I wouldn't support the Sri Lankan practice either.
If going to Saudi Arabia is akin to slavery, then don't go.
Poverty might be bad, but there is no point in subjecting yourself to a worse fate.
That depends upon the individual perception. If someone thinks that getting raped is better, when compared to starving to death, then I won't blame that person. But then there are also reports that some of the maids are never paid for their work. I have heard of instances where maids being kept as sex-slaves being denied any wages at all for more than 10 years. Now Saudi Arabia is going to head the United Nations Human Rights Council. Perhaps, things will change. LOL! In 15 short years, the highly effective United Nations is going to achieve some remarkable results. It says so right in their Agenda 2030 action plan. Just some little stuff like: ' End poverty in all its forms everywhere' Utopia in our lifetime! Won't that be great? |
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Fluoridation of water, vaccinations, and GMO food FTW! |
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The switch to LevelDB IIRC. Which by the way, continues to suck. And caused a pretty catastrophic accidental hard fork. ... the first attempt to hardfork onto a big block chain. I laughed hard, thank you  I don't think it's a joke. When it was recognized that there was to be a hard-fork in association with the BDB mis-config, some decisions had to be made very quickly. I'm pretty sure that certain people seemed to be lobbying to nix the 1MB block limit at that time because it was a convenient time to do so. Even by that time it had been a source of heated debate for at least a year. I was not (and am not) and 'insider' so my visibility into things is limited and based somewhat on intuition and reading between the lines, but I'm pretty sure I remember things this way, and I'm pretty sure that it was the likely suspect who wanted to use the event as the excuse to bloat things. The event and decisions ultimately made had several main impacts on me: 1) It gave me to much confidence in Gavin's disposition and judgement and it took longer than it might have for this to wear off. It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall when some of these decisions were being made in the heat of battle. Perhaps I mis-estimated how much impact he had and/or on which side of the equation. 2) I've felt very strongly about the bloat issue since I got hooked in in 2011. The bloat attempt associated with that event was so upsetting to me that I bought a couple of domain names and expended some effort imagining how Bitcoin might scale without killing it, and in the event that the 'dark side' won the battles and the rest of us had to try to do some sort of a salvage operation and make the best of a bad situation. |
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Gun control with crime involved is pointing to a breakdown of society. People who are desperate will gradually move to the countryside. There are lots of lands around America that are only owned by government. People will form their own small governments as they join together with their guns to battle off forest rangers, kinda like the Bundy incident, but with folks living on the land that they take over because it is the only logical desperate measure. With communications as they are, the face of America will change as these groups strive to help each other.  The desperate moving to the countryside is not what I'm seeing. If anything it is just the opposite as regulations and financial snares (health care in particular) make it non-viable for people without moderate means to make a living. As for the crime in my rural area, it seems to be almost exclusively home-grown jackasses. That is to say, I'm not aware of criminals from the more metro areas setting up shop out here (which, again, I attribute to the high rate of gun possession and the relative simplicity and effectiveness of local monitoring by citizen groups.) My read of the future is pretty much the opposite of yours. Those more on the margin will be lured into 'human settlements' by various social services (e.g., free food, child care, etc.) The more rural areas which are allowed to remain inhabited by humans will be part time homes for the well off with enough 'responsible' citizens allowed to remain permanently in order to keep an eye on things. I can pretty much promise that those who remain in the 'upper middle class' or above are not going to be living in stack-n-pack shoe boxes in the 'human habitat' zones and riding bicycles or taking buses everywhere. They will fund the propaganda to convince the plebs that ' this is what everyone wants', but they have no plans to herded into that nightmare. |
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I strongly support private gun control. Police does nothing most of the time.
Guns can be used only to save yourself from danger. And I think it is fair use.
