad he recognized that his savings account was now in reality other people’s money. And that the purpose of a savings account is for helping you get out of bad situations when they occur. My son also said that “TangibleCryptography was really cool and that we should send them a box of honey caramels as thanks for helping everyone”. So Tangible Team I will send you a box of honey caramels next week. Thanks. Responsible parenting! What a refreshing change, somebody who doesn't expect the village to raise his children, but is willing to actually teach them useful lessons in life. I applaud you, Sir.
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Istay nglishnay hatay ouyay peaksay foay, ithway uckfay? C'e cazzo significia?
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Can you please speak in to the microphone?
Do you find yourself moody or blue when you compose these pithy turns of the alliterative phrase?
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I hope you prevail in this matter, obtain a judgement, use a Sheriff's seizure and sale and throw this scummy little piece of work, and his parents out on their asses to freeze in a snowbank. Just for the record, I called this one on June 7th. This punk is a liar from the word go, and went into this entire enterprise thinking he was smarter than the entire world, and that he was the one genius who could finesse a PayPal scam. It's too bad a small claims judge can't also sentence him to stay away from the computer for the next couple of decades.
Good luck.
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Another really nice option is the Allsteel #19 chair. I like the adjustments lightly more than the Aeron, and the base moves easier. Of course for $1,300 the damn chair should be massaging my butt when I sit in it. And I only paid $100 for it brand new... one of the joys of living in a city where really good deals fall off the back of trucks on demand when you know the right rep.
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One would think so, but then one would be confronted with the reality of what the Intersango Gango is really all about. Shame, shame shame.
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I went to high school with a girl named Protagoras Theorem, she though she knew all the angles.
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ZT: I just realized I am giving less per BTC @ nameterrific.... (At nameterrific your BTC is worth $10)
Now it's worth $12. And still profitable. That's the best joke so far... the guy behind the loss of a half million dollars in other people's money, who many consider to be the person responsible for taking the money, comes to a joke thread to pimp his next project. And better still that project is ALSO able to magically inflate the value of your coins!!! Zhou Tong, the perpetual inflation machine.
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I is apparently "well documented in various places (it's all in a frozen mtgox account)" 01[15:23] <Transist-> Phantom, unrelated to intersango, Some of creditors, myself included, would like to know what kind of security is protecting the remaining assets ? You may understand we are worried given Genjix track record on security. 01[15:23] <Transist-> Thank you [15:24] <@phantomcircuit> Transist-, that is well documented in various places (it's all in a frozen mtgox account), also im tired of telling you that this is an inappropriate method of communications 03[15:24] * phantomcircuit sets mode: +b *Transis*!*@* 03[15:25] * You were kicked by phantomcircuit (Transist-) Session Close: Thu Aug 02 15:25:02 2012 Oh my. Perhaps Patrick would care to enlighten users as to what he does regard as an appropriate method of communication. I guess until we show him respect, we are all expected to just remain silent so that he can enjoy his well-earned vacation on YOUR funds after he spent so much time dodging the issues about YOUR funds. Or is that "fucking respect"? I forget, it was so many embarrassing moments ago for the Intersango Gango Clown Patrol.
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Hello, I'm Vitalik Buterin, the one who wrote the article. The following are my personal opinions, and do not represent an official position of anyone.
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I would like clarification on this law in the Commonwealth of Dominica that says that privacy agreements are null and void if you admit to being a customer of the organization. I have never heard of such a law anywhere and, as presently described, essentially implies that if a customer says "I have to go withdraw some money from XYZ bank today" on an internet forum XYZ bank somehow gains the right to start disclosing private details about its relationship with the customer. To my intuition, this sounds ridiculous. If I am wrong, I would be glad to be enlightened.
I am stunned that a writer would not do adequate due diligence in an article passing judgement on the legality of certain issues and make the effort to research the actual laws at issue. But rather than turning to a somewhat contentious internet community for answers, perhaps your follow-up article would be well served by referencing some of the following: Ministry of Employment, Trade, Industry and Diaspoa AffairsAddress: 4th Floor, Financial Centre, Kennedy Avenue, Roseau Telephone: (767) 266 3276 Fax: (767) 448 5200 E-mail: foreignaffairs@dominica.gov.dmHon. Dr. Collin McIntyre is the Minister. The Ministry of Employment, Trade, Industry and Diaspora Affairs has responsibility for formulating and implementing Dominica's domestic and external trade policies. This includes export development and promotion, regional integration in CARICOM and the OECS, external trade negotiations, industry development, investment promotion, consumer protection, standards management and meteorology and Diaspora relations. Ministry of FinanceAddress: 5th Floor, Financial Centre, Kennedy Avenue, Roseau Telephone: (767) 266 3340 Fax: (767) 448 0054 E-mail: finance@dominica.gov.dmHon. Roosevelt Skerrit is the Minister. The Ministry of Finance has responsibility for ensuring that the public finances are maintained in a satisfactory condition and for monitoring fiscal and economic performance. The work of the Ministry is pursued partly through its oversight responsibility for resource allocation in the capital and recurrent budget(s) as implemented in the line Ministries and Departments. In addition, the Ministry of Finance undertakes a variety of functions directly and these may be categorized into two (2) broad areas namely, strategic and administrative or statutory. Audit DepartmentAddress: 2nd Floor, Treasury Building, Hillsborough Street, Roseau Telephone: (767) 266 3304 Fax: (767) 448 6834 E-mail: audit@dominica.gov.dmMr. Clarence Christian is Director The main objectives of the Office of the Director of Audit's functions are: - The detection of fraudulent activities or irregularities as early as possible and promptly report to the relevant authorities including the Ministry of Finance.