What seems to be the case in the USA is that when the bad guys think there are probably some guns in and around an area, they avoid it. It doesn't matter if it's one gun or a hundred. For example, they don't attack the local AR15 club meeting or the Glock two day training sessions. They attack the defenseless old lady at the bus stop, or the school cafeteria (gun free zone). Hence, instilling that fear into the bad guy is what is important, more so than having a weapon for your own protection or that of those you love. What is sought is the creation of a cultural milieu in which the bad guy is scared to make bad acts. They are basically cowards.... I would not say that engaging in almost any form of crime is 'cowardly.' There are a variety of risks, but having one's face peeled off by a shotgun blast is certainly one of the more emotionally potent. Much crime is driven by desperation and some by run-of-the-mill stupidity and lack of self control. These classes are the ones who end up losing most often and are certainly the ones who pose the bigger risk to the innocent victim. Criminals also victimize one another probably at least as often as they do the innocent. When the FBI studied the problem of 'guns', they realized that for most criminals, not possessing a gun was a non-option largely because of this. Thus, the strategy of making use of a gun in the commission of a crime carry extra-high penalties. This was remarkably effective which is why real gun problems (as opposed to phony staged 'active shooter' events) have been declining significantly over the last four decades and are now at very tolerable levels. I'd say generally that criminal are business people in a particular business and make rational cost/benefit analyses just like any other people in any other business. As a gun owner I do my best to make sure that criminals are cognizant of the risk side of the equation. |
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... so this is where the cool kidz are hanging these days?  Seems that way. I feel more at ease and comfortable when I can see my enemy. I see a few of the clueless and probably unconnected dead-enders left, but the core kill-by-bloat folks have gone mighty quit. I think it highly probable that they have formulated or are working on a new strategy. |
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Basic backround checks, allow people to carry weapons openly and concealed.
I'm from a fiercely pro-2nd area and I've almost never seen anyone open carry. It makes one look like a jackass and that has been the case for at least as long as I've been around. I do 'open carry' on my own property from time to time. Only when I need to go check the driveway to see why the alarm went off in the middle of the night, or at certain times of the year when there are a lot of bears around. I hate to say it, but basic background checks make reasonable sense. As far as I can tell they are already in place...I have to have one run every time I buy a firearm. It doesn't break my heart if ex-cons (violent ones) cannot legally get a gun, but the flip side is that potential for abuse is a clear danger. I'm highly negative about 'mental health assessments' for anything, and especially not for gun ownership. The main reason is that one can hardly find a more fucked up and nutzo group of 'professional' than those in the mental health profession and they are the last people I'd call on to assess mental health of others. I will bet that within a matter of a few years I would be considered some sort of a 'threat' simply on the basis of my calling bullshit on the various fairly obvious psy-ops that the government is undertaking. e.g., the Sandy Hook hoax and in terms of 'active shooter' events, pretty much most of the rest since that time. I would like to see some little thing such as the 'gunshow loophole' (if it even exists) tied up, but a poison pill inserted. Specifically, something like any time more than 1% of the gun owner's list is rendered for the purposes of gun confiscation, the entire law and every other law which touches on the 2nd becomes null and void and the gun ownership list must be destroyed. |
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It would fulfill my prediction that when Bitcoin achieves a realistic scaling solution (in this case, subordinate chains) that the price would rise. Of course I cannot know with certainty that the good price performance over the last month is attributable to this first-cut proof of concept, but I had expected such a rise in conjunction with it. Hopefully it will be the start of a new leg up, and hopefully the next leg up will take us into the $5000-$10,000/btc range. If so, it would be worth the wait for me. |
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On guns...I bought a 300 win mag today but have yet to get it in my grubby dick-skiners since I had to special order the thing. Will be a nice addition to my growing gun collection, and quasi-necessary to utilize my land-owner preference elk tags. I hope to take the creature from the ridge line while standing in my yard.....
Standing? So you are going to have to put the beer down? I'm not enough of a boozer (yet) to where that should be a problem, but I can pretty much promise that I'll have a pinch of Grizzly Green between my cheek and gum. Always do. Being a man-sized man I don't believe I'd have much trouble remaining on my feet, but I'll be trying to use a rest since I'm not that great of a shot. The ridgeline is about 400 yards. Are you able to get a couple practice shots off, maybe one every couple of days, to get it sighted in? Maybe a target up on the ridge? I'll certainly try. There are horses nearby and I could probably only do it if they were out on a walk. The other ridge lines have to many trees. I will practice on shooting up-hill to make sure I am proficient at doing so in case the opportunity presents itself. There are other places on my property where I could take elk but I kind of want them to feel safe in those whereas the preferred ridge leads directly down to my and my neighbor's pastures and orchards where I don't really want the them there anyway. |
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On guns...I bought a 300 win mag today but have yet to get it in my grubby dick-skiners since I had to special order the thing. Will be a nice addition to my growing gun collection, and quasi-necessary to utilize my land-owner preference elk tags. I hope to take the creature from the ridge line while standing in my yard.....
Standing? So you are going to have to put the beer down? I'm not enough of a boozer (yet) to where that should be a problem, but I can pretty much promise that I'll have a pinch of Grizzly Green between my cheek and gum. Always do. Being a man-sized man I don't believe I'd have much trouble remaining on my feet, but I'll be trying to use a rest since I'm not that great of a shot. The ridgeline is about 400 yards. That article is a keeper. I'd want to research some of the facts before relying on them in an argument. To bad there are no obvious footnotes. |
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On guns...I bought a 300 win mag today but have yet to get it in my grubby dick-skiners since I had to special order the thing. Will be a nice addition to my growing gun collection, and quasi-necessary to utilize my land-owner preference elk tags. I hope to take the creature from the ridge line while standing in my yard, and this caliber seems like it will be up to the task. Furthermore, since I have like 4 months to fill my tags, I hope to analyze the herd for a while and pick out a nice tender subordinate cow. The Fish-n-Game dude would prefer smaller herds in my area for reasons associated with carrying capacity, and if one avoids taking the lead cow then the herd is not disrupted at all.
This is a nice time to thank Visa and PayPal for trying to tell me how I could and could not spend my money in conjunction with Wikileaks, and to Wikileaks for stumbling across Bitcoin as a way to skirt the financial blockade (in addition to a range of other useful info such as the text to the TPP which only multi-national corporations are supposed to be able to see.) That was how I heard about Bitcoin, and the happy accident of fate has resulted in fun toys like my new Savage to raining down on my head.
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I strongly believe it's all related. I saw that video and Professor Doom did another video today about the TPP. If I wasn't religious, I'd be scared of what's happening in the world these days. It's pretty sick altogether.
I'm not religious but am not scared exactly. I'm quite concerned of course and thinking a good deal about the various courses of actions I might take depending on which path the future takes. I really do consider the whole pharma industry in particular to be nothing less than an organized crime racket at this point. Really! Worse, our own government is acting as nothing more than hired muscle for their various rackets and I don't think that they do almost anything at all to protect the citizenry. Possibly just the opposite under a scheme to transfer wealth by, at best, allowing people to get ill from avoidable dangers and remain in a chronically ill state, then using this condition to make it easy for the medical/industrial complex to shake them down. As usual, most of the transfer of wealth goes from the middle class who managed to accumulate something worth having by working all their lives and straight into the pockets of the so-called 1%. Like you say, it's pretty sick altogether. Although I'm not religious and never will be, God bless. It's increasingly hard for me to ignore the fact that some of the most reliable and out-in-front people in these struggles are those who derive strength from their faith. |
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Thx for the update and rundown MMH. There is so much going on that it is hard to follow up on each thing. Professor Doom1 did an update as well which is interesting. He's been going through the TPP material leaked by wikileaks and spotted some interesting info about the efforts to get certain kinds of drugs derived from living organisms to get special treatment with respect to intellectual property rights. He believes there might be a tie-in to GcMAF and this aspect of the TPP (and the dead doctors who were using the substance.) For my part, I would not rule out this hypothesis and it seems worth exploring. When one thinks about just the money on the line when it comes to oncology generally not to mention various other more conspiratorial issues, the numbers are mind-boggling. |
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Question: Which one of these is going to convince a psychopath to stop shooting? img]http://www.latainc.org/Resources/Pictures/law-md.png[/img OR  I got this eerie feeling I'm looking at a well aimed shotgun there. WTF is that thing? A 4 gauge!?! |