- To determine the reliability of information produced within the various Government Ministries and Departments and the effectiveness of related internal policies and procedures.
- To assist Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Departments in attaining the most efficient administration of their respective Ministries and Departments through recommendations.
- To ascertain the extent of protection and safeguarding of the states resources against losses of any kind.
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Okay, whoa. I am not challenging Matthew or the Mods or anybody else here. I was making a point that those who contribute are given a little bit more rope to hang themselves with. That's all. Donate and you get a greater degree of forbearance. I know damn good and well that I have pushed up against the barriers of good taste, social politeness, and reasonable debate on numerous occasions. That's who I am. Matthew is much the same. He gets to carry a Staff badge, and that can be a license to avoid judgement. Others with similar badges have stickied their own commercial posts, have engaged in flame wars, taunted and insulted with the best of them. Machs nichts. My point, to get pedantic with it, is that there are varying levels of tolerance in this community, and when someone has acted like Uncle Sugar, and spread his happy financial sunshine around, he buys tolerance, and even defensive reaction.
Yes, I was joking, in the tone of Matthew's post citing all the examples of how he has ABUSED USERS.
Please, in the interest of accuracy and integrity, consider the context here.
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Mike Jones is actually the RL name of a WWE wrestler. Somehow I don't think Atlas would last in a cage match.
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I swear by those stupid split keyboards, and have 4 more hermetically sealed in storage for future use.
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My first job in college was sysadmin for FORTRAN and COBOL.
Unprotected sex was safe (and fun and available!).
A fag was something English wanna-be's smoked.
Boeing 707's were the shit for transcontinental flight, and you could fly Braniff, TWA, Pan Am, Eastern, Piedmont, Hughes Airwest, and flight attendants were called stewardesses, and were uniformly hot females.
Silicon Valley was the shitty part of the Bay Area, and the only thing to see there was the Winchester House, and then only if you were driving through, since it was on a par with the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz.
European countries all had their own currencies, and they were cool- Marks, Francs, Drachma, Kroner, and traveling was a bitch because you had to know exchange rates against thirty currencies.
There actually was a place where all the Communists lived, it was called the Soviet Union, and it was creepy as hell going there, and accidentally smuggling in 4 ounces of hash from Copenhagen damn near gave me a heart attack when I discovered it in my backpack, AFTER the border search.
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The point is actually made in your ability as a Staff member to hurl abuse on people. Those who are donators, Staff, Insiders, Double Secret Buddies, VIP's etc. have wider latitude to misbehave than the rank and file. If you were just a little newt of a n00b and you started with the fucktards and the cocksuckers etc., you would soon find yourself afoul of the management. Instead, you are Staff so you can go full Tourette's and not suffer a hiccup.
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Okay, so the Mods and the Admins are really nothing more than the great unwashed hoi polloi like the rest of us but they get shiny user titles. The board is funded, in part, by those donations, so you are volunteers laboring for a system that is, in part, funded by questionable source. Personally I don't take issue with any of you, even when I have been rightly or wrongly disciplined, its the nature of a beast like this forum. But, please don't ask any body to believe that there is not a wider sense of tolerance for significant donators.
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My guess is Rarity is always "happy", isn't that a by-product of Clarity?
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This ^^^ is either Scientology doctrine or Atlas, I'm not sure which, but both are equally creepy.
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I am seriously considering suing the forest from whence came the wood pulp that became the paper upon which I read sad news the other day. Where should I serve my papers?
That's about as ethically competent as the thought that this forum or any other fora, could be liable for any criminal act of any individual posting thereupon.
Just for shits and grins, consider that argument in the reverse... is this forum also legally liable for not removing the information posted about the alleged criminal Zhou Tong, or the alleged criminal acts of the AurumXchange? Is this forum also not in direct violation of AML laws in every country that has the internet, since there is clearly money laundering being discussed here?
Let's turn the dial down from hysterical knee-jerk reaction and get back to just slightly off-kilter again- this is just silly.
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