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Monbiot always had a sort of pure intellectual honesty and rigorous thinking, but still this is surprising.... http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/05/04/prominent-environmentalist-finally-discovers-his-religions-catch-22/[George Monbiot of the Guardian] also acknowledges the contradictory and inconsistent nature of the green solutions. He acknowledges that there is no prospect for democratic politics to impose the draconian limits on consumption and economic activity that green dogma requires. Every ‘solution’ the greens have come up with has a fatal flaw of some kind; none of it works, none of it makes any sense. As Monbiot concludes,“All of us in the environment movement, in other words – whether we propose accommodation, radical downsizing or collapse – are lost. None of us yet has a convincing account of how humanity can get out of this mess. None of our chosen solutions break the atomising, planet-wrecking project. I hope that by laying out the problem I can encourage us to address it more logically, to abandon magical thinking and to recognise the contradictions we confront. But even that could be a tall order.” This is an awesome admission of categorical intellectual, political and moral failure. For two decades greens have arrogated to themselves the authority of science and wrapped themselves in the arrogant certainty of self-righteous contempt for those who oppose them. They have equated skepticism about their incoherent and contradictory policy proposals with hatred of science and attacked their critics as the soulless hired shills of the oil companies, happy to ruin humanity for the sake of some corporate largesse. Monbiot has worked his way through to a cogent description of the dead end the global green movement has reached, but he has not yet diagnosed the cause. In particular, he remains a staunch Malthusian... As long as Monbiot and his eco-ilk remain humanophobes with pinko-ish and eugenicist tendencies they'll be useful enough to their corporatist/technocratic enablers to continue to facilitate. When they grow beyond these mindsets they'll be discarded like a crusty jiz-rag. |
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You're just another Gerald Davis.
DeathAndTaxes was an awesome guy and I miss his presence in the online Bitcoin community. When I was learning about Bitcoin, I would regularly read every comment he would write, hoping to suck up some of his wisdom. Gerald is that rare gem who can understand technical topics at their full depth, who is learned in a breadth of fields beyond tech, and who is a brilliant writer and communicator. I never had much use for D&T, but he was never quite as obnoxious as some in his class. Stephen Gornick was top notch in my mind and extremely active and helpful back in the day. One of the few things I've seen from him in the past few years made it clear that he was disgusted with the putsch attempt. As for prescience, nobody can beat Hearn. He saw with amazing clarity how to destroy Bitcoin from the time I started paying attention in 2011 and has been working hard to achieve this goal from that time. |
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Why would someone create an account with the username 'hearnshouldburn' and then post this kind of gibberish? You don't suppose it's most likely that it has something to do with the idea of creating the perception that anti-XT people are on the same level as the incomprehensibly nonsensical pro-XT people?
Highly possible and perhaps even likely. It's not an unusual strategy in psychological operations leveraging social media. |
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People say the block size increase is a threat to centralization and falsely accuse me of pushing for a corporate takeover but don't give a damn about a single CORPORATION taking absolute control over bitcoin development.
How can it be more pathetically contradictory?
I think that most people consider you to be a totally lost and outclassed imbecile and are neither surprised nor very interested in what might be going on inside your cranium. /gratuitous ad hominem BTW, I do ' give a damn about a single corporation taking absolute control over Bitcoin development.' That's one difference I have with you and yours. Such an enlightening answer  I didn't expect much from you anyway. You have to admit, "totally lost and outclassed imbecile" was some nice colorful languaging. Right, I couldn't came up with such creativity I admit that I had to go to the net to find the word 'gratuitous'. I had one of those things where I could not think of the word but I knew exactly what I wanted. |
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People say the block size increase is a threat to centralization and falsely accuse me of pushing for a corporate takeover but don't give a damn about a single CORPORATION taking absolute control over bitcoin development.
How can it be more pathetically contradictory?
I think that most people consider you to be a totally lost and outclassed imbecile and are neither surprised nor very interested in what might be going on inside your cranium. /gratuitous ad hominem BTW, I do ' give a damn about a single corporation taking absolute control over Bitcoin development.' That's one difference I have with you and yours. |
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I'm still waiting for an actual plausible mechanism by which Blockstream is going dominate and corrupt the ecosystem, by the way.
I didn't mean to imply there isn't great potential, but its certainly unproven compared to mainchain, and the stalling is harmful. Good for you if you trust blockstream. I trust that they will do what they think benefits their company the most.So do I. What will benefit them the most is a rock solid Bitcoin core upon which to build a properly scaling set of solutions. This is exactly what I want as well. |
